Meaghan
@meags1010.bsky.social
“Draw the cat eye, sharp enough to kill a man”
Currently in my Feral Era-
Unkindness of Ravens/Murder of Crows on my side.
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•Idiocracy not tolerated •Dogs > People
Currently in my Feral Era-
Unkindness of Ravens/Murder of Crows on my side.
#PNW #Advocate #Ally #Policy #Law #Soccer #Music #Environment #Nature #Photography #ADHD
•Idiocracy not tolerated •Dogs > People
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UPDATE: 2 more impersonators in Houston alone. (One was shot by a man’s wife)
How long are we going to let this madness go on? We should be requiring agents to ID themselves, not legislating to protect masked vigilantes. @MarshaBlackburn
How long are we going to let this madness go on? We should be requiring agents to ID themselves, not legislating to protect masked vigilantes. @MarshaBlackburn
June 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
UPDATE: 2 more impersonators in Houston alone. (One was shot by a man’s wife)
How long are we going to let this madness go on? We should be requiring agents to ID themselves, not legislating to protect masked vigilantes. @MarshaBlackburn
How long are we going to let this madness go on? We should be requiring agents to ID themselves, not legislating to protect masked vigilantes. @MarshaBlackburn
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Super-quick take while reading the ruling:
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
First #SCOTUS ruling today is birthright citizenship.
Justice Barrett, for a 6-3 majority (with the three Dem. appointees dissenting) holds that universal injunctions are only appropriate when necessary to provide "complete" relief to parties, and stays these injunctions insofar as they go further:
Justice Barrett, for a 6-3 majority (with the three Dem. appointees dissenting) holds that universal injunctions are only appropriate when necessary to provide "complete" relief to parties, and stays these injunctions insofar as they go further:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Super-quick take while reading the ruling:
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
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Sotomayor: Trump knew his birthright citizenship order was unconstitutional, so he went after the universal injunctions.
"The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
"The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Sotomayor: Trump knew his birthright citizenship order was unconstitutional, so he went after the universal injunctions.
"The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
"The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.”
@cbsaustin @velez_tx
@cbsaustin @velez_tx
June 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.”
@cbsaustin @velez_tx
@cbsaustin @velez_tx
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Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.
DHS confirmed that ICE and CBP agents will be on site “for security” at the start of the FIFA Club World Cup at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. ICE also reminded non-U.S. citizens to carry proof of legal status while attending the event.
June 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.
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💥 @repdangoldman.bsky.social
speaks out about his confrontation with “plain-clothes ICE agents” wearing masks.
“You can’t require Columbia University to ban masks in order to get federal funding while you turn around and have federal government enforcement law enforcement agents wearing masks.”
speaks out about his confrontation with “plain-clothes ICE agents” wearing masks.
“You can’t require Columbia University to ban masks in order to get federal funding while you turn around and have federal government enforcement law enforcement agents wearing masks.”
June 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
💥 @repdangoldman.bsky.social
speaks out about his confrontation with “plain-clothes ICE agents” wearing masks.
“You can’t require Columbia University to ban masks in order to get federal funding while you turn around and have federal government enforcement law enforcement agents wearing masks.”
speaks out about his confrontation with “plain-clothes ICE agents” wearing masks.
“You can’t require Columbia University to ban masks in order to get federal funding while you turn around and have federal government enforcement law enforcement agents wearing masks.”
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Among the details I recently discovered is there’s precedent for MLS to renegotiate bonuses when there’s a big increase in the prize pool during an active CBA. They did that exact thing when Concacaf Champions Cup boosted their prize pool in 2023. Whitecaps players would have gotten a $2.375M bonus.
Dropped a little later than usual, but @jeremiah.sounderatheart.com and @elrolonw.bsky.social talked about an interesting week around the Sounders. They dug a bit more into their protest aftermath scoop and added a bit more context. www.sounderatheart.com/2025/06/ther...
There’s interesting precedent for what players want from MLS
MLS has previously granted players a higher percentage of prize money after the CBA was signed.
www.sounderatheart.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Among the details I recently discovered is there’s precedent for MLS to renegotiate bonuses when there’s a big increase in the prize pool during an active CBA. They did that exact thing when Concacaf Champions Cup boosted their prize pool in 2023. Whitecaps players would have gotten a $2.375M bonus.
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ICE agents better start reading up on the Nuremberg trials. Because when we get to the other side of this, and we will, "I was just following orders" ain't gonna cut it.
June 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
ICE agents better start reading up on the Nuremberg trials. Because when we get to the other side of this, and we will, "I was just following orders" ain't gonna cut it.
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Tribal college leaders said they were stunned by the proposed cuts to their already insufficient funding and had more questions than answers.
“It’s a dagger, and I don’t know how we can survive these types of cuts,” one college president said.
By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
“It’s a dagger, and I don’t know how we can survive these types of cuts,” one college president said.
By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate…
www.propublica.org
June 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Tribal college leaders said they were stunned by the proposed cuts to their already insufficient funding and had more questions than answers.
“It’s a dagger, and I don’t know how we can survive these types of cuts,” one college president said.
By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
“It’s a dagger, and I don’t know how we can survive these types of cuts,” one college president said.
By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
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"This is like Gestapo-type of stuff, and it just blows my mind that there's a certain, certain ugly segment of the American pop population that's enjoying watching these families getting ripped out of their homes and, and you somehow think that America's gonna be better if this is done." - Bill Burr
May 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"This is like Gestapo-type of stuff, and it just blows my mind that there's a certain, certain ugly segment of the American pop population that's enjoying watching these families getting ripped out of their homes and, and you somehow think that America's gonna be better if this is done." - Bill Burr
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I know it’s tempting to have a big reaction after every game but sometimes it’s ok to … not.
May 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I know it’s tempting to have a big reaction after every game but sometimes it’s ok to … not.
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This is utter nonsense
Medicaid is a needs based program
If any American doesn’t have sufficient resources, they qualify-even if they’re working
So if Mike Johnson wants to remove employed, “able bodied young men” from Medicaid, there’s a simple fix
Raise the minimum wage
But of course-he won’t
Medicaid is a needs based program
If any American doesn’t have sufficient resources, they qualify-even if they’re working
So if Mike Johnson wants to remove employed, “able bodied young men” from Medicaid, there’s a simple fix
Raise the minimum wage
But of course-he won’t
Mike Johnson: "Medicaid is intended, remember, as a safety net for young pregnant mothers and the elderly and disabled and vulnerable populations, not for young able-bodied men without dependents. Those are the kinds of people we're taking off the program."
May 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is utter nonsense
Medicaid is a needs based program
If any American doesn’t have sufficient resources, they qualify-even if they’re working
So if Mike Johnson wants to remove employed, “able bodied young men” from Medicaid, there’s a simple fix
Raise the minimum wage
But of course-he won’t
Medicaid is a needs based program
If any American doesn’t have sufficient resources, they qualify-even if they’re working
So if Mike Johnson wants to remove employed, “able bodied young men” from Medicaid, there’s a simple fix
Raise the minimum wage
But of course-he won’t
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Trump lifts sanctions on Syria after offer of a Trump Tower in Damascus, praises MBS, salutes Saudi generals, and defends a Qatari jet gift—while banning press from Air Force One. GOP splits over drugs, jets, SALT, and Social Security. Catch up:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 130. 5/13/25
… One day after Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa offered to build a Trump Tower Damascus as a sweetener to persuade Trump to meet with him during his Middle East trip to discuss the US lifting sanctio...
www.meidasplus.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Trump lifts sanctions on Syria after offer of a Trump Tower in Damascus, praises MBS, salutes Saudi generals, and defends a Qatari jet gift—while banning press from Air Force One. GOP splits over drugs, jets, SALT, and Social Security. Catch up:
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the republican budget plan: tax breaks for the rich, paired with the biggest medicaid cuts and snap cuts in history
my piece from yesterday is now updated to include this graph
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
my piece from yesterday is now updated to include this graph
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
May 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
the republican budget plan: tax breaks for the rich, paired with the biggest medicaid cuts and snap cuts in history
my piece from yesterday is now updated to include this graph
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
my piece from yesterday is now updated to include this graph
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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It makes my eye twitch that they gave him a red lightsaber, but claim he's anti-sith.
May 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It makes my eye twitch that they gave him a red lightsaber, but claim he's anti-sith.
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It's overt. All there in the open. US media will never admit it but glad Guardian is using the Eugenics word.
Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
At the heart of all Trump administration policies is ‘soft eugenics’ thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong will survive
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
It's overt. All there in the open. US media will never admit it but glad Guardian is using the Eugenics word.
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Well, it's official.
Consumers are now paying a higher tax rate in tariffs than corporations pay.
Instead of making multi-billion dollar corporations pay their fair share, we're raising the prices of everything.
This system is so backwards.
Consumers are now paying a higher tax rate in tariffs than corporations pay.
Instead of making multi-billion dollar corporations pay their fair share, we're raising the prices of everything.
This system is so backwards.
May 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Well, it's official.
Consumers are now paying a higher tax rate in tariffs than corporations pay.
Instead of making multi-billion dollar corporations pay their fair share, we're raising the prices of everything.
This system is so backwards.
Consumers are now paying a higher tax rate in tariffs than corporations pay.
Instead of making multi-billion dollar corporations pay their fair share, we're raising the prices of everything.
This system is so backwards.
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![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PERKINS COIE LLP,
Plaintiff,
V.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 25-716 (BAH)
Judge Beryl A. Howell
MEMORANDUM OPINION
No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the one at issue in this
lawsuit targeting a prominent law firm with adverse actions to be executed by all Executive branch agencies but, in purpose and effect, this action draws from a playbook as old as Shakespeare, who penned the phrase: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HENRY VI, PART 2, act 4, sc. 2, 1. 75. When Shakespeare's character, a rebel leader intent on
becoming king, see id. I. 74, hears this suggestion, he promptly incorporates this tactic as part of
his plan to assume power, leading in the same scene to the rebel leader demanding "[a]way with
him," referring to an educated clerk, who "can make obligations and write court hand," id. 1. 90,
106. Eliminating lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law removes a major impediment to the
path to more power. See Walters v. Nat'l Ass'n of Radiation Survivors, 473 U.S. 305, 371 n.24
(1985) (Stevens, J., dissenting) (explaining the import of the same Shakespearean statement to be
"that disposing of lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government").
The importance of independent lawyers to ensuring the American judicial system's fair
and impartial administration of justice has been recognized in this country since its founding era.
In 1770, John Adams made the singularly unpopular decision to represent eight British soldiers
charged with murder for their roles in the Boston Massacre and "claimed later to have suffered the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreibym7gqxofw4wrpxo3r5q2yf7rki7sbtv4o6t6b2oiznxqwv2of3q@jpeg)
May 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Mohsen was just released by the federal judge in VT!!
April 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Mohsen was just released by the federal judge in VT!!
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If your private religious school is so good, why does it need public funds to operate?
April 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If your private religious school is so good, why does it need public funds to operate?
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Fascism is a lot of things, but at heart it's the political application of being a dumb asshole
Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome
The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church
www.thetimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Fascism is a lot of things, but at heart it's the political application of being a dumb asshole
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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
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The Border Patrol and ICE will lie about you in court proceedings so they can make their sick quotas. Then they’ll claim it as “evidence” to try and deport you.
April 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Border Patrol and ICE will lie about you in court proceedings so they can make their sick quotas. Then they’ll claim it as “evidence” to try and deport you.