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muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: The DOJ has filed its opposition to my motion for expedited processing of the EPSTEIN TRAINING VIDEOS. They're arguing that there's NO WIDESPREAD PUBLIC INTEREST. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-doj-re...
NEW: DOJ Responded to Our Epstein Training Materials Motion, Arguing There's No Public Interest
They also argue that the existence of the training videos doesn't raise any questions about government integrity!
www.muellershewrote.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
kr61.bsky.social
I removed most social media acquaintances who continue to see no problems with the current pres & co. … many of them are nurses. I am dying to know what they think about their academics no longer being “professional”
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
kr61.bsky.social
My mother-in-law frequently talks about her 1st gen grandmother, who spoke only Polish. And she teaches my child Polish words, while also complaining about the immigrant cashiers and screaming at them to speak English.

Sorry not sorry that she is not invited into my home for holidays.
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
kr61.bsky.social
Observation:
The same people who scream about ICE warnings post in neighborhood groups warning about speed or DUI traps.
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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protip.altgov.info
This must be what Noem is talking about when she says they’re risking their lives. I mean, they are, but not bc their jobs require or benefit from it, just bc they’re stoopid reckless m’f’k’rs with fascist leaders, unrestrained violent tendencies, and no oversight.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Nov 3
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
New paper from me offering a holistic assessment of #SCOTUS's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications thus far:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
Abstract This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on emergency applications relating to the Trump administration during its October 2024 Term. As it demonstrates, the justices in those cases not only flouted the traditional standards for emergency relief; they exhibited repeated and sustained disrespect for both lower courts and Congress, enabling the executive branch to act in defiance of countless statutory restrictions; of settled constitutional understandings; and even of coercive district court mandates, all with dramatic (and deleterious) real-world consequences. As the Alien Enemies Act cases illustrate, the takeaway is not that the Court always ruled for President Trump; it's that it pushed back only when its mandates were on the line. The upshot is an attempt by the Supreme Court to preserve its supremacy, as such. But such an approach, the essay concludes, is likely to be self-defeating. In the short term, it will encourage the executive branch to take ever-more-aggressive actions against both the people and the lower courts. And in the long term, it will not just further weaken Congress and the lower courts; it will further erode public confidence in the judiciary as an institution. Together, the increased power and momentum of the executive and the decreased credibility of (and respect for) the courts will make it that much harder for the Supreme Court to wield the supremacy it's protecting, even when it wants to.
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
kr61.bsky.social
Pretty dystopian when a judge has to caution government officials against tear gassing children on Halloween.
October 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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chaoskat.bsky.social
Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Oct 11
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
October 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Washington Supreme Court Justice Mungia has an extraordinary opinion condemning "the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric" of SCOTUS opinions about Native people.

"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...
MUNGIA, J. (concurring)—I concur with the majority’s opinion.1 And yet I dissent. Not from the majority’s opinion, but I dissent from the racism embedded in the federal case law that applies to this dispute. FEDERAL INDIAN LAW IS A PRODUCT OF THE RACIST BELIEFS ENDEMIC IN OUR SOCIETY AND OUR LEGAL SYSTEM While it is certainly necessary to follow federal case law on issues involving Native American tribes and their members, at the same time it is important to call out that the very foundations of those opinions were based on racism and white supremacy. By doing this, readers of our opinions will have no doubt that the current court disavows, and condemns, those racist sentiments, beliefs, and statements. Since the founding of our country, the federal government has characterized Native Americans as “savages”: They were “uncivilized.” They had little claim to the land upon which they lived. At times, the federal government attempted to eradicate Native Americans through genocidal policies. At other times, the federal government employed ethnic cleansing by forcibly removing children from their parents’ homes to strip them from their culture, their language, and their beings.2 Federal Indian case law arises from those racist underpinnings. The majority correctly cites to Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1, 8 L. Ed. 25 (1831), which is one of the foundational cases involving tribal sovereignty. That opinion is rife with racist attitudes toward Native Americans. Chief Justice John Marshall, writing for the majority, describes a tribe’s relationship to the federal government as one of “ward to his guardian.” Id. at 17. In effect, the opinion presents tribal members as children, and the federal government as the adult. That theme would follow in later opinions by the United States Supreme Court—as would the theme of white supremacy. Cherokee Nation began with the premise that Native American tribes, once strong and powerful, were no match for the white race and so found themselves “gradually sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts and our arms.” Id. at 15. The white man was considered the teacher, the Native Americans the pupils: Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian. Id. at 17. This characterization of superior to inferior, teacher to student, guardian to ward, was repeated in later United States Supreme Court opinions. In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553, 23 S. Ct. 216, 47 L. Ed. 299 (1903), often characterized as the “American Indian Dred Scott,” 3 the Court used that rationale to justify ruling that the United States could break its treaties with Native American tribes. These Indian tribes are the wards of the nation. They are communities dependent on the United States. Dependent largely for their daily food. Dependent for their political rights. . . . From their very weakness and helplessness . . . there arises the duty of protection, and with it the power. Id. at 567 (quoting United States v. Kagama, 118 U.S. 375, 383-84, 6 S. Ct. 1109, 30 L. Ed. 228 (1886)). Our court also carries the shame of denigrating Native Americans by using that same characterization: “The Indian was a child, and a dangerous child, of nature, to be both protected and restrained.” State v. Towessnute, 89 Wash. 478, 482, 154 P. 805 (1916), judgment vacated and opinion repudiated by 197 Wn.2d 574, 486 P.3d 111 (2020). 3 See A Returning to Cherokee Nation, Justice William Johnson’s separate opinion was less tempered in how he considered the various Native American tribes: I cannot but think that there are strong reasons for doubting the applicability of the epithet state, to a people so low in the grade of organized society as our Indian tribes most generally are. Cherokee Nation, 30 U.S. at 21. Native Americans were not to be treated as “equals to equals” but, instead, the United States was the conqueror and Native Americans the conquered. Id. at 23. In discussing Native Americans, Justice Johnson employed another racist trope used by judges both before and after him: Native Americans were uncivilized savages. [W]e have extended to them the means and inducement to become agricultural and civilized. . . . Independently of the general influence of humanity, these people were restless, warlike, and signally cruel. . . . . But I think it very clear that the constitution neither speaks of them as states or foreign states, but as just what they were, Indian tribes . . . which the law of nations would regard as nothing more than wandering hordes, held together only by ties of blood and habit, and having neither laws or government, beyond what is required in a savage state. Id. at 23, 27-28. This same characterization was used by Justice Stanley Matthews in Ex parte KanGi-Shun-Ca (otherwise known as Crow Dog), 109 U.S. 556, 3 S. Ct. 396, 27 L. Ed. 1030 (1883). Justice Matthews described Native Americans as leading a savage life.
October 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
kr61.bsky.social
Things have been super heavy lately. This morning I got a “thinking of you” text from a friend and it made me cry.
October 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
kr61.bsky.social
Imagine being well into your adult years and still thinking that jokes like calling someone gay are funny.
October 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
kr61.bsky.social
Pyrotechnics at a memorial seems a bit much, no? Not exactly a humble event - ya know?
September 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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atrupar.com
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 12:56 AM
kr61.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
kr61.bsky.social
People on my timeline are comparing Charlie Kirk to Jesus and I’m…I…just…what the actual fuck.
September 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
kr61.bsky.social
I live in a pretty red area of a blue state. I know my neighbors have …differing… views but holy shit I didn’t appreciate how many are outright racist, misogynistic, nationalists 🫣
September 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
kr61.bsky.social
Ffs. How convenient that the roommate is now a “partner” and “transitioning”

GTFO. Nothing is serious anymore.
September 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
kr61.bsky.social
A professor recently asked our class what would it look like to wage peace? We know what war looks like. What about peace?

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
September 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
kr61.bsky.social
Comparing the guy to Jesus is insane. Actually insane.
September 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
kr61.bsky.social
Related but not- I’m utterly shocked by some of “my people“ and their reactions to today’s events.
September 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
kr61.bsky.social
Pam Bondi is such an embarrassment to the profession. It is WHOLLY INAPPROPRIATE and unprofessional to make comments like “what the liberals want” (and I’d say the same if she had said conservatives).
August 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
kr61.bsky.social
Is there something in the air or in retrograde? Because I’m feeling all sorts of out of whack 😭
August 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
kr61.bsky.social
The person in charge of homeland security says South Dakota is a (southern) border state.

Um. What?
August 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
kr61.bsky.social
If my kid says “look at me” or “watch me!” and proceeding to do absolutely nothing one more time…I’m going to have a nervous breakdown.
August 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
Can someone explain how banning gay marriage will fund schools and lower rent and make groceries affordable?
August 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM