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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h

The filing also debunks DHS claims that Illinois cops aren't responding to unrest in two ways. First, by describing how many cops responded to Brighton Park after CBP shot someone (and describing the 27 cops who got gassed).

The declaration of Larry Snelling, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department (Ex.
23, “Snelling Decl.”), puts into evidence facts regarding CPD’s assistance to federal agents who
need police for their own safety and CPD’s assistance to federal agents following an incident where
federal agents shot a civilian in Bright Park on October 4, 2025. The declaration shows:
a. Federal agents deployed tear gas multiple times on October 4, 2025, at the Brighton
Park scene, injuring 27 CPD officers who had responded to assist federal agents.
Snelling Decl. ¶¶ 17, 19, 21.
b. CPD responded with assistance to multiple events involving federal immigration
agents that day, including:
o Preserving an incident scene where a woman had been shot by ICE agents
until CPD could turn the scene over to federal authorities (Snelling Decl. ¶¶
10-13);
o Documenting a vehicle collision involving federal agents (Snelling Decl. ¶
14); and
o Working to maintain order and public safety at a scene where a crowd of
people was upset with federal agents, following the shooting of the civilian
(Snelling Decl. ¶¶ 15-21).

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h

And by describing that the head of the DHS facility at Broadview made claims in his sworn declaration that materially conflict with kudos he just sent the cops.

In so doing, DHS’s official directly overseeing the Broadview facility wrote that, because
of Illinois’s joint unified command outside the ICE facility in Broadview, DHS did not even have
to interact with protesters that weekend. Id. ¶ 5 and Ex. A. Specifically, the report stated,
“Saturday, we had about 30 or so protesters up at the fence in the late afternoon. Within about 5-
10 minutes of us calling the ISP, state and local law enforcement were onsite and immediately
pushed back the protesters to the designated area without DHS’s need to intervene.” Id. In light
of Director Hott’s private praise of the Illinois State Police’s effectiveness in managing the
Broadview facility, it is surprising to see his materially contradictory sworn testimony in this suit
that federal facilities face a “serious risk of harm and aggressive actors” if this court enjoins the
use of the National Guard in Illinois. See ECF 62-6, ¶ 63.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Vandalized Trump mural seen in Toccoa, Georgia.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Spain’s parliament has officially enshrined its arms embargo on Israel into law — a landmark move amid global outrage over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The new law bans arms sales, military technology, and aviation fuel linked to Israel’s war machine. It also […]

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday.

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Since Plaintiffs’ Monday morning filings and the Court’s initial hearing that afternoon, the
Trump administration has continued its purposeful defiance of the lawful bounds of its power to
create a federal military occupation of Illinois.1
Indeed, in the past few days, the President has
repeated his disdain for any guardrails on those powers. A few hours after the Monday hearing in this case, Trump issued an after-the-fact memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to federalize
National Guard troops that Secretary Hegseth had already deployed into Illinois. That same day,
Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted the authoritarian view that the President
has “plenary authority”—sweeping and unlimited power—to federalize National Guard troops and
dispatch them to American cities like Chicago. The next day, Trump told press in the Oval Office
that he might just invoke the Insurrection Act to “get around” judicial orders blocking his unlawful
troop deployments, like the one last weekend in Oregon. Then just yesterday, Trump himself
posted on social media that the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago should be jailed.
These were not empty threats. They were made even as defendants dispatched a third state’s
National Guard to Illinois in federalized status, this time from California, and without any new
deployment order specific to Illinois. This lawless targeting by the President and his administration
of people and places he does not favor will not stop without court intervention.

The Court can and should stop this authoritarian march. We remain a nation of laws, we
have no king, and the President has no such “plenary authority” to federalize National Guard troops
and deploy them into the streets of Illinois. The Court should enter a preliminary injunction against
defendants’ federalization and deployment of any state’s National Guard, or deployment of U.S.
military, into Illinois over the objection of its Governor.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h

The very same US Attorney's Office that went to great lengths to find all public video of January 6 says they had no obligation of saving a video showing something they wanted to charge as assault.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h

Federal Public Defenders are one of the things that gives me hope.

This is in the case of Sydney Reid, who is facing trial bc cops tried to prevent her fr filming an arrest. Her FPD is moving to dismiss case bc cops didn't save a video of alleged assault

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Third, the government takes pains to assign blame on the defense for not specifically
advising that the video it had repeatedly requested was not exculpatory. This position belies
reason. The defense advised the government that the video captured the incident in question.
Defense counsel had obviously not seen the video that was unavailable to it. Still, the request for
a video of the incident itself where a defendant is going to trial is obviously a request for potentially
exculpatory evidence. (Defense attorneys do not make a habit of asking prosecutors to find more
inculpatory evidence.) This point is buttressed by Ms. Reid’s repeated exculpatory statements on
the scene denying the alleged conduct. Hearing her repeated denials, the officers would have
known that any video of the incident was of interest to her.2

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Laffy @gottalaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

“The federal investigation into the death of convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey #Epstein was marred by significant lapses, experts told CBS News, including the failure by investigators to interview potential witnesses, properly preserve certain evidence and run basic forensic tests.” […]

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👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵 @lednabm.stranger.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

"It's only a dream
I'd love to tell somebody about this dream
The sky was filled with a thousand stars
While the sun kissed the mountains blue
And eleven moons played across rainbows
Above me and you
Golden rose, the color of the velvet walls, surround us." Jimi Hendrix

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Annals in sane-washing. When I checked NYT, WSJ, Politico, and WaPo for a story abt how Trump invited PizzaGate guy to the White House and declared an end to the First Amendment, this single story that mentioned it was on top of WaPo. Now it's buried.

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A story headlined, Trump builds case for deploying National Guard to Chicago, Portland The president said he would pursue designating antifa a "foreign terrorist organization" and called for Democratic officials in Chicago to be jailed.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday looked to bolster his public case for deploying the National Guard to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, cities where he claims Democrat politicians have failed to protect journalists and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from people whom he sees as left-wing domestic terrorists.

Trump said during a televised meeting at the White House that he would pursue designating antifa as a “foreign terrorist organization” — a label that would allow for key financial and legal penalties because foreign entities are not protected by the First Amendment. Proponents of antifa — a political protest movement composed of unaffiliated groups — militantly oppose fascism, right-wing ideologies and are often anti-capitalist or anti-state.

Trump also repeated a call he had made earlier in the day for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, to be jailed, accusing them without evidence of “failing to protect” ICE officers who have been sent to the city.

His statements and other remarks given by top aides during a 2½-hour event laid out a legal and moral case for the administration’s push to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities. Designated foreign terrorist groups can face financial sanctions imposed by the Treasury Department. The Justice Department can prosecute supporters under enhanced charges of providing “material support” to a terrorist group.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

I couldn't find stories in other outlets about,
1) POTUS is clearly OUT OF HIS MIND & as he was babbling WH announced a "yearly" physical tomorrow 6 mos after last one
2) FUCKING PIZZAGUY WAS TREATED AS AN EXPERT
3) Trump, whose Wormtongue is talking suspending habeas corpus, though it was a person

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

PizzaGate in the White House is not the only story buried: So is the shutdown (Politico has several stories, WSJ one).
WaPo's buried shutdown stories are:
2 travel stories
1 "your questions answered"
1 podcast abt union pushback on backpay
1 story saying Trump won't layoff
1 threat to marathons

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

Here's one of the explanations DOJ gave for needing to invade Chicago. A picture of LA (which it doesn't ID as such). Bring noisemakers, it says.

INVADE FOUR MONTHS LATER WITH TROOPS, Trump says.

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A poster for a solidarity rally in Chicago on June 10. It shows images from LA.

It tells people to bring noisemakers and a friend.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

The whole filing (and underling response) is insane.

I'm most concerned by how disordered it is, as if someone emptied the ashtray into a court filing.

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👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵 @lednabm.stranger.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

I'm proud of my governor....

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/10/pritzker-not-backing-down-after-trumps

Pritzker Not Backing Down After Trump's Threat To Arrest Him

The president is threatening to jail Democratic leaders again.

crooksandliars.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

You will not defeat fascism if you don't peel off soft supporters. You simply won't do it.

At least some of these guys look Latino anyway, and we know Latino voters in TX are moving.

But literally, these people will go w/o pay for weeks. That's pretty persuasive.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

OT1H, this is likely the right way to think abt the politics. Being in LA demoralized the Cal NatGuard; this deployment can be used to weaken Trump’s authoritarian push too.

OTOH, TX went 56-42 for Trump, bet higher Trump % in NatGuard. If they’re “pawns,” it’s in a game they voted to play.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

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Thus is a great point and we'll worth reminding everyone!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 1d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel

By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

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👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵 @lednabm.stranger.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Who doubts that If we ever have another democratic president, the christo-fascist SCOTUS will run as fast from a unitary executive as their fat asses can!

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/10/scotus-created-trump-dictatorship-period

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 2d

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

If you live in FL, it would be useful if you called Ashley Moody's office & ask 1) Whether she renounces her support of Trump bc he incited hundreds of people to attack cops on Jan6 and then pardoned them all or 2) whether she retracts her slander accusing that Dems are themselves inciting violence.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that Trump has said that if SCOTUS rules the tariffs illegal next month, Trump has said they'll pay all the tariffs back.

Consumers, of course, are fucked--they get nothing back.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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