I figure when a guy I follow on BlueSky, and used to follow on Twitter, who restores prairies down in one of our central plains states makes a comment like this about the Texas National Guard being deployed to Illinois, people are noticing that this is not normal:
The Texas National Guard starting a skirmish in Chicago seems like the jumping off point to civil war.
prairieczar
It is not normal.
The Texans are being deployed not as nationalized Guard but by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a method that has never been done before and which is even more illegal than other things Trump has done. It's essentially one state declaring sovereignty over another.
Illinois Governor J.D. Pritzker has every right to activate the Illinois National Guard to keep the Texas Guard trapped inside the base where they await deployment. The base only has a few ways in and out, after all.
I realize what that sounds like, but Pritzer didn't start this.
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Update: Today, I saw this on BlueSky account:
Been thinking a lot about Fort Sheridan, north of Chicago [just south of the current Great Lakes Naval Base where the Texas National Guard is being sent]. It was built on land donated by Chicago's wealthy elite to have a nearby army base so troops would be around to break strikes and respond to labor unrest. Sheridan Road existed in large part to transport troops to Chicago's south side. So much of our constructed world was created by the wealthy in attempts to hold off the future. Those attempts have always failed. The question is whether their failures are measured in weeks, months, years, decades.
Alex Han
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I was away from the news for hours tonight, and when I saw this post I thought the invasion had already happened. Yikes, but not yet.
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