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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 17m

Hope it helped a little.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 27m

#Alt4You
[Originally posted by: @repgwenmoore.bsky.social]

Rep. Gwen Moore V @RepGwenMoore
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So let me get this straight...Republicans expect Democrats to vote for a funding bill when Republicans are openly admitting that they're just going to come around behind us and claw back funding after it's approved?
This isn't a "clean CR," it is a transparent game of three card monty.
Eleanor Mueller @Eleanor Mueller • 2h
• • On this press call with the House Freedom Caucus, Johnson tells reporters: "We worked on rescissions, and there'll be more of that, we expect, in the days ahead."

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 33m

No. You’d have to build your own feed to do that.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 36m

Try this.

hi, bluesky. it's time we had a chat about alt text. - there’s no way out of here

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 48m

#Alt4You
[Originally posted by: @josepagliery.bsky.social]

Doc. 13-6 at 3.
In early September 2025, ICE's Chicago Field Office Director informed the Broadview
Police Department that approximately 250 to 300 Customs and Border Patrol ("CBP") agents
would begin arriving in Illinois for an immigration enforcement campaign dubbed "Operation
Midway Blitz." Doc. 13-5 at 2-5. This escalation in enforcement activity caused a corresponding increase in protests near the ICE Processing Center. Id. at 5. On some occasions, demonstrators have stood or sat down in the driveway leading to the ICE Processing Center. ICE has then physically removed those individuals, and ICE vehicles have come and gone as needed. Id. The typical number of protestors is fewer than fifty. Id. The crowd has never exceeded 200. Id.

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would
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and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence.
This indicates to the Court both bias and lack of objectivity. The lens through which we view the
world changes our perception of the events around us. Law enforcement officers who go into an
event expecting "a shitshow" are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the
event prepared to de-escalate it. Ultimately, this Court must conclude that Defendants'
declarants' perceptions are not reliable.'
Finally, the Court notes its concern about a third declaration submitted by Defendants, in
which the declarant asserted that the FPS "requested federalized National Guard personnel to
support protection of the Federal District Court on Friday, October 10, 2025." Doc. 62-3. This
purported fact was incendiary and seized upon by both parties at oral argument. It was also

law enforcement presented by laintills.
The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants' declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants' declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a
lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne
Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609 (N.D. IIl.). In addition to demonstrating a potential lack of candor by these affiants, it also calls
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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1h

Fair. Your interpretation of the original material is almost certain to be different than mine. 👍🏾

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 2h

No such animal. Everyone’s got some kind of bias in this. Even if you dig for the actual skeets that were flying around at the time you won’t get a neutral recounting, because everyone had a side to pick. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 2h

Steak discourse is the weirdest.

Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 4h

3 or 4 for me.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 2h

I think this one’s decent.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 7h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 8h

Post #FundFriday links; and if you have the ability to help someone looking for a leg up, maybe browse this linked (see what I did there?) feed.

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 9h

Courtesy of Link himself

Fund Friday post :

Happy Friday Yall. Post fundraising links, cashapp links, whichever campaign needing help on . ♥️

Screenshot of a text message conversation on a purple background. The first message from AJ Link at 7:48 AM reads: “Howdy pals. Can I ask for a favor. If anyone has capacity or time today can they do a fund Friday post. I know lots of people need help.” This message has a heart reaction. The second message, also at 7:48 AM, replies: “Obviously what everyone does with their CPU is sacred. So no pressure.“

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 8h

If you ever do switch to iOS I’d be happy to share shortcuts.

I’m still not doing great with getting something similar working on the Android side. If I do, I’ll share.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 9h

This is a #FundFriday post with no fun graphic, list your mutual aid needs below & I'll boost, I'm no Link but I can repost you.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 8h

🤣 There’s a long weekend coming, so I’m in a good mood.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 8h

Yeah. In some ways we might be. But I think that (a) he doesn’t give a shit anyway, (b) it’s a net benefit from an accessibility perspective, and (c) it only took about forty seconds to do the whole thing—so it’s not a massive time sink.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 8h

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And it's not something that's like, well, maybe, you know, if something happens this month, I'll say something. No, it's happening every single day. I mean, I'm living it here in Chicago and in Illinois that it's happening, but it's happening in Portland. It's happened in L.A. It's happening in Washington, D.C. And those are just the troop movements.
We're also seeing ICE in places that, you know, nobody expected them to be — in suburbs and rural areas of my state and elsewhere. So I am surprised that more leaders have not stood up. I don't think we should just say Democrats - like, why haven't Democrats - because that sounds political. And to be frank with you, this isn't about politics. This is genuinely about the future of our country. Do we believe in a constitutional republic, or do we think that it's okay if this becomes, you know, the law of one - the president of the United States, the law of Donald Trump — that that is what we're going to go by and not the law that is set out in the Constitution of the United States?

Sargent: Well, I wonder if Democrats as a party could be doing more to raise alarms along the lines of what you're talking about — about Trump's escalating authoritarianism. When Trump calls for the arrest or the prosecution of this or that Democrat, couldn't the party leadership all stand up as one and warn that this is an emergency — that Trump is threatening to arrest and prosecute members of the opposition, and this is the onset of authoritarian rule? Couldn't Democrats do more of that kind of thing in unison? Would you like to see more?
Governor Pritzker: Yeah, don't you think? And I mean, look, I understand there are people who've stood up — I want to say, and we should give kudos to those people. I think Cory Booker, you know, has been terrific. I think that we've seen people standing up — Chris Murphy, Gavin Newsom — you know, there are people who are regularly calling it out. Right. But I wonder about lots of other folks.

And what's good, if we can fight this on a national level too —if we can get people incited to protest peacefully across the country, like, for example, at the No King's rally that will happen on October 18th. If we can have that happen, and we've seen a lot of spontaneous peaceful protests across the United States, I think that's a really good thing. I think it sends a signal to the rest of the public—the folks who are just trying to get to work and pay the bills-that something's going on here that they better pay attention to. That's a very important thing for us to have happen, because if we don't win the 2026 elections-those of us who want to preserve democracy... If Democrats don't win that election, Katy bar the doors. We don't know what's going to happen in the future and whether we're actually going to have elections.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 8h

#Alt4You

Sargent: But law enforcement on your side, what can be done?
Governor Pritzker: Well, again, what we are doing is protecting the protesters. We've got Illinois State Police out there with protesters.
Protecting them, meaning they're standing in between ICE and the protesters in order to because you saw that ICE was firing pellets and you know gas pellets and rubber bullets and so on. That's rarely happening now at the Broadview facility. So that's an example of of our local law enforcement protecting our people.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 8h

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Sargent: Well, so clearly Stephen Miller is using footage from Chicago as part of a vast national propaganda campaign. I wonder though, are you or Illinois law enforcement getting any briefings at all from the Department of Homeland Security or anyone else in the federal government about what they're actually finding in raids like this one? It seems to me you'd want to be able to coordinate with them in some sense? Do they talk to you at all before they do these things?
Governor Pritzker: Greg, they have not called me once. Not once. I mean, we literally have almost no information. When they called out the National Guard — when they federalized our National Guard — they told me that I was going to get a call. This is the first time, by the way — no calls from the president of the United States, no calls from Kristi Noem about any of this, no calls from Greg Bovino. He's the officer on the ground with CBP who's in charge of all these agents, who just seems to be a terrible human being. And on the day that they were going to call in the National Guard and federalize them — the Illinois National Guard — I was told and informed by someone from the Department of Defense that the Defense Secretary, [Pete Hegseth, was going to call me at a specific

time. I said I'd cleared my calendar to make sure that I would have time to call him, that I would not miss the call, and waited. Two and a half hours I waited for the phone to ring. Never called. I obviously kept my phone on me the entire rest of the day. They never called. Never called the next day.
Still have never called. And it turns out that Secretary Hegseth was actually at a football game, taking part in a push-up contest. And this is all while he's calling out the National Guard on my state and unwilling to call me to even let me know that that was going to happen.
Sargent: Well, know, pushups are important. It's important to do that to keep in good health, Governor. But I do want to ask you, though, have you been trying to reach out to them in any sense, like very recently, and just to get a sense of what's coming next? And are they answering your calls?
What's the state of the communication?
Governor Pritzker: So unfortunately, they don't seem to want to respond to my entreaties. And I have said, you know, many times in public, on television, clearly the president is listening to what I'm saying on television about what it is that we want. What we're getting, the way we're getting any information from them has been either by people in their departments leaking things. Maybe they're people from Illinois or maybe they're people who care about Illinois, but they've been leaking things. That's one way.

A second is that we have, I have, some staff or people in our departments who regularly work with people in other departments in the federal government who just, you know, knowing those people have called to say, what do you know? And can you give us any information? So I think that the combination of that has given us a little bit, but you're, what you said is a hundred percent accurate, Greg. If they would let us know, we're not looking to impede. I mean, I want to impede the what some of the things they're doing that are breaking the law. But we're not going to stand in the way of them executing federal law. We can't, we literally are prohibited by law and we follow the law here.
But what we could do is make sure that the neighborhoods are safer and that the officers themselves might be safer if they weren't just surprising people in a neighborhood and you know, showing up with these unmarked vehicles, wearing masks, banging on doors, disrupting people.
Because you know what's happening? Spontaneous protests. It's not, you know, we have a couple of, we have a couple of blocks, two blocks across from an ICE facility in Broadview where people are showing up to protest every day. But in a neighborhood when these cars, you know, descend on and these people in masks, people in the neighborhoods are, first of all, they're naturally freaked out.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 8h

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And they arrested a few gang members. And by the way, I'm for-let's go get the bad guys. Let's get the bad guys. That's why we have police. That's why we have FBI and DEA. Let's get gang members who are selling drugs or killing people. But that's not how you do it. That's not how we do it in the United States. You don't round up the usual suspects—all the brown people who live in a building-and then ask everybody for their proof of citizenship before you'll let them go while you're arresting the people you actually were aiming at.
Sargent: So he said the building was full of Tren de Aragua terrorists.
False?
Governor Pritzker: Absolutely false. I must say, you know, whenever the ICE and CBP agents say something, they put out a release or, you know, you've got Stephen Miller talking about it, they are lying.

Sargent: Well, I want to get your response to something Stephen Miller said on Fox News about the raid on Chicago's South Side. He called it one of the most successful law enforcement operations that we've ever seen in this country. He said it targeted an apartment complex full of Tren de Aragua terrorists and that this operation saves many lives. Is any of that true? What's your response?
Governor Pritzker: Well, I mean, if you —if this was Pinochet's Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you'd call it successful, meaning that they went after a few people in a building by absolutely terrorizing everybody in the building. There are about 130 people living there, a few of them being targeted, and everybody else— U.S. citizens, people with documentation who may not be U.S. citizens, and even undocumented people, who are not Tren de Aragua-who were held for hours and zip-tied. This is middle of the night: troops dropping-not really troops; they were agents—dropping from Black Hawk military helicopters onto the building, ransacking the place, breaking down doors and windows and so on.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 8h

🤣

I might do it. Probably it’ll take about two minutes with shortcuts. Someone with accessibility needs MIGHT want to read it. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 8h

#Alt4You
[Originally posted by: @gregsargent.bsky.social]

Sargent: Well, Governor, the president has called for your arrest. I just want to ask you this pretty bluntly. Do you expect to be arrested soon?
Governor Pritzker: I do not expect to be arrested. And the President of the United States says a lot of crazy things. I genuinely think there is something wrong with him. I wish that his family would intervene, because I do think he needs mental health help. And I don't think anybody around him that works for him is going to do that, because they're benefiting from his failure of mental health, his dementia. I wish somebody would help out the President of the United States.
Meanwhile, you know, he says a lot of crazy things. He doesn't have authority to arrest elected officials or really anybody where you don't have any, you know, example of a crime being committed. And I find it ironic that this guy who's a 34-time convicted felon is saying that I should be jailed. I've never been accused of, or convicted of, or, you know, gone on trial for anything. He's the guy who's done that so many times and cheated, by the way, in civil court. And this is just, you know, I don't take it seriously other than I think the man has so much power at his fingertips because he's president of the United States that the people around him might try to take it upon themselves to just make something up and come after me or or Gavin Newsom, I know they've mentioned that they might jail him or the mayor of the city of Chicago.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 9h

#Alt4You
[Originally posted by: @oliverdarcy.bsky.social]

Dear colleagues,
It's been a whirlwind week. I appreciate all the warm welcomes and those who have served as unpaid tour guides through the labyrinth of this building
CBS News is a big place with functional titles and reporting structures that I'm learning. But more than the hierarchical niceties, I'm eager to get to know you.
I hope that you are as excited as I am about the prospect of elevating CBS News to its rightful place as No. 1: the most trusted and most consumed news source in the nation. So, I'm interested in any particular ideas you have to achieve this goal.
By the end of day Tuesday, I'd like a memo from each person across our news organization. I'm not looking for a JD or words like synergy. I want to understand how you spend your working hours-and, ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of. I'm also interested in hearing your views on what's working; what's broken or substandard; and how we can be better. Please be blunt-it will help me greatly.
I'll read all of them carefully. And they will be held in the strictest of confidence.
Then I'll use your memo as a discussion guide for when I meet with most of you (ideally, all of you if time permits) in the coming few weeks.
The goal is simple: I want to familiarize myself with you-and I want you to do the same with me-to know that we are aligned on achieving a shared vision for CBS News.
Yours, Bari

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 10h

That’s used when someone responds to a request for help. If I’m using my iOS shortcut to respond to text-only posts, it’ll will add the hashtag #Alt4You at the beginning.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 10h

That setting lives at Settings > Accessibility > Require alt text before posting. 👍🏾

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 10h

No worries 👍🏾