Rick Frenkel
@rickfrenkel.bsky.social
Bay Area patent litigator. I’m here for the dogs. Michigan football fan and looking forward to sports Twitter migrating here. Opinions are all my own!
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Via "One First," my quick write-up of President Trump's "Presidential Memorandum" purporting to federalize 2000 California National Guard troops; the relevant legal authorities for doing so; and how the move is both a modest *and* dangerous escalation of what's going on in and around Los Angeles:
156. Federalizing the California National Guard
President Trump's Saturday night "memorandum" federalizing 2000 California National Guard troops is a tentative step toward abusing authorities for domestic use of the military, but a dangerous one.
www.stevevladeck.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Via "One First," my quick write-up of President Trump's "Presidential Memorandum" purporting to federalize 2000 California National Guard troops; the relevant legal authorities for doing so; and how the move is both a modest *and* dangerous escalation of what's going on in and around Los Angeles:
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Tell them no.
The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
June 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Tell them no.
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He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.
gotta say I did not anticipate ICE goons going after the whitest possible immigrants with American families, jobs, and in good standing legally. a freaking Danish-born welder in Mississippi with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife. just omnidirectional hate
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.
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FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS to oppose the Trump administration...there is a strategy worth pursuing, one familiar to underdogs the world over: Push the aggressor beyond their limits.
My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.
My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.
What the First 100 Days Taught Us About Resisting Trump
For starters, it’s better to push back than to appease.
www.thebulwark.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS to oppose the Trump administration...there is a strategy worth pursuing, one familiar to underdogs the world over: Push the aggressor beyond their limits.
My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.
My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.
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What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
April 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
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University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
In defense of our institutional independence
This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.
www.michigandaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
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Among the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against the Crown was “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”
newrepublic.com/article/1939...
newrepublic.com/article/1939...
Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags
His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.
newrepublic.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Among the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against the Crown was “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”
newrepublic.com/article/1939...
newrepublic.com/article/1939...
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Judge Wilkinson is an appointee of Ronald Reagan and has been on the shortlist for previous Republican presidents for nominations to #scotus.
This is as emphatic of a warning it gets for everyone and a notice for Roberts SCOTUS.
This is as emphatic of a warning it gets for everyone and a notice for Roberts SCOTUS.
INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Judge Wilkinson is an appointee of Ronald Reagan and has been on the shortlist for previous Republican presidents for nominations to #scotus.
This is as emphatic of a warning it gets for everyone and a notice for Roberts SCOTUS.
This is as emphatic of a warning it gets for everyone and a notice for Roberts SCOTUS.
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Every now and then it hits me that this isn’t just about 1 inhuman act or another, but a bigger picture.
That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.
That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.
April 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Every now and then it hits me that this isn’t just about 1 inhuman act or another, but a bigger picture.
That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.
That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.
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The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
April 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
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My NYT colleague Elisabeth Bumiller has already written an outstanding piece on this exact point. I am just noting that I am encoutering this again and again, almost every day. Here is Elisabeth's piece from last month.
nyti.ms/3R9xkon
nyti.ms/3R9xkon
‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves (Gift Article)
People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.
nyti.ms
April 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My NYT colleague Elisabeth Bumiller has already written an outstanding piece on this exact point. I am just noting that I am encoutering this again and again, almost every day. Here is Elisabeth's piece from last month.
nyti.ms/3R9xkon
nyti.ms/3R9xkon
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“For those who have lost everything in climate disasters, the apocalypse has already arrived. As the planet gets hotter, climate disasters will get more frequent and intense. How bad depends on how long we let the fossil fuel industry continue to call the shots.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles
After the Bobcat fire, the area no longer felt safe.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“For those who have lost everything in climate disasters, the apocalypse has already arrived. As the planet gets hotter, climate disasters will get more frequent and intense. How bad depends on how long we let the fossil fuel industry continue to call the shots.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
@mgoblog.bsky.social just got my book and it is beautiful. Thanks to you and @mgoseth.bsky.social and the whole team. Truly.
December 18, 2024 at 3:38 AM
@mgoblog.bsky.social just got my book and it is beautiful. Thanks to you and @mgoseth.bsky.social and the whole team. Truly.
Was just in a CVS. Other than for picking up prescriptions, I’m trying to figure out why ever I go back.
I get the need to safeguard from shoplifting but this CVS setup is insane.
December 1, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Was just in a CVS. Other than for picking up prescriptions, I’m trying to figure out why ever I go back.
What stage of grief are we in now? #goblue
Michigan Fans are going through it over Bryce Underwood #GeauxTigers #GoBlue
deathvalleyvoice.com/michigan-fan...
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Michigan fans enter the 5 Stages of Grief as Bryce Underwood looks to stick with LSU
Thursday was dominated by the recruiting news surrounding Bryce Underwood as news broke that Bryce Underwood was being offered $10.5 Million by Michigan. On Thu
deathvalleyvoice.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:09 AM
What stage of grief are we in now? #goblue
I don’t know what I found more disturbing here: The criticism of legitimate scholarship relating to judge shopping, or the response to the question from 97-year-old currently suspended Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, who was told her removal was suspect and that “it could happen to any of us.”
The fundamental lie of the Federalist Society is “we’re not extremists, we’re just a group that can have open discussions about controversial topics.” But Judges Jones and Ho, continuing in the tradition of Justice Alito, demonstrated that’s not true. /1
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Fifth Circuit's Jones Tears Into Vladeck Over Judge-Shopping
Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones delivered a forceful rebuke of what she described as “unsavory” attacks against the judges within her circuit, spurring a tense exchange with a Georgetown Law professor...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 15, 2024 at 6:59 PM
I don’t know what I found more disturbing here: The criticism of legitimate scholarship relating to judge shopping, or the response to the question from 97-year-old currently suspended Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, who was told her removal was suspect and that “it could happen to any of us.”
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pls share, enjoy, laugh. we need it.
Alex Jones literally owned by the libs now www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
Alex Jones literally owned by the libs now www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
Alex Jones literally owned by the libs now
The satirical news site The Onion has purchased conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars website following his bankruptcy proceedings. The development is a massive humiliation for one of Donald Trump’...
www.dailykos.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:50 PM
pls share, enjoy, laugh. we need it.
Alex Jones literally owned by the libs now www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
Alex Jones literally owned by the libs now www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
I didn’t post that much on the other place but the dialog here is so much more refreshing, it is encouraging.
November 12, 2024 at 4:04 AM
I didn’t post that much on the other place but the dialog here is so much more refreshing, it is encouraging.
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After that you're going to have to learn from the Republicans and get involved with local politics. Belief in political institutions starts with local politics. The National party isn't coming to save you.
November 6, 2024 at 4:22 PM
After that you're going to have to learn from the Republicans and get involved with local politics. Belief in political institutions starts with local politics. The National party isn't coming to save you.
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This is the game: Jews complain about antisemitism on a social media site. If no one cares, the bigotry persists. If decent people try to curb it, the bigot points to the attempt to rebut them as proof that there is a Jewish conspiracy. Heads the antisemites win, tails Jews lose.
September 5, 2023 at 1:04 AM
This is the game: Jews complain about antisemitism on a social media site. If no one cares, the bigotry persists. If decent people try to curb it, the bigot points to the attempt to rebut them as proof that there is a Jewish conspiracy. Heads the antisemites win, tails Jews lose.
Thanks to @trask.bsky.social I finally have a way out! And so glad to see so many friendly faces here.
August 21, 2023 at 5:58 AM
Thanks to @trask.bsky.social I finally have a way out! And so glad to see so many friendly faces here.