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Rut Júl

@rutjul.bsky.social

Icelandic US educated former attorney, now judge, who used to periodically grow tired of Iceland and take up residence in USA. Dog enthusiast and Jaki & Þyrla's friend.

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Everyone should pay careful attention to the Maine voter ID ballot measure (Prop 1). It is on track to lose -- thereby proving that the GOP claims that voter ID laws are overwhelmingly popular is a lie. Perhaps now the legacy media will stop repeating that nonsense.

05.11.2025 02:47 — 👍 13727    🔁 3214    💬 227    📌 78

Were there any leftovers at Trump's Roaring 20s party at Mar-a-Lago last night?

01.11.2025 19:01 — 👍 400    🔁 93    💬 24    📌 0

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

30.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 10830    🔁 3084    💬 495    📌 167
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Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.

28.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 16373    🔁 5564    💬 2248    📌 869
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

23.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 16434    🔁 9566    💬 1268    📌 684
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Omg 😂

18.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 12460    🔁 2167    💬 235    📌 89

Since at least 2017 attempts have been made to add a definition of domestic terrorism into current federal laws. This has been met with opposition from the GOP. The GOP senate blocked a bi partisan bill from the house with such a definition in 2022.

18.09.2025 09:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Just kill them". What did I just watch?? Is this real? AI? Matthew Dowd lost his job at MSNBC a couple of days ago for some stupid comment not even in the same ballpark as this sick shit. Kilmead is still collecting a paycheck from Fox news. This is insane.

13.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This solves Trump's immigration problem. Nobody is gonna wanna fly to the US while a golden dome is being run there by Pete Hegseth. No way am I entering US airspace under such circumstances.

09.08.2025 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Right over there is a nice lady named Ghislaine. She can help you find your mom.

27.07.2025 21:58 — 👍 108    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0
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For Reals

04.06.2025 11:01 — 👍 22629    🔁 4943    💬 29    📌 263
Infographic titled “Judges reject Trump at an accelerating pace” with subtitle “Federal district court rulings against the administration.”

The first bar chart, labeled “By month, %”, shows the percentage of federal district court rulings against the Trump administration:
	•	February: 53.8% (7 out of 13)
	•	March: 74.3% (26 out of 35)
	•	April: 76.1% (51 out of 67)
	•	May: 96.3% (26 out of 27)

The second bar chart, labeled “By appointing party, %”, shows rulings against the Trump administration by the party of the judge’s appointing president:
	•	Republican-appointed judges: 72.2% (26 out of 36)
	•	Democratic-appointed judges: 80.4% (74 out of 92)

Source: Bonica, Adam; Sen, Maya, 2025, “Common-space Measures of Judicial Ideology for Federal Judges (2024 update),” https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CK3EEL
Note: Coding scheme details available at data4democracy.substack.com/p/when-judges-become-targets-judicial

Infographic titled “Judges reject Trump at an accelerating pace” with subtitle “Federal district court rulings against the administration.” The first bar chart, labeled “By month, %”, shows the percentage of federal district court rulings against the Trump administration: • February: 53.8% (7 out of 13) • March: 74.3% (26 out of 35) • April: 76.1% (51 out of 67) • May: 96.3% (26 out of 27) The second bar chart, labeled “By appointing party, %”, shows rulings against the Trump administration by the party of the judge’s appointing president: • Republican-appointed judges: 72.2% (26 out of 36) • Democratic-appointed judges: 80.4% (74 out of 92) Source: Bonica, Adam; Sen, Maya, 2025, “Common-space Measures of Judicial Ideology for Federal Judges (2024 update),” https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CK3EEL Note: Coding scheme details available at data4democracy.substack.com/p/when-judges-become-targets-judicial

Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.

24.05.2025 02:34 — 👍 5532    🔁 1826    💬 169    📌 161
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JD Vance on Trumpcare in 2017: "What is it that's going to drive Trump's voter away from him? Well, losing their health care may actually be the answer to that question."

Mission accomplished.

22.05.2025 12:47 — 👍 2723    🔁 744    💬 137    📌 61

Seriously. SERIOUSLY???

09.05.2025 20:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Mike Waltz and government by sycophantic clowns Elect Trump, expect a circus.

"Competent officials need to be willing to tell the president when he’s wrong, but Trump doesn’t want to hear anything beyond praise and flattery. That leaves him surrounding himself with fools, grifters, conspiracy theorists, and whatever you call the spineless sack of gelatin that is Marco Rubio."

05.05.2025 16:10 — 👍 3089    🔁 623    💬 90    📌 27
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Scoop: Stephen Miller emerges as top contender for Trump's next national security adviser Miller — the brain behind Trump's controversial immigration crackdown — is one of the president's longest-serving and most-trusted aides.

Good lord

02.05.2025 20:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Judge Dugan thing is not hard to figure out. She said basicly, you are not going to use my courtroom as a kennel to round up human beings like animals. Especially when her bosses, the Supreme Court, ordered "give due process to every person in America no matter their status."

25.04.2025 17:14 — 👍 266    🔁 72    💬 8    📌 4

Utterly insane

25.04.2025 17:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

23.04.2025 12:28 — 👍 8876    🔁 2805    💬 536    📌 155

Does Musk actually think Tesla tanked because he’s not associating himself enough with the brand?

23.04.2025 06:11 — 👍 3473    🔁 482    💬 336    📌 38
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"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

21.04.2025 21:54 — 👍 15501    🔁 4263    💬 2659    📌 1562
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Remember this… 👇

07.04.2025 08:14 — 👍 8104    🔁 2643    💬 187    📌 96

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

07.04.2025 14:29 — 👍 24916    🔁 5468    💬 302    📌 231

If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.

07.04.2025 09:34 — 👍 43270    🔁 9675    💬 1489    📌 545

Regardless of anything else about the Wisconsin race, it's just a relief to learn that money can't always buy elections

02.04.2025 07:22 — 👍 19427    🔁 2504    💬 406    📌 107

You really can’t script this. The same week the Trump admin invokes the state secrets privilege to deny Boasberg info, he is assigned the lawsuit over the Trump administration’s apparent carelessness with state secrets.

26.03.2025 13:16 — 👍 8103    🔁 1403    💬 130    📌 76
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First off, Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should be fired.

Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.

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