Josh Hanson
@joshhanson1530.bsky.social
Intellectual Property/Tech Transactions/Data Privacy Lawyer | JD @UIllinoisLaw ‘23 | Lutheran | Motorsports | Softball | White Sox | Tottenham Hotspur
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This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
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The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
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Justice Jackson says the supermajority once again does not "understand the assignment" in emergency applications. The crux: the government has not shown it will suffer irreparable harm in the time in would take for the issue to be fully resolved by the courts in due order.
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Justice Jackson says the supermajority once again does not "understand the assignment" in emergency applications. The crux: the government has not shown it will suffer irreparable harm in the time in would take for the issue to be fully resolved by the courts in due order.
I keep hearing about undocumented immigrants who apparently were issued a work authorization AFTER being ordered removed. What’s going on there? Is it just administrative incompetency issuing work authorizations in error, or is there something else that allows that to occur?
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I keep hearing about undocumented immigrants who apparently were issued a work authorization AFTER being ordered removed. What’s going on there? Is it just administrative incompetency issuing work authorizations in error, or is there something else that allows that to occur?
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There’s a lot of people who claim to be really into politics but who are actually really into being righteously angry, and they’re pretty shitty sources of information. Anger is addictive and makes you stupid, try to limit it.
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
There’s a lot of people who claim to be really into politics but who are actually really into being righteously angry, and they’re pretty shitty sources of information. Anger is addictive and makes you stupid, try to limit it.
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About 60% of U.S. workers are not white men. Wouldn't know it from Trump's Department of Labor.
Are we still supposed to pretend that neither bigotry nor misogyny are key to Trumpism?
Are we still supposed to pretend that neither bigotry nor misogyny are key to Trumpism?
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
About 60% of U.S. workers are not white men. Wouldn't know it from Trump's Department of Labor.
Are we still supposed to pretend that neither bigotry nor misogyny are key to Trumpism?
Are we still supposed to pretend that neither bigotry nor misogyny are key to Trumpism?
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Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings
Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."
www.reuters.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
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Kids, parents, teachers, and principals shouldn’t have to worry about this.
Fuck ICE, fuck Donald Trump, fuck anyone who voted for him or couldn’t be bothered to vote
Fuck ICE, fuck Donald Trump, fuck anyone who voted for him or couldn’t be bothered to vote
Just got an email from my son's school. Because of ICE activity in our neighborhood, they're forced to do indoor recess and dismissal.
Fuck ICE.
Fuck ICE.
FYI, ICE is trying to kidnap people in Lincoln Park right now.
October 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Kids, parents, teachers, and principals shouldn’t have to worry about this.
Fuck ICE, fuck Donald Trump, fuck anyone who voted for him or couldn’t be bothered to vote
Fuck ICE, fuck Donald Trump, fuck anyone who voted for him or couldn’t be bothered to vote
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Former ATF official: “I’ve never known law enforcement, unless people are working undercover on search warrants, to wear masks … If you’re doing the right thing and abiding by the law, then why do you need to cover your face?”
No paywall: Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
No paywall: Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Masked immigration agents erode trust and intimidate, former No. 2 DEA boss, others say
A former high-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration official says masking is "all about intimidation.” A police chiefs association says it can create mistrust.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Former ATF official: “I’ve never known law enforcement, unless people are working undercover on search warrants, to wear masks … If you’re doing the right thing and abiding by the law, then why do you need to cover your face?”
No paywall: Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
No paywall: Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't
there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
October 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't
Pretty sure birthdays were invented to bring you down a peg and remind you how you’ve been a bad friend when you open up the text message and see the last thing you sent was the previous year’s “happy birthday.”
October 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Pretty sure birthdays were invented to bring you down a peg and remind you how you’ve been a bad friend when you open up the text message and see the last thing you sent was the previous year’s “happy birthday.”
50,000 people out enjoying beautiful Chicago for the Chicago Marathon, while being terrorized by Blackhawk helicopters.
October 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
50,000 people out enjoying beautiful Chicago for the Chicago Marathon, while being terrorized by Blackhawk helicopters.
Have you met American history? We’re not seeing a “great falling away“ from the American church. We’re seeing them do what they have always done. They’ve just stopped hiding behind decorum.
October 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Have you met American history? We’re not seeing a “great falling away“ from the American church. We’re seeing them do what they have always done. They’ve just stopped hiding behind decorum.
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This is key to understanding the FedSoc Supreme Court: the facts do not matter. They will invent their own reality and substitute it for the reality we're actually living in.
Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you
That is not, in fact, what ICE does
He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...
That is not, in fact, what ICE does
He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...
Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day
Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.
ballsandstrikes.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is key to understanding the FedSoc Supreme Court: the facts do not matter. They will invent their own reality and substitute it for the reality we're actually living in.
This morning a friend in Chicago who just happens to be from Texas had a threatening note left on her car accusing her of being ICE/Nazi and telling her to “get out.” Presumably, they assumed she was one of Trump’s Texas Nat’l Guard goons. But doing this makes you as bad as Trump. (1/2)
October 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This morning a friend in Chicago who just happens to be from Texas had a threatening note left on her car accusing her of being ICE/Nazi and telling her to “get out.” Presumably, they assumed she was one of Trump’s Texas Nat’l Guard goons. But doing this makes you as bad as Trump. (1/2)
Ready for Hiromi + Sonicwonder at Evanston Space
October 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Ready for Hiromi + Sonicwonder at Evanston Space
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Sounds like America may have committed a serious war crime that VP Vance laughed about, joking about “not going finishing.” This is why we do not permit extrajudicial executions by the United States military against civilians— not in peacetime, not in war, not ever.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...
September 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Sounds like America may have committed a serious war crime that VP Vance laughed about, joking about “not going finishing.” This is why we do not permit extrajudicial executions by the United States military against civilians— not in peacetime, not in war, not ever.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...
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I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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Thomas Sanford, the suspect in the Michigan church shooting, reportedly went on a tirade against the LDS Church and called Mormons "the antichrist," according to a city council candidate who interacted with him.
Sanford also apparently lived in Utah at one point.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Sanford also apparently lived in Utah at one point.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
September 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Thomas Sanford, the suspect in the Michigan church shooting, reportedly went on a tirade against the LDS Church and called Mormons "the antichrist," according to a city council candidate who interacted with him.
Sanford also apparently lived in Utah at one point.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Sanford also apparently lived in Utah at one point.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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"An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been returned to duty..."
ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty
An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...
www.cbsnews.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been returned to duty..."
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Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
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Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
September 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
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According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.
Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention
Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.
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ICE agent in Maryland aims a gun at people filming him grabbing someone on the street who is saying “I am an American”
September 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
ICE agent in Maryland aims a gun at people filming him grabbing someone on the street who is saying “I am an American”