#BreakingNews
An federal judge has just now ruled that the #Texas #NationalGuard cannot operate in #Illinois , contrary to the intentions of the Trump administration.

Judge Perry said there was not sufficient justification for the #NationalGuard presence in #Chicago:
* #ICEagents here do not require extra protection
* There is no "insurrection," merely protests
* The level of crowd activity and violence has not risen beyond what the local Illinois police and authorities can easily handle on their own

The judge ruled that while they do not need to leave the state (they can remain as individual tourists), the #TexasNationalGuard is not allowed to remain as a unit and operate in a military capacity.

Furthermore, the judge ruled that #ICE agents here can not hide their faces and identity, even when wearing tactical gear. The judge placed harsh restrictions on the actions ICE agents can use against protestors, journalists, and clergy. [See link for more.]

"A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so....

"U.S. District Judge April Perry, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, found that the Trump administration’s account of recent protests in Chicago were not credible and could not amount to a 'rebellion' against the federal government."

#ChicagoICE #NationalGuardDeployment #TrumpAutocracy #NatlGuardDeployment #AntiTrumpProtests #AntiICEProtests #ChicagoIL #ImmigrationProtests

https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-judge-orders-ice-dhs-agents-dial-back-aggressive-response-journalists-protesters-chicago-area/17972763/

In what would likely be a major scandal under any other administration, but feels a bit like a "well duh" moment after the first 100 days of the Trumpenreich's fascist rule, recent polling indicates that a majority of American voters now support impeaching President Trump a third time.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-impeachment-2025

Majority of US Voters Support Third Trump Impeachment: Poll

"Specifically, a polling memo published Friday by ASO Communications and Research Collaborative shows that just a few months into Trump's return to the White House, 52% of likely voters across the ideological spectrum somewhat or strongly support impeaching him—including 84% of Democrats, 55% of Independents, and even 20% of his fellow Republicans."

While I don't believe there's any amount of polling that will make the Trump regime surrender, and I remain doubtful a fascist GOP is likely to risk reprisal from Trump's hardcore nazi base in the party to impeach Der Leader, I still think it's pretty relevant that experiencing the reality of Trump's authoritarianism in action is driving a majority of Americans to desire his removal from office.

Much of Trump's presumed authority to install himself as a dictator comes from the regime's invocation of a popular mandate to transform America into a white ethnostate, as well as a complicit media's refusal to address a clear lack of that mandate while they focus on "will he or won't he" coverage of Trump's obviously fascist activities. As more and more evidence comes in that the regime's Christian Nationalist agenda is in fact not popular, and Americans do not believe Trump has the authority to enact it, it's going to become harder and harder for both the regime and collaborators in the mainstream establishment to keep pretending there might be a veneer of legality or popular support behind all the government's nazi bullshit.

In the end, I'm pretty sure there's no way to topple the Trump regime that doesn't involve putting millions of people in the street to actively disrupt the police state and make it impossible for the collaborator class to profit from all that fascism. By that same measure however, I don't think Americans are going to rise up and stop their fascist government until they're completely sure there are no easier options for ending Trump's reign of tyranny and they believe the majority of people in this country are ready to rise up with them. In my opinion, polls like this one help shatter the fascists' false projection of invincibility, and bring us closer to that uprising; and as such that makes these numbers a welcome sight for my exhausted eyes at least.

#Fascism #Trump #USPolitics #Impeachment #Polling #AntiTrumpProtests #GOP #RepublicanParty #AlGreen #ShriThanedar

It doesn't look like much in this photo, but they stopped counting the protestors at 3,000 people (out of a population of 30,173 people in 2023).

This was in the very small town of #Algonquin #Illinois , about 48 miles northwest of #Chicago . Some of these people are probably also from neighboring #LakeInTheHills , which has a population of 28,661.

Both communities tend to have considerably more Republican voters than Democrats.

Even in the smallest of small-town America, protests were going strong.

Let's keep it up!

#HandsOff2025 #HandsOffChicago #Illinois #ChicagoNews #AntiTrumpProtests

The #HandsOffProtests in #Chicago were actually much, MUCH larger than they looked on most news reports. Chicago protestors gathered at #DaleyPlaza , which was not remotely large enough for the April 5th #HandsOff crowds. So thousands of people took over the actual streets for at least ten blocks.

In most video clips, it looks much smaller, because the police kept them wrapped around several city blocks, and you never see the entire crowd in one image.

This news chopper video (no sound) gives the best idea of how many people came out to protest on Saturday in the Windy City. It follows the crowd around the long city blocks, and back to Daley Plaza downtown.

In all my years living in the Chicago suburbs, I have never seen protests this huge. Other protestors made similar observations on my local news.

#HandsOff2025 #HandsOffChicago #Illinois #ChicagoNews #AntiTrumpProtests

https://youtu.be/aJTpxyXVB6A?si=UfQMqQoyu0VsWCE2