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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 · 1h

laid it like a FIEND

Shel silverstein “crouching on the outside” album cover loking like a gremlin

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2h

Now there’s three of them? This is getting out of hand

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 3h

one of the truly chilling things is that trump's deportation numbers for this year look like they are going to be only slightly higher than those during the obama years, and that's assuming he's not inflating his numbers.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

*laughs in “let ambition counteract ambition”*

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

Average PD in my district shows up to court in clothes with at least one hole to get threatened with contempt by the judge for just doing their job and they just shrug it off

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

Skattebo comin’ for them

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h

Thousands of people disappeared, ethnic pogroms in multiple cities, entire national security apparatus has been turned inside out, illegal murder campaign in the Caribbean, higher edu & science gutted, and the economy wobbling as trade has been devastated for a decade, but cracks are finally showing

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 12h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

BRO WHAT ARE THE GIANTS GOOD NOW

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 6h

AJ Brown you BASTARD dont fuck me over

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

The comms intern is slowly discovering fighting words, we’re all so proud of your staffers

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 7h

Someone like JD Vance, who has been on the receiving end of a lot of insinuations, should know to couch his language more carefully.

Anyways, I’ll be here, ready to make a deal to save Americans’ health care and reopen the federal government that Republicans shut down.

A headline from the New York Post reads: “JD Vance calls Chuck Schumer ‘one of the most famous Palestinians’”

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

Everyday the gyre of rapist conspiracy of silence only grows

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 4h

Trump biographer Michael Wolff reveals he was shown the lewd photos by Jeffrey Epstein himself.

I’ve Seen Epstein’s Photos of Trump With Topless Girls: Author

Trump biographer Michael Wolff reveals he was shown the lewd photos by Jeffrey Epstein himself.

trib.al

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

1) go to law school
2) take out student loan
3) sign up for ICE
4) botch all your cases
5) pay off debt
6) resign

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 5h

Almost Literally every conservative under 30 is probably sex pest adjacent at this point

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 6h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 5h

Always wonder what POC fash feel in moments like seeing a white version of themselves/praised for being a good one. Envy? inadequacy?

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 5h

pro twink automoderation

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 6h

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 10h

Fundamentally the whole ACA discourse that’s been going on seems overly focused on one kind of suffering without dealing with the fact that ending the shutdown and releasing funds would fully fund more of this kind of cruelty

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 11h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.