Joshua Erlich

rest in power Simon

so Divorced that you bring your family court conspiracy theories to chancery court

why is Peter Beinart talking to Matt Schlapp?

Alex @alex.bsky.team • 2h our userbase is already conspiracy brained enough about our rationale for suspensions without us making it this easy for them to accidentally entrap themselves

Uhhhmmm don’t love a Bluesky dev publicly calling the entire user base conspiracy brained.

If Bluesky users are prone to conspiracies @alex.bsky.team it’s because y’all place no value on communicating and don’t give people enough information, forcing them to come to their own conclusions.

to clarify: the dog always talks. this is only about what she’s saying.

never liked how it ended between you and The Chainsmokers

it was, ultimately, never introduced as actual evidence. it would have probably disintegrated by that point.

guy walks in with a banana and says it’s evidence and then like what the fuck do you do with an evidence banana, you know?

I once had a banana with a slur sharpied on it in my freezer for months

Time to support trans Dems like @beth4ma.bsky.social

just going to presume you were asking about this

correction here, Paul also defected

yes, Dems want less uptight people, like nazis. famously chill those folks.

hey, uh @unavaleable.bsky.social or @sodrock.bsky.social, what the hell is happening here

god help me and fuck Chuck Schumer, but it's genuinely bullshit that Schumer is the key image here. it was a party line vote, with Schumer voting against. only Dem that broke ranks was Fetterman, of course.

TERF to fascist pipeline remains undefeated

the point he lands on here is “self-determination is not trustworthy”, which is not not fascism adjacent

yeah, i very rarely actually look at them, but i do have the feature turned on that puts some feed posts into your main TL

is it enshittified or do i not know how to use it, the greatest thread in the history of bluesky, locked after 8 million comments

folks, we have feeds

do you have a preferred one for news/breaking new, @joshuajfriedman.com?

sure does. FYI @shortcircuitij.bsky.social

again, summary from @shortcircuitij.bsky.social, and link to the opinion here:

Allegation: Detroit officer lied on search warrant application and lied on witness stand, resulting in man spending more than seven years in prison for cocaine that he did not deal. (He’s released early after conviction integrity unit finds it can’t verify the officer’s testimony, for instance, whether the confidential informant actually existed.) Sixth Circuit: But officers have absolute immunity for lying on the stand, and the search warrant was for the man’s mother’s house—where he disclaims a privacy interest. So you had to show the officer was lying at some other point in the process, which you didn’t argue.

on the other hand, absolute immunity is less calvinball and more grossly unconstitutional

summary from @shortcircuitij.bsky.social, link to opinion here:

Man is arrested in Greenville, Miss. for allegedly stealing a car. Investigators search his phone sans warrant, discover evidence of purchases with a stolen debit card 150 miles away in Southaven. They call the Southaven police and share the information, saying they had a warrant for the search. Southaven police arrest him based on the info. Once charges are dropped, he sues. Fifth Circuit: Qualified immunity. It was clearly established at the time that a Fourth Amendment search occurs when an officer looks at material from a phone, but there’s no case about second-hand viewings of material from a phone.

qualified immunity is calvinball

the lyrics to "we did start the fire"

i do hate it when i get the christ baby in my hamentaschen tho

as someone from the same place as Andy and almost exactly the same age, who then moved to louisiana, i have no choice but to support this but my experience is not exactly broadly applicable

jesse singal suggesting that someone else has a professional stake in this is wild since it's the only story he's written in a decade