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Emily Barney

@ebarney.bsky.social
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Librarian at Chicago-Kent College of Law, kitchen tourist, yarn hobbyist and cat roommate (the last two don't always mix well). Views my own.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We are rightly up in arms over ICE killings in the streets, but what's happening in Trump's detention camps will leave a moral stain for generations
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‘This Place Is a Graveyard of Living People’
A harrowing human rights report details horrors at America’s largest concentration camp.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's a sign of how shockingly corrupt this country has become that a nominee for Attorney General is given a hearing by the Senate *the very same week* he has been referred by a judge for possible disbarment for unethical behavior. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/07/2026
there is a literacy crisis at the Supreme Court: only 5 of 9 justices are capable of reading the Fourteenth Amendment AND it took them a year and a half to do so tragic tbh ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...
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The Supreme Court’s Big Birthright Citizenship Decision Is the Absolute Bare Minimum
The justices had a simple task in Trump v. Barbara: uphold their oaths. Only five were willing to do so.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026
Can’t believe you only have to kill 700,000 Africans to make a trillion dollars
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis
The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Seeing the budget increase pass in Congress, details like the ones below of current ICE activity in Chicago, as well as the transcripts of the grand jury manipulation... disheartening is the lightest word that comes to mind.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
this should frighten you
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
From yesterday - www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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What caused the smell of smoke across the Chicago area on Thursday?
Lots of people across the Chicago area complained about smelling smoke in the air on Thursday, and there was a perfectly good explanation.
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I am very glad to be able to vote for @ramirez.house.gov - she has consistently stood up for our community in Chicago and beyond over years of local leadership. I'm glad to have a rep in Congress who sees what's happening clearly and uses her role against these evils. We just need more like her.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/02/2026
Marimar Martinez is a hero. Please keep her safe. And please remember every time you hear a claim from the DHS that they will lie. Constantly. Blatantly. Without remorse.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court! A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so. Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
LIBRARIES WIN IN COURT. Federal court issues permanent injunction in Rhode Island V. Trump, stops the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.The court ruled that all actions taken by the Administration to dismantle IMLS are nullified. This injunction takes immediate nationwide effect: all grants, in every state and territory. The Administration is stopped from taking these actions again in the future. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 20/11/2025
This violent CBP agent's Twitter account follows 2 Holocaust deniers (Nick Fuentes and Stew Peters) and 9 accounts associated with InfoWars and its current or former employees. He's likely knee-deep in far-right and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Screenshot of Timothy Donahue's Twitter account (https://x.com/Timothy77593126/following), showing that he follows Holocaust deniers Nick Fuentes and Stew PetersScreenshot of Timothy Donahue's Twitter account (https://x.com/Timothy77593126/following), showing that he follows several accounts associated with InfoWars and its current or former employeesScreenshot of Timothy Donahue's Twitter account (https://x.com/Timothy77593126/following), showing that he follows several accounts associated with InfoWars and its current or former employees
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"He's gonna pay for those shots," Parente added re: Exum, noting the agent bragged about the shooting. "They were not good shots. You will see, eventually, that that was a bad shoot, it was a violation of CBP's use of force policy, and he is going to pay for those shots" the attorney told press.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]

Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. 

[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Some screenshots from itp_chicago IG. You can see how federal agents stake their presence around some of these communities in intersections in the middle of traffic and sidewalks in front of businesses. This feels very particular to the SW Side with Little Village being a prime target for this.
Federal agents at 35th and western Federal agents at 35th and western Federal agents on 26th and lawndale
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us
Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The evil comes from among us too
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I am grieving for the families across the city who have been separated today and for the many communities facing this campaign designed to terrorize and abuse our neighbors based on the color of their skin and the places they may have been born. Grateful for local journalists & orgs sharing info.
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Kidnappings across Chicago’s Northwest Side, Bronzeville, Cicero and suburbs; DHS confirms 37 arrests in South Shore apartments raid • The TRiiBE
A day after federal officers swarmed an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, agents returned to the South and West sides on Wednesday
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This broadside was printed by Benjamin Franklin Roberts, a Black printer who sued Boston after his 5yo daughter, Sarah, was excluded from her local elementary school. Roberts lost the case, but was part of the movement that succeeded in integrating Boston's public schools in 1855.
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Benjamin Roberts (U.S. National Park Service)
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Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The same Supreme Court that said it is unreasonable to consider race when giving kids access to education, has said it's reasonable to consider race when looking to remove someone from the country. Funny how that works.
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
This week has been an adventure in juggling spreadsheets and figuring out how to have 2-3 people be in 5-10 places at the same time for the start of 30-50 classes each day over 10-12 hours... We're getting our steps in and my knees are feeling it. 🏃‍♀️📊🏃‍♀️🗓️🏃‍♀️🕕🏃‍♀️ 😮‍💨
9 classes starting at 6pm!
5 classes starting at 4pm, 4 today only
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I forgot until the end of the day (a very long day running around trying to fix all the things) I'd chosen these socks today. I only verged on expressing this emotion once in a meeting today, though it may have been simmering at other times. I'll take that as a win, I guess?
Close up of an ankle wearing a sock with Munch's Scream woven into it
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Between all the data being removed from core gov't sites, firings, and policies controlling what agency scientists and/or grant funded studies can cover and/or where they can publish, "do your own research" is only going to get more and more dangerous. Plus default AI in so many search results... 🫣
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I remember a comment during Emanuel's mayorship that the further you get from Chicago the better his reputation was...
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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
LA is real America. Chicago is real America. Philly is real America. Like, 75% of Illinois' population lives in the Chicago metro area, we are the heart and soul of the state! Same goes for the US at large!
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
As well as all of our structures of societal support and safety regulation that have been gutted from the federal government
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
How have we not learned this yet?? At least we can add a comment - it only takes a minute to do so! "In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Welp, that's my neighborhood library...
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A president who doesn't care about the Constitution. An attorney general with no regard for the Law, An FBI unconcerned with civil rights... What could go wrong?
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
There's no *real* goodness in it for sure, but a lot of fear and anger that bury any chance for curiosity and empathy that could bring real growth and connection. There's so much power over those who live in fear and so much of the white church's alignment makes it harder to unveil the truths too.
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Here are my goofy lovelies, their joys are helpful to behold.
A grey tabby cat sprawls off of a lap, one paw curled and the other outstretched above her head, with her gaze focused off to the sideA black and white tuxedo cat with golden eyes is stretched out on a towel staring inquisitively into the camera, looking very relaxed
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
There's no motivation to disrupt a narrative of innate virtue and superiority. All the evidence to the contrary must be buried and/or denounced furiously to live with comfort.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Always baffles me when someone said “I didn’t hear about that when I was a kid.” Of course you didn’t. You were a child. You hadn’t heard of most things. I didn’t know who Paul Newman was when I was a kid, that doesn’t mean he didn’t exist.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
DO NOT ALLOW your country to do anything you wouldn't want your children to read about in their history textbook.
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I definitely laughed at this last weekend:
A person wears a cardboard hat crafted to look like a cybertruck with flames coming from multiple locations and labels with "recall" and 8647, in the midst of a crowd marching with signs.
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Thanks to regular reports on the progress of the cherry blossoms in Chicago's Jackson Park by @ericallixrogers.com, we had a lovely hanami picnic today - it will get busier as more of the trees reach full bloom, but it was sunny and quiet today and we had a great time.
Pale pink cherry blossoms open at the end of a branch with pink buds covering the rest of the branch.Cherry trees in bloom, reflected in the water on the southeast edge of the Columbia basin, with the south side of the Museum of Science and Industry also reflected in the water.Cherry Trees in bloom outside the Garden of the Phoenix Japanese Garden in Jackson Park Picnic blanket with trays of food laid out - onigiri, yaki omusubi, gyoza, pears, seaweed salad
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Yeah, my sister was 7 when my dad died and I was 14. I'm very grateful for Social Security and hate that it's going to be so much harder for families going through loss like that to sort out the survivor benefits they need.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🐧💰💪
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Reconstruction historians to Great Depression historians:
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a man is laying in the water with the words welcome to the party pal .
Alt: A gif of a scene from Die Hard, with John McLane yelling "Welcome to the party, pal" out a broken window.
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I didn't attend that year because I had a really bad case of the flu. (I was able to get a quick test and medication for that, at least!) Now I'm busy helping students with an assignment due Sunday, so the timing is off. I hope you come away w/ your health intact & w/ interesting conversations!
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Sarah G. @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Courage is contagious. I hope some of the other Senate Dems have been inspired today.
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 01/04/2025
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
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Emily Barney @ebarney.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It's strange celebrating anything happening in politics, but I love the way @booker.senate.gov is giving credit to the hard work his staff did to prepare for today, the clarity with which he is continuing to stick to the point and invite anyone of any party to step up too
Senator Cory Booker giving credit to John Lewis as he approaches the deadline to overcome the record of the longest filibuster against civil rights as he calls out the horror and chaos we've been facing
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 02/04/2025
"What did they do when people were crying out for help? They built an infrastructure." 💙
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