He’s an Army veteran now retired after three decades working for the U.S. Postal Service.
Federal agents pounded on the door of his South Shore apartment about 2 a.m. Tuesday.
“I told them they must have the wrong apartment,” the man said.
But armed agents busted open many doors after arriving in U-Haul trucks to raid the 130-unit apartment building at 7500 S. South Shore Drive. They woke up residents to handcuff them with zip ties and led them into unmarked vans
The report didn’t mention women and children appear to be among the detained, said Brandon Lee, a spokesman with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Organizers worry many people were taken without warrants.
“These were families with their children escorted out in the middle of the night,” Lee said. “This administration is using PR efforts to try to turn communities against their neighbors.”
Ice agents rappel from helicopters onto the roof of a Chicago apartment building, zip tying everybody in sight - including children:
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/south-shore-residents-return-to-ransacked-apartments-try-to-move-out-after-ice-raid-it-looks-like-hell/
Why is woke a pejorative? Before right wingers ever heard woke used in a sentence, black people who coined its modern usage, wore tee shirts with a quote from Luke 21:36 encouraging people to stay woke.
I’m really worried about American corporate media. It appears it wasn’t until the due diligence of foreign media discovered the murderer’s connection to Trump and maga, that they published proof of same. We learned first from the British press that his mom’s social media posts supported Charlie Kirk. It’s one thing to be careful and responsible when reporting on incendiary stories. It’s quite another to know the guy was maga and sit on that fact out of fear.
The “Rapture” is a nonessential Christian doctrine which pulls together a set of pericopae in support of a belief that a series of events must occur before the imminent return of Christ.
Simply stated, the Rapture is about what a minority of Christians believe will happen. The General Resurrection is about who we will meet.
The power of the brand is to compelling. They could finish last for the next 20 years and would never leave. It’s the football version of the Stockholm Syndrome.
It’s not out of the realm of possibility that this shooting was payback for an LDS member murdering Charlie Kirk. Truck was equipped with big American flags…typical maga stuff.
Damn, Tech:
Texas Tech University System Chancellor Tedd Mitchell restricted the discussion of transgender and nonbinary identities during classroom instruction across the system’s five universities, according to a letter he issued late Thursday.
The letter makes Tech the state’s first university system to issue such limits. Mitchell didn’t explicitly detail what can and cannot be acknowledged in academic discussions or curriculum. He instructed university presidents to ensure faculty follow a presidential executive order recognizing only male and female sexes, Gov. Greg Abbott’s letter directing state agencies to “reject woke gender ideologies” and a new state law that requires a strict binary definition of gender for the collection of vital statistics.
Mitchell’s guidance comes after Angelo State University, one of the system’s campuses, instructed faculty not to discuss transgender identities in the classroom.
“While recognizing the First Amendment rights of employees in their personal capacity, faculty must comply with these laws in the instruction of students, within the course and scope of their employment,” Chancellor Tedd Mitchell wrote in a memo Friday.
The Court just allowed Trump to withhold 4 billion in foreign aid approved by Congress. Why is this noteworthy?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-withhold-4-billion-foreign-aid-funding-rcna230348
The court has now granted 20 emergency applications filed by the administration since President Donald Trump’s second term began in January. The volume of emergency filings and the rate at which the court has ruled in the administration's favor are both unprecedented. The latter has sparked criticism from within the legal community, including lower court judges.
The lifetime achievement award in leopard face eating should go to Jim Comey, who almost single-handedly facilitated Trump’s election in 2016. Had he not defied his boss, he wouldn’t be shelling out money to expensive lawyers to defend him against bogus charges.
So, ICE czar, Tom Homan caught the attention of the FBI in west Texas based on a tip from Republicans who accused him of being on the take. They expanded their probe to include Homan and successfully set a trap to ensnare him in a web of his own making.
It’s important to note that the Biden DOJ, which Trump routinely accuses of political prosecutions of Republicans, (much to their eternal credit) never once disclosed that Trump’s pick to abuse migrants in his second term was being investigated.
Now, Trump’s DOJ is denying Homan ever took the 50 grand offered by the FBI, while quietly closing the investigation into Homan’s actions:
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe