7th Circuit: #Chicago's Reporting Requirement for #Employees During #CovidPandemic Were #Constitutional
In Kondilis v. City of Chicago, (7th Cir., Dec. 2, 2025), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims by City of Chicago employees who had been granted #religiousexemptions from the #Covidvaccinemandate that, nevertheless, the reporting requirements imposed on them violated their #freeexercise and #equalprotection rights.
https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/7th-circuit-chicagos-reporting.html
The Weight of the World and the Dread That Never Ends
I hate that phrase — crashing out. It’s a bit cringe, I know. But lately, honestly, that’s the best way I can describe how I’ve been feeling. Like I’ve been slowly crashing the fuck out. My energy, my focus, my optimism — all of it. Just crashing. It’s like the world’s gotten so heavy that I can’t carry it anymore, but somehow I still try. And it’s not even just one thing causing it. It’s everything. It’s the state of the world, the country, the chaos that never seems […]
A company closely associated with Michelle Mone has failed to repay £122 million to the UK government for supplying unusable personal protective equipment (PPE) during the Covid-19 pandemic, missing a court-mandated deadline. PPE Medpro was ordered by the High Court to return payments for 25 million... [More info]
#Algospeak or how to workaround puritanism and censorship on social networks, a short video by a linguist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0SjTKfg26c
#sex #covidPandemic #swearing #sadness (yes, TikTok censors that)
#PopeFrancis #CovidPandemic
Pope Francis prays in an empty St. Peter's Square during the Covid 19 Pandemic. 🙏✝️
Pope Francis' blessing in empty Saint Peter's Square
https://youtu.be/sEj3uToJq9Y?si=fYKI6pbcrIOyhk6Q
'Mateu says that to this date, only 7.6% of the patients the ward has treated have been cured, "and that is why research is so important.”'
As we discuss the 5 year anniversary of the beginning of the Covid Pandemic, we need to remember that Long Covid is still a major issue for so many people, and funding needs to be increased for all those affected.
#Covid #LongCovid #Coronavirus #Lockdown #Pandemic #CovidPandemic #Healthcare #Health #Ireland #Barcelona #Catalonia
#JDPritzker continues this point at 6:52 in:
"I just have one question: What comes next?
After we've discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants… and the gay, lesbian, and transgender people… the developmentally disabled, the women, and the minorities…
Once we've ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends…
After that, when the problems we started with are *still there,* staring us in the face…
What… comes... next?
All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don't want to repeat history, then for *God's* sake, in this moment, we'd better be strong enough to learn from it." 🧵 4/4
A full transcript of his closing remarks (taken from the video linked above) is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y30PS0pwkiQt_BlJKyZLs-pFlsQXKRAM235mTYDdEcI/edit?usp=drivesdk
#DonaldTrump #StopElonMusk #ItsACoup #IllinoisPolitics #Pritzker #CovidPandemic #DemocracyMatters #Nazis #Fascism
Illinois Gov. J.D. Pritzger's “State of the State Address” Closing Remarks, 19 February 2025 0:00 This is my seventh State of the State Address. And I've come before you to present a budget in good years, and in bad, in years of crisis, and years of relative stability. 0:12 There's a whole i...
More of #JDPritzker's eloquent takedown of #Trump is at 2:05 in:
"There are people– some in my own party– who think that, if you just give #DonaldTrump what he wants, he will make an exception and he'll spare you some of the harm.
I'll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second, to say… that almost none of these people has had the experience with the President that I do.
I once swallowed my pride to give him what he wants– public praise on the Sunday news shows– in return for ventilators and N-95 masks, during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal.
And it turns out, his promises were as broken as the bi-pap machines he sent us instead of ventilators. ‘Going along to get along’ does not work. Just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors." 🧵 2/4
#ElonMusk #ItsACoup #IllinoisPolitics #Pritzker #CovidPandemic #Fascism #DemocracyMatters #Musk #ElonMusk #Complicity #Compliance #USPolitics
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