Jackie Gardina
@jackiegardina.bsky.social
Higher ed supporter, podcast host, and a law and politics junkie with a social justice focus. *All opinions are my own
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Jackie Gardina
@jackiegardina.bsky.social
· Mar 23
Perkins Coie’s response to the unlawful Executive Order targeting the firm
The order violates core constitutional protections, including the rights to free speech and due process, and undermines all clients’ right to select counsel of their choice.
www.perkinscoiefacts.com
I'm starting a thread with the legal profession's response to President Trump's attacks on it. Please feel free to add any that I miss.
I'll start with Perkins Coie's response.They have created an entire website so that we can follow along. 1/
www.perkinscoiefacts.com?gad_source=1...
I'll start with Perkins Coie's response.They have created an entire website so that we can follow along. 1/
www.perkinscoiefacts.com?gad_source=1...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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"What ties these situations together is the utter lack of critical distance from sources on the part of these writers [and] the apparent disregard for the primary journalistic mission of representing the public"
@sulliview.bsky.social on ethics failure.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
@sulliview.bsky.social on ethics failure.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
Three lessons in unethical media behavior
Plus: Some moments that made me proud to be a journalist
margaretsullivan.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"What ties these situations together is the utter lack of critical distance from sources on the part of these writers [and] the apparent disregard for the primary journalistic mission of representing the public"
@sulliview.bsky.social on ethics failure.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
@sulliview.bsky.social on ethics failure.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
Does Kevin McCarthy know that Mike Johnson is a Republican?
“I think keeping members out of Congress — you only get two years to be in the majority, and if the Democrats get you not to work everyday for two months, that’s losing two months of the majority.”
archive.ph/rEvFm#select...
“I think keeping members out of Congress — you only get two years to be in the majority, and if the Democrats get you not to work everyday for two months, that’s losing two months of the majority.”
archive.ph/rEvFm#select...
archive.ph
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Does Kevin McCarthy know that Mike Johnson is a Republican?
“I think keeping members out of Congress — you only get two years to be in the majority, and if the Democrats get you not to work everyday for two months, that’s losing two months of the majority.”
archive.ph/rEvFm#select...
“I think keeping members out of Congress — you only get two years to be in the majority, and if the Democrats get you not to work everyday for two months, that’s losing two months of the majority.”
archive.ph/rEvFm#select...
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This isn't just heart breaking, it's terrifying. Your financial situation shouldn't be a factor in receiving or responding to life-saving care. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Odds of surviving cancer drop drastically when credit score dips — Harvard Gazette
Study explores links between financial stress and mortality risk.
news.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This isn't just heart breaking, it's terrifying. Your financial situation shouldn't be a factor in receiving or responding to life-saving care. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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The Helena college elevated longtime educator Jennifer Glowienka from the role of interim president, a position she has held since July.
Carroll College names first woman president in the school’s 116-year history
The Helena college elevated longtime educator Jennifer Glowienka from the role of interim president, a position she has held since July.
montanafreepress.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The Helena college elevated longtime educator Jennifer Glowienka from the role of interim president, a position she has held since July.
No one takes an oath to the “commander-in-chief”.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
No one takes an oath to the “commander-in-chief”.
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
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Right. It will all be so much better if you're wearing fancy clothes when you're stuck in the airport for 12 extra hours. You just feel happier. It's common sense.
FOX: During the Biden administration, there was a push for greater passenger rights. They wanted to have airlines compensate people if there was a delay or cancelation. But that is something the Trump admin has said they don't want to do
DUFFY: We took a more common sense approach to it
DUFFY: We took a more common sense approach to it
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Right. It will all be so much better if you're wearing fancy clothes when you're stuck in the airport for 12 extra hours. You just feel happier. It's common sense.
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
"The same violence perpetrated on these real-life women is increasingly replicated across online platforms. Sora 2, the generative video tool released by OpenAI, is helping creators ...create fake choking videos featuring teenage girls in which they are depicted as struggling, crying and falling."
Gift article. Tough but necessary read. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"The same violence perpetrated on these real-life women is increasingly replicated across online platforms. Sora 2, the generative video tool released by OpenAI, is helping creators ...create fake choking videos featuring teenage girls in which they are depicted as struggling, crying and falling."
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Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
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“By summer, the NSC’s entire full-time legal staff of about half a dozen was gone… including the shop’s top lawyer, former Pentagon general counsel Paul Ney …Ney had been among the lawyers who had raised concerns about the legality of lethal strikes.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“By summer, the NSC’s entire full-time legal staff of about half a dozen was gone… including the shop’s top lawyer, former Pentagon general counsel Paul Ney …Ney had been among the lawyers who had raised concerns about the legality of lethal strikes.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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“there are about 42,000 journalists in the U.S., the vast majority performing ethically & honorably for newspapers large & small, television newscasts, community news startups, public radio stations &, in a few cases, independent newsletters & blogs”- @dankennedy.net dankennedy.net/2025/11/22/m...
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“there are about 42,000 journalists in the U.S., the vast majority performing ethically & honorably for newspapers large & small, television newscasts, community news startups, public radio stations &, in a few cases, independent newsletters & blogs”- @dankennedy.net dankennedy.net/2025/11/22/m...
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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It's worth a bit of further reading to find out more about this remarkable woman's life
Aida Overton Walker.
Aida Overton Walker.
Aida Overton Walker (1880 -1914), US vaudeville performer, known as 'Queen of the Cake Walk', after a 1900s dance craze. The Cake Walk, originally performed by enslaved people, mocked slave owners & high society #womensart
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It's worth a bit of further reading to find out more about this remarkable woman's life
Aida Overton Walker.
Aida Overton Walker.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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But we are supposed to believe that the administration’s attack on higher education is about fighting anti-semitism.
OK
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
OK
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
But we are supposed to believe that the administration’s attack on higher education is about fighting anti-semitism.
OK
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
OK
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
The Pentagon set up new rules that traditional media were unwilling to follow to gain access.
Today I saw stories about
- Coast Guard's approach to swastikas
- A military lawyer's approach to bombing fishing boats
- Hegseth error in recognizing the Mexico/US border
Maybe access isn't everything.
Today I saw stories about
- Coast Guard's approach to swastikas
- A military lawyer's approach to bombing fishing boats
- Hegseth error in recognizing the Mexico/US border
Maybe access isn't everything.
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The Pentagon set up new rules that traditional media were unwilling to follow to gain access.
Today I saw stories about
- Coast Guard's approach to swastikas
- A military lawyer's approach to bombing fishing boats
- Hegseth error in recognizing the Mexico/US border
Maybe access isn't everything.
Today I saw stories about
- Coast Guard's approach to swastikas
- A military lawyer's approach to bombing fishing boats
- Hegseth error in recognizing the Mexico/US border
Maybe access isn't everything.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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Remembering Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray on her 115th birthday
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Remembering Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray on her 115th birthday
"Many problems. A simple answer."
I fear the next post will be describing "the final solution to the immigrant problem."
They already have the camps built.
I fear the next post will be describing "the final solution to the immigrant problem."
They already have the camps built.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Many problems. A simple answer."
I fear the next post will be describing "the final solution to the immigrant problem."
They already have the camps built.
I fear the next post will be describing "the final solution to the immigrant problem."
They already have the camps built.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
Isn't this what people are saying @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social *can't* do?
Iowa City made buses free in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions and encouraging people to take public transit.
Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular.
So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.
Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular.
So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Isn't this what people are saying @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social *can't* do?