The states are united no longer

It's every state for itself in the era of Trump.

 

The South has risen

 

Glad to see Juliana won yesterday's Illinois primary for Senate

 

She'll take Dick Durbin's seat (and good riddance to Dick) if she wins over whoever her Republican challenger will be in November. I expect she will. Her fellow primary candidates were Raja Krishnamoorthi - a well-known Democratic Congressman who outspent her by about 5 times and might have been expected to win - and Robin Kelly.

Tariff lawsuits, demands for reimbursement

 

I'll try to keep track with updates to this post.  

State by state

 A disunited approach will, in the end, affect everyone in the country.

Better than nothing, though.

Woke in the Civil War

 

There is nothing new under the sun.

Broadview in court

 

Food assistance in Illinois

Trump would like poor people to starve since he can't get rid of them fast enough with deportations.

This is from Illinois Representative Bill Foster:

If you or someone you know needs food assistance, these resources may be able to help:

• Find Food Illinois
• Illinois Food Banks
• Feeding Illinois
• Feeding America
• FoodPantries.org
• Call 211 or visit 211illinois.org

What law? What constitution? What rights?

Good luck. Cruella deNoem doesn't give a shit.   In fact, she apparently agrees with Trump that they should be more brutal. 

They're in trouble for this one.  That's why they're now arresting people who are filming.

(Little mamma fought like a tiger.)

Horrified bystanders filmed as a vehicle driven by immigration police crashed into a car before agents dragged a woman out by her legs and arrested her.

The US citizen, later identified as Dayanne Figueroa, had guns pointed at her by the agents. She says she was moved between multiple undisclosed locations and was not allowed to contact her family or a lawyer.

She was later released without charges. This is the latest violent ICE arrest to shock the US. Reports from the scene suggest that the ICE agents had been trying to escape protestors when the crash happened.

Ms Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before work when she came across an immigration raid in Chicago's West Town neighborhood. People were yelling and honking their horns to alert people of the raid as enforcement agents tried to detain several landscaper workers.

  MSN

The situation in Chicago

Cook County barred the use of county-owned buildings, parking lots, garages and vacant lots for civil immigration enforcement activities, implementing similar measures enacted in Chicago and most recently neighboring Lake County.

[...]

Last week, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones” at Chicago city property and “unwilling” private businesses. Since, others have moved to follow suit.

The Evanston City Council on Monday unanimously agreed to a resolution that prohibits the use of city property for federal immigration enforcement operations. A day later, the Lake County Board passed a similar resolution.

  Chicago Tribune

That's interesting.  I was driving all around Lake County yesterday morning.  I didn't see any disturbances, but I was not in Round Lake. I was in Fox Lake, however, and there's a report they were there at a townhome construction site. I was unaware of any issues at the time.  No doubt they think smaller communities just outside Chicago are less likely to obstruct their hellish mission.

Again, this is not DHS.  This is the Illinois State Police.  They're under the office of the governor.  I haven't yet gotten a response from that office (they're busy!) to my request for an explanation of why these officers are doing goon work.  

State police said in a statement released Friday morning that officials had issued “repeated instructions” for demonstrators to move and said that blocking the street created traffic safety issues and made it more difficult for lawyers and other third parties to get into the processing center building.

  Chicago Tribune

Nice excuse. But that's still no reason to whack 'em and drag 'em.

Among those arrested was a campaign staffer for Kat Abughazaleh, who is running in the Democratic primary for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District.

[...]

Abughazaleh, a progressive content creator who has been attending the protests for several weeks and has at times been joined by some of her primary opponents, said on social media that she “got hit in the face with a baton” at the Friday protest.

She got fully lifted off her feet and thrown to the ground twice in an earlier protest when ICE goons were in charge. Apparently, the state and the small town of Broadview decided the goons, who were shooting people with pepper balls and spraying chemicals, were going to create an uncontrollable situation and brought in the Illinois State police. They put up barriers and moved people to a distance from the detention center itself, which goons are still "protecting". Somebody forgot to tell the State police batons (they're actually huge bats) are not an acceptable substitution for pepper balls.

Protesters began to chant around 8 a.m. Friday, in violation of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson’s recently issued order that protests only occur between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

[...]

[P]rotesters around 8:05 a.m. pushed toward the ICE building, overpowering a handful of state police and Broadview officers. About five minutes later, dozens of state police in helmets with batons walked toward the crowd and began pushing them back.

Troopers tackled and dragged several people, including a woman with an accordion.

[...]

Thompson has been highly critical of federal agents’ actions outside the processing center, declaring that “this is not Putin’s Russia” and demanding federal authorities cooperate with a set of criminal investigations.

[...]

In a text message statement on the morning’s events, Thompson said “the most effective protests are those that inspire our better angels, not incite our worst demons” and said that “hostile behavior” would hurt the interests of immigrants who protesters were looking to support.

Tell that to the police.

Broadview police Chief Thomas Mills and Deputy Chief Brandy Johnson could be seen among county and state police following the pushback as chants of “Say it loud and say it clear, immigrants are welcome here” echoed down the street over a makeshift drumbeat.

Violent!

The Illinois State Police (highway patrol), FFS.

Calling the recent court ban on National Guard deployment in Illinois part of a “disturbing and recurring pattern,” the Trump administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the president to dispatch troops in the Chicago area pending appeal, escalating the president’s conflict with Democratic governors over using the military on U.S. soil.

The temporary restraining order entered last week by U.S. District Judge April Perry “improperly impinges on the President’s authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property,” the solicitor general said in its petition asking the high court to stay Perry’s order while the case plays out in the courts.

[...]

The Supreme Court asked lawyers for Illinois to respond by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Monday.

In response to the administration’s appeal, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wrote in a social media post Friday that the president “will keep trying to invade Illinois with troops — and we will keep defending the sovereignty of our state.”

  Chicago Tribune

 UPDATE 10/19/2025:

This is not ICE

 This is Illinois State Troopers at the Broadview Detention Center.

Is there anything Pritzker can do about this?  He's in charge of the National Guard, but not the state cops.

National Guard on hold

 

Despicable people are running this country

 Enabled and encouraged by other despicable people.  Pitting states against each other.

Hilarious, Wheelchair Man.

Ruling in Illinois v Goons

 

I hope she has protection.

UPDATE 10/10/2025:

JB calls out Trump's dementia

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based on fixations that stem in part from his being mentally impaired.

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” Pritzker said in a telephone interview with the Tribune. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.

“And then, unfortunately, he has the power of the military, the power of the federal government to do his bidding, and that’s what he’s doing.”

[...]

“We’re not going to go to war between the state of Illinois and the federal government, not taking up arms against the federal government,” Pritzker said. “But we are monitoring everything they’re doing, and using that monitoring to win in court.”

[...]

“Preparing for and going to court with the law on our side and winning in court is important,” he continued. “It is the most important thing that we can do legally. If there are people who are suggesting there are things that we should do that are illegal. I would suggest to you, we’re not going to do those things.”

[...]

Speaking in the Oval Office on Tuesday, the president reiterated that he was considering employing the two-century-old Insurrection Act to get around legal court orders that would deny him the ability to deploy National Guard troops to cities such as Chicago and Portland over governors’ objections.

[...]

A federal judge in Chicago is expected to hold a hearing this week over the legal effort by Illinois and Chicago to block the deployments, which Pritzker and other local officials say is not only unnecessary but a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibits the use of U.S. military assets from taking part in law enforcement actions on domestic soil.

  Chicago Tribune

Trump, of course, has called for Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be jailed.

No need for Trump to count.  He's very practice in pulling numbers out of his ass.

Where's the Governor's Association while Texas is sending NG troops to Illinois?

 

The Chicago Resistance is up and running

 

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Escalating

 

Couldn't get his generals to send in active duty military?

Imagine that.  They lied.