Schnickelfritz 🍻
@schnickilfritz.bsky.social
Authentically Kräusened. Husband, Father. Chicago Sports Fan & Sufferer. Native Plant Enthusiast. Zone 5b Gardener (54g Rock River Hills) Northern Illinois. DMs = Insta-block. Cheers! 🍻
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Worth sharing every year. Merry Christmas, friends. I’m grateful for your company.
Gary Giddins, on Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas” to soldiers in Europe during the war.
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As he traveled in France, doing as many as five shows a day from the backs of flatbed trucks, he brought battle-hardened men to tears. The song they wanted to hear was "White Christmas": "If he opened the show with it to get it out of the way, he would just have to sing it twice." A Third Army medic wrote to a friend at home: " [W]hen he sang 'White Christmas' there wasn't a sound, not even breathing, and suddenly no one was looking at Crosby, but just at the ground and making a little wish.... And so back to our tents, but the men are smiling now."
Any time officers tried to horn in, Crosby shut them down: he was there for the enlisted men, and he made sure they got the best seats.
"Nothing in his life, he insisted, gave him as much
'pride and satisfaction' as making those 'guys happy for a few moments.'"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lhxkgqcfz7fdtslhnhwkc3f3/bafkreicr567wyuiocvpga5kzl37whdn6b4yludcnwe3ahyu7dq5ut3ufcq@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Worth sharing every year. Merry Christmas, friends. I’m grateful for your company.
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This is one of our favorites!
December 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is one of our favorites!
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December 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
As if being forced to give birth in a stable wasn't enough, it must have been extremely frustrating for Mary to try and figure out how the hell she is going to regift frankincense and myrrh while some random street urchin is insisting on performing a drum solo for her sleeping newborn.
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
As if being forced to give birth in a stable wasn't enough, it must have been extremely frustrating for Mary to try and figure out how the hell she is going to regift frankincense and myrrh while some random street urchin is insisting on performing a drum solo for her sleeping newborn.
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Amazing: "when U.C.L.A.’s campus shut down during the pandemic… The beaks of juncos born on campus reverted to their wildland shape. Several years later, after the pandemic-related restrictions had been lifted, the distinctive urban beak shape returned…"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...
How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Amazing: "when U.C.L.A.’s campus shut down during the pandemic… The beaks of juncos born on campus reverted to their wildland shape. Several years later, after the pandemic-related restrictions had been lifted, the distinctive urban beak shape returned…"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...
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RIP naturalist John Muir, died this day 1914.
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
December 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
RIP naturalist John Muir, died this day 1914.
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
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Christmas can be a beautiful season, but it can also feel painfully loud when your heart is quiet, tired, or hurting.
If you are alone this Christmas, or struggling in ways others may not see, please know this: you are not failing the season. You are surviving it. And that matters.
#EastCoastKin
If you are alone this Christmas, or struggling in ways others may not see, please know this: you are not failing the season. You are surviving it. And that matters.
#EastCoastKin
December 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Christmas can be a beautiful season, but it can also feel painfully loud when your heart is quiet, tired, or hurting.
If you are alone this Christmas, or struggling in ways others may not see, please know this: you are not failing the season. You are surviving it. And that matters.
#EastCoastKin
If you are alone this Christmas, or struggling in ways others may not see, please know this: you are not failing the season. You are surviving it. And that matters.
#EastCoastKin
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I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
Are we sure these Santa Clause movies aren't a horror franchise?
December 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Are we sure these Santa Clause movies aren't a horror franchise?
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Skyline Sunset Spectacular. Tonight's end to the day in Chicago.
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Skyline Sunset Spectacular. Tonight's end to the day in Chicago.
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Yes, it's ok to wish our animals a merry Christmas, except the meerkats who are agnostic or angry believers, condemned to a life lived underground, far from God's light.
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Yes, it's ok to wish our animals a merry Christmas, except the meerkats who are agnostic or angry believers, condemned to a life lived underground, far from God's light.
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This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
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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
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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 hate how we're all basically just living in a Paul Verhoeven movie now.
Trump’s new special envoy to Greenland Jeff Landry says he’s the perfect person to persuade them to become part of the US because his family has lived in Louisiana for 300 years and Greenland falls under the Monroe Doctrine and he going to bring them great Cajun food.
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I hate how we're all basically just living in a Paul Verhoeven movie now.
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More of us than there are of them and just takes a few brave folks and now we got a stew going thank you for your service brave folks
it’s really fucking cool to see people working outside the system to expose the hacks running all of our crumbling institutions
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
More of us than there are of them and just takes a few brave folks and now we got a stew going thank you for your service brave folks
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there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
This is fantastic 👇
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is fantastic 👇
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You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
What does a guy have to say to get the 25th Amendment invoked around here for chrissakes?
Trump: "The US Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me, because I'm a very aesthetic person"
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
What does a guy have to say to get the 25th Amendment invoked around here for chrissakes?
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You cannot hide the soul.
December 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
You cannot hide the soul.
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Sad news: someone stole baby Jesus from our anti-ICE nativity. But vandalism cannot stop us. We just adapt and keep on critiquing this administration’s cruelty on immigration. Where’s baby Jesus? We don’t know. He is being detained in a labyrinthian hellscape where his loved ones cannot find him.
December 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sad news: someone stole baby Jesus from our anti-ICE nativity. But vandalism cannot stop us. We just adapt and keep on critiquing this administration’s cruelty on immigration. Where’s baby Jesus? We don’t know. He is being detained in a labyrinthian hellscape where his loved ones cannot find him.
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THE BEARS ARE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS BABY!
December 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
THE BEARS ARE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS BABY!
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We start losing daylight in 182 days.
December 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
We start losing daylight in 182 days.
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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DJ Moore gets one of four game balls — and he’s wearing a cheese grater.
December 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
DJ Moore gets one of four game balls — and he’s wearing a cheese grater.