Claire Battle
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Claire Battle
@clairebattle.bsky.social
She/her; all views my own
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BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...

"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...
Sequoia's Shaun Maguire accused an innocent Palestinian of being the Brown shooter. Then he doubled down
Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.
www.fastcompany.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.
December 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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forced birth but then you also have to watch all those babies die of preventable diseases. the only policy goal republicans have , as far as I can make out from what they’re doing with power, is to kill as many children as possible
December 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Geez, glad I checked the weather before fully packing for Kansas City. I know many would be happy with this forecast but my climate anxiety is at 11 rn
December 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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This is just so wildly irresponsible and grossly misleading “journalism” @nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
PSA: an actual human is answering Senator Duckworth's phone again.
December 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Genuinely bloodcurdling that he was like a guy who thinks The Wolf of Wall Street is about how he's cool and epic but for the book about a pedophile
This release comes just one day before the Trump administration is required to release its full archive, and House Speaker Mike Johnson sent legislators home a day early, probably to try to avoid negative attention. trib.al/ibeCKdy
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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You can do your part. If you witness ICE vehicles switching, altering, or improperly using license plates, report it to the Illinois Secretary of State’s Plate Watch Hotline, where violations are investigated:
December 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
It's a boring story but a mildly cruel twist of fate that my husband is seeing the Lemonheads tonight and I'm not. I am not so craven as to wish for a Dando off-night.
December 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Rage remains the primary emotion I feel in relation to this topic
This is a great cathartic rage listen for those of us who lived through this drama
Chicago parkers hate this ONE WEIRD BUDGET TRICK!!! Today’s show, a parking privatization parable about that one time Chicago sold its 36,000 parking meters for 75 years.

buff.ly/8FufijI
December 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The Pulitzer Board is actually fighting back against one of Trump’s vexatious lawsuits, saying, ‘If you were harmed, prove it — with medical and financial records.’

Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen.

newrepublic.com/post/204475/...
Pulitzer Board Demands Trump’s Tax and Psych Records in Lawsuit Twist
Donald Trump isn’t going to be happy about this one.
newrepublic.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Such heartbreaking cruelty

"[I] one Chicago school, a third grade boy stopped eating because he was afraid to type in his lunch code, worried ICE would somehow see it and know where he was, or his family." buff.ly/8awzBzn
I’m an elementary school principal. Students live in fear of ICE | Seth Lavin
I am in awe of the children and their parents as they live through raids. How can you call an operation targeted when it blankets a city in fear?
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I…did not see the closing sentence of this photo caption coming: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
December 16, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Verified ICE sightings in Berwyn and S Oak Park. Just in time for the holidays.
December 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Shame shame shame @durbin.senate.gov
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Oak Park's year-round Christmas tree/tonight's sunset.
December 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Bad news for Venezuela. And once again, Marisa called it months ago.
NEW — Trump has signed an executive order "designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD)." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl 'Weapon of Mass Destruction,' per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM