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David Harrison Greis

@davidgreis.bsky.social

The Greis Report YouTube video podcast host; democracy defender and environmental activist. Join the resistance! Proud AuDHD. he/him https://www.threads.com/@the_fishkeeping_teachers?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== https://www.youtube.com/@thegreisreport

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David Harrison Greis@davidgreis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Don Snoreleone Trump regime’s crooked Department of Justice has filed a retaliatory lawsuit against the state of Virginia for their justified ICE 🧊 Gestapo mask ban, Reuters reports FIGHT LIKE HELL, VIRGINIA! www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US Justice Department sues Virginia over mask ban

The ​U.S. Justice Department on Thursday ‌sued the state of Virginia over what it described as the state's "unconstitutional ​attempt to regulate" federal ​agents by banning masks for law ⁠enforcement...

reuters.com

David Harrison Greis@davidgreis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The ICE 🧊 Gestapo abducted two parents on elementary school grounds in Baltimore, Maryland, in full view of their child and countless other children Imagine elementary school kids just trying to learn and having to watch windows smashed and their classmate’s parents abducted Full on YouTube

David Harrison Greis@davidgreis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Don Snoreleone Trump is so insecure that he had the Kennedy Center name removal crew cover up the removal of “Donald J Trump” from public view We were up until 2:30 am edt waiting and then they unfurled the tarps The New York Times has captured a peak behind the tarp, though! 8647 ASAP

Don Snoreleone Trump is so insecure that he had the Kennedy Center name removal crew cover up the removal of “Donald J Trump” from public view We were up until 2:30 am edt waiting and then they unfurled the tarps The New York Times has captured a peak behind the tarp, though! 8647 ASAP Signed, David of @the_fishkeeping_teachers (24 hour restriction on my main account with no violations so follow me here!)
tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · 3mo ago

Branding expert Donny Deutsch, a former Trump pal, predicts the attention-starved narcissist will snub Rubio and Vance for 2028 and anoint one of his own children instead, since only another Trump on the ballot keeps his pathological need for the spotlight fed. www.rawstory.com/trump-replac...

Trump's ex-pal claims Rubio and Vance set to be cast aside as president picks successor

According to branding expert Donnie Deutsch, Donald Trump’s desire to be the central topic of every day will lead him to deny his MAGA crown to either Secretary of State Marco Rubio or Vice President ...

rawstory.com

David Harrison Greis@davidgreis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Trump Epstein files saga will NOT end until justice is found for the survivors of the Trump Epstein ring Nothing will change this The Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have been discussing a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the partner of Trump and Epstein JUSTICE WILL BE FOUND

David Harrison Greis@davidgreis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BREAKING 🚨: US Rep Robert Garcia (D-CA) has confirmed that Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are considering a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell The Democrats on the Oversight Committee are fighting back (Source: Oversight Democrats)

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...

Verdict reached in murder-for-hire trial involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino: live updates

The unusually swift trial is the first to result from the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago, known as Operation Midway Blitz.

chicago.suntimes.com

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Jurors are entering the courtroom.

David Harrison Greis@davidgreis.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Arlit Maria Martinez, a Salisbury, Maryland mother of two, was abducted by the ICE 🧊 Gestapo on her way to work last week, per WBOC Her 15-year-old son Kevin died of cancer while his mother was locked up and ICE 🧊 REFUSED TO LET HER SAY GOODBYE TO HER DYING SON ABOLISH ICE 🧊 JAIL THE GESTAPO

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction, which restricted the feds' use of force in Chicago. The appeals court says her order is "overbroad" but warns "do not overread today's order."

ORDER On November 6, 2025, the district court ordered a preliminary injunction forbidding defendants from using certain crowd control techniques and imposing additional requirements on law enforcement activities. Dist. Ct. DE 250. Defendants seek a stay pending appeal, and plaintiffs oppose. A stay is appropriate if the movant demonstrates a likelihood of success on the merits and irreparable injury. Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 434 (2009); Camelot Banquet Rooms, Inc. v. Small Bus. Admin, 14 F.4th 624, 628 (7th Cir. 2021) (per curiam). And “[i]n close cases ... [a court] will balance the equities and weigh the relative harms to the applicant and to the respondent.” Hollingsworth v. Perry, 558 U.S. 183, 190 (2010) (per curiam).Defendants are likely to succeed on the merits. The preliminary injunction entered by the district court is overbroad. In no uncertain terms, the district court’s order enjoins an expansive range of defendants, including the President of the United States, the entire Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, and anyone acting in concert with them. The practical effect is to enjoin all law enforcement officers within the Executive Branch. Further, the order requires the enjoined parties to submit for judicial review all current and future internal guidance, policies, and directives regarding efforts to implement the order—a mandate impermissibly infringing on principles of separation of powers on this record. Finally, the district court’s order is too prescriptive. For example, it enumerates and proscribes the use of scores of riot control weapons and other devices in a way that resembles a federal regulation. We also have reservations about Article III standing. Open questions remain whether plaintiffs have shown that the past harm they allegedly faced is likely to imminently happen to them in the future. City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, 461 U.S. 95, 105– 06 (1983). A fear that such harm will recur is insufficient, on its own, to show standing for injunctive relief. Id. at 107 n.8. And we are aware of public reporting suggesting that the enhanced immigration enforcement initiative may have lessened or ceased, which could affect both the justiciability of this case and the propriety of injunctive relief. Additionally, defendants face irreparable harm. Trump v. CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. 831, 860–61 (2025). “Any time that the Government is enjoined by a court from effectuating statutes enacted by representatives of its people, it suffers a form of irreparable injury.” Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, No. 25A169, 2025 WL 2585637, at *3 (U.S. Sept. 8, 2025) (citation modified); see also CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. at 861. And the balance of equities does not counsel against awarding defend…
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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 thephone 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. Plaintiffssubmit 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.
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

JUST IN: The Justice Department formally appeals U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction, which restricts the use of force against protesters and journalists.

NOTICE OF APPEAL IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB et al. ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) KRISTI NOEM, Secretary of U.S. ) Department of Homeland Security, in her ) No. 25-cv-12173 Hon. Sara L. Ellis, ) United States District Judge Defendants hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit this Court’s preliminary injunction order, see ECF Nos. 250 & 256, including this Court’s Opinion and Order granting class certification, see ECF Nos. 252 & 256, to the extent the Court’s grant of a class-wide preliminary injunction depends on that decision.
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Judge Sara Ellis began with Carl Sandburg’s beloved poem, “Chicago.” That’s the vision of the city she embraced as she decried the feds’ use of force here that “shocks the conscience,” and extended an order meant to curb it. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

JUST IN: The declaration of U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino He says he received a body-worn camera, has been trained on a body-worn camera, and is "currently using my body-worn camera in compliance with the preliminary injunction."

DECLARATION OF GREGORY K. BOVINO I, Gregory K. Bovino, declare and affirm as follows: 1. I received a body worn camera on October 30, 2025. 2. I completed the requisite body-worn camera training on October 30, 2025. 3. I am currently using my body-worn camera in compliance with the preliminary injunction. Executed this 7th day of November, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois.
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Gettleman turns to the status report and says he's "pleased" and "hopefully we're moving in the right direction. But certain things, obviously, are going to take a little time."

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Gettleman says this hearing was originally set b/c "the plaintiffs had been returned to ICE custody after our last hearing and sent to Waukesha, Wisconsin — contrary to my order." But he said Judge Sara Ellis has since ordered their release in a separate hearing.

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Justice Department has said in a new status report that it is largely in compliance with Gettleman’s TRO from earlier this week. Plaintiffs are “doubtful.” They want to be able to inspect.

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Judge Ellis finds that the Trump administration has placed "content-based restrictions" on protesters. "Tellingly, she says, "defendants do not deny that they would treat pro-ICE demonstrators more favorably."

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Ellis notes that the feds argue "plaintiffs have not been engaged in First Amendment protected activity" because they've "intermingled themselves with rioters." "But as I've previously stated," Ellis says, "I don't find defendants' version of events credible."

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Ellis notes people being tear gassed, staring down the barrel of a gun and being "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street." "All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

After going through several incidents since the start of Operation Midway Blitz — like the ones above — Judge Ellis says, "those are the factual findings that I'm making to support this preliminary injunction."