Mike Sacks
@mikesacks.bsky.social
NY-17 Congressional Candidate. Democracy advocate. Former political-legal journalist. Retired competitive air guitarist. Second-Best dad ever.
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Mike Sacks
@mikesacks.bsky.social
· Apr 9
Unf*ck Our Country
YouTube video by Mike Sacks for Congress
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I’m running for Congress.
I’ve spent my career holding the powerful accountable as a political & legal journalist. I’m running for Congress to tell you the truth, fight for New York, and Unf*ck Our Country.
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I’ve spent my career holding the powerful accountable as a political & legal journalist. I’m running for Congress to tell you the truth, fight for New York, and Unf*ck Our Country.
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This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Airtight Messiah’s performance of Popcorn at the 2006 US Air Guitar Championships’ Los Angeles regional competition was one of the best routines I’ve ever seen…but he got DQ’d because he was air keytaring
The Classic ‘Popcorn’ Synth Pop Instrumental Played on Theremin and an Adorable Otamatone laughingsquid.com/popcorn-ther...
The Classic 'Popcorn' Synth Pop Instrumental Played on Theremin and an Adorable Otamatone
Analise Mifsud performed the classic instrumental "Popcorn" on keyboard, Theremin, and on an adorable Otamatone.
laughingsquid.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Airtight Messiah’s performance of Popcorn at the 2006 US Air Guitar Championships’ Los Angeles regional competition was one of the best routines I’ve ever seen…but he got DQ’d because he was air keytaring
Federal court throws out Trump admin’s challenge to NY’s Green Light Law permitting undocumented immigrants to obtain state-issued standard drivers licenses
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Order on Motion for Leave to File AND Order on Motion for Summary Judgment AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim AND Order on Motion to File Amicus Brief – #32 in United States v...
MEMORANDUM-DECISION and ORDER. The Court hereby ORDERS that the unopposed Motions for Leave to File Amicus Briefs, Dkt. Nos. 17 , 29 , are GRANTED. The Court further ORDERS that Defendants' Motion...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Federal court throws out Trump admin’s challenge to NY’s Green Light Law permitting undocumented immigrants to obtain state-issued standard drivers licenses
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Them, a terrorist: "I was shooting up a Chanukah party in Sydney Australia to attack the Zionist policies of the state of Israel"
You, totally not an antisemite: "sounds reasonable why would anyone consider that an antisemitic attack?"
You, totally not an antisemite: "sounds reasonable why would anyone consider that an antisemitic attack?"
So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Them, a terrorist: "I was shooting up a Chanukah party in Sydney Australia to attack the Zionist policies of the state of Israel"
You, totally not an antisemite: "sounds reasonable why would anyone consider that an antisemitic attack?"
You, totally not an antisemite: "sounds reasonable why would anyone consider that an antisemitic attack?"
Gross
Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
December 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Gross
Wrote this re SCOTUS’s inevitably siding against Trump on birthright citizenship, but it also applies to tariffs and National Guard
What it will NOT mean is that suddenly the Roberts Court will have moderated. It is not moderating. It’s pursuing its own antidemocratic agenda to perpetuate Republican power well beyond his own time in office, and sides with Trump when his own empowerment and the issues he creates serve that agenda
December 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Wrote this re SCOTUS’s inevitably siding against Trump on birthright citizenship, but it also applies to tariffs and National Guard
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The reason @martylederman.bsky.social’s brief was so effective is because it gave Roberts and Barrett (and Kav) a way to vote against Trump without calling him a fucking liar, which is what the lower courts based their decisions on
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The reason @martylederman.bsky.social’s brief was so effective is because it gave Roberts and Barrett (and Kav) a way to vote against Trump without calling him a fucking liar, which is what the lower courts based their decisions on
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Every opinion makes good points about a president’s legal authority to call up the Nat’l Guard and the procedural concerns of resolving it on the shadow docket.
But they all ignore what the district judges knew these cases are really about: Trump’s bad faith invasion of our cities based on lies.
But they all ignore what the district judges knew these cases are really about: Trump’s bad faith invasion of our cities based on lies.
In which Judge Perry all but calls the Trump admin lying fascists:
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Every opinion makes good points about a president’s legal authority to call up the Nat’l Guard and the procedural concerns of resolving it on the shadow docket.
But they all ignore what the district judges knew these cases are really about: Trump’s bad faith invasion of our cities based on lies.
But they all ignore what the district judges knew these cases are really about: Trump’s bad faith invasion of our cities based on lies.
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Kavanaugh spends a footnote pretty much saying STOP CALLING THEM KAVANAUGH STOPS
![arrests in Illinois. The State and the Government disagree about whether the immigration officers have violated the Constitution in making certain immigration stops and arrests. The basic constitutional rules governing that dispute are longstanding and clear: The Fourth Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence, stops must be brief, arrests must be based on probable cause, and officers must not employ excessive force.
Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity. Cf. Whren v. United States, 517 U. S. 806, 813 (1996) ("IT]he Constitution prohibits selective enforcement of the law based on considerations such as race"). This application does not require us to delve into the parties' underlying dispute and to determine whether any particular immigration encounter or series of encounters in Illinois has violated those basic constitutional principles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreidbc22r5os5mrbh3jyph7t4l5ymdbdmzd7gmqkqwhmu4com7l373q@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Kavanaugh spends a footnote pretty much saying STOP CALLING THEM KAVANAUGH STOPS
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SCOTUS adopts @martylederman.bsky.social’s argument, which will also mean CA9 and CA7 will have to do so as well.
The upshot? If Trump wants to occupy our cities, he’s gonna have to send in the military by finding a way around the Posse Comitatus Act.
The upshot? If Trump wants to occupy our cities, he’s gonna have to send in the military by finding a way around the Posse Comitatus Act.
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
SCOTUS adopts @martylederman.bsky.social’s argument, which will also mean CA9 and CA7 will have to do so as well.
The upshot? If Trump wants to occupy our cities, he’s gonna have to send in the military by finding a way around the Posse Comitatus Act.
The upshot? If Trump wants to occupy our cities, he’s gonna have to send in the military by finding a way around the Posse Comitatus Act.
I’m Mike Sacks, and I endorse this message
December 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I’m Mike Sacks, and I endorse this message
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The thing to do when a large chunk of your organization is fleeing because you’re cozying up to anti-Semites is to wish everybody of all faiths a merry Christmas.
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The thing to do when a large chunk of your organization is fleeing because you’re cozying up to anti-Semites is to wish everybody of all faiths a merry Christmas.
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Who will Heritage get to make up stuff about voter fraud?
Breaking: Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky Resign From Heritage (Josh Blackman/Reason)
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Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
December 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Who will Heritage get to make up stuff about voter fraud?
Trump’s DOJ says SCOTUS Bruen decision abrogated governing circuit precedent that upheld DC’s assault weapons ban in 2011.
The vote in that case was 2-1. Then-Judge Kavanaugh’s dissent introduced the history and tradition test that SCOTUS adopted in Bruen.
The vote in that case was 2-1. Then-Judge Kavanaugh’s dissent introduced the history and tradition test that SCOTUS adopted in Bruen.
December 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Trump’s DOJ says SCOTUS Bruen decision abrogated governing circuit precedent that upheld DC’s assault weapons ban in 2011.
The vote in that case was 2-1. Then-Judge Kavanaugh’s dissent introduced the history and tradition test that SCOTUS adopted in Bruen.
The vote in that case was 2-1. Then-Judge Kavanaugh’s dissent introduced the history and tradition test that SCOTUS adopted in Bruen.
@jamalgreene.bsky.social’s How Rights Went Wrong was hugely influential on my own thinking, and I’m happy to see him jump into the Court Expansion space
Greene on Supreme Court Expansion
Jamal Greene (Columbia University - Law School) has posted The Nonpartisan Case for Supreme Court Expansion (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It should be a shared premise across the ideological spectrum that…
Jamal Greene (Columbia University - Law School) has posted The Nonpartisan Case for Supreme Court Expansion (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It should be a shared premise across the ideological spectrum that…
Greene on Supreme Court Expansion
Jamal Greene (Columbia University - Law School) has posted The Nonpartisan Case for Supreme Court Expansion (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It should be a shared premise across the ideological spectrum that individual Supreme Court justices hold too much power. The only other public officials in the world with a justice’s degree of power and influence over the affairs of their country for as long as justices exercise it are dictators and monarchs.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@jamalgreene.bsky.social’s How Rights Went Wrong was hugely influential on my own thinking, and I’m happy to see him jump into the Court Expansion space
This post-Trump party looks a lot like the pre-Trump party (Art Pope!). And that party was already so politically exhausted and morally corroded that Trump could take it over with rank bigotry and faux-heterodoxy to deliver it two POTUS wins the party otherwise woulda lost.
This won’t change that.
This won’t change that.
Very interesting developments here. Pence + allies are moving to topple Heritage as the right's core think tank. That Heritage staffers wanted to join Pence, who bucked Trump on J6, but ostensibly over Kevin Roberts' embrace of Tucker Carlson, is not nothing. They're planning for post-Trump.
December 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This post-Trump party looks a lot like the pre-Trump party (Art Pope!). And that party was already so politically exhausted and morally corroded that Trump could take it over with rank bigotry and faux-heterodoxy to deliver it two POTUS wins the party otherwise woulda lost.
This won’t change that.
This won’t change that.
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Trump just blocked 5 offshore wind farms, upending billions in investment.
The administration cited "national security" concerns.
But this is Trump's (dirty) Energy Dominance agenda at work...
The administration cited "national security" concerns.
But this is Trump's (dirty) Energy Dominance agenda at work...
How Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ Agenda Is Dominating You With Dirty Energy
Raising costs, killing the climate, helping China — it’s a Trump trifecta
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December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trump just blocked 5 offshore wind farms, upending billions in investment.
The administration cited "national security" concerns.
But this is Trump's (dirty) Energy Dominance agenda at work...
The administration cited "national security" concerns.
But this is Trump's (dirty) Energy Dominance agenda at work...
Trump’s for they and them
Gift Link here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (Gift Article)
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Trump’s for they and them
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A fantastic NYT report: Donors to Trump get pardons, jobs, & access - and benefited from regulatory decisions the Trump admin has made.
SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A fantastic NYT report: Donors to Trump get pardons, jobs, & access - and benefited from regulatory decisions the Trump admin has made.
SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The utter lack of accountability this time around has me nostalgic for our measuring tenures in office by the Scaramucci unit.
December 22, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The utter lack of accountability this time around has me nostalgic for our measuring tenures in office by the Scaramucci unit.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
If you are a whistleblower and need legal representation, @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social may be able to help
Please contact us
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Hear me out: the Weird Al movie UHF, but for the entire CBS News division
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Hear me out: the Weird Al movie UHF, but for the entire CBS News division