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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 11h

But her emails!

David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 14h

I think it sometimes is more complicated. Parts of FCC are funded by spectrum auctions. There’s statutory authorization for the auctions and for FCC to use the money from them, but there’s no annual appropriations process and I’m not sure if this statutory scheme would count as “appropriations”.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 1d

Two weeks ago, my DC neighborhood went into high alert bc armed officers in tactical vests were going door to door. Upon investigation… they were fire dept arson investigations police giving out flyers for free smoke alarms. I talked to them about how ridiculous that was and how it scared residents.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

It is appalling that we have—for DECADES now—allowed ourselves to become inured to having our streets patrolled by paramilitary police.

We need laws that make it impossible for law enforcement to roll out like this outside the RAREST of times.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like AI has already wiped out the justification for some senate staffers.

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?

"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...

Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds

A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs

www.axios.com

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 1d

So the HELP committee staff… asked ChatGPT if the AI hype is real, it produced synthetic text suggesting it is, and they… published it ?!?!?!?

And Axios just… printed that at face value ?

JFCOMFGWTFKMN

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?

"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...

Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds

A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs

www.axios.com

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and, the other reason to have a separate legal advisor is *because it helps you, the agency official, further your agenda.* When you enact a policy blessed by the legal advisor, other people--particularly congressional oversight committees—don’t question it as much.

So… this should backfire.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

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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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 1d

The Bulletin made a short video presentation to accompany the article. It's great especially if you want to see me gesticulating wildly at every word I say (My parents used to call me Magnus Pyke when I was a child, and that clearly hasn't gone away)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn8_...

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 1d

They arrested a rabbi in Illinois for protesting ICE.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 2d

OK, so this is going to be tough to hear, but it needs to be said.

Now that Trump has been enjoined from sending *any* NG to Oregon, ICE is going to go gangbusters in Oregon, dialing everything up to 1000%.

Because they need riots. They need someone punching an ICE officer.

DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 2d

The judge's entire reasoning in both TROs was based on the fact that there was NO VIOLENCE IN OREGON.

If that changes, her position might change, and even if it doesn't change her mind, it might convince the 9th Circuit to remand.

You've got to keep peacefully resisting. No matter what.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

“Goodstein had reportedly been receiving death threats in the past few weeks …
Just last month, she was involved in a controversial case in determining if voter's personal information in South Carolina could be handed over to the government.”

Unclear if arson or if significant that she‘s Jewish.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

Judge's $1.5M beachfront home is burned to the ground as her senator husband is rushed to hospital
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Top judge's $1.5M beachfront home is burned to the ground

South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's home became engulfed in flames, causing three to be rushed to hospital. Police have launched an investigation.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

Tom says we don’t know what fascism really means.

But Fannie Lou Hamer knew what it meant when she was shot at for trying to vote and beaten viciously by police. And still she rose up and asked the DNC, “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave?”

We’ve overcome worse.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

Brown v Board itself, and the ability of the Little Rock 9, James Meredith, and the rest to integrate schools and colleges, was built upon Missouri ex rel Gaines v Canada, a case overturning segregation in 1938!

At the height of Nazism abroad and America First at home, we beat back Jim Crow.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

The Freedom Riders rode in 1961 bc of a Supreme Court decision (Boynton) in 1960 that was made possible by railroad desegregation cases in 1950 (Henderson) and 1943 (Mitchell), which were themselves built on precedent from 1914.
NAACP was founded a decade after Plessy.

We have been here before.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

Nazism was conceptually derived, in part, from Jim Crow. Jim Crow was tyranny in all the ways that matter (ie don’t get hung up on semantics). Yet even in its darkest days decades before Brown, there was resistance and serious opposition in the South laying the groundwork for Montgomery and Selma.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

Brown v Board itself, and the ability of the Little Rock 9, James Meredith, and the rest to integrate schools and colleges, was built upon Missouri ex rel Gaines v Canada, a case overturning segregation in 1938!

At the height of Nazism abroad and America First at home, we beat back Jim Crow.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

The Freedom Riders rode in 1961 bc of a Supreme Court decision (Boynton) in 1960 that was made possible by railroad desegregation cases in 1950 (Henderson) and 1943 (Mitchell), which were themselves built on precedent from 1914.
NAACP was founded a decade after Plessy.

We have been here before.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

Nazism was conceptually derived, in part, from Jim Crow. Jim Crow was tyranny in all the ways that matter (ie don’t get hung up on semantics). Yet even in its darkest days decades before Brown, there was resistance and serious opposition in the South laying the groundwork for Montgomery and Selma.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

Very true.

In DC, I went to a normal dinner in Mt. Pleasant, walking past a spot where protesters kept putting up anti-ICE banners and ICE kept tearing them down. To drive home we went through Rock Creek Park, lined with homemade signs warning that Park Police was stopping work trucks in the park.

Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social · 2d

A thing I think it’s important for USians not in currently-occupied cities to grasp is that the normal and everyday goes on alongside the violent and unprecedented.

In Chicago right now you can be forced off teargas-soaked streets in the morning and have a peaceful evening picnic on the lake.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

of the various things federal courts need to worry about, this isn't at the top of the list, but:

the AI drafted pro se lawsuits are going to create an unsustainable situation in the courts. i have no inside info but people send me their filings and it's a nightmare out there.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

Sports arenas and stadiums are explicitly included as protected places of public accommodations in both the criminal and civil provisions of the 1964 Act.

Noem’s threat violates 3 different criminal statutes: 18 USC 241, 242, and 245.

She also violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the KKK Act.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

It would be helpful if NYT mentioned that what DHS is threatening here is illegal segregation in public accommodations.

Even threatening to use force under color of law to exclude non-citizens from a stadium is a hate crime, and violates the 5th Amendment, the Civil Rights Act, and other laws.

Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ the Super Bowl

www.nytimes.com

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