Fascism Is here

[GoCubsGo]

Does Highland Park have a “rapid response” team?

They haven't shown up here (yet).

Interesting factoid.

So far, The Jackboots don't come out at night.

Wonder why that is?

[Vrede too]

Does Highland Park have a “rapid response” team?

They haven't shown up here (yet).

Good, but are your neighbors Facebook-organized for when they do?

Interesting factoid.

So far, The Jackboots don't come out at night.

Wonder why that is?

Safer for the jackboots?

No pre-dawn raids? They are standard LEO tactics.

[GoCubsGo]

Does Highland Park have a “rapid response” team?

They haven't shown up here (yet).

Good, but are your neighbors Facebook-organized for when they do?

Interesting factoid.

So far, The Jackboots don't come out at night.

Wonder why that is?

Safer for the jackboots?

No pre-dawn raids? They are standard LEO tactics.

There's Nextdoor and other alert apps, but no community resistance AFAIK, mostly it's been organic.



https://stopice.net/?about=1#:~:text=Se ... e%20public.

https://www.iceinmyarea.org/en

Only nighttime pre-dawn raids I'm aware of have been in apartment buildings. When they're patrolling the streets and chasing down landscapers it's daytime.

They were in Wilmette, an affluent north shore burb two days ago chasing down landscapers.

[Vrede too]

There's Nextdoor and other alert apps, but no community resistance AFAIK, mostly it's been organic.

https://stopice.net/
https://www.iceinmyarea.org/en

Wow, that's very organized. Have you signed up for alerts? Even if folks don't want to protest witnesses are valuable, too.

[GoCubsGo]

There's Nextdoor and other alert apps, but no community resistance AFAIK, mostly it's been organic.

https://stopice.net/
https://www.iceinmyarea.org/en

Wow, that's very organized. Have you signed up for alerts? Even if folks don't want to protest witnesses are valuable, too.

Yup.

[O Really]

They don't do it at night because they'd have less audience for their show. I know it's a serious matter for the victims, but for the goons it's all about the show of force, intimidation, and cruelty.

[Vrede too]

Good point, O Really. The Fascist in Chief definitely understands ratings.

There's Nextdoor and other alert apps, but no community resistance AFAIK, mostly it's been organic.

https://stopice.net/
https://www.iceinmyarea.org/en

Wow, that's very organized. Have you signed up for alerts? Even if folks don't want to protest witnesses are valuable, too.

Yup.

[Vrede too]

Chicago Judge Has To Tell Border Official That Kids In Halloween Costumes Are Not A Threat
Gregory Bovino now has to meet with the judge daily to report on immigration operations in Chicago.

... “I do not want to get violation reports from the plaintiffs that show that agents are out and about on Halloween, where kids are present, and tear gas is being deployed,” she told Bovino, per WBEZ Chicago.

After the hearing, the Department of Homeland Security posted a bizarre video in support of Bovino, claiming he is “putting his life on the line.”



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Kristi Noem’s Blunt Reply To JB Pritzker Could Mean A Rough Halloween For Chicago Families
The Secretary of Homeland Security suggested that immigration officers will be in full force in Illinois on Friday night.

... Although Pritzker obviously wants a safe Halloween, New Republic staff writer Greg Sargent suggested an additional reason why the governor made the public request: to get Noem’s willingness to traumatize kids on public record.

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

Mission accomplished.

Children Deserve A Fascism-Free Halloween
But, in many cities across the country, it doesn't look like they're going to get it.


Iconic '80s Actor (John Cusack) Drags Trump For Trying To Turn Chicago Into ‘Fascist Hub’ In Explosive Message
The actor told the political leader to “go to hell” before railing against his hard-line immigration policies.

[Whack9]

You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/worl ... ticleShare

In March and April, the Trump administration made the extraordinary decision to send 252 Venezuelan men to a notorious prison in El Salvador known as the Terrorism Confinement Center, saying they had infiltrated the United States in a form of “irregular warfare.”

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Mr. Trump accused the men of being members of a dangerous gang, Tren de Aragua, working in lock step with the Venezuelan government. It was an early salvo in the administration’s standoff with Mr. Maduro, which has only intensified since then, with U.S. warships blowing up Venezuelan boats and Mr. Trump warning of potential military strikes on Venezuelan soil.

But the men received little to no due process before being expelled to the terrorism prison in El Salvador, and they were abruptly released in July, part of a larger diplomatic deal that included the release of 10 Americans and U.S. residents held in Venezuela.

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The New York Times interviewed 40 of the former prisoners, many at their homes in cities and towns across Venezuela. We then asked a group of independent forensic experts who help investigate torture allegations to assess the credibility of the men’s testimony.

Several doctors from that team, known as the Independent Forensic Expert Group, said the men’s testimonies, along with photographs of what they described as their injuries, were consistent and credible, providing “compelling evidence” to support accusations of torture. The group’s assessments in other cases have been used in courts around the world.

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The forensic experts said that they were struck by how similar the men’s allegations were. The former prisoners, each interviewed separately, described the same timeline and methods of abuse, with many of the same details.

When such “identical methods of abuse” are described by multiple people, the experts wrote in their assessment, it “often indicates the existence of an institutional policy and practice of torture.”

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The Trump administration never released a complete list of the 252 Venezuelan men imprisoned in El Salvador or the crimes it claimed they had committed.

Using a leaked list of the names, The Times found that a relatively small share of the men — about 13 percent — seemed to have a serious criminal accusation or conviction in some part of the world. (The Times searched multiple public records databases, but the American government may have more information that it has not released.)

Of the 40 men interviewed for this article, The Times found criminal accusations, beyond immigration and traffic offenses, against three of them.

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Victor Ortega, 25, who said he was shot in the head with a rubber bullet while in the Salvadoran prison, has “pending charges for discharge of a firearm and theft,” according to the Trump administration.

A second man we interviewed, Neiyerver Leon, 27, had a misdemeanor charge for possession of drug paraphernalia and was fined.

In addition, public records in the United States indicate that Mr. Chacón, the man who said he had contemplated suicide in prison, had been arrested in 2024 on a domestic violence charge, and was accused this year of retail theft at a Walmart. (The domestic violence case was dismissed, according to public records, and Mr. Chacón was sent to El Salvador before the theft case could play out.)

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To send the men to prison in El Salvador, Mr. Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a sweeping, rarely used 18th-century law that allows for the expulsion of people from an invading nation.

It wasn’t entirely clear at the time, but it was a first step in a larger case the Trump administration has been making: that Mr. Maduro, Venezuela’s president, poses a major security threat to the United States by flooding it with migrants, crime and drugs.

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They said they occasionally received special treatment, like better food and brief moments outdoors, but only when they had rare, official visitors, including Kristi Noem, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The prisoners said they were never allowed visits from lawyers or relatives.

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Of the 252 men, seven had serious criminal histories in Venezuela, Mr. Cabello claimed on television, saying his government had detained 20 who were “wanted” by the government, without explaining further.