I live in a suburb literally bordering Chicago and I can be in the city itself in 5 minutes. I’m in several Signal groups dedicated to rapid response and all sorts of other groups that help. There have been abductions happening literally a block from my house on a couple of occasions.

I’m not sure what you expect Pritzker to do, exactly? The feds have a lot of laws that allow them to be here and there’s a ton of other red tape and weird loopholes. For instance, an ICE free zone means specific property. Hypothetically, a Home Depot which serves customers can declare itself an ICE free zone but really the only private spots that Feds cannot enter are things like the break room, meeting rooms, and staff areas. So they can legally chase anyone through a store.

People are videoing everything and ICE and Border Patrol generally stop being so bold with numbers and multiple cameras on them. My point is, people are doing what the can to resist but unless you want us firing guns and starting a war - we have to play this through our own tactics and the courts. Many police won’t even respond when they are called about agents in vehicles with no front plates. This is happening all over.

Once again, I’m not sure what you want Pritzker himself to do. He’s signing things into law and supporting tactics the people are using. There’s so much legal stuff going on and people aren’t just going to start a war.

Yes

America First in action!

It’s a real photo of Trump not giving a shit that someone fainted.

It’s also a nice metaphor for how he is treating the US.

Some angry retired miners with black lung are fighting back, demanding that Donald Trump honor promises he made to the people who voted him in.

“You are infected with the WOKE AGENDA! Only weak get the BLACK lung and use it as an EXCUSE. Everybody’s saying it. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN and remove the WOKE MIND VIRUS (which is also apparently invading lungs). THANK YOU YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”

I’m sure they are so progressive that they’ve housed a ton of unhoused people and freely give up their own food as well. It’s the only measure of progressive!

/s because of today’s political climate

Yes, and then they will fire those rehires again after just a minuscule amount of time has passed.

Just like they have done with a couple agencies.

I thought the same thing. The only wrench would be if they live in a big city with accessible public transit and don’t have a license or know how to drive.

I didn’t downvote you. I only responded. I appreciate you explaining that you’re European, so it makes a little more sense and I wouldn’t expect you to have inside knowledge. Hell, most Americans don’t even know!

I think why people might be downvoting is because this was easily answered by just a quick search and read.

I hope you have a great rest of your day!

So, this article says up to 5 seats which this article says that Texas could flip up to 5 seats.

If I did my math right then up to 5 seats minus up to 5 seats equals balance. What numbers actually turn out to be beyond the “up to” will be the deciding vote.

Holt is a treasure!

They are Yelp for Boomers. They have no official power.

Source: I did agency and corporate SEO for 10 years.

Dick went limp.

Holy fucking shit, I totally forgot about this!

I award you, stranger! 🏅

Next time, baby!

In the original Warcraft games (not World Of Warcraft), repeatedly clicking units would initiate irritation voice lines.

Humans would say something like, “why do you keep touching me?”

An elf said something like, “you never touch other elves like that!”

Woah! Thanks. Been using Voyager for a while and never really read the notes on tagging or even thought to long press on a user name.

I appreciate this educational moment!

I live in the general area and I was walking my dog, had my whistle around my neck, and was flipping off the chopper that flew over me several times.

Yesterday was hell for a lot of people in a wide radius. These terrorists were everywhere and Signal was going crazy with updates and rapid response.

Meanwhile, we had a huge terrorist attack all over the north suburbs of Chicago yesterday with chemical weapons used.

There’s been a rash of these types of comments.