maybe some of these firms prefer to file their own briefs, which would be great. but those that neither file nor sign on — and of course those that openly capitulate — should be shunned forever. clients of collaborationist firms as well.
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this is an administration that "reforms" imperfect but somewhat functional institutions into cargo-cultish mimics of what those institutions once were. www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pool-was...
Influencer Paid by Russia Added to White House Press Pool
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"I was proud to reintroduce…the No Dollars for Dictators Act to ensure tax dollars aren't being funneled…to dictators, terrorists and other evil regimes." ~Florida Senator Rick Scott, from his e-mail newsletter. I guess he really does believe in tax cuts.
don’t worry elon will send a sub.
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it’s the tautology, stupid.
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we should form a group called the “real americans” and raise huge sums for ad campaigns throughout the free world apologizing for our country’s behavior under possession, thanking them for staying sane and free, praying we will soon rejoin them after a difficult exorcism. ht @williamcb.bsky.social
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you lace the product with arsenic, and all of a sudden…
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Venezuela has genuinely been a pretty horrific place for people. And now the US is like, hold my beer. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... ht @jeffstein.bsky.social
U.S. sent Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador mega prison
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my alma mater was once as close to a utopian community of playful minds as has existed in this country. i am so sad and ashamed by what it has become, so angry at the moral pygmies so raucously undoing it. #NewCollege
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they pin a little zig-zagging arrow going down and to the right to the breasts of shorts.
waiting for the first visa revocation for speaking ill of a Tesla.
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“arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.”
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
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“The Trump regime is an endless recursion of propaganda generation to build more power to generate more propaganda to build more power… because as long as that perpetual motion machine is operating they can plunder undetected.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social
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I don't think Louisiana is because spare incarceration capacity. It's the 5th Circuit, where habeas petitions might have the hardest time. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
Why the Trump administration wants to try immigration cases in Louisiana
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Text: In “Personal Responsibility,” Arendt denigrates the “widespread conviction that it is impossible to withstand temptation of any kind, the none of us could be trusted or even expected to be trustworthy when the chips are down, that to be tempted and to be forced are almost the same.” But that is the precisely the conviction that Brad Karp, chair of the law firm Paul Weiss, appealed to in his defense of the firm’s deal with the Trump administration. “It is very easy for commentators to judge our actions from the sidelines,” he wrote in an email to “the PW community.” “But no one in the wider world can appreciate how stressful it is to confront an executive order like this until one is directed at you.”
the era of tacitly trading US protection for cheap foreign goods—which had the side effect of providing demand to foreign producers—is ending. perhaps having to provide their own protection will substitute for the loss of US demand.
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