Astrid Hammer
@astridhammer.cryptoanarchy.network
This is a Palestinian journalist stan account.
All of the nine year olds in my life wanted things like records, knitting needles and gardening tools for Christmas.
my predictions for 2026:
in: physical media, dogs with human names
out: pickles, billionaires
in: physical media, dogs with human names
out: pickles, billionaires
December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
All of the nine year olds in my life wanted things like records, knitting needles and gardening tools for Christmas.
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So much of the issues related to transit governance is downstream from the fact that both the boards of these agencies and many of advocates in this space believe that transit is a welfare program that acts as “transportation of last resort” as opposed to a viable, affordable alternative to cars.
The equity case for infrequent buses at low fares only makes sense if you believe low income people’s time has no value or that they don’t value their time.
Every transit professional knows this, but equity
December 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
So much of the issues related to transit governance is downstream from the fact that both the boards of these agencies and many of advocates in this space believe that transit is a welfare program that acts as “transportation of last resort” as opposed to a viable, affordable alternative to cars.
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Like, for example, try searching for the above reply.
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Like, for example, try searching for the above reply.
I…
Sure.
I let other people decide which genocidaire would be in charge.
I do not feel bad about this.
Sure.
I let other people decide which genocidaire would be in charge.
I do not feel bad about this.
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I…
Sure.
I let other people decide which genocidaire would be in charge.
I do not feel bad about this.
Sure.
I let other people decide which genocidaire would be in charge.
I do not feel bad about this.
I understand that people find this horrendous.
It is.
But it’s NOT NEW.
Civil asset forfeiture bc the cops feel like it happens every day in the US.
It is.
But it’s NOT NEW.
Civil asset forfeiture bc the cops feel like it happens every day in the US.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I understand that people find this horrendous.
It is.
But it’s NOT NEW.
Civil asset forfeiture bc the cops feel like it happens every day in the US.
It is.
But it’s NOT NEW.
Civil asset forfeiture bc the cops feel like it happens every day in the US.
It was like 60 degrees in Indiana today…
Indiana State Senator wishes you a Merry Christmas by… posting images of himself assaulting Santa Claus.
Are the fascists okay?
Are the fascists okay?
December 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It was like 60 degrees in Indiana today…
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@bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app I just reposted this Palestinian woman and her newborn baby’s fundraiser minutes ago. It is complicit with genocide to erase their cries for help. And on Christmas? Shame on you
Oh this tiny baby ❤️❤️❤️
December 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
@bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app I just reposted this Palestinian woman and her newborn baby’s fundraiser minutes ago. It is complicit with genocide to erase their cries for help. And on Christmas? Shame on you
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Thread...
Hamas is renewing its call for a full & independent ICC investigation into 10/7. They state they can show they only targeted Israeli military posts in retaliation for killing civilians in Palestine, did not target any hospitals, civilians, medical personnel, & did not commit rape.
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Hamas is renewing its call for a full & independent ICC investigation into 10/7. They state they can show they only targeted Israeli military posts in retaliation for killing civilians in Palestine, did not target any hospitals, civilians, medical personnel, & did not commit rape.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thread...
Hamas is renewing its call for a full & independent ICC investigation into 10/7. They state they can show they only targeted Israeli military posts in retaliation for killing civilians in Palestine, did not target any hospitals, civilians, medical personnel, & did not commit rape.
1/3
Hamas is renewing its call for a full & independent ICC investigation into 10/7. They state they can show they only targeted Israeli military posts in retaliation for killing civilians in Palestine, did not target any hospitals, civilians, medical personnel, & did not commit rape.
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I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.
December 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.
Watched the exact same playbook get used in the early 2000’s only it was used against atheists and women who weren’t ashamed to enjoy sex (and I presume also trans people, I just didn’t personally see it).
this is of course correct. it's literally what TPUSA (and their "professor watchlist") has been doing for more than a decade.
Is the anything to the University of Oklahoma story beyond the obvious? Right wing students grabs opportunity for publicity, administrators react with abject cowardice, an academic career is destroyed?
December 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Watched the exact same playbook get used in the early 2000’s only it was used against atheists and women who weren’t ashamed to enjoy sex (and I presume also trans people, I just didn’t personally see it).
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Omar has social media in Gaza that predates the war, is friends with Zeyad whom I’ve shared before and has many unique photos.
Omar has been messaging me for several months and has poor internet so it’s been difficult to verify him- but he is so young and needs help ❤️
Omar has been messaging me for several months and has poor internet so it’s been difficult to verify him- but he is so young and needs help ❤️
Support Omar and his family in Gaza
We live in Gaza, where life has become unbearable under the weight of war and the high cost of living. My siblings and I once dreamed of a better future, carrying our schoolbags and heading to class l...
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December 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Omar has social media in Gaza that predates the war, is friends with Zeyad whom I’ve shared before and has many unique photos.
Omar has been messaging me for several months and has poor internet so it’s been difficult to verify him- but he is so young and needs help ❤️
Omar has been messaging me for several months and has poor internet so it’s been difficult to verify him- but he is so young and needs help ❤️
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Nothing changes when the Ds are in power. They normalize all the Republicans do in quiet consent bc they know their supporters are mindless sheep.
December 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Nothing changes when the Ds are in power. They normalize all the Republicans do in quiet consent bc they know their supporters are mindless sheep.
uh, huh. A miracle indeed. lol.
It’s a Christmas miracle!
The Justice Department said it found over a million more pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents, extending the time it will take for a full release. A law passed by Congress gave the department a deadline of last Friday to release the files. nyti.ms/49rG0QL
December 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
uh, huh. A miracle indeed. lol.
Evergreen Problem.
Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
December 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Evergreen Problem.
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I did not have “the Rhode Island Attorney General namesearches into my mentions” on my dance card but I do appreciate the poster’s spirit
I’ll clarify. Sometimes it takes time to find the lead that breaks a case open. But then resolution happens quickly. Does that help?
December 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I did not have “the Rhode Island Attorney General namesearches into my mentions” on my dance card but I do appreciate the poster’s spirit
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Henceforth this shall be known as the Shut the Fuck Up About Chicago decision.
@harebrained.bsky.social
@harebrained.bsky.social
#BREAKING The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the State of Illinois on National Guard deployment.
Under the law invoked by President Trump, he must be unable "with the regular military" to "execute the laws of the United States," it finds.
Full ruling here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/80/88/05a75e...
Under the law invoked by President Trump, he must be unable "with the regular military" to "execute the laws of the United States," it finds.
Full ruling here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/80/88/05a75e...
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
_________________
No. 25A443 _________________
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. v. ILLINOIS, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [December 23, 2025]
Federal immigration-enforcement efforts have encoun- tered significant resistance, as well as some violence, in Chicago. According to the Government, federal officers have been obstructed, threatened, and assaulted as they at- tempt to perform their duties. The Government also alleges that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, has been the site of frequent and sometimes violent protests, damaging federal property and threatening the safety of federal officers. These at- tacks, the Government says, have greatly impeded its ef- forts to enforce the immigration laws.
On October 4, 2025, the President called 300 members of the Illinois National Guard into active federal service to protect federal personnel and property in Illinois, particu- larly in and around Chicago. The following day, members of the Texas National Guard were also federalized and sent to Chicago. In calling forth the Guard, the President relied on 10 U. S. C. §12406(3), which empowers him to federalize members of the Guard if he is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”
The United States District Court for the Northern Dis- trict of Illinois entered a temporary restraining order bar- ring the federalization and deployment of the Guard in Illi- nois. The Seventh Circuit denied in relevant part the Government’s motion for a stay, permitting the Guard to](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elipdmmf5istuvtyituspske/bafkreigkgum5sfni47efippr7j6ykofa7anuo6cqpkfjztkzkfnvubdafe@jpeg)
![remain federalized within Illinois but maintaining the bar on deployment.
The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court’s order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties’ initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term “regular forces” in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Govern- ment argues that the term refers to civilian law enforce- ment officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service. Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili- tary.
We conclude that the term “regular forces” in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili- tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be “unable” with the regular military “to execute the laws of the United States.” Because the statute requires an assess- ment of the military’s ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from “execut[ing] the laws” “except in cases and under circumstances ex- pressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress.” 18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the reg- ular military and must be “unable” with those forces to per- form that function.
At this preliminary stage, the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois. The President has not in- voked a statute that provides an exception to the Posse](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elipdmmf5istuvtyituspske/bafkreico7h4hdwfyr6byznbn2d7y2wuhraae6jhvupnyew5s7kwjegnpva@jpeg)
![Comitatus Act. Instead, he relies on inherent constitu- tional authority that, according to the Government, allows him to use the military to protect federal personnel and property. But the Government also claims—consistent with the longstanding view of the Executive Branch—that performing such protective functions does not constitute “execut[ing] the laws” within the meaning of the Posse Comitatus Act. See Supp. Letter Reply Brief for Applicants 8; 1 Supp. Op. OLC 343, n. 1 (1971) (collecting sources). If that is correct, it is hard to see how performing those func- tions could constitute “execut[ing] the laws” under §12406(3). See Azar v. Allina Health Services, 587 U. S. 566, 574 (2019) (“This Court does not lightly assume that Congress silently attaches different meanings to the same term in the same or related statutes”). Thus, at least in this posture, the Government has not carried its burden to show that §12406(3) permits the President to federalize the Guard in the exercise of inherent authority to protect fed- eral personnel and property in Illinois. We need not and do not address the reviewability of findings made by the Pres- ident under §12406(3) or any other statute.
The application for stay is denied.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elipdmmf5istuvtyituspske/bafkreigpypa435od2mqkxeftymwgbg2uepclp6razy2u5gc3efakb7v2kq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Henceforth this shall be known as the Shut the Fuck Up About Chicago decision.
@harebrained.bsky.social
@harebrained.bsky.social
I’d go further and include every prison and jail in this country. None of them are good.
Most of them kill people.
I was horrified when I started researching.
Most of them kill people.
I was horrified when I started researching.
Hey I'm not saying lessen your fire about that spiked CECOT story you're righfully enraged about. I am saying to throw a few extra logs in the furnace for all the Profit Center Prisons the US allowed to proliferate in our own back yards.
What's happening at CECOT is happening in a town near you!
What's happening at CECOT is happening in a town near you!
December 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I’d go further and include every prison and jail in this country. None of them are good.
Most of them kill people.
I was horrified when I started researching.
Most of them kill people.
I was horrified when I started researching.
Ok, but who had that job before Pam Bondi?
How have only Epstein and Maxwell been prosecuted for the biggest human trafficking scheme in modern U.S. history?
The answer is pretty simple: Pam Bondi knows she can’t go after Epstein’s co-conspirators because they possess damning information on Donald Trump.
The answer is pretty simple: Pam Bondi knows she can’t go after Epstein’s co-conspirators because they possess damning information on Donald Trump.
December 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ok, but who had that job before Pam Bondi?
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Spoke with Dr. Takeisha Carr about how @blackskyweb.xyz is forking the internet and building a different kind of company from the ground up.
(available wherever you listen to podcasts)
(available wherever you listen to podcasts)
Rudy Fraser x Black Sky Algorithms: Building a Space for Us | Episode 18
YouTube video by KMOB1003 — Where Legends Break & Underdogs Rise
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Spoke with Dr. Takeisha Carr about how @blackskyweb.xyz is forking the internet and building a different kind of company from the ground up.
(available wherever you listen to podcasts)
(available wherever you listen to podcasts)
The only way to protect ourselves from ICE is to abolish police.
If you aren’t panicked enough to be yelling about abolition, you haven’t internalized how much this is a threat to you.
If you aren’t panicked enough to be yelling about abolition, you haven’t internalized how much this is a threat to you.
December 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The only way to protect ourselves from ICE is to abolish police.
If you aren’t panicked enough to be yelling about abolition, you haven’t internalized how much this is a threat to you.
If you aren’t panicked enough to be yelling about abolition, you haven’t internalized how much this is a threat to you.
I looked at my husband when those redacted files came out and said ‘just wait, The Internet will figure out what most of it says. We’ve been here and done that.’
Well done millennials. :)
Well done millennials. :)
December 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I looked at my husband when those redacted files came out and said ‘just wait, The Internet will figure out what most of it says. We’ve been here and done that.’
Well done millennials. :)
Well done millennials. :)
It took less than a year before we started sending U.S. Citizens to places where they are not citizens and have no rights and no way to return to the U.S.
Now that they’ve proven they can get away with it, it could happen to anyone.
Now that they’ve proven they can get away with it, it could happen to anyone.
The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
December 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It took less than a year before we started sending U.S. Citizens to places where they are not citizens and have no rights and no way to return to the U.S.
Now that they’ve proven they can get away with it, it could happen to anyone.
Now that they’ve proven they can get away with it, it could happen to anyone.
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The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
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"Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, died Dec. 15 in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a detention center in Baldwin, Michigan."
"[S]uffered from diabetes that went untreated while in federal custody."
#Illinois #Michigan #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[S]uffered from diabetes that went untreated while in federal custody."
#Illinois #Michigan #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Chicago Man From Bulgaria Dies In ICE Custody After Immigration Arrest
Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, died in an ICE detention center in Michigan Dec. 15 after being arrested locally in September. Gantchev lived in the Chicago area for 30 years and was a business owner, according to reports.
blockclubchicago.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, died Dec. 15 in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a detention center in Baldwin, Michigan."
"[S]uffered from diabetes that went untreated while in federal custody."
#Illinois #Michigan #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[S]uffered from diabetes that went untreated while in federal custody."
#Illinois #Michigan #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing