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Jjinandtonic

@jjinandtonic.bsky.social

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This place is not a place of honor. Nothing of value is here. What is here was time wasted. It is dangerous and should be repulsive to you. This bio is a warning of danger.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · Apr 1

You know, the Founding Fathers literally rebelled over this

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 1

Despite admitting to having illegally sent a guy to El Salvador by mistake, and even though the U.S. is paying El Salvador to indefinitely imprison him, the DOJ is arguing that, well, nothing to do, it's not in our hands anymore. The general tone of their response is "welp, sucks to be him."

But there is no jurisdiction in habeas. Plaintiffs admit—as they must—that the United States does not have custody over Abrego Garcia. They acknowledge that there may be “difficult questions of redressability” in this case, reflecting their recognition that Defendants do not have “the power to produce” Abrego Garcia from CECOT in El Salvador. Mem. Supp. TRO Mot. 2. But even more, they concede that Abrego Garcia is not in Defendants’ custody. Id. (asking the Court to order Defendants to “request that the government of El Salvador return Plaintiff to Defendants’ custody”). Despite their allegations of continued payment for Abrego Garcia’s detention, Plaintiffs do not argue that the United States can exercise its will over a foreign sovereign. The most they ask for is a court order that the United States entreat—or even cajole—a close ally in its fight against transnational cartels. This is not “custody” to which the great writ may run. This Court therefore lacks jurisdiction.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 6h

I still like the idea of turning the senate into a collection of mini-inspector generals and legislative advisors

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 6h

“On-tar-i-o guys they’re undeniable”

Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 10h

Justin Trudeau is dating Katy Perry and we’re all just gonna have to deal with that

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 7h

Banger

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 17h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 10h

Cities that dont atomize into households at night are so nice but so sadly rare in the us

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 19h

It’s Trobin’ time

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 20h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 10h

Hahahahahaha

jokes aside yeah, it is so nice to be in a visually and audibly diverse city

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 10h

it’s my favorite 3 california cities: san jose, san fran, and san dieg

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 10h

Is san fran…kinda a nice city?

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 1d

My life for any elected official smart enough to dump their campaign funds into keeping these experts employed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 16h

The sad thing with this profile is the founder is clearly a smart kid who wants to do good — making a covid tracker and an app to help ukranian refugees find shelter—but then some lack of pro bono ecosystem or collapse of the public good or allure or cash channeled him to this slop

The guy behind those ‘Friend’ ads in the subways is tired of talking to New Yorkers

New Yorkers are taking note and even scribbling their own graffiti on the ads. Avi Schiffmann, 22, says that's the point — but doesn't feel like talking to them.

gothamist.com

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 22d

more theory:

How Japanese Anime Became a Global Protest Language

From Jakarta’s burning barricades to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, animations and manga have become potent symbols of rebellion — and a way to outwit censors

newlinesmag.com

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 22d

Read theory:

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-C-M-F- @chrispps.bsky.social · 16h

gonna re-up frog-wielding Albertus Magnus from outside my parish given that the emerging symbols of resistance to fascism this week are inflatable frog outfits and monstrance-bearing priests

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 16h

less titanic captain, more oceangate captain. For all the failures of the titanic they didnt steer directly into the iceberg

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 19h

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe he still thinks he’s doing good, who knows. But damn if going from attempting to code for the public good to all in on ai outsourcing of human interaction isn’t just the US civil society in microcosm

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 16h

The guy behind those ‘Friend’ ads in the subways is tired of talking to New Yorkers

New Yorkers are taking note and even scribbling their own graffiti on the ads. Avi Schiffmann, 22, says that's the point — but doesn't feel like talking to them.

gothamist.com

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 16h

Wonder how much of recent crypto growth, especially bitcoin, can be traced back to speculative leverage buys

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19h

1.6 million crypto traders had their positions liquidated after Trump announced 100% tariffs on China. There were $16.6B in losses from liquidated long positions which is 10x the amount from COVID and FTX related crashes.

I’m surprised Trump Always Chickens Out didn’t apply this time, instead panic

Crypto bloodbath sees $19B in leveraged positions erased

Over $19B in leveraged positions liquidation hit crypto markets, affecting 1.6 million traders as Bitcoin and Ethereum saw sharp declines.

cryptobriefing.com

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 17h

Okay, NOW let's talk about the behavior of the prosecutor, currently up for a magistrate judge position, here...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 19h

Turns out Bradbury’s F451 dystopia might be accurate after all

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 18

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.

Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

screenshot of a Tumblr post from user ecofear yelling "what is HAPPENING" in response to a screenshot of a quotetweet from user @Ovichknox reading "this is so scary to me. i recommended a book to a friend recently and she came back to me a day later saying it was really good and i asked if she finished it already and she said "yeah i got chatgpt to summarise each chapter into 3 paragraphs to it was easy to read"
which is replying to a tweet from @alz_zyd reading "Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt l got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred…"

Followed by a a reblog from tumblr use moonglade-poetess reading "Hey guys, with so much love, and as someone with an actual English degree:

Please just use Sparknotes if you're going to do this. I get it. I do. But chatgpt or other genAl shit doesn't actually know what's important for you to know, and in some cases it might fully make shit up. Use sparknotes. Failing that, talk to someone who did read it. I'm begging.

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 19h

It’s Trobin’ time

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 20h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 7d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 1d

Some reporter should bring this up in a question asked as obnoxiously as possible to try and make him blow a gasket

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

also a sign of how far trump has checked out-there is zero chance in the old days he would countenance anyone else taking credit, even in a slip of the tongue

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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