Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
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Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
These problems are even bigger. As a constitutional matter, the deployment of unfederalized Guard personnel into a nonconsenting state can never happen. Never.
Man, doesn’t the deployment of ARNG soldiers on title 32 from TX into IL open a pandora’s box of state sovereignty issues? Can the Governor of TX deploy soldiers, essentially on state active duty (title 32) to IL against the wishes of the Governor of Illinois who is also CDR in Chief of the ILARNG?
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul urges Chicagoans to protest peacefully. "Do not take the bait," Raoul says.
Mayor Brandon Johnson: The the president is the last person who cares about violence on Chicago's South and West sides. "There is too much violence in Chicago not because we have too many immigrants but because we have too many guns."
Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
Studies repeatedly show that most people age out of "hardcore" crime by their late 30s and 40s. And nobody is "born to be" a criminal. Even Trump, who is a hardcore criminal who has not aged out of his illicit behavoir, was not born like this. I blame his parents.
#France issues an arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad over the 2012 killing of #journalists
trump is talking about the number of people killed by gun violence in chicago right after saying guns aren't a problem in america.
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
he's absolutely obsessed with chicago. literally begging pritzker to call him and invite him to illinois.
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
Pro tip for covering pregnancy-related arrests: don't use the word 'infant' before finding out what actually happened. More often than not, these are miscarriages, but outlets will repeat the language cops use - smearing women in the process www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Coming to a USA city near you
💥 When the neoliberals go too far: #Indonesia is the 4th most populous country in the world & the government is a #neoliberal regime that caters to the wealthy. Indonesian parliament was set on fire by people protesting reps giving themselves salary increase 50 X higher than the minimum wage.
Friendly reminder that you can stock up on over the counter birth control pills in case of changes to access, and they're typically good for at least 1 year but of course check the expiration dates. opill.com/products/opi...
Gets so old having to argue with people who believe in bullshit
When the baby ends up in the ER or dead, they’ll come to me for comfort too. This has been my life in this family for 28 years. Being smart around a bunch of people who say shit to me, a public health grad, “you are gonna get sick being out in that cold.” That’s not how sickness spreads!!
The car seat is not a bed. If you’re traveling with your baby and they’ll need a nap where you’re going, take a cot. A pack n play. A bassinet. A car seat is inclined and can prevent the baby from being able to breathe. My grandma: “I’m watching her”. I said “babies die being watched”. Silence.
My family getting shitty with me because I don’t want my cousin’s baby sleeping in unsafe sleeping positions still has me pissed the fuck off today. “Congrats on your job offer to do postpartum care but don’t provide any of that bullshit knowledge you have to us. We wanna be ⭐️ irresponsible ⭐️”
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NEW: All Guatemalan children placed on planes yesterday have indeed been returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, @nilc.org lawyers confirm to Judge Sooknanan. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
Introducing my kid to the Biebs
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
UPDATE: The indefatigable Judge Sooknanan orders DOJ to file an update when the last 4 children have been returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Bahahahahahahah
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
Marcus Freeman continues to be fine as hell
notre dame: the official college football team of women
Watching the Notre Dame/Miami game and there’s a damned commercial glorifying the “Big Beautiful Bill”. Miss me with that lie-laden propaganda bullshit. I’d rather see the Jesus commercial garbage.
It is just wild to me that the largest facility used during Japanese internment will now be used to intern immigrants from ICE raids, people who are disappeared by masked officers off the streets, and there is still a debate about whether naming and shaming those doing it is fair.
UPDATE: DOJ says that all but 4 of the unaccompanied migrant children have been returned to ORR custody. Transfer of the remaining four children is expected at approximately 11:00 p.m.
Hello this is not true at all. There are sex workers who choose to do that as their job not because they have “no other way to support themselves and survive”. There’s plenty of research on 2025 about why sex work exists and just like any job it’s because of supply and demand
There is a widespread belief in law-enforcement that anyone who’s been paid for sex is ipso facto a liar who cannot be trusted to testify to anything, even things that happened to her own body. That’s what Molly ran into today, and absolutely no one else wanted to admit that’s what they were saying
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
Our TV president is avoiding the TV. Suspicious AF
UPDATE: Judge Sooknanan wants another update at 10:45 p.m. ET to confirm that all members of the putative class of Guatemalan children are back in ORR custody. The presumption of irregularity at work!
Probably one of her clerks
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
Really strongly recommend everyone get off Substack. Not just for the Nazi stuff, but because they're going to lock you into the platform and then slowly bleed you dry
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
Right now in Michigan, we’re in the middle of a budget showdown. The Republican Speaker of the House slipped a provision into the budget that would kneecap our Attorney General – and make it near-impossible for us to take the Trump Administration to court.
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
I hate living in a country where this story exists. It would not need to in a country with actual gun laws. www.startribune.com/he-couldnt-r...
To my BlueSky friends in the Chicago area: Next week, you are on the front lines of this resistance movement against a wannabe authoritarian regime. Be strong, but safe. Filled with courage and determination. Add a little humor, and resolve. I am with you. Until they come to my city. Kevin
At least 50 National Guard with long guns around Audi field and Navy Yard metro station as I leave the Washington Spirit soccer game. Free DC.
In an effort to corral support for his threats to send military forces to Chicago, President Donald Trump said that “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” are “screaming” for him to come to Chicago. So, we thought: let’s ask them. youtube.com/shorts/8I4Ys...
NEW: DOJ says the Guatemalan children have been removed from the planes and are "in the process" of being returned to custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
part of the growing chasm between the supreme court and the lower and intermediate courts is that the supreme court has not punished the government for its overwhelming disrespect of the bench
There’s a really bad fire a few miles down the road from my parents house and there’s a good 4+ different fire departments on scene and they’ve been there for nearly two hours now 😞 sounds like someone’s farm is eviscerated
👉 it’s not unusual for ICE Air to send two planes to Guatemala, even on a Sunday. The real story today may be the planes that *didn’t* fly. We’ll look into that a little bit later.
This man is an authentic American hero A Black man facing armed federal agents to stand up for his youth baseball team. Brave. www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Can’t wait for Drew Ensign’s turn at the Second Nuremberg Trials
They doing some illegal shit
Reform is desperately needed
SEE!!!!!!
This part. Classic DV against a sex worker.
From 1990.
The exception is custody court. You can lie in there all day and get away with. Opposing party got caught lying on the stand during a hearing and the judge just said don’t do that again. It’s on the transcripts!! That was when I knew the system was exceptionally flawed
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
Marc Elias: "Congressman Raskin, rather than raising money to win by 85% instead of 82%, raises money to train a corps of young people to be engaged in politics, elections, and issues. It is a great program he runs every summer called Democracy Summer." Let's have more of these projects!
My thoughts too
Also this bsky.app/profile/ben1...
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
This happened to me but it was my high school graduation lmao fucking sucked but guess who came crawling back a few months later! He did. I told him to get lost but with more… flowery language. He ain’t worth it, happy birthday, and feel better soon!!
GET THEM JUDGE
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Judge Sooknanan: For unaccompanied minors in particular, there are special procedural protections under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act...that's because this population is incredibly vulnerable. I don't see anything in what you're citing that would override those protections.
Inhumane
Sooknanan: Every one of these 10 children who are named plaintiffs speak about being afraid of going back to Guatemala. She reads a series of quotes in which the children express being afraid of return because they experienced neglect or abuse from one or both of their parents.
NEW — Organizers are hitting the streets for Labor Day to resist President Trump and the rise of fascism. “As Trump threatens to send federal troops into our city, we know we need the broadest possible unity and all forces who oppose Trump to take to the streets.” thetriibe.com/2025/08/chic...
He thinks playing dumb helps him but it only makes him look incompetent. Hope he isn’t thinking he’ll have a job in a few years. Hopefully he’s lost his license to practice by then
Sooknanan talks about crafting her TRO to ensure that the children aren't removed until briefing is complete and she can rule. I do not want there to be any ambiguity about what I am ordering or what the government is to do down the road, she says.
This whole scenario feels like it's straight outta the government's Alien Enemies Act/J.G.G. playbook. In J.G.G., Boasberg entered TRO barring removal of named plaintiffs and set weekend emergency hearing on certification of class. But DHS started removing people just before/during hearing...
Jfc
Judge Sooknanan: Are you aware that I have issued an order on the docket about the putative class? DOJ / Drew Ensign: I have not, your honor Judge Sooknanan: I want you take 5 minutes now to look at that order and circulate that through the govt/DHS (Hearing pauses)
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly trying—imminently—to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
MORE: This is reminiscent of the emergency fight over Alien Enemies Act — an overnight lawsuit alleging abrupt deportations and violation of due process, quick restraining order by a judge, hearing set for the afternoon. We'll learn more at 3pm. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I remember why I don’t drink anymore. Holy fuck how did I used to do this every weekend lmao I feel so shitty 😭
When No Hands plays #drank
lmao what a night
I don’t usually wear makeup so the laugh I laughed when my daughter said to me a little bit ago upon my getting ready to go out with her daddy, “you have a different face” 🥲🙃
