rhammer
@rhammersley.bsky.social
energy/land-use/enviro attorney, ecologist, activist & political junkie, angler/hunter, cyclist/triathlete, music lover, futbol (Arsenal) & Michigan sports fan; live in Traverse City. (he/him)
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you made this sweet environmental law man mad
February 13, 2026 at 12:23 AM
you made this sweet environmental law man mad
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BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple.
"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."
"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."
February 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple.
"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."
"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."
Dear Senators @peters.senate.gov and @slotkin.senate.gov - I am hopeful that you don't need additional lobbying on this, but we all need you to vote "No." on this and vociferously defend women's rights to vote and diligently protect against modern-day poll tax BS like this.
February 12, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Dear Senators @peters.senate.gov and @slotkin.senate.gov - I am hopeful that you don't need additional lobbying on this, but we all need you to vote "No." on this and vociferously defend women's rights to vote and diligently protect against modern-day poll tax BS like this.
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Behold, the genetic superiority of the master race. bsky.app/profile/chri...
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Behold, the genetic superiority of the master race. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Literally cannot stress enough that if I, a climate scientist, were running a scam it would be a lot more fun than this
February 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Literally cannot stress enough that if I, a climate scientist, were running a scam it would be a lot more fun than this
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Now that the underlying decision in the European Commission’s €120 million fine against X is in the public domain, Oliver Marsh and LK Seiling examine what it reveals about data access under the Digital Services Act.
What the X Fine Reveals About Data Access Under Article 40 of the Digital Services Act
Oliver Marsh and LK Seiling unpack the recently published X enforcement decision and what it says about DSA researcher data access rules.
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February 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Now that the underlying decision in the European Commission’s €120 million fine against X is in the public domain, Oliver Marsh and LK Seiling examine what it reveals about data access under the Digital Services Act.
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At least for now, there is no longer a legal basis for the EPA to take action on climate change.
History will see this for what it is — an embarrassing, anti-scientific backslide that will jeopardize the well-being of billions of people and countless ecosystems for centuries to come.
History will see this for what it is — an embarrassing, anti-scientific backslide that will jeopardize the well-being of billions of people and countless ecosystems for centuries to come.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
At least for now, there is no longer a legal basis for the EPA to take action on climate change.
History will see this for what it is — an embarrassing, anti-scientific backslide that will jeopardize the well-being of billions of people and countless ecosystems for centuries to come.
History will see this for what it is — an embarrassing, anti-scientific backslide that will jeopardize the well-being of billions of people and countless ecosystems for centuries to come.
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Mail carriers... "You know that they’re shooting tear gas on the other side of the block.” And I’m like: “Yeah, I know, but I gotta keep doing my job. I may have medicine. I don’t know what I have in my packages.” But that’s my job." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I’m a Minneapolis postal worker. This is what I saw.
Come rain, shine, tear gas, or ICE shootings, postal worker Bianca Sonnenberg is delivering the mail.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Mail carriers... "You know that they’re shooting tear gas on the other side of the block.” And I’m like: “Yeah, I know, but I gotta keep doing my job. I may have medicine. I don’t know what I have in my packages.” But that’s my job." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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racism is, among other things, a kind of willful stupidity, and a cause of poor judgement, yet this guy's constant, explicit racism doesn't seem to dent his identity as smart
The silence of US elites about this remains stunning & utterly damning.
Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
racism is, among other things, a kind of willful stupidity, and a cause of poor judgement, yet this guy's constant, explicit racism doesn't seem to dent his identity as smart
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After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.
Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List
After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.
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February 12, 2026 at 8:34 PM
After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.
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Really smart take here. A good amount of harm that generative AI is producing in modern society is coming from the fact that a ton of people (sometimes including police) have bought into fantasies about what the technology can actually do.
Today's newsletter: New piece: after the Guthrie kidnapping, the Kirk assassination, and both Minneapolis shootings, the same thing happened every time. People asked AI to "enhance" blurry footage. AI invented faces.
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Computer, Enhance
People keep running crime footage through AI thinking they’re helping. They’re not.
www.readtpa.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Really smart take here. A good amount of harm that generative AI is producing in modern society is coming from the fact that a ton of people (sometimes including police) have bought into fantasies about what the technology can actually do.
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"Canada has largely been shielded from this specific flavour of anti-trans rhetoric simply because mass shootings on this level rarely happen here. But this incident shows that the toxic sludge of anti-trans discourse has a firm hold in our political and online sphere here too." #cdnpoli
NEW from me today:
Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.
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Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.
xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...
The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine
Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence
xtramagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM
"Canada has largely been shielded from this specific flavour of anti-trans rhetoric simply because mass shootings on this level rarely happen here. But this incident shows that the toxic sludge of anti-trans discourse has a firm hold in our political and online sphere here too." #cdnpoli
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This move is completely out of step with public opinion — only 15% of voters think greenhouse gas emissions are not a threat to public health.
February 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This move is completely out of step with public opinion — only 15% of voters think greenhouse gas emissions are not a threat to public health.
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Let me introduce everyone to the 24th Amendment! C’mon down, Fighting 24th:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election…shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election…shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Thank you, Julie Johnson, for speaking out against the grotesquely misnamed SAVE act. We need you to keep fighting for us in the House.
February 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Let me introduce everyone to the 24th Amendment! C’mon down, Fighting 24th:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election…shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election…shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
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Since Pam Bondi is worse than useless, Epstein survivor @anniegrover.bsky.social has started a GoFundMe for Virginia Giuffre to help settle her estate and cover her legal fees. www.gofundme.com/f/help-virgi...
Donate to Help Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s Family Carry On Her Legacy, organized by Annie Farmer
Sky and Amanda Roberts are the beloved brother and sister-in-l… Annie Farmer needs your support for Help Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s Family Carry On Her Legacy
www.gofundme.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Since Pam Bondi is worse than useless, Epstein survivor @anniegrover.bsky.social has started a GoFundMe for Virginia Giuffre to help settle her estate and cover her legal fees. www.gofundme.com/f/help-virgi...
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Such lies.
Ultra-MAGA Judge Edith Jones of the 5th Circuit peddles deranged conspiracy theories about mass voter fraud and "ballot harvesting," declaring that mail voting "is a rich field for fraud" that's frequently exploited by "operatives" attempting to steal elections. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
![Following the electoral chaos caused by the COVID pandemic,
Texas modernized its election security laws. S.B. 1 aimed to make “the
conduct of elections . . . uniform and consistent throughout [the]
state[,] . . . reduce the likelihood of fraud in the conduct of elections, protect
the secrecy of the ballot, promote voter access, and ensure that all legally cast
ballots are counted.” Tex. Elec. Code § 1.0015. Because “the potential
and reality of fraud is much greater in the mail-in ballot context than with inperson voting,” S.B. 1 added additional election integrity provisions to
prevent mail ballot fraud. Veasey v. Abbott, 830 F.3d 216, 239 (5th Cir. 2016)
(en banc). Mail ballots are more susceptible to fraud because they render
election workers incapable of knowing what happens to the ballot once it is
mailed out. Due to the inherent vulnerability of mail ballots, “[f]raud is a real
risk that accompanies mail-in voting.” Brnovich v. Democratic Nat’l Comm.,
594 U.S. 647, 686, 141 S. Ct. 2321, 2348 (2021). In particular, “[v]ote buying
schemes are far more difficult to detect when citizens vote by mail.” Id. at
685, 141 S. Ct. at 2347 (quoting Report of the Comm’n on Fed. Election
Reform, Building Confidence in U.S. Elections 46 (Sept. 2005)).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreic5uwmtwbnt53dr6x5i7gch7x4fan6cbt6ywnyafhtl3the7qpjd4@jpeg)
![One particularly common form of “mail ballot fraud” is known as
“vote harvesting.” Vote harvesting describes a process whereby paid
election operatives “generate applications for mail ballots in . . . targeted
precincts.” Operatives often go door-to-door, talk to voters, and get them to
sign up to vote by mail. More nefariously, vote harvesting can also be
accomplished by paid operatives forging applications for voters without the
voters’ knowledge or consent. Later, once the voters receive the mail ballots
that were requested by canvassing or by forgery, the same partisan operatives
return to collect the voters’ completed mail ballots. As part of the ballot
collection process, the partisan operatives ensure that the ballots were cast
for a particular candidate.
Unsurprisingly, mail-in voting is a rich field for fraud. Between 2004
and 2021, 72% of all election prosecutions undertaken by the Texas Attorney
General involved mail ballot fraud. “[I]t should go without saying that a State
may take action to prevent election fraud.” Id. at 686, 141 S. Ct. at 2348.
Faced with evidence of mail ballot fraud, Texas enacted S.B. 1, which
contained multiple provisions to address mail ballot fraud.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiezavaobhc6uyymcnwkbl45gvxs42id3yecrb2myvunggrswfaxki@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Such lies.
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I shared this the other day before I actually read it bc I trust @skennedy2504.myatproto.social and @liberalcurrents.com enough and wanted to remember to read it later lol
now it's later and I can confirm: strong stuff here on the justices' media environment
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
now it's later and I can confirm: strong stuff here on the justices' media environment
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America
A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I shared this the other day before I actually read it bc I trust @skennedy2504.myatproto.social and @liberalcurrents.com enough and wanted to remember to read it later lol
now it's later and I can confirm: strong stuff here on the justices' media environment
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
now it's later and I can confirm: strong stuff here on the justices' media environment
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
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oh look, Tesla was caught acting as if environmental laws don't exist again
www.kristv.com/news/6-inves...
www.kristv.com/news/6-inves...
Tesla has permit to discharge wastewater, but drainage district says it wasn't notified
Drainage district workers discovered Tesla discharging dark water into a ditch they maintain. The district says they were never notified
www.kristv.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
oh look, Tesla was caught acting as if environmental laws don't exist again
www.kristv.com/news/6-inves...
www.kristv.com/news/6-inves...
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Elect a felon, expect a crime - since when are the loss of our constitionally protected rights a damn red line folks by this LAWBREAKING fascist regime?
Call your reps now & request that ICE funding be cut and reform needed now or partially shut down the government. Our rights are not expendable!
Call your reps now & request that ICE funding be cut and reform needed now or partially shut down the government. Our rights are not expendable!
‘Complete nonstarter’: Administration allies say judicial warrants a red line for White House in DHS funding talks as shutdown looms
The seeming stalemate sets up a clash between the Trump administration and Democrats ahead of a Friday night deadline.
www.politico.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Elect a felon, expect a crime - since when are the loss of our constitionally protected rights a damn red line folks by this LAWBREAKING fascist regime?
Call your reps now & request that ICE funding be cut and reform needed now or partially shut down the government. Our rights are not expendable!
Call your reps now & request that ICE funding be cut and reform needed now or partially shut down the government. Our rights are not expendable!
