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Jjinandtonic

@jjinandtonic.bsky.social

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This place is not a place of honor. Nothing of value is here. What is here was time wasted. It is dangerous and should be repulsive to you. This bio is a warning of danger.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · Apr 1

You know, the Founding Fathers literally rebelled over this

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 1

Despite admitting to having illegally sent a guy to El Salvador by mistake, and even though the U.S. is paying El Salvador to indefinitely imprison him, the DOJ is arguing that, well, nothing to do, it's not in our hands anymore. The general tone of their response is "welp, sucks to be him."

But there is no jurisdiction in habeas. Plaintiffs admit—as they must—that the United States does not have custody over Abrego Garcia. They acknowledge that there may be “difficult questions of redressability” in this case, reflecting their recognition that Defendants do not have “the power to produce” Abrego Garcia from CECOT in El Salvador. Mem. Supp. TRO Mot. 2. But even more, they concede that Abrego Garcia is not in Defendants’ custody. Id. (asking the Court to order Defendants to “request that the government of El Salvador return Plaintiff to Defendants’ custody”). Despite their allegations of continued payment for Abrego Garcia’s detention, Plaintiffs do not argue that the United States can exercise its will over a foreign sovereign. The most they ask for is a court order that the United States entreat—or even cajole—a close ally in its fight against transnational cartels. This is not “custody” to which the great writ may run. This Court therefore lacks jurisdiction.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 23m

Turns out when the principle is bad, principled ideological stands lose to naked triangulation every time

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 27m

Claude de Bergerac has a better ring to jt tbh

olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 1h

spotted someone using chatgpt for their hinge profile and hey that's fucking bleak

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 28m

a lot of the birds and fish feel like immediate answers (psyduck, karaage)

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mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 1h

"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 35m

Banger

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 1h

COME OUT YE YANKEE FANS
COME OUT AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN
SHOW YOUR WIFE HOW YOU WON MEDALS
IN BOSTON AND CHICAAAAAGO
TELL HER HOW TORONTO BLUE JAYS
MADE YOU RUN LIKE HELL A WAY
FROM THE GREEN AND LOVELY FIELDS OF ROGERS CENTREEEE

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 1h

anti-yankees cover of Come Out Ye Blacks And Tans

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 39m

Somethings transcend generations

trick van treat @derek.bike · 42m

Vladdy: DAAAAA YANKEES LOSE

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Jonah Jeng @jonahjeng.bsky.social · 3h

WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping, 1994)

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 1h

BOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNEE

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1h

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

yeah, ezra basically believes that left-liberalism is doomed and we have to dislodge the current ruling party at whatever cost with whatever coalition we can piece together. its extrapolating way too much from 2024 which was more about the overarching landscape than the policy or messaging

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 9d

just my two cents on Ezra Klein: he is generally good on policy and his work on things like housing is helpful

the problem is that his punditry is misguided for two reasons:

1) he is not skeptical enough of right wing bad faith

2) he is acting like the U.S. is Hungary, where the right is popular

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 5h

Bonus Army BONUS Army BONUS ARMY

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 5h

#TheTroops™️ are starting to get grumpy

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3d

Laughing my ass off at the story of the girl who managed to successfully lie her way into yale only to get caught after her roommates got annoyed with her carrying on her long distance d/s relationship in the common room

She Faked Her Way into Yale. Then Things Unraveled.

How fabricated transcripts and a made-up personal statement about North Dakota fooled the Ivy into admitting a Chinese student from the Bay Area.

airmail.news

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2h

ebony and ivory (coffee and white monster)

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2h

Thus begins the rise of…5 shame

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2h

Marvel America is full of all sorts of collateral damage and preventable suffering but you do sorta need to punch Thanos/Hate Monger, etc

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2h

Like i get the broader metanarrative of ossified comic status quo and hollowed out worlds making superheros these artificial figures who just smash into villains rather than save regular people like their 30s roots but in narrative the status quo is worth defending because the alternative sucks

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 10h

i feel like the inverse hot take of the quoted post is more and more relevant by the day — like “yeah sometimes the status quo needs defending from people who exclusively want to make the world worse”