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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 4h

Heads up for NJ’s reply on the merits tomorrow, 10/14 (finally)! Hoping we see some powerful amicus briefs, too.

This is the crisis pregnancy center case, where alliance defending freedom represents the CPC; makes a bullshit freedom of speech argument similar to the one in Chiles v. Salazar 🤬.

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · Jun 16

⚖️🚨Alert: SCOTUS granted cert in the New Jersey case re: “pregnancy crisis centers.”

Note the question presented. Note what’s really at issue. I can’t believe (but I can believe) that the court is taking this on.

We’ve got a lot to talk about here. #reproductivefreedom #handsoff

24-781 FIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTERS, INC. V. PLATKIN DECISION BELOW: 2024 WL 5088105
LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 24-3124
QUESTION PRESENTED:
New Jersey's Attorney General served an investigatory subpoena on First Choice
Women's Resource Centers, Inc., a faith-based pregnancy center, demanding that it turn over most of its donors' names. First Choice challenged the Subpoena under 42 U.S.C. 1983 in federal court, and the Attorney General filed a subsequent suit to enforce it in state court. The state court granted the Attorney General's motion to enforce the Subpoena but expressly did not decide First Choice's federal constitutional challenges.
The Attorney General then moved in state court to sanction First Choice. Meanwhile, the district court held that First Choice's constitutional claims were not ripe in federal court.
The Third Circuit affirmed in a divided per curiam decision. Judge Bibas would
have held the action ripe as indistinguishable from. Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Banta, 594 U.S. 595, 618-19 (2021). But the majority concluded First Choice's claims were not yet ripe because First Choice could litigate its constitutional claims in state court. In doing so, the majority followed the rule of the Fifth Circuit and split from the Ninth Circuit. It did not address the likely loss of a federal forum once the state court rules on the federal constitutional issues.
The question presented is:
Where the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a reasonably
objective chill of its First Amendment rights, is a federal court in a first-filed action deprived of jurisdiction because those rights must be adjudicated in state court?
CERT. GRANTED 6/16/2025

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 5h

none of this is breaking news to women. we *know* it’s not safe for us to walk alone at night w headphones.

we’ve been targeted *forever* by men in all kinds of uniforms and masks - often real ones - who’ve stalked/kidnapped/raped/tried to killed us.

and we’re also not allowed to defend ourselves.

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 5h

this is like an onion, it just gets stinkier w every layer. it’s not just illegal masked ICE actions — its ICE racial profiling + it’s ICE racially profiling a women alone at night, when women already “know” they aren’t safe to walk alone at night.

ppl’s comments in the thread prove that much.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 6h

It’s mind boggling to me that men are so lonely. Look at how normal and friendly this guy sounds!

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 13h

Nearly 40% of young men don't see sexual assault as domestic violence. This shocking statistic from a national survey highlights a dangerous gap in understanding abuse.

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 8h

people here thinking “young men” means this is only a problem among gen z are seriously deluded. her point is NOT “not all men”.

her point is LOOK HOW MANY MEN!!!!

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Carrie N Baker @carrienbaker.bsky.social · 19d

gazettenet.com/2025/09/24/c...

Columnist Carrie N. Baker: America is an increasingly dangerous place for women and girls - Daily Hampshire Gazette

America has never been a safe place for women or girls, but our country is becoming markedly more dangerous in recent years. Approximately 41% of women in the U.S. have experienced sexual violence, ph...

gazettenet.com

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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · Jun 6

TONIGHT: @agawande.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

The U.S. bought $12 million in aid for poor nations. Under Trump, it may be destroyed.

Aid organizations have been in talks about taking control of the contraceptives and HIV prevention medication, but those negotiations have stalled amid shifting directives from the government, a Post ...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 14h

New Jersey — voter registration closes tomorrow! Go to nj.gov/vote to check your registration, make a plan to vote on or before November 4, and check with your friends and family to make sure they’ve done the same!

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 8h

Just say NO to Jack’s Crack.
[ opioidjack.com ]

It’s time to TAKE BACK our country - let’s fucking go Jersey!!

22 days till Election Day!

NJ - tmrw, OCTOBER 14, is the last day to register to vote so you can vote for Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social on Nov 4th! 🗳️

🎉🎉🎉

#NJpol #NJ #Vote

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 9h

I find this so hilarious and cringe and ironic all at once which is exactly why I have a feeling it’s really resonating w a certain population of ppl. As serious journalism. As in… it’s not my feeling, I’m hearing from people I know LOL.

“DID YOU HEAR ABOUT JACK AND CRACK??!”

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 9h

opioidjack.com

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 10h

LOL calling on Time to make its “person of the year” the photographer who captured that moment

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 10h

oof I was thinking elephantiasis at first… but that’s when it’s just one big ball right? so… scrotum with tiny orange mushroom head, proving stormy is right, again.

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 10h

Does anyone know which prolife group donates the most to NYT?

It’s been OOC recently. I’m sharing bc ppl have to understand how insidious it’s become.

Like, the survey from the Barna Group?!
It’s entitled — New Research on Church Attendance: Decline of Women or the Rise of Men?

Opinion | Why So Many Gen Z-ers Are Drawn to Conservative Christianity

www.nytimes.com

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 10h

@meganpiont.bsky.social has non-whistle vines, saw @courtneymilan.com ask for Spanish translations for whistle vines yesterday.

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 10h

🔥dem attorneys general will help us save ourselves 🔥

NY AG Letitia James showed us how to ROAR tonight 🦁 🔥

@newyorkstateag.bsky.social

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 12h

What about all the birth control sitting in Belgium? The 10 million dollars (already spent) worth of contraceptives sitting in a warehouse meant for women and girls around the world?

That Trump’s been trying to burn down to the ground at the COST (to taxpayers) of 200K?

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 12h

just ONE example:

www.texastribune.org/2024/12/19/t...

U.S. House members want answers on Texas’ decision to not review maternal deaths after near-total abortion ban

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas led a letter calling for a briefing on why the state won’t review 2022 and 2023 deaths.

www.texastribune.org

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 12h

They also cancelled government data collection about maternal mortality rates to hide the fatal consequences of abortion bans.

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 12h

IMPORTANT: I’ve seen reports that Alina Habba’s 3d Circuit appeal is scheduled for oral argument this week. Really weird; it’s next week. I was especially surprised to see reporting that it was today (courts were closed for the holiday 🤦🏻‍♀️).

Again. It’s Mon 10/20. Only change is from 2PM to 11AM 🗓️

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 13h

sorry for coming in hot here tonight. It’s been a long wknd. I talked to so many ppl today; I was overwhelmed by how many typically informed registered democrats are UNinformed this year… and really hate their democrats. I don’t think either problem is their fault.

…

come home, see MJF on MSNBC 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve said before — too many times — that democrats are losing votes left and right.

I never understood it, until I watched them crash and burn the last 9 months. And watched how complicit the media is.

Democrats act like women don’t exist. Media is just… I dunno. Lives on a different planet.

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 13h

Molly Jong Fast argued the right isn’t *that* bad b/c at least Todd Blanche didn’t sign the indictment that Lindsey Halligan did.

Uh. Molly? Do you know about the other shit to which your buddy Todd signed his name?

How bout the interview w Ghislaine Maxwell?

Why is Comey the line for MJF?

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