Carolyn Ostrander
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Carolyn Ostrander
@clow.bsky.social
Poet. Editor, The Comstock Review. Rhet/Comp & Historiography. Rural Studies. Linguistics. Multimodal/ Multilingual Acquisition. Disability/Deaf Studies. Educational Equity & Access. Best endorsement to date: my GP reports "Patient is a good historian"
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She should be. Trump will pardon her of course

Nonetheless we need a GIANT SPOTLIGHT on the March 15th key event: the Executive Branch illegally telling the Judiciary to get lost by ignoring a judicial order
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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The PLAINTIFFS didn't even expect the DOJ to toss Noem under the bus. She's not on their list of proposed witnesses to the decision to let the planes land.
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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(Editorial: My guess is that the "legal advice" given by Bove and Blanche went something like this: "What's he going to do, hold you in contempt?"
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Translation: We didn't violate the order, but if anyone did, it was Kristi Noem."
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
#FeatlessLeader? Maybe. 1 reason a person's feet & legs can swell is relevant to the weird critique that started this off: Sitting in restricted positions for long periods of time can be dangerously bad for circulation. Good plan: elevate feet, remove shoes, flex knees, ankles/toes, *loosen laces*
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
3rd possibility: laces loosened to accommodate weight & swollen feet/ankles
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Here's a timeline I did in July.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/23/d...
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The worst is this poor little toy can't tell the difference between a US AG, a US Supreme Court Justice, which is quite literally the but-for difference, and a Brazilian judge w/investigatory powers.

It's like gravity doesn't exist with these snot nosed Roberts-freaks.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Here's a picture from the opinion, from photojournalist Matthew Kaplan, of what happened after that.
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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*her

If it's the WI Supreme Court you can default to female pronouns and be right 6 times out of 7
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM