Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately
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Catholic; lefty Iraq veteran; attorney-at-caw. Anti-fascist for life, come at me Bondi. Giant geek. Butlerian Jihad Now.
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This year has shown that anything the government gives can be taken away by the people who run it.
I still believe any state which exists owes its people a good living - but I’m glad at least some are choosing to try to patch the cracks.
I still believe any state which exists owes its people a good living - but I’m glad at least some are choosing to try to patch the cracks.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This year has shown that anything the government gives can be taken away by the people who run it.
I still believe any state which exists owes its people a good living - but I’m glad at least some are choosing to try to patch the cracks.
I still believe any state which exists owes its people a good living - but I’m glad at least some are choosing to try to patch the cracks.
I am a lawyer and I am having my kids do this. So are the court translators and other Latine attorneys.
I have a pre drafted motion my husband is under instructions to arrange to have filed if I am more than three hours late getting home with no call.
None of this is OK.
I have a pre drafted motion my husband is under instructions to arrange to have filed if I am more than three hours late getting home with no call.
None of this is OK.
This Needs To Stop!🛑
Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?
There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.
Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?
There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.
December 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I am a lawyer and I am having my kids do this. So are the court translators and other Latine attorneys.
I have a pre drafted motion my husband is under instructions to arrange to have filed if I am more than three hours late getting home with no call.
None of this is OK.
I have a pre drafted motion my husband is under instructions to arrange to have filed if I am more than three hours late getting home with no call.
None of this is OK.
My bet, knowing SDNY, is that this is more of a “We know there’s a million files and if you don’t admit it, we are telling the public you are hiding them.”
Hey Bove, regret fucking with SDNY and forcing the resignations of their best lawyers yet?
Hey Bove, regret fucking with SDNY and forcing the resignations of their best lawyers yet?
December 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
My bet, knowing SDNY, is that this is more of a “We know there’s a million files and if you don’t admit it, we are telling the public you are hiding them.”
Hey Bove, regret fucking with SDNY and forcing the resignations of their best lawyers yet?
Hey Bove, regret fucking with SDNY and forcing the resignations of their best lawyers yet?
And if the fucking Cato institute is sounding the alarm, we are well past the time everyone should be concerned.
If ICE can threaten arrest for filming, then journalists, watchdogs, and protesters can all be silenced the same way. You don’t have freedom of the press if recording police is treated as terrorism. #holdfast
www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists
A free country must have an absolute wall of protection for those who record government actions.
www.cato.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
And if the fucking Cato institute is sounding the alarm, we are well past the time everyone should be concerned.
“To refuse one is to refuse the other.”
Heard loud and clear, Pope Leo. I’ve got my marching orders.
Heard loud and clear, Pope Leo. I’ve got my marching orders.
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“To refuse one is to refuse the other.”
Heard loud and clear, Pope Leo. I’ve got my marching orders.
Heard loud and clear, Pope Leo. I’ve got my marching orders.
This was what the kiddo picked out. I think they might be onto me.
December 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This was what the kiddo picked out. I think they might be onto me.
I’m going to be very honest. I crush at law and crushed at intel work not because of the Army’s great training, but because I learned attention to small details and lore playing Vampire: the Masquerade as a teen.
every time I can recall from history that a group has centered a culture of martial virtue to the point of conflict,
the "soft intellectuals" the warriors distinguish themselves from have learned war real quick, dominate because they pay attention to details, and then go back to art and nerdy stuff
the "soft intellectuals" the warriors distinguish themselves from have learned war real quick, dominate because they pay attention to details, and then go back to art and nerdy stuff
December 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I’m going to be very honest. I crush at law and crushed at intel work not because of the Army’s great training, but because I learned attention to small details and lore playing Vampire: the Masquerade as a teen.
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Reminds me of this under-resourced Ukrainian army officer who, nevertheless, described successfully terrorizing a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math."
Someone commented, saying, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Someone commented, saying, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
December 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Reminds me of this under-resourced Ukrainian army officer who, nevertheless, described successfully terrorizing a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math."
Someone commented, saying, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Someone commented, saying, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
I don’t think I’ll have time to get to church today. But honestly, working to free the poor so that they can go home to their families is the closest to God I have ever felt.
I’m sure Yeshua Nazarene, raised as a carpenter, persecuted and ultimately unjustly executed by the state, is fine with it.
I’m sure Yeshua Nazarene, raised as a carpenter, persecuted and ultimately unjustly executed by the state, is fine with it.
December 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I don’t think I’ll have time to get to church today. But honestly, working to free the poor so that they can go home to their families is the closest to God I have ever felt.
I’m sure Yeshua Nazarene, raised as a carpenter, persecuted and ultimately unjustly executed by the state, is fine with it.
I’m sure Yeshua Nazarene, raised as a carpenter, persecuted and ultimately unjustly executed by the state, is fine with it.
I think actually a better analogy is Russia, and we are all passing around cassette tapes of newscasts. We live in the time of samidzat.
Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.
December 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I think actually a better analogy is Russia, and we are all passing around cassette tapes of newscasts. We live in the time of samidzat.
In another timeline, Trevor Moore didn’t die and maybe peeled off some of the fucking would be Nazis.
Trevor Moore - High in Church - Time For Guillotines
YouTube video by The Whitest Kids U'Know
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December 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In another timeline, Trevor Moore didn’t die and maybe peeled off some of the fucking would be Nazis.
My partner has decided to cook me steaks and nice meats when I get a clients case dismissed and I swear to god I am starting to have moments where I look at prosecutors like this is Looney Tunes and I am Bugs Bunny abandoned on an island with them.
December 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
My partner has decided to cook me steaks and nice meats when I get a clients case dismissed and I swear to god I am starting to have moments where I look at prosecutors like this is Looney Tunes and I am Bugs Bunny abandoned on an island with them.
Oh, now I see why they did an extra special “make sure the vets with guns don’t have student loan debt” round of forgiveness in December.
Time to revolt.
"The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday."
"The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday."
Trump administration to start seizing pay of defaulted student loan borrowers in January
The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January.
www.cnbc.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Oh, now I see why they did an extra special “make sure the vets with guns don’t have student loan debt” round of forgiveness in December.
I did not see this coming but will accept the Christmas Milagro.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I did not see this coming but will accept the Christmas Milagro.
Another attorney: “no sense in overthinking these cases”
Me: *gets a dismissal in 30 minutes on a case that’s been sitting for 6 months*
It’s always worth doing the due diligence. Always.
Me: *gets a dismissal in 30 minutes on a case that’s been sitting for 6 months*
It’s always worth doing the due diligence. Always.
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Another attorney: “no sense in overthinking these cases”
Me: *gets a dismissal in 30 minutes on a case that’s been sitting for 6 months*
It’s always worth doing the due diligence. Always.
Me: *gets a dismissal in 30 minutes on a case that’s been sitting for 6 months*
It’s always worth doing the due diligence. Always.
These people do incredible work. All those court cases you all are able to read without having PACER accounts? All those handy tools available to the public?
Come on busy lawyers, I know we have to pay our bar fees and all this month, but let’s also throw them some cash too.
Come on busy lawyers, I know we have to pay our bar fees and all this month, but let’s also throw them some cash too.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
These people do incredible work. All those court cases you all are able to read without having PACER accounts? All those handy tools available to the public?
Come on busy lawyers, I know we have to pay our bar fees and all this month, but let’s also throw them some cash too.
Come on busy lawyers, I know we have to pay our bar fees and all this month, but let’s also throw them some cash too.
I want to lift this not to dunk on this guy, who has normative beliefs, but to argue for frugal living as a path to ethical freedom.
My partner and I both own cars over 10 years old - so no car loans. Never “upgraded” a house.
Every morning, he reminds me - if they stop letting you fight, walk.
My partner and I both own cars over 10 years old - so no car loans. Never “upgraded” a house.
Every morning, he reminds me - if they stop letting you fight, walk.
So are you arguing that middle class people, with mortgages and student loans and car payments, etc, should destitute themselves on principle? That quitting their jobs is the best way to oppose fascism? I disagree with that.
December 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I want to lift this not to dunk on this guy, who has normative beliefs, but to argue for frugal living as a path to ethical freedom.
My partner and I both own cars over 10 years old - so no car loans. Never “upgraded” a house.
Every morning, he reminds me - if they stop letting you fight, walk.
My partner and I both own cars over 10 years old - so no car loans. Never “upgraded” a house.
Every morning, he reminds me - if they stop letting you fight, walk.
And this is the shit that *hasn’t* been redacted.
The Justice Department said some documents “contain untrue and sensationalist claims” against Trump.
Major Epstein Files Release: He Wrote Convicted Pedophile Nassar About Trump’s ‘Love Of Young, Nubile Girls’
The Justice Department said some documents “contain untrue and sensationalist claims” against Trump.
www.forbes.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
And this is the shit that *hasn’t* been redacted.
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I watched it all. You should to. Even if you think you understand what's happening, I recommend it merely as a act of defiance against censorship.
Do it because they didn't want you to see it. Ask yourself why.
Do it because they didn't want you to see it. Ask yourself why.
December 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I watched it all. You should to. Even if you think you understand what's happening, I recommend it merely as a act of defiance against censorship.
Do it because they didn't want you to see it. Ask yourself why.
Do it because they didn't want you to see it. Ask yourself why.
Two minutes in, if you aren’t getting death camp vibes, you aren’t looking hard enough.
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Two minutes in, if you aren’t getting death camp vibes, you aren’t looking hard enough.
Here’s an interesting question.
Has anyone tried not just denying ICE entry but actually delivering notice and trespassing them from private property?
Has anyone tried not just denying ICE entry but actually delivering notice and trespassing them from private property?
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Here’s an interesting question.
Has anyone tried not just denying ICE entry but actually delivering notice and trespassing them from private property?
Has anyone tried not just denying ICE entry but actually delivering notice and trespassing them from private property?
This shows evidence to argue a legal entanglement between CBS and the Trump administration such that there is a “an infusion of conduct by officials, panoplied with State power, into [a] scheme” to deny protected rights, and accordingly, Bari Weiss=state action.
Check it out!
Check it out!
The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
December 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This shows evidence to argue a legal entanglement between CBS and the Trump administration such that there is a “an infusion of conduct by officials, panoplied with State power, into [a] scheme” to deny protected rights, and accordingly, Bari Weiss=state action.
Check it out!
Check it out!
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People, I'm BEGGING you:
If you are going to share that leaked 60 minutes segment, INCLUDE SOME COMMENTARY in your post that makes it necessary for readers to have access to the full video to understand the commentary. CBS has a deep black eye over this and the odds that they'll look to punish ppl
If you are going to share that leaked 60 minutes segment, INCLUDE SOME COMMENTARY in your post that makes it necessary for readers to have access to the full video to understand the commentary. CBS has a deep black eye over this and the odds that they'll look to punish ppl
December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
People, I'm BEGGING you:
If you are going to share that leaked 60 minutes segment, INCLUDE SOME COMMENTARY in your post that makes it necessary for readers to have access to the full video to understand the commentary. CBS has a deep black eye over this and the odds that they'll look to punish ppl
If you are going to share that leaked 60 minutes segment, INCLUDE SOME COMMENTARY in your post that makes it necessary for readers to have access to the full video to understand the commentary. CBS has a deep black eye over this and the odds that they'll look to punish ppl
You know he says that, but I love America pretty hard, and somehow he’s not down with my Lysistrata-the-Fascists rally.
NPR: At Turning Point, an amoral JD Vance says there is no bigotry he won’t accept “as long as they love America”.
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
You know he says that, but I love America pretty hard, and somehow he’s not down with my Lysistrata-the-Fascists rally.