Joseph Morris
@morris.cloud
Lawyer/dad type; Oakland, California
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
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December 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Epic act of congressional posting
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New paper in PNAS: Your homicide risk follows you around the country. If you’re born in the historically violent Wild West, Appalachian Highlands, or Deep South, a higher risk of violent death trails you wherever you go. 🧵1/14
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New paper in PNAS: Your homicide risk follows you around the country. If you’re born in the historically violent Wild West, Appalachian Highlands, or Deep South, a higher risk of violent death trails you wherever you go. 🧵1/14
For #11 you can either be under 40 or under 8 in California
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Show your age
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
For #11 you can either be under 40 or under 8 in California
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Car culture is the built environment and the built environment is car culture. Would help a everything from mass transit to urban density to sustainability if adults did not see themselves primarily as drivers first, pedestrians never, and bus riders only when punished by the state.
lots of people in this thread are saying "i don't want to send people to jail but i do want to take their licenses away" which i agree with, but i also think a lot of people would genuinely rather go to jail for a couple years than never be able to legally drive again
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Car culture is the built environment and the built environment is car culture. Would help a everything from mass transit to urban density to sustainability if adults did not see themselves primarily as drivers first, pedestrians never, and bus riders only when punished by the state.
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This bird’s greed delights me
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This bird’s greed delights me
Respect to these three ladies dancing with pom poms on an interstate 880 overpass at 8:00 a.m. on a Tuesday to protest ICE ("end the ICE age" is one of the signs)
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Respect to these three ladies dancing with pom poms on an interstate 880 overpass at 8:00 a.m. on a Tuesday to protest ICE ("end the ICE age" is one of the signs)
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
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In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
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/2 The article and headline don’t arise in a vacuum, they arise on the front page of the New York Times, which has selected a very specific way to approach moral and political issues, characterized by detachment, both-sidesism, and trolling.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
/2 The article and headline don’t arise in a vacuum, they arise on the front page of the New York Times, which has selected a very specific way to approach moral and political issues, characterized by detachment, both-sidesism, and trolling.
Keep this one for anyone who says "my vote doesn't matter"
Not a runoff, BUT incumbent Republican mayor of Springdale, PA is ahead of the dem challenger by one vote. 10 provisional ballots being considered by Allegheny County of elections will decide the election.
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Unofficial results show incumbent Springdale mayor winning by 1 vote
Unofficial election results show incumbent Springdale Mayor Joel Anderson ahead of his Democratic challenger by just a single vote. Allegheny County tabulations from Tuesday night’s election hav...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Keep this one for anyone who says "my vote doesn't matter"
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When they say they’d never support Fuentes, ask them about what they used to say about Trump. This is from a now deleted piece on The Blaze from Matt Walsh
November 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
When they say they’d never support Fuentes, ask them about what they used to say about Trump. This is from a now deleted piece on The Blaze from Matt Walsh
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"Dear Martha, we've been camped outside Richmond for going on 30 days. Overhead the sandwiches are exploding day and night. The smell of the onions and mustard is overwhelming."
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Dear Martha, we've been camped outside Richmond for going on 30 days. Overhead the sandwiches are exploding day and night. The smell of the onions and mustard is overwhelming."
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Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
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October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
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"If you want to break up a drug cartel, blowing up a boat does little to accomplish that...You arrest traffickers, seize evidence, and build cases against them. If you are targeting govt officials, you flip your perpetrators to get to the bigger fish at the top."
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"If you want to break up a drug cartel, blowing up a boat does little to accomplish that...You arrest traffickers, seize evidence, and build cases against them. If you are targeting govt officials, you flip your perpetrators to get to the bigger fish at the top."
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Here's a full post with lots of information about what happened when CBP officers entered the base.
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Flash bangs, injured protester at Coast Guard Island as feds arrive in Bay Area
Yesterday, the Coast Guard confirmed an “operation” was underway and said guards' facilities in Alameda would provide support. Live reports from the scene.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Here's a full post with lots of information about what happened when CBP officers entered the base.
oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/l...
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Building a ballroom while the government is shut down, a real Marie Antoinette move there
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Building a ballroom while the government is shut down, a real Marie Antoinette move there
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we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced
we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”
what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”
we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”
what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro lost 3x in a closely watched case that arose during the transfer of detainees to ICE outside of the D.C. jail.
~three grand jury no bills;
~one acquittal by the judge;
~one acquittal by the petit jury.
Juries are doing their jobs.
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~three grand jury no bills;
~one acquittal by the judge;
~one acquittal by the petit jury.
Juries are doing their jobs.
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Jury Acquittal Hands Jeanine Pirro A Big L
Three-Time Loser In a closely watched case, a federal jury acquitted a...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced
we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”
what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”
we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”
what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”
Can't think of anything else that this looks like other than the aftermath of Hiroshima or Nagasaki (actually just looked at pictures of the fire bombing of Dresden, and there were more building standing after that that this)
If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.
The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.
The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.
October 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Can't think of anything else that this looks like other than the aftermath of Hiroshima or Nagasaki (actually just looked at pictures of the fire bombing of Dresden, and there were more building standing after that that this)
A billion dollars is just more power than any one person should have.
For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”
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Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco
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October 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A billion dollars is just more power than any one person should have.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC
I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back
October 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC
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Settled gains for personal liberty and equality were reversed, substantive democracy was rolled back while keeping the formal electoral process unchanged, and racial resentment and an idealized past were used to mobilize a broad constituency for a program that directly benefited only a small elite.
October 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Settled gains for personal liberty and equality were reversed, substantive democracy was rolled back while keeping the formal electoral process unchanged, and racial resentment and an idealized past were used to mobilize a broad constituency for a program that directly benefited only a small elite.