Zach Mountin
@zmountin.bsky.social
Prof of Clinical Law @ColoLaw, Director of Civil Practice Clinic; Employment/Labor, Housing, Economic Justice, Civil Rights. Sometimes WI sports.
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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Solidarity with the thousands of unionized Starbucks workers who are on strike. Keep up the fight. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/s...
Starbucks Workers United escalates strike during busy holiday season
Starbucks Workers United is expanding the strike, but the company says it has not yet disrupted the key holiday season.
www.cnbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Solidarity with the thousands of unionized Starbucks workers who are on strike. Keep up the fight. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/s...
IMs/DMs/texts are even worse! (where you can get them). My jaw has hit the floor reviewing discovery over how little of a filter people have in those contexts. A treasure trove of prejudice, insecurity, and salacious personal information.
Do enough litigation and you realize that most people are positively moronic about what they put in their emails.
of all the atrocities these emails likely allude to, it's still amazing that 'elites' write awful things *in emails*. so above the law, so convinced of their rectitude, so conditioned to impunity.
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
IMs/DMs/texts are even worse! (where you can get them). My jaw has hit the floor reviewing discovery over how little of a filter people have in those contexts. A treasure trove of prejudice, insecurity, and salacious personal information.
Motions for spoliation queueing up in 3, 2, 1...
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Motions for spoliation queueing up in 3, 2, 1...
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Congrats New York, you're catching up to Milwaukee
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Congrats New York, you're catching up to Milwaukee
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Why should you care that the president’s appointees at DOJ, including his former personal attorneys, could decide whether he gets a $230M payout directly to him? Because that money is coming directly from all of us, the U.S. taxpayers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Why should you care that the president’s appointees at DOJ, including his former personal attorneys, could decide whether he gets a $230M payout directly to him? Because that money is coming directly from all of us, the U.S. taxpayers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
October 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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🚨 BREAKING: HUD just fired 2 of the 4 civil rights attorneys who blew the whistle on illegal discrimination, political interference & the dismantling of fair housing protections.
This comes just one week after Sen. Warren called for an IG investigation. #ProtectWhistleblowers #FairHousing
This comes just one week after Sen. Warren called for an IG investigation. #ProtectWhistleblowers #FairHousing
September 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🚨 BREAKING: HUD just fired 2 of the 4 civil rights attorneys who blew the whistle on illegal discrimination, political interference & the dismantling of fair housing protections.
This comes just one week after Sen. Warren called for an IG investigation. #ProtectWhistleblowers #FairHousing
This comes just one week after Sen. Warren called for an IG investigation. #ProtectWhistleblowers #FairHousing
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1/ A woman with dementia moves into an apartment in Colorado.
A few months later she passes away unexpectedly.
The family gets a bill for $4140. By dying, she “broke her lease early”
A landlord gone rogue?
No. It was a billionaire property management company called Greystar.
A few months later she passes away unexpectedly.
The family gets a bill for $4140. By dying, she “broke her lease early”
A landlord gone rogue?
No. It was a billionaire property management company called Greystar.
September 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
1/ A woman with dementia moves into an apartment in Colorado.
A few months later she passes away unexpectedly.
The family gets a bill for $4140. By dying, she “broke her lease early”
A landlord gone rogue?
No. It was a billionaire property management company called Greystar.
A few months later she passes away unexpectedly.
The family gets a bill for $4140. By dying, she “broke her lease early”
A landlord gone rogue?
No. It was a billionaire property management company called Greystar.
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WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
September 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
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What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
I’m so excited this is now official. David is a good friend, a great attorney, and an even better person. He is the person we need to stand up for the rights of everyday Coloradans right now.
I'm David Seligman.
I’m running for CO Attorney General.
This campaign is about reclaiming our power from the billionaires who have stolen it from us, from working families. We will fight. And we will win. Because we love our country the core promise it made to us: The law belongs to us.
I’m running for CO Attorney General.
This campaign is about reclaiming our power from the billionaires who have stolen it from us, from working families. We will fight. And we will win. Because we love our country the core promise it made to us: The law belongs to us.
May 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I’m so excited this is now official. David is a good friend, a great attorney, and an even better person. He is the person we need to stand up for the rights of everyday Coloradans right now.
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I'm David Seligman.
I’m running for CO Attorney General.
This campaign is about reclaiming our power from the billionaires who have stolen it from us, from working families. We will fight. And we will win. Because we love our country the core promise it made to us: The law belongs to us.
I’m running for CO Attorney General.
This campaign is about reclaiming our power from the billionaires who have stolen it from us, from working families. We will fight. And we will win. Because we love our country the core promise it made to us: The law belongs to us.
May 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I'm David Seligman.
I’m running for CO Attorney General.
This campaign is about reclaiming our power from the billionaires who have stolen it from us, from working families. We will fight. And we will win. Because we love our country the core promise it made to us: The law belongs to us.
I’m running for CO Attorney General.
This campaign is about reclaiming our power from the billionaires who have stolen it from us, from working families. We will fight. And we will win. Because we love our country the core promise it made to us: The law belongs to us.
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This is a big deal—not just a process-based ruling, but a holding that Trump’s Alien Enemy Act proclamation is substantively invalid on its face.
This will obviously not be the last word, but it’s a really important step in the AEA litigation.
This will obviously not be the last word, but it’s a really important step in the AEA litigation.
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has barred the administation from removing migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, saying Trump's invocation of that law in the context of Tren de Aragua was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is a big deal—not just a process-based ruling, but a holding that Trump’s Alien Enemy Act proclamation is substantively invalid on its face.
This will obviously not be the last word, but it’s a really important step in the AEA litigation.
This will obviously not be the last word, but it’s a really important step in the AEA litigation.
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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The president is trying to illegally fire me. Who does this help? Does it help you? Or does it help the billionaires over the president’s shoulder at the inauguration?
March 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The president is trying to illegally fire me. Who does this help? Does it help you? Or does it help the billionaires over the president’s shoulder at the inauguration?
Unfortunately, this is part of their playbook. Force managers and others to go along with the farce and fire probationers and others or quit out of principle. Just another way to clear out as many feds as possible and wreak havoc on the agencies and their missions. 1/3
A US Department of Interior director resigned in protest of the mass firings of probationary employees, calling the justification for the terminations as performance-related, "a lie"
February 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Unfortunately, this is part of their playbook. Force managers and others to go along with the farce and fire probationers and others or quit out of principle. Just another way to clear out as many feds as possible and wreak havoc on the agencies and their missions. 1/3
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My parents are immigrants. They came to the U.S. in the 70s with my sister. My brother and I were born in the U.S. At some point my parents and my sister became citizens. I never bothered to inquire on the timeline of all of this until Trump 1 because it never mattered. Then it did matter. (1/3)
January 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
My parents are immigrants. They came to the U.S. in the 70s with my sister. My brother and I were born in the U.S. At some point my parents and my sister became citizens. I never bothered to inquire on the timeline of all of this until Trump 1 because it never mattered. Then it did matter. (1/3)
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A $4.5 million settlement means CU Boulder female faculty will receive back pay.
www.cpr.org/2024/11/15/4...
www.cpr.org/2024/11/15/4...
A $4.5 million settlement means CU Boulder female faculty will receive back pay
The University of Colorado will also conduct equity reviews every three years.
www.cpr.org
November 16, 2024 at 2:19 PM
A $4.5 million settlement means CU Boulder female faculty will receive back pay.
www.cpr.org/2024/11/15/4...
www.cpr.org/2024/11/15/4...