AblativMeatshld
@ablativmeatshld.bsky.social
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
- H.L. Mencken
- H.L. Mencken
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Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
CBP agents held this U.S. citizen for hours until he agreed to let them search his electronic devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.
reason.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
Hey @bostonherald.com go fuck yourselves.
I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
December 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hey @bostonherald.com go fuck yourselves.
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The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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The balls on this guy
Putin Invites Journalists to “Surrounded” Ukrainian Forces in Kupiansk—Zelenskyy Shows Up Instead
During his visit to Kupiansk, President Zelenskyy praised Ukrainian troops, highlighting their vital role in defending the region against Russian aggression.
united24media.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The balls on this guy
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Good piece about some very bad editorials, which I find more depressing than enraging. They have no apparent audience (besides Bezos) and lack basic fluency in the legal concepts they discuss. Both asinine and utterly pointless. Can someone who understands the law at least write them?
It is hard to overstate how shallow and embarrassing the Washington Post Editorial Board's analysis is whenver it tries to write about the law. They don't make arguments so much as they crank out half-assed jumbles of buzzwords that they hope will make Jeff Bezos happy. Don't care for it at all!
The Washington Post Editorial Board Is Spectacularly Awful at Legal Analysis
Since Bezos overhauled the board earlier this year, it has been very good at cranking out billionaire-friendly propaganda. It is quite bad at everything else.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Good piece about some very bad editorials, which I find more depressing than enraging. They have no apparent audience (besides Bezos) and lack basic fluency in the legal concepts they discuss. Both asinine and utterly pointless. Can someone who understands the law at least write them?
I give it a week
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I give it a week
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Noam Chomsky loves the taste of boot, as long as it's edgy and contrarian enough.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Noam Chomsky loves the taste of boot, as long as it's edgy and contrarian enough.
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Reports of Steve Bannon being a racist shitbag are capitalist propaganda intended to prop up America’s genocidal military, apparently.
Noam Chomsky loves the taste of boot, as long as it's edgy and contrarian enough.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Reports of Steve Bannon being a racist shitbag are capitalist propaganda intended to prop up America’s genocidal military, apparently.
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Amazingly this is somehow a *different* Chicago PD cop from the one I just posted about that shot and killed his partner while trying to summarily execute a motorist
Cops are great
Cops are great
New: a suit filed in federal court late Weds alleges high-ranking cops in CPD—& other city officials—ignored a detective's complaints about fellow officer Marco Torres.
He's accused of "physically, mentally and sexually" abusing her, intimidating witnesses, and trying to put out a hit on her:
He's accused of "physically, mentally and sexually" abusing her, intimidating witnesses, and trying to put out a hit on her:
December 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Amazingly this is somehow a *different* Chicago PD cop from the one I just posted about that shot and killed his partner while trying to summarily execute a motorist
Cops are great
Cops are great
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New: a suit filed in federal court late Weds alleges high-ranking cops in CPD—& other city officials—ignored a detective's complaints about fellow officer Marco Torres.
He's accused of "physically, mentally and sexually" abusing her, intimidating witnesses, and trying to put out a hit on her:
He's accused of "physically, mentally and sexually" abusing her, intimidating witnesses, and trying to put out a hit on her:
CPD leaders knew cop proposed hiring hitman to kill fellow detective, new federal lawsuit alleges
Attorneys say their client has faced years of violent abuse and threats at the hands of another detective while top brass and city officials have refused to investigate or discipline him.
unraveledpress.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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every day i log onto bluesky and have to learn the name of a federal judge
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
every day i log onto bluesky and have to learn the name of a federal judge
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my brothers are identical twins and i can't tell them apart even though they are fully grown but i know who Judge Boasburg is
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
my brothers are identical twins and i can't tell them apart even though they are fully grown but i know who Judge Boasburg is
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White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
So I guess the my pillow guy is gonna run for Minnesota governor?
Man, his campaign financials are gonna be fascinating.
Man, his campaign financials are gonna be fascinating.
December 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So I guess the my pillow guy is gonna run for Minnesota governor?
Man, his campaign financials are gonna be fascinating.
Man, his campaign financials are gonna be fascinating.
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LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Get bent.
Racists - and the people who tell me to be nice to them - should be driven from fucking society.
Racists - and the people who tell me to be nice to them - should be driven from fucking society.
I wrote about why we should not celebrate someone losing their job, especially in today’s America, even when they’ve done terrible racist things.
Losing a job should also be harder and involve workers’ bodies not unilateral management decisions.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Losing a job should also be harder and involve workers’ bodies not unilateral management decisions.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
www.theatlantic.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Get bent.
Racists - and the people who tell me to be nice to them - should be driven from fucking society.
Racists - and the people who tell me to be nice to them - should be driven from fucking society.
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I am a comfortable, influential PhD and published author and broadcaster, and I don’t understand why people of color buying a snack at Cinnabon don’t just reason with the person shouting racial slurs at them, for the good of World Socialism.
Today in the Atlantic
Today in the Atlantic
December 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I am a comfortable, influential PhD and published author and broadcaster, and I don’t understand why people of color buying a snack at Cinnabon don’t just reason with the person shouting racial slurs at them, for the good of World Socialism.
Today in the Atlantic
Today in the Atlantic
Trust me, you demean yourself.
I don't think I'd demean myself when I see a racist worker as a potential ally. You know once, in a picket line in Canada, a white worker asked me to leave "because you are not even Canadian and can't speak English properly". Everybody tried to shut the worker up but I tried to reason and explain +
December 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Trust me, you demean yourself.
Sure, if you live in a lawless, authoritarian hellscape.
Is "correcting" a previous order like this a real thing?
December 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Sure, if you live in a lawless, authoritarian hellscape.
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It is not! A “scrivener’s error” is for things like fixing typos or very minor non-material errors, not retroactively adding a deportation order that doesn’t current exist!
Is "correcting" a previous order like this a real thing?
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It is not! A “scrivener’s error” is for things like fixing typos or very minor non-material errors, not retroactively adding a deportation order that doesn’t current exist!
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It isn't NEARLY brutal enough.
December 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It isn't NEARLY brutal enough.
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"The jury verdict from 10 years ago contains a scrivener's error insofar as it states that the defendant was not guilty. We are changing that, nunc pro tunc, to guilty."
Yeah, no.
Yeah, no.
It is not! A “scrivener’s error” is for things like fixing typos or very minor non-material errors, not retroactively adding a deportation order that doesn’t current exist!
Is "correcting" a previous order like this a real thing?
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"The jury verdict from 10 years ago contains a scrivener's error insofar as it states that the defendant was not guilty. We are changing that, nunc pro tunc, to guilty."
Yeah, no.
Yeah, no.