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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 15h

National Guard soldiers deserve respect after everything in the GWOT, but this is sooo funny after Hegseth's special meeting where he told all the generals you can't rely on overweight troops

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 18h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 21h

"Mr. Defendant, what kind of collection do you--"

*interrupting* "I HAPPEN TO BE A COLLECTOR OF SPECIFICALLY NAZI AND CONFEDERATE HISTORY"

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 22h

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 21h

What does "cancelled" even mean here? These are two people who by any measure have much more influence than they used to

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 22h

I'm concerned that our new associate's standing desk is a psychological power play. It feels like I'm talking to the final boss at a Kinko's.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 1d

It's that time of year again when Albuquerque residents look to the sky and think, 'Is that giant balloon going to land in the middle of the road?'

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

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Per @jonseidel.bsky.social, the judge did not immediately rule on Illinois' request for an order barring deployment of federalized troops to Chicago.

She set oral argument for Thursday, with a response from the government due Wednesday.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Good afternoon. U.S. District Judge April Perry just took the bench for today's status hearing in Illinois v. Trump, over deployment of the National Guard.

A link to the complaint, for those who don't have it: t.co/yaknq55rr8

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 1d

This is not at all to say that she's partisan or has an axe to grind, but it will be interesting to see if she goes at DOJ even half as hard as Immergut did last night

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 1d

Funny story, April Perry was nominated by Biden to be the US attorney for Illinois in 2023. The GOP delayed her nomination long enough for it to expire, and then it got blocked by Senator JD Vance in January 2024.

So Biden withdrew that nomination and instead nominated her to the federal bench.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 1d

Judges seem to be paying attention lately. In the Illinois v. Trump case filed this morning, Judge Perry has set a status conference for 2 PM this afternoon.

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

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, without reading more this seems like an ambiguous question. I thought things would be terrible, and they've been moderately more terrible than I anticipated. Some people thought he'd dissolve Congress on day one and it hasn't been quite that bad yet.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

Answer: You better believe it.

bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

Think Illinois will file suit tomorrow morning?

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

Think Illinois will file suit tomorrow morning?

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

To say what is happening makes you sound like a crackpot on a forum. A federal judge is enjoining the president from unlawfully sending federalized soldiers to invade the states of his political opponents against their will.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

Judge: Again, I'm handling on emergency basis, limited briefing, but new info has been provided. For all of the reasons stated in this court's previous order, I GRANT plaintiffs' motion for second TRO. The question is the scope of it.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info.

SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

"Well, your honor, we gotcha. So do the gavel thing and let us invade this state."

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

DOJ: Well, CA NG already federalized, and ...

Judge: Anything else you want to argue?

DOJ: Yes, your honor. OR and Portland lack standing to challenge relocation of out-of-state National Guard. Only CA could possibly sue under 12406, but CA can't establish standing or irreparable harm.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?

DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker

Judge: You're a lawyer

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

It's crazy that we seem to be speedrunning the Weimar Republic post World War 1, and the reason isn't millions of deaths and an economic collapse, it's that that we took reasonable steps in response to a pandemic that left us better off than most of the world

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

"That's not judicial power, only judges were doing that!"

*waits politely for him to realize what he just said*

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

"Steve is way smarter than this," I say as I actually make his point for him

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d

So the argument is that Congress giving *judges* this power ≠ Congress giving *courts* this power?

Umm…

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

Wurman is one of the starkest examples of somebody who’s not stupid, he could easily explain himself why this is wrong, but has simply decided, eyes wide open and knowing exactly what he is doing, to be shamelessly dishonest.

Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 3d

We don’t have to carry water for dictators. Just my thought.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

At the Constitutional Convention:

"Okay, we've just gotten through a war of independence waged by a king who sent his army after us and we had no ability to contest the legality of that. First things first, everyone agrees there will be no review of how the president uses our army, right?"

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

Much like Wurman's speculative fiction about the birthright citizenship issue, this is especially grating because it really rests on nothing. You simply cannot reconcile the idea that the military is the president's personal army with basic concepts that the founders expressed during the founding

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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