VaKerr
@vakerr.bsky.social
Attorney, former midwesterner, dog-lover
NJ State Senate Democrats join Trump’s war on the environment with new Scutari bill jerseyvindicator.org/2025/12/23/n...
NJ State Senate Democrats join Trump’s war on the environment with new Scutari bill • The Jersey Vindicator
What's Left. The latest column from Jeff Tittel.
jerseyvindicator.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
NJ State Senate Democrats join Trump’s war on the environment with new Scutari bill jerseyvindicator.org/2025/12/23/n...
Post with a copy of the 60 minutes segment on CECOT that was cancelled by Bari Weiss. Video at end: www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...
BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.
www.thereset.news
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Post with a copy of the 60 minutes segment on CECOT that was cancelled by Bari Weiss. Video at end: www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...
SCOTUSblog Falls Into the MAGA Orbit legal-planet.org/2025/12/12/s...
SCOTUSblog Falls Into the MAGA Orbit - Legal Planet
Danger signs are appearing that SCOTUSblog is falling into the MAGA orbit. Invest in real journalism to stop the bleeding.
legal-planet.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
SCOTUSblog Falls Into the MAGA Orbit legal-planet.org/2025/12/12/s...
New Jersey on a tear to eviscerate core protections against public corruption. The Destruction of New Jersey Open Government — The End of Public Transparency and Accountability - Insider NJ - www.insidernj.com/the-destruct...
The Destruction of New Jersey Open Government — The End of Public Transparency and Accountability - Insider NJ
The hearing on S4924 (Scutari) was one of the most shameful displays of legislative contempt for the public. It is the worst I have seen in all my years of coming to the State House — 50 years. The bi...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New Jersey on a tear to eviscerate core protections against public corruption. The Destruction of New Jersey Open Government — The End of Public Transparency and Accountability - Insider NJ - www.insidernj.com/the-destruct...
New Jersey watchdog warns proposal to weaken his office would benefit the powerful and undermine accountability jerseyvindicator.org/2025/11/17/n...
New Jersey watchdog warns proposal to weaken his office would benefit the powerful and undermine accountability
jerseyvindicator.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
New Jersey watchdog warns proposal to weaken his office would benefit the powerful and undermine accountability jerseyvindicator.org/2025/11/17/n...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre
Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.
www.msnbc.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
New term of art in the law of search and seizure:
I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.
"Kavanaugh stops" are in full swing in an occupied blue city near you. Learn how DC intends to fight back:
with @lizdye.bsky.social
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with @lizdye.bsky.social
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/scotus-ble...
October 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
New term of art in the law of search and seizure:
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BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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At Delaney Hall in Newark, detainees allegedly face abuse, neglect, and fear. ICE insists such conditions don’t exist. jerseyvindicator.org/2025/09/25/i...
Inside New Jersey’s troubled immigration detention center: ‘It’s designed to break people’
jerseyvindicator.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
At Delaney Hall in Newark, detainees allegedly face abuse, neglect, and fear. ICE insists such conditions don’t exist. jerseyvindicator.org/2025/09/25/i...
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“Without the annoying inconvenience of facts justices can create the world that Kavanaugh so flagrantly manufactures. A world in which ICE agents respectfully ‘inquire’ about legal status during ‘brief stops.’”
The conservative majority simply blocks off reality to justify its ends. Today’s decision is as chilling as it gets.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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SCOTUS, ICE Raids & The Matter of Facts
There is a lot one can say about today’s Supreme Court order lifting the stay issued by a federal district court in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo,[i]. This is the case that challenges the constitutionality o...
open.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
“Without the annoying inconvenience of facts justices can create the world that Kavanaugh so flagrantly manufactures. A world in which ICE agents respectfully ‘inquire’ about legal status during ‘brief stops.’”
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Our biggest party problem is that Republican strategists focus on what Republican voters want and Democratic strategists also focus on what Republican voters want.
A Democratic messaging firm ("Navigator Research") tied to the establishment has sent out a memo on govt shutdown fight around DC this am.
They want the Democrats/progressives to focus on "bipartisanship" and focus no pissing of Republicans by talking about "stopping Trump." 🙃
They want the Democrats/progressives to focus on "bipartisanship" and focus no pissing of Republicans by talking about "stopping Trump." 🙃
September 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Our biggest party problem is that Republican strategists focus on what Republican voters want and Democratic strategists also focus on what Republican voters want.
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The Garden State now has only 5.1 journalists per 100,000 people. Only Nevada fares worse.
New Jersey’s local news crisis among the worst in U.S.
The Garden State now has only 5.1 journalists per 100,000 people. Only Nevada fares worse.
jerseyvindicator.org
August 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The Garden State now has only 5.1 journalists per 100,000 people. Only Nevada fares worse.
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Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
August 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
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my serious analysis of the idea of a stewart run is that he is too much of a "pox on both houses," anti-politics, anti-partisan to be able to do the work of reconstruction and reform in the wake of trump. zeteo.com/p/should-jon...
Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028?
I was skeptical about a Stewart candidacy, but maybe ‘The Daily Show’ host is the right person to shake up the Democratic presidential primaries.
zeteo.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
my serious analysis of the idea of a stewart run is that he is too much of a "pox on both houses," anti-politics, anti-partisan to be able to do the work of reconstruction and reform in the wake of trump. zeteo.com/p/should-jon...
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“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks Prem
Thakker, in the wake of Israel’s killing of Anas al Sharif.
Thakker, in the wake of Israel’s killing of Anas al Sharif.
BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif
Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.
zeteo.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks Prem
Thakker, in the wake of Israel’s killing of Anas al Sharif.
Thakker, in the wake of Israel’s killing of Anas al Sharif.
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Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
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I made the font small enough here to restore the lines. Sorry if it’s harder to read! Thank you @lrb.co.uk for setting it in such a powerful issue.
August 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I made the font small enough here to restore the lines. Sorry if it’s harder to read! Thank you @lrb.co.uk for setting it in such a powerful issue.
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Don't look away.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us
Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Don't look away.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
NSF Award Search: Award # 2347850
Structure theory for measure-preserving systems, additive combinatorics, and correlations of multiplicative functions
www.nsf.gov
August 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.