Pinned
The unrecognizable United States of America.
Ditto
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Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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Sunday Taquitos #7: Raid at Santa’s Workshop
Art by Ivan Ehlers.
Art by Ivan Ehlers.
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sunday Taquitos #7: Raid at Santa’s Workshop
Art by Ivan Ehlers.
Art by Ivan Ehlers.
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Stories from the federal siege of Chicago
From @vimiller.bsky.social, Cindy Hernandez, Mary Norkol, Mohammad Samra and Kade Heather: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
From @vimiller.bsky.social, Cindy Hernandez, Mary Norkol, Mohammad Samra and Kade Heather: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Stories from the federal siege of Chicago
As federal agents came every day to take away fellow Chicagoans, residents fought back with whistles and organizing while their neighborhoods were tear-gassed.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Stories from the federal siege of Chicago
From @vimiller.bsky.social, Cindy Hernandez, Mary Norkol, Mohammad Samra and Kade Heather: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
From @vimiller.bsky.social, Cindy Hernandez, Mary Norkol, Mohammad Samra and Kade Heather: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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The @chicago.suntimes.com Cindy Hernandez on how she reported on immigration in Chicago, as a daughter of immigrants: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
How I reported on immigration as a daughter of immigrants
Life experiences shape personal opinions that journalists set aside as they seek facts. But those experiences also help them connect with people with similar backgrounds.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The @chicago.suntimes.com Cindy Hernandez on how she reported on immigration in Chicago, as a daughter of immigrants: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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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
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Van Hollen, Schatz, 15 other Dems demand Trump-Vance-Rubio get press into Gaza.
"The world has relied on brave Palestinian journalists…for uncensored reporting," citing 200+ Israel has killed.
They add Israel only lets in controlled media "who are not permitted to freely engage with Palestinians."
"The world has relied on brave Palestinian journalists…for uncensored reporting," citing 200+ Israel has killed.
They add Israel only lets in controlled media "who are not permitted to freely engage with Palestinians."
December 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Van Hollen, Schatz, 15 other Dems demand Trump-Vance-Rubio get press into Gaza.
"The world has relied on brave Palestinian journalists…for uncensored reporting," citing 200+ Israel has killed.
They add Israel only lets in controlled media "who are not permitted to freely engage with Palestinians."
"The world has relied on brave Palestinian journalists…for uncensored reporting," citing 200+ Israel has killed.
They add Israel only lets in controlled media "who are not permitted to freely engage with Palestinians."
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🇺🇳 UN Secretary General’s Office:
“Over the past 24 hours, and despite the ceasefire, the UN has continued to receive reports of air strikes, shelling and gunfire in all 5 governorates of the Gaza Strip.”
(December 22, 2025)
“Over the past 24 hours, and despite the ceasefire, the UN has continued to receive reports of air strikes, shelling and gunfire in all 5 governorates of the Gaza Strip.”
(December 22, 2025)
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
🇺🇳 UN Secretary General’s Office:
“Over the past 24 hours, and despite the ceasefire, the UN has continued to receive reports of air strikes, shelling and gunfire in all 5 governorates of the Gaza Strip.”
(December 22, 2025)
“Over the past 24 hours, and despite the ceasefire, the UN has continued to receive reports of air strikes, shelling and gunfire in all 5 governorates of the Gaza Strip.”
(December 22, 2025)
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Uni Claus delivering presents 🎁
December 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Uni Claus delivering presents 🎁
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Your Friday reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax.
Cruel because it's used by the super-rich to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
And a hoax because nothing has ever trickled down.
Cruel because it's used by the super-rich to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
And a hoax because nothing has ever trickled down.
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Your Friday reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax.
Cruel because it's used by the super-rich to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
And a hoax because nothing has ever trickled down.
Cruel because it's used by the super-rich to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
And a hoax because nothing has ever trickled down.
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This extremely sweet man was brought back from foster today; he's been there several months (may be a sitter stay for the holidays). SNAP HIM UP, Austin! Perfect family boy. Come and get him.
www.austinpetsalive.org/adopt/dogs/a...
www.austinpetsalive.org/adopt/dogs/a...
Austin Pets Alive! | Peanut Butter Baby
Hi, I'm Peanut Butter Baby! I love playing fetch and snuggling up after a long day of fun. I'm always ready to make you laugh with my goofy antics and…
www.austinpetsalive.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This extremely sweet man was brought back from foster today; he's been there several months (may be a sitter stay for the holidays). SNAP HIM UP, Austin! Perfect family boy. Come and get him.
www.austinpetsalive.org/adopt/dogs/a...
www.austinpetsalive.org/adopt/dogs/a...
She’s such a #cutie. Please #adoptdontshop & take this beautiful girl home
💔 829 days is far too long. MELIA is just a sweet, playful, loving dog who just needs that right person & a peaceful adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. Shes only 3.5 years old.
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
💻[email protected]
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
💻[email protected]
December 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
She’s such a #cutie. Please #adoptdontshop & take this beautiful girl home
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40 dozen tamales, over $1,300 cash to street vendors, and food to the community.
Highlight of the night: spotted a cotton candy vendor outside a grocery store so we bought everything he had and sent him home with a dozen tamales.
This is mutual aid.
This is #BikeChi ✊🏽🫶🏽🚲
Highlight of the night: spotted a cotton candy vendor outside a grocery store so we bought everything he had and sent him home with a dozen tamales.
This is mutual aid.
This is #BikeChi ✊🏽🫶🏽🚲
December 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
40 dozen tamales, over $1,300 cash to street vendors, and food to the community.
Highlight of the night: spotted a cotton candy vendor outside a grocery store so we bought everything he had and sent him home with a dozen tamales.
This is mutual aid.
This is #BikeChi ✊🏽🫶🏽🚲
Highlight of the night: spotted a cotton candy vendor outside a grocery store so we bought everything he had and sent him home with a dozen tamales.
This is mutual aid.
This is #BikeChi ✊🏽🫶🏽🚲
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Why did Donald Trump pardon a former president who was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine and taking millions of dollars in bribes?
Follow the tech bros.
Follow the tech bros.
December 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Why did Donald Trump pardon a former president who was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine and taking millions of dollars in bribes?
Follow the tech bros.
Follow the tech bros.
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This sums it up rather well.
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This sums it up rather well.
December 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I do not work for the shelter. Just been sharing MELIA for awhile now. The shelter does post videos on Facebook, Instagram and X. It's under "Adopt MELIA & Friends". I only have Bluesky. I post videos as I receive them. Check her out below. 💗
☎️ 516.785.5220
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www.threads.com/@adopt_melia...
☎️ 516.785.5220
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www.threads.com/@adopt_melia...
Melia & Friends! 🌺 (@adopt_melia_and_friends) on Threads
Melia has now been at the shelter 801 days 💔
Bio: https://24Petconnect.com/DetailsMain/PP3506/51416338
Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter, Wantagh, New York (Long Island.) Email: adoption@hempsteadny....
www.threads.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I do not work for the shelter. Just been sharing MELIA for awhile now. The shelter does post videos on Facebook, Instagram and X. It's under "Adopt MELIA & Friends". I only have Bluesky. I post videos as I receive them. Check her out below. 💗
☎️ 516.785.5220
⬇️⬇️
www.threads.com/@adopt_melia...
☎️ 516.785.5220
⬇️⬇️
www.threads.com/@adopt_melia...
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🗽🗽🗽 New York 🗽🗽🗽
MELIA needs 1 person to be her forever. Shes sweet, playful, has guarding issues with food and toys. She needs someone who is committed to her. She will thrive with the right person. No dogs.
⬇️
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
MELIA needs 1 person to be her forever. Shes sweet, playful, has guarding issues with food and toys. She needs someone who is committed to her. She will thrive with the right person. No dogs.
⬇️
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
December 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🗽🗽🗽 New York 🗽🗽🗽
MELIA needs 1 person to be her forever. Shes sweet, playful, has guarding issues with food and toys. She needs someone who is committed to her. She will thrive with the right person. No dogs.
⬇️
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
MELIA needs 1 person to be her forever. Shes sweet, playful, has guarding issues with food and toys. She needs someone who is committed to her. She will thrive with the right person. No dogs.
⬇️
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
Chance the Rapper will voice train announcements in new campaign with the CTA - Block Club Chicago
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Chance The Rapper Will Voice Train Announcements In New Campaign With The CTA — Block Club Chicago
The Chatham-born rapper partnered with the CTA as the voice of two audio announcements that will play at train stations across the city.
apple.news
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Chance the Rapper will voice train announcements in new campaign with the CTA - Block Club Chicago
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apple.news/Atr9rxxRbT-S...
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Immigrants commit fewer crimes.
Immigrants pay taxes.
Immigrants contribute over $2 trillion to the U.S. economy.
The problem isn't immigrants.
Immigrants pay taxes.
Immigrants contribute over $2 trillion to the U.S. economy.
The problem isn't immigrants.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Immigrants commit fewer crimes.
Immigrants pay taxes.
Immigrants contribute over $2 trillion to the U.S. economy.
The problem isn't immigrants.
Immigrants pay taxes.
Immigrants contribute over $2 trillion to the U.S. economy.
The problem isn't immigrants.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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All I want for Christmas is you
🎁 A peaceful adult only home, no other dogs, cats are ok with slow intro. Only 3.5 years old, enjoys the outdoors, 50 lbs of beauty, at the shelter 810 days! Please adopt MELIA 😩 🙏
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
🎁 A peaceful adult only home, no other dogs, cats are ok with slow intro. Only 3.5 years old, enjoys the outdoors, 50 lbs of beauty, at the shelter 810 days! Please adopt MELIA 😩 🙏
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
All I want for Christmas is you
🎁 A peaceful adult only home, no other dogs, cats are ok with slow intro. Only 3.5 years old, enjoys the outdoors, 50 lbs of beauty, at the shelter 810 days! Please adopt MELIA 😩 🙏
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
🎁 A peaceful adult only home, no other dogs, cats are ok with slow intro. Only 3.5 years old, enjoys the outdoors, 50 lbs of beauty, at the shelter 810 days! Please adopt MELIA 😩 🙏
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
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🎄 We just have to find MELIA a forever home by Christmas 🎄
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
⬇️
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
⬇️
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
🎄 We just have to find MELIA a forever home by Christmas 🎄
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
⬇️
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
⬇️
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...