John R. Christiansen
@froggyevening.bsky.social
SCOTUS handing down decisions without explanation violates fundamental common law: Judges must "show their work" so everyone else can know the basis. If the analysis is consistent with precedent, other judges, lawyers and citizens can rely on it as law. /ctd
July 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
SCOTUS handing down decisions without explanation violates fundamental common law: Judges must "show their work" so everyone else can know the basis. If the analysis is consistent with precedent, other judges, lawyers and citizens can rely on it as law. /ctd
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@aflcio.org 'CONGRESS' did not do this. DONALD JOHN TRUMP and the REPUBLICANS did this.
Speak truth to your members!
Speak truth to your members!
Congress voted to pass the largest job-killing bill in history.
Congress voted to take away health care from 17 million people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
Congress voted to take away food assistance from 3 million people.
Congress voted to betray working people.
Congress voted to take away health care from 17 million people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
Congress voted to take away food assistance from 3 million people.
Congress voted to betray working people.
July 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
@aflcio.org 'CONGRESS' did not do this. DONALD JOHN TRUMP and the REPUBLICANS did this.
Speak truth to your members!
Speak truth to your members!
Reposted by John R. Christiansen
Senator David Padilla should not have attempted to politicize DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference announcing that the federal government would liberate Los Angeles from socialism. Tomorrow in the New York Times
June 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Senator David Padilla should not have attempted to politicize DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference announcing that the federal government would liberate Los Angeles from socialism. Tomorrow in the New York Times
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Yes, I heard about the Secretary of the Army being a witless buffoon. I need to say this as gently as possible, but you have to understand that I already assume everyone* in this administration is a witless buffoon and every time they speak nonsense vomits forth like wodge of overly masticated gum
Dan Driscoll [answering cell phone]: Hello?
Voice: Hi it’s the moon
Driscoll: I told you to stop calling
Voice: I going to hit your eye like a big pizza pie
Driscoll: I HAVE ALERTED THE FBI TO THIS HARASSMENT
Voice: I have a man in me
Driscoll: THIS IS DISRESPECT TO THE MILITARY
Voice: Hi it’s the moon
Driscoll: I told you to stop calling
Voice: I going to hit your eye like a big pizza pie
Driscoll: I HAVE ALERTED THE FBI TO THIS HARASSMENT
Voice: I have a man in me
Driscoll: THIS IS DISRESPECT TO THE MILITARY
June 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Yes, I heard about the Secretary of the Army being a witless buffoon. I need to say this as gently as possible, but you have to understand that I already assume everyone* in this administration is a witless buffoon and every time they speak nonsense vomits forth like wodge of overly masticated gum
Visited the remarkable Newberry National Volcanic Monument today, amazing vistas and trails in central Oregon. They couldn't charge the $5 entry fee as the system was down, no plan to fix it and no staff available. Rangers and docents were great but stressed. Many visitors. Efficiency my a**.
June 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Visited the remarkable Newberry National Volcanic Monument today, amazing vistas and trails in central Oregon. They couldn't charge the $5 entry fee as the system was down, no plan to fix it and no staff available. Rangers and docents were great but stressed. Many visitors. Efficiency my a**.
I'd call it the Dennis Moore Bill, myself.
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May 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'd call it the Dennis Moore Bill, myself.
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Let's just call this "the Great Leap Backwards." Mao would approve of sending the "intelligentsia" to labor in factories, and their children and grandchildren too, to serve the ideology of a small, powerful faction. www.yahoo.com/news/u-secre...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids
“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.
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May 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Let's just call this "the Great Leap Backwards." Mao would approve of sending the "intelligentsia" to labor in factories, and their children and grandchildren too, to serve the ideology of a small, powerful faction. www.yahoo.com/news/u-secre...
Happy Easter!
April 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Happy Easter!
Trump and the common action problem. I live on a country lane, private road about 9 houses. Lane needed reconstruction. 8 owners agreed to fund, 1 didn't. 8 could've taken 1 to court to require contribution, 2 lawyers in 8 happy to do free. 8 couldn't agree to fight. 8 fund rebuild, 1 has it free.
April 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Trump and the common action problem. I live on a country lane, private road about 9 houses. Lane needed reconstruction. 8 owners agreed to fund, 1 didn't. 8 could've taken 1 to court to require contribution, 2 lawyers in 8 happy to do free. 8 couldn't agree to fight. 8 fund rebuild, 1 has it free.
These regulations have served as trade barriers protecting higher-quality US products against cutrate foreign imports. So working *against* US manufacturing protection.
Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos talkingpointsmemo.com/news/beyond-...
Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos talkingpointsmemo.com/news/beyond-...
Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos
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April 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
These regulations have served as trade barriers protecting higher-quality US products against cutrate foreign imports. So working *against* US manufacturing protection.
Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos talkingpointsmemo.com/news/beyond-...
Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos talkingpointsmemo.com/news/beyond-...
Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I saw a version of this on here before but it's worth yelling: these institutions that Musk is illegally dismantling– the weather service, health system, climate & energy research, international aid, maybe the US mail(?)– they don't belong to him, they belong to us. We invested in them. They're ours
April 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Notes on Civil Society’s Quasi-War with A Renegade President
This post isn’t quite a post in the way I normally do...
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April 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Two Thoughts on Trump’s Inferno Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/two-t...
Two Thoughts on Trump’s Inferno Tariffs
Two thoughts on today’s tariffs. I could get into the substance of...
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April 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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