@stroligus.bsky.social
Lawyer. Former Chief Public Defender, PD for 30 years. Proud husband, father, dogs, horses, plants. The Rule of Law. Looking for sanity.
Good one by @benjaminwitts.bsky.social 👇
"Don’t kid yourself, folks: There is no magic bullet here," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org in The Situation.
"There is, instead, a long hard slog ahead of us—a long hard slog of elections, advocacy, protest, litigation, and people fighting for their rights."
"There is, instead, a long hard slog ahead of us—a long hard slog of elections, advocacy, protest, litigation, and people fighting for their rights."
The Situation: “Evident Clinical Symptoms”
There is no magic bullet solution to a deranged president.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 20, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Good one by @benjaminwitts.bsky.social 👇
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Exactly what we expected
In a remarkable court filing, DOJ also revealed that DOGE employees traded Social Security data on an unapproved third party server — Cloudflare — and may have sent private SSA info to a top DOGE adviser. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 20, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Exactly what we expected
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NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 20, 2026 at 6:53 PM
NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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BREAKING
A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one.
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A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one.
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January 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
BREAKING
A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one.
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A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one.
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A normal attorney who was the subject of this memorandum would walk into the ocean and never come back
BREAKING
A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one.
Doc buff.ly/JvTKLlD
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A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one.
Doc buff.ly/JvTKLlD
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January 20, 2026 at 7:24 PM
A normal attorney who was the subject of this memorandum would walk into the ocean and never come back
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Andy McCabe could do the funniest thing right now.
JUST IN: Federal judges Virginia are seeking applicants to succeed Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney, whose 120-day appointment expires today, they say. www.vaed.uscourts.gov/sites/vaed/f...
January 20, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Andy McCabe could do the funniest thing right now.
I swear irony is lost on Republicans. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤮
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 7:05 PM
I swear irony is lost on Republicans. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤮
Of course, a former public defender.
this jumped out at me too. the Court denied denied this guy's motion to waive the fees AND said 'he be filing frivolous stuff so don't accept any more noncriminal petitions from him unless he pays'
and KBJ is like...ok this is an insane rule to apply to an indigent person serving a 70-year sentence
and KBJ is like...ok this is an insane rule to apply to an indigent person serving a 70-year sentence
Justice Jackson takes an interesting stand today. SCOTUS often waives the filing fees for indigent parties—but refuses to do so after they file multiple "frivolous" petitions. Jackson says that's unfair and dissents from the practice moving forward. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
January 20, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Of course, a former public defender.
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The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
Not to mention the tens of thousands of service members who fought and gave their lives to create the new world order and the pathway for these leaders to create and foster this collective security. May their sacrifice not have been in vain.
2026 is going to be a very dark year for US foreign policy, where everything that was built over many decades by leaders for collective security is torn apart by one madman, but only because people in his own party remain silent.
January 19, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Not to mention the tens of thousands of service members who fought and gave their lives to create the new world order and the pathway for these leaders to create and foster this collective security. May their sacrifice not have been in vain.
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We’re the bad guys now.
BREAKING: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom:
January 18, 2026 at 11:37 PM
We’re the bad guys now.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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In case you are afraid and want to know what to say when ICE confronts you @parkroseperma.bsky.social has a great training class here
#proudblue
youtu.be/S8ePJTOaiXw?...
#proudblue
youtu.be/S8ePJTOaiXw?...
Kristi Noem says ICE can stop and demand your ID? MN woman gives masterclass in how to handle this.
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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January 17, 2026 at 8:25 PM
In case you are afraid and want to know what to say when ICE confronts you @parkroseperma.bsky.social has a great training class here
#proudblue
youtu.be/S8ePJTOaiXw?...
#proudblue
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@cnn.com why do you still give this guy a voice? He’s tanking Abby Phillip’s show
The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.
January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
@cnn.com why do you still give this guy a voice? He’s tanking Abby Phillip’s show
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The city is bumping, the whistles are blowing, everybody looks good. There is much pain in the world but not in this room.
Bro, people are going to build entire lives around the neighbors they’ve found in these anti-ICE signal chats. Marriages, lifelong friendships, weird hobbies. It is actually breaking my brain. I am almost crying in the club (chat).
January 16, 2026 at 3:52 AM
The city is bumping, the whistles are blowing, everybody looks good. There is much pain in the world but not in this room.
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At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
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Minnesota lawyers: this doc is intended to serve as a living, iterated-on clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities. It's very much a work in progress, but I'll be updating it as resources develop.
Everyone has something to contribute regardless of practice area or experience. Let's get to work.
Everyone has something to contribute regardless of practice area or experience. Let's get to work.
January 13, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Minnesota lawyers: this doc is intended to serve as a living, iterated-on clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities. It's very much a work in progress, but I'll be updating it as resources develop.
Everyone has something to contribute regardless of practice area or experience. Let's get to work.
Everyone has something to contribute regardless of practice area or experience. Let's get to work.
Minnesota lawyers
Minnesota lawyers: this doc is intended to serve as a living, iterated-on clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities. It's very much a work in progress, but I'll be updating it as resources develop.
Everyone has something to contribute regardless of practice area or experience. Let's get to work.
Everyone has something to contribute regardless of practice area or experience. Let's get to work.
January 16, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Minnesota lawyers
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Delusional and sociopathic
Miller: "In MN, the insurrectionists are confronting our officers on the street. They're being arrested. This is a natl security priority. Arrests of insurrectionists are made every day, and each provide us an opportunity to learn about the network from a law enforcement & natl security standpoint"
January 15, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Delusional and sociopathic
Yes, it’s democratically brilliant.
Requiring ICE agents to wear prominent identification is good. But a system of ”citizens should walk up very close to agents extending their phone to hold next to the agent” is a Dem-brained way of getting people beaten and killed under this administration.
Everyone can relax. Democrats have a solution to all this...
Rep. Ritchie Torres is introducing a bill that would require ICE agents to wear scannable QR codes linking to webpages with their names.
www.axios.com/2026/01/13/d...
Rep. Ritchie Torres is introducing a bill that would require ICE agents to wear scannable QR codes linking to webpages with their names.
www.axios.com/2026/01/13/d...
January 14, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Yes, it’s democratically brilliant.
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It’s a lawless totalitarian occupation of an American city.
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
It’s a lawless totalitarian occupation of an American city.