Mattball
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Trump’s a bum
Defund and prosecute ICE
Pro cats, bicycles and Philly.
Pretty dumb, but I try to follow smart people on here.
Defund and prosecute ICE
Pro cats, bicycles and Philly.
Pretty dumb, but I try to follow smart people on here.
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"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Explains Why It’s No Longer Recommending the Use of Seat Belts
“In the seven months since he was sworn in, Mr. Kennedy has delivered a lukewarm endorsement of the measles vaccine; dismantled a panel of experts ...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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I just wanted to quickly note that this piece was an all-women effort, start to finish. From the reporters to the witnesses and even the lawyer who reviewed it, seven women working in different capacities were able to bring this story of gross malfeasance to life. Proud The Handbasket can do this.
An officer briefly became the face of Trump’s brutality mandate in DC after popping up in various videos like federal Forrest Gump.
@jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated and found he’s a 26-year-old former Eagle Scout named Patrick O’Hanlon who says he was just doing his job.
Our report:
@jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated and found he’s a 26-year-old former Eagle Scout named Patrick O’Hanlon who says he was just doing his job.
Our report:
Officer repeatedly seen on camera in DC crackdown shows Trump agents' impunity
US Park Police officer Patrick O’Hanlon isn’t unique in his behavior. He just got caught.
www.thehandbasket.co
September 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I just wanted to quickly note that this piece was an all-women effort, start to finish. From the reporters to the witnesses and even the lawyer who reviewed it, seven women working in different capacities were able to bring this story of gross malfeasance to life. Proud The Handbasket can do this.
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Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on.
Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
'It infuriates us': Veterans rage at 'abusive' Trump over reports of him stiffing soldiers
Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.The reports started earlier in the summer that Tru...
www.rawstory.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on.
Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
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Miscarrying and need a D&C?
Good luck!
Have an ectopic pregnancy and your life is in endanger? Good luck!
Elderly/immune compromised and want to update your Covid vaccine?
Good luck!
Have a violent past and/or mental health issue and want to buy an AR-15 to kill people?
No fucking problem!
Good luck!
Have an ectopic pregnancy and your life is in endanger? Good luck!
Elderly/immune compromised and want to update your Covid vaccine?
Good luck!
Have a violent past and/or mental health issue and want to buy an AR-15 to kill people?
No fucking problem!
August 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Miscarrying and need a D&C?
Good luck!
Have an ectopic pregnancy and your life is in endanger? Good luck!
Elderly/immune compromised and want to update your Covid vaccine?
Good luck!
Have a violent past and/or mental health issue and want to buy an AR-15 to kill people?
No fucking problem!
Good luck!
Have an ectopic pregnancy and your life is in endanger? Good luck!
Elderly/immune compromised and want to update your Covid vaccine?
Good luck!
Have a violent past and/or mental health issue and want to buy an AR-15 to kill people?
No fucking problem!
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"Smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too."
Seeing this billboard up has been incredible and this shot from @visionzerovancouver.ca of the team of volunteers is pretty moving TBH.
Seeing this billboard up has been incredible and this shot from @visionzerovancouver.ca of the team of volunteers is pretty moving TBH.
August 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"Smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too."
Seeing this billboard up has been incredible and this shot from @visionzerovancouver.ca of the team of volunteers is pretty moving TBH.
Seeing this billboard up has been incredible and this shot from @visionzerovancouver.ca of the team of volunteers is pretty moving TBH.
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No matter what you think about Mr. Abrego Garcia, if you believe in due process you should be infuriated by this.
The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica — and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesn’t. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
August 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
No matter what you think about Mr. Abrego Garcia, if you believe in due process you should be infuriated by this.
The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
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This piece broke me.
“I often think about him. I wonder about what he would have worn at eight, at thirteen, at twenty. I wonder about who he would have been friends with. I wonder who he would have had a crush on.”
“I often think about him. I wonder about what he would have worn at eight, at thirteen, at twenty. I wonder about who he would have been friends with. I wonder who he would have had a crush on.”
"That’s really that’s all trans liberation is about: the power to assign. Whose decision is it? What you will be? Who you will be? Who you will love? How you will dress? And so on. Will you ever get to live with your own inner truths reflected, or nah?"
www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...
(re-sharing)
www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...
(re-sharing)
Mourning the Trans Boyhood I Never Got
I won't ever be nine or fourteen or twenty-one again.
www.esquire.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This piece broke me.
“I often think about him. I wonder about what he would have worn at eight, at thirteen, at twenty. I wonder about who he would have been friends with. I wonder who he would have had a crush on.”
“I often think about him. I wonder about what he would have worn at eight, at thirteen, at twenty. I wonder about who he would have been friends with. I wonder who he would have had a crush on.”
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Maybe it’s because I’m a state legislator, but I’m worried about the under reaction here. She didn’t spend the night on the House floor. She’s being DETAINED AGAINST HER WILL BY REPUBLICANS UNTIL SHE FOLLOWS THEIR ORDERS. This is 🦇 💩
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
August 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Maybe it’s because I’m a state legislator, but I’m worried about the under reaction here. She didn’t spend the night on the House floor. She’s being DETAINED AGAINST HER WILL BY REPUBLICANS UNTIL SHE FOLLOWS THEIR ORDERS. This is 🦇 💩
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More and more people in Gaza are dying from a man-made famine caused by Israel’s blockade on essential food supplies.
Israel starving Gaza: 263 dead from starvation, including 112 children
More and more people in Gaza are dying from a man-made famine caused by Israel’s blockade on essential food supplies.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
More and more people in Gaza are dying from a man-made famine caused by Israel’s blockade on essential food supplies.
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1) Disabled children also deserve food.
2) disabled children are MORE vulnerable so if one were to rank ethical obligations (a mistake), protecting them matters more.
3) poverty and trauma cause disability. We know why these children are more likely to be disabled.
2) disabled children are MORE vulnerable so if one were to rank ethical obligations (a mistake), protecting them matters more.
3) poverty and trauma cause disability. We know why these children are more likely to be disabled.
August 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
1) Disabled children also deserve food.
2) disabled children are MORE vulnerable so if one were to rank ethical obligations (a mistake), protecting them matters more.
3) poverty and trauma cause disability. We know why these children are more likely to be disabled.
2) disabled children are MORE vulnerable so if one were to rank ethical obligations (a mistake), protecting them matters more.
3) poverty and trauma cause disability. We know why these children are more likely to be disabled.
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'them kids woulda died of malnutrition anyway' is not the devastating rhetorical comeback you think it is Bari Weiss
August 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
'them kids woulda died of malnutrition anyway' is not the devastating rhetorical comeback you think it is Bari Weiss
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Touch screens on cars worsen response time significantly worse than drink driving or being high:
www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
May 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Touch screens on cars worsen response time significantly worse than drink driving or being high:
www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
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New analysis from CBO of the "Big Beautiful Bill" shows the bottom 20% get poorer, not much change for most of America, & the top 10% get meaningfully richer - and that's before tariffs
The "Big Beautiful Bill" was the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
The "Big Beautiful Bill" was the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
August 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New analysis from CBO of the "Big Beautiful Bill" shows the bottom 20% get poorer, not much change for most of America, & the top 10% get meaningfully richer - and that's before tariffs
The "Big Beautiful Bill" was the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
The "Big Beautiful Bill" was the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
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Y'all don't even understand I cut off the "soda in space" right below Ghislaine!
July 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Y'all don't even understand I cut off the "soda in space" right below Ghislaine!
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World leaders agree on two things: Trump’s tariffs are terrible and the only way to deal with Trump is to treat him like a kidney stone. Do what you can to minimize the pain and hope it passes quickly. My latest.
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-qui...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-qui...
Trump Is Quickly Becoming the World’s Kidney Stone
The painful truth is that world leaders are being forced to go through the motions of making nonsense ‘trade agreements’ with the United States.
www.thedailybeast.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
World leaders agree on two things: Trump’s tariffs are terrible and the only way to deal with Trump is to treat him like a kidney stone. Do what you can to minimize the pain and hope it passes quickly. My latest.
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-qui...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-qui...
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All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
July 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
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🚨 Speaking of FedSoc judges... Today, my work on the Federalist Society is finally officially published!! Plz enjoy what I still believe to be (other than tax stuff) the first large scale empirical dataset about the Federalist Society. I hope folx can use. #LawSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky
July 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🚨 Speaking of FedSoc judges... Today, my work on the Federalist Society is finally officially published!! Plz enjoy what I still believe to be (other than tax stuff) the first large scale empirical dataset about the Federalist Society. I hope folx can use. #LawSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky
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I can't wait to see the 6-3 shadow docket decision ruling with no written opinion that Barack Obama can be prosecuted by Tulsi Gabbard for official acts notwithstanding Trump v US
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
Gabbard Releases New Documents Targeting Obama Administration
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I can't wait to see the 6-3 shadow docket decision ruling with no written opinion that Barack Obama can be prosecuted by Tulsi Gabbard for official acts notwithstanding Trump v US
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
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“If every single immigrant who has a baby in the U.S. has to sue to obtain citizenship, we are happy to create an army of lawyers to represent those people," Mr. DiBianco said
obvi they shouldnt have to but I really appreciate people whose response to hurdles is, aight bet, watch me clear that shit
obvi they shouldnt have to but I really appreciate people whose response to hurdles is, aight bet, watch me clear that shit
A reminder that our profession is not just big firms, and that countless lawyers are stepping up in this critical moment. GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...
Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump. A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“If every single immigrant who has a baby in the U.S. has to sue to obtain citizenship, we are happy to create an army of lawyers to represent those people," Mr. DiBianco said
obvi they shouldnt have to but I really appreciate people whose response to hurdles is, aight bet, watch me clear that shit
obvi they shouldnt have to but I really appreciate people whose response to hurdles is, aight bet, watch me clear that shit
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There’s always a tweet
July 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
There’s always a tweet