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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1h

God grant me the wisdom to never provoke the menswear guy

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1h

Filing deadline was yesterday

Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 1h

Found typo in filing

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1h

Leoparss

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 4h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 7h

THIS IS THE WAY

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 9h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 9h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 11h

The number of times I’ve wanted to grab someone by the collar and yell FLESH IS STRONGER

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h

Jake Tapper is looking for the guy who did this

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21h

Trump's Justice Department is firing the people who prosecute terrorists, Jake Tapper argues. The president's politically motivated personnel decisions make "the United States and the world less safe":

Trump’s Purge of Terrorism Prosecutors

The politicization of the Justice Department is making Americans less safe.

bit.ly

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 12h

Carrying or comporting yourself in a way intended to project an “aura” of magnificence — coolness, badassness, whatever is most appropriate in context.

Synonyms are “Showboating,” or “stunting” among others.

The gif below is a well-known instance of Mohammad Ali aura farming.

two men in a boxing ring with the words espn classic on the bottom

Alt: Ali dodging a dozen punches

media.tenor.com

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 13h

This is the first day of fall that south Texas has seen temperatures under 70°F and let me tell you every single one of my 9 dogs has lost their gd mind

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 14h

Christian Shitting

United States, Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic and Gulf Ports, 1820-1874

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Simply put they’re morons

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

This has a result of stunted development. They haven’t ever engaged with any ideas they don’t already believe because there’s a very well funded and resourced apparatus designed to discourage and prevent them from doing so

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

This is, on a very deep level, related to how right wing they are. Put aside the Fetterman example showing that conservatism is literally a symptom of brain damage: the conservative half of the legal profession is siloed in order to shield its stupid fucking ideas from analysis/reflection

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

In ways above and beyond simply having a conservative GOP majority (which after all had already been the case for decades), they're just outright bad at the job. They're thoroughly unimpressive, even incompetent, as jurists, in ways that are not historically normal for the Supreme Court.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

John Roberts owes me $10,000

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathan Pryce

Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

I find it difficult to explain how funny I find it that the immortal eldrich archmage’s training strategy for her apprentice is just “figure out how to cast magic missile as a free action”

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 1d

I have witnessed this in person in a county jail in Georgia. We lost our own visitation with our families one weekend for protesting to get medical care for a woman recently arrived. The guards said she was "faking" it but we didn't care, we didn't want to see someone in that condition-real or not.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

wow is this grotesque

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

All decisions of scoutus can be appealed to judge boasberg

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Frieren

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna pipe in here and clarify that there must be a chief justice of the United States, but (1) there is no rule saying the chief justice of the United States must be on the Supreme Court, and (2) there is no rule saying that the Supreme Court must be the uppermost or controlling federal court.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Why am I catching strays in other people’s mentions

farqfox.bsky.social @farqfox.bsky.social · 1d

Comic dog saying:

Pls rewards of being loved??
NO mortifying ordeal of being known
ONLY rewards of being loved

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