JBR

Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!

Just a step shy of the actual Hunger Games.

Literally the stuff of dreams for a girl who grew up listening to @wbur.org — spent an hour talking about Afghan relocations on On Point.

Listen here:

www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

Boston, famously capable of being intimidated by repressive central governments 😂 😂 😂

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

Trump executive order threatens fate of Afghan refugees who helped the US, advocate warns | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend the US refugee program could leave at least 2,000 Afghans in limbo who had previously been approved to resettle in the US, a major Afghan advocacy o...

One active-duty soldier in the 82nd Airborne said his family in Afghanistan could be stuck after last night's executive order.

“[I]f I get deployed and killed overseas — which I would sacrifice my life to this country any time...she cannot come to my funeral."
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...

Not only were there no lower priced eggs at the grocery store just now…there were simply NO EGGS.

Everything is bad but this egg thing is going to make me a crazy (er) person.

The thing about the "there's no difference between the two parties" thing is that it wasn't a serious thesis, it was a mental device people use to wash their hands of the responsibility of actively engaging in politics.

The phrase that keeps running through my head is “Do not obey in advance”.

Unfortunately the reason for that is that I see it happening already.

Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.

And like, hundreds of hours logged at the range.

Same.

Someday, if we even survive all this, there is going to be a museum exhibiting the EOs being signed today and showing the path from this point through to the collapse of our democracy and the American experiment.

Having worked on this effort for the last 3+ years, can confirm this is heartless and cruel.

National Guard troops worry Trump will deploy them for mass deportations “I don’t want to be seen as a Gestapo,” one former senior military official said.

“I don’t want to be seen as a Gestapo,” one former senior military official said.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Senator: I’ll speak in his defense because to err is human. Who among us hasn’t shown up drunk to work? Who here hasn’t cheated on their wife?

Hegseth: Please stop helping me

Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo?

Going to try to make it to Marathon Monday this year with my kids in tow. Will keep you posted!

You called?

I haven’t been on here enough to know yet.

So I guess we’re back here, huh?

If the Biden Administration isn’t already demanding that State/USCIS work around the clock to normalize as many statuses as possible over the next two months then they should do that immediately.

Break out the rubber stamps and start putting them to papers.

I freaking love the moment in the morning when the coffee kicks in.

$1.5 billion in estimated revenue: A look at the Mass. 'millionaire's tax' first year Advocates promised the new tax would bring in over $1 billion a year in new revenue. And they quickly saw their predictions surpassed: the state Department of Revenue estimates it will generate over $...

Ur never gonna believe this but apparently taxing the people with all the fucking money can pay for essential public services

Maybe this will be the post that makes me remember this platform exists.

Killing it over here.

It’s very inconvenient that it’s 50° in Mass right now because it makes it much harder to use my garage as an extra fridge for all this food I’m cooking today.

Apparently The Rock wears glasses now and uhhhhh…we don’t hate it.

Not a morning person, but these 5:30AM workouts are growing on me.