Chris Gallo

it was never even a question in my mind that David Byrne would be on the right side of this shit

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

A scanned legal document from the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, titled “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL RABBITT, KATHERINE MARIE ABUGHAZALEH, ANDRE MARTIN, CATHERINE SHARP, BRIAN STRAW, and JOSELYN WALSH.” It shows case number 1:25-cr-00693, filed on October 23, 2025, before Judge April M. Perry and Magistrate Judge Heather K. McShain. The document is marked “UNDER SEAL” and notes violations under Title 18, U.S. Code, Sections 111(a)(1), 372, and 2. The first section is labeled COUNT ONE and begins: “The SPECIAL JUNE 2024 GRAND JURY charges:” followed by four subpoints (a–d) describing an ICE officer (“Agent A”), the Broadview Service Staging Area in Illinois, and the defendants’ residences in the Northern District of Illinois. A red “FILED 10/23/2025” stamp appears at the top right, along with the signature of THOMAS G. BRUTON, Clerk, U.S. District Court.

A page from a U.S. District Court indictment titled “COUNT THREE” in case number 1:25-cr-00693, filed October 23, 2025, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. The document states that the Special June 2024 Grand Jury incorporates previous allegations and charges that on or about September 26, 2025, in Broadview, Illinois, defendant Katherine Marie Abughazaleh “forcibly impeded, intimidated, and interfered with an officer of the United States, namely Agent A,” while the officer was performing official duties. It concludes that this conduct violated Title 18, United States Code, Sections 111(a)(1) and 2.

Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) has just been indicted by the DOJ over participation in protests against ICE at its Broadview facility in Illinois. This is a brazen weaponization of the DOJ to target political opponents with bogus charges.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Biss and Abughazleh neck-and-neck in Democratic primary Over the past three months, 17 active Democratic candidates for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District reported a total of $4.7 million flooding into the competitive race. All the congressional candidat...

This is a grassroots campaign:

“Abughazaleh reports over $1.1 million in individual contributions under $200, making up around 74% of her contribution totals.
In contrast, over 90% of Biss’ campaign contributions come from big-money donations of over $200.”

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/10/20/c...

A picture of He-Man

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

its im asuming a bookstore with those words in the front on a poster

FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.

A bowl of grape nuts cereal in milk, with a spoon sticking out on a wooden table

Was wondering why the hell they're called "grape nuts" despite lacking the qualities of both a grape and a nut, and stumbled into the CEREAL WARS 1/

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

Spooky Pokemon for the season 🎃👻🦇⚰️ #pokemon #halloween

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

Mastodon user profile with a banner image showing a person standing and rowing a wooden boat floating at sunrise - a cover of Pink Floyd album "Endless River". The profile picture is a stylized illustration of a cat wearing sunglasses that reflect the iconic Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" prism. The display name is "Comfortably Numb" with the handle @numb_comfortably on the server hachyderm.io. The bio reads: "Staff software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript. Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order." The profile was created on June 7, 2025, and shows 448 posts, 148 following, and 327 followers. There is an “Edit profile” button and a clipboard icon next to the profile information.

Mastodon starter packs are working, I am following almost 150 people, and got over 300 followers

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

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Hey folks, there's a Steam Sale on right now, who would like a good old Casey recommendation thread?

Well, gather round everyone, I'll make some choice picks that I really love and I hope you'll love too. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

Ghost Song is 50% off on Steam Autumn Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/347800/G...
It has spooky parts for your halloweeny needs #metroidvania #gamedev #solodev

4-panel meme where an anime girl with shades is the first panel is looking away and putting her hand up in a "no thanks" gesture next to a panel that reads "Crappy Anti-Woke Curator Pages", and below is the same anime girl smiling and pointing towards the 4th panel which shows the Casey Explosion curator page cover art that reads "Sloth Mom Approved"

I see there's more garbage anti-woke steam curators doing the rounds, so instead of paying them any attention, might I suggest following a curator that'll put neat games on your radar? 'cos I'm always updating mine with more goodies: store.steampowered.com/curator/2834...

It's likely that we're going to be exploring White Supremacy as a more explicit core of the DCU's story as it continues.

Gunn releasing this last yr in his first piece to reboot the universe plants a pretty hard flag in the ground and I'm hoping he embraces it as much as he did w/ Superman.

Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"

Bruh

Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment - news article from april 2023.

Relevant.

This edit has healed me. I forgive everyone everything. We're going to get through it. Together. I know this now.

A screenshot of DownDetector.com showing a huge spike in Steam outage reports.

Thanks @teamcherry.bsky.social! #silksong

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!

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Chicago
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NYC
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Please share!
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Ex-Mastodon Guitarist Brent Hinds Dead at 51 www.metalsucks.net/2025/08/21/e...

A four-panel comic by Mr. Lovenstein featuring two cartoon characters: a purple bear with a small orange hat and a blue cat. 1. The first panel shows the purple bear kicking its leg up playfully while the blue cat stands looking confused. The bear says, "Why are you in such a silly mood?" 2. The second panel shows the purple bear leaning closer to the blue cat. 3. The third panel has a black background. The purple bear, now holding the blue cat's face gently, says, "Without it, darkness would consume me." The blue cat looks worried and starts sweating. 4. The fourth panel shows the purple bear doing a headstand while the blue cat stands beside it, looking slightly bewildered. The comic is sponsored by Juan Marron, indicated at the bottom.

Hehehehe lalalala 🤡 let’s all laugh

It's absurd and dystopian that payment processors get to decide what we can and can't see on the internet.

That companies like Visa and Mastercard can use their enormous size to bully companies into taking stuff offline - based on the reactionary politics of a small group.