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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Oct 4, 2025, 11:53 PM Oct 4

Black Hawks Over American Streets

Michael Cohen

When Trump was on the campaign trail and his goons paraded around with signs screaming “Mass Deportation Now,” did you think it was bluster? A bit of Trumpian theater to whip up the base, like the “lock her up” chants or the wall Mexico was supposed to pay for? Wrong. None of this was hype. It was a warning — one too many Americans ignored. And now, it’s here.

Chicago just became another test case for what life under Trump’s police state looks like. Picture this: Black Hawk helicopters slicing through the night sky. Armed agents in masks flooding into a South Side apartment building. Doors kicked in, families dragged out, children stripped from their mothers in the middle of the night. Three hundred officers swarming a single neighborhood, detaining not just immigrants but American citizens — kids included — for hours on end. All in the name of “national security.”

That wasn’t a movie scene. That wasn’t Venezuela, Russia, or Iran. That was Chicago, Illinois, in 2025. Operation Midway Blitz, they’re calling it. Blitz — a word chosen not by accident, but because Trump and his people want you to know this is war.

According to DHS, the raid targeted members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang Trump has labeled a terrorist organization. Let me repeat that: the President of the United States unilaterally branded a foreign street gang a terrorist organization, giving federal agencies cover to treat Chicago apartment buildings like al-Qaeda compounds. And what did this massive military-style siege actually produce? Thirty-seven arrests. A handful of alleged gang members. Several people accused of drug possession. And children — four American citizen children — hauled away by strangers with rifles to be placed “in the care of the state.”

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