The Guardian sent a reporter and camera crew to cover what is happening in Chicago as ICE sends its thugs there to harass the people of the city and how the people are responding.
The video also highlights Kat Abughazaleh, a 25-year old woman who is running to get the Democratic nomination to represent the 9th congressional district and was flung to the ground by an ICE thug during a protest. The district is currently represented by a Democratic congresswoman who is not running for re-election.
Abughazaleh’s platform aligns with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. She favors expanding government support for childcare, universal preschool, Medicare for All (including healthcare for undocumented immigrants).
She is a supporter of LGBTQ and transgender rights, as well as the Green New Deal. Abughazaleh favors increased regulations on artificial intelligence.
…News organizations in Illinois nationally and internationally covered Abughazaleh’s announcement and subsequent campaign. Politico cited Bernie Sanders who encouraged progressives to run as independent candidates in the light of declining popularity of the party, and The Washington Post noted the possibility of her campaign being part of an anti-incumbent movement akin to the Tea Party. News coverage of Abughazaleh’s use of digital media, including Bluesky (rather than Musk’s X), predicted her skills would help her appeal to younger voters. Coverage also compared her to other younger candidates (including several new media “stars”) with progressive political stances who are seeking major US political offices, such as Zohran Mamdani, Isaiah Martin,Jake Rakov, George Hornedo, Saikat Chakrabarti, Elijah Manley, Mallory McMorrow, and Deja Foxx, and placed her in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s camp of “younger, energetic, left-leaning Democrats” who are “blunt about Democratic errors and missteps.
We definitely need to light a fire under the weak Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries who have shown themselves incapable of rising to meet the challenge posed by Trump and MAGA authoritarianism.
She is impressive.
I’ve been following her campaign since it is mostly on Bluesky.
I also like Bluesky a lot.
She has that last name because she is half Palestinian.
Chicago just had a mass arrest which just made the news.
ICE just went into an apartment building and arrested everyone there and took them away.
It was families with small children.
They had no probable cause except that the residents were mostly nonwhites.
I can’t figure out how many laws ICE broke here but it is a lot.
I can tell you that this is a pure SS fascist class move.
When are 2nd amendment preachers going to start doing their jobs and start protecting citizens from oppressive government which is what the 2nd amendment is supposed to be about ? Wasters, the lot of them.
This is literally an act of war against Americans. When are Democratic governors going to start responding to it as such? They’re the only ones who have any power to call up any sort of armed forces to defend their people against lawless acts of armed force by an organization that acts outside the law.
Abolish ICE.
@ 1 raven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kat_Abughazaleh#Political_positions
Holy fuck! Why is democracy broken? Why are the leaders not the best, but the worst?
Okay, I answered my own question right there. The only people who should be in charge, don’t want to be. The people who want to be in charge, are the ones who shouldn’t be. X-(