Cameron Blazer
@cameronblazer.bsky.social
Public defender, home arts dilettante, karaoke try-hard • Dum spiro spero
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Cameron Blazer
@cameronblazer.bsky.social
· Nov 11
As people begin to make plans for what comes next, can we all agree that our focus should be on actions that minimize suffering? In that spirit, allow me to propose that there are still lots of places where you can affect local/state policy to ensure robust public defense.
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
Just deleted a very snotty blind- item-style critique of a legal nonprofit leader whom I deeply dislike. I will be awaiting my reward in heaven.
December 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Just deleted a very snotty blind- item-style critique of a legal nonprofit leader whom I deeply dislike. I will be awaiting my reward in heaven.
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
Husband came upon a Honduran passport and wallet belonging to the same person in the road near our home in Mount Pleasant, SC. I checked our jail to see if this same person was recently detained, but there is no record of that. Best way to try to get it back to its owner without undue risk to him?
December 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Husband came upon a Honduran passport and wallet belonging to the same person in the road near our home in Mount Pleasant, SC. I checked our jail to see if this same person was recently detained, but there is no record of that. Best way to try to get it back to its owner without undue risk to him?
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Question for any public defenders: does your office provide Westlaw and/or Lexus for research for all attorneys? Anyone using Fastcase or other lower cost solutions? Any fellow Casetext refugees found a suitable alternative since their absorption by the TR borg?
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Question for any public defenders: does your office provide Westlaw and/or Lexus for research for all attorneys? Anyone using Fastcase or other lower cost solutions? Any fellow Casetext refugees found a suitable alternative since their absorption by the TR borg?
Question for any public defenders: does your office provide Westlaw and/or Lexus for research for all attorneys? Anyone using Fastcase or other lower cost solutions? Any fellow Casetext refugees found a suitable alternative since their absorption by the TR borg?
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Question for any public defenders: does your office provide Westlaw and/or Lexus for research for all attorneys? Anyone using Fastcase or other lower cost solutions? Any fellow Casetext refugees found a suitable alternative since their absorption by the TR borg?
Giving real consideration to converting to exclusively focusing on Larry Summers dunk content.
Since Larry Summers is in the news for being a real son of a bitch I wanted to show my favorite piece of economic wisdom he had about the US coming out of COVID where he just lists all the possibilities and says they’re all equally likely
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Giving real consideration to converting to exclusively focusing on Larry Summers dunk content.
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Since Larry Summers is in the news for being a real son of a bitch I wanted to show my favorite piece of economic wisdom he had about the US coming out of COVID where he just lists all the possibilities and says they’re all equally likely
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Since Larry Summers is in the news for being a real son of a bitch I wanted to show my favorite piece of economic wisdom he had about the US coming out of COVID where he just lists all the possibilities and says they’re all equally likely
Can this most recent revelation about Larry Summers and Epstein mean we will never have to hear from this self-important, sexist jackass again?
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Can this most recent revelation about Larry Summers and Epstein mean we will never have to hear from this self-important, sexist jackass again?
Strong contender. Scott, Chris, Chad, and Brian/Bryan also doing heavy work among the coastal Southern Gen X contingent of my youth.
Jason is the most Gen X white guy name. Change my mind.
October 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Strong contender. Scott, Chris, Chad, and Brian/Bryan also doing heavy work among the coastal Southern Gen X contingent of my youth.
When “I know you are, but what am I” grows up to be speaker of the House.
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 AM
When “I know you are, but what am I” grows up to be speaker of the House.
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OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
September 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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The GOP controls the whole Federal government. They have to fund it. If they don't, it's their fault. [see how easy that is].
September 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The GOP controls the whole Federal government. They have to fund it. If they don't, it's their fault. [see how easy that is].
Sat on a call this afternoon with “experts” at a well known legal publisher trying to sell my org on their agentic AI. When I asked them to distinguish between agentic and generative, they offered AI-style word salad. I didn’t bother w/ the follow up about the stochastic/probabilistic distinction.
September 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sat on a call this afternoon with “experts” at a well known legal publisher trying to sell my org on their agentic AI. When I asked them to distinguish between agentic and generative, they offered AI-style word salad. I didn’t bother w/ the follow up about the stochastic/probabilistic distinction.
Nachmanoff was also the well-respected head of the Federal Public Defender’s office for EDVA for many years, who argued a bellwether case in federal criminal law (Kimbrough v US) before the Supreme Court. That case fundamentally shaped my career and outcomes as a FPD. He’s a real one.
A federal judge appointed by President Biden has been assigned James Comey’s criminal case.
US District Judge Michael Nachmanoff was confirmed to the bench with three Republican votes including Senator Lindsey Graham.
US District Judge Michael Nachmanoff was confirmed to the bench with three Republican votes including Senator Lindsey Graham.
September 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Nachmanoff was also the well-respected head of the Federal Public Defender’s office for EDVA for many years, who argued a bellwether case in federal criminal law (Kimbrough v US) before the Supreme Court. That case fundamentally shaped my career and outcomes as a FPD. He’s a real one.
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Have you ever found yourself lamenting, "Wow, I wish I could just be wresting away control of a half-eaten fried chicken bone that was just on the sidewalk!"? If so, then dog ownership is for you!
September 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Have you ever found yourself lamenting, "Wow, I wish I could just be wresting away control of a half-eaten fried chicken bone that was just on the sidewalk!"? If so, then dog ownership is for you!
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Centrists need to learn why they /have/ weekends and lazy evenings to indulge their hobby of scolding leftists.
September 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Centrists need to learn why they /have/ weekends and lazy evenings to indulge their hobby of scolding leftists.
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Good doomerism: "on our current trajectory, we're fucked."
Bad doomerism "we're fucked."
Bad doomerism "we're fucked."
One thing that's absolutely f---ing unbearable on this site is that if you dare to point out that Trump is not actually successfully oppressing all of us on every conceivable front, that not *all* is irretrievably lost, a parade of doomers materializes to denounce you. It's counterproductive. Stop.
As corrupt and appalling as the ouster of this career prosecutor for refusing to prosecute Trump's enemies truly is, I strongly encourage folks to also understand this as evidence that Trump's authoritarian designs are facing serious institutional resistance:
September 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Good doomerism: "on our current trajectory, we're fucked."
Bad doomerism "we're fucked."
Bad doomerism "we're fucked."
Also, for people involved in the criminal legal system for everything from traffic offenses to murder, the law is still very much in play and not always in fair ways. The rule of law has always been an ideal we approach asymptotically. The curve is shallower today, but we cannot stop striving.
Reminder: before you go full-on defeatist about the rule of law, keep in mind it remains often effective on a micro-level. It’s on the macro- that the FedSoc types have killed it. Hard work and good lawyering can make a difference for regular people — though not always, and not all of them.
Protester found not guilty of assault against federal officer at L.A. immigration protest despite top Border Patrol official's testimony. Latest w/ @brittnymejia.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Also, for people involved in the criminal legal system for everything from traffic offenses to murder, the law is still very much in play and not always in fair ways. The rule of law has always been an ideal we approach asymptotically. The curve is shallower today, but we cannot stop striving.
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
Tell me again about the right’s principled stance on political violence.
Here’s mine: I abhor violence. Against people I like and people I dislike. By and against the state. I also abhor hypocrites, liars, and bigots. The killing of such persons is wrong. So is their posthumous rehabilitation.
Here’s mine: I abhor violence. Against people I like and people I dislike. By and against the state. I also abhor hypocrites, liars, and bigots. The killing of such persons is wrong. So is their posthumous rehabilitation.
EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country?
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.
September 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Tell me again about the right’s principled stance on political violence.
Here’s mine: I abhor violence. Against people I like and people I dislike. By and against the state. I also abhor hypocrites, liars, and bigots. The killing of such persons is wrong. So is their posthumous rehabilitation.
Here’s mine: I abhor violence. Against people I like and people I dislike. By and against the state. I also abhor hypocrites, liars, and bigots. The killing of such persons is wrong. So is their posthumous rehabilitation.
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hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok