Tahfromslc
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Tahfromslc
@tahfromslc.bsky.social
Retired lawyer and public policy analyst, leftist humanitarian. I don’t look like this anymore.
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The Russian Armed Forces launched a massive missile and drone strike on an energy facility in Dnipro and on the Kryvyi Rih Thermal Power Station in the Dnipropetrovsk region

Residents of Dnipro are reporting power outages and voltage surges.
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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The RFK/Trump Vaccine policy isn’t about “choice.” If it were, they wouldn’t have removed the tool for finding vaccines.
And the bodily choice analogy is BS anyway. If I get an abortion, that doesn’t harm YOUR fetus.
www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
CDC Vaccine Search Tool No Longer Works. Vaccines.gov Website Scrubbed
The CDC has removed the functionality of the search tool for the Vaccines.gov website and practically all the information on vaccines that used to be there.
www.forbes.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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RFK, Jr. should not be able to appear in public without people yelling "murderer" at him.
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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This is why I think things will probably come to a head around midterms, because they'll just keep doubling down
They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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The ACIP decision to discontinue the recommendation for a universal hepatitis B birth dose vaccine will cause harm.

As the federal government continues to fail children's health, families can rely on our nation's physicians to continue to put children's health first.
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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1. He is a chiropractor, not a doctor
2. His MS is from his chiropractic school (that's why he doesn't say where he got it)
3. His Johns Hopklns degree is an online MA for non-physicians & the JHU library has no evidence of him finishing a thesis
4. Bastyr University is an unaccredited quack school
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional, offering the justices an opportunity to revisit w...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Floridians were preparing new popular initiatives on behalf of Medicaid expansion, abortion rights, and other matters. Earlier this year, a new state law made these efforts a lot tougher, threatening volunteers with investigations and criminal punishment.
A New Crackdown on Ballot Initiatives Unnerves Florida Organizers
The new Republican law threatens volunteers with more investigations and criminal punishment, even as Ron DeSantis faces allegations of illegally meddling in ballot measures.
boltsmag.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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the reason that it's so disturbing when Newsom/Buttigieg/Harris say that they want to force trans ppl out of sports is that it signals that they don't want to fight for trans rights at a time when there is a massive genocidal campaign against trans people. 1
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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"Brett Kavanaugh had six figures in credit card debt shortly before he was confirmed to the Supreme Court" is one of those things that will live rent-free in my head forever because I quite literally have represented someone in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy over substantially less debt.
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Two amazing First Amendment litigation spots are open at Protect Democracy. Deadline is December 7th.

This is someone's dream job and they may not know about it, so please send to good lawyers you know!

protectdemocracy.recruitee.com/o/counsel-fi...
Protect Democracy - Counsel, First Amendment | Protect Democracy
Protect Democracy is hiring for an attorney experienced with First Amendment law help ensure that communities can continue to speak out and engage politically.
protectdemocracy.recruitee.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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part of it is that they hate women, part of it is that they hate her specifically because they think she should want to fuck them, part of it is that all this shit is for the benefit of like 10K people on twitter who've all been legally prohibited from having unsupervised time with their children
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.

The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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We literally found the stupidest people in the country and put them in charge.
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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WATCH: Sarah Owings, the attorney representing 54 Korean workers from the raided Hyundai plant, describes the horrible conditions some of her clients are enduring in ICE custody.
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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*1868

They're citing the date of Kim Wong Ark but it should be the 14th Amendment itself. The Court didn't create it and that's not a nit-picky distinction here.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
December 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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When I saw the story in passing I thought it was the same dumb bit as the army parade, the fig leaf of using Flag Day because it happens to also be his birthday. But no, Trump's birthday as such is now an official commemoration for NPS free admission days.

www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
December 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.

A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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it's cool how every day there's a news story about the CDC changing vaccine recommendations and it's right next to a news story about how a kid died from a disease that last killed in 1893 but any reporter that tries to connect the two gets fired by a venture capitalist for taking up ad space
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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In honor of the unjustly banned Link, I invite folks to post their mutual aid below this thread. I will repost need as long as I am able.

As the holiday season approaches, and temperatures drop, mutual aid is going to become more important.

Consider giving what you can. If you can't, repost.
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Minneapolis stands up to ICE

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job

Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM