Eugene Freedman
@eugenefreedman.bsky.social
Union lawyer; writer about baseball labor relations; #CornellILR; #UMDLaw; #ChevyVolt driver; #Prince #Gangstarr4Ever loud rescue beagle is part of the family. He/Him
Seriously?
They're okay with these things:
Renditioning people to prisons in 3rd countries
Revoking asylum for Haitians & others
Locking up children
Deporting people w temporary status
Deporting people who haven't committed any crimes
Using chemical weapons, arresting & pointing guns at protesters
They're okay with these things:
Renditioning people to prisons in 3rd countries
Revoking asylum for Haitians & others
Locking up children
Deporting people w temporary status
Deporting people who haven't committed any crimes
Using chemical weapons, arresting & pointing guns at protesters
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
February 5, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Seriously?
They're okay with these things:
Renditioning people to prisons in 3rd countries
Revoking asylum for Haitians & others
Locking up children
Deporting people w temporary status
Deporting people who haven't committed any crimes
Using chemical weapons, arresting & pointing guns at protesters
They're okay with these things:
Renditioning people to prisons in 3rd countries
Revoking asylum for Haitians & others
Locking up children
Deporting people w temporary status
Deporting people who haven't committed any crimes
Using chemical weapons, arresting & pointing guns at protesters
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This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
Guru
"Maybe your soul you'd sell to have mass appeal"
Premier sample scratch–Da Youngstas:
🎶"Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal"🎶
Gang Starr
"Maybe your soul you'd sell to have mass appeal"
Premier sample scratch–Da Youngstas:
🎶"Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal"🎶
Gang Starr
February 5, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Guru
"Maybe your soul you'd sell to have mass appeal"
Premier sample scratch–Da Youngstas:
🎶"Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal"🎶
Gang Starr
"Maybe your soul you'd sell to have mass appeal"
Premier sample scratch–Da Youngstas:
🎶"Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal"🎶
Gang Starr
Lowering interest rates before it's indicated can do that.
COOK: “.. readings indicate that progress on inflation essentially stalled in 2025. .. Such a plateau is frustrating after seeing significant disinflation in the preceding few years.”
@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/fed...
@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/fed...
February 5, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Lowering interest rates before it's indicated can do that.
Air traffic controller applicants have to take a host of psychological evaluations just to attend the training academy.
But, apparently, you can have antisocial personality disorder and get into CBP and ICE. Maybe even they screen to make sure you have antisocial personality disorder.
But, apparently, you can have antisocial personality disorder and get into CBP and ICE. Maybe even they screen to make sure you have antisocial personality disorder.
NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
Read more:
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
Read more:
Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest
One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...
unraveledpress.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Air traffic controller applicants have to take a host of psychological evaluations just to attend the training academy.
But, apparently, you can have antisocial personality disorder and get into CBP and ICE. Maybe even they screen to make sure you have antisocial personality disorder.
But, apparently, you can have antisocial personality disorder and get into CBP and ICE. Maybe even they screen to make sure you have antisocial personality disorder.
Spanberger served as a case officer for the CIA, in which she recruited spies overseas for the US. She knows how the game is played to undermine an authoritarian regime.
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
boltsmag.org
February 4, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Spanberger served as a case officer for the CIA, in which she recruited spies overseas for the US. She knows how the game is played to undermine an authoritarian regime.
Washington Post has been decimated. It is no longer a serious newspaper. It no longer wants to cover world nor domestic events. It is over. A world class institution destroyed by one of the richest people in the world. I hope the $250M was worth it to the Graham family, b/c it didn't matter to him.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Washington Post has been decimated. It is no longer a serious newspaper. It no longer wants to cover world nor domestic events. It is over. A world class institution destroyed by one of the richest people in the world. I hope the $250M was worth it to the Graham family, b/c it didn't matter to him.
This is a complicated lede to write:
Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein helped Woody Allen & his former daughter & current wife Soon-Yi Previn's daughter get into college by asking Bard College president for a favor. We don't know what Bard president got in return.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein helped Woody Allen & his former daughter & current wife Soon-Yi Previn's daughter get into college by asking Bard College president for a favor. We don't know what Bard president got in return.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Epstein Helped Woody Allen’s Daughter Get Into College, Emails Show
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:28 PM
This is a complicated lede to write:
Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein helped Woody Allen & his former daughter & current wife Soon-Yi Previn's daughter get into college by asking Bard College president for a favor. We don't know what Bard president got in return.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein helped Woody Allen & his former daughter & current wife Soon-Yi Previn's daughter get into college by asking Bard College president for a favor. We don't know what Bard president got in return.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
strike and replace [rare misstep] with "common goose-step."
FTFY
FTFY
Stephen Miller called Alex Pretti a “domestic terrorist” after the VA nurse was killed by federal agents, a rare misstep for Miller, the White House aide stoking President Trump’s boundary-pushing impulses.
🔗: on.wsj.com/49XmNXz
🔗: on.wsj.com/49XmNXz
February 4, 2026 at 6:54 PM
strike and replace [rare misstep] with "common goose-step."
FTFY
FTFY
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Prince
This is the move version, not the album version.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Px...
Prince
This is the move version, not the album version.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Px...
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 AM
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Prince
This is the move version, not the album version.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Px...
Prince
This is the move version, not the album version.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Px...
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My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
February 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
You know he refers to Catholics as Papists in his house.
Q: Pope Leo cited Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. How would you respond to Pope Leo in scripture?
MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.
MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.
February 3, 2026 at 11:37 PM
You know he refers to Catholics as Papists in his house.
Local police terrorize Black people. They kill Black people with impunity. We've seen it on camera in the last decade, although the reports were always there if you were willing to look. They are completely militarized. Saying that ICE abide by those rules is not a change at all.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Local police terrorize Black people. They kill Black people with impunity. We've seen it on camera in the last decade, although the reports were always there if you were willing to look. They are completely militarized. Saying that ICE abide by those rules is not a change at all.
Not for nothing, but she was a judicial clerk, and then an associate at two firms in what couldn't be more than 5 years since passing the bar. She is totally unqualified for this appointment.
February 3, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Not for nothing, but she was a judicial clerk, and then an associate at two firms in what couldn't be more than 5 years since passing the bar. She is totally unqualified for this appointment.
Well, that number holds a lot of meaning for them.
The attorney working for DOJ who asked to be held in contempt so she could get some sleep and said "this job sucks" was assigned **88** federal cases in less than a month, per a court docket search.
www.fox9.com/news/federal...
www.fox9.com/news/federal...
February 3, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Well, that number holds a lot of meaning for them.
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FUCK YES. GO KYLE!!!
Kyle Bradish wins arbitration case against Orioles
Kyle Bradish wins arbitration case against Orioles
Bradish is poised to be a major piece of Baltimore’s rotation this season.
buff.ly
February 3, 2026 at 9:55 PM
FUCK YES. GO KYLE!!!
That's the whole point.
More than 21 million American adults lack easy access to a passport or birth certificate. Requiring these documents to register to vote could disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans. bit.ly/40ysFRc
Restricting the Freedom to Vote
The SAVE Act would be one of the worst voting laws in congressional history.
www.brennancenter.org
February 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
That's the whole point.
If the Tigers have to pay Tarik Skubal what he's worth in his last season with the franchise, they will intentionally harm their own chances of winning a World Series before their window closes.
If they get to underpay him, they won't improve the team, but they will pretend they are still trying.
If they get to underpay him, they won't improve the team, but they will pretend they are still trying.
🔁 @Ken_Rosenthal retweeted
@FoulTerritoryTV The outcome of Tarik Skubal's arbitration case will likely influence the Tigers next move, says @Ken_Rosenthal.
"If they lose, I don't expect the Tigers to play for a starting pitcher." https://t.co/2sT7pWNXuA
@FoulTerritoryTV The outcome of Tarik Skubal's arbitration case will likely influence the Tigers next move, says @Ken_Rosenthal.
"If they lose, I don't expect the Tigers to play for a starting pitcher." https://t.co/2sT7pWNXuA
Tweet
🔁 @Ken_Rosenthal retweeted
@FoulTerritoryTV The outcome of Tarik Skubal's arbitration case will likely influence the Tigers next move, says @Ken_Rosenthal.
"If they lose, I don't expect the Tigers to play for a starting pitcher." https://t.co/2sT7pWNXuA
twitter.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:45 PM
If the Tigers have to pay Tarik Skubal what he's worth in his last season with the franchise, they will intentionally harm their own chances of winning a World Series before their window closes.
If they get to underpay him, they won't improve the team, but they will pretend they are still trying.
If they get to underpay him, they won't improve the team, but they will pretend they are still trying.
If Junior had been non-tendered, it would have been a coup for the Angels to get him on a minor league deal.
So far this offseason, the Angels have signed or traded for:
Grayson Rodriguez
Alek Manoah
Vaughn Grissom
Drew Pomeranz
Jordan Romano
Kirby Yates
Nick Madrigal (minor league deal)
Josh Lowe
Trey Mancini (minor league deal)
Yoan Moncada
Junior Camineiro (minor league deal)
Grayson Rodriguez
Alek Manoah
Vaughn Grissom
Drew Pomeranz
Jordan Romano
Kirby Yates
Nick Madrigal (minor league deal)
Josh Lowe
Trey Mancini (minor league deal)
Yoan Moncada
Junior Camineiro (minor league deal)
February 3, 2026 at 6:07 PM
If Junior had been non-tendered, it would have been a coup for the Angels to get him on a minor league deal.
K: Are you Sapper Morton? Civic number NK68514?
Sapper Morton: I'm a farmer.
K: I saw that. What do you farm?
Sapper Morton: [putting a handful of grubs on the table] It's a protein farm: Wallace design.
Sapper Morton: I'm a farmer.
K: I saw that. What do you farm?
Sapper Morton: [putting a handful of grubs on the table] It's a protein farm: Wallace design.
February 3, 2026 at 1:37 AM
K: Are you Sapper Morton? Civic number NK68514?
Sapper Morton: I'm a farmer.
K: I saw that. What do you farm?
Sapper Morton: [putting a handful of grubs on the table] It's a protein farm: Wallace design.
Sapper Morton: I'm a farmer.
K: I saw that. What do you farm?
Sapper Morton: [putting a handful of grubs on the table] It's a protein farm: Wallace design.
You have to realize how painful this is to Johnson, who not only is on the verge of losing his majority, but also having to swear in a Black man.
February 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
You have to realize how painful this is to Johnson, who not only is on the verge of losing his majority, but also having to swear in a Black man.
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You know shit got real when judges are opening with George Washington quotes from 1783 👀🔥
February 3, 2026 at 12:57 AM
You know shit got real when judges are opening with George Washington quotes from 1783 👀🔥
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The funding deal provides us leverage to reject specifically this.
If the Thune/Schumer deal is enacted, then two weeks from now all of the govt EXCEPT DHS will have funding.
Ds must then reject even a penny more for DHS until we can guarantee an end to the madness.
If the Thune/Schumer deal is enacted, then two weeks from now all of the govt EXCEPT DHS will have funding.
Ds must then reject even a penny more for DHS until we can guarantee an end to the madness.
February 3, 2026 at 12:05 AM
The funding deal provides us leverage to reject specifically this.
If the Thune/Schumer deal is enacted, then two weeks from now all of the govt EXCEPT DHS will have funding.
Ds must then reject even a penny more for DHS until we can guarantee an end to the madness.
If the Thune/Schumer deal is enacted, then two weeks from now all of the govt EXCEPT DHS will have funding.
Ds must then reject even a penny more for DHS until we can guarantee an end to the madness.
The Democrats have trouble accepting a win. In this case they can fund the rest of the government and then hold out on DHS if they don't get their demands. But scuttling Transportation-HUD, and Labor-HHS-Education, they are hurting their own constituents and prolonging a shutdown that's unneeded.
NEW: House eyes Tuesday vote to reopen the government
Vibes trending positively for Senate-passed bill.
Trump told Rs to pass it unchanged. Johnson is confident. DeLauro is a yes but Dems are split. Jeffries not revealing his vote.
Bill puts DHS on a 2-week leash.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Vibes trending positively for Senate-passed bill.
Trump told Rs to pass it unchanged. Johnson is confident. DeLauro is a yes but Dems are split. Jeffries not revealing his vote.
Bill puts DHS on a 2-week leash.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House eyes Tuesday vote to reopen the government and end brief shutdown
Despite the GOP's tiny majority, Speaker Mike Johnson said he's confident the bill will pass, particularly after President Donald Trump encouraged members to back it without changes.
www.nbcnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The Democrats have trouble accepting a win. In this case they can fund the rest of the government and then hold out on DHS if they don't get their demands. But scuttling Transportation-HUD, and Labor-HHS-Education, they are hurting their own constituents and prolonging a shutdown that's unneeded.