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[–] 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

The indictment specifically accuses Abughazaleh, among others, of banging aggressively on the windows, hood and other areas of the agent’s car, pushing against it to “hinder and impede its movement” and etching the word “PIG” on the car.

This is so dumb. Oh no! The ICE agent was scared! Almost exactly like how he makes everyone else feel!

Kat is a really good voice to have and this is the dumbest thing you can throw against her. Criticize her about how she's not running in the district she lives in, how she moved to Illinois from Texas and within a very short time decided to run for congress against a Democratic congresswoman who the community of the district genuinely likes and has been rather progressive ( I have been corrected, the congresswoman is retiring). About how she's acting like she knows a lot about the district saying she lives right next to a bus line that is a few stops away from that district despite the fact that bus line doesn't go to that district. Not this horseshit.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    She running for an open seat though? Or is one of her opponents a congresswoman in a neighboring district or a state congresswoman?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Edit at the top: the seat she is running for is going to be empty so that's at least one area of criticism she shouldn't face.

    She is running in a seat currently held by a Democratic congresswoman who, to be fair, has been in office for a while. It's a primary and she's running against her. Not an open seat unless the current congresswoman has recently announced she won't be running which would have had to happen in the last couple weeks and I think is unlikely.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    This was in May, Jan Schakowsky, the congresswoman for IL-09, announced shw would not run for reelection in 2026. So not really the past few weeks. Am I missing something? https://schakowsky.house.gov/media/press-releases/schakowsky-announces-she-will-not-seek-re-election-2026.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Ah I see, you're not missing something. I was basing it off of her AMA on reddit from a long while ago now when Jan hadn't announced her retirement yet.

    Still think she deserves criticism for running in a district she doesn't live in and for moving from texas to Illinois and within a year running for Congress there. But she at least is running for an empty seat. There are also several other candidates in the race who are just as progressive who actually live in the district.

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