Ole MacBarnesy
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•pizza aficionado•veteran•Sailor's vocabulary•law related opinions molded by Elie Mystal, Ben Matlock, Vinny Gambini, & Thurgood Marshall•Occam’s Whiskey= or ≠ Schrodinger’s Liver•pineapple+pizza=👍🏽
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Questions? Fascists don't like questions.
January 31, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Questions? Fascists don't like questions.
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rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people
January 28, 2026 at 7:24 PM
rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people
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The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU
Family of Alex Pretti retains lawyers who helped prosecute the George Floyd case
The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota’s attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck of murder.
www.pbs.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU
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"7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters"
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here, from Zeteo, are some (in)famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here, from Zeteo, are some (in)famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here are some famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
zeteo.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
"7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters"
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here, from Zeteo, are some (in)famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here, from Zeteo, are some (in)famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
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#GVerse Congressman Jared Huffman Launches Fierce Attack on #Shit4Brains
“if we're real, if we're honest about what's going on, we have a madman in the White House."
“if we're real, if we're honest about what's going on, we have a madman in the White House."
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 AM
#GVerse Congressman Jared Huffman Launches Fierce Attack on #Shit4Brains
“if we're real, if we're honest about what's going on, we have a madman in the White House."
“if we're real, if we're honest about what's going on, we have a madman in the White House."
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“According to a source Ms. Halligan became enraged when a grand juror told her that the word ‘indict’ is pronounced ‘in-DITE,” not “in-DICKT.”
Justice Department again fails to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James
The Justice Department also tried and failed last week to secure a new indictment against James in Norfolk, Virginia.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“According to a source Ms. Halligan became enraged when a grand juror told her that the word ‘indict’ is pronounced ‘in-DITE,” not “in-DICKT.”
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Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
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Larry Krasner charged the largest volume of Philadelphia officers for misconduct in nearly 40 years – a seemingly splashy case for a former civil rights lawyer who has made prosecuting cops a cornerstone of his two terms. Yet the DA has been unusually quiet.
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/krasner...
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/krasner...
DA Larry Krasner is unusually silent after charging a record number of Philly cops in grant theft scandal
It was the largest number of Philadelphia police officers charged together for misconduct in nearly 40 years.
www.inquirer.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Larry Krasner charged the largest volume of Philadelphia officers for misconduct in nearly 40 years – a seemingly splashy case for a former civil rights lawyer who has made prosecuting cops a cornerstone of his two terms. Yet the DA has been unusually quiet.
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/krasner...
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/krasner...
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Phang: It is a fundamental premise of the law that there is no requirement that a criminal defendant be forced to testify to explain away the government’s evidence. Hallagan went to law school and knows better, but she’s so stupid that she made that misstatement of the law to the grand jury.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Phang: It is a fundamental premise of the law that there is no requirement that a criminal defendant be forced to testify to explain away the government’s evidence. Hallagan went to law school and knows better, but she’s so stupid that she made that misstatement of the law to the grand jury.
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We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
August 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
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Been a long day today lol
August 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Been a long day today lol
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“I was only an aspirante dictator,” Augusto Pinochet told Jon Lee Anderson in 1998. “I read a lot, especially history. And history teaches you that dictators never end up well.”
The Dictator
Augusto Pinochet is almost eighty-three years old, and justifying his actions, clarifying his place in history, is on his mind.
www.newyorker.com
August 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“I was only an aspirante dictator,” Augusto Pinochet told Jon Lee Anderson in 1998. “I read a lot, especially history. And history teaches you that dictators never end up well.”
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Eventually I’m sure the Texas design will pass and when that does @governor.ca.gov must make the special election a concrete reality and other blue states must follow. Any retaliation results in stopping federal funding.
August 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Eventually I’m sure the Texas design will pass and when that does @governor.ca.gov must make the special election a concrete reality and other blue states must follow. Any retaliation results in stopping federal funding.
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1 year ago white people made videos of her laughing about her saying this. 😒 Who’s laughing now?
August 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
1 year ago white people made videos of her laughing about her saying this. 😒 Who’s laughing now?
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I saw this in Tumblr years ago and it's been living in my head. I've never been able to find it again so I remade it myself.
July 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I saw this in Tumblr years ago and it's been living in my head. I've never been able to find it again so I remade it myself.
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"While the wildfires were raging in California, Ben and Ted Cruz had a podcast where they just attacked Governor Newsom and Karen Bass—that was while the fires were still raging. So spare us the grandstanding and virtue signaling about how this stuff shouldn't be partisan."
July 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"While the wildfires were raging in California, Ben and Ted Cruz had a podcast where they just attacked Governor Newsom and Karen Bass—that was while the fires were still raging. So spare us the grandstanding and virtue signaling about how this stuff shouldn't be partisan."
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Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔
🖕🏽 LAPD
🖕🏽 LAPD
July 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔
🖕🏽 LAPD
🖕🏽 LAPD
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Phang: They never learn, do they? There’s a slew of federal district court and appellate court judges telling this administration that what they’re doing is illegal and unconstitutional—but they don’t care. In response, they just call them “rogue judges.”
July 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Phang: They never learn, do they? There’s a slew of federal district court and appellate court judges telling this administration that what they’re doing is illegal and unconstitutional—but they don’t care. In response, they just call them “rogue judges.”
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“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
July 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
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Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.
June 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.
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according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return