Paul Tassin
@pilgrim33.bsky.social
Housing attorney in New Orleans, posting for me and not for my org. NOLSW Local 2320.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Yes.
Also, I feel sick thinking about the debris management that *should* happen here.
By comparison, some estimates of debris totals from catastrophes: the Haiti earthquake produced around 9 million tons, 311 around 22 million tons, and Katrina around 30 million tons.
Also, I feel sick thinking about the debris management that *should* happen here.
By comparison, some estimates of debris totals from catastrophes: the Haiti earthquake produced around 9 million tons, 311 around 22 million tons, and Katrina around 30 million tons.
Another new entry for the lexicography of agentless genocide. Sounds like the rocks were placed there by a giant
December 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yes.
Also, I feel sick thinking about the debris management that *should* happen here.
By comparison, some estimates of debris totals from catastrophes: the Haiti earthquake produced around 9 million tons, 311 around 22 million tons, and Katrina around 30 million tons.
Also, I feel sick thinking about the debris management that *should* happen here.
By comparison, some estimates of debris totals from catastrophes: the Haiti earthquake produced around 9 million tons, 311 around 22 million tons, and Katrina around 30 million tons.
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"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
PHILIPSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves immigration detention after federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
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"Alejandro was murdered. This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial."
"Alejandro Was Murdered": Colombian Fisherman's Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Alejandro was murdered. This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial."
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It is legitimately funny that Trump expected to be picking up another Republican seat in Texas in exchange for a pardon, and Cuellar was just like "nah."
So rare to see someone treat Trump like he treats everyone else.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
So rare to see someone treat Trump like he treats everyone else.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
BARTIROMO: Have you considered switching parties?
CUELLAR: Look, I'm a Democrat
BARTIROMO: Okay, but Trump is out with a new Truth Social saying saying, "next time, no more Mr Nice Guy"
CUELLAR: I was at church this morning praying for the president
CUELLAR: Look, I'm a Democrat
BARTIROMO: Okay, but Trump is out with a new Truth Social saying saying, "next time, no more Mr Nice Guy"
CUELLAR: I was at church this morning praying for the president
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It is legitimately funny that Trump expected to be picking up another Republican seat in Texas in exchange for a pardon, and Cuellar was just like "nah."
So rare to see someone treat Trump like he treats everyone else.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
So rare to see someone treat Trump like he treats everyone else.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
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Before the ACW Sherman was superintendent of a military academy in Louisiana and his close friend was an instructor from Virginia who was very enthusiastic about secession. After the war, so maybe apocryphal, the friend recalled Sherman didactically explaining exactly what was coming:
December 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Before the ACW Sherman was superintendent of a military academy in Louisiana and his close friend was an instructor from Virginia who was very enthusiastic about secession. After the war, so maybe apocryphal, the friend recalled Sherman didactically explaining exactly what was coming:
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100%
And these thorough, well-reasoned opinions also often get cited in the future, when a different SCOTUS later gets asked to reconsider the same question
And these thorough, well-reasoned opinions also often get cited in the future, when a different SCOTUS later gets asked to reconsider the same question
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
100%
And these thorough, well-reasoned opinions also often get cited in the future, when a different SCOTUS later gets asked to reconsider the same question
And these thorough, well-reasoned opinions also often get cited in the future, when a different SCOTUS later gets asked to reconsider the same question
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2026 is going to be a *great* year to run for office. @runforsomething.net will help you. Filing deadlines are coming up fast - it's just barely not too late to get started. runforwhat.net
Where Can I Run by Run for Something
Take the next step: Look up offices you can run for
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
2026 is going to be a *great* year to run for office. @runforsomething.net will help you. Filing deadlines are coming up fast - it's just barely not too late to get started. runforwhat.net
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Unions are not usually asking for anything crazy and companies that have serious issues with their unions either have ideological management who takes unionization personally or institutional cultures that prevent them from treating their employees with enough basic respect to gain loyalty.
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Unions are not usually asking for anything crazy and companies that have serious issues with their unions either have ideological management who takes unionization personally or institutional cultures that prevent them from treating their employees with enough basic respect to gain loyalty.
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Without going into too much detail, a friend of mine is on the management side of a negotiating team with a union (he's personally very pro-union), and his take on this stuff is that if you have serious labor relations problems it's because you're dumb.
BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses
The city says about 15,000 employees will get paid $50 for each week worked over a three-year period. For some workers, that's thousands of dollars.
gothamist.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Without going into too much detail, a friend of mine is on the management side of a negotiating team with a union (he's personally very pro-union), and his take on this stuff is that if you have serious labor relations problems it's because you're dumb.
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The NOPD needs to protect New Orleans and enforce this law
No person in Louisiana shall wear a mask "calculated to conceal or hide the identity of the person or to prevent his being readily recognized."
The exceptions are children at Halloween and Mardi Gras.
The exceptions are children at Halloween and Mardi Gras.
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The NOPD needs to protect New Orleans and enforce this law
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A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene
The party can burn in hell
The party can burn in hell
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene
The party can burn in hell
The party can burn in hell
Maybe no direct benefit for you or me, but for people who actually get prosecuted it's a realistic chance at a significantly fairer process.
Looking forward to all the wonderful new things we get now that we've elected a ... um... Clerk of Court
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Maybe no direct benefit for you or me, but for people who actually get prosecuted it's a realistic chance at a significantly fairer process.
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a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
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*in the voice of the bene gesserit*
shame is the asshole killer.
Shame is the little vanquisher of douchebags.
I will allow the shame to wash over my
enemies.
And when the shame has swept all away, only we shall remain.
shame is the asshole killer.
Shame is the little vanquisher of douchebags.
I will allow the shame to wash over my
enemies.
And when the shame has swept all away, only we shall remain.
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
*in the voice of the bene gesserit*
shame is the asshole killer.
Shame is the little vanquisher of douchebags.
I will allow the shame to wash over my
enemies.
And when the shame has swept all away, only we shall remain.
shame is the asshole killer.
Shame is the little vanquisher of douchebags.
I will allow the shame to wash over my
enemies.
And when the shame has swept all away, only we shall remain.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"
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Calvin Duncan is the CLEAR choice for Clerk.
Very disappointing to see Moreno support Lombard. People do not *deserve* high-powered roles simply bc they’re from a prominent family or know the right people. N.O. deserves better than Lombard.
#nolasky #neworleans #nola
www.nola.com/news/politic...
Very disappointing to see Moreno support Lombard. People do not *deserve* high-powered roles simply bc they’re from a prominent family or know the right people. N.O. deserves better than Lombard.
#nolasky #neworleans #nola
www.nola.com/news/politic...
Helena Moreno's endorsement in clerk's race shows fault lines in New Orleans politics
Here's who Mayor-elect Helena Moreno is endorsing in the New Orleans criminal clerk race, and what it means.
www.nola.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Calvin Duncan is the CLEAR choice for Clerk.
Very disappointing to see Moreno support Lombard. People do not *deserve* high-powered roles simply bc they’re from a prominent family or know the right people. N.O. deserves better than Lombard.
#nolasky #neworleans #nola
www.nola.com/news/politic...
Very disappointing to see Moreno support Lombard. People do not *deserve* high-powered roles simply bc they’re from a prominent family or know the right people. N.O. deserves better than Lombard.
#nolasky #neworleans #nola
www.nola.com/news/politic...
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the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice**
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice**
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
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I just caught myself hopescrolling
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I just caught myself hopescrolling
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November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
www.publicnotice.co
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
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Just let me get the leak of what the NYPD group chats post about Zohran
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Just let me get the leak of what the NYPD group chats post about Zohran