Joey Ponzi
@jponzi.bsky.social
Environmental attorney who misses the mountains.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
To be clear, it would not remotely make shipping hundreds of kids off to dangerous circumstances worth it, but I wouldn't hate if this ends up with Ensign in contempt.
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned.
DOJ blew the deadline.
Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
DOJ blew the deadline.
Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
August 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
To be clear, it would not remotely make shipping hundreds of kids off to dangerous circumstances worth it, but I wouldn't hate if this ends up with Ensign in contempt.
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now i’m no law professor but
June 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
now i’m no law professor but
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Willing to bet a very large amount that most of that 413% rise in “assaults” on ICE agents represent unarmed people attacking ICE fists with their faces and boots with their kidneys.
Because these people are lying scum.
Because these people are lying scum.
May 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Willing to bet a very large amount that most of that 413% rise in “assaults” on ICE agents represent unarmed people attacking ICE fists with their faces and boots with their kidneys.
Because these people are lying scum.
Because these people are lying scum.
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My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
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Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto.
Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.
Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.
Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says
As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.
www.cbsnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto.
Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.
Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.
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This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.
Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.
May 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.
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the rightwing influencers are trying hard to flip the narrative to “it’s your duty to sacrifice for your country” like during WWII. except WE ARE NOT AT FUCKING WAR you walnuts.
I cannot believe, and I will keep repeating, that I cannot for the life of me understand how the fuck the Trump admin thinks that "None of you get treats! You will buy EXPENSIVE things and LIKE IT." is a good idea when you literally ran on lowering prices on day one.
May 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
the rightwing influencers are trying hard to flip the narrative to “it’s your duty to sacrifice for your country” like during WWII. except WE ARE NOT AT FUCKING WAR you walnuts.
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This is nonsense. Just nonsense.
200 trade deals no one knows about?
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April 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is nonsense. Just nonsense.
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mind you this is all before things start getting really bad
we are still in the “wow this is gonna suck” stage, economically, we haven’t hit “wow this fucking sucks” yet
whatever you think Trump’s popularity floor is, it’s gonna be tested once we hit a deep recession that is 100% his fault
we are still in the “wow this is gonna suck” stage, economically, we haven’t hit “wow this fucking sucks” yet
whatever you think Trump’s popularity floor is, it’s gonna be tested once we hit a deep recession that is 100% his fault
WSJ: No confidence. Worst April since the Great Depression. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal
Few think administration’s negotiations with trade partners will yield results soon enough to ease the strain
www.wsj.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
mind you this is all before things start getting really bad
we are still in the “wow this is gonna suck” stage, economically, we haven’t hit “wow this fucking sucks” yet
whatever you think Trump’s popularity floor is, it’s gonna be tested once we hit a deep recession that is 100% his fault
we are still in the “wow this is gonna suck” stage, economically, we haven’t hit “wow this fucking sucks” yet
whatever you think Trump’s popularity floor is, it’s gonna be tested once we hit a deep recession that is 100% his fault
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Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
April 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
The courts aren't equipped to deal with this single-handedly, and they're not getting needed support from either of Congress or SCOTUS. This is a bend-don't-break defense, and every day this goes on it leans further toward break.
I'm sad, scared, and angry that this is where we are. But it is.
I'm sad, scared, and angry that this is where we are. But it is.
XINIS: Every day Abrego Garcia is in CECOT is "a day of further irreparable harm."
"If not this court, then who, to engage in process. It’s process that is in the roots of our constitution, so we have to give process to both sides...There will be no tolerance for gamesmanship or grandstanding."
"If not this court, then who, to engage in process. It’s process that is in the roots of our constitution, so we have to give process to both sides...There will be no tolerance for gamesmanship or grandstanding."
April 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The courts aren't equipped to deal with this single-handedly, and they're not getting needed support from either of Congress or SCOTUS. This is a bend-don't-break defense, and every day this goes on it leans further toward break.
I'm sad, scared, and angry that this is where we are. But it is.
I'm sad, scared, and angry that this is where we are. But it is.
Truth. One of my favorite examples from the bench: "You lost on that issue. Move on."
For the nonlawyers:
If you are "disagree[ing] fundamentally on the status of the Court's order" with the judge who is that Court, you have adopted an untenable position.
If you are "disagree[ing] fundamentally on the status of the Court's order" with the judge who is that Court, you have adopted an untenable position.
Ensign: We disagree fundamentally on the status of the court's order. SCOTUS said the deadline is no longer effective.
Xinis: Because the admin stay stayed the order past the deadline. So now you have a new amended order, which makes clear you have to facilitate return.
Xinis: Because the admin stay stayed the order past the deadline. So now you have a new amended order, which makes clear you have to facilitate return.
April 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Truth. One of my favorite examples from the bench: "You lost on that issue. Move on."
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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Deep cut
This American carnage starts now.
April 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Deep cut
I'll lend my keen legal analysis to this evening's decision: 5 of them are irredeemable sacks of shit, and 3 of those are trying to convince themselves we don't realize it.
April 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I'll lend my keen legal analysis to this evening's decision: 5 of them are irredeemable sacks of shit, and 3 of those are trying to convince themselves we don't realize it.
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As Mark says, don't read too much into the stay. But this is sort of it. If SCOTUS agrees the government can disappear you to a Salvadorian labor camp, and there's no legal recourse even if you're innocent because of Article II, then none of your other rights mean a damn thing.
NEW: Chief Justice Roberts has issued an administrative stay in the Abrego Garcia case, temporarily relieving the Trump administration of its duty to return him from El Salvador. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
As Mark says, don't read too much into the stay. But this is sort of it. If SCOTUS agrees the government can disappear you to a Salvadorian labor camp, and there's no legal recourse even if you're innocent because of Article II, then none of your other rights mean a damn thing.
The temptation as a career DOJ attorney to go down in a blaze of glory. Not hard to make the case that it's not only ethical but a moral imperative.
Via New York Times: “The DOJ prosecutor who questioned the Trump administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador has been placed on indefinite paid leave for a “failure to zealously advocate” for the department — less than 24 hours after defending the gov’t in federal court.”
April 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The temptation as a career DOJ attorney to go down in a blaze of glory. Not hard to make the case that it's not only ethical but a moral imperative.
passim
Not sure everyone in charge has fully thought this through.
April 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
passim
So brave.
Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.
April 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
So brave.
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This argument would not be any different if the victim were a US citizen: sorry we "accidentally" disappeared a citizen, but he's a foreign policy matter now.
That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.
That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.
Despite admitting to having illegally sent a guy to El Salvador by mistake, and even though the U.S. is paying El Salvador to indefinitely imprison him, the DOJ is arguing that, well, nothing to do, it's not in our hands anymore. The general tone of their response is "welp, sucks to be him."
April 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This argument would not be any different if the victim were a US citizen: sorry we "accidentally" disappeared a citizen, but he's a foreign policy matter now.
That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.
That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.
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Our official statement from Albert Sellars LLP on President Trump's recent executive order.
March 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our official statement from Albert Sellars LLP on President Trump's recent executive order.