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Better Things Are Possible

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waving a big foam finger that says government

January 1, 2026 at 10:19 PM

Chapel

@chapel.bsky.social

we'll be fine as long as a hundred million people dont get sick🤞

January 1, 2026 at 9:31 PM

Chapel

@chapel.bsky.social

a surfeit of mcdonalds would surely kill him

January 1, 2026 at 3:52 PM

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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

NEW: In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, plaintiffs who live in housing across the street from Portland's ICE facility today filed a preliminary injunction motion to bar the feds from shooting tear gas, etc., when not necessary, because it keeps entering their homes.

MOTION
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65, Plaintiffs move for a preliminary
injunction to preclude Defendants from deploying tear gas, smoke grenades, and other chemical
munitions that are likely to infiltrate Gray’s Landing and its apartments, unless the use of such
munitions is necessary to protect against an imminent and concrete threat to the lives of federal
officers or other persons.
MEMORANDUM OF LAW
INTRODUCTION
The government’s actions in this case are shocking. Acting with pre-meditation—day
after day, week after week, and month after month—federal officers have deployed massive
amounts of tear gas, smoke grenades, and pepper balls directly toward and around Gray’s
Landing, an affordable housing complex next to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) facility in Portland. Officers have done so repeatedly when faced with no violence from
protesters or imminent risk of harm. Far from it; officers have deployed these munitions at times
seemingly for target practice, and at other times for show. And the officers have taken these
actions with deliberate indifference to the harmful effects on Gray’s Landing residents. Plaintiffs
and other people in Gray’s Landing have suffered acute respiratory distress, horrible burning in
their eyes and throats, dizziness, slurred speech, and episodes of PTSD due to the government’s

actions. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials knew that the gas and smoke were
causing such injuries, and they have kept using the munitions with abandon anyway.
Plaintiffs seek a preliminary injunction so that they need not suffer any more harm from
the federal government releasing poison gas into their homes. Defendants' conduct violates
Plaintiffs' substantive due process rights to liberty and property. The government causing
poisonous gas and chemicals to enter Plaintiffs' bodies violates their right to bodily integrity,
which the Supreme Court has long recognized as a component of the right to liberty. The
invasion of Plaintiffs' bodily integrity is severe and lasting, and Defendants have independently restrained Plaintiffs' liberty by curtailing their freedom of movement. And the repeated,
sustained infiltration of gas and smoke into Gray's Landing has made it all-but-impossible for
Plaintiffs to use and enjoy their property. Each of these infringements on Plaintiffs' substantive
due process rights is the result of Defendants' deliberate indifference to Plaintiffs' plight, and
therefore each violates the Fifth Amendment.
Each time Defendants release chemicals into the air around Gray's Landing, Plaintiffs
suffer irreparable harm. Defendants' actions make clear that they are likely to continue to deploy
tear gas and other chemical munitions from the ICE facility in response to protests, which may
occur at any moment. Plaintiffs should not be forced to suffer a single additional instance of
breathing in chemicals in a manner the CDC describes as "poisoning." And the public certainly
has an interest in stopping this unconscionable violation of constitutional rights.

December 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM

Chapel

@chapel.bsky.social

Best Ham at the Airport

December 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social

I'm sorry but that's nuts even for him, who the hell says "enjoy what may be your last merry christmas" except, like, a movie villain

December 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM

Chapel

@chapel.bsky.social

"Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas! President Donald J Trump"

December 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM

Chapel

@chapel.bsky.social

December 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM

Chapel

@chapel.bsky.social

🎵💂‍♀️🇬🇧🎵Long lived our frumpy queen,
long though her reign has been
Andrew's a nonce🎵💂‍♀️🇬🇧🎵

December 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM

Chapel

@chapel.bsky.social

A big Domo Oregato and Merry Christmas to BlueSky's newest members.

December 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM

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spencer

@spencer7-5.bsky.social

Reminder: Rabbits ARE toys. They are EASY pets. You do NOT have to worry about getting them for Christmas

December 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM

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Brian McFadden

@mcfadden.bsky.social

To get contraband Canadian programming in the '80s, you had to subscribe to Nickelodeon. There was a mannequin that came to life that the US government didn't want us to know about.

December 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM

Chapel

@chapel.bsky.social

wont someone think of marc cuban?

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10d

wow good job you ran one of the most high-profile users completely off the site. again. anyway yeah it’s a totally healthy environment and definitely not dying

Icewind Dale Gribble @phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social · 10d

abandoned accounts aren’t engagement. mark cuban can’t post on bluesky without an army of people telling him he’s a shitstain. the culture is clear

December 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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Jesse Hawken

@jessehawken.bsky.social

So I'm supposed to believe that Bari Weiss, who okayed an FP article about how most children who died in Gaza had pre-existing health conditions, didn't think the CECOT story on 60 Minutes was ready for broadcast

December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM

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The Independent

@the-independent.com

Jim Beam shutting down bourbon production at Kentucky distillery amid Trump’s tariffs

www.independent.co.uk

December 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM

Chapel

@chapel.bsky.social

sorry the covid vaccine made Nikki Minaj's cousin's dick and balls fall off.

December 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM

Chapel

@chapel.bsky.social

Disaster Zionism

December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.

Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.

Now, it’s gone.