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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2m

"I see no credible evidence there is a danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois," Perry adds.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12m

Perry cites other fed prosecutions/lawsuits in Chicago and says "in the last 48 hours, in four separate unrelated legal decision from different neutral parties, they all cast significant doubt on DHS' credibility and assessment of what is happening on the streets of Chicago."

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 46m

It was explained to me that the governor is term limited and the AG is planning to run to replace him. Also, it helps Stitt save face with the National Governor’s Association, preventing a blue state exodus.

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 2h

For anyone else confused about Oklahoma both advocating for and condemning the deployment of National Guard:

Beach That Makes You Bad At Horror-Themed Jokes @cbowen.bsky.social · 2h

The AG is elected, is an aggressive critic of the term-limited governor, and is running to replace him. Additional context is that Stitt leads the National Governors Association, and he might lose face if Pritzker (who wrote a public letter asking for him for support) leads a Blue State exodus.

Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 2h

Okay thanks for the explanation. This was driving me nuts. Lol

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 4h

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
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How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 3h

But Oklahoma signed an amicus brief arguing *for* the guard deployment to Illinois. There seem to be mixed signals going on in that state.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 3h

This also strikes me as another attack on sexual minorities (and sexual health overall) given the scientific evidence that demonstrates the protection circumcision provides against HIV and STI transmission.

Lancet Glob Health (2019) Apr;7(4):e436-e447.

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 3h

And yet, here’s Oklahoma with several other states arguing that the guard should be deployed to Illinois.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 22h

Here's their brief:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

For the past four years, illegal open-border immigration policies flooded the country with
illegal aliens, including criminals convicted of crimes in their home country, violent international
gang members, and suspected ISIS terrorists. Much of that was done in violation of federal
immigration law through the assertion of executive enforcement prerogatives. Now, President
Trump is executing Congress’s dictates and enforcing federal immigration law—which includes
valiant efforts by federal law enforcement to identify and deport alien criminals. Against that
backdrop of law enforcement, activists began to gather in cities across the United States, including
Chicago. But rather than protest peacefully, some of those protests became violent, threatening
federal officers, harming federal property, and certainly impeding enforcement of federal law.
President Trump’s deployment of a small number of National Guard members to defend against
this lawlessness is responsible, constitutional, and authorized by statute.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 17h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

I have no idea how this squares with Oklahoma taking part in the amicus briefs on Trump's side in the Oregon and Illinois cases.

Maybe someone more versed in politics can explain it to me.

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 4h

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4h

Hamilton responds, with anger in his voice, “This is no Carrie Underwood song.”

Perry then asks for more specifics about the agent who “had his beard ripped off” and the discovery of an alleged “improvised explosive device” at Broadview.

DOJ has nothing more to add.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4h

I have lost count of how many times Hamilton has said that Perry must use a "highly deferential standard of review" when determining whether the president is acting lawfully.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5h

So far this sounds very much like a 2–1 panel decision in favor of Trump having the right to deploy the NG to Portland, Oregon.

This is despite TROs usually not being appealable and DOJ appealing Judge Immergut's first TRO but not the second one. (Though the full court might rehear en banc.)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago tire shops are excellent.

Two-story fram building decorated in black and white stripes with a red, green, and white sign that says Jose's New & Used Tires & Rims.

One-story orange brick building with a stepped parapet wall with an arch in the center. The door is in the center, and above it is a yellow square with a hubcap mounted on it. On either side of the door are two tires, painted yellow attached to the wall below yellow and black signs in English and Spanish.

One-story brick tire shop painted bright orange-red. There is a customer door at the left, topped with a painting of Jesus. Next to that is a large glass block window and on the right is the garage door. There are paintings of tires at various places above the garage door. "4 Brothers Tire Shop, Inc." is painted in black and white at top left.

One-story brick building with a flat roof. The brick is painted dark red, pale yellow, and brown. Pictures of tires, painted in black, white, and yellow, decorated the front. On either side are the words "TIRE SHOP", painted vertically. The address is painted yellow in the center of the building.

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Capitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social · 20h

The Illinois Press Association board of directors has made a huge mistake. What a mess localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/1...

Illinois Press Association CEO Resigns After Dispute Over ICE Lawsuit

The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area ICE facility, resigned this week following a ...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

Solidarity Against Sadism

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left.

Tuesday, October 14th at 6 PM ET

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Solidarity Against Sadism: An Emergency Town Hall

Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 22h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 21h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 21h

Several red states have filed a brief in support of Trump sending the national guard to Chicago. The entire thing is, of course, a regurgitation of the lies that ICE has been spewing for the last several weeks.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 22h

Here's their brief:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 22h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

It's not special treatment for reporters—it's critically important to maintain the ability to document police activities after they've ordered assemblies to disperse.

Again and again, we've seen cops are most likely to get more violent with demonstrators when out of public view.

Seth Stern @seth-stern.bsky.social · 1d

It's great that this TRO will issue. The lawyers and plaintiffs deserve tons of credit for making this happen.

But why is Judge Ellis walking back the position of the DOJ and at least one federal appellate court that journalists can't be dispersed at protests?

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

He also calls the Broadview facility a "detention center," which is the first time I've heard someone representing the federal govt openly call it that.

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 1d

Could he just quit now and let Pritzker replace him with someone who has a spine?

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”