Chris Boom

"Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders." - Diane Nash

"The most important thing for people is to be in charge of their own lives." - E.F. Schumacher

Musk, Bannon, and Thiel!

YouTube video by fulanodetal4 Woody Guthrie/Sonny Terry - All you fascists bound to lose

I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' off air 'indefinitely' over Charlie Kirk comments Jimmy Kimmel suggested that Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, was aligned with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement.

#boycottABC

"The challenge is to understand how to foster collective action and mutual governance rather than the top-down approach of government or market mechanisms." - Elinor Ostrom

Cato's Letter No. 45 (1721)
by Thomas Gordon
Of the Equality and Inequality of Men

To be great is not in every man's power; but to be good is in the power of all: Thus far every man may be upon a level with another, the lowest with the highest: and men might thus come to be morally as well as naturally equal.

"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down." - Frederick Douglass

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

We can - and must - condemn murder. But we can - and must - not hide from saying the truth.

We denounce the lethal force used unlawfully by the US military against a civilian vessel in international waters.

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

Completely right

Some people are fucking stupid

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Communication is something more than a means of staying alive. It is a way of being alive. It is through communication that we inherit the achievements of past human effort. The possibility of communication can reconcile us to the thought of death by assuring us that what we achieve will enrich the lives of those to come. How and when we accomplish communication with one another can expand or contract the boundaries of life itself. In the words of Wittgenstein, 'The limits of my language are the limits If I were asked, then, to discern one central indisputable principle of what may be called substantive natural law—Natural Law with capital letters—I would find it in the injunction: Open up, maintain, and preserve the integrity of the channels of communication by which men convey to one another what they perceive, feel, and desire. In this matter the morality of aspiration offers more than good counsel and the challenge of excellence. It here speaks with the imperious voice we are accustomed to hear from the morality of duty. And if men will listen, that voice, unlike that of the morality of duty, can be heard across the boundaries and through the barriers that now separate men from one another.

Lon Fuller - The Morality of Law

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Showing Their Buts: the False Compassion of the Concerned “Compassion is important, but,” a beautiful turn of phrase that calls to mind the immortal words of the great leader Eddard Stark. Everything before the word, but, is horseshit.

for @liberalcurrents.com i wrote about how those hoping to stop the dems from committing fully to trans rights use rhetorical strategies like stances of empathetic, reluctant disapproval, the thesis of jeopardy, and ofc more “think of the children” stuff

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Putin bombs innocent civilians. Trump pouts "bad timing." Future historians ask: was he more evil or more pathetic?

10. As part of the notice procedure, the alien is informed that he or she can make a telephone call to whomever he or she desires, including legal representatives. ICE ensures that telephones are made available for the aliens and that the aliens have access to the telephone lines. 11. Although there may be fact-specific exceptional cases, in a general case, after an alien is served with Form AEA 21-B, the alien is given a reasonable amount of time, and no less than 12 hours, including the ability to make a telephone call, to indicate or express an intent to file a habeas petition. If the alien does not express any such intention, then ICE may proceed with the removal, though such removal may not actually occur for many more hours or days, giving the alien additional time to express an intent. If the alien does express an intent to file a habeas petition, the alien is given a reasonable amount of time, and no less than 24 hours, to actually file that petition. If the alien does not file such a petition within 24 hours, then ICE may proceed with the removal, though such removal may not actually occur for many more hours or days, giving the alien additional time to file the petition. Further, because aliens subject to the AEA are often detained for several days before removal, they frequently have much more time to express an intent to file a habeas petition or to actually file such a petition. Moreover, these timeframes are consistent with, if not more generous than, the timeframes used for expedited removal procedures under Title 8.

NEW! DHS expands on its defiant middle finger to the Supreme Court's ruling that anyone subject to the Alien Enemies Act must get "reasonable time" to be able to "actually seek habeas relief."

They say they're only giving 12 HOURS for people to raise an objection, and 24 HOURS total to sue. Period!

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I'm thinking about how tonight was probably the first time Kilmar Abrego Garcia learned that millions of people care about him - the first time he learned that the United States Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring him home. I'm thinking what it must mean for him to know, right now, that he isn't alone.

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Excerpt from page 5 of https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/files/negotiation-strategy-notes-for-law-firms-heen-april-12-2025.pdf under "A message for current bystanders."

Advice from Harvard Law School negotiations expert to lawyers worried about being targeted: your most promising strategy is to make a stand *before* that happens

Says Judge Paula Xinis, there will be no tolerance for gamesmanship. This is sure to conflict with the Administration's modus operandi.

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem.

You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.