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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 45m

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 47m

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Cheryl Harris @cdh111.bsky.social · 48m

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 5h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 5h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 5h

Obviously if the defense made the prosecution aware of exonerating information (which...they would def be aware here if she testified before) and they didn't present it, the resulting indictment is, uh, "vulnerable"

Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 6h

Uh you think so?
And the indicting GJ never heard her testimony.

“Ms. Thompson’s testimony that she has lived in the house rent-free —Ms. James pays even for basic upkeep, — cd make it difficult for prosecutors to convince a jury that the house was meant to be used as a rental investment property.”

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 6h

A better measure, which separates out people who are seeking full-time employment and people surviving on poverty wages reveals that closer to a fifth of Americans are actually unemployed, not 5%.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 6h

I'm on the phone and failed to add the alt text to the above but the photograph is an image of a page from the book explaining how the u3, the data the BLS gives us about how many people are unemployed in america, is deeply flawed because it counts a person working 1 hour a week as employed.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 6h

If you're wondering how our official economic numbers got SO FAR OFF FROM HOW PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY DOING, I recommend The Mismeasurement of America, Gene Ludwig's new book. Hugely eye opening.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 7h

Who needs disease detectives

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 8h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 7h

Also it's all fake. Kid Rock grew up on an estate in Macomb County with orchards and horses. I'm not sure he's ever been inside a single-wide.

Francis Ford Copulate @francis-f-copulate.bsky.social · 7h

as opposed to a barefoot single-wide tweeked fucking redneck toothpick with a gut in a dipshit hat. got it.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 8h

This Salon piece is true and I said so 2 weeks ago here:

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www.salon.com/2025/10/11/f...

Prosecutorial Discretion: When Justice Becomes Punishment. Emily Galvin Almanza Explains.

YouTube video by FIVE MINUTE NEWS

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 8h

The consequence for this is supposed to be perjury charges.

But. You know.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 8h

If the footage in this case is as described, a whole bunch of police and a prosecutor lied to a federal grand jury.

Chicago woman shot by US border patrol indicted by federal grand jury | Chicago | The Guardian share.google/LE91djEFaOoV...

Chicago woman shot by US border patrol indicted by federal grand jury

Marimar Martinez, 30, was charged with impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon in fracas preceding shooting

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

It's the year 2025 and my mother-in-law just called my daughter on the landline in our kitchen but my daughter was busy making a mixtape.

Live your life however you want.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

If you write a law where the enforcement mechanism is appointed by the person who might be violating the law, you haven't created much of an enforcement mechanism

You can't really have rights if there are no consequences for violating those rights

Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 1d

@mollyroberts.bsky.social considers how the Trump administration’s recent communications about the federal shutdown have pushed the boundaries of the Hatch Act, writing that the executive “is testing its ability to pull undisturbed on the levers of government to advance its agenda.”

The Trump Administration Pushes the Hatch Act to its Limits

But whether those boundaries have been breached may not matter in the end.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 2d

I actually guffawed

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Huge, huge swathes of *Trump voters* will effectively have no health care available except for emergency ER.

It is simultaneously a) the worst way to maintain public health and b) the most *expensive* way to do it.

Idiocy from moral degenerates. That's our country now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my God I was hopeful but not expecting anything here. This is great news. For now.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Some good news.

That "Texas won't execute a guy who is likely innocent, at least in the near future" counts as good news right now . . . says a lot about right now.

But I'll take it.

clayjak.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: Robert Roberson will see his next birthday

That should make us all hopeful

clayjak.substack.com

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh ooh I know this one! Smart initiatives that got funded and implemented after 2020 actually had an effect and now we're reaping the benefits but we stand to lose it all if we defund those things and replace them with federal violence!!

The Trace @thetrace.org · 2d

How violent is Portland, Oregon, the latest Democratic city that President Donald Trump says “has been on fire for years”?

The Trace dug into the numbers and found that gun violence in the city has been plummeting since the pandemic.

Here Are the Facts About Gun Violence in Portland

The Trump administration has claimed violent crime is rampant in Oregon’s largest city. A Trace analysis shows that shootings have actually plummeted.

www.thetrace.org

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 2d

Right now there is a man sending violent federal agents into cities in his own country and thinking he might get a Nobel Peace Prize

The mind reels

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3d

Sharpie only

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3d

Fun game: ask your local public defender friend if they've ever had a case in which a person was accused of gang membership and the gang was "antifa"

I'll start

NO because that's not actually a thing anywhere

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