catherine, would probably throw a samitch
@cathere.bsky.social
Interests: sociology, language, law, and dogs, also cats.
In a former life or two or three: carnival survivor, professional student (ethno and CA), petty bureaucrat
In a former life or two or three: carnival survivor, professional student (ethno and CA), petty bureaucrat
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Hey, New York Times, what do you mean by saying, “The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the operation”? The official could have discussed the operation on the record. Why didn’t the official do that? Your explanation isn’t a real explanation.
December 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Hey, New York Times, what do you mean by saying, “The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the operation”? The official could have discussed the operation on the record. Why didn’t the official do that? Your explanation isn’t a real explanation.
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The people have spoken. Utah Judge Dianna Gibson was voted by you, our readers, as The Salt Lake Tribune’s 2025 Utahn of the Year.
Judge Dianna Gibson wins The Salt Lake Tribune readers’ vote for 2025 Utahn of the Year
The people have spoken. Utah Judge Dianna Gibson was voted by you, our readers, as The Salt Lake Tribune’s 2025 Utahn of the Year.
www.sltrib.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The people have spoken. Utah Judge Dianna Gibson was voted by you, our readers, as The Salt Lake Tribune’s 2025 Utahn of the Year.
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This is John Roberts' America.
The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.
The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.
December 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is John Roberts' America.
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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This how it works: felons pay other felons as intermediaries to purchase a pardon from a 34-count felon now exercising the pardon power.
December 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This how it works: felons pay other felons as intermediaries to purchase a pardon from a 34-count felon now exercising the pardon power.
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GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
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Federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants who show up for court appointments in Northern California
Federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants who show up for court appointments in Northern California
Judge P. Casey Pitts issued a ruling that would block Immigration and Customs Enforcement from detaining immigrants who show up to court hearings in Northern California.
www.latimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants who show up for court appointments in Northern California
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it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
December 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
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“Oops, sorry, I thought everyone would name the weird racial profiling stops that get people thrown in concentration camps after somebody else.”
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“Oops, sorry, I thought everyone would name the weird racial profiling stops that get people thrown in concentration camps after somebody else.”
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I can’t believe they’re doing this to the only person on earth who’s won the FIFA peace prize.
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I can’t believe they’re doing this to the only person on earth who’s won the FIFA peace prize.
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Breaking | Trump orders airstrikes to aid Nigerian Christians despite Stephen Miller's frantic cries that Nigerian Christians are Black.
December 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Breaking | Trump orders airstrikes to aid Nigerian Christians despite Stephen Miller's frantic cries that Nigerian Christians are Black.
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As far as I can tell the Trump admin currently has a 0% success rate in lawsuits seeking to overturn immigrant-friendly policies.
Federal court throws out Trump admin’s challenge to NY’s Green Light Law permitting undocumented immigrants to obtain state-issued standard drivers licenses
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Order on Motion for Leave to File AND Order on Motion for Summary Judgment AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim AND Order on Motion to File Amicus Brief – #32 in United States v...
MEMORANDUM-DECISION and ORDER. The Court hereby ORDERS that the unopposed Motions for Leave to File Amicus Briefs, Dkt. Nos. 17 , 29 , are GRANTED. The Court further ORDERS that Defendants' Motion...
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December 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
As far as I can tell the Trump admin currently has a 0% success rate in lawsuits seeking to overturn immigrant-friendly policies.
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JUST IN: DOJ tells judge feds can't delete classified info from Comey friend Daniel Richman's devices by Monday, asks for another week. Doc: DOJ can't carry out deletion of classified from Richman devices by Monday. Asks judge for another week storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Extension of Time to – #40 in RICHMAN v. United States (D.D.C., 1:25-mc-00170) – CourtListener.com
Emergency MOTION for Extension of Time to Comply by UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (Halligan, Lindsey) (Entered: 12/24/2025)
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December 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
JUST IN: DOJ tells judge feds can't delete classified info from Comey friend Daniel Richman's devices by Monday, asks for another week. Doc: DOJ can't carry out deletion of classified from Richman devices by Monday. Asks judge for another week storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin.
Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
December 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin.
Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
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Could he die alone in a ditch? Asking for a friend
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Could he die alone in a ditch? Asking for a friend
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The Department of Justice is releasing the Epstein files far too quickly.
by Merrick Garland
by Merrick Garland
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Department of Justice is releasing the Epstein files far too quickly.
by Merrick Garland
by Merrick Garland
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A long overdue reform is that by law all US ambassadors should be career foreign service officers, like most countries because they treat it as a job for serious professionals. Not "political appointee" gigs openly sold to campaign donors or handed out as a retirement perk for washed-up politicians.
Context for Trump withdrawing dozens of ambassadors
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
December 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
A long overdue reform is that by law all US ambassadors should be career foreign service officers, like most countries because they treat it as a job for serious professionals. Not "political appointee" gigs openly sold to campaign donors or handed out as a retirement perk for washed-up politicians.
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Of the many things that I love about Bohemian Waxwings is that when they unpredictably show up in the neighbourhood - hundreds arrive and they are impossible to ignore. #birds
December 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Of the many things that I love about Bohemian Waxwings is that when they unpredictably show up in the neighbourhood - hundreds arrive and they are impossible to ignore. #birds
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Christmas Eve Drop:
Fed. judge quashes yet another attempt by Trump's DOJ to get the personal data of trans patients and former patients, and does so in sarcastic and angry fashion calling out the administration's ill-intent and lack of good faith.
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Fed. judge quashes yet another attempt by Trump's DOJ to get the personal data of trans patients and former patients, and does so in sarcastic and angry fashion calling out the administration's ill-intent and lack of good faith.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Christmas Eve Drop:
Fed. judge quashes yet another attempt by Trump's DOJ to get the personal data of trans patients and former patients, and does so in sarcastic and angry fashion calling out the administration's ill-intent and lack of good faith.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Fed. judge quashes yet another attempt by Trump's DOJ to get the personal data of trans patients and former patients, and does so in sarcastic and angry fashion calling out the administration's ill-intent and lack of good faith.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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"My prediction for 2026: the news industry will finally realize that these informal community information networks are not peripheral to local news — they are the most functional version of it."
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
The future of news is happening where no one is looking
"In 2026, more news organizations will understand that people don’t always want an article. Sometimes they just want clarity."
www.niemanlab.org
December 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"My prediction for 2026: the news industry will finally realize that these informal community information networks are not peripheral to local news — they are the most functional version of it."
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
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JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from whistleblower lawyer Mark Zaid. Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov
December 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from whistleblower lawyer Mark Zaid. Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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The statistic was quietly posted online in a department report in recent days.
Use of Force By NYPD Officers Surged 20% Last Year
The 11,746 incidents of use of force in 2024 by police officers marked the highest number since detailed record-keeping began in 2016.
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The statistic was quietly posted online in a department report in recent days.
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What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
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still my favorite christmas post
December 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
still my favorite christmas post