It’s sunny right now, but it’s possible we’re getting thunderstorms. I wouldn’t mind if we did. Big ones. Loud ones.

With a side of appropriate smiting?

Probably too much to ask.

I mean you always hope the smiting will go your way.

I want to be clear, on this morning when the state and the city have filed suit to prevent a military invasion by the federal government, you know, that thing these same people always said the Second Amendment was for.

There are no riots in Chicago.

There are NO RIOTS in Chicago. Of course the federal government has made it difficult show that by banning any “non-governmental drone flights.” The violence is coming from the federal agents themselves, casually tossing tear gas on a street near an elementary school; tearing people from their homes in the middle of the night after reportedly repelling from helicopters, leaving a residential building in tatters, no discussion of a warrant. Yanking naked children from their homes and separating them from their parents for hours, reportedly zip tying them.

Something very strange happened when I tried to find coverage of that piece of information, that ICE reportedly pulled naked children into public streets for all to view. The google AI offered a warning about searching for child exploitation images.

My search was very specific, I don’t see how it could have organically triggered a filter:

ICE dragged naked children out of their homes

And yet that very important piece of information showing the brutality and dehumanization and sheer lack of legal objective is being hidden behind something that sounds like a vague threat for looking for it.

That is where we are.

It’s not reality that’s the problem, it’s talking about it.

Why wouldn’t they let the children dress? Or were they dressed when they found them?

Governor Pritzker has ordered an investigation into that act of racist terrorism, yes, that’s what it was, to verify eyewitness accounts of treatment of the children, including being detained, the reported zip ties and lack of clothing.

The fear in this city is real and grounded. We are not afraid of our fellow Chicagoans.

We are afraid of a government intent to punish us because we don’t like donald. We are afraid of the open and clear retribution against our exercising our right to criticize our government.

Even this blog, this small blog, with my comfy collection of readers, all of us able to fit in a small virtual coffeeshop, really, could, eventually, see retribution. My own words, barely above a whisper in the drone of all that is said online.

That is where we are.

And where we’re going depends upon the whims of John Roberts.

Not exactly reassuring.

Anyway, that’s it for me for today. I wish you an empowered Monday.

Buy me a cup of coffee!