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1. neos see it
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:33 PM
Wednesday
Sam Stein @samstein
Trump called this morning for the jailing of Chicago's mayor Johnson and Gov. Pritzker. Comes hours after he federalized Texas national guard to go into Illinois against Johnson and Pritzker's will.

Serious, ominous stuff here. Would encourage folks to read @JVLast


The president instructed federal agents to use extralegal violence against both immigrants and citizens in Chicago. When the citizenry of Chicago objected to these violent acts, the president used their First Amendment demonstrations of protest as pretext to deploy the Texas National Guard into the city, so that armed soldiers from Texas could impose the president’s will on the people of Illinois.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-triad-the-chicago-rubicon-and-what-comes-next

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