lucerez
@lucerez.bsky.social
🌱 and rp watcher transplant. [posts are about roleplay/video games.]
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@lucerez.bsky.social
· Nov 16
going to other people's follow lists is the way to find people since twt posts with account info are buried after a day
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Catloaf timeline cleanse.
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Catloaf timeline cleanse.
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It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!
According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans.
President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!
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The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:
July 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but the conservative majority wouldn’t let Biden halt a single border program, in a case where plaintiffs did not have standing and the actions were clearly lawful (as they later affirmed!), but did let Trump kill an entire Department via clearly unlawful actions.
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:
July 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the conservative majority wouldn’t let Biden halt a single border program, in a case where plaintiffs did not have standing and the actions were clearly lawful (as they later affirmed!), but did let Trump kill an entire Department via clearly unlawful actions.
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This answer that Mamdani provided in a 2020 interview shows that he has always been extremely open about the complexities of his diasporic identity and remains the perfect rebuttal to the attempted scandal the NYT is trying to create today.
africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
July 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This answer that Mamdani provided in a 2020 interview shows that he has always been extremely open about the complexities of his diasporic identity and remains the perfect rebuttal to the attempted scandal the NYT is trying to create today.
africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
This is also true on larger timescale. Treaties signed by one administration are vulnerable to being revoked because each election brings a new president who can unilaterally decide not to honor it. There's no point in working with the US.
If I’m a foreign government right now—the one lesson that I’ve learned at this point is that there is no durable agreement to be made with this administration.
Any assurance, policy, or deal will be arbitrarily annulled by a random 3 am post. No point in expending energy negotiating with this.
Any assurance, policy, or deal will be arbitrarily annulled by a random 3 am post. No point in expending energy negotiating with this.
May 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is also true on larger timescale. Treaties signed by one administration are vulnerable to being revoked because each election brings a new president who can unilaterally decide not to honor it. There's no point in working with the US.
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RAINN, the largest organization devoted to survivors of sexual abuse, has eliminated all resources for LGBTQ, immigrants, and other marginalized groups.
They're failing their core purpose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...
They're failing their core purpose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...
Top Sexual Assault Hotline Drops Resources After Trump Orders
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
RAINN, the largest organization devoted to survivors of sexual abuse, has eliminated all resources for LGBTQ, immigrants, and other marginalized groups.
They're failing their core purpose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...
They're failing their core purpose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...
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Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
May 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
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NEW: The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration's plan.
This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.
My look this week, this afternoon at Law Dork —>
This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.
My look this week, this afternoon at Law Dork —>
The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration's plan.
This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.
www.lawdork.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
NEW: The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration's plan.
This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.
My look this week, this afternoon at Law Dork —>
This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.
My look this week, this afternoon at Law Dork —>
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reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct
President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations.
It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct
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Raskin and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) are giving law firms until April 28 to answer their Qs about who facilitated the deals they cut with Trump and what terms they agreed to.
Firms who got this letter:
Cadwalader
A&O Shearman
Latham & Watkins
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Kirkland & Ellis
Firms who got this letter:
Cadwalader
A&O Shearman
Latham & Watkins
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Kirkland & Ellis
April 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Raskin and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) are giving law firms until April 28 to answer their Qs about who facilitated the deals they cut with Trump and what terms they agreed to.
Firms who got this letter:
Cadwalader
A&O Shearman
Latham & Watkins
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Kirkland & Ellis
Firms who got this letter:
Cadwalader
A&O Shearman
Latham & Watkins
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Kirkland & Ellis
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Key Democrats sent scathing letters to 5 top law firms demanding details on the lucrative deals they cut with Trump to avoid being punished by him.
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
Democrats Demand Answers From Top Law Firms That Caved To Trump's Wishes
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law," they fumed to five prominent firms that paid off Trump to avoid his attacks.
www.huffpost.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Key Democrats sent scathing letters to 5 top law firms demanding details on the lucrative deals they cut with Trump to avoid being punished by him.
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
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Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco
April 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
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“Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy,” said Captain G M Gilbert, the army psychologist assigned to watching the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg.
Just in case you were wondering what to call it.
Just in case you were wondering what to call it.
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
April 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy,” said Captain G M Gilbert, the army psychologist assigned to watching the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg.
Just in case you were wondering what to call it.
Just in case you were wondering what to call it.
The same people defending the SAVE act are those who ran around claiming there were functional exceptions for abortion restrictions. Exhausting bad faith arguments parroting right wing talking points.
April 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The same people defending the SAVE act are those who ran around claiming there were functional exceptions for abortion restrictions. Exhausting bad faith arguments parroting right wing talking points.
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why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
April 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
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people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
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5/ In a stunning announcement, Trump said that no government contracts would go to companies that employ legal firms that represent Democratic causes, a brazen and illegal attempt to cut off legal support for his opposition and lawsuits against him. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US law firm Paul Weiss fired by client over Trump executive order
Law firm Paul Weiss said in a court filing on Wednesday that a former executive facing criminal bribery charges has fired it as his defense counsel because of U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order this month targeting the firm.
www.reuters.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
5/ In a stunning announcement, Trump said that no government contracts would go to companies that employ legal firms that represent Democratic causes, a brazen and illegal attempt to cut off legal support for his opposition and lawsuits against him. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry.
As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.
As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry.
As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.
As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.
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2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
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can’t make this stuff up
April 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
can’t make this stuff up
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NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
April 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
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Hey, Politico --
I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone.
Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down.
Defiantly,
Marc Elias
I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone.
Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down.
Defiantly,
Marc Elias
March 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hey, Politico --
I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone.
Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down.
Defiantly,
Marc Elias
I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone.
Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down.
Defiantly,
Marc Elias