Jeff Meyer

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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

Chaser: the 15 minute interview Colbert did with Talarico and posted to YouTube. (The FCC should really know who Barbra Streisand is by now.)

youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

No it’s what he said. Read what he said.

i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.

My law firm is now litigating 85 voting and election cases in 40 states. This is the largest number of cases in the most states we have ever handled at one time. And, while Big Law firms mostly sit idly by, the need to protect elections in court is only growing.

Destanee Aiava says ‘f— you’ to tennis culture as she announces retirement at 25 Destanee Aiava made the announcement that the coming year would be her last in the game in an explosive Instagram post on Saturday.

Wow. Her goodbye letter. www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...

a frog is hanging upside down in a hammock with a bucket of brains in the background . Alt: a frog with a top hat dances down the street.

For our next act, smallpox.

STOP THE SAVE ACT.
Call your Senators. 202-224-3121

I've slept a bit on this other than a few posts, but one of the most brazen things happening in state governments right now is that the Kentucky GOP is trying to impeach a liberal justice (and the first/only Black woman to join the court) because of a vote she took last year they don't like.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Headline opportunity seized.

Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!"

Cool, cool.

RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

Again, there is no mass constituency for a Rod Dreher. He has been entirely a creature subsidized by 1-2 extremely rich men who then helped get his writings jammed into friendly publications. We need to stop treating these ideas as anything more than the weird dude no one engages with on Reddit.

Item #182727 in the list of ways that Trump, supposed fighter of antisemitism, is really a gigantic agent of it

Saboteurs: Wrecking the US for generations by contributing to the spread of disease.

Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees? Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying Trump nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to confirm them.

I know this seems like it should be impossible, but both of these statements are true: Trump's judicial nominees all refuse to denounce the January 6 insurrection or say that he lost the 2020 election, and ALSO, some Senate Dems keep voting to confirm those nominees to life-tenured judgeships

Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.

WSJ reports: Whistleblower complaint that has stalled under Gabbard pertains to Jared Kushner. About an intercepted call that "at least in part concerned issues related to Iran" in which 2 people talk about Kusher with allegations that "would be significant if verified." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims “I’m here to do everything I can to make this work,” Thomas Lane wrote in a December 2020 email to other organizers of the Trump campaign’s fake electoral plot in Arizona.

🚨BREAKING: An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.

Particularly as the ringleader of a corrupt real estate deal for Western colonization of Gaza under the auspices of a Wario UN.

The casting of Obama as the Perfect Centrist also neglects that he:

*deprioritized removals of longtime residents
*gave legal protections to Dreamers and even tried to extend them to millions of parents of US citizens/LPRs (court blocked)
*presided over Senate passage of legalization for millions

I hear what you're saying & 🙏 for your posts here on bsky.

My q: when does free speech start to infringe on one person one vote? If $$$ translates directly into influence on the electorate, how do we reconcile this with fairness?

Wouldn't changes to CU just impact reach, as opposed to speech?

Screen capture of OnTrac's Facebook page, where the latest post is from July 4, 2024.

They don't have a blue check, so this may be part of a Twitter/X shakedown, or it could be due to laziness/inattention from OnTrac, as OnTrac still links to this profile from their corporate page.

Hmm.... their last post on Facebook is from July 4, 2024. Clearly, they're anti-social media. 🤔

Screenshot of OnTrac Shipping's Twitter Profile page, which says "Caution: This account is temporarily restricted. You're seeing this warning because there has been some unusual activity from this account. Do you still want to view it?" and has a button labeled "Yes, view profile" to click if you want to see more. Of note, @OnTrac_Shipping does *not* have a Twitter/X blue check, so maybe they just haven't paid a fee to Twitter/X. Ironically, this possibly reflects well on OnTrac for standing up to Twitter/X. My bet is that this is the result of OnTrac's neglect.

I broke down & returned to the cesspool to make sure OnTrac actually received my note. Their last post on Twitter/X was in August, 2024, and their account is marked as "temporarily restricted."

Screen capture of OnTrac's website, featuring their tagline, "The #1 Alternative Carrier Network. OnTrac", although it is unclear how it is an alternative. In my experience, it's an alternative to carriers who actually ring a doorbell when they deliver a package.

OnTrac isn't here, but I am, so here I flame.

OnTrac, your drivers don't ring the doorbell when they make a delivery. How lazy do you have to be to walk all the way up to a door & then NOT ring the doorbell?

OnTrac: "The #1 Alternative Carrier Network" to carriers that actually ring the doorbell.

Good example of why I respectfully disagree with those who think bodycams are useless or actively harmful. In the last 13 months we have repeatedly seen bodycam footage refute ICE/CBP officers' flagrant lies, sometimes even exonerating protesters falsely accused of assault. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Defendants respond that Senator Kelly is seeking to exempt himself from the rules of military justice that "Congress has expressly made applicable to retired servicemembers." Defs.' Opp'n at 1. Horsefeathers! While Congress has chosen to apply the Uniform Code of Military Justice to military retirees as well as active-duty servicemembers, see 10 U.S.C. § 802(a)(4), that choice has little bearing on the scope of First Amendment protections for retirees. The First Amendment "is a limitation on the power of Congress," NLRB v. Cath. Bishop of Chicago, 440 U.S. 490,499 (1979), not the other way around!

Richard Leon's opinion ruling against Whiskey Pete Hegseth in Mark Kelly's lawsuit is a 14-exclamation point opinion.

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Private Chains, Public Harm How Supply Networks Fuel ICE Operations

New at Can We Still Govern: One aspect of ICE that is not discussed much is how dependent it is on private supply chains, including foreign companies. That provides an opportunity to name-and-shame firms providing its services.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...

Isn't this much different? There's no expectation of privacy when using a government computer, is there?

I mean, it's a bit tawdry, but it doesn't seem the same as what the R's complained about wrongly.