Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported that Chicago officers were instructed not to respond to the U.S. Border Patrol’s calls for help in another incident where a vehicle was rammed and a person was shot.

“Multiple law enforcement sources confirm to @FoxNews that Chicago police officers were instructed by their Chief of Patrol to NOT respond to Border Patrol agents call for help yesterday after they were reportedly surrounded by a large crowd of protesters following a ramming incident & shooting of an armed woman,” Melugin reported on X.

That last paragraph, from a FOX News correspondent, makes it sound like it was some ad hoc decision. It was not. Illinois does not permit any state, county, or local law enforcement to assist federal agents with their federal enforcement objectives.

ICE agents were in the middle of doing federal enforcement work. Crowd control is on them.

The US is such a patchwork …

In just about every way. During “normal” times, that makes for more bureaucracy and Kafka, but the silver lining is that when fascists take over the entire federal government, it’s harder for them to tear everything down all at once than if the country were more monolithic.

That’s worse.

I mean, she was old. Netflix was probably sitting on it until she died, so they could maximize shareholder value.

Republicans: is there anything they’re not hypocritical about?

Why am I thinking of a d4a/InheritanceMachining crossover episode?

Hey, Bread Guy, do you know the Mango Guy?

Foreshadowing.

Nothing will surprise me.

LFG. Dude had to know what he was getting into making a statement like that, he’s got receipts.

There’s only so many different ways you can accomplish “people can post things for other people to see and respond to”.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t bring weapons to a protest. I am saying you should be aware of the potential consequences of doing so.

Many states make it illegal to bring any kind of weapon to a protest.

The US federal government does not operate elections. States do, and they all do it a little differently. However, so far as I am aware, each state only requires you to register once, and applies all the different districts from your address. Even so, US House districts also depend on your address within a state; those are not statewide offices.

There are many different voting districts, each one depending on where you live, and they overlap and don’t in all sorts of ways. It’s not just “what state do you live in”.

$20 of the time

If the process in this Tennessee county is as described in the article, it’s not unfair. Playing fuck around with voter registrations that have no issues is something else entirely.

You know, this is not unfair.

Most of those purged were cut from the rolls in March, before anyone knew a special election was coming.

They were cut from the rolls after the Davidson County Election Commission sent letters to voters more than two years ago, that were returned as undeliverable.

People whose letters were returned were purged after they did not vote in two consecutive November elections.

“We don’t purge anyone 90 days before an election,” Roberts said.

He said people purged may have moved or died.

Roberts said if someone was purged, and they come to vote in the primary election they can re-register to vote for the general election, which is on December 2.

This tracks.

Butter side down.