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Michael Jacobs
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Gringo lawyer in Chile. Competition/antitrust law, photography, history, Green Bay Packers and pisco. Aspiring former attorney.
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Moonrise over the Andes. Santiago, Chile, December 3, 2025 🔭

#photography #astrophotgraphy
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interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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My latest with @bradheath.bsky.social and @kristinacooke.bsky.social, examining the more than 20,200 habeas lawsuits that people detained by immigration authorities have filed since Trump took office.
February 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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Asking for dismissal with prejudice of your own charges is… wild.
Yeah, we definitely need more info here.

CourtListener docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72164...
February 13, 2026 at 10:23 PM
*THIS* is the only real MAGA agenda for Big Tech -- grounded in their invented culture war grievances -- and it was obvious from the get go.
Been looking more deeply at this fake FTC investigation into Apple News for "promoting liberal content" and it's just the most laughably pathetic nonsense.
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson Issues Warning Letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N.
www.ftc.gov
February 13, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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The most blatantly corrupt gangster government in American history. Where are congressional Republicans on this stuff? Nowhere to be found. Vote them ALL out.
February 10, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Any hope of pursuing a progressive agenda at the federal level in coming decades has to begin with court reform.
"some climate science denialists said they hoped that the high court would tie the hands of future Democratic administrations for decades to come." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/c...
The E.P.A. Is Barreling Toward a Supreme Court Climate Showdown
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Truth and reparations.

Great piece by @jamellebouie.net. (Gift link.)
Opinion | We Have to Face What ICE Has Done to Us
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Mr. Unitary Executive
Kudlow on the DOJ investigation into Jay Powell: “Is it worth holding up the Warsh nomination?”

Trump: “I don't know…Jeanine Pirro is doing it. I wasn't involved in it.”
February 11, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Valdivia, Chile

#photography #fotografía
February 8, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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The cruelty is sickening. The lawlessness is terrifying.
New: Trump's administration tonight told a Boston judge that his proposal that it issue a student visa to a Babson College student it deported to Honduras in violation of a court order is "unfeasible" and said ICE declines to facilitate her return. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump administration won't let student deported to Honduras return
President Donald Trump's administration on Friday called a judge's proposal that the government issue a student visa to a college student it deported to Honduras in violation of a court order "unfeasi...
www.reuters.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Trump, not U.S., signs deal with Millei.
The two interesting things here are that: 1) Trump doesn't have the constitutional authority to conclude this deal without congressional approval, so any enforcement of it is open to legal challenge; and, 2) Milei's timing on torpedoing Mercosur, right after it sealed the EU deal, is curious.
Argentina and U.S. Sign Sweeping Trade Deal as Alliance Deepens
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Life Invisible: the fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth – documentary

www.theguardian.com/film/ng-inte...
Life Invisible: the fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth – documentary
Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s driest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncove...
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
What a bunch of vile people running things now in the U.S.
February 6, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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Skater girls of Ethiopia
January 11, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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When he's dead Evangelicals will go back to pretending they cared about the morality of politicians and I'm telling you it will be the most shameless shit you've ever seen
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast on himself: "He may not have ever read the Bible, but he will be a much stronger messenger for us"
February 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Pretty wild to me how many pundits and academics treated Republican opposition to the notion of Supreme Court expansion during the Biden administration as a serious, principled stance, as opposed to a position Republicans would obviously abandon the moment it became convenient
Republicans Love Supreme Court Expansion When It Gets Them What They Want
When it comes to state supreme courts, Republican politicians have been happy to add (or subtract) justices as they see fit.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I didn’t see that last sentence coming.
Rep. Ben Cline at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We are reminded that leadership is not only about policy and power, but about character, conscience, and the recognition that all authority that all authority is ultimately accountable to God. We are honored to welcome President Bukele."
February 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Looking good!
February 5, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Are you fucking kidding me?
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Helluva time for Bozos to be dismantling a once great news organization that could break a story like this.
Oh this is…concerning…given Wyden’s history on surveillance and such.

And I have no doubt the CIA would be willing to (again & still) illegally operate domestically.

www.aclu.org/documents/mo...

Fucking fascists.
I don’t like this
February 5, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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Probably it's a healthy sign for democracy when the highest court is making its employees sign nondisclosure agreements about how the court works
John Roberts Does Not Want You Finding Out How the Supreme Court Actually Works
The six-justice conservative supermajority is taking aggressive steps to ensure that the public remains in the dark about how the Supreme Court functions.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM