An Update on the Resistance Against Trump's Civil War on America [UPDATED]

Some of it is now slapstick comedy, but with sometimes deadly consequences

Some of you know that the regime is trying to invade various parts of the country and turn Americans against each other. I guess you could call it Civil War Baiting?

He also seems to be urging American generals and admirals to prepare the troops for invasions into cities beyond L.A., Portland, and Chicago.

The attack on Portland seems to have been delayed for Taco reasons after a phone chat with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, but I expect this stay to be temporary.

The mad clown regime is gearing up for more action. Much of it is still performative, but people are losing their lives anyway.

Residents aren’t taking the attacks lying down.

Oregon mayors have declared a coalition of sorts in opposition to the regime’s threatened invasion of Portland:

• Keith Wilson, Mayor of Portland

• Lacey Beaty, Mayor of Beaverton

• Jeff Dalin, Mayor of Cornelius

• Keith A Kudrna, Mayor of Fairview

• Malynda Wenzl, Mayor of Forest Grove

• Michael Milch, Mayor of Gladstone

• Travis Stovall, Mayor of Gresham

• Beach Pace, Mayor of Hillsboro

• Joe Buck, Mayor of Lake Oswego

• Lisa Batey, Mayor of Milwaukie

• Tim Rosener, Mayor of Sherwood

• Frank Bubenik, Mayor of Tualatin

• Rory Bialostosky, Mayor of West Linn

• Shawn O’Neil, Mayor of Wilsonville

• Jairo Rios-Campos, Mayor of Wood Village

• Melanie Kebler, Mayor of Bend

• Kaarin Knudson, Mayor of Eugene

The mayors released a statement declaring a joint effort to fight the threatened invasion:¹

According to the coalition, the “enforcement of civil immigration laws by militarized forces has no legitimate role in our community.” They have also pledged to pursue legal, legislative, and administrative options to “prevent militarized federal actions that could infringe on constitutional rights.”

In the meantime, armed stormtroopers from ICE marched through Downtown Chicago for unknown reasons and chased a biker who taunted them, then fled the scene like an X Games champion.

The stormtroopers looked like a Keystone Cops version of incompetent Star Wars stormtroopers who never once took a good shot at the heroes (quite thankfully, in this case).

Therefore, Chicago remains a target. Is it just performative, or will the regime up its game?

This is a brief update on a few of the more notable events.

Let’s start with the comic relief, featuring our star, a resistance fighter on a bike:

You can also watch it set to Benny Hill music by click/tapping this BlueSky link:

That guy in the beard looks familiar. I may have seen him scoping out a Mormon church a few months ago, but I’m not sure.

The guy on the bike is a hero. Other, longer videos show him taunting the stormtroopers before they gave chase. I’m not sure why so many of the videos cut out that part. I think the taunting makes it more delicious.

To understand this man’s heroism, consider that he was surely aware of the much less comic scene in the Chicago Suburb of Franklin Park, which resulted in ICE shooting and killing Silverio Villegas González, who ICE claimed was trying to do something (it is unclear in news reports what that something was).

The ICE agents involved in the shooting weren’t wearing body cams because Trump issued a mad clown edict that ended the requirement that they do so.

ICE claimed that Villegas González dragged an ICE agent (somehow) with his car. Did Villegas González toss a lariat through his car window to rope the agent? Since there is no body cam footage, and since it’s ICE, we can only assume the worst, which is that their claims are lies.

The Franklin Park police have said they can’t investigate the feds, so we’re left with the ICE version of events.

The ICE agent said to have been dragged is caught on Franklin Park police body cam footage saying that his injuries were “nothing major.”²

A funeral was held in Mexico for the victim, who immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico’s Michoacan state 18 years ago.

According to NBC News in Chicago:³

Relatives and friends of Villegas González said he was driving to work Friday morning after having dropped off his sons, who are 6 and 3, at school and day care.

Blanca Mora, Villegas González’s girlfriend, told Telemundo Chicago that she had been messaging him that morning. “He said he was going to get something to eat and head to work. But after that, I didn’t hear anything,” Mora said in Spanish.

That’s because that morning Villegas González was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Franklin Park, a suburb of Chicago.

Villegas González, who worked as a cook, had no criminal record, although with four traffic citations under his belt, it sounds like he wasn’t a very good driver. That was why ICE targeted him. In their own words via ICE Propaganda dot com:⁴

The target of the enforcement operation was Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, a criminal illegal alien with a history of reckless driving.

Let’s assume for a moment that Villegas Gonzalez led a life of crime (he did not). The presence of ICE in downtown Chicago was the danger trigger here, not the existence of a law-abiding 18-year resident who could probably use a good driver’s ed class if he were allowed to take one.

Meanwhile, the Village of Broadview, Illinois, population approximately 8,000, is in full resistance mode against the regime’s stormtroopers:

Protests against the ICE stormtrooper facility there are ongoing, which has resulted in numerous threats from the DHS, especially from border patrol goon Gregory Bovino, who runs the border patrol’s El Centro sector in southern California but has mysteriously injected himself, in full army fatigue regalia, into the stormtroopers’ small platoons of wackjobs, first in California, but now in Chicago.

For now, he’s loving the publicity, but when the regime is overthrown and Nuremberg-lite trials start, he may sing a different tune.

Where he goes, death seems to follow. According to the Guardian:

Two undocumented people have died trying to flee Bovino’s agents. A Mexican farm worker fell from a greenhouse and a Guatemalan day laborer was hit by a vehicle following a raid at Home Depot.

In another episode… they detained a disabled 15-year-old high school student in a case of mistaken identity after drawing their guns and handcuffing him, leaving unfired bullets on the ground.

That was during the Los Angeles stormtrooper incursion.

In another Chicago incident developing over the last couple of days, according to Block Club Chicago, a family was split apart by ICEstapo after a raid on the popular Chicago family and tourist gathering place, Millennium Park. Two of the young children arrested are being held at a temporary facility at O’Hare Airport. The father is being detained in Broadview.⁵

Love them family values.

Broadview police are not siding with the insurrectionists (to be clear, the insurrectionists are the current occupiers of the White House). The Chicago Sun-Times tells us that the Broadview police department is launching an investigation into an attack by ICE on a reporter:⁶

CBS News Chicago reporter Asal Rezaei told police she was alone in her personal vehicle Sunday morning when a federal agent inside the detention center’s fence fired pepper rounds toward her car. There were no protesters at the scene at the time.

ICE responded to the actions of Broadview city managers and police thusly:⁷

“In retaliation for the village of Broadview yesterday calling on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to ‘stop making war on our community,’ ICE agents this morning informed the Broadview Police Department that there will be ‘a sh*t show’ in Broadview today.”

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson has issued an executive order ordering the Chicago police to protect protesters, even if it means confrontation with federal stormtroopers:

Johnson said in a statement:

“What I have directed my [Chicago] Police Department to do through executive order is to protect the fundamental right to peacefully assemble, to ensure that every single department and agency knows exactly what rights have to be carried out. And what you’re seeing today is a strong display of a united front. In fact, if there were ever a time for the people of the world to unite, now is the time,”

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has been an outspoken opponent of the regime’s tactics. He was especially incensed when Bovino showed up in downtown Chicago cosplaying as an armed warrior and harassed shoppers.⁸ It was during one of the ICE incursions into the Loop (as many Chicagoans refer to their downtown area) that the Keystone IceCops video was made.

ICE agents were also seen thumping their chests on a boat in the Chicago River, a war zone if there ever was one.⁹

Pritzker said during a recent press conference in reaction to this and other shows of force:¹⁰

“All of this has been aimed at causing chaos and mayhem in the hopes of creating a pretext to deploy military troops against Chicago and Broadview and other suburbs, just as the president is doing right now in Oregon.”

He continued:

“The Illinois National Guard received word that the Department of Homeland Security has sent a memo to the Department of War seeking the deployment of 100 military troops to Illinois, claiming a need for the protection of ICE personnel and facilities.”

Chicago area residents and officials are not absorbing the blows without a fight.

Take Cristóbal Cavazos. He has formed a People’s Patrol aimed at tracking down and documenting ICE incidents with smartphone video.

Check out this report from Chicago radio station WBEZ:¹¹

Cristóbal Cavazos gets a call from a People’s Patrol volunteer at an industrial park near O’Hare International Airport where thousands of undocumented immigrants work in warehouses and manufacturing and food-processing plants.

The volunteer tells Cavazos she’s watching agents who might be from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency known as ICE.

Cavazos, 46, rushes to his car. He opens the hatch and packs in five-gallon buckets, drumsticks to pound on them, and bullhorns. He invites me to ride along.

Bensenville, the village that includes the industrial park, has been “a hotbed of ICE activity since Trump came in,” he says.

Cavazos has a history with American immigration policy. He tells stories of being sprayed at the border by toxic insecticides like lindane and DDT. Now he’s running a patrol to document stormtrooper activity.

We all get frustrated over the perceived lack of action against the regime. “All we do is yell out into our echo chamber!” is the scream heard across America right now.

But the front lines are busy.

Heroes are emerging every day. These heroes are emerging despite multiple arrests made by stormtroopers in Chicago and Broadview during the last week or two.

That’s how this resistance is playing out. City by city, state by state, civil rights violation by civil rights violation.

It’s probably coming to a city block near you.

Are you ready?

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Notes

To borrow loosely from the famous poem by Martin Niemöller:¹²

First they came for the undocumented Mexican
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Mexican.

Then they came for the delivery bicyclist
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a delivery bicyclist

Then they came for the shoppers on Michigan Avenue
And I did not speak out
Because I was not shopping that day.

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.

UPDATE

According to the Chicago Tribune, the Department of Homeland Security released this statement via email about the cyclist hero:

“Midway Blitz was launched to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens — including murderers, rapists, gang members, pedophiles, and terrorists — from Chicago communities.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, nowhere is a safe haven for criminal illegal aliens,” the statement continued. “If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, we will hunt you down, arrest you, deport you, and you will never return.”

It should be very funny, but these nutjobs have guns.

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Footnotes

1. Plante, Aimee. 2025. “Oregon Mayors Form Coalition against Federal Troops in Portland.” KOIN.com. September 29, 2025. https://www.koin.com/news/portland/oregon-mayors-form-coalition-against-federal-troops-in-portland/.

2. Main, Frank, and Tom Schuba. 2025. “ICE Agents Didn’t Have Body Cams during Deadly Shooting of Silverio Villegas González Outside Chicago.” Chicago Sun-Times. September 16, 2025. https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/09/16/ice-body-cameras-deadly-shooting-silverio-villegas-gonzalez-chicago.

3. Acevedo, Nicole. 2025. “Family of Mexican Father Fatally Shot by ICE near Chicago ‘Wants Justice to Be Done.’” NBC News. September 18, 2025. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigrant-shot-dead-chicago-ice-villegas-gonzalez-family-answers-rcna231952.

4. “DHS Statement on ICE Officer Seriously Injured in Line of Duty and Shooting in Chicago during Traffic Stop | Homeland Security.” 2024. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 2024. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/12/dhs-statement-ice-officer-seriously-injured-line-duty-and-shooting-chicago-during.

5. DeVore, Molly. 2025. “Family Taken by Feds Downtown Separated in Detention Centers: ‘They’re Locking up Children.’” Block Club Chicago. September 30, 2025. https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/family-taken-by-feds-from-millennium-park-separated-in-detention-centers-theyre-locking-up-children/.

6. Miller, Violet. 2025. “Broadview Police Probe Federal Agent Who Shot Pepper Rounds at CBS Reporter’s Vehicle.” Chicago Sun-Times. September 29, 2025. https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/28/broadview-police-say-theyre-investigating-feds-over-attack-on-cbs-reporters-vehicle.

7. Perez, Kate. 2025. “Broadview Village Leaders Condemn ICE Presence in Suburb and Threats of Greater Enforcement Actions.” Chicago Tribune. September 28, 2025. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/broadview-village-leaders-condemn-ice-presence-in-suburb-and-threats-of-greater-enforcement-actions/?share=irmeasabnw0nn0mr2end. (Gift Link)

8. Mitchell, Ashlee Rezin, Kaitlin Washburn, Mary Norkol, and Jon Seidel. 2025. “Feds March into Downtown Chicago; Top Border Agent Says People Are Arrested Based on ‘How They Look.’” Chicago Sun-Times. September 29, 2025. https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river.

9. Gallardo, Michelle, Maher Kawash, Cate Cauguiran, and Digital Team. 2025. “Federal Agents Detain Multiple People Downtown; Anti-ICE Protests Held in Chicago, Broadview.” ABC7 Chicago. September 29, 2025. https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-today-federal-immigration-agents-border-patrol-boat-seen-downtown-live/17899424/.

10. Szalinski, Ben. 2025. “Pritzker Says Feds Seeking Chicago Troop Deployment. ‘What I Have Been Warning of Is Now Being Realized.’” Capitol News Illinois. September 29, 2025. https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/pritzker-says-feds-seeking-chicago-troop-deployment-what-i-have-been-warning-of-is-now-being-realized/.

11. Mitchell, Chip. 2025. “Standing up to ICE in Suburban Chicago, the People’s Patrol Puts Its Faith in Resistance.” WBEZ. September 29, 2025. https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/29/standing-up-to-ice-in-suburban-chicago-the-peoples-patrol-puts-its-faith-in-resistance.

12. “Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | First They Came – by Pastor Martin Niemöller.” 2020. Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. April 30, 2020. https://hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin-niemoller/.