Matt and Pumpkin
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Matt and Pumpkin
@mattandpumpkin.bsky.social
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People are 100% going to spend that money on more immediate needs like food, rent, and utilities. Pre-ACA world shows the poorest Americans can and will cheap out on their own health insurance if given the option. We will shorten our own lives to avoid being taken in by such an obvious racket
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Cornell agrees to turn over "anonymized" admissions data broken down to individual colleges and schools.
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Cornell agrees to "invest" $30 million in things like AI farming.

Cornell also agrees to pay $30 million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Ellis: "Requiring the government to comply with its obligations under the Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment, is simply not a harm."
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Ellis: "The public also has an interest in its citizens' bodily integrity, the right to peaceful protest, the right to assemble, the right of peaceful free exercise of religion."
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Ellis also finds that the feds' use of force in Chicago "shocks the conscience."
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Ellis: "I see little reason for the use of force that the federal agents are currently using. Pointing guns, pulling out pepper spray, throwing tear gas, shooting pepperballs and using other less lethal munitions do not appear to be appropriate."
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Judge Ellis finds that the Trump administration has placed "content-based restrictions" on protesters.

"Tellingly, she says, "defendants do not deny that they would treat pro-ICE demonstrators more favorably."
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Ellis: "The unlawful activity by a few protesters does not transform a peaceful assembly into an unlawful assembly."
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Ellis notes people being tear gassed, staring down the barrel of a gun and being "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street."

"All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Ellis on the Oct. 14 incident on the Southeast side: "Agents pushed, shoved, tackled protesters, pointed guns at them, threw tear gas and deployed smoke canisters. Everyone that agents detained were released by the FBI, and none of them are currently charged with assault."
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Ellis: [Bovino] admitted that he lied about whether a rock hit him before he deployed tear gas in Little Village."
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Ellis turns to the testimony of U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino. How he denied using force against a man he tackled and said he didn't see the Rev. David Black hit by pepperballs.

"More telling," she says, "defendant Bovino admitted that he lied."
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Ellis: "The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion."
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM