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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Federal judge issues TRO following a second day of hearings, blocking the Trump administration from “ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois” from now through Oct. 23. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, a sovereign state; and the CITY OF CHICAGO, an Illinois municipal corporation,
Plaintiffs,
Case No. 25-cv-12174
Judge April M. Perry
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States; DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security;
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; PETER B.
HEGSETH, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Defense; UNITED STATES ARMY; DANIEL P. DRISCOLL, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Army,
Defendants.
TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
This Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, Doc. 3, and
ORDERS as follows:
1. Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns entered, and all persons acting in concert with them, are temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the
National Guard of the United States within Illinois.
2. This Temporary Restraining Order is at 5:55 P.M. central time on this 9th day of October
2025 and expires on October 23, 2025 at 11:59 P.M.
'President Trump, one of the name Defendants, is not enjoined by this Order.

3. Within two (2) calendar days of entry of this Temporary Restraining Order, Plaintiffs
shall post a nominal bond of $100. The bond shall be filed in the Clerk's Office and be
deposited into the registry of the Court.
4. Defendants' Request to Stay or Administratively Stay the Temporary Restraining Order,
Doc. 62 at 58, is DENIED.
5. A telephone hearing will be held on October 22, 2025, at 9:00 A.M. to address whether
this Temporary Restraining Order should be extended for an additional fourteen (14)
calendar days.
Dated: October 9, 2025
Coul MPeray.
APRIL M. PERRY
United States District Judge
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T. J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 19h

I called a plumber. They can always figure out what’s wrong.

“Here’s your problem right here. President Trump presents a complete misrepresentation of basic economic facts in anticipation of the power of hyper partisanship to convince his core supporters to ignore objective reality.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "We have the best economy we've ever had."

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 21h

Brufus!

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 22h

I'm kinda sorry to admit that he's probably correct. 😕

Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 21h

These are the same chuds who used to play paintball every weekend to shoot each other. Now they're being paid with our money to shoot us with their paintball guns while secretly imagining they're assault rifles. Nice government we've got here.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Without provocation, masked federal agents indiscriminately shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets from the rooftop of the Portland ICE facility.

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 21h

The Nobel committee could help us so much by awarding it to Greta - all of his bodily systems would seize up the moment he heard the news.

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 21h

If you're going out to do some liberating, tuck your phone into your dog's collar so it "proves" you were walking around your house all day.

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 21h

When the Tea Party brought muskets, tricorn hats, and Gadsden flags to DC they never used that word. Wonder why.

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 21h

The Mob always could have used a communications management consultant

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 21h

This meme won't be needed anymore now that we have this picture

a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 21h

This makes my eye twitch

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 1d

You misspelled barterables

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 1d

Any such President would fly there, meet with the governor, take a helicopter ride over the battle zone. He knows it’s not happening or he’d be there throwing rolls of paper towels

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 1d

Bruce ap Wayne

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 1d

We’re willing to be governed. We’re not willing to be ruled.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 1d

ICE: take us seriously, we're cosplaying as soldiers as we brutally execute immigration law.

Portland: we're going to dance in front of your building in a rainbow unicorn cosfume.

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 1d

Never ever ever use “notwithstanding.” Have you ever seen it clarify a text, as opposed to obfuscating it?

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 1d

It went exactly like the experts said it would: really obvious, everybody in denial, slowly, slowly, then all at once.

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit. Have I been fired? Is this because I wore a collared shirt that one day?

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 1d

Brain not wrong

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 1d

You should have group texted the staff counsel before outing us like this

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Sophie the Bear @sophiethebear.bsky.social · 1d

You just hit the nail so squarely on the head that it went all the way I with one stroke. Gold.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's Four Freedoms:

Freedom from shame. Freedom from accountability. Freedom from responsibility. Freedom from empathy.

This whole stupid, destructive mess is about being freed from the obligations of reasonable, kind, responsible adulthood.

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