JayDub147
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Postmarks have long served as evidence of when ballots, tax returns, and court filings were mailed. A new USPS rule changes that. Elena Patel explores the unintended consequences of this shift.
When a postmark no longer tracks mailing | Brookings
Changes to U.S. Postal Service operations could lead to delayed postmarking, impacting elections, tax filings, and more.
brook.gs
January 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Postmarks have long served as evidence of when ballots, tax returns, and court filings were mailed. A new USPS rule changes that. Elena Patel explores the unintended consequences of this shift.
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Trump’s fascism is targeting white Americans who oppose him.
It started by targeting Black and brown people, and now it will aggressively target white people who stand in solidarity with Black and brown people.
youtube.com/shorts/LV_ip...
It started by targeting Black and brown people, and now it will aggressively target white people who stand in solidarity with Black and brown people.
youtube.com/shorts/LV_ip...
Police arrest white woman for peacefully protesting fascism
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
youtube.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Trump’s fascism is targeting white Americans who oppose him.
It started by targeting Black and brown people, and now it will aggressively target white people who stand in solidarity with Black and brown people.
youtube.com/shorts/LV_ip...
It started by targeting Black and brown people, and now it will aggressively target white people who stand in solidarity with Black and brown people.
youtube.com/shorts/LV_ip...
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Expect someone in the administration may have dusted off this 1989 OLC opinion.
www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/...
www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/...
Authority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Override International Law in Extraterritorial Law Enforcement Activities
www.justice.gov
January 3, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Expect someone in the administration may have dusted off this 1989 OLC opinion.
www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/...
www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/...
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Incredibly cool series of photographs showing how infrared tech enables surveillance systems
PHOTO ESSAY: Invisible infrared surveillance technology and those caught in its digital cage
When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of you...
apnews.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Incredibly cool series of photographs showing how infrared tech enables surveillance systems
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Hey, if you are generally supportive of trans people and self-determination but don’t necessarily know much about it, let me explain something that a trans friend & roommate explained to me in 2004.
This is why health care for trans kids is so important.
This is why health care for trans kids is so important.
December 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hey, if you are generally supportive of trans people and self-determination but don’t necessarily know much about it, let me explain something that a trans friend & roommate explained to me in 2004.
This is why health care for trans kids is so important.
This is why health care for trans kids is so important.
"In the end, this administration has exposed how the Supreme Court has made the Bill of Rights almost entirely reliant on the executive branch’s willingness to police itself. If federal police officers can violate constitutional rights with impunity, those rights may as well not exist."
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"In the end, this administration has exposed how the Supreme Court has made the Bill of Rights almost entirely reliant on the executive branch’s willingness to police itself. If federal police officers can violate constitutional rights with impunity, those rights may as well not exist."
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"If 60 Minutes had 'explained this' as Weiss described they should, the segment would have included false or highly misleading information"
Fact Checking Bari Weiss: Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT”
By Ryan Goodman & Tom Joscelyn
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
Fact Checking Bari Weiss: Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT”
By Ryan Goodman & Tom Joscelyn
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
Fact Checking Bari Weiss: The Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes "Inside CECOT"
Analysis of Bari Weiss's stated justifications to 60 Minutes staff for not airing segment on CECOT prison.
www.justsecurity.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"If 60 Minutes had 'explained this' as Weiss described they should, the segment would have included false or highly misleading information"
Fact Checking Bari Weiss: Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT”
By Ryan Goodman & Tom Joscelyn
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
Fact Checking Bari Weiss: Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT”
By Ryan Goodman & Tom Joscelyn
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
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On left:
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On left:
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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“It is reductive to say that the central fantasy of contemporary conservatism is Punching The Teacher, but it is not really wrong.”
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“It is reductive to say that the central fantasy of contemporary conservatism is Punching The Teacher, but it is not really wrong.”
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
"Officers are duty-bound to refuse an unlawful order. It is not optional. It is not situational. It is their job."
What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders
And why it matters there are two military oaths.
www.thebulwark.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Officers are duty-bound to refuse an unlawful order. It is not optional. It is not situational. It is their job."
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What I now see as The Coming Clash of Civilizations should’ve been obvious. But from my old perch inside technocratic comfort, it was easy to ignore. I thought systems could save us; I didn’t realize they were eroding us. The real conflict isn’t nations or ideologies—it’s hierarchy versus humanity.
The Coming Clash of Civilizations
From the Wilderness of a Recovering Technocrat
www.notesfromthecircus.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
What I now see as The Coming Clash of Civilizations should’ve been obvious. But from my old perch inside technocratic comfort, it was easy to ignore. I thought systems could save us; I didn’t realize they were eroding us. The real conflict isn’t nations or ideologies—it’s hierarchy versus humanity.
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Collecting these to send along to Senate Democrats. You don't need to give your name or contact info and if you do, I won't pass it along.
How much did your insurance premiums increase this year? Please add your story to the incredibly unscientific survey.
forms.gle/DX4pD29sibCB...
forms.gle/DX4pD29sibCB...
My Health Care Horror Story
Provide info, vent!
forms.gle
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Collecting these to send along to Senate Democrats. You don't need to give your name or contact info and if you do, I won't pass it along.
"...the majority just doesn’t think discrimination against transgender and nonbinary individuals is a thing. But whether or not the Constitution forbids such discrimination, acting as if it doesn’t happen is not just violating long-settled standards of appellate procedure; it is unbecomingly mean."
Even though it mustered only 356 words to justify putting Trump's spiteful anti-trans passport policy back into effect, #SCOTUS managed to show us two of the flawed analytical moves it keeps making *only* in Trump cases to provide cover for granting emergency relief.
My latest, via "One First":
My latest, via "One First":
189. The Breezy Inequity of Trump v. Orr
The Supreme Court's latest grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration illustrates in technicolor the direct (and ugly) consequences of the two different ways it keeps messing up "equity."
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"...the majority just doesn’t think discrimination against transgender and nonbinary individuals is a thing. But whether or not the Constitution forbids such discrimination, acting as if it doesn’t happen is not just violating long-settled standards of appellate procedure; it is unbecomingly mean."
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Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.
www.techdirt.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?
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New paper from me offering a holistic assessment of #SCOTUS's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications thus far:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New paper from me offering a holistic assessment of #SCOTUS's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications thus far:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
So, Trump's Lawyer Keeps Txting Me...
YouTube video by LegalEagle
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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A civil attorney who Trump enthusiast Lindsey Halligan brought in to prosecute the Letitia James case screwed up his initial appearance and the court had to give him step-by-step instructions about how to save a PDF.
October 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A civil attorney who Trump enthusiast Lindsey Halligan brought in to prosecute the Letitia James case screwed up his initial appearance and the court had to give him step-by-step instructions about how to save a PDF.
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SecDef announcing another (9th) lethal strike, again in the Pacific against an unspecified "designated terrorist organization."
Claims these "DTOs are the 'Al Qaeda' of our hemisphere.
Nope.
No armed attack on US like 9/11.
No AUMF.
No armed conflict.
Just more lawless premeditated killing.
Claims these "DTOs are the 'Al Qaeda' of our hemisphere.
Nope.
No armed attack on US like 9/11.
No AUMF.
No armed conflict.
Just more lawless premeditated killing.
October 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
SecDef announcing another (9th) lethal strike, again in the Pacific against an unspecified "designated terrorist organization."
Claims these "DTOs are the 'Al Qaeda' of our hemisphere.
Nope.
No armed attack on US like 9/11.
No AUMF.
No armed conflict.
Just more lawless premeditated killing.
Claims these "DTOs are the 'Al Qaeda' of our hemisphere.
Nope.
No armed attack on US like 9/11.
No AUMF.
No armed conflict.
Just more lawless premeditated killing.
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"When electoral gains from moderation have been exhausted—when Democrats are running moderates in every competitive district and still losing—the task isn’t to moderate harder. It’s to give voters reason to believe politics can deliver real change." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...
The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.
Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.
data4democracy.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"When electoral gains from moderation have been exhausted—when Democrats are running moderates in every competitive district and still losing—the task isn’t to moderate harder. It’s to give voters reason to believe politics can deliver real change." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...
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He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens.
Yes, we are the baddies.
Yes, we are the baddies.
Trump says he's imposing new tariffs on Colombia but won't say what the rate will be
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens.
Yes, we are the baddies.
Yes, we are the baddies.
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I’m glad this is being covered. Federal judges have been warning us as best they know how. When I looked into this back in June, I found dozens of cases where judges suggested that the Trump administration’s conduct was untrustworthy or acting in bad faith.
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I’m glad this is being covered. Federal judges have been warning us as best they know how. When I looked into this back in June, I found dozens of cases where judges suggested that the Trump administration’s conduct was untrustworthy or acting in bad faith.
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An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
October 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
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“The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops. . . . If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.”
Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops. . . . If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.”
Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...