OK so then name one successful filibuster by a small state.

Have you considered even remotely that If you can't afford it maybe you shouldn't be hosting it?

initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface

Might as well assign you a 'Target Escort' when you enter to walk the store with you, now that most of the store is behind lock & key anyways.

Before anyone gets mad at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, listen to Kate. Justice Jackson didn’t side with Trump: she issued a temporary stay to prevent a rushed ruling that could let presidents exploit shutdowns to bypass Congress. Her move protects SNAP recipients & constitutional checks & balances

this has special meaning for me today. youtube.com/shorts/4VWT5...

These toys are quite possibly what made me into the hacker I am today. Rest in joyous peace, Burt Meyer.

cowardly lion yells at fellow face-eating lions about letting the loudest lion eat their face.

BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?

wife said, 'oh noes, it gets wose and wose!' and laughed at me and i'm like

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

I asked SPD's comms department to confirm this 2 days ago and they ignored me as usual. (All my questions have to go through their PR person—literally, I cant't get yes/no answers without a whole special delaying process. It's wild!) Anyway, here's the press release they did instead of answering me.

While putting brats into the instapot I caught myself singing the boarstwurst jingle from Outer Worlds 2

@theneedling.com i sent a headline teehee

We are adjourned. Thanks, again, for following along. Since some people have asked how to support @wttw.bsky.social:

Ellis sets the next hearing for 3 p.m. Nov. 13. "To make sure the order has been disseminated," Ellis says.

Ellis is done. The preliminary injunction has been entered. Ellis grants plaintiff's request to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which means it applies to more than just the named plaintiffs and includes all nonviolent protestors as well as those engaged in news gathering & religious practice

Ellis orders that agents wear "conspicuous identification" in two separate places and wear and activate body-worn cameras while engaging in enforcement actions.

Those warnings must be given "at a sound level where the targeted individuals can reasonably hear it," Ellis says

Federal agents can only use force when it is "objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person." There must be two separate warnings given before force is used, Ellis rules.

Nous Sommes Tout Judge Ellis

Ellis is now reading the preliminary order, which applies only to the Northern District of Illinois.

Thank you, Judge Ellis. You gave me hope again.

i'm shaking in teared up angry freedom right now.

Ellis is concluding, with John Adams words to his wife in 1775 about the need to fight for the nascent American democracy. "Liberty once lost is lost forever."

Ellis says she will not order the plaintiffs to post a bond. Ellis anticipates the Trump administration's request to stay her injunction pending appeal. She says she will not do so.

Any impact of the preliminary injunction on immigration enforcement efforts would be "entirely collateral in nature," Ellis says.

Ellis acknowledges that she does not have the authority to dictate the operations of the federal government. "I am doing no such thing with this injunction." Ellis notes that both Border Patrol and ICE have said they have followed her temporary order all along.

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Ellis says she is "ordering complete relief to the plaintiffs."

SAY IT AGAIN AND LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK AND WHO CAN'T SPEAK GOOD!!!

Ellis "The public ... has an interest in its citizens' bodily integrity, the right to peaceful protest, the right to assemble, the right of peaceful free exercise of religion."

Ellis: The use of force during the Trump administration's Operation Midway Blitz "shocks the conscience."

Ellis: "It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."

they violated our 1st Amendment rights!

Ellis rules that the Trump administration impermissibly prevented the free exercise of religion, in violation of the First Amendment. Those engaged in prayer have been shot, without warning, with pepper balls and tear gas, Ellis says.

Ellis: "I see little reason for the use of force that the federal agents are currently using. Pointing guns, pulling out pepper spray, throwing tear gas, shooting pepper balls and using other less lethal munitions do not appear to be appropriate."

they violated our 1st Amendment rights!

I have lost count of the number of times that Ellis has said the Trump administration's arguments "lack credibility."

Ellis rejects the DOJ's argument that plaintiffs are not protected by the First Amendment because they've "intermingled themselves with rioters." "The unlawful activity by a few protesters does not transform a peaceful assembly into an unlawful assembly," Ellis says

Ellis says the Trump administration impermissibly prevented members of the media (including @peoplesfabric.com & @blockclubchi.bsky.social) from reporting on Operation Midway Blitz.

The Trump administration treated anti-ICE protestors worse because of the content of their speech, in violation of the First Amendment, Ellis says. In fact, the president and Secretary Noem have said exactly that, Ellis says.

Full quote from Ellis: "The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion." @wttw.bsky.social

Unmask them!

Office paper. The Oval Office is labeled in office paper. the fall of Democracy is led by absolute idiots.

Pressed by Ald. Daniel La Spata, Chicago Police Department Chief of Detectives Antoinette Ursitti says CPD *will not* investigate allegations that federal agents committed a crime during the normal the course of their official actions. La Spata was asking about what happened in Lakeview on Oct. 24:

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