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@madgomez.bsky.social
Reproductive justice attorney at that big org you’ve heard of, specializing in state policy
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It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.
The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
September 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
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Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
September 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
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WOW. A lawyer told @miamiherald.com that a Florida Highway Patrol agent told her that they are calling Border Patrol to investigate anyone who "appears Hispanic" that they pull over.
That is direct evidence of racial profiling — said over the phone to a lawyer! They aren't even hiding it!
That is direct evidence of racial profiling — said over the phone to a lawyer! They aren't even hiding it!
July 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
WOW. A lawyer told @miamiherald.com that a Florida Highway Patrol agent told her that they are calling Border Patrol to investigate anyone who "appears Hispanic" that they pull over.
That is direct evidence of racial profiling — said over the phone to a lawyer! They aren't even hiding it!
That is direct evidence of racial profiling — said over the phone to a lawyer! They aren't even hiding it!
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one way you can tell he’s lying is that the story was sold with a hard news headline as opposed to the poncy “From Kampala to Queens, Mamdani navigates a complex identity” feature hed it would have gotten if it was actually about the decisions “people with overlapping identities wrestle with”
Patrick Healy, NYT assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, wrote a thread on how the Zohran Mamdani/Columbia story came together:
July 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
one way you can tell he’s lying is that the story was sold with a hard news headline as opposed to the poncy “From Kampala to Queens, Mamdani navigates a complex identity” feature hed it would have gotten if it was actually about the decisions “people with overlapping identities wrestle with”
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The core problem to me isn't the sourcing so much as newsworthiness. Does it reveal any wrongdoing? Lying? Receiving a benefit he did not earn? Does it have any baring on his qualifications for mayor? Fill a notable gap in his biography? It's all insinuation and implication
Patrick Healy, NYT assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, wrote a thread on how the Zohran Mamdani/Columbia story came together:
July 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The core problem to me isn't the sourcing so much as newsworthiness. Does it reveal any wrongdoing? Lying? Receiving a benefit he did not earn? Does it have any baring on his qualifications for mayor? Fill a notable gap in his biography? It's all insinuation and implication
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The story itself still entirely depends on a falsehood, which the Times despite itself now documents is false: it claims that Mamdani was "[a]sked to identify his race" on the form, but the image of the actual form reads "ETHNICITY/RACE INFORMATION"
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But as a high school senior in 2009, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, claimed another label when he applied to Columbia University. Asked to identify his [Highlighting begins] race [Highlighting ends], he checked a box that he was “Asian” but also “Black or African American,” according to internal data derived from a hack of Columbia University that was shared with The New York Times.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreifp5ji4j2emfjgjp7igys5o2n2snyb46ouilymvl73qqqkn5sylni@jpeg)
July 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The story itself still entirely depends on a falsehood, which the Times despite itself now documents is false: it claims that Mamdani was "[a]sked to identify his race" on the form, but the image of the actual form reads "ETHNICITY/RACE INFORMATION"
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I don't think "divorced guy" is widely enough recognized as a political affiliation
the whole story is worth reading, and the implication is that as Bezos got a personal trainer, divorced, sought a celebrity lifestyle *and* felt like he was mistreated by the Biden administration, his views about the purpose of the Post evolved accordingly
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?
The Amazon founder was once thought to be the newspaper’s savior—now its journalists are fleeing for the exits. Clare Malone reports on how the paper that brought down Nixon is struggling to survive t...
www.newyorker.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I don't think "divorced guy" is widely enough recognized as a political affiliation
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For anyone who wants to read a critique of the Times piece, here is a gift link donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani?
And what it means to be an immigrant on July 4th
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
For anyone who wants to read a critique of the Times piece, here is a gift link donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
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Personally I am using the phrase "Everglades Detention Camp," which I think is a good middle ground.
Note that apparently Florida has declared that "Alligator Alcatraz" is the *official* name of the facility, which is clearly designed to force media orgs to call it that.
Note that apparently Florida has declared that "Alligator Alcatraz" is the *official* name of the facility, which is clearly designed to force media orgs to call it that.
"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using “Alligator Alcatraz,” but it’s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.
July 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Personally I am using the phrase "Everglades Detention Camp," which I think is a good middle ground.
Note that apparently Florida has declared that "Alligator Alcatraz" is the *official* name of the facility, which is clearly designed to force media orgs to call it that.
Note that apparently Florida has declared that "Alligator Alcatraz" is the *official* name of the facility, which is clearly designed to force media orgs to call it that.
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Wow. Please, PLEASE watch this two-minute video.
In which Lisa Murkowski, in a self-pitying way, admits to being everything that is wrong with the politics of this moment.
In which Lisa Murkowski, in a self-pitying way, admits to being everything that is wrong with the politics of this moment.
Sen. Murkowski admits Trump's budget bill is harmful after she folded and voted yes on it:
"I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill"
"I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill"
July 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Wow. Please, PLEASE watch this two-minute video.
In which Lisa Murkowski, in a self-pitying way, admits to being everything that is wrong with the politics of this moment.
In which Lisa Murkowski, in a self-pitying way, admits to being everything that is wrong with the politics of this moment.
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The key question: What are states doing to protect their people from a hostile government? Are they prepared for how much harder that will be when the president has a $45 billion private army?
if (more likely when) this bill passes it will fundamentally alter the character of the federal government. the relationship between resident and government fully, irrevocably changed, and there’s no going back.
July 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The key question: What are states doing to protect their people from a hostile government? Are they prepared for how much harder that will be when the president has a $45 billion private army?
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NEW: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A @propublica.org analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
A @propublica.org analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
www.propublica.org
July 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
NEW: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A @propublica.org analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
A @propublica.org analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
I also completely agree with this assessment of lawyers giving themselves too much power to direct the messaging of repro movement. (AND progressive mvmnts in gen. rely too much on polling to direct messaging rather than to inform us about gaps in understanding and what we need to do more of)
The emphasis on "privacy" in pro-choice work is almost entirely due to the way that Roe was decided, previously you see much more language around gender equity etc. But the lawyers became the tail that wags the dog.
July 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I also completely agree with this assessment of lawyers giving themselves too much power to direct the messaging of repro movement. (AND progressive mvmnts in gen. rely too much on polling to direct messaging rather than to inform us about gaps in understanding and what we need to do more of)
I’m a big proponent of the possibility in losing forward. Litigation is an important tool, even if it cannot deliver a win, but to lose effectively, you have to work with organizers, media, and policy folks in a coordinated campaign. We (lawyers) are often very bad at that collaborative work.
Which, I guess, means that the ACLU SHOULD bring them (better them than someone worse), but it should view its tactics much differently at the SCOTUS we've-already-lost level.
July 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I’m a big proponent of the possibility in losing forward. Litigation is an important tool, even if it cannot deliver a win, but to lose effectively, you have to work with organizers, media, and policy folks in a coordinated campaign. We (lawyers) are often very bad at that collaborative work.
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I think part of the key here, having thought about this a lot in repro, is to stop forcing the movement to follow the framing most likely to win with the courts rather than the framing most likely to actually be politically effective/preserve the right.
July 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I think part of the key here, having thought about this a lot in repro, is to stop forcing the movement to follow the framing most likely to win with the courts rather than the framing most likely to actually be politically effective/preserve the right.
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one factor in Mamdani's appeal is "what if I had an elected official who didn't hate my guts?"
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
one factor in Mamdani's appeal is "what if I had an elected official who didn't hate my guts?"
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People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
July 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
Lisa Murkowski can get bent but so can all 49 other hateful idiots that voted for this bill. This legislation is so heinous & will be so damaging. The fact that it garnered so many votes is a disgrace, and should embarrass the Republican Party (and Dems that have failed to effectively counter them)
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lisa Murkowski can get bent but so can all 49 other hateful idiots that voted for this bill. This legislation is so heinous & will be so damaging. The fact that it garnered so many votes is a disgrace, and should embarrass the Republican Party (and Dems that have failed to effectively counter them)
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In other words, voters who chose someone other than Mamdani and Cuomo as their first preference went for Mamdani over Cuomo by almost 2:1.
July 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In other words, voters who chose someone other than Mamdani and Cuomo as their first preference went for Mamdani over Cuomo by almost 2:1.
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Speaking to nonlawyers: never let a legal pundit tell you a SCOTUS case isn't a big deal because it's written around a wonky technical issue.
The true wonky technical cases are readily apparent and look quite limited in the number of people affected.
If it looks big and serious, it is.
The true wonky technical cases are readily apparent and look quite limited in the number of people affected.
If it looks big and serious, it is.
Remarkably strong correlation between pundits who told me the Supreme Court upholding Texas’s abortion bounty hunter law was technical and not a sign it would overturn Roe, and pundits assuring me birthright citizenship is fine because people can “just file a class action” or whatever
June 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Speaking to nonlawyers: never let a legal pundit tell you a SCOTUS case isn't a big deal because it's written around a wonky technical issue.
The true wonky technical cases are readily apparent and look quite limited in the number of people affected.
If it looks big and serious, it is.
The true wonky technical cases are readily apparent and look quite limited in the number of people affected.
If it looks big and serious, it is.
Listening to @strictscrutiny.bsky.social question why Barrett was assigned CASA & I’m stunned no one suggested it is precisely *because* she is a mother (of non-White children!). White supremacy has a long history of using white womanhood and motherhood in particular to do its dirty work.
June 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Listening to @strictscrutiny.bsky.social question why Barrett was assigned CASA & I’m stunned no one suggested it is precisely *because* she is a mother (of non-White children!). White supremacy has a long history of using white womanhood and motherhood in particular to do its dirty work.
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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
slate.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."