Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) September 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Lots of very real things to worry about with the media and lots of dangers, but if you think that Trump has already finished off the US free press you’re *massively* jumping the gun.
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— Jonathan Bernstein (@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social) September 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Fellow Dems: we don’t have to just accept the Republican frame on everything and run scared from issues that Trump is losing ground on bc they are traditionally “bad” issues for our Party. We have the option to use our own megaphones to create our own issue frames.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru…
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— Anne Caprara (@annecaprara.bsky.social) September 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
… Before immigration agents descended on Chicago and the threat of a National Guard deployment loomed, there was Pritzker, showing off the city on social media and in TV interviews. One interview featured him walking on a sunlit path along Lake Michigan, and another had him sitting in a restaurant in the city’s Little Village neighborhood. This week, he staged a news conference in front of a Chicago River teeming with summer tourists and Trump’s hotel prominent in the background.
Pritzker and his team were laying out an intentional visual record. Their strategy was to stock national media with footage of a typical day in Chicago to show it was far from the “worst and most dangerous city in the World,” as President Donald Trump has proclaimed on his Truth Social platform…
Pritzker’s tack is the latest employed by Democratic leaders from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to Baltimore who have become the target of a White House that has threatened to send — or has already sent — National Guard troops into their states.
In Chicago, Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson have made clear that the Trump administration slashed public safety funding, including canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, with specific impacts on anti-violence programs in the city, even as it is calling for law enforcement escalation. Johnson also criticized red states for lax laws that he said enable the flow of guns into his city…
Brian Hopkins, who heads the Chicago City Council’s public safety panel, said the city would thrive with a boost in federal resources and agency coordination. But he said sending in National Guard troops would not accomplish that.
“It should be obvious to anyone involved that their true intentions are not to assist us, but they’re to embarrass us. They’re to score political points at our expense, and they’re using law enforcement tools as a pawn in their game,” Hopkins said. “It’s despicable and offensive and unconstitutional and wrong.”
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Yeah, Illinois Democrats* are actively refusing to treat it as a crisis
*Except the governor, both senators, the congressional delegation, the Attorney General, the mayor of Chicago, the Cook County board president, the legislative leaders, etc.,
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— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) September 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Dick Durbin actively refusing to treat it as a crisis…by calling Trump’s threats disgusting, then marching in the Mexican Independence Day parade in the overwhelmingly Latino Pilsen neighborhood
[Yesterday he, Duckworth, & Cong. Schneider went to Naval Station Great Lakes] bsky.app/profile/jake…
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— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) September 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Not at ALL significant it was in Pilsen
Stancil really showing he understands Chicago!
[And FTR, there’s probably nothing Dick Durbin is more passionate about than protecting immigrants & refugees. Dude shows up at little know your rights trainings all over the place.]
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— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) September 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Sometimes I get pissed about malign bullshit & don’t fully explain why it’s bullshit. Stancil mocking Durbin going to GROUND FUCKING ZERO of expected ICE raids to march in one of the only Mexican Independence Day events not cancelled was an act of solidarity, a serious act of representation
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— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) September 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
