Ole MacBarnesy
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“According to a source Ms. Halligan became enraged when a grand juror told her that the word ‘indict’ is pronounced ‘in-DITE,” not “in-DICKT.”
Justice Department again fails to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James
The Justice Department also tried and failed last week to secure a new indictment against James in Norfolk, Virginia.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“According to a source Ms. Halligan became enraged when a grand juror told her that the word ‘indict’ is pronounced ‘in-DITE,” not “in-DICKT.”
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Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
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Larry Krasner charged the largest volume of Philadelphia officers for misconduct in nearly 40 years – a seemingly splashy case for a former civil rights lawyer who has made prosecuting cops a cornerstone of his two terms. Yet the DA has been unusually quiet.
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/krasner...
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/krasner...
DA Larry Krasner is unusually silent after charging a record number of Philly cops in grant theft scandal
It was the largest number of Philadelphia police officers charged together for misconduct in nearly 40 years.
www.inquirer.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Larry Krasner charged the largest volume of Philadelphia officers for misconduct in nearly 40 years – a seemingly splashy case for a former civil rights lawyer who has made prosecuting cops a cornerstone of his two terms. Yet the DA has been unusually quiet.
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/krasner...
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/krasner...
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Phang: It is a fundamental premise of the law that there is no requirement that a criminal defendant be forced to testify to explain away the government’s evidence. Hallagan went to law school and knows better, but she’s so stupid that she made that misstatement of the law to the grand jury.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Phang: It is a fundamental premise of the law that there is no requirement that a criminal defendant be forced to testify to explain away the government’s evidence. Hallagan went to law school and knows better, but she’s so stupid that she made that misstatement of the law to the grand jury.
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We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
August 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
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Been a long day today lol
August 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Been a long day today lol
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“I was only an aspirante dictator,” Augusto Pinochet told Jon Lee Anderson in 1998. “I read a lot, especially history. And history teaches you that dictators never end up well.”
The Dictator
Augusto Pinochet is almost eighty-three years old, and justifying his actions, clarifying his place in history, is on his mind.
www.newyorker.com
August 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“I was only an aspirante dictator,” Augusto Pinochet told Jon Lee Anderson in 1998. “I read a lot, especially history. And history teaches you that dictators never end up well.”
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Eventually I’m sure the Texas design will pass and when that does @governor.ca.gov must make the special election a concrete reality and other blue states must follow. Any retaliation results in stopping federal funding.
August 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Eventually I’m sure the Texas design will pass and when that does @governor.ca.gov must make the special election a concrete reality and other blue states must follow. Any retaliation results in stopping federal funding.
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1 year ago white people made videos of her laughing about her saying this. 😒 Who’s laughing now?
August 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
1 year ago white people made videos of her laughing about her saying this. 😒 Who’s laughing now?
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I saw this in Tumblr years ago and it's been living in my head. I've never been able to find it again so I remade it myself.
July 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I saw this in Tumblr years ago and it's been living in my head. I've never been able to find it again so I remade it myself.
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"While the wildfires were raging in California, Ben and Ted Cruz had a podcast where they just attacked Governor Newsom and Karen Bass—that was while the fires were still raging. So spare us the grandstanding and virtue signaling about how this stuff shouldn't be partisan."
July 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"While the wildfires were raging in California, Ben and Ted Cruz had a podcast where they just attacked Governor Newsom and Karen Bass—that was while the fires were still raging. So spare us the grandstanding and virtue signaling about how this stuff shouldn't be partisan."
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Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔
🖕🏽 LAPD
🖕🏽 LAPD
July 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔
🖕🏽 LAPD
🖕🏽 LAPD
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Phang: They never learn, do they? There’s a slew of federal district court and appellate court judges telling this administration that what they’re doing is illegal and unconstitutional—but they don’t care. In response, they just call them “rogue judges.”
July 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Phang: They never learn, do they? There’s a slew of federal district court and appellate court judges telling this administration that what they’re doing is illegal and unconstitutional—but they don’t care. In response, they just call them “rogue judges.”
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“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
July 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
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Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.
June 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.
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according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
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“Taney is still worse, because he helped usher in the Civil War.”
Jury’s still out on what Roberts is ushering in, folks, but it isn’t going to be good
Jury’s still out on what Roberts is ushering in, folks, but it isn’t going to be good
Anyone still want to argue that John Roberts isn’t the worst Chief Justice in SCOTUS history?
June 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“Taney is still worse, because he helped usher in the Civil War.”
Jury’s still out on what Roberts is ushering in, folks, but it isn’t going to be good
Jury’s still out on what Roberts is ushering in, folks, but it isn’t going to be good
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I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.
Really scary stuff.
Really scary stuff.
June 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.
Really scary stuff.
Really scary stuff.
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Hey, quick follow-up -- isn't Iran closer to having a nuclear weapon because President Spiteful Shithead scrapped the JCPOA that had their program completely shut down?
Q: When the president says Iran is very close to a nuclear weapon, is he relying on US intelligence or intelligence sharing from an ally?
LEAVITT: It is a fact and the US govt maintains this fact that Iran has never been closer to a nuclear weapon
LEAVITT: It is a fact and the US govt maintains this fact that Iran has never been closer to a nuclear weapon
June 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hey, quick follow-up -- isn't Iran closer to having a nuclear weapon because President Spiteful Shithead scrapped the JCPOA that had their program completely shut down?
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Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?
June 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?
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Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.