Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀
@bebopott.bsky.social
✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling ||
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For my sophomore dispatch of SILLY PRIZES, I unmask 3 of the Chicago Aldermen who joined Ald. Silverstein for a late August vacation to Israel, with all expenses paid by their Ministry of Foreign Affairs
sillyprizes.beehiiv.com/p/an-apology...
sillyprizes.beehiiv.com/p/an-apology...
let's gooooo
December 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
let's gooooo
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They liked Trump and wanted him to win the election. Now they want to help him rule us like a king
I dunno, I think something about our news media isn’t working quite right
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
They liked Trump and wanted him to win the election. Now they want to help him rule us like a king
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
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Hello. It’s me again. Please take a look. Bebo got boosted by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Rachel Maddow.
Head to Chicagoshovels.org and let’s make this happen.
Head to Chicagoshovels.org and let’s make this happen.
December 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Hello. It’s me again. Please take a look. Bebo got boosted by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Rachel Maddow.
Head to Chicagoshovels.org and let’s make this happen.
Head to Chicagoshovels.org and let’s make this happen.
this is wild lol
December 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this is wild lol
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Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
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the uncs were all chopped by the chimney with care
December 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
the uncs were all chopped by the chimney with care
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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
My first Chicago apartment was across the street from Best Subs #2 and I cannot stress how much this humble restaurant meant to me during my first year in this city. absolutely heart breaking to discover it's owner has been in ICE custody since September
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/f...
Family Of Humboldt Park Sub Shop Owner Begs For His Release As Health Deteriorates In ICE Custody
The federal appeals court in Chicago blocked the man's deportation last week — the same day he collapsed — on a temporary basis as it considers a longer-term order.
blockclubchicago.org
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My first Chicago apartment was across the street from Best Subs #2 and I cannot stress how much this humble restaurant meant to me during my first year in this city. absolutely heart breaking to discover it's owner has been in ICE custody since September
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/f...
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That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
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lol let me guess which customer it is. could it be the one that has repeatedly failed to develop a better "last mile" system than the one a 250 year old state-operated infrastructure agency developed for the benefit not of tax-shirking corporations, but for u.s. taxpayers?
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
lol let me guess which customer it is. could it be the one that has repeatedly failed to develop a better "last mile" system than the one a 250 year old state-operated infrastructure agency developed for the benefit not of tax-shirking corporations, but for u.s. taxpayers?
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One of the 'original' Chicago Janes—arrested in those famous mug shots—has left us. Bless Judith Arcana and her work, then, and throughout her long life.
kboo.com/media/131081...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
kboo.com/media/131081...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Judith Arcana helped facilitate abortions pre-Roe—here’s what she learned
Facing up to 110 years in prison was no deterrent for the Jane Collective, a group of women who helped others get abortions, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
www.motherjones.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of the 'original' Chicago Janes—arrested in those famous mug shots—has left us. Bless Judith Arcana and her work, then, and throughout her long life.
kboo.com/media/131081...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
kboo.com/media/131081...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Mark my words, everyone who voted for this budget will simultaneously run on it (taking credit for opposing Brandon Johnson) and against it (blaming him for all of its consequences)
Mayor Brandon Johnson backs down, will not veto City Council's alternate budget
By not vetoing the budget, Johnson solidifies the will of 30 alders who took control of this year’s budget process.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Mark my words, everyone who voted for this budget will simultaneously run on it (taking credit for opposing Brandon Johnson) and against it (blaming him for all of its consequences)
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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Leave it to Mayor Johnson to show more deference to pandering to his base for the name of a plow than he has in the last year and a half to actually implementing #PlowTheSidewalks.
We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.
We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Leave it to Mayor Johnson to show more deference to pandering to his base for the name of a plow than he has in the last year and a half to actually implementing #PlowTheSidewalks.
We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.
We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.
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Make them wear the Rahm-whisperer’s budget like an albatross around their necks
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Make them wear the Rahm-whisperer’s budget like an albatross around their necks
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Mayor’s presser about the budget today at 9:30 am!
Chicago resident Jenean Truesdell said she learned during this budget cycle about the alderpeople who have previously received campaign donations from billionaire Michael Sacks, a known opponent of the corporate head tax.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...
Chicago organizers who rallied to tax the rich reflect on lessons learned after city council passes alternate budget • The TRiiBE
"I think trust needs to be built between these alders and their constituents, especially if they want to run again," one organizer said.
thetriibe.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Mayor’s presser about the budget today at 9:30 am!
Cook County Board of Review getting into a brand new controversy the exact minute the previous one ends
December 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Cook County Board of Review getting into a brand new controversy the exact minute the previous one ends
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Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression
Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app
December 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression
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After months of trying to conduct oversight of Broadview Processing Center, I finally gained access.
The conditions are inhumane.
We must hold DHS and Secretary Noem accountable for the pain and terror they are inflicting in our communities.
The conditions are inhumane.
We must hold DHS and Secretary Noem accountable for the pain and terror they are inflicting in our communities.
December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
After months of trying to conduct oversight of Broadview Processing Center, I finally gained access.
The conditions are inhumane.
We must hold DHS and Secretary Noem accountable for the pain and terror they are inflicting in our communities.
The conditions are inhumane.
We must hold DHS and Secretary Noem accountable for the pain and terror they are inflicting in our communities.
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I’d just add that several US citizens detained by the feds during protests—people never charged with a crime—also had dna samples collected and presumably catalogued. For what purpose, idk.
This isn’t “just border security.” It’s DNA surveillance. Reports show DHS/CBP have collected DNA from migrants, including children, and uploaded profiles into the FBI’s criminal DNA database (CODIS).
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's DNA Dragnet: The Law That Turns Us All Into Suspects
Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches far beyond the border.
www.rollingstone.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I’d just add that several US citizens detained by the feds during protests—people never charged with a crime—also had dna samples collected and presumably catalogued. For what purpose, idk.