Aimee
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“Taken out of context I must seem so strange…” ani difranco. Federal public defender for a decade and a half, current plaintiffs attorney, friend to dogs & friendly people, believer in local government
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The legal profession is chock full of women who interviewed with lots of law firms in hotel rooms as first or second year law students
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The legal profession is chock full of women who interviewed with lots of law firms in hotel rooms as first or second year law students
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I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
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Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
www.gatesnotes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
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Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away
When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"
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When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"
wapo.st/4nuDGwf
Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations
Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was years old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.
wapo.st
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away
When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"
wapo.st/4nuDGwf
When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"
wapo.st/4nuDGwf
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“By keeping the House on indefinite hiatus — as well as sidelining its oversight authority— Republicans have…made our national legislature a nullity. They have, for all intents & purposes, dissolved Congress.
It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of this transformation of the American system.
It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of this transformation of the American system.
Outstanding @jamellebouie.net column. Or as I might say it, Mister we could use a man like Thaddeus Stevens again. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | The Empty Promises of Trump’s Imperial Presidency
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“By keeping the House on indefinite hiatus — as well as sidelining its oversight authority— Republicans have…made our national legislature a nullity. They have, for all intents & purposes, dissolved Congress.
It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of this transformation of the American system.
It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of this transformation of the American system.
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Remember when Trump, Musk, and Rubio cut foreign aid because it was wasteful? Good times
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the bailout for Argentina, now doubled to $40 billion, is part of an effort to swing Latin America to the right
@jacobbogage.bsky.social @davidjlynch.bsky.social David Feliba report
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
@jacobbogage.bsky.social @davidjlynch.bsky.social David Feliba report
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Bessent says bailout for Argentina will double to boost U.S. influence in region
The Trump administration is working to arrange private sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled Latin nation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Remember when Trump, Musk, and Rubio cut foreign aid because it was wasteful? Good times
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what are we even doing here
September 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
what are we even doing here
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It’s really all we should be talking about today.
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It’s really all we should be talking about today.
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If Hegseth is “proud of our history,” why has the military systematically erased the contributions of women and minorities from the DoD website and prevented any celebration of them?
Hegseth on restoring a Confederate monument in Arlington cemetery: "We recognize our history. We don't erase it. We don't follow the woke lemmings off the cliff that want to tear down statues ... we're proud of our history."
August 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If Hegseth is “proud of our history,” why has the military systematically erased the contributions of women and minorities from the DoD website and prevented any celebration of them?
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Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...
In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine
One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with someth…
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July 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...
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It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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BREAKING: JOINT STATEMENT FROM REUTERS, BBC NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS & AFP.
Warning that their staff face death by starvation in Gaza.
Horrifying and unprecedented.
Warning that their staff face death by starvation in Gaza.
Horrifying and unprecedented.
July 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
BREAKING: JOINT STATEMENT FROM REUTERS, BBC NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS & AFP.
Warning that their staff face death by starvation in Gaza.
Horrifying and unprecedented.
Warning that their staff face death by starvation in Gaza.
Horrifying and unprecedented.
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PBS News is not going anywhere.
We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.
We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.
We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
July 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
PBS News is not going anywhere.
We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.
We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.
We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
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America in a nutshell.
July 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
America in a nutshell.
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250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.
Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns
Descriptions of the Everglades detention center as a place for violent criminals tell only part of the story.
www.miamiherald.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.
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Gut-wrenching read. Mom abducted at work by ICE. Kids left at home.
15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”
Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.
15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”
Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.
Horrifying ICE story in the Santa Barbara Independent (led by Publisher Brandi Rivera, my friend, colleague and new president of @aanpublishers.bsky.social). The Independent is a vital, long-time, truly local and connected news source in Santa Barbara.
www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...
www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...
Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids
"I just hope I get my mom back," says 15-year-old Juan Martinez, who is now caring for his brothers, ages 8 and 9.
www.independent.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Gut-wrenching read. Mom abducted at work by ICE. Kids left at home.
15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”
Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.
15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”
Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.
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Rolling Stone continues to teach a masterclass in headline writing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
July 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Rolling Stone continues to teach a masterclass in headline writing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Welp, apparently someone finally found Waldo.
I had to wonder… is the head of FEMA being at a meeting in New Orleans (on the 20 year anniversary of Katrina) where the discussion was centered around dismantling FEMA rather than going to the communities where over 100+ Americans just died going to make national news?
July 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Welp, apparently someone finally found Waldo.
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And btw MSM, I understand that Trump only posted the better to Truth Social.
But a letter that deranged in tone and rife with mistakes deserves to be seen by the America public, rather than summarized or excerpted.
The letter is news on its own terms. And it’s VERY hard to find. Reproduce it.
But a letter that deranged in tone and rife with mistakes deserves to be seen by the America public, rather than summarized or excerpted.
The letter is news on its own terms. And it’s VERY hard to find. Reproduce it.
It’s worth reading the letter. We should ashamed. Forget the tariffs themselves. The errors in grammar and spelling. The insane capitalization of random words. The petulant dauphin-like tone. The factual mistakes. The layout.
Utterly humiliating for our country.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Utterly humiliating for our country.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Read an Annotated Version of Trump’s Tariff Letter to Japan
Letters to other nations were nearly identical, with varying rates depending on the country.
www.wsj.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
And btw MSM, I understand that Trump only posted the better to Truth Social.
But a letter that deranged in tone and rife with mistakes deserves to be seen by the America public, rather than summarized or excerpted.
The letter is news on its own terms. And it’s VERY hard to find. Reproduce it.
But a letter that deranged in tone and rife with mistakes deserves to be seen by the America public, rather than summarized or excerpted.
The letter is news on its own terms. And it’s VERY hard to find. Reproduce it.
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The Fourth Circuit held that failure to object to a magistrate judge's order was a preservation issue, not a jurisdictional one.
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Jurisdiction, Preservation & the Failure to Object to a Magistrate Judge’s Order - Final Decisions PLLC
The Fourth Circuit held that failure to object to a magistrate judge's order was a preservation issue, not a jurisdictional one.
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July 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Fourth Circuit held that failure to object to a magistrate judge's order was a preservation issue, not a jurisdictional one.
#AppellateSky
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#AppellateSky
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Really proud of this piece,,, it’s something I’ve never done before and out some really TIME and thought into something real important.
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion
The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism
www.newsweek.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Really proud of this piece,,, it’s something I’ve never done before and out some really TIME and thought into something real important.
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
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They lie about everything
June 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
They lie about everything
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Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1966...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1966...
Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness
The media has it wrong. Trump is not coming across as fearsome and strong. Instead, his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV routine is self-evident overkill.
newrepublic.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1966...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1966...