Annalaroc
@annalaroc.bsky.social
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Behavioral Health Consultant, Social Justice Advocate, & Life-long Learner
April 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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The President’s attacks on law firms are one part revenge tour, but more significantly, a bid to stop the sort of legal challenges to his policies that have largely succeeded to date before they can even get off the ground.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/b...
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Trump’s Not-So-Subtle Purpose in Fighting Big Law Firms
The president has attacked law firms for “frivolous” litigation. But his actions could undermine the basic right of Americans to sue their government.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The President’s attacks on law firms are one part revenge tour, but more significantly, a bid to stop the sort of legal challenges to his policies that have largely succeeded to date before they can even get off the ground.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/b...
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A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
March 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
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It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured ignorance that did it.
Lololol @samseder.bsky.social has to very slowly explain to this dude that government agencies don't pay taxes lolol
March 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured ignorance that did it.
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The truth has died, Hampton Dillenger is gone. @CNN @lincolnproject.us Courts Just Got Rid of the Last Person Standing in the Way of Trump’s Federal Worker Purge - Slate
March 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The truth has died, Hampton Dillenger is gone. @CNN @lincolnproject.us Courts Just Got Rid of the Last Person Standing in the Way of Trump’s Federal Worker Purge - Slate
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Republicans have been out to gut Social Security for years because it’s one of the most popular and successful programs ever created.
Those who claim to care about the debt while pushing for trillions in tax cuts for the rich and corporations don't really care about the debt. Hello?
Those who claim to care about the debt while pushing for trillions in tax cuts for the rich and corporations don't really care about the debt. Hello?
Unelected billionaire Elon Musk attacks social security, which keeps millions of seniors out of poverty, as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time”
The heartlessness is limitless
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGpEHMK...
The heartlessness is limitless
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGpEHMK...
March 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Republicans have been out to gut Social Security for years because it’s one of the most popular and successful programs ever created.
Those who claim to care about the debt while pushing for trillions in tax cuts for the rich and corporations don't really care about the debt. Hello?
Those who claim to care about the debt while pushing for trillions in tax cuts for the rich and corporations don't really care about the debt. Hello?
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You’re in LA? Shoot, I guess that means you can’t join us for this tomorrow? We’re doing it again on Tuesday MARCH 4th outside FOX HQ and again at the Women’s March in WSP on March 8. #JOY #Resist ✊🏾
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🚨NYC: The RESISTANCE REVIVAL CHORUS is joining us TOMORROW, SATURDAY, MARCH 1 at 1pm outside the TESLA showroom at Washington & West 13th St in Mamhttan.
⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk
⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy
⚡️ JOIN US
#TeslaTakedown #StopTheCoup #Resist
⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk
⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy
⚡️ JOIN US
#TeslaTakedown #StopTheCoup #Resist
March 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
You’re in LA? Shoot, I guess that means you can’t join us for this tomorrow? We’re doing it again on Tuesday MARCH 4th outside FOX HQ and again at the Women’s March in WSP on March 8. #JOY #Resist ✊🏾
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Coming out of a bit of a news break whilst in L.A. and this is quite the hard re-entry: the president of Ukraine being lectured like a child by the U.S. president and vice president who want to steal his natural resources and hand chunks of his country to Putin. I have never been so embarrassed.
Omg. This is a thread. Every one should be appalled. 1/5
February 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Coming out of a bit of a news break whilst in L.A. and this is quite the hard re-entry: the president of Ukraine being lectured like a child by the U.S. president and vice president who want to steal his natural resources and hand chunks of his country to Putin. I have never been so embarrassed.
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It's equal parts nauseating and funny to see these guys talking about "strength" and "courage" and "standing up" while engaging in the kind of pathetic, servile, "yes-my-baron" ritual groveling rarely seen by men not wearing literal gimp suits.
February 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It's equal parts nauseating and funny to see these guys talking about "strength" and "courage" and "standing up" while engaging in the kind of pathetic, servile, "yes-my-baron" ritual groveling rarely seen by men not wearing literal gimp suits.
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: All HHS employees just received this email informing them that they no longer have to comply with Elon Musk’s 5 bullet point email, but if they do, they should “assume that what [they] write will be read by malign foreign actors . . .”
February 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: All HHS employees just received this email informing them that they no longer have to comply with Elon Musk’s 5 bullet point email, but if they do, they should “assume that what [they] write will be read by malign foreign actors . . .”
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U. S. District Court Judge Dale Ho will hold a hearing tomorrow on whether dropping the federal prosecution of NYC’s corrupt mayor is in the “public interest.” It isn’t. Deference to DOJ is required. Abdication of judgment isn’t. If ever there was a case in which the judge should say no, it’s this.
February 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
U. S. District Court Judge Dale Ho will hold a hearing tomorrow on whether dropping the federal prosecution of NYC’s corrupt mayor is in the “public interest.” It isn’t. Deference to DOJ is required. Abdication of judgment isn’t. If ever there was a case in which the judge should say no, it’s this.
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Last week, the hottest ticket in NYC wasn't the SNL 50th anniversary concert. It was the three nights Paul McCartney played at a tiny downtown venue that usually hosts up-and-coming indie rock bands.
Paul McCartney, live from New York: The easy genius of the cute Beatle
Last week, the hottest ticket in NYC wasn't the SNL 50th anniversary concert. It was the three nights Paul McCartney played at a tiny downtown venue that usually hosts up-and-coming indie rock bands.
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February 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Last week, the hottest ticket in NYC wasn't the SNL 50th anniversary concert. It was the three nights Paul McCartney played at a tiny downtown venue that usually hosts up-and-coming indie rock bands.
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🚨🚨🚨🚨DOGE is breaking into Social Security records too now www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data
Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
🚨🚨🚨🚨DOGE is breaking into Social Security records too now www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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I'm feeling nostalgic for competence.
February 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I'm feeling nostalgic for competence.
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Passengers in Toronto Recount the Moments the Plane Crashed www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
Passengers Recall Moments Before Delta Plane Crash at Toronto Airport
All 80 people on board are expected to survive. Two described finding themselves upside down after what had seemed like a routine descent.
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February 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Passengers in Toronto Recount the Moments the Plane Crashed www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
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Lawrence: Because of Musk and Trump, for the first time Social Security payments are not guaranteed
Lawrence: Because of Musk and Trump, for the first time Social Security payments are not guaranteed
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how Elon Musk, whose only mission in government is to cut payments, has gained control over Social Security and put those payments in jeopardy for the first time, p...
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February 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Lawrence: Because of Musk and Trump, for the first time Social Security payments are not guaranteed
Chilling
February 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Chilling
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"Attorneys, he said, 'don’t resign because you disagree with the policies, but because you are being asked to do something you believe is ethically, morally or legally improper'...”
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Mass resignation marks a new kind of defiance in the second Trump era
The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further defiance.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
"Attorneys, he said, 'don’t resign because you disagree with the policies, but because you are being asked to do something you believe is ethically, morally or legally improper'...”
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Perhaps Mr. Bove and others wouldn’t mind filling federal prosecutors’ offices with sock puppets and ideologues. In the long run, the plan is probably self-defeating. The responses of judges, juries and witnesses” to this new reality may ensure that outcome.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Legal Shakedowns Won’t End With the Adams Case
The Justice Department’s loyalty game is new, dangerous and self-defeating.
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Perhaps Mr. Bove and others wouldn’t mind filling federal prosecutors’ offices with sock puppets and ideologues. In the long run, the plan is probably self-defeating. The responses of judges, juries and witnesses” to this new reality may ensure that outcome.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...