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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 8h

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 8h

Out of district billionaires

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 8h

Get yourself a Congressperson who won’t steal your family’s food.

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 8h

“There is going to be infants skipping feeds. There is going to be pregnant women skipping meals so that they can feed their toddlers."
apnews.com/article/wic-...

Government shutdown threatens food aid program relied on by millions of families

Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 8h

Madiba does

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 8h

Sure but

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 9h

Been banging on about this for a while now, go be a hero

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14d

Whomever argues for Slaughter should go full DGAF in concert with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson to make the Roberts majority melt down in imperious umbrage over the lack of decorum and respect they expect is owed to them
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/09/oral...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

It tends to get underplayed in American historical imagination, but our Revolution was in a direct, conscious lineage from the Glorious Revolution and before that the English Civil Wars. The road to 1776 began outside the Banqueting House in 1649. We are, in that real sense, still Anglo-Americans.

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 15h

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 15h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18h

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10h

The Kavanaugh Stops will continue until we have racially segregated every middle-lower class bulding’s residential population in every major city.

Congratulations, Brett. You’ve done a Prigg v. Pennsylvania.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15h

(Here’s the decision)
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15h

I covered it!

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17h

This argues that Thomas accidentally brought back the original reparative argument for affirmative action that SCOTUS killed off in the Bakke case over Thurgood Marshall's dissent.

But even so, since when has Thomas or any of his cohort let their own logic thwart their deeply held policy goals?

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 21h

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

Murder Memo Man

Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

CA5’s going en banc likely to uphold Louisiana’s law requiring the 10 Commandments in the state’s public schools in defiance of pre-Roberts precedent

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before ELROD, Chief Judge, and JONES, SMITH, STEWART, RICHMAN, SOUTHWICK, HAYNES, GRAVES, HIGGINSON, WILLETT, Ho, DUNCAN, ENGELHARDT, OLDHAM, WILSON, DoUGLAS, and RAMIREZ, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
A member of the court having requested a poll on the petition for rehearing en banc, and a majority of the circuit judges in regular active service and not disqualified having voted in favor,
IT IS ORDERED that this cause shall be reheard by the court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs. Pursuant to 5th Rule 41.3, the panel opinion in this case date June 20, 2025, is
VACATED.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

CA5’s going en banc likely to uphold Louisiana’s law requiring the 10 Commandments in the state’s public schools in defiance of pre-Roberts precedent

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

Get yourself a Congressperson who will lower your healthcare costs, not jack them up.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 4d

While we’re talking about the visages of the living on US currency

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fun fact: Lincoln’s law establishing paper money in 1861 was championed by then-Treasury Sec Salmon Chase, whose face then went on one of the bills. Lincoln made Chase Chief Justice in 1864 to neutralize his political threat, and then Chase voted greenbacks unconstitutional.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

And one experiment otherwise went totally haywire

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fun fact: Lincoln’s law establishing paper money in 1861 was championed by then-Treasury Sec Salmon Chase, whose face then went on one of the bills. Lincoln made Chase Chief Justice in 1864 to neutralize his political threat, and then Chase voted greenbacks unconstitutional.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

Insurance

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

Mascott jumping the line here is unsurprising given that she’s the most MAGA-aligned of the three pending circuit court nominees and she can cement a MAGA majority on the Third Circuit (and right before it hears a major gun case).

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 1d

Leader Thune filed cloture on Exec. Cal. #459 Jennifer Lee Mascott to be US Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

Robinson all but accuses the majority of anti-trans bias: "it’s hard to imagine that I would be penning this dissent in a case where prison officials declined to refer an inmate with a palpable lump in her breast for further tests or an evaluation by someone with experience treating breast cancer."

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Elie

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

Get yourself a Congressperson who will take power away from the Roberts Court and give it back to the people.

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