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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

YouTube video by Federal Reserve

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January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM

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Dave Byrnes

@djbyrnes1.bsky.social

District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order limits how and when feds can use gas in the Chicago area.

It restricts the use of gas in "residential or commercial areas" that could risk injury to a plaintiff class member "who is not causing an immediate threat of physical harm to another person"

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Preliminary Injunction Order
Plaintiffs filed a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction Order against Defendants.
Having held a hearing on November 5 and 6, 2025, the Court finds that Plaintiffs have met their
burden to support the issuance of a Preliminary Injunction. The Court orally issued its ruling,
containing findings of facts, conclusions of law, and stated reasons why the Court issued the
injunction pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 52(a)(2) and 65(d), on November 6, 2025,
and indicated that a written opinion will follow further explaining the Court’s ruling and providing
supporting evidentiary and case citations within 14 days of the issuance of this Order. Accordingly,
the Court grants the motion and orders as follows:
1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants, their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as “Federal Agents”), are ENJOINED in
this judicial district from:

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Dispersal of Others: Issuing a crowd dispersal order, meaning a lawful
command given by an authorized Federal Agent for all persons to leave a designated area,
that requires any Class member to leave a public place that they lawfully have a right to
be, unless dispersal is justified by exigent circumstances such that immediate action is
objectively necessary in order to preserve life or prevent catastrophic outcomes as defined
by Department of Homeland Security Use of Force Policy (updated Feb. 6, 2023), Section
XII.E;
c. Using riot control weapons––including kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs),
Compressed Air Launchers (e.g., PLS and FN303), Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) Spray, CS
gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants, 40 mm Munitions Launchers, less-lethal shotguns,
Less-Lethal Specialty Impact-Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM), Controlled Noise and
Light Distraction Devices (CNLDDs), Electronic Control Weapons (ECWs)––on any
Class member, unless such force is objectively necessary to stop the person from causing
an immediate threat of physical harm to another person;
d. Using riot control weapons (including those described above) at identified
targets if it is reasonably foreseeable that doing so could result in injury to any Class
member, unless such force is objectively necessary to stop the person from causing an
immediate threat of physical harm to another person

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e. Deploying CS or CN gas canisters, OC spray, or other chemical irritants
into a group of people or in residential or commercial areas in a manner that poses a
reasonably foreseeable risk of injuring any Class member who is not causing an immediate
threat of physical harm to another person;
f. Deploying CS or CN gas canisters, Controlled Noise and Light Distraction
Devices (CNLDD), or Less-Lethal Specialty Impact and Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM)
so as to strike any Class member, unless such force is objectively necessary to stop an
immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person;
g. Deploying CS or CN gas canisters, Controlled Noise and Light Distraction
Devices (CNLDD), or Less-Lethal Specialty Impact and Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM)
above the head of any Class member, unless such force is objectively necessary to stop an
immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person;
h. Firing Compressed Air Launchers (e.g., PLS and FN303), or Munitions
Launchers (e.g., 40mm), or KIPs so as to strike the head, neck, groin, spine, or female
breast of any Class member, unless such force is objectively necessary to stop an immediate
threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person

November 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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Bill Kristol

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism.

Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?

August 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM

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Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM