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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · Feb 25

@law360.bsky.social is launching a live tracker of legal challenges to every action & EO coming from the Trump admin. Updating daily, and we’re keeping score of how POTUS fares in court.

Reporting @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social, editing by @hp-zz.bsky.social, gfx by me. www.law360.com/trump-legal-...

Web graphic titled “Trump's Legal Battles”

UPDATED Feb. 25, 2025 -- States, federal employee unions, various advocacy groups and several individuals have filed over 80 lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's implementation of executive orders and other initiatives. Law360 has created a database of those lawsuits, separated into categories based on their subject matter.

SCORECARD
Trump's record
Wins -10
Losses - 21

Relief obtained
Temporary restraining orders - 11
Preliminary injunctions - 10
Final judgments - 0

Table and subheds below showing Civil Rights cases related to DEIA programs (challenging E.O. 14151 and E.O. 14173)

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 6h

fantastic news for people who hate slam poetry

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h

imagine never having to hear hakeem jeffries talk again. he could campaign on that alone.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 9h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 11h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 6h

They’re high fiving him in the dugout because they’re gonna get back to the hotel and into bed a little faster now

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 6h

Two things suburbanites loved in the 90s

hiksmash @hiksmash.blacksky.app · Oct 30

I am not a Yankee fan. Sorry, they are Giuliani-coded to me

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 6h

Oh god, I forgot about that

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 6h

That’s my name don’t wear it out

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 7h

Ben Rice skipped the Trump photo op and seems like a nice young man. He should be the star player for, idk, the Nats or the White Sox when they finally rebuild.

TEMU Mark Ruffalo @brianvan.bsky.social · 7h

Quieting all the reasons why people hate the Yankees as a franchise, this year's team was vastly inferior to any prior Yankees team that did win the WS. And just not very compelling in 2025. And the personality of cardboard. But proudly Republican! Last one out of the locker room hit the lights

Tony Rezko @nutbunnies.bsky.social · 7h

RIP to the deeply unlikeable 2025 Yankees, another victim of Trump Stink

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 7h

👍 Blue Jays

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 7h

Here’s the thing about butthurt Yankees fans - you can’t be the team of “27 Rings” and talk about how you have to be a Yankees fan because you only rot for winners and then whine when everyone dances on your grave. If you’re the Yankees you gotta not get gentleman’s swept at home.

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 7h

Revisiting an old gripe from a few years ago: sorry Yankees fans, the Astros are not more evil than you. Definitionally, the Yankees can never be virtuous.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 7h

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 7h

Here’s how to file a complaint with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council about profane language during a TV broadcast:

www.cbsc.ca/make-a-compl...

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 7h

illustration of a man looking into a window with his hands on the glass and saying “yes… ha ha ha… YES!”. his shirt says “sickos” on it. his head has been replaced by a toronto blue jays baseball mascot’s head

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 7h

I still believe in the perfect Mariners/Jays ALCS, Skubal is 0-3 against the M's this year

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h

HAPPY YANKEE ELIMINATION DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 7h

Celebrating the Jays over here with queer Toronto rockers The Beaches, and you should too www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-cv...

The Beaches - Jocelyn

YouTube video by TheBeachesVEVO

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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 7h

Can't stop snickering to myself about the yankees losing

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 7h

Anthony Volpe can now spend his winter doing the one thing he’s actually good at: yelling about the congestion charge on Facebook

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 7h

Toronto is the greatest city in the world now. I don't make the rules

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 7h

Will Aaron Boone’s upcoming contract extension be paid in Canadian dollars?

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 7h

SANG À L’ÉRABLE

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 7h

YOU DARE BOO THE BEAUTIFUL CANADIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM. YOU PAY WITH BLOOD! YOU PAY WITH BLOOD!

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 10h

The Virgin SpongeBob

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 12h

From the Court Street bike lane opponents' Facebook group. Just so people know which side they're on. Funny how it almost always lines up this way.

Facebook comment. Sean Patrick Moran
Just wait until this Christ Denier gets into office
Single lanes will be the least of the tragedy he will bestow among the so called “ rich white” areas

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 15h

Who's going to tell them?

Kids don't play games on the stoop any longer because you selfish jerks keep driving over children with your cars in a giant city with robust public transit.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18h

There is something appropriate about him recommending a man who is ostensibly very patriotic and loves America more than anyplace else but then also made the same patriotic song for Canada because he could make additional money if he said he loved Canada and that Canada is the best

Other notable versions
Canadian version
In 1989, Greenwood released a Canadian version of this song called "God Bless You, Canada".

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innersunshine.bsky.social @innersunshine.bsky.social · 18h

The two chain stores likely to gain a billion dollar PR bonus for supporting a union, REI and TraderJoe's, still can't see the benefit.

Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 18h

My assumption is union busting.

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Rebecca Baird-Remba @thecitywanderer.bsky.social · 19h

REI soho closing is pretty bad for anyone who loves buying outdoor gear in the five boroughs. I know their c-suite is retrenching and cost cutting but I think folding up their NYC presence entirely is a huge mistake www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

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