Derek Carr
@dcarr.bsky.social
Public health law. Mostly drug policy & harm reduction. Baseball & politics too. Opinions my own.
Aaron Boone is a terrible manager with no feel for baseball and you can’t convince me otherwise
October 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Aaron Boone is a terrible manager with no feel for baseball and you can’t convince me otherwise
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For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
September 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
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I’m not downplaying what ICE and CBP will fee empowered to do now.
I’m not downplaying the real costs of grinding thru a BS charge before the courts toss it.
But it is also important to stress this is just an EO, not a law, bc the media is going to frame it as law.
It.
Is.
Not.
I’m not downplaying the real costs of grinding thru a BS charge before the courts toss it.
But it is also important to stress this is just an EO, not a law, bc the media is going to frame it as law.
It.
Is.
Not.
September 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I’m not downplaying what ICE and CBP will fee empowered to do now.
I’m not downplaying the real costs of grinding thru a BS charge before the courts toss it.
But it is also important to stress this is just an EO, not a law, bc the media is going to frame it as law.
It.
Is.
Not.
I’m not downplaying the real costs of grinding thru a BS charge before the courts toss it.
But it is also important to stress this is just an EO, not a law, bc the media is going to frame it as law.
It.
Is.
Not.
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Some fire from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent:
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
September 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Some fire from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent:
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
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Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
September 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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Unitary executive theory seems to be the principle that Congress can give the executive branch authority but no one can take it away. They can fund a new department and say what it needs to do and the executive can take that department and say “fuck you it’s mine now I do what I want with it.”
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
August 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Here's the quote: "Acceptance of lesser evils is consciously used in conditioning the government officials as well as the population at large to the acceptance of evil as such."
August 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Here's the quote: "Acceptance of lesser evils is consciously used in conditioning the government officials as well as the population at large to the acceptance of evil as such."
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There is something here that I want people to remember.
The only way shit like this happens is governance structures that make it way too easy for unpopular shit to happen and popular shit to get veto-gated. This is minoritarian rule.
The only way shit like this happens is governance structures that make it way too easy for unpopular shit to happen and popular shit to get veto-gated. This is minoritarian rule.
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
There is something here that I want people to remember.
The only way shit like this happens is governance structures that make it way too easy for unpopular shit to happen and popular shit to get veto-gated. This is minoritarian rule.
The only way shit like this happens is governance structures that make it way too easy for unpopular shit to happen and popular shit to get veto-gated. This is minoritarian rule.
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Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
June 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
This
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
June 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This
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I mean, obviously, you use whatever tools are available, and there’s plenty to do with the law. Movement lawyers always have and always will figure out ways.
But if the question is, is this court going to be a dependable means of resisting fascism? Absolutely the fuck not, and often the opposite.
But if the question is, is this court going to be a dependable means of resisting fascism? Absolutely the fuck not, and often the opposite.
June 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I mean, obviously, you use whatever tools are available, and there’s plenty to do with the law. Movement lawyers always have and always will figure out ways.
But if the question is, is this court going to be a dependable means of resisting fascism? Absolutely the fuck not, and often the opposite.
But if the question is, is this court going to be a dependable means of resisting fascism? Absolutely the fuck not, and often the opposite.
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as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders
June 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders
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2026 midterm dems should be running on the explicit platform of completely neutering SCOTUS with a massive overhaul of the judiciary act
June 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
2026 midterm dems should be running on the explicit platform of completely neutering SCOTUS with a massive overhaul of the judiciary act
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It's not hyperbole to call this case the death of meaningful constitutional rights in the United States. If you do not have an attorney that can litigate against the government, you no longer have rights. This will go down in history as the gutting of the constitutional order.
June 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's not hyperbole to call this case the death of meaningful constitutional rights in the United States. If you do not have an attorney that can litigate against the government, you no longer have rights. This will go down in history as the gutting of the constitutional order.
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I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
June 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Unqualified support for immediate court expansion MUST be a litmus for all federal Dem candidates
June 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Unqualified support for immediate court expansion MUST be a litmus for all federal Dem candidates
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Remember that Emil Bove made sure that the case against Eric Adams would be dropped so that Eric Adams would do something exactly like this.
Adams got his case dropped, and Bove got a judicial nomination. (www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...)
Adams must be voted out, and Bove cannot be confirmed.
Adams got his case dropped, and Bove got a judicial nomination. (www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...)
Adams must be voted out, and Bove cannot be confirmed.
Photos: NYPD Arrests Protesters Blocking ICE Vans Transporting Detained Immigrants
Photos: NYPD Arrests Protesters Blocking ICE Vans Transporting Detained Immigrants
The NYPD cleared the path for ICE's vans, despite pledges from the mayor and the police commissioner that the City doesn't assist in civil immigration enforcement.
hellgatenyc.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Remember that Emil Bove made sure that the case against Eric Adams would be dropped so that Eric Adams would do something exactly like this.
Adams got his case dropped, and Bove got a judicial nomination. (www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...)
Adams must be voted out, and Bove cannot be confirmed.
Adams got his case dropped, and Bove got a judicial nomination. (www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...)
Adams must be voted out, and Bove cannot be confirmed.
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The House plan threatens SNAP for many Kentuckians, including by:
--putting 135K older adults & children at risk of losing benefits from paperwork requirements
--shifting up to $190M/year in costs to the state budget, the equivalent of hiring 2,354 public school teachers
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--putting 135K older adults & children at risk of losing benefits from paperwork requirements
--shifting up to $190M/year in costs to the state budget, the equivalent of hiring 2,354 public school teachers
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May 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The House plan threatens SNAP for many Kentuckians, including by:
--putting 135K older adults & children at risk of losing benefits from paperwork requirements
--shifting up to $190M/year in costs to the state budget, the equivalent of hiring 2,354 public school teachers
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--putting 135K older adults & children at risk of losing benefits from paperwork requirements
--shifting up to $190M/year in costs to the state budget, the equivalent of hiring 2,354 public school teachers
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BREAKING: U.S. District Court Judge Richard Myers orders the NC State Board of Elections to certify a 734-vote win for Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and rejects all of Griffin's election protests. Judge stays order for one week so Griffin may appeal. #ncpol
May 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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This. People celebrating the outcome while ignoring the details. The court all but invites Trump to issue a new proclamation that says the magic words and thereafter becomes an unreviewable political question. Extraordinarily dangerous
Dangerous recipe in Texas district court decision.
Judge Rodriguez has VERY expansive definition of political question doctrine: He would not examine factual allegations made in Alien Enemies Act Proclamation.
So next time POTUS just needs to assert bogus factual claims of gangs invading a city?
Judge Rodriguez has VERY expansive definition of political question doctrine: He would not examine factual allegations made in Alien Enemies Act Proclamation.
So next time POTUS just needs to assert bogus factual claims of gangs invading a city?
May 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This. People celebrating the outcome while ignoring the details. The court all but invites Trump to issue a new proclamation that says the magic words and thereafter becomes an unreviewable political question. Extraordinarily dangerous
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If you repeat the phrase "Medicaid work requirements" — even if you think you're being clever with something like "medicaid work requirements don't work" — you're helping MAGA destroy Medicaid. Don't repeat their disinformation frame.
Instead, reframe: Medicaid Job Loss Penalty
Instead, reframe: Medicaid Job Loss Penalty
April 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If you repeat the phrase "Medicaid work requirements" — even if you think you're being clever with something like "medicaid work requirements don't work" — you're helping MAGA destroy Medicaid. Don't repeat their disinformation frame.
Instead, reframe: Medicaid Job Loss Penalty
Instead, reframe: Medicaid Job Loss Penalty