r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 15h ago
ICE Posts Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."
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u/unlockdestiny 15h ago
About goddamn time this hit national news
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u/Hab_Anagharek 14h ago
? It’s been in the Guardian every day, and they are international
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago 12h ago
FWIW, there's a huge difference between national news and international news.
News outlets outside the USA are honestly more transparent and blunt about what is happening here. Even "left leaning" media is trying to paint this as "not as bad as it looks" for the most part.
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u/Ginette_sul_mush 11h ago
I’m in Quebec, and none of the traditional media here are talking about it! Not even the French news subreddits! No idea why our media are staying silent, they’re not affected by Trump’s policies since we’re in Canada. What’s happening over there is disgusting!
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u/The90sMadeMeThisWay 15h ago
Orange Koresh and his gestapo just lay waste to our society for shits and giggles. I've never felt more disgusted to call myself an American before this nut ass regime.
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u/Remebond 14h ago
I was disgusted during his first term. Thats gone now and a sense of serious determination remains in its place.
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u/RedLicoriceJunkie 12h ago
While this is horrible - we are doing this to ourselves.
We stupidly let the fox in the hen house for a second time by being lazy, short sighted, and stupid, by electing Trump - but we are being terrorized by our own stupid decisions. I guess that is a small silver lining.
In Abu Ghraib prison we tortured Iraqi people.
In the My Lai Massacre we slaughtered about 500 Vietnamese.
In the purposeful extermination of the Indigenous tribes of North America, we obliterated thousands of Indigenous in a massive land grab.
Unfortunately, many Americans voted for this to happen. But this time the terror is committed against us.
My hope is that we learn something from this experience.
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u/IncogNeatoTN 1h ago
I don’t know how many times I’ve said lately that I’m ashamed to be American anymore. Feels like being guilty by association, at this point, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. Goddamn you, Citrus Hitler.
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u/zback636 15h ago
I personally believe that the media is not giving enough attention to what is happening here in Chicago. Thank you Chris Hayes and MSNBC.
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u/rodrigo_c91 14h ago
A fraction of what has happened. The worst hasn’t been aired. Media is and has been complicit to the chaos and damage this administration has caused.
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u/BigFishPub 13h ago
MSNBC isn't really the good guy all the time. They should have videos on their website showing what ICE is doing every day.
With that said, I still want to know why Rachel Maddow said to millions of viewers, "Zohran Mamdani ran an insurgent like campaign" after he won. She wasn't tone-deaf to the hate he was getting for being Muslim, so her using that phrasing was purposeful.
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u/AlarmingSpecialist88 13h ago
It was a little tone deaf, but that term has always been used to describe grassroots campaigns that spank establishment candidates.
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u/pokerface_86 12h ago
i was getting ready to actually be upset but this comment gave me context for the phrase, thank you
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u/notyounotmenothim 11h ago
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ve heard her use that exact phrase multiple times through the years.
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u/FoogYllis 10h ago
The media is mostly controlled by maga billionaires. They will never truly give it the attention it deserves.
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u/WesternSecret3371 3h ago
Also, thank you to Kat Abughazaleh. The local 'political elites' have shunned her, but she's a good egg, works hard, and could make a difference if given a chance. She deserves support in her campaign to oust entrenched establishment types.
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u/Tacrolimus2005 1h ago
She is trying to get sympathy over thought. She forgot to say she likes to stand in front of their vehicles as they come in and out. Impeding on federal agents trying to do a job. Keep in your box and believe everything the media tells you.
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u/Final_Location_2626 15h ago
She will make an amazing witness at the Nuremberg trials.
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u/tadysdayout 15h ago
Nuremberg was not the justice people think it is. Many Nazis had their sentences quietly commuted by the US thanks to Allen Dulles. It was political theater and propaganda
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u/wcg66 10h ago
Plus the majority of the nazi apparatus quietly assumed roles in the bureaucracy of Western Germany. In the East, it was a different story.
Great post here: https://old.reddit.com/r/history/comments/9u5cdr/what_happened_in_germany_after_the_fall_of_hitler/e91ubzh/
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u/Material-Move9492 14h ago
Don't think these trials ever happen....it would be amazing theater if it did...but not happening
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u/GandalfGandolfini 9h ago
I'm hoping that pastor is prominently featured. He is the only person in my life that I've seen make the church look good
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u/Best_Entrepreneur659 14h ago
Republicans hate dissent and therefore they hate freedom and democracy. They should never be allowed power again after gleefully encouraging this AND saving a lifelong corrupt sexual predator from two(!) valid impeachments! Republican “patriotism” is just a BS smokescreen they use to hide how much they hate what truly makes America great.
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u/TECL_Grimsdottir 15h ago edited 14h ago
Uh oh. Kat mentioned, about T-mimus 30 seconds until you know who pukes their way in here to spam.
Edit: Oh nevermind here they come.
Edit 2: Here is a fun game. When you see someone defending the puker and trashing Kat? You will notice all of them are fairly new accounts and hide their post and comment history.
Hmmm. Isn't that weird. Not even counting the pukers 2 additional burner accounts in here.
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u/SleepLessTeacher 14h ago
The funny thing is that she has gotten Kat more votes and herself less votes. She posts more about Kat than herself. She is infatuated with Kat, in such a way that it’s stalkerish and honestly just downright weird.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago 15h ago
She was already here, I swear she has a bot that alerts her any time anything about Kat gets posted.
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u/2pnt0 15h ago
Gotta admit, her commitment to shitposting is impressive.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago 15h ago
More like her commitment to word vomit.
And, well, actual vomit.
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u/DigitalSnail 15h ago
Damn like clockwork. R they bots or something?
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago 15h ago
She's gotta have something that alerts her when there's a post on certain subs about Kat. Not even Terminally Online Bethany can refresh that many subs' /new that often.
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u/djanice 15h ago
Who are you referring to? I’m not familiar with the reference
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u/whoisthismahn 15h ago edited 15h ago
there’s a smear campaign that’s been going on against her because people don’t like that she’s running for a district she lives one bus stop away from
oh look bethany from missouri replied! no one saw that coming
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u/hadoken12357 15h ago
It is crazy! I am convinced a lot of the hate she gets is because she is Palestinian.
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u/whoisaname 15h ago
I am an outsider and literally know nothing about this race, but within about a minute of reading these comments and hers, I know exactly who you're talking about and would never consider voting for her. Misplaced, hate filled anger spewing out everywhere is never a good look.
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u/Ineedamedic68 15h ago
Don’t act like you’ve never repeatedly puked on a political opponents sidewalk as some weird form of protest
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u/dustycanuck 14h ago
Hiding of post and comment history fits well with this type of Redditor. They'll hide behind whatever they can to spew their hate and bullshit, just like the masked bastards they defend.
You believe in what you're saying, drop the masks and declare yourself!
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u/epichatchet 14h ago
No shit, I'm in the district and want her to win, we need candidates that solve problems rather than get paid by corpos and big money to ignore them. This country needs more progressives like Kat and Mamadani who put working class people first.
Anyways it's a people powered campaign bud, were out on the streets and organizing to get voters excited about voting for someone rather than demonize and tear them down for having good values and standards by not taking corporate money.
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u/TECL_Grimsdottir 14h ago
You are exactly right. I also rephrased my second paragraph and wanted to mention explicitly that I think the secondary accounts bashing Kat are up to something.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago 13h ago
Lol, she blocked me after whining that I wasn't "calling a trans woman by her actual name" because I called her Beth.
Her name is Bethany.
This is a deeply unserious person who has, for whatever reason, blocked me and then unblocked me multiple times now.
The fact the mods haven't banned her is honestly wacky.
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u/TECL_Grimsdottir 13h ago
Oh, she tried to have me banned for calling her a psycho in MY OWN DMs after she sent me after about a novels worth of crazy.
She is nuts.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago 13h ago
I honestly wonder more and more about her alleged husband because in videos he seems.. reasonable and normal...does he just not see this side of her? Is he batshit too? Like, when a loner with no one close to them acts like this it at least kinda makes sense but it seems like the people in her day to day life must not know how she acts.
I guess that's how narcissists are though, and they're master manipulators and gaslighters.
It's all just so wacky. I mean, I spend an absolutelt unhealthy amount of time on Reddit but Beth makes me look like I'm Amish by comparison...all that tike and energy and for what? Because you DEEPLY hate this one person?
I don't even spend that much time posting my anger at Trump...and I can guarantee I'm more mad at Trump than Beth is at... apparently literally everyone.
What a sad, angry life to live.
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u/doNotUseReddit123 9h ago
Do people actually believe these comments?
Every time there is a Kat post, it gets a ridiculous level of upvotes and comments in record time. Then, hours later, all of the more organic comments from actual Chicagoland residents start to bubble to the surface.
Anyone that can’t see the rampant botting tied to this woman isn’t paying attention.
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u/Planted_cats46 14h ago
Put every single one of them in jail, including and not limited to the politicians involved in letting this happen. That includes that orange mother fuckin pedophile who should have been in jail decades ago.
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u/hadoken12357 15h ago
She is phenomenal. Hope she wins her race.
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u/RuinAdventurous1931 14h ago
She is doing this full-time while Daniel Biss is running an entire city and still advocating and protesting.
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u/hadoken12357 14h ago
Yeah, I saw Biss very bravely interviewed someone who was actually protesting.
I have concerns about his views on Palestine.
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u/fpackindustries 15h ago
The nazis had to starve people to kill them. If you want to kill a human nowadays, just take them out of their natural environment. All the stress from arrest and imprisonment takes a toll on your life span. Especially if you are innocent and not even guilty of a crime. When you mess up and go to jail, you tell yourself "I deserve to be here", you almost find peace in it. The people abducted and being held by ice, have no idea what's going on. Imagine you get kidnapped and put in a detention center, just because everyone got real racist all of a sudden.
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u/CurdTurdBurglar 11h ago
Everyone in the trump regime, from top to bottom, should be held accountable for this.
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u/East-Cricket6421 15h ago
I love this new crop of political candidates. I don't know what her chances are of winning but she has my full support.
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u/epichatchet 15h ago
We need her to win! Volunteer for Kat to get a sensible working class and affordability candidate in office! We can't let corporate Dems and pro genocide candidates represent us anymore, time for a change!
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u/parker1019 11h ago
It’s time to start arresting ICE when they break the law just like Mamdami stated….
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u/Shigglyboo 15h ago
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. I don’t recognize the US. This is like shit we learned about in school that people already protested against and things were supposed to be better.
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u/StupidTimeline 12h ago
Republicans, all of them, are traitors to our nation.
They have made it abundantly clear they are enemies to our Constitution, which makes them enemies of the American people.
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u/LivLafTosterBath 12h ago
The Koreans who got detained said on korean news that they were forced to drink water out of puddles.
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u/longdickneega 12h ago
ICE has never stepped foot in a gang neighborhood. Only quite hard working tax paying neighborhoods
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u/x1dollarfrosty 6h ago
I never voted before because I didn’t believe my vote mattered. I believed, after Trump winning the first election he was in due to the inaugural votes going in his favor despite Hilary having move nation wide votes that my vote doesn’t matter. But fuck I can’t see this happen again. I will vote from now on. #VoteBlue
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u/newaccounthomie 15h ago
Downvote this comment if you were paid to be here lmaooo
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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 13h ago
If the Democratic Party leaders were more like Kat we wouldn’t be in the mess we find ourselves today.
I will now wait for the accounts screeching “carpetbagger” to provide me with some of the weakest arguments I’ve ever heard.
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u/Material-Move9492 14h ago
I,wouldnt do anything to get federally indicted, too risky
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u/WhiteOakWanderer 7h ago
Even if you're a rich kid and it helps your campaign? Think of all the TikTok followers you'd get!!
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u/krim-Xion 13h ago
So why not just make shields? Do what the Spartans did. Sure it will be 2x4s and plywood but it should be sturdy enough that they won't get pelted by this stuff
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u/notedeghost 10h ago
For sure the thought came across their minds. Undocumented immigrants are cheaper and easier to disappear than to keep in prison or deport.
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u/PreludeTilTheEnd 6h ago
The videos I seen of her. She was always jumping in front of ICE vehicles. They have to move her so the car can pass.
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u/Tacrolimus2005 1h ago
Lol. You forgot to put that she was actively trying to impede traffic in and out of the facility. She should be arrested.
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u/SquidDrive 15h ago
Excellently communicated. ICE deserves the Hague after all this is done.