He said no decisions have been made on the request & that the base has not received an official request to support a #NationalGuard deployment.
#Trump #law#US #military#MilitaryState#PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny#Gestapo #coup#TrumpCoup2
Trump’s admin has asked a military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations, the base said Thurs, signaling a push to expand its law enforcement crackdown to other [democratic] #cities.
#law#US#NationalGuard#MilitaryState#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#CivilRights #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny#Gestapo #coup#TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-military-base-4be8ec065a8749bafd326333a1f1c767?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-28-Breaking+News
Checking in from the blood-soaked hellscape of Chicago. This is the South Loop.
Checking in from the blood-soaked hellscape of Chicago. This is the South Loop.
Pritzker’s aides said his priority is to keep a #federal deployment from happening. That’s why #JBPritzker & his staff hustled to gather a cross-section of political, civic & faith leadership in a show of unity that #Trump would surely see.
“I know he doesn’t read ... but I know he watches television,” he said of Trump. “And so perhaps if somebody from Fox News or from Newsmax is here, they’ll cover the fact that #Chicago is in much better shape” because of what local officials are doing.
Within hours after being inaugurated, Trump signed an executive order targeting people like their child and defining sex as only male or female. Gorman says,
“'I don’t foresee this movement ending with the end of the Trump administration … I think that the rot is much deeper,' said Gorman."
Ashifa Kassam
#Trump #fascism #military#ICE#WashingtonDC#Chicago#KilmarAbregoGarcia #gender #trans
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"Planning is under way to send national guard troops to Chicago, an official at the Pentagon confirmed to ABC News on Sunday. ...
The national guard is normally under the authority of the individual states, deployed at the request of the state governor and federalized – deployed by the federal government – only in a national emergency and at the request of a governor."
~ Nicola Slawson
#Trump #fascism #military#ICE#WashingtonDC#Chicago#KilmarAbregoGarcia
/7
The Chicago Way
Governors Are Standing Up Some Tough Words In Response To Trump, But Will Action Follow?
Governors Are Standing Up
#politics#Chicago
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/08/26/governors-are-standing-up/
#PowerToThePeople #educate #organise #resist #press #news #media#BreakingNews
#PowerToThePeople #educate #organise #resist #press #news #media#BreakingNews
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9/
Upcoming appearances:
* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
https://deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/events/keynote-cory-doctorow-professor-at-large/
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
https://politics-prose.com/cory-doctorow-10825
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/
* #Chicago: Enshittification with Kara Swisher (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2025/10-15-2025-kara-swisher-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification/
10/
More recently, #JBPritzker welcomed #Texas#Democrats who fled the TX statehouse to delay #Republicans’ partisan redrawing of the state’s congressional districts at Trump’s request.
In #Chicago Monday, Pritzker & Johnson emphasized that the #Trump admin had not reached out about its plans…. Trump acknowledged he hadn’t talked to #Illinois or #Maryland ofcls & at one point Monday said he might not send #troops unless Pritzker asked.
A litany of speakers in #Chicago cited drops–some of them considerable–in violent #crime & property crimes in the city. They also highlighted the hundreds of millions of dollars in #Trump admin cuts in federal support for #law enforcement, #housing & other programs that Johnson called “proven solutions to crime & violence reduction.”
“We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence,” the mayor said.
“This is not about fighting crime,” said #JBPritzker, flanked on Monday by #Chicago Mayor #BrandonJohnson & other leaders, adding that it’s more about “an arrogant little man” trying to “intimidate his political rivals.”
Pritzker, who is seeking a third term in 2026, has been among #Democrats’ most vocal #Trump critics. Weeks into Trump’s second admin, Pritzker compared it to the #Nazi#ThirdReich.
Pritzker’s aides said his priority is to keep a #federal deployment from happening. That’s why #JBPritzker & his staff hustled to gather a cross-section of political, civic & faith leadership in a show of unity that #Trump would surely see.
“I know he doesn’t read ... but I know he watches television,” he said of Trump. “And so perhaps if somebody from Fox News or from Newsmax is here, they’ll cover the fact that #Chicago is in much better shape” because of what local officials are doing.
Democratic leaders look to derail #Trump as he threatens to send #NationalGuard to more #cities
#JBPritzker took a water taxi along the #Chicago Riverwalk, past one of Trump’s downtown towers. The gleaming & heavily trafficked tourist district was a deliberate backdrop on the day the #Illinois governor directed a defiant message: “Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.”
#law#MilitaryState #authoritarianism
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-guard-troops-democrats-cities-chicago-988a659d9d13deb1e7a8f52cf47efef8
“This is not about fighting crime,” said #JBPritzker, flanked on Monday by #Chicago Mayor #BrandonJohnson & other leaders, adding that it’s more about “an arrogant little man” trying to “intimidate his political rivals.”
Pritzker, who is seeking a third term in 2026, has been among #Democrats’ most vocal #Trump critics. Weeks into Trump’s second admin, Pritzker compared it to the #Nazi#ThirdReich.
Democratic leaders look to derail #Trump as he threatens to send #NationalGuard to more #cities
#JBPritzker took a water taxi along the #Chicago Riverwalk, past one of Trump’s downtown towers. The gleaming & heavily trafficked tourist district was a deliberate backdrop on the day the #Illinois governor directed a defiant message: “Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.”
#law#MilitaryState #authoritarianism
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-guard-troops-democrats-cities-chicago-988a659d9d13deb1e7a8f52cf47efef8
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