NSR: CHICAGO Political Thread ***HIGHLY TOXIC - ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK***

A. Deadly force may not be used solely to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect.
B. Firearms may not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles. Specifically, firearms may not be discharged at a moving vehicle unless: (1) a person in the vehicle is threatening the officer or another person with deadly force by means other than the vehicle; or (2) the vehicle is operated in a manner that threatens to cause death or serious physical injury to the officer or others, and no other objectively reasonable means of defense appear to exist, which includes moving out of the path of the vehicle. Firearms may not be discharged from a moving vehicle except in exigent circumstances. In these situations, an officer must have an articulable reason for this use of deadly force.

 

Let’s just stop protesting so they can’t shoot us anymore.

2 shot by federal agents in Portland, police say
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/20...of-shooting-by-federal-immigration-agent.html

 

I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You.
In mid-December, ICE agents were filmed dragging a pregnant woman through the street. Heavily armed agents have been deployed to arrest lone individuals in public libraries and malls. Even in the aftermath of this week’s shooting, ICE agents continued to spread chaos, apparently deploying chemical agents at a local public high school.
The Trump administration’s false narrative about this week’s shooting, and the demonization of the victim, are only part of a bigger lie. It wants the American public to believe that ICE’s heavily militarized crackdown across this country is an effort to keep cities like Minneapolis safe. It is not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/minnesota-ice-shooting-news.html
State officials initially said they would investigate the killing. But Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said on Thursday that the agency had withdrawn because it had been denied access to evidence. At a news conference in New York City on Thursday, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said that Minnesota and Minneapolis officials had failed to maintain order. “They have not been cut out,” Ms. Noem told a reporter who had asked about state investigators. “They don’t have any jurisdiction in this investigation.”

 

Sadly, it was clear from the 3 or 4 congress folk that after the 'debrief' they stated they were 'shocked and disappointed' that there would be more use of the carrier group in the Caribbean. That plus the BS 'Don Monroe' blather...sigh.

 

I have been saying for a while that we have approximately two possibilities this year - Civil War II, World War III, or both. Strap in, gonna be a long year.

 

Yeah, it is going to get crazy and I don’t know, feels unprecedented but I’m admittedly not that well versed in history outside of the US, but we could have the US warring internally with the President’s own paramilitary (ICE) conducting attacks domestically, and the largest military in the history of the world (I think?) essentially fighting Latin America and also fighting whomever is defending Greenland. I mean, unless Trump just decides to stop being the worst human, which is about as likely as me growing a third hand.

 

Um, that would be NATO.

ALOT of Americans are not recognizing how viciously wrong this all could turn.

 

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Every damn time I think ‘nothing more will surprise me’…
The guy pled guilty to heinous pedo crimes!

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DOH! I left out the thing that 'surprised' me...Trump pardoned him today

 

So Trump pardoned a guy who pleaded guilty to being a pedophile, while America, including many of his biggest supporters, are waiting on the release of the Epstein files?

The race to the bottom continues to pick up speed.

 

Such a large part of Trump's base was fevered about the Epstein files and Pizza-gate and, and...and yet still support him? Does not compute

 

Opinions likely very on Durbin, no one is perfect, but this right here would be a hell of a legacy...if it can be completed.

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IMO, overturning Citizens United is a foundational piece to being able to restore some sense of 'by the people for the people'.

Separation of corporation and state!

 

We don't need an amendment. Pritzker could end it next week (it's a short week so maybe two weeks) if he wanted to. I've only just become aware of this path forward but Nebraska (Montana?) is attempting it.

As I understand it, the basis for Citizens United is that Corporations can only do what they are empowered to do and that is defined by the states. So any state can theoretically limit Corporations from doing business in that state if they donate any money to politics. The Supreme Court ruling basically said states allow this and that's their problem.

 

I heard/read about that, but I think that's an even 'higher hurdle', in that states have to be willing to push corporations out....and the large majority are recruiting them in (jobs, taxes, investments, etc)...and it doesn't fix the rest of the states and fed.

For now, I think the SCOTUS overturning it due to a handful of assumptions/basis that they made the decision on are not holding true (transparent, undirected by candidates, etc).

 

Yes, California or New York would be best suited to do it. But getting them to do it (with a few others) is probably easier or at least quicker than an amendment.

 

GOOD! I must have been duped by a rogue post...that said, there was a batch of pardons today in which 21 names remain to be published