Jas Easterly
@jaseasterly.bsky.social
13th Gen Virginian. I bow and scrape for no one—neither should anyone else. Dietrich Bonhoeffer fan. Summum Nec Metuam Diem Nec Optem. Mon Mothma’s old man. JET's Pop. NYU MFA—still writing 1st novel. Afghan War Vet. Journeyman lawyer—no problem too small.
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Jas Easterly
@jaseasterly.bsky.social
· Nov 29
When someone keeps punching you in the mouth, you break their f . . .ing arms.
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Someone must say the unsayable.
Sarah Beckstrom Died for Donald Trump’s Vanity
Sarah Beckstrom was twenty years old.
www.notesfromthecircus.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Someone must say the unsayable.
bsky.app/profile/did:... Can one get radicalized by a steady diet of serious journalism, live coverage of authoritarianism with training wheels, and a prequel of a prequel of the only film I will ever call Star Wars?
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
bsky.app/profile/did:... Can one get radicalized by a steady diet of serious journalism, live coverage of authoritarianism with training wheels, and a prequel of a prequel of the only film I will ever call Star Wars?
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Trump refuses to directly admit his administration granted the DC shooter asylum and then wraps up the press availability
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Trump refuses to directly admit his administration granted the DC shooter asylum and then wraps up the press availability
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A Conversation with Mike Fanone: Fighting the Inhumanity & Lawlessness of the Trump Administration
youtu.be/zcu1YTVKCpU?...
youtu.be/zcu1YTVKCpU?...
A Conversation with Mike Fanone: Fighting the Inhumanity & Lawlessness of the Trump Administration
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A Conversation with Mike Fanone: Fighting the Inhumanity & Lawlessness of the Trump Administration
youtu.be/zcu1YTVKCpU?...
youtu.be/zcu1YTVKCpU?...
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One notable thing about this is they're being investigated by a court-appointed USA in Maryland, because they've failed to get a Senate-confirmed one. A future reform worth considering is expanding that, perhaps carving out public corruption cases and making them always under a court appointee.
"Weeks of watching Florida insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan flail around like a toddler trying to teach calculus should serve as a warning about the perils of crowdsourcing legal research to literal randos on the internet. *But it won’t.*" — @lizdye.bsky.social
Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's shitposting legal strategy
It's backfired so spectacularly that now *they're* the ones being investigated.
www.publicnotice.co
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
One notable thing about this is they're being investigated by a court-appointed USA in Maryland, because they've failed to get a Senate-confirmed one. A future reform worth considering is expanding that, perhaps carving out public corruption cases and making them always under a court appointee.
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What happens when you pick an American Pope: he builds an entire international trip around a Thanksgiving Turkey pun
Pope Leo XIV embarked on his first international trip as pontiff on Thursday, traveling to Turkey to start a six-day tour that will also include Lebanon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
What happens when you pick an American Pope: he builds an entire international trip around a Thanksgiving Turkey pun
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Attention any veterans near Killeen, Texas.
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Attention any veterans near Killeen, Texas.
Live Updates: ‘She Has a Mortal Wound,’ Father of National Guard Member Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Ilya Somin: "In this post, I explain why Trump's collective punishment of Afghan migrants in response to yesterday's awful attack is both unjust and counterproductive to the goal of combating terrorism." reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Trump's Unjust and Counterproductive Collective Punishment of Afghan Migrants
Stopping all immigration processing for Afghan migrants is unjust and undermines rather than furthers the goal of combatting terrorism.
reason.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Ilya Somin: "In this post, I explain why Trump's collective punishment of Afghan migrants in response to yesterday's awful attack is both unjust and counterproductive to the goal of combating terrorism." reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Decide yourself come in on a boat
Media's too fast
Keep me out of country and the word
Disappointment into us absurd
Straight off the boat, where to go
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
—Stipe, Buck, Berry, and Mills
Media's too fast
Keep me out of country and the word
Disappointment into us absurd
Straight off the boat, where to go
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
—Stipe, Buck, Berry, and Mills
With the Kremlin now running US foreign policy, having lured Trump's team with promises of Russian riches, its all about assuring Ukraine FIRSTLY agree to Russian demands and only THEN vague discussions with the Americans for nonsense "security guarantees" that never happen.
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Decide yourself come in on a boat
Media's too fast
Keep me out of country and the word
Disappointment into us absurd
Straight off the boat, where to go
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
—Stipe, Buck, Berry, and Mills
Media's too fast
Keep me out of country and the word
Disappointment into us absurd
Straight off the boat, where to go
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
—Stipe, Buck, Berry, and Mills
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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www.axios.com/2024/06/06/t... Presidents don’t have rights. They have authorities and, more importantly, duties.
Trump says he would have "every right to go after" political enemies if elected
"When this election is over, based on what they've done, I would have every right to go after them."
www.axios.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
www.axios.com/2024/06/06/t... Presidents don’t have rights. They have authorities and, more importantly, duties.
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Press question for the president: define sedition…
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Press question for the president: define sedition…
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FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump
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Upholding $1M sanction against Trump & Habba, 11th Cir. held:
• Arguments were "frivolous"
• "Malicious prosecution claim without a prosecution"
• "Trade secrets claim without a trade secret"
• 7 claims w/o cause of action
• 11 of 16 claims not even appealed
• "Pattern of misusing the courts"
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• Arguments were "frivolous"
• "Malicious prosecution claim without a prosecution"
• "Trade secrets claim without a trade secret"
• 7 claims w/o cause of action
• 11 of 16 claims not even appealed
• "Pattern of misusing the courts"
1/2
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Upholding $1M sanction against Trump & Habba, 11th Cir. held:
• Arguments were "frivolous"
• "Malicious prosecution claim without a prosecution"
• "Trade secrets claim without a trade secret"
• 7 claims w/o cause of action
• 11 of 16 claims not even appealed
• "Pattern of misusing the courts"
1/2
• Arguments were "frivolous"
• "Malicious prosecution claim without a prosecution"
• "Trade secrets claim without a trade secret"
• 7 claims w/o cause of action
• 11 of 16 claims not even appealed
• "Pattern of misusing the courts"
1/2
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White House pooler S.V. Daté releases a statement about President Trump's video on the DC shooting not NOT saying it was AI-generated
(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
White House pooler S.V. Daté releases a statement about President Trump's video on the DC shooting not NOT saying it was AI-generated
(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
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NEW: The two shot National Guard troops never should have been in DC. More troops is no answer.
The violence is horrible and unacceptable. Trump, Pete Hegseth, and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey never should have put the troops in this position.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
The violence is horrible and unacceptable. Trump, Pete Hegseth, and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey never should have put the troops in this position.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
The two shot National Guard troops never should have been in DC. More troops is no answer.
The violence is horrible and unacceptable. Trump, Pete Hegseth, and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey never should have put the troops in this position.
www.lawdork.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
NEW: The two shot National Guard troops never should have been in DC. More troops is no answer.
The violence is horrible and unacceptable. Trump, Pete Hegseth, and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey never should have put the troops in this position.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
The violence is horrible and unacceptable. Trump, Pete Hegseth, and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey never should have put the troops in this position.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Yes.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
Didn’t the FBi pull a lot of personnel from anti terrorism to put them on deportations?
Actually the whole security establishment pivoted
Actually the whole security establishment pivoted
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Yes.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
The film Civil War line about “shooting journalists on sight” in DC doesn’t seem dystopian now so much as a vision—not a future history. Even if the hypothetical opponents seem fanciful, the scenes have power because they are so convincingly possible if only in the spirit thereof not the letter.
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The film Civil War line about “shooting journalists on sight” in DC doesn’t seem dystopian now so much as a vision—not a future history. Even if the hypothetical opponents seem fanciful, the scenes have power because they are so convincingly possible if only in the spirit thereof not the letter.
Trumps further deployment of 500 NG is an abuse of a procedural safeguard.
A stay is meant to preserve the status quo. Trump is treating it as an opportunity to escalate beyond what the court has paused.
The purpose of stay is intended to freeze the situation, not to create unilateral expansion.
A stay is meant to preserve the status quo. Trump is treating it as an opportunity to escalate beyond what the court has paused.
The purpose of stay is intended to freeze the situation, not to create unilateral expansion.
3. But, Judge Cobb's order is only stayed until Dec. 11 — see: www.lawdork.com/p/federal-ju... — so, unless she or a higher court grants a stay — or the administration calls for the new troops under a new authority than the existing ones — the new troops would need to leave by Dec. 11, too.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Trumps further deployment of 500 NG is an abuse of a procedural safeguard.
A stay is meant to preserve the status quo. Trump is treating it as an opportunity to escalate beyond what the court has paused.
The purpose of stay is intended to freeze the situation, not to create unilateral expansion.
A stay is meant to preserve the status quo. Trump is treating it as an opportunity to escalate beyond what the court has paused.
The purpose of stay is intended to freeze the situation, not to create unilateral expansion.
I’m really looking forward to living a life where Trump is completely irrelevant and wholly absent.
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I’m really looking forward to living a life where Trump is completely irrelevant and wholly absent.