Fascism Is here

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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?

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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.

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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.

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/worl ... rants.html

Our turn to be invaded by the jackboots:

Trump's next immigration crackdown will target Charlotte, North Carolina, sheriff says

... "This is some of the chaos that we also saw in Chicago," state Sen. Caleb Theodros, who represents Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, said Thursday.

Theodros was one of several local and state officials who issued a statement of solidarity this week.

"More than 150,000 foreign-born residents live in our city, contributing billions to our economy and enriching every neighborhood with culture, hard work, and hope," it read. "Our message is simple: Mecklenburg County and Charlotte are communities of belonging. We will stand together, look out for one another, and ensure that fear never divides the city we all call home."

The group Indivisible Charlotte and the Carolina Migrant Network will be conducting a training for volunteers on Friday....

We'll see how protests go. I MIGHT join them, but I'm not counting on it.

Charlotte is a Dem city, but I think this is the first fascist invasion of a purple state. Will it affect next year's elections, the ones that were just gerrymandered by the GQP Leg?

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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.

Congrats, you fought off the jackboot invaders and made them retreat in shame, sort of. You messed with Texas, and won!

Texas, California National Guard members to leave Portland and Chicago
The federalized Guard troops arrived in those cities but never deployed.

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[GoCubsGo]

[Vrede too]

You're fast, I was just returning to add some comments.

There's a reason ICE hide their faces. Someday this will be over and they are hoping to get away with everything.

So, we are going to have pay records and employment dates... there will be an audit log for each of these ICE and CBP terrorists... and, of course, trump will pardon every one of them, but they must be held to account for the violations of state anti-terrorism laws.

Pardons don't stop you from bleeding out.

Yikes.

And a massive prison industrial system to put them inside of!

Could just load em up on a plane and send them to a Ukrainian prison. What? You say they were pardoned? Oops, well, there's nothing we can do I'm afraid...

Oh well, our bad. They're out of US jurisdiction now.

There's going to be a ton of work to do. At least... there will be a lot of jobs. I would sign up. I want to see these people pay for their crimes.

What is this a photo of? A White House staff meeting perhaps?

This year's holiday card?

More

[Vrede too]

Fascism is in Raleigh now:

Fear spreads as federal immigration crackdown in North Carolina expands to Raleigh

This would only be happening if NC GQP pols invited it. Bastards.


Protesters hold signs and flags amid the arrival of federal law enforcement, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C.

... U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee, a Democrat who represents Durham, part of Raleigh and some suburbs, said Tuesday that the deployment of federal immigration agents in North Carolina “is a profound abuse of power, a violation of civil rights and a stain on our democracy.”

... Matt Mercer, a spokesperson for the North Carolina Republican Party, said in a text message that the arrival of immigration agents to Raleigh would show that failures by “radical Democrats will finally be taken seriously.”

As I said.

[neoplacebo]

The trump cult has adopted, and amplified, the notion that the only Democrat is a "radical Democrat" as they themselves engage in what could only be called radical actions. These people are either just crazy or they think all of us are. Weird

[Vrede too]

The trump cult has adopted, and amplified, the notion that the only Democrat is a "radical Democrat" as they themselves engage in what could only be called radical actions. These people are either just crazy or they think all of us are. Weird

They're both crazy and stupid, and this is getting proved more and more often. Chicago Sun-Times:

Feds drop case against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Brighton Park
It’s one of the most high-profile prosecutions to result from the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz.” Defense attorneys have been aggressively challenging evidence and sought a speedy trial.

Federal prosecutors in Chicago on Thursday dropped one of the most high-profile criminal cases to result from the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign, one the feds have pointed to while insisting agents on the ground were under attack.

MAGA lies, ALWAYS.

Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, have faced an assault charge since early October for allegedly tailing a Chevrolet Tahoe driven by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum. They allegedly boxed it in and ultimately collided with it.

Exum then fired five shots at Martinez, leaving her with seven wounds. The shooting drew about 100 protesters to Brighton Park, who were met with pepper balls and tear gas deployed by federal agents....

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insisted online last month that agents had been “assaulted” and “rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.”

MAGA lies, ALWAYS.

... “Miss Martinez never rammed anybody,” Parente said. “Those agents hit Miss Martinez, those agents jumped out and shot Miss Martinez, a U.S. citizen, whose only crime was warning her fellow community members that ICE was in the neighborhood acting in the way that multiple judges in this building have said is unlawful, and that is not a crime. She didn’t deserve to be shot.”

MAGA detests the 1A and LIES.

“Unfortunately, agent Exum cannot take the five bullets that he put into her body and we’re going to work on getting her justice for that next,” Parente continued.

She hit the Brighton Lottery.

(Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia) McLaughlin insisted Thursday that Border Patrol officers “were ambushed” in the incident which led to the dropped indictment, and she said “despite these real dangers, our law enforcement shows incredible restraint and prudence in their exercise of force.”

MAGA lies, ALWAYS.

... The move to drop the indictment comes after defense attorneys aggressively challenged the evidence and sought a speedy trial. Alexakis heard testimony two weeks ago from Exum, who took the car he drove during the incident back to Maine before defense attorneys could examine it.

MAGA detests the rules of evidence and covers up its CRIMES.

... The case is one of two stemming from Operation Midway Blitz to be dropped by prosecutors Thursday, and at least the ninth overall. The feds on Thursday also dropped a misdemeanor charge brought against Dana Briggs, who was allegedly involved in an altercation with federal agents outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview.

No known criminal prosecution at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse tied to the deportation campaign has led to a conviction, so far.

x double digits. Fascism Is Blocked

... Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th) has since testified about protests that followed in the area, as well as the response from federal agents. She told U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis the feds brought in an “armored vehicle” that “looked very much like a tank.” An agent on top was “pointing their gun down at the community,” she said.

“I couldn’t even believe I was living that,” Ramirez said. Fascism Is Here

Signs across Chicago mark locations of ICE arrests
Signs resembling temporary no parking notices serve as reminders for the thousands of people arrested by federal immigration authorities under “Operation Midway Blitz” and the pain left behind for loved ones and communities.


A sign outside a Home Depot in Avondale where federal authorities detained someone. The aim is to memorialize the pain of “Operation Midway Blitz.”

[GoCubsGo]

Wow.