murph
@murphadaisy.bsky.social
jailhouse constitutional lawyer. amateur theologian. insufferable coffee snob.
I see 8th circuit is ramping up its bidding for Worst Circuit Court - eat your heart out, Matt Kazmierczak
8th circuit gives ICE go ahead to use force against peaceful demonstrators, a decision which will immediately lead to injury.
US appeals court pauses lower court order restraining immigration agents' use of force against Minnesota protesters
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paused a lower court's order on Wednesday that had restrained federal immigration agents' use of force against peaceful protesters.
www.reuters.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I see 8th circuit is ramping up its bidding for Worst Circuit Court - eat your heart out, Matt Kazmierczak
I think Chicago Pope should excommunicate JD Vance. I think that would be fun.
January 21, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I think Chicago Pope should excommunicate JD Vance. I think that would be fun.
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God bless the United States of Minnesota
January 19, 2026 at 8:03 PM
God bless the United States of Minnesota
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Minnesotans knows how to handle ICE.
January 16, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Minnesotans knows how to handle ICE.
fascists love to be sending ground troops to cold places in winter huh
January 11, 2026 at 9:23 PM
fascists love to be sending ground troops to cold places in winter huh
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I want to tell you about what's happening here in Minnesota.
January 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
I want to tell you about what's happening here in Minnesota.
genuinely if more people listened to musicals I think we as a society would have a better understanding of historical trends and political change. if you can recognize a musical motif, you can recognize a reprise, is all I'm saying.
December 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
genuinely if more people listened to musicals I think we as a society would have a better understanding of historical trends and political change. if you can recognize a musical motif, you can recognize a reprise, is all I'm saying.
thing I possibly hate most about popular nonfiction: cannot tell if the author is simplifying something to account for the assumed lack of deep knowledge of the reader, or if they genuinely believe the oversimplified borderline saccharine bullshit they are peddling.
December 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
thing I possibly hate most about popular nonfiction: cannot tell if the author is simplifying something to account for the assumed lack of deep knowledge of the reader, or if they genuinely believe the oversimplified borderline saccharine bullshit they are peddling.
@maryharris.bsky.social regarding mn news, the $1 billion fraud figure cited in this morning's what next is a gop fabrication. local paper puts it at just over $150 million - and they've been digging this stuff up for years. check out @startribune.com 's reporting for detail
December 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@maryharris.bsky.social regarding mn news, the $1 billion fraud figure cited in this morning's what next is a gop fabrication. local paper puts it at just over $150 million - and they've been digging this stuff up for years. check out @startribune.com 's reporting for detail
learning that a second strike to kill survivors of an attack at sea is a *literal* textbook example of a war crime, like used to teach military law, is just like. we really are living in a post-satirical society.
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
learning that a second strike to kill survivors of an attack at sea is a *literal* textbook example of a war crime, like used to teach military law, is just like. we really are living in a post-satirical society.
anyway time to start rereading thomas paine and figuring out how to build a democracy from scratch because there won't be fuckall left of this one in a year or two
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
anyway time to start rereading thomas paine and figuring out how to build a democracy from scratch because there won't be fuckall left of this one in a year or two
okay at this point any media outlet that doesn't call trump's white nationalist slash straight up nazi rhetoric exactly that is frankly engaging in journalistic malpractice.
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
okay at this point any media outlet that doesn't call trump's white nationalist slash straight up nazi rhetoric exactly that is frankly engaging in journalistic malpractice.
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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
I am going to transform into a swarm of wasps and physically manifest at one first.
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I am going to transform into a swarm of wasps and physically manifest at one first.
other have and will say this more eloquently, but scotus is a fucking joke. the idea of irreparable harm used by the majority is nothing more or less than, "it hurt republican feelings" and dismisses or outright ignores *actual* harm done to real people by their rulings.
December 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
other have and will say this more eloquently, but scotus is a fucking joke. the idea of irreparable harm used by the majority is nothing more or less than, "it hurt republican feelings" and dismisses or outright ignores *actual* harm done to real people by their rulings.
ACB said, well there's no history of legal discrimination against trans people (wild fucking take but okay) so they can't be a protected class, and the US government said, okay bet
November 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
ACB said, well there's no history of legal discrimination against trans people (wild fucking take but okay) so they can't be a protected class, and the US government said, okay bet
so-called textualists when they see the equal protection clause
November 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
so-called textualists when they see the equal protection clause
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Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
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Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.
September 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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alleged Catholic JD Vance shits on Matthew 25:40, calls the Son of God an NPC
this is dramatically fascist
REPORTER: Why are troops stationed here at Union Station and at the National Mall instead of areas where crime is higher?
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
August 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
alleged Catholic JD Vance shits on Matthew 25:40, calls the Son of God an NPC
new work notebook takes inspo from @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. gleeful nihilism is the attitude we're taking to politics these days.
August 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
new work notebook takes inspo from @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. gleeful nihilism is the attitude we're taking to politics these days.
to new yorkers (city) from a former new yorker (upstate) don't rank the dark prince/mob boss/ex-governor snorkeljacket. he made the corrupt hellscape of albany politics a thousand times worse and has no respect for anything but his own ambition.
June 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
to new yorkers (city) from a former new yorker (upstate) don't rank the dark prince/mob boss/ex-governor snorkeljacket. he made the corrupt hellscape of albany politics a thousand times worse and has no respect for anything but his own ambition.
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YOU WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY???
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreih3qdtlloz3yhggypbtwiveqdgzzfgapsnetvq7qsni7wfmyuovoi@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
YOU WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY???
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."