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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

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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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 19h

This shit is crazy because they're just straight up on video hitting a car that was blocked in the street. The extent as to which DHS now just brazenly puts out lies is utterly obscene.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 20h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Well, good for DC

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DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before, but it's remarkable how quickly the feds have managed to piss away the seemingly ironclad presumption of candor & credibility they enjoyed with federal judges.

They've lied so shamelessly, flagrantly, & frequently that judges have decided not to be played for fools any more.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

One silver lining of the last few months has been the courage, clarity, and determination of colleagues across Grounds. It’s a privilege to share this work with them

Kathryn @kathrynlaughon.bsky.social · 1d

Today the UVA School of Nursing passed, with overwhelming support, a resolution demanding that the rector and interim president reject the compact. bit.ly/3KPRMKV

SON resolution against the compact

The University of Virginia School of Nursing places the ethical principles of our profession at the center of its work. The American Nurses Association's Nursing Code of Ethics affirms nurses' obligat...

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

Pinning this because I have no clue how many hoops I'll have to jump through for my jabs but that's coming up fast.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

getting the covid + flu double barrel this afternoon which i am sure will be very cool and not 24 hours of suck

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

This made me snort-laugh.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

That's honestly a damn good question and I literally have no clue what would allow the soil to maintain equilibrium without soy to rotate with.

I also think it's something that you are honestly giving more thought than anyone involved in the reckless decision to ruin our biggest market.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Be nice if any single national Democrat promised to hold these fuckwads accountable for malicious prosecution should the wheel ever turn around.

But, whatever. Everybody who opposes Trump will just have to weather this bullshit.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

It was real weird, no doubt!

Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

Bob's ashes, my parents ashes, my grandparents ashes, all of them are spread across Hook Farms. I don't even know that they'll still be farming, even WITH all their inherited equipment and minimum exposure (AFAIK, it's been a minute) to the soy bean crash. Feed corn is basically guaranteed money.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Hook Farms, which my grandfather worked at for something like 30 years each harvest, specialized in feed corn and soy. Bob complained, ENDLESSLY, before his death that if he hadn't been lucky enough to inherit his equipment he wouldn't be able to grow a damn thing. His descriptions were colorful

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

Trump literally murdered almost the entire soybean market. We consume a vanishingly small percent of soybeans domestically. It's not even remotely enough to sustain the vast quantities that were already in the dirt when we nuked the Chinese market from orbit.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

I think the farmer thing is still not sinking in for a lot of people that didn't grow up around it.

Farming is already an extremely hard market to break into. Most new equipment, which you must sign away your rights to maintain on your own, cost upwards of 1.5 to 2 million dollars. Each.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

farmers are probably generationally fucked. medicaid recipients are fucked barring some fix in the next budget round. rural health care systems are toast. employment is looking *very* wobbly.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

It's pretty deliberately an attempt to re-segregate the federal government. They aren't even a little subtle about it.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I don't think it's latent TBH

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

'What we may be reluctant to acknowledge even now is that these brutal dismissals are an expression of deep-rooted antiblackness that says Black people are never qualified to hold the jobs they have, whatever their actual qualifications.'

Trump’s Purging of Black Officials Makes Latent Racism Official Policy

President Trump's firings send a clear message that white mediocrity is always preferable to Black achievement.

capitalandmain.com

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

We're gonna shed entire generations of farmers because of how completely we burned markets to the ground. Topeka was already an unkempt ghost-town. Can't even imagine what'll be like when they start losing some of the bigger farms.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 1d

This eats at me, because I was always pretty bad at text / internet interactions, and now they are basically the *only* interactions.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

It really does give me whiplash to contemplate how fast our society went from “the Internet isn’t the real world and isn’t that important” to “the Internet is the only real thing that is important.”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

The indictment may relate to mortgage documents James co-signed to help her niece secure a loan for a property in Virginia.

This @mollyroberts.bsky.social piece explains why it appears to be a pathetically weak case.

(Fixed the link, sorry!) ⬇️

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It's hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey-until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

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