Sam Feldman
@srfeld.bsky.social
Appellate public defender, trade unionist, NYC-DSA member. Washingtonian by birth, Chicago alum. He/him. Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
Will no one set this modern folk song to the music it deserves?
THE BALLAD OF SANDWICH MAN
This is the taLE of Sandwich Man,
Whose aim was straight and true,
Who fought for his home with deli meats
As any man should do.
Border Patrolman Lairmore
Wore armor thick snd strong
When he felt the sting of a whole wheat roll
He shouted, “This is wrong!!
This is the taLE of Sandwich Man,
Whose aim was straight and true,
Who fought for his home with deli meats
As any man should do.
Border Patrolman Lairmore
Wore armor thick snd strong
When he felt the sting of a whole wheat roll
He shouted, “This is wrong!!
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Will no one set this modern folk song to the music it deserves?
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Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”
This is great news for sandwich guy, of course, but it's also a big news story that other future jurors will see, helping to spread and legitimize the idea that they don't need to convict on charges that seem unjust. Jury nullification (if that's what happened here) is self-propagating in that way.
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is great news for sandwich guy, of course, but it's also a big news story that other future jurors will see, helping to spread and legitimize the idea that they don't need to convict on charges that seem unjust. Jury nullification (if that's what happened here) is self-propagating in that way.
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I wouldn’t be too surprised if there is no prior record of a single federal misdemeanor charge ever going to trial and acquittal
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I wouldn’t be too surprised if there is no prior record of a single federal misdemeanor charge ever going to trial and acquittal
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There’s a converse 1983 bill recently introduced in NYS: The New York Civil Rights Act, S.8500 (Myrie)/ A.9076 (Romero).
@jcschwartzprof.bsky.social @sifill.bsky.social
(www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...)
@jcschwartzprof.bsky.social @sifill.bsky.social
(www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...)
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There’s a converse 1983 bill recently introduced in NYS: The New York Civil Rights Act, S.8500 (Myrie)/ A.9076 (Romero).
@jcschwartzprof.bsky.social @sifill.bsky.social
(www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...)
@jcschwartzprof.bsky.social @sifill.bsky.social
(www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...)
Pelosi is notable not only for serving well into her old age (she’ll be 86 when she leaves), which has become unfortunately common, but also for sticking around past the end of her tenure as Speaker. The last Speaker to do that was Joseph Martin (Speaker until 1955, stayed in the House until 1967).
Nancy Pelosi, first female speaker of the House, won't seek re-election to Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Nancy Pelosi, first female speaker of the House, won't seek re-election to Congress
The California Democrat led her party in the House for two decades. Her decision will open up her San Francisco-based seat for the first time in nearly 40 years.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Pelosi is notable not only for serving well into her old age (she’ll be 86 when she leaves), which has become unfortunately common, but also for sticking around past the end of her tenure as Speaker. The last Speaker to do that was Joseph Martin (Speaker until 1955, stayed in the House until 1967).
In light of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's big victory yesterday, reupping this piece about how my union, the @uaw.org, was the first to endorse his campaign last fall & has remained among his strongest supporters in labor ever since.
The @uaw.org endorsed Zohran Mamdani when he was a relatively unknown state legislator, thanks to "rank and file activism and a new culture of openness, transparency, and progressivism in the UAW," wrote Sam Feldman, member of the Executive Board of UAW Local 2325:
Why the UAW Endorsed Zohran When Other New York City Unions Held Back
Zohran Mamdani’s shock victory in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary upended New York politics and called into question the effectiveness of big local unions, which mostly lined up b...
labornotes.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In light of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's big victory yesterday, reupping this piece about how my union, the @uaw.org, was the first to endorse his campaign last fall & has remained among his strongest supporters in labor ever since.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ATTORNEYS: Do you like state courts, appellate litigation, and… winning sometimes? The ACLU’s State Supreme Court Initiative is hiring for a 2-year attorney position!
Apply here: www.aclu.org/careers/appl...
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I assume the reason it took so long to get Adams to go along with this deal is that there’s obviously no way for him to make Trump pay up if he doesn’t feel like it. And Zohran winning is likely to make Trump not feel like it.
One hilarious thing you can’t forget in all of this: Trump cut some back door deal with Adams to make him drop out, and is now just stuck with the guy in whatever fake role he’s about to get in the White House AND Zohran STILL won.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I assume the reason it took so long to get Adams to go along with this deal is that there’s obviously no way for him to make Trump pay up if he doesn’t feel like it. And Zohran winning is likely to make Trump not feel like it.
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If the sandwich stayed whole, the defense meets its goal
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If the sandwich stayed whole, the defense meets its goal
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one of those funny little things where a one-term democratic administration picking the wrong lawyer with an inflated sense of doing things as written rather than as intended leads to catastrophic downside (in this case, Carter, 1980, and government shutdowns) www.govexec.com/management/2...
That Time a Lawyer Invented the Government Shutdown
For nearly 200 years, shutdowns simply didn’t happen, even when Congress didn’t finish spending bills.
www.govexec.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
one of those funny little things where a one-term democratic administration picking the wrong lawyer with an inflated sense of doing things as written rather than as intended leads to catastrophic downside (in this case, Carter, 1980, and government shutdowns) www.govexec.com/management/2...
I don't think I've ever seen vote totals before where the 18-29 demographic has higher turnout than not one, not two, but three other demographics (30-39, 40-49, 80+). This is just early voting and we'll see if it holds, but the young people are really showing up for this NYC election.
Early vote numbers in NYC paint a picture of an electorate I don’t think anyone could have predicted.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I don't think I've ever seen vote totals before where the 18-29 demographic has higher turnout than not one, not two, but three other demographics (30-39, 40-49, 80+). This is just early voting and we'll see if it holds, but the young people are really showing up for this NYC election.
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Perceptions of crime are changing. Fewer than 50 percent of Americans told Gallup that crime rose nationally in the last year for the first time since 2001. Only 30 percent said crime rose locally, also the lowest since 2001.
news.gallup.com/poll/697124/...
news.gallup.com/poll/697124/...
October 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Perceptions of crime are changing. Fewer than 50 percent of Americans told Gallup that crime rose nationally in the last year for the first time since 2001. Only 30 percent said crime rose locally, also the lowest since 2001.
news.gallup.com/poll/697124/...
news.gallup.com/poll/697124/...
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Maybe the 7th Circuit has a legitimate point re "inquisitor"
And maybe Judge Sara Ellis and other federal judges should impose contempt on federal officials a lot more quickly
And vindicate equal justice by treating DOJ as just another litigant among litigants
And maybe Judge Sara Ellis and other federal judges should impose contempt on federal officials a lot more quickly
And vindicate equal justice by treating DOJ as just another litigant among litigants
#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sides against U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who had asked Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her Chicago courtroom on a daily basis.
The appeals court finds that her order "infringes on the separation of powers."
The appeals court finds that her order "infringes on the separation of powers."
October 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Maybe the 7th Circuit has a legitimate point re "inquisitor"
And maybe Judge Sara Ellis and other federal judges should impose contempt on federal officials a lot more quickly
And vindicate equal justice by treating DOJ as just another litigant among litigants
And maybe Judge Sara Ellis and other federal judges should impose contempt on federal officials a lot more quickly
And vindicate equal justice by treating DOJ as just another litigant among litigants
Reading a medieval history (Christendom by Peter Heather), I was struck by this point about how literacy really encompasses two skills, reading and composition, that can be acquired by different people for different purposes. Thinking about this while editing students’ writing…
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reading a medieval history (Christendom by Peter Heather), I was struck by this point about how literacy really encompasses two skills, reading and composition, that can be acquired by different people for different purposes. Thinking about this while editing students’ writing…
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On top of the raw cruelty and the lack of any reason for this beyond the GOP commitment to allowing every rip-off they can imagine, this is also a decision to make prison *worse* at reforming/rehabilitating people, because we're making it harder for them to stay connected with people outside.
It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
On top of the raw cruelty and the lack of any reason for this beyond the GOP commitment to allowing every rip-off they can imagine, this is also a decision to make prison *worse* at reforming/rehabilitating people, because we're making it harder for them to stay connected with people outside.
I think there are other good reasons to vote yes on NYC ballot measures 2-4, but if you’re undecided, I’d suggest the city council’s illegal & unethical mail & social media campaign against the measures is a good tie-breaking reason to vote for them.
@council.nyc.gov is blatantly violating the City Charter's prohibition on using government resources for electioneering with their mailers and social media posts opposing pro-housing measures 2-4. Chapter 49, §1136.1: there is no ambiguity about how illegal this is. www.nyccfb.info/law/charter/...
October 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I think there are other good reasons to vote yes on NYC ballot measures 2-4, but if you’re undecided, I’d suggest the city council’s illegal & unethical mail & social media campaign against the measures is a good tie-breaking reason to vote for them.
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This has so many downstream effects we don’t talk about.
People trust local and regional media *way* more than national media. But local and regional media exist less and less.
Also, local and regional papers used to cover national and international stories on the ground! Almost none do now.
People trust local and regional media *way* more than national media. But local and regional media exist less and less.
Also, local and regional papers used to cover national and international stories on the ground! Almost none do now.
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This has so many downstream effects we don’t talk about.
People trust local and regional media *way* more than national media. But local and regional media exist less and less.
Also, local and regional papers used to cover national and international stories on the ground! Almost none do now.
People trust local and regional media *way* more than national media. But local and regional media exist less and less.
Also, local and regional papers used to cover national and international stories on the ground! Almost none do now.
The idea that the Biden administration had something resembling open-border or "porous" immigration policies is surprisingly common on the left-of-center for something that, as far as I can tell, is simply factually false. I'm no expert on this, but @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social is:
It's not the same point, but the argument that the Biden admin had "porous policies" is completely false. They had a number of very harsh policies aiming to limit migration, the problem was state capacity to carry them out and the sheer force of the push/pull factors during the post-COVID years.
knew immediately this would have an abysmal 'to be sure' paragraph
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The idea that the Biden administration had something resembling open-border or "porous" immigration policies is surprisingly common on the left-of-center for something that, as far as I can tell, is simply factually false. I'm no expert on this, but @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social is:
I’m early voting in NYC today! Probably everyone on the internet knows all about our mayoral race at this point whether they want to or not. I’m excited to vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. But we also have 6 ballot measures that are trickier to figure out. Here’s how I’m voting on them:
October 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I’m early voting in NYC today! Probably everyone on the internet knows all about our mayoral race at this point whether they want to or not. I’m excited to vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. But we also have 6 ballot measures that are trickier to figure out. Here’s how I’m voting on them:
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
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during the 2016 campaign, the Boston Globe ran a scary mockup front page of what a world where Trump was president would look like, and it’s pretty tame compared to a random Friday morning’s headlines now
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
during the 2016 campaign, the Boston Globe ran a scary mockup front page of what a world where Trump was president would look like, and it’s pretty tame compared to a random Friday morning’s headlines now
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i NEED to know the backstory here
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r/LosAngeles 6h
Any recommendations for heavy equipment rental in San Gabriel?
r/UnethicalLifeProTips 6h
ULPT Is there a way to remove the reversing alarm on an electric forklift?
r/UnethicalLifeProTips 12h
ULPT I need a way to move 13 2000lbs pallets of margarine side to side and then down into a 6ft hole and then cover it with dirt It must be quiet and fast. I'm not opposed to renting heavy machinery but they must be quiet and able to be operated in low light conditions. For the record, I don't think there's anything unethical about this, but it was recommended I...
r/diet 1d
What might happen to someone if they were to consume say, 3lbs of margarine every day for a month?
Just have some extra margarine lying around that I'm hoping to put to good use. If not 3lbs, how much could I eat a day and still be okay? Thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtcm54bmbkuaj32aiqtbvrwu/bafkreibzhetovxcwgpqwitexh7ifjezeywakn2pvrtyzqcxnsi3uov7xeq@jpeg)
October 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
i NEED to know the backstory here
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I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.