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Mark Britt
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Gay husband who is a big fan of comic books, soap operas, politics and musical theater. Working on a graphic memoir. Chicago living is easier. 🏳️‍🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈🌈
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Mark Britt @markbritt.bsky.social · Feb 5
The past few years I started to finally deal with the trauma I experienced as a child from my parents & then as a minor being groomed, sexually assaulted & then stalked by a female adult. No adults helped me with the latter. Last year I started planning a graphic memoir. Here are thumbnail sketches.
Thumbnail of graphic memoir to help develop style. Will expand more. Copyright ©️ 2024 Mark Britt Copyright ©️ 2024 Mark Britt Copyright ©️ 2024 Mark Britt
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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lyndab08.bsky.social
From Hanover Park Rapid Response IG story. Abductions in the Chicago suburbs.
1 Confirmed abduction from Thompson Middle School St Charles 2 confirmed taken from Fashion Outlets Rosemont parking garage 2 confirmed take palatine one landscaper one Uber driver
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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mulchy.bsky.social
while most eyes were on greg bovino’s early morning photo op in downtown chicago this was happening 15 miles west in suburban melrose park:

video captured around 6:30 am shows a team in four vehicles detaining a person on lake street. one agent is seen rifling through the person’s car.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
One CEO called the idea a “disgusting insult” and “economic genocide against the Gen Z generation.” 👀

@newsweek.com $XHB
www.newsweek.com/50-year-mort...
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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ffrancavilla.bsky.social
‘Frankenstein’ Comes to Life in Gorgeously Gothic Vinyls
[ via @thepopinsider.com.web.brid.gy ]
Relive the tragic tale with tunes from del Toro’s retelling. @madebymutant.bsky.social is partnering with @netflix.com to transform @realgdt.bsky.social ’s Frankenstein into chilling collectible vinyls.
‘Frankenstein’ Comes to Life in Gorgeously Gothic Vinyls
Mutant is partnering with Netflix to transform Guillermo del Toro’s 'Frankenstein' into chilling collectible vinyls.
thepopinsider.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee my law firm has filed to intervene to defend the new California congressional map from attack. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...
🚨 Tangipa et al v. Newsom et al
Learn more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
"Outrage and betrayal"
AOC on House Dem.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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murray.senate.gov
We're debating on the government funding package right now and every single Republican voted against a Democratic amendment to pass a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits.

Republicans just don't care about your health care.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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junlper.beer
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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thetastate.bsky.social
In Canada Nov 11th is #RemembranceDay. Please take 2 min @ 11:00am Eastern to silently reflect on the many freedoms we enjoy today as a country & remember all who served in the Canadian military to fight for us to have them. #LestWeForget
www.legion.ca
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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philjimeneznyc.bsky.social
c.org/BQtNjcK59q
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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cristianfarias.com
Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
The latest update on conditions inside Broadview's ICE facility, where a magistrate judge is planning a visit this week.

The Trump administration says it's "compliant" with an order to provide phone services so detainees may communicate with counsel.

Plaintiffs "continue to have concerns."
JOINT WRITTEN STATUS REPORT The parties, by their undersigned attorneys, hereby submit the following joint status report pursuant to the court’s November 7, 2025, order (Dkt. 57) to apprise the court on the government’s compliance with the attorney-client communications provision of the court’s temporary restraining order (Dkt. 49). Defendants’ Position: Para. 10 of the TRO requires defendants to “provide telephone services for each Detainee to communicate with the Detainee’s counsel in private and without cost.” Defendants are compliant with this provision. Detainees have access to a government phone and private area to call their attorneys free of charge upon request. The government has set up a new phone number (708-316-4200) and email address (BSSA.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov) that attorneys may use to initiate contact with their clients. The new Broadview phone number is not fully operational yet, so the government will be using the phone number to the guard shack call (708-316-4192) in the meantime. This number is for attorneys only. Attorneys may also send email requests to email Chicago.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov and CHI-ERO-Detained@ice.dhs.gov until the new Broadview email address is fully operational. The email addresses will kick back an auto reply to include the phone number that attorneys may use to coordinate calls to their clients. The phone number will also be distributed to the Chicago AILA Chapter. The telephone calls are not being monitored or recorded In terms of nighttime lighting, the facility has implemented a 11 p.m.-11:15 p.m. to 5 a.m.- 5:15 a.m. “lights out” period where the lighting will be dimmed (absent any exigent circumstances such as during detainee transfers for safety reasons). Defense counsel asked that plaintiffs’ counsel test the phone number and emails on November 8-9, 2025, and report back in an attempt to trouble shoot before today’s noon deadline. Counsel for the defendants was not made aware of any of the issues reported below until five minutes before the filing deadline. The defense will look into plaintiffs’ complaints. Plaintiffs’ Position: Plaintiffs cannot verify whether Defendants are compliant with the provisions of the TRO concerning attorney-client communications. Plaintiffs continue to have concerns that attorneys are not able to arrange calls to their clients in a timely fashion. The new phone number that the government has set up (708-316-4200) still does not work. As described during the last court hearing, the phone line cuts off after an attorney navigates through the automated menu. On Saturday, November 8, 2025, around 2:45 p.m., Defendants’ counsel provided Plaintiffs’ counsel with the phone number to the Broadview guard shack, as mentioned above (708-316-4192). Plaintiffs are in touch with an attorney, Shelby Vcelka (who testified at the TRO hearing) who called the guard shack number on Sunday afternoon before 3:30pm in an effort to set up a call with her client. She was transferred to a supervisor who told her that someone would call her back within 48 hours. As of 8:30 am today (Monday), she had not heard back. Plaintiffs submit that a 48-hour response time is far too long, particularly given the substantial rights at stake while people are detained and processed at Broadview and the fact that people may be transferred elsewhere sooner than 48 hours. The new email address (BSSA.Outreach@ice.gov) generates an auto-reply, but it lists the ICE Chicago Field office number (872-351-3990). That number disconnects after an attorney navigates through the automated menu. The auto-reply does not contain the guard shack phone number. The Chicago.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov and CHI-ERO-Detained@ice.dhs.gov email addresses do not generate auto-replies. We have received one report from an attorney who appears to have emailed both the BSSA.Outreach@ice.gov mailbox and Chicago.Outreach@ice.gov mailboxes and subsequently received a phone call from a Broadview official in response. That attorney was able to have a phone call with her client. It is not clear to Plaintiffs which email inbox precipitated the response. Nor is it clear to Plaintiffs how frequently either of these mailboxes are monitored or whether attorneys consistently receive a prompt response and client call. Plaintiffs have no information about whether detainees are being provided with the means to make free, unmonitored, and private phone calls to attorneys, or where that is being facilitated within the Broadview facility. With respect to nighttime lighting, Plaintiffs have no information at this time about whether or how Defendants are implementing the new “lights out” period they describe to the Court. Plaintiffs have received no further information about whether detainees are now being provided with a bedding mat or bedding, and have also received no further information about food service at the facility.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
JUST IN: The Trump administration asks the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stay Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction restricting the use of force against protesters and journalists in Chicago.

Full motion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/bc/ac/04906a...
INTRODUCTION The role of the Judiciary is to resolve concrete cases and controversies, not to act as general overseer of the Executive. But in response to the government’s efforts to enforce the Nation’s immigration laws after years of non-enforcement during an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration, courts have issued sweeping, programmatic injunctions that usurp executive authority and empower judges to superintend law-enforcement activities under threat of contempt. The predictable result is to broadly obstruct the enforcement of the Nation’s laws, chill the exercise of executive power, and subvert the constitutional structure. This case is a perfect example. This Court previously issued a writ of mandamus to quash an order of this district court that “infringe[d] on the separation of powers” by “set[ting] the court up as a supervisor” of the agency’s law- enforcement activities. Order, In re Noem, No. 25-2936 (7th Cir. Oct. 31, 2025). The district court has now issued an extraordinary preliminary injunction that no less reflects an improper aggrandizement of the judicial role and a violation of the separation of powers. What began as a complaint by journalists and protestors alleging that DHS officers targeted them with crowd-control devices at a handful of protests in September and early October has transformed into an instrument for judicial micromanagement of federal law-enforcement operations in the Chicago area. Indeed, this injunction is so granular it consumes eight pages, governing everything from body-worn cameras, to agent identification, to the content of warnings before rioters may be dispersed, to when agents may use chokeholds, tackle suspects, or deploy tear gas. This Court should grant an immediate administrative stay and a stay pending appeal. This overbroad and unworkable injunction has no basis in law, threatens the safety of federal officers, and violates the separation of powers. Plaintiffs lack standing to seek this sweeping prospective relief based solely on past incidents of alleged misconduct that they only speculate may recur. Nor can plaintiffs’ claims support the relief ordered, which is untethered from the constitutional and statutory provisions that plaintiffs invoked and which reaches well beyond plaintiffs to restrain all DHS operations within the Northern District of Illinois. The injunction is also unworkable in practice, transforming a single district court into a supervisory tribunal for adjudicating the lawfulness of federal officers’ day-to-day operations. Indeed, plaintiffs have already alleged more than a half dozen violations of the court’s orders—tellingly, based on incidents that involved no named plaintiff at all. This Court’s prompt intervention is once more required to stay this untenable injunction, protect the safety of the public and law-enforcement officers, and restore the balance of power between the Executive and Judicial Branches.
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
Feds ask appeals court to block 'extraordinary' order restricting use of force against protesters

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds ask appeals court to block 'extraordinary' order restricting use of force against protesters
The Trump administration told the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Judge Sara Ellis' order is 'overbroad and unworkable,' and it asked the appeals court for a stay.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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fiddlecub.bsky.social
Tonight's music: Sibelius' underrated 3rd symphony. I love every measure.
Sibelius: 3. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Jaime Martín
YouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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elimccann.bsky.social
Every time I have a column come out in the newspaper my sweet husband insists on buying a physical copy so he can read it and say "this one was really special."

We love a cheerleader.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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unraveledpress.com
Trying to piece together footage from the last few months in any coherent way just feels like making a trailer for a horror movie starring the feds...and all things considered, that's probably about where we're at.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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govevers.wisconsin.gov
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️
No.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
On November 8, 2025, in Chicago, a masked ICE or CBP GOON point-blank sprayed pepper spray at worried neighbors, including several elderly individuals, after causing a car accident.
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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theonion.com
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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lucaisharsh.bsky.social
Rescued this teddy from the sidewalk near Sheridan and Winona

If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
A small, well-loved light brown Aurora brand teddy bear picked up from a snowy sidewalk
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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tkingfisher.com
Incidentally, Barilla’s owner is a big Trump supporter and has said he doesn’t want gay people buying his pasta.
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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schakowsky.house.gov
I’ve been clear from the start: I refuse to turn my back on the millions of Americans who are already seeing their health premiums skyrocket.

Health care must be a priority.

That’s why I’m voting NO on the continuing resolution.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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muellershewrote.com
SOURCES: The Epstein files are actually worse than previously thought. Here's my latest episode of The Breakdown in case you missed it yesterday. www.muellershewrote.com/p/sources-th...
SOURCES: The Epstein Files ARE Worse Than Previously Thought
I reached out to sources that reviewed the files after David Shuster reported that republicans in the House are panicking. This is about what I learned.
www.muellershewrote.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM