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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13m

We must all stand up and speak out.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13m

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers.

Invading our state with military troops.

Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.

Arresting elected officials asking questions.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13m

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.

Separating children from their parents.

Creating fear.

Taking people for “how they look.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13m

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 7m

For one, the federal government cannot constitutionally commandeer state officials to do its bidding.

But more importantly, the president does not see his political opposition as legitimate but rather as a target for a carceral and militaristic state. It is deeply undemocratic and authoritarian.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13m

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9h

I wonder how, if at all, Nelson v City of Davis (2012)—about the use of pepperballs against people who posed no threat to officers—will affect this case, in terms of qualified immunity, unreasonable force, and the Fourth Amendment.

Excerpts from an article by a California public-entity law firm https://jones-mayer.com/vol-27-no-15-qualified-immunity-denied-when-force-is-used-against-non-threatening-persons/

On July 11, 2012, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the denial of qualified immunity for police officers who fired pepperballs into a crowd of partygoers who posed no threat to them. In the case of Nelson v. City of Davis, 2012 DAR 9528, the court ruled that the use of force was unreasonable and violated "clearly established" constitutional rights.

The court concluded that qualified immunity from civil liability was not appropriate in this case since, as a result of many court decisions, "any reasonable officer ... would have been on notice prior to April 2004 that the application of pepper spray to individuals such as Nelson and his associates, whose only transgression was the failure to disperse as quickly as the officers desired, would violate the Fourth Amendment."

"Thus, just as our prior cases provided notice to all reasonable officers that targeting Nelson and his group with a projectile weapon with concussive force that could cause serious physical injury or targeting them with pepper spray was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment, our precedents make it equally clear that utilizing a weapon against Nelson's group that combined both of these forms of force amounted to a constitutional violation."

The court concluded that "a reasonable officer would have known that firing projectiles, including pepperballs, in the direction of individuals suspected of, at most, minor crimes, who posed no threat to the officers or others, and who engaged in only passive resistance, was unreasonable."

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 9h

Trump’s Little Johnson’s refusal to seat Adelita Grijalva in a timely fashion should result in a motion to vacate the speakership. I believe such a motion can be brought by any House member. Why don’t Democrats bring it?

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ProudBlue💙 @patti4040.bsky.social · 12h

These genius lawyers are gonna need new tricks
(All those files she kept plowing through was totally weird.
Glad someone caught her).

a man wearing a shirt that says 68 sits in a classroom

ALT: a man wearing a shirt that says 68 sits in a classroom

media.tenor.com

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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 11h

To b clear, this means the Attorney General of the United States and her staff spent most of their time (paid for by YOUR taxmoney) to come up with stupid insults and attacks on various Senators instead of preparing to answer the questions she was supposed to answer under oath.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15h

'Hypocrite!' Pam Bondi's attack notes snapped by photographer during contentious hearing

Attorney General Pam Bondi drew reactions from those watching her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, when, instead of answering specific questions from Democrats, she turned ...

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10h

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 11h

Same victim as this which happened recently, by the looks of it.

Ice shooting a priest close up in the head with a pepper ball

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sadie54.bsky.social @sadie54.bsky.social · 11h

Is that the priest that was maced?

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LucilleBluth1.5 @lbluth.bsky.social · 10h

@agdanrayfield.bsky.social please take them on.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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LucilleBluth1.5 @lbluth.bsky.social · 10h

'Science' is what I'm calling my belly 😉

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AuntBunny @auntbunny.bsky.social · 11h

This pastor was sprayed right in the face with pepper spray.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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LucilleBluth1.5 @lbluth.bsky.social · 10h

@agdanrayfield.bsky.social Truly, this intentionally shooting at the priest talking -from the ground - needs to be prosecuted.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry, took a while to look up original poster, she deserves the credit for the video

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10h

File state charges. This is a crime.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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LucilleBluth1.5 @lbluth.bsky.social · 10h

Ah, ok, so Morbier is cow's milk (European, and Humboldt Fog is goat's milk (Californian). And now I just want cheese.

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