Lawrence Lamovec
@llamovec.bsky.social
LA-based Chicagoan. Screenwriter. Airline worker. Devout progressive and all-around goofball.
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This is exactly correct.
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is exactly correct.
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This is beyond belief #AbolishICE
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is beyond belief #AbolishICE
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Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
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ICE and CBP GOONS are patrolling Chicago in unmarked civilian cars, kidnapping and disappearing people for filming.
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
ICE and CBP GOONS are patrolling Chicago in unmarked civilian cars, kidnapping and disappearing people for filming.
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People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.
(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.
October 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.
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When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦 😍😂
October 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦 😍😂
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Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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📢 In Chicago we don’t put up with wannabe kings or tyrants. Join us at noon on October 18th for a rally and march at Grant Park. Let’s come together to say: #HandsOffChicago and #NoKings!
🗓 Saturday, October 18th
⏰1 2-2 PM
📍 Grant Park, Chicago (Jackson & Columbus)
🗓 Saturday, October 18th
⏰1 2-2 PM
📍 Grant Park, Chicago (Jackson & Columbus)
Hands Off Chicago / No Kings! Rally and March · Indivisible Chicago
Here in Chicago we know how to rise up, fight back, and support each other. It is more important than ever that we do that together on October 18th as we show the nation and the world that Chicago is ...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
📢 In Chicago we don’t put up with wannabe kings or tyrants. Join us at noon on October 18th for a rally and march at Grant Park. Let’s come together to say: #HandsOffChicago and #NoKings!
🗓 Saturday, October 18th
⏰1 2-2 PM
📍 Grant Park, Chicago (Jackson & Columbus)
🗓 Saturday, October 18th
⏰1 2-2 PM
📍 Grant Park, Chicago (Jackson & Columbus)
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[quote from DOJ press release]
The Department of Justice will “arrest and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law every person who aids, abets, or conspires to commit” crimes against ICE – including through “funding, coordination, or planning.”
The Department of Justice will “arrest and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law every person who aids, abets, or conspires to commit” crimes against ICE – including through “funding, coordination, or planning.”
In which the US AG purports to have the authority to conscript state and local police officers as federal agents for the purpose of levying federal charges against protesters
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www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attor...
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www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attor...
Attorney General Bondi Issues Memo on Ending Political Violence Against ICE
WASHINGTON – Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi released a memorandum to the FBI, DEA, ATF, USMS, and Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys focused on ending political violence against ICE.
www.justice.gov
September 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
[quote from DOJ press release]
The Department of Justice will “arrest and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law every person who aids, abets, or conspires to commit” crimes against ICE – including through “funding, coordination, or planning.”
The Department of Justice will “arrest and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law every person who aids, abets, or conspires to commit” crimes against ICE – including through “funding, coordination, or planning.”
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I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
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These 95 won't fight for any of you. Remember their names.
They voted to honor a man who said Black people were better off during segregation and Islam is the sword used by the left to slit the throat of Western civilization.
Primary them, cull the party, support and elevate the fighters.
They voted to honor a man who said Black people were better off during segregation and Islam is the sword used by the left to slit the throat of Western civilization.
Primary them, cull the party, support and elevate the fighters.
95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires.
shame.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
shame.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
September 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
These 95 won't fight for any of you. Remember their names.
They voted to honor a man who said Black people were better off during segregation and Islam is the sword used by the left to slit the throat of Western civilization.
Primary them, cull the party, support and elevate the fighters.
They voted to honor a man who said Black people were better off during segregation and Islam is the sword used by the left to slit the throat of Western civilization.
Primary them, cull the party, support and elevate the fighters.
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🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
August 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
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“It takes a lot to pull one over on New Yorkers, and when we looked around, the city described in Cuomo attack ads simply did not exist. We recognize that the city’s problems come mostly from the people above, and not the ones sitting next to us on the subway.”
We can have nice things
Zohran Mamdani proved you can fully embrace progressive values—and win.
www.thehandbasket.co
June 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“It takes a lot to pull one over on New Yorkers, and when we looked around, the city described in Cuomo attack ads simply did not exist. We recognize that the city’s problems come mostly from the people above, and not the ones sitting next to us on the subway.”
June 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Um... Hidden in this abhorrent spending bill is a provision that lets Pumpkin Tits ignore the courts. HELLO?!
The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king
Don’t let this happen
robertreich.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Um... Hidden in this abhorrent spending bill is a provision that lets Pumpkin Tits ignore the courts. HELLO?!
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“activities aligned to hamas”
DHS confirms that it arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student. They say that ICE arrested him in coordination with the State Department in order to enforce President Donald Trump's executive order to deport student protesters.
March 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“activities aligned to hamas”
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We are barreling toward a full blown constitutional crisis.
Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security.
1/ A quick🧵on what's going on.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security.
1/ A quick🧵on what's going on.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge’s order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
apnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We are barreling toward a full blown constitutional crisis.
Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security.
1/ A quick🧵on what's going on.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security.
1/ A quick🧵on what's going on.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Felt like the appropriate time to release this song of ours. music.apple.com/us/album/mid...
MIDNIGHT IN AMERICA - Single by COOK COUNTY JAGZ on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 1 Song
music.apple.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Felt like the appropriate time to release this song of ours. music.apple.com/us/album/mid...
Wrote a script not long ago that now feels tragically timely. Centers around a character who loses his country and his sense of belonging. But, it’s also filled with hope and humanity. Takes place in a world where all Americans are refugees.
Hope to get it out there.
Somehow.
Hope to get it out there.
Somehow.
November 27, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Wrote a script not long ago that now feels tragically timely. Centers around a character who loses his country and his sense of belonging. But, it’s also filled with hope and humanity. Takes place in a world where all Americans are refugees.
Hope to get it out there.
Somehow.
Hope to get it out there.
Somehow.