Nero Wolfe
@nero-wolfe.bsky.social
Orchid fancier. Reader. Gourmand. Beer enthusiast. Armchair detective. Securities lawyer.
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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
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ICE agents armed with facial-recognition apps, spyware, and AI snoops: The great American surveillance project is no longer theoretical. Today, your face, your phone, your life—scrutinized by a government obsessed with tracking, not justice. www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike.
www.npr.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
ICE agents armed with facial-recognition apps, spyware, and AI snoops: The great American surveillance project is no longer theoretical. Today, your face, your phone, your life—scrutinized by a government obsessed with tracking, not justice. www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...
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Trump had an incident and just danced around to YMCA for half an hour and the press covered it as “that zany Trump, he’s at it again!”
And let’s be real here Trump’s own cognitive issues were a massive boon to him on the campaign trail
A lot of his support came not in spite of his dementia-fueled incoherence but because of it
A lot of his support came not in spite of his dementia-fueled incoherence but because of it
Biden’s biggest problem was his life long speech impediment, Trump’s greatest strength his ability to lie with a straight face.
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Trump had an incident and just danced around to YMCA for half an hour and the press covered it as “that zany Trump, he’s at it again!”
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Is anyone still doubting who wants this generative AI bullshit, and what they want it for?
“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Is anyone still doubting who wants this generative AI bullshit, and what they want it for?
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The U.S. economy tends to follow #wages, while the S&P 500 is driven by #profits per share, chart #JPMorganAM
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The U.S. economy tends to follow #wages, while the S&P 500 is driven by #profits per share, chart #JPMorganAM
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Here's a report written by 100s of former members of the US intelligence community, assessing the US now the way that they used to assess other countries to determine their political trajectories. Sober, fact-filled analysis that reaches alarming conclusions. open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline
The Steady State | October 16, 2025
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Here's a report written by 100s of former members of the US intelligence community, assessing the US now the way that they used to assess other countries to determine their political trajectories. Sober, fact-filled analysis that reaches alarming conclusions. open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
Did people commonly say “nine-eleven” instead of “nine-one-one” for the emergency number before the 9/11 attacks? I learned “nine-one-one” as a young child in the 90s, but I just heard “nine-eleven” used in an early 90s TV show.
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Did people commonly say “nine-eleven” instead of “nine-one-one” for the emergency number before the 9/11 attacks? I learned “nine-one-one” as a young child in the 90s, but I just heard “nine-eleven” used in an early 90s TV show.
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Now I’m just a simple country lawyer but it seems to me that if you use a predictive text generator to send people to prison you and everyone in your supervisory chain should get disbarred.
www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now I’m just a simple country lawyer but it seems to me that if you use a predictive text generator to send people to prison you and everyone in your supervisory chain should get disbarred.
www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
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His... awareness of Zohran? what?
NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
His... awareness of Zohran? what?
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State bar elections will continue to be critically important.
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 AM
State bar elections will continue to be critically important.
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Fine. Expect prison when the peace comes, Todd.
'IT'S A WAR, MAN': Deputy AG Todd Blanche goes off at Federalist Society confab , trashing 'rogue activist judges' and rejecting claims that Trump & allies are weaponizing DOJ www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Todd Blanche on defending Trump policies before ‘rogue activist judges’: ‘It’s a war, man’
In fiery remarks, the No. 2 DOJ official rejected claims that the president has weaponized prosecutors.
www.politico.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Fine. Expect prison when the peace comes, Todd.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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We have an answer! Trump always suffers irreparable harm when his policies are enjoined, and not even child starvation can outweigh the harm Trump suffers.
We’re really going to get a test of the Trump Court’s guiding principle: Trump always suffers irreparable harm when his policies are enjoined, and no one else’s harm can outweigh the harm Trump suffers.
(Yes, I do think we should call it the Trump Court. After Barrett, it became his.)
(Yes, I do think we should call it the Trump Court. After Barrett, it became his.)
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
We have an answer! Trump always suffers irreparable harm when his policies are enjoined, and not even child starvation can outweigh the harm Trump suffers.
@painttherosesred.bsky.social your theory that there’s some procedural rule in play looks better and better. Why would Justice Jackson entertain this bullshit otherwise?
Jackson puts payments on hold pending the appeals court's consideration of the government's stay application. This is all procedurally kind of complicated.
(Order comes via Jackson as she is the justice assigned to handle emergency applications from the Boston-based appeals court.)
(Order comes via Jackson as she is the justice assigned to handle emergency applications from the Boston-based appeals court.)
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
@painttherosesred.bsky.social your theory that there’s some procedural rule in play looks better and better. Why would Justice Jackson entertain this bullshit otherwise?
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NEW: Supreme Court -- via an order issued by Justice Jackson -- temporarily blocks the judge's ruling that would require the SNAP payments in full.
NEW: Trump is asking Supreme Court to act by 9:30pm tonight to block the ruling that requires SNAP payments to be made.
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
NEW: Supreme Court -- via an order issued by Justice Jackson -- temporarily blocks the judge's ruling that would require the SNAP payments in full.
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This is true (and the WSJ breakdown is great) but I can’t stress enough how low a bar some of the milestones are compared to what Musk touted over the years.
He used to say Tesla would make 20M cars *per year by 2030*. Now he only needs to sell 20M by 2035 — and Tesla has already sold 8M!
He used to say Tesla would make 20M cars *per year by 2030*. Now he only needs to sell 20M by 2035 — and Tesla has already sold 8M!
easy to miss in the punditry about Musk's pay package:
he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones
payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions
here's a handy graphic
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones
payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions
here's a handy graphic
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
![graphic: Tesla proposed a $1 trillion pay package with 12 tranches [now passed by shareholders] and for Musk to get the first tranche, Tesla must achieve:
* $2 trillion in market capitalization PLUS any one of
* $50 billion Ebitda (a measure of earnings)
* 20 million cars delivered
* 1 million robots sold
* 1 million robotaxis in operation
* 10 million Full Self Driving subscriptions](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fwks525g7gw5wc7ul2wg4wj5/bafkreie4ria67kwkysdoelkwmh2ol4kphfem6umc4oakwtfhvt25jxskcm@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is true (and the WSJ breakdown is great) but I can’t stress enough how low a bar some of the milestones are compared to what Musk touted over the years.
He used to say Tesla would make 20M cars *per year by 2030*. Now he only needs to sell 20M by 2035 — and Tesla has already sold 8M!
He used to say Tesla would make 20M cars *per year by 2030*. Now he only needs to sell 20M by 2035 — and Tesla has already sold 8M!
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Stephen Miller losing his ish right now
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Stephen Miller losing his ish right now
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this is the real Roberts Doctrine: when the government arbitrarily and illegally stops funding something, they are treated as if that is the new status quo. then, re-starting the funding on that that thing is, itself, irreparable financial harm to the government
The Trump administration tells the Supreme Court it can’t be compelled to fully fund SNAP because paying out the money would “irreparably harm” the government, while SNAP beneficiaries … *won’t* be irreparably harmed by going hungry? The balance of equities here is completely upside down.
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
this is the real Roberts Doctrine: when the government arbitrarily and illegally stops funding something, they are treated as if that is the new status quo. then, re-starting the funding on that that thing is, itself, irreparable financial harm to the government
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FedSoc not beating the allegations that it's essentially a conspiracy against the republic.
“The Constitution is not a suicide pact,” someone just said at a Federalist Society event.
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
FedSoc not beating the allegations that it's essentially a conspiracy against the republic.
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Just going to be an incredible decision if SCOTUS says they needed to make an emergency intervention because of the risk that poor people might get food they are legally entitled to
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Just going to be an incredible decision if SCOTUS says they needed to make an emergency intervention because of the risk that poor people might get food they are legally entitled to
As in the CECOT case before Judge Boasberg, they pretend a judicial order doesn’t exist until it is put in writing.
This is just a bald-faced lie. He delivered his order orally from the bench at about 3:45.
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
As in the CECOT case before Judge Boasberg, they pretend a judicial order doesn’t exist until it is put in writing.
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This is just a bald-faced lie. He delivered his order orally from the bench at about 3:45.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is just a bald-faced lie. He delivered his order orally from the bench at about 3:45.
This is the same shit Alito got pissy about in the context of the ACLU trying to prevent imminent renditions to a foreign torture prison.
But I’m sure he’d say it’s fine because the Trump administration would be irreparably harmed if it can’t starve needy families.
But I’m sure he’d say it’s fine because the Trump administration would be irreparably harmed if it can’t starve needy families.
Oh, this is wild.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is the same shit Alito got pissy about in the context of the ACLU trying to prevent imminent renditions to a foreign torture prison.
But I’m sure he’d say it’s fine because the Trump administration would be irreparably harmed if it can’t starve needy families.
But I’m sure he’d say it’s fine because the Trump administration would be irreparably harmed if it can’t starve needy families.
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Oh, this is wild.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Oh, this is wild.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.