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Angelo Guisado
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human rights lawyer and local peripatetic

noted Aston Villa supporter
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Fit check ❕
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
voltairelaflare.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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jaywillis.net
The takeaway here is that there are times when Antonin Scalia valued diversity in elite institutions (when it helped him get a prestigious job he really wanted), and times when he did not (when a Black person got to go to Harvard) ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/antonin-sc...
Antonin Scalia Was a Diversity Hire
The late justice spent his career ridiculing the notion that elite institutions had any interest in diversity. He might not have made the Supreme Court without it.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
America 2025.
The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge's car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply. Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.l. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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sanho.bsky.social
I had the honor of speaking on a recent panel about the boat strikes with Laura Dib (WOLA), Brian Finucane (Crisis Group), Katherine Yon Ebright (Brennan Center for Justice), and Amanda Klasing (Amnesty Int.). This is the most comprehensive discussion I have yet seen on the topic. Please share.
Uncharted Waters: U.S. Military Action in the Caribbean, WOLA & Amnesty International
YouTube video by WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
voltairelaflare.bsky.social
up late eating halva rooting against Josh Giddey #real
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
voltairelaflare.bsky.social
Imagine someone promises to you: “you’re welcome to have dinner at my home whenever you want,” and despite your patient knocking outside every day for two years, they never once open the door. Would you say they’ve kept their promise? That is this case.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 7d
The Supreme Court takes up a major immigration case that asks whether the U.S. government can effectively prevent migrants from applying for asylum by blocking them at the border. I am very, very worried about this one. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...
Noem v. Al Otro Lado Issue: Whether an alien who is stopped on the Mexican side of the U.S.–Mexico border “arrives in the United States” within the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., which provides that an alien who “arrives in the United States” may apply for asylum and must be inspected by an immigration officer.
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Victory! After nearly three years in ICE detention, Melika Olya, a 23-year-old Iranian woman and asylum seeker was released today.
A photo of Melika Olya. She is wearing a red short sleeve blouse with small white flowers and gray leggings. She has her hair in an half up half down style, her hair is brown and curly.
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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jbenmenachem.com
Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.

New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power
We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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madar.bsky.social
In the end Mayor Adams stood for NYPD overtime abuse, free upgrades to Istanbul, and city employees parking on the sidewalk
thetimes.com The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 20d
Eric Adams, the scandal-hit outgoing mayor of New York City, criticised Mamdani after casting his vote for Cuomo
NYC election live updates: Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo lead mayoral race
www.thetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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lexmcmenamin.com
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
voltairelaflare.bsky.social
Your favorite lawyers have been named in Best Lawyers ‘One’s to Watch’ List, I’ve been identified on a DHS watchlist, we are not the same
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”
Kavanaugh concurrence
October 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
voltairelaflare.bsky.social
reading the news every single morning
October 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.
October 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
voltairelaflare.bsky.social
[arraignment]: your honor my client is being charged with … [checks notes] performing an unlawful exorcism. And well, uhh, you know what they say … possession is 9/10ths of the law
October 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't." Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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mobute.bsky.social
every day JB is out there showing none of this is hard, the democratic party is just that soft
October 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
voltairelaflare.bsky.social
could see it honestly
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
voltairelaflare.bsky.social
#NotInMyName
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 22
Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.

conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
Alt text: Screenshot of a document outlining a new university policy. The bullet points state: No discussion of transgender topics or anything suggesting more than two genders. All information in syllabi about transgender topics must be removed. Instructors must use students’ given names, not preferred names. Safe-space stickers, LGBTQ flags, etc. are banned and must be removed. Employees must remove pronouns from email signatures. The university will not support faculty who teach or discuss these topics in class.
September 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
voltairelaflare.bsky.social
He’s destroying a democracy and you’re helping destroy an entire people off the face of the earth. Please tell me what is the difference and which is more important.
danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · Sep 18
Wake up America!

Donald Trump is pursuing a coordinated effort to destroy our democracy.

It is up to all of us to stop him.

And that includes corporate media like Disney/ABC and tech companies bending the knee.

It may be someone else today.

But it will be you tomorrow.
September 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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POLITICS HAS NO PLACE AT NFL GAMES!!!!
Colin kaelernick kneeling
September 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
better things are possible!!!!
September 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM