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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · Feb 25

@law360.bsky.social is launching a live tracker of legal challenges to every action & EO coming from the Trump admin. Updating daily, and we’re keeping score of how POTUS fares in court.

Reporting @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social, editing by @hp-zz.bsky.social, gfx by me. www.law360.com/trump-legal-...

Web graphic titled “Trump's Legal Battles”

UPDATED Feb. 25, 2025 -- States, federal employee unions, various advocacy groups and several individuals have filed over 80 lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's implementation of executive orders and other initiatives. Law360 has created a database of those lawsuits, separated into categories based on their subject matter.

SCORECARD
Trump's record
Wins -10
Losses - 21

Relief obtained
Temporary restraining orders - 11
Preliminary injunctions - 10
Final judgments - 0

Table and subheds below showing Civil Rights cases related to DEIA programs (challenging E.O. 14151 and E.O. 14173)

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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 7h

Frame #7050 from S06 -E26 - Lotus Root-629309

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 17h

Would be extremely cool to watch the Mariners curbstomp the vile Pilots for abandoning Seattle

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 17h

It’s both bad and extremely funny, those aren’t mutually exclusive. I’m also mad that I’m probably gonna have to cheer for the goddamn Brewers now.

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 17h

Love the Mariners. Neither Frasier or Niles would have given a shit about the M’s if they were real, but Niles is more likely to have ended up in a Mariners hat and a three-piece suit by accident.

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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 17h

oh I meant to say this when the Yankees lost btw:

RIP Steinbrenner you would've loved American fascism in 2025

(fuck the Yankees)

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 17h

I would have much rather seen the Phillies win this series, and if I have to have a reason to be mad at them, it’s for coming tantalizingly close to washing the inevitability stink off the Dodgers, but not actually doing it.

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 17h

He’s from Jersey

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 18h

Respect to the Phillies for finding a more interesting way to be politically loathsome than the Yankees

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 18h

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 21h

Got booed on the street today for wearing the same sweatshirt my dad wore at the Atlanta airport in 1992 😎

Me, a shaggy man with a beard and sunglasses, wearing a 90s vintage Toronto Blue Jays sweatshirt and corduroy hat that says “Willibald”

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 23h

Outdoor dining is a delightful quality of life improvement in neighborhoods across the city — saving over 100,000 jobs during the pandemic and still serving New Yorkers today!

Council Member Lincoln Restler @cmrestler.bsky.social · 1d

We introduced a bill to restore year-round open dining and make it easier for restaraunts.

Outdoor dining was a silver lining of the pandemic, and New Yorkers want it back. We can simplify the process for restaurants to secure permits and give us more places to dine together.

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

No, I am not having a stroke

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

Cheugy is off fleek now

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

“Irksome” is the adjective I would use to describe that Vladdy Slam, and not Anthony Volpe

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

The Guardian accusing the Jays of Guardsball

trick van treat @derek.bike · 1d

good morning pesky baseball team enjoyers

guardian article screenshot

headline: Pesky Toronto Blue Jays oust Yankees to advance to first ALCS since 2016

bullet points:

- Guerrero Jr, Springer pace Toronto offense
- Lukes delivers key two-run single in Game 4 - - - Toronto advance and will host ALCS opener

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

fantastic news for people who hate slam poetry

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

imagine never having to hear hakeem jeffries talk again. he could campaign on that alone.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

They’re high fiving him in the dugout because they’re gonna get back to the hotel and into bed a little faster now

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

Two things suburbanites loved in the 90s

hiksmash @hiksmash.blacksky.app · Oct 30

I am not a Yankee fan. Sorry, they are Giuliani-coded to me

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

Oh god, I forgot about that

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

That’s my name don’t wear it out

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

Ben Rice skipped the Trump photo op and seems like a nice young man. He should be the star player for, idk, the Nats or the White Sox when they finally rebuild.

TEMU Mark Ruffalo @brianvan.bsky.social · 1d

Quieting all the reasons why people hate the Yankees as a franchise, this year's team was vastly inferior to any prior Yankees team that did win the WS. And just not very compelling in 2025. And the personality of cardboard. But proudly Republican! Last one out of the locker room hit the lights

Tony Rezko @nutbunnies.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to the deeply unlikeable 2025 Yankees, another victim of Trump Stink

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 1d

👍 Blue Jays

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

Here’s the thing about butthurt Yankees fans - you can’t be the team of “27 Rings” and talk about how you have to be a Yankees fan because you only rot for winners and then whine when everyone dances on your grave. If you’re the Yankees you gotta not get gentleman’s swept at home.

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

Revisiting an old gripe from a few years ago: sorry Yankees fans, the Astros are not more evil than you. Definitionally, the Yankees can never be virtuous.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 1d

Here’s how to file a complaint with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council about profane language during a TV broadcast:

www.cbsc.ca/make-a-compl...

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