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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · Jun 19

It might get lost in the primary but what happens in the next week will have a huge impact on indigent legal services in #NYC.

The union representing the majority of legal aid lawyers and advocates is taking the historic step of deciding whether to strike because the City won't give us fair pay.

LAS Attys United @lasattysunited.bsky.social · Jun 18

Today our Board voted unanimously to ask members to authorize a strike at The Legal Aid Society for the first time in over 30 years. On Monday, members will begin voting. Rudy Giuliani thought he could break us in 1994, but @uaw.org members will never be divided. Solidarity Forever.

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 14h

“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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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 6h

eagles are a paper tiger

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 11h

Big news in the legal world

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 12h

Any journalist reporting on this should be clear that prosecutors do have Brady and other ethical obligations in the grand jury, and there's objective evidence that Tish James hasn't committed mortgage fraud.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

Per Fox News, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia is currently weighing whether to charge NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud.

Fox News & @FoxNews
X.com
BREAKING: A federal grand jury is meeting in the Eastern District of Virginia court, weighing charging NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud, two sources confirm to Fox News.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17h

When the Supreme Court struck down Biden's policies, it was tempting to think: "At least these limits on executive authority will bind Trump if he comes back into office." But no—the court's skepticism of executive power vanished on Jan. 20, 2025. This dynamic is obvious to anyone paying attention!

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 3d

Really beyond the Q looking glass now that Trump is actively talking about pardoning his convicted pedo friend to hide his pedo behavior.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 3d

Setting aside his brain obviously turning to mush in real time, if these billions exist, it means Americans had to pay billions of dollars out of their pockets specifically because of Donald Trump, one of the biggest tax hikes in history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Recently they said they found billions of dollars. And they couldn't understand -- I said, 'check the tariff shelf.' And they come in the next hour and they say, 'Sir, you're right, it was from the tariffs.'"

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 3d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 3d

hey did elon do one of these when a whole bunch of violent right-wing insurrectionists were pardoned by donald trump

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 3d

1. Why in the holy hell was I born at this time, when shit-posting and stupidity are seen as high art

2. What an absolute moron, doesn't have ANY IDEA what he is talking about, but does that stop him?

Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 3d

not just the inconsistent discipline, but inconsistent cap circumvention penalties too

Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 3d

lol come on man, the nhl will always be my favorite league but the inconsistent discipline is a joke

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 6d

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this?

It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 4d

I get the sentiment but our criminal legal system very notoriously doesn’t treat people equally.

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 4d

A pillar of American values is that the legal system treats everyone equally. The indictment of James Comey makes a mockery of that idea. bit.ly/46TyPOR

Comey Indictment Shows Danger of Subservient Prosecutors

The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics.

www.brennancenter.org

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4d

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 4d

This is a different context but it’s essentially the same argument Akhil Amar makes against the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule, and it’s based on fundamental assumptions that someone with experience practicing criminal law would immediately know are wrong.

Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 5d

wow arch manning is horrible, and somewhere spurrier is rocking the most shit-eating grin imaginable

Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 5d

there's a reason miller's entire family hates him and his wife ran off with elon musk to the other side of the country. just a boil filled with pus and hatred and misery and self-loathing

Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 5d

stephen miller is pretty directly replicating nazi justifications for dismantling the rule of law and it's long past time for the media and politicians to call it out for what it is

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller again lashes out at the judiciary, suggesting federal judges are aiding and abetting domestic terrorism:

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 5d

MAGA tries to hide it in fake toughness, but it's really just a Trojan horse for insecure, unemployable, incompetent, and bitter men who know that they'd never be able to compete in the modern economy.

Their leader is a trust fund baby who's a bumbling, philandering serially bankrupt con artist.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

wapo.st

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 5d

Basically this, as an entire identity

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d

Chris Murphy makes a detailed case that Trump is on the brink of meaningfully restricting the space in which the opposition can do politics, in the competitive authoritarian model of autocracies abroad.

"If we are not already there, we are really, really close." 4/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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