BREAKING: Trump Appointed Oregon Judge Delivers Second Stunning Rebuke Of Trump's Effort To Use ICE Agents/National Guard Against To People Of Portland As DHS Turned Chicago Into A War Zone Trump’s Cross-State Guard Gambit, ICE’s Chicago Crackdown, and the Project 2025 Blueprint—Happening Now Dean Blundell Oct 6 October 6, 2025 TL;DR: A federal judge blocked National Guard deployments to Oregon—so the White House tried an end-run by shifting California Guard troops toward Portland. The court slammed the door with a broader order that halts any Guard deployments into Oregon (for now). Meanwhile, in Illinois, Guard federalization and ICE’s militarized raids in Chicago escalated fast—helicopters, flashbangs, mass detentions, kids zip-tied—exactly the concentrated-power playbook we’ve been warned about. You’re support for this community has been INCREDIBLE. Don’t forget, we extended the half-price annual subscription deal for the month of October. Get 50% off yearly plans and unlimited access, and never pay more. Redeem the offer by October 31, and feel free to share or gift a subscription to support fearless, independent journalism wherever you find it. The Weekend the Blueprint Went Live Sometime between late Sunday and dawn on Monday, the gears started turning. Oregon got a court order—signed by a Trump-appointed judge—saying, essentially: No National Guard in Portland. The administration’s response wasn’t to pause and reassess. It was to route around the roadblock. SO, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued a broader TRO (late last night) halting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of Guard troops to Oregon from any state—for 14 days while she hears more arguments. California called it a court win against an “illegal” cross-state deployment. Stephen Miller called it “Judicial Tyranny”. LOL. Why this is extraordinary: Cross-state federalization to intervene over protests—especially after a judge intervenes—is not routine; it’s a live test of judicial limits on domestic force. The TRO’s broad language signals the court sees a serious legal problem. This was the same (Trump Appointed) judge who last week warned Americans in her first decision that Trump was gaslighting Americans into warming you up to Martial Law. California Guard troops were suddenly in motion for “federal missions” tied to Portland. That wasn’t a paperwork glitch; it was a test: If you block Oregon’s Guard, can we use another state’s Guard to do the same job? For a few tense hours it looked like the answer might be yes—until the judge widened the order to ban any Guard deployments to Oregon from any state. A hard legal stop, at least for the next two weeks. But while the west coast door slammed shut, another door opened in the Midwest. Illinois Guard units were pulled into federal service as ICE ramped up operations across the Chicago area. Separate track, same song: centralize control, move quickly, normalize federal muscle in blue jurisdictions. What Chicago Lived Through If you were anywhere near the South Shore and Brighton Park corridors this weekend, you didn’t need a think tank to tell you what’s happening. You heard it and felt it. Helicopters thumped overhead as teams stacked on doors. Flashbangs rattled windows at midnight. Families were pulled from bed, kids zip-tied, some separated from parents as agents worked the hallways. Chemical agents—tear gas and pepper balls—spilled into residential blocks, drifting toward retail strips and, in at least one case, near a hospital. In Brighton Park, amid vehicle clashes and chaos, a woman was shot by federal personnel. She made it to a hospital on her own. ICE lied and said they were boxed in by ten vehicles and they shot a woman they thought had guns in their car. Local officials say ICE agents placed bogus 911 calls during critical windows—calls that seemed designed to pull police resources away from ICE facilities and hot spots. One incident flagged a “tampering” suspect who turned out to be a news photographer. There are also viral clips from Portland showing a detained protester hogtied and strapped to a flatbed cart and wheeled away—an ugly tableau from a different city, but a revealing snapshot of tactics shaping the national mood. Zip tying 2 year olds, Americans, helicopters, flashbangs, chemical agents, mass detentions, and shooting are already more than enough to map the stakes. This isn’t routine immigration enforcement. It’s a domestic show of force meant to train the public to accept federalized muscle as the backdrop of civic life—and to punish any city that won’t play ball. And here’s the thing, these cities were 15x safer prior to these ICE raids. The only domestic terror being committed in any of these cities across America is being engneered by Trump and these ICE agents who are now shooting Americans who cut them off in Traffic. And Trump wants this to be the norm. It’s the blueprint for project 2025 and it’s HERE. Right now. How the Legal Lines Are Being Bent Let’s keep this simple and plain-English: Title 32 vs. Title 10: Governors control Guard units under Title 32. When the feds federalize them under Title 10, the President and DoD take the wheel. That shift matters because it narrows what those troops can legally do in civilian law enforcement—and it strips local oversight. The Court’s Move: Oregon’s judge didn’t just say “don’t do this with Oregon’s Guard.” She said don’t do this with anyone’s Guard—no cross-state shell games—until the court can fully assess the legality. Posse Comitatus / Insurrection Act: Active-duty military and federalized Guard face strict limits in policing civilians. To break that wall, you need an Insurrection Act invocation. Absent that, trying to launder domestic policing through out-of-state, federally controlled Guard is exactly the kind of workaround courts are built to stop. Why This IS Project 2025 You’ve seen the white papers and heard the speeches: centralize executive power, weaken checks, supercharge domestic enforcement, and choke off “sanctuary” jurisdictions. That isn’t theory anymore. It’s operational guidance. The personnel behind the curtain are familiar: Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, and a cadre of loyalists who’ve spent years gaming out how to bend the machinery of government toward a single end—obedience. The sudden appetite for cross-state Guard and aggressive ICE surge operations is the natural outcome of that design. The message to the public is simple: Courts and governors can’t save you. We can go around them. Just ask Stephen “PeeWee German” Miller. There was hope in Portland this weekend this weekend, as a federal judge proved that’s not entirely true. But the test balloons are up. And they’re going to keep sending them. What This Means—Right Now The court’s block in Oregon is a win, not the finish line. TROs expire. The administration will search for a new seam—another jurisdiction, another pretext, another acronym. Chicago is a warning shot. If dramatic “support to federal operations” becomes the norm, cities become training grounds, and public fear becomes policy fuel. Documentation beats denial. The tactics are clearest when the footage and paperwork stack up: body-cam releases, warrant logs, after-action reports, medical records, incident reports, and sworn complaints. The Bottom Line None of this is normal. Normal is how the public gets walked from “temporary surge” to semi-permanent occupation without noticing where the line got crossed. The Oregon judge drew a bright line. Chicago showed why that line matters. 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