Jason Gottlieb
@ohaiom.bsky.social
Lawyer, musician, family man, aspiring polymath. Regulatory enforcement, litigation. Sensible crypto / tech lawyer. Appellate, NYTXW. Tweets solely my own opinion.
Boy are all these ICE stormtroopers going to be surprised when they learn that murder and kidnapping are also state crimes that can’t be pardoned by the president
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Boy are all these ICE stormtroopers going to be surprised when they learn that murder and kidnapping are also state crimes that can’t be pardoned by the president
Tag yourself, I’m literally “nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyer” lol
(The Heritage Foundation can go pound sand, it’s darkly ironic that they’re calling anyone else the “least impressive” anything)
(The Heritage Foundation can go pound sand, it’s darkly ironic that they’re calling anyone else the “least impressive” anything)
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Tag yourself, I’m literally “nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyer” lol
(The Heritage Foundation can go pound sand, it’s darkly ironic that they’re calling anyone else the “least impressive” anything)
(The Heritage Foundation can go pound sand, it’s darkly ironic that they’re calling anyone else the “least impressive” anything)
Kat Abughezaleh and her colleagues are being prosecuted for political speech. It’s abhorrent and embarrassing, and I hope they (1) win an acquittal, and then (2) sue everyone involved for violating their first amendment rights.
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Kat Abughezaleh and her colleagues are being prosecuted for political speech. It’s abhorrent and embarrassing, and I hope they (1) win an acquittal, and then (2) sue everyone involved for violating their first amendment rights.
Congressional Democrats should start holding shadow Congress during the shutdown. Get together daily. Have an oversight committee do hearings on Trump corruption and crime. Ways and Means details the budget they would pass. Talk about a new infrastructure bill, a new jobs act. Show what govt can be.
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Congressional Democrats should start holding shadow Congress during the shutdown. Get together daily. Have an oversight committee do hearings on Trump corruption and crime. Ways and Means details the budget they would pass. Talk about a new infrastructure bill, a new jobs act. Show what govt can be.
It’s like he got bored of breaking the obvious laws, like the laws against murder and kidnapping and bribery, so he’s moving on to the Anti-Deficiency Act
Lawbreaking like it’s Pokémon, gotta break em all
Lawbreaking like it’s Pokémon, gotta break em all
October 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It’s like he got bored of breaking the obvious laws, like the laws against murder and kidnapping and bribery, so he’s moving on to the Anti-Deficiency Act
Lawbreaking like it’s Pokémon, gotta break em all
Lawbreaking like it’s Pokémon, gotta break em all
The next head of the Civil Division of the DOJ should and must, on Jan 20, 2029, file a TRO for a complete asset freeze / civil forfeiture for every penny Trump and his family have taken from the government. Every single corruptly-taken penny.
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The next head of the Civil Division of the DOJ should and must, on Jan 20, 2029, file a TRO for a complete asset freeze / civil forfeiture for every penny Trump and his family have taken from the government. Every single corruptly-taken penny.
I absolutely cannot fathom why Dems don’t just … give her the oath and swear her in. There’s no law or regulation that says the Speaker must administer the oath! She should just say the oath and that’s it!
Arizona Atty General files lawsuit seeking court to expedite swearing-in of Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ)
Suit seeks judgment stating if Speaker Johnson hasn't administered oath, oath may be administered by any person authorized to administer oaths
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Suit seeks judgment stating if Speaker Johnson hasn't administered oath, oath may be administered by any person authorized to administer oaths
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I absolutely cannot fathom why Dems don’t just … give her the oath and swear her in. There’s no law or regulation that says the Speaker must administer the oath! She should just say the oath and that’s it!
It would be (darkly) fascinating to see a breakdown of which of Trump’s enablers:
(1) know he’s a demented infant but they’re cynically playing along to amass their own power
versus
(2) are so dumb or Fox News brain-rotted that they actually think he’s doing a good job
(1) know he’s a demented infant but they’re cynically playing along to amass their own power
versus
(2) are so dumb or Fox News brain-rotted that they actually think he’s doing a good job
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It would be (darkly) fascinating to see a breakdown of which of Trump’s enablers:
(1) know he’s a demented infant but they’re cynically playing along to amass their own power
versus
(2) are so dumb or Fox News brain-rotted that they actually think he’s doing a good job
(1) know he’s a demented infant but they’re cynically playing along to amass their own power
versus
(2) are so dumb or Fox News brain-rotted that they actually think he’s doing a good job
He’s figuratively portraying himself as a king shitting on Americans
He’s literally tearing apart the White House
I’m not sure how the symbolism could be any more clear
He’s literally tearing apart the White House
I’m not sure how the symbolism could be any more clear
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
He’s figuratively portraying himself as a king shitting on Americans
He’s literally tearing apart the White House
I’m not sure how the symbolism could be any more clear
He’s literally tearing apart the White House
I’m not sure how the symbolism could be any more clear
The fact that major media outlets don’t report on the president posting a video of himself as a king shitting on Americans because it’s too horrible and offensive …
October 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The fact that major media outlets don’t report on the president posting a video of himself as a king shitting on Americans because it’s too horrible and offensive …
Happy Columbus Day
October 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Happy Columbus Day
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Jason Gottlieb
Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
September 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.
The Supreme Court is absolutely 100% dependent on good faith; the notion that lower courts will respect and follow their rulings.
If lower courts lose respect for the Supreme Court, as is very obviously happening, they will no longer feel bound.
At that point, we’re in a really new era.
If lower courts lose respect for the Supreme Court, as is very obviously happening, they will no longer feel bound.
At that point, we’re in a really new era.
September 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The Supreme Court is absolutely 100% dependent on good faith; the notion that lower courts will respect and follow their rulings.
If lower courts lose respect for the Supreme Court, as is very obviously happening, they will no longer feel bound.
At that point, we’re in a really new era.
If lower courts lose respect for the Supreme Court, as is very obviously happening, they will no longer feel bound.
At that point, we’re in a really new era.
Old English and Beowulf nerds cry softly (sniff)
September 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Old English and Beowulf nerds cry softly (sniff)
To all the people on the right who were railing against Critical Legal Studies:
Kavanuagh’s concurrence yesterday, approving arrests and harassment of Latinos because they look Latino or speak Spanish, is *exactly* why Critical Legal Studies is, well, critical.
Kavanuagh’s concurrence yesterday, approving arrests and harassment of Latinos because they look Latino or speak Spanish, is *exactly* why Critical Legal Studies is, well, critical.
September 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
To all the people on the right who were railing against Critical Legal Studies:
Kavanuagh’s concurrence yesterday, approving arrests and harassment of Latinos because they look Latino or speak Spanish, is *exactly* why Critical Legal Studies is, well, critical.
Kavanuagh’s concurrence yesterday, approving arrests and harassment of Latinos because they look Latino or speak Spanish, is *exactly* why Critical Legal Studies is, well, critical.
I was born in Colo. Springs. It’s a deep deep red dot in a purple state.
Trump moving Space Command out of the Springs to Alabama because he’s mad at Colorado goes to show:
You can never have enough fealty to a dictator.
He’ll screw you anyway, whenever he wants, if he’s mad at something else.
Trump moving Space Command out of the Springs to Alabama because he’s mad at Colorado goes to show:
You can never have enough fealty to a dictator.
He’ll screw you anyway, whenever he wants, if he’s mad at something else.
September 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I was born in Colo. Springs. It’s a deep deep red dot in a purple state.
Trump moving Space Command out of the Springs to Alabama because he’s mad at Colorado goes to show:
You can never have enough fealty to a dictator.
He’ll screw you anyway, whenever he wants, if he’s mad at something else.
Trump moving Space Command out of the Springs to Alabama because he’s mad at Colorado goes to show:
You can never have enough fealty to a dictator.
He’ll screw you anyway, whenever he wants, if he’s mad at something else.
When your programming skills are too old
September 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
When your programming skills are too old
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
August 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
I believe in old testament justice
An eye for an eye; a life for a life; and that guy should be sentenced to have a sandwich thrown at his chest
(Charging him with a felony is ridiculous)
An eye for an eye; a life for a life; and that guy should be sentenced to have a sandwich thrown at his chest
(Charging him with a felony is ridiculous)
August 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I believe in old testament justice
An eye for an eye; a life for a life; and that guy should be sentenced to have a sandwich thrown at his chest
(Charging him with a felony is ridiculous)
An eye for an eye; a life for a life; and that guy should be sentenced to have a sandwich thrown at his chest
(Charging him with a felony is ridiculous)
Reposted by Jason Gottlieb
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
More assaults and kidnappings have been committed in America by ICE than Tren de Aragua. And it isn’t particularly a close call.
And TdA members have been arrested and charged. ICE operates with total impunity, with the abuses that inevitably result.
americasquarterly.org/article/how-...
And TdA members have been arrested and charged. ICE operates with total impunity, with the abuses that inevitably result.
americasquarterly.org/article/how-...
How Much of a Threat is Tren de Aragua in the U.S.?
The Venezuelan prison gang was a frequent theme in Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric on immigration. But its reach in the U.S. is exaggerated.
americasquarterly.org
August 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
More assaults and kidnappings have been committed in America by ICE than Tren de Aragua. And it isn’t particularly a close call.
And TdA members have been arrested and charged. ICE operates with total impunity, with the abuses that inevitably result.
americasquarterly.org/article/how-...
And TdA members have been arrested and charged. ICE operates with total impunity, with the abuses that inevitably result.
americasquarterly.org/article/how-...
The scam text reachouts get weirder and weirder. I just got one that simply asked "do you believe in the afterlife," and man, I'm not even convinced of this one
August 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The scam text reachouts get weirder and weirder. I just got one that simply asked "do you believe in the afterlife," and man, I'm not even convinced of this one
I don’t think people really understand how disastrous bad governance can be. Americans tend not to really grasp the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, the Holodomor, the Great Purge, even the Nazis (despite pop culture knowledge).
We just assume “it can’t happen here.”
We just assume “it can’t happen here.”
August 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I don’t think people really understand how disastrous bad governance can be. Americans tend not to really grasp the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, the Holodomor, the Great Purge, even the Nazis (despite pop culture knowledge).
We just assume “it can’t happen here.”
We just assume “it can’t happen here.”
In the past year Tesla’s revenues are down 12% and its stock price is down 25%.
If that performance earns someone $29 billion, then oh boy is something seriously wrong.
If that performance earns someone $29 billion, then oh boy is something seriously wrong.
August 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
In the past year Tesla’s revenues are down 12% and its stock price is down 25%.
If that performance earns someone $29 billion, then oh boy is something seriously wrong.
If that performance earns someone $29 billion, then oh boy is something seriously wrong.