Joe DiCola
@joedicola.bsky.social
Civil Rights, philosophy, anticapitalism, abolition. NLG forever.
Personal opinions and no legal advice. I think taking fascism seriously requires us to actively change. What we’ve been doing led to this.
Personal opinions and no legal advice. I think taking fascism seriously requires us to actively change. What we’ve been doing led to this.
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115 Democratic members of Congress voted yea for this
December 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
115 Democratic members of Congress voted yea for this
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The democrats are fighting, not folding, against the enemies of the Trump regime.
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The democrats are fighting, not folding, against the enemies of the Trump regime.
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Jon Burge was fired 32 years ago and died 7 years ago & that torturing piece of garbage (who stole decades of people's lives) is still draining millions from our pockets, with the cuts falling hardest on the same people who never supported the police state.
Chicago taxpayers will pay $15.4M to a man who spent 33 years in prison after being convicted of a 1987 double murder he didn’t commit.
In all, taxpayers have spent $204.6M this year ALONE to resolve lawsuits filed by the wrongfully convicted. @wttw.bsky.social.
In all, taxpayers have spent $204.6M this year ALONE to resolve lawsuits filed by the wrongfully convicted. @wttw.bsky.social.
Pay $15.4M to Man Who Spent 33 Years in Prison for Double Murder He Didn’t Commit: City Lawyers
If approved, it would bring the total amount spent by taxpayers in 2025 to compensate those wrongfully convicted based on evidence developed by Chicago police officers to $204.6 million, according to ...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Jon Burge was fired 32 years ago and died 7 years ago & that torturing piece of garbage (who stole decades of people's lives) is still draining millions from our pockets, with the cuts falling hardest on the same people who never supported the police state.
Is the idea that bad approval ratings impact the administration’s impunity regarding murdering and kidnapping people or we’re just supposed to find them fundamentally gratifying in themselves?
Arguably the numbers show real opposition would be popular but I guess we’re all just accelerationists now
Arguably the numbers show real opposition would be popular but I guess we’re all just accelerationists now
December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Is the idea that bad approval ratings impact the administration’s impunity regarding murdering and kidnapping people or we’re just supposed to find them fundamentally gratifying in themselves?
Arguably the numbers show real opposition would be popular but I guess we’re all just accelerationists now
Arguably the numbers show real opposition would be popular but I guess we’re all just accelerationists now
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NEW — Criminal justice advocates are demanding that Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections adopt their response plan to mitigate harm should both entities decide to relocate the Logan prison population before a new facility is built.
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Criminal justice advocates demand humane transfer process for people incarcerated at Logan prison • The TRiiBE
Though move-out dates at Logan Correctional Center haven’t been formally announced by Gov. JB Pritzker or the Illinois Department of Corrections, advocates organizing on behalf of incarcerated people ...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
NEW — Criminal justice advocates are demanding that Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections adopt their response plan to mitigate harm should both entities decide to relocate the Logan prison population before a new facility is built.
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What’s wild about Sam Altman is how extraordinarily guilty he is of killing mentally ill people
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
What’s wild about Sam Altman is how extraordinarily guilty he is of killing mentally ill people
There are really diminishing returns for Mamdani or Johnson to keep saying “know your rights.” Are you paying for people’s lawyers? Do you have a political strategy other than hoping for the best on random judge assignments? You guys have other tools and resources besides “know your rights”
December 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
There are really diminishing returns for Mamdani or Johnson to keep saying “know your rights.” Are you paying for people’s lawyers? Do you have a political strategy other than hoping for the best on random judge assignments? You guys have other tools and resources besides “know your rights”
You get a very stupid paradoxical Question Presented like:
Whether the Constitution has actually been secretly unconstitutional this whole time?
because of an unwillingness to burst the bubble of professional respect for Fed Soc, Claremont, et al. lawyers and view them correctly as a fifth column
Whether the Constitution has actually been secretly unconstitutional this whole time?
because of an unwillingness to burst the bubble of professional respect for Fed Soc, Claremont, et al. lawyers and view them correctly as a fifth column
December 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
You get a very stupid paradoxical Question Presented like:
Whether the Constitution has actually been secretly unconstitutional this whole time?
because of an unwillingness to burst the bubble of professional respect for Fed Soc, Claremont, et al. lawyers and view them correctly as a fifth column
Whether the Constitution has actually been secretly unconstitutional this whole time?
because of an unwillingness to burst the bubble of professional respect for Fed Soc, Claremont, et al. lawyers and view them correctly as a fifth column
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The Roberts Court is a weapon forged against the Constitution as written and amended, especially but not exclusively the Reconstruction Amendments, and either the amendments are legitimate or the court is but they both can't be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The Roberts Court is a weapon forged against the Constitution as written and amended, especially but not exclusively the Reconstruction Amendments, and either the amendments are legitimate or the court is but they both can't be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Do you think you could sell the commercial club gang on getting behind Violence Interruptors in a big way by like shutting down General Dynamics forever and distributing its capital around the world as reparations
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Do you think you could sell the commercial club gang on getting behind Violence Interruptors in a big way by like shutting down General Dynamics forever and distributing its capital around the world as reparations
absolutely hilarious he deleted. Yeah nevermind, did I say defy? I didn’t say defy, ahem, I’d like to muse upon some interesting doctrinal questions SCOTUS may address in their reasoned opinion stripping citizenship from millions of people 🙂 and what we might see in a scathing, scorching dissent 😈
I can’t overemphasize my agreement with this. The majority’s godlike power derives from the consent of lawyers. Before impeachment could be a remote reality, a big swath of law world would need to agree that SCOTUS can violate the constitution, can act voidably and illegally. The remedy starts there
December 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
absolutely hilarious he deleted. Yeah nevermind, did I say defy? I didn’t say defy, ahem, I’d like to muse upon some interesting doctrinal questions SCOTUS may address in their reasoned opinion stripping citizenship from millions of people 🙂 and what we might see in a scathing, scorching dissent 😈
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Meanwhile Mayor Johnson’s budget - you know, the “progressive one” that “taxes the rich” to give to CPD inflates that budget to over HALF of our total corporate fund. And continues to borrow to pay off misconduct settlements.
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Meanwhile Mayor Johnson’s budget - you know, the “progressive one” that “taxes the rich” to give to CPD inflates that budget to over HALF of our total corporate fund. And continues to borrow to pay off misconduct settlements.
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Legitimacy is not a substance. Legitimation is a process. Things become illegitimate because you treat them as such.
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Legitimacy is not a substance. Legitimation is a process. Things become illegitimate because you treat them as such.
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Well this fucking says it all, don't it
December 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Well this fucking says it all, don't it
I can’t overemphasize my agreement with this. The majority’s godlike power derives from the consent of lawyers. Before impeachment could be a remote reality, a big swath of law world would need to agree that SCOTUS can violate the constitution, can act voidably and illegally. The remedy starts there
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I can’t overemphasize my agreement with this. The majority’s godlike power derives from the consent of lawyers. Before impeachment could be a remote reality, a big swath of law world would need to agree that SCOTUS can violate the constitution, can act voidably and illegally. The remedy starts there
I think RFK’s eugenics policy of boosting infant mortality is something some (D)’s with the power of elected office giant megaphones might attempt to thwart - as in, stop, prevent, actually halt - unless they happened to be a Nazi collaborator megalomaniac or just a useless coward
December 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I think RFK’s eugenics policy of boosting infant mortality is something some (D)’s with the power of elected office giant megaphones might attempt to thwart - as in, stop, prevent, actually halt - unless they happened to be a Nazi collaborator megalomaniac or just a useless coward
With the given that no justice will ever be impeached and so there’s no remedy for a lawless court - or to the point, the court literally cannot be lawless because anything it says is law, then the court already has unlimited dictatorial power as abstract potential, realized one case at a time.
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
With the given that no justice will ever be impeached and so there’s no remedy for a lawless court - or to the point, the court literally cannot be lawless because anything it says is law, then the court already has unlimited dictatorial power as abstract potential, realized one case at a time.
No Kings!*
*unless ultimately the Supreme Court decides kings are okay
*unless ultimately the Supreme Court decides kings are okay
December 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
No Kings!*
*unless ultimately the Supreme Court decides kings are okay
*unless ultimately the Supreme Court decides kings are okay
You can have rule of law without law being a mystery that only the oracle Alito is able to commune with - in fact, to the extent the law is obscure, mysterious, inaccessible, held up as a religion, and monopolized by white men, we don’t have the rule of law, we have the rule of those men.
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
You can have rule of law without law being a mystery that only the oracle Alito is able to commune with - in fact, to the extent the law is obscure, mysterious, inaccessible, held up as a religion, and monopolized by white men, we don’t have the rule of law, we have the rule of those men.
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it's funny that in the last window of Democratic rule the broadest horizon the president could imagine was commissioning a study on possible reforms to the Supreme Court, the same Court that ruled his insurrectionist rival could run again and had repeatedly overruled standing law to partisan end
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
it's funny that in the last window of Democratic rule the broadest horizon the president could imagine was commissioning a study on possible reforms to the Supreme Court, the same Court that ruled his insurrectionist rival could run again and had repeatedly overruled standing law to partisan end
This isn’t policy it’s a conspiracy to commit rape on a mass scale
The part of the legal profession that finds this horrifying could help by making the other part supporting it, and the lawyers working on it, confident of future jobs, feel like shit for being terrible fucking people. And more than
The part of the legal profession that finds this horrifying could help by making the other part supporting it, and the lawyers working on it, confident of future jobs, feel like shit for being terrible fucking people. And more than
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This isn’t policy it’s a conspiracy to commit rape on a mass scale
The part of the legal profession that finds this horrifying could help by making the other part supporting it, and the lawyers working on it, confident of future jobs, feel like shit for being terrible fucking people. And more than
The part of the legal profession that finds this horrifying could help by making the other part supporting it, and the lawyers working on it, confident of future jobs, feel like shit for being terrible fucking people. And more than
I’m sorry, they’re magical wizards and there’s nothing to be done. Would I prefer if the all powerful sorcerers showed mercy? Sure. But the chief wizard is wise and I’m just some schlub, and in fact I apologize for implying any decision was motivated by power or cruelty, rather than the one true law
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I’m sorry, they’re magical wizards and there’s nothing to be done. Would I prefer if the all powerful sorcerers showed mercy? Sure. But the chief wizard is wise and I’m just some schlub, and in fact I apologize for implying any decision was motivated by power or cruelty, rather than the one true law
Again, had liberals acted to roll back the police state in 2020 and prevent over a thousand people a year from being executed by police, we could have potentially avoided the full metastasis into a fascist police state
Repressing “defund the police” then empowered Trump today. Does that make sense?
Repressing “defund the police” then empowered Trump today. Does that make sense?
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Again, had liberals acted to roll back the police state in 2020 and prevent over a thousand people a year from being executed by police, we could have potentially avoided the full metastasis into a fascist police state
Repressing “defund the police” then empowered Trump today. Does that make sense?
Repressing “defund the police” then empowered Trump today. Does that make sense?
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NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
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Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
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OPINION: The Chicago Public Library budget is under threat. Let’s remember what libraries do for us • The TRiiBE
Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
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Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
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