@donknottsthoughts.bsky.social
Former FBI agents can’t be talking like this
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Former FBI agents can’t be talking like this
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We observed lawyers from the Illinois Attorney General’s Office who showed up to wage theft court hearings unprepared. Since 1993, more than 300 cases were initially dismissed because no one from the Attorney General’s Office showed up at all. (with @crainschicago.bsky.social) buff.ly/WJHXcax
December 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We observed lawyers from the Illinois Attorney General’s Office who showed up to wage theft court hearings unprepared. Since 1993, more than 300 cases were initially dismissed because no one from the Attorney General’s Office showed up at all. (with @crainschicago.bsky.social) buff.ly/WJHXcax
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From the December Chicago FOP newsletter: Advice from the union's lawyer on what cops should do if they get pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving or shoot someone and are asked to give a BAC test.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
From the December Chicago FOP newsletter: Advice from the union's lawyer on what cops should do if they get pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving or shoot someone and are asked to give a BAC test.
www.chicagofop.org/images/docum...
www.chicagofop.org/images/docum...
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Macklin Celebrini is must-see TV: defector.com/macklin-cele...
Macklin Celebrini Is Must-See TV | Defector
There is a rarefied group of NHL players worth watching no matter the circumstances—time, place, stakes, teammates, opponents, whatever. Macklin Celebrini might already in that club. The 19-year-old…
defector.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Macklin Celebrini is must-see TV: defector.com/macklin-cele...
You disgust me @durbin.senate.gov
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), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
You disgust me @durbin.senate.gov
Why is Jake Busey so red?
December 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Why is Jake Busey so red?
Someone should tell Zac Taylor that they added challenges to football a few years back
December 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Someone should tell Zac Taylor that they added challenges to football a few years back
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✨ Join us for family-friendly holiday fun and solidarity on Dec 18! We’re hosting a gingerbread house contest, holiday music, and easy ways to take action.
🫶 Meet one of our partners for the event: Roo’s Kindness Cupboard, a new pet pantry from Live Like Roo.
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/BuildForGood1218
🫶 Meet one of our partners for the event: Roo’s Kindness Cupboard, a new pet pantry from Live Like Roo.
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/BuildForGood1218
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
✨ Join us for family-friendly holiday fun and solidarity on Dec 18! We’re hosting a gingerbread house contest, holiday music, and easy ways to take action.
🫶 Meet one of our partners for the event: Roo’s Kindness Cupboard, a new pet pantry from Live Like Roo.
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/BuildForGood1218
🫶 Meet one of our partners for the event: Roo’s Kindness Cupboard, a new pet pantry from Live Like Roo.
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/BuildForGood1218
Stop doing this shit old man! @durbin.senate.gov
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Stop doing this shit old man! @durbin.senate.gov
Why is he doing his show from the inside of Space Mountain?
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Why is he doing his show from the inside of Space Mountain?
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Hey @johnforaurora.bsky.social maybe we shouldn’t have these in our city any more?
New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hey @johnforaurora.bsky.social maybe we shouldn’t have these in our city any more?
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Please do submit a comment if you live in Illinois. This is a practice that causes active harm to inmates, separates them even more from external support systems, and even makes it harder for U.S. attorneys to communicate with incarcerated clients
NEW — Illinois residents can submit comments to state leaders by Nov. 24 to oppose mail scanning, which allows prison officials to scan physical mail and reproduce it into digital copies.
Criminal justice advocates say the practice doesn’t make prisons safer.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/crim...
Criminal justice advocates say the practice doesn’t make prisons safer.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/crim...
Criminal justice advocates are urging Illinois residents to ‘say no’ to mail scanning in Illinois prisons • The TRiiBE
Illinois residents can submit comments to state leaders by Nov. 24 to oppose mail scanning, which allows prison officials to scan physical mail and reproduce it into digital copies. Criminal justice a...
thetriibe.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Please do submit a comment if you live in Illinois. This is a practice that causes active harm to inmates, separates them even more from external support systems, and even makes it harder for U.S. attorneys to communicate with incarcerated clients
Need one of these for my house
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Need one of these for my house
Wow, good thing people were defending Glusenkamp-Perez yesterday.
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Wow, good thing people were defending Glusenkamp-Perez yesterday.
Hey @duckworth.senate.gov, what is wrong with you? Are you looking to be primaried as well?
Earlier this year, Trump fired a Democrat on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission without cause, an unprecedented move.
13 Dems just voted to advance Trump's pick to fill the vacancy.
Coons
Duckworth
Heinrich
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Ossoff
Padilla
Warner
Warnock
Welch
Whitehouse
13 Dems just voted to advance Trump's pick to fill the vacancy.
Coons
Duckworth
Heinrich
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Ossoff
Padilla
Warner
Warnock
Welch
Whitehouse
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Hey @duckworth.senate.gov, what is wrong with you? Are you looking to be primaried as well?
I think my sons are the most special boys in the universe.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I think my sons are the most special boys in the universe.
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outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund | Linktree
We formed in 2020 & began paying out immigration bonds for IL, IN, WI, and KY.
linktr.ee
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund
Aurora borealis
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Aurora borealis
Way to go @durbin.senate.gov !
US HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON SAID HE WON'T COMMIT TO A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES, I'M TOLD – SEMOFAR REPORTER ON X
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Way to go @durbin.senate.gov !
Great work @durbin.senate.gov
I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵
I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Great work @durbin.senate.gov