Jamey Lowdermilk
@jmlowdermilk.bsky.social
Attorney, bike commuter, parent of toddler. Here for exchanging ideas, not providing legal advice.
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“Maybe we’re onto something.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“Maybe we’re onto something.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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Further premeditated killing by the Trump administration.
Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.
Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.
October 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Further premeditated killing by the Trump administration.
Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.
Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.
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Please amplify this demand. We need y'all. I was there. We were not in the road. ICE simply let loose on us to film themselves brutalizing and arresting protesters—and state police assisted them. They brought charges against scattered people to create a pretext for this inexcusable violence.
October 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Please amplify this demand. We need y'all. I was there. We were not in the road. ICE simply let loose on us to film themselves brutalizing and arresting protesters—and state police assisted them. They brought charges against scattered people to create a pretext for this inexcusable violence.
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
May 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
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At which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.
BREAKING: Second Circuit panel, one day after arguments, unanimously rejects government's arguments and orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be transferred to Vermont no later than May 14. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
May 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
At which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.
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Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
April 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
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Putting this link on every post I see on this topic, just in case it reaches one person who didn't know their vote is being wrongly challenged. thegriffinlist.com
The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to
early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted.
...
thegriffinlist.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Putting this link on every post I see on this topic, just in case it reaches one person who didn't know their vote is being wrongly challenged. thegriffinlist.com
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“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Exclusive | Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance
Dr. Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments.
www.wsj.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Asks to Universities/colleges are 3-fold: (1) daily check to see if visas have been revoked (2) provide immigration counsel upon visa revocation, & (3) keep students enrolled.
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April 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Asks to Universities/colleges are 3-fold: (1) daily check to see if visas have been revoked (2) provide immigration counsel upon visa revocation, & (3) keep students enrolled.
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I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
March 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
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It will never cease to amaze me how many people bitterly resist one of the most obvious and important facts of our time: that when there is a shortage of housing, everything becomes more expensive and destabilized.
Building more housing is one of the most important priorities we face as a country.
Building more housing is one of the most important priorities we face as a country.
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It will never cease to amaze me how many people bitterly resist one of the most obvious and important facts of our time: that when there is a shortage of housing, everything becomes more expensive and destabilized.
Building more housing is one of the most important priorities we face as a country.
Building more housing is one of the most important priorities we face as a country.
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2000+ Jewish professors, staff, and students circulating a letter on Trump-Vance's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil:
"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
March 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
2000+ Jewish professors, staff, and students circulating a letter on Trump-Vance's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil:
"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
Great listen. Hear, hear.
“All those things you learn in economics, in finance, are all made up by us … if this is all made up & it's not working, let's invent something that works better”
In Ep 16, @adriennebuller.bsky.social & Hans Stegeman break down post-growth economics & “green” finance ⬇️
youtu.be/0H3tjdc3PyE?...
In Ep 16, @adriennebuller.bsky.social & Hans Stegeman break down post-growth economics & “green” finance ⬇️
youtu.be/0H3tjdc3PyE?...
March 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Great listen. Hear, hear.
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Clay Bennett nails it.
February 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Clay Bennett nails it.
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🚨 BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky just signed a landmark agreement providing Ukraine’s military with $3.3 billion in support.
A major show of commitment to Ukraine’s fight for democracy, all while Trump gets on his knees for Putin. 🇬🇧🇺🇦
A major show of commitment to Ukraine’s fight for democracy, all while Trump gets on his knees for Putin. 🇬🇧🇺🇦
March 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🚨 BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky just signed a landmark agreement providing Ukraine’s military with $3.3 billion in support.
A major show of commitment to Ukraine’s fight for democracy, all while Trump gets on his knees for Putin. 🇬🇧🇺🇦
A major show of commitment to Ukraine’s fight for democracy, all while Trump gets on his knees for Putin. 🇬🇧🇺🇦
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I’m sorry, but repeating this framing without skepticism is collaborating with your source to mislead your readers. They have been working on humiliating Zelensky and catering to Putin since long before the inauguration. Nothing about this is a response; it’s the plan of an abuser and a charlatan.
🚨The Trump administration is considering ending all ongoing shipments of military aid to Ukraine in response to Zelensky’s remarks in the Oval Office on Friday and his perceived intransigence in the peace process, per senior administration official
February 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I’m sorry, but repeating this framing without skepticism is collaborating with your source to mislead your readers. They have been working on humiliating Zelensky and catering to Putin since long before the inauguration. Nothing about this is a response; it’s the plan of an abuser and a charlatan.
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we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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People tell me to be safe while biking, and while I appreciate it, what I'd really appreciate is people going a step further and pondering *why* they think biking is unsafe. Because then they'd have to grapple with the fact that we've designed our society to make biking "dangerous" for many people.
February 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
People tell me to be safe while biking, and while I appreciate it, what I'd really appreciate is people going a step further and pondering *why* they think biking is unsafe. Because then they'd have to grapple with the fact that we've designed our society to make biking "dangerous" for many people.
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yeah like, in order for someone to know something, they must learn it either through experience or instruction, and the system of communicating the stakes of elections is just totally broken bsky.app/profile/ecow...
Seems harsh to continually blame average people for Trump when virtually every major media corporation downplayed the risk or actively backed him. Blame the rich hands controlling the narrative, not the people who were caught in the con.
February 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
yeah like, in order for someone to know something, they must learn it either through experience or instruction, and the system of communicating the stakes of elections is just totally broken bsky.app/profile/ecow...
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Hi folks! In weird news, I published an essay in Slate today having nothing to do with my work.
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slate.com/technology/2...
It’s a Warm Winter Day. Is There a German Word for That?
The nice weather is great—and a little unsettling.
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February 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hi folks! In weird news, I published an essay in Slate today having nothing to do with my work.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...