Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹

lawyer followers, is it good if the judge calls your federal legal brief "a high school term paper"?

Read the ruling. It's from a Trump-appointed judge, and it's fucking scathing. ICE is lawless and must be abolished.

This footnote... man, DOJ is not sending whatever's left of its "best."

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kix FOR MEN

there is no getting around the reality that we collectively chose this path.

correct, because people will have made poor choices.

that's the shitty part of democracy. shitty peoples' votes count the same as ours :/

the reality is that this is what the American people voted for, and now we are all getting it good and hard, and if this makes the Republican Party more toxic and results in more Democrats elected this November, that's the only path to fixing the problem.

The thing is that the only way for people to learn that what they voted for is bad, is to feel the effects of that badness.

Yup!

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Iran will be mostly (but not entirely!) out of offensive firepower by the end of the week one way or the other

Of course that also means we'll basically be out of useful targets to hit besides, I dunno, gatherings of goons, so

woof. tracked it down. instant unfollow. thanks.

You can be critical of Israeli policies without stooping to rank antisemitism. there do need to be some clear lines drawn.

I have not seen this kind of antisemitic garbage in my timeline, but let's be absolutely clear that such language is the language of Nazis. Period.

so uh I'm trying to watch the Warriors game on Peacock but the stream freezes literally every single commercial break. anyone else dealing with that, or is it just me?

He retired in 2020 after 40 years of teaching journalism and coaching women's basketball at CCC - he's now the women's hoops coach at Napa Valley College.

Like, he would tear it into pieces and throw it in the garbage in front of all of us.

God bless Paul. Have no idea where I'd be or what I'd be doing if not for him.

(It was also fun because on occasion, if he sensed our morale flagging, Paul would pick a random other paper and critique it in front of class the same way he critiqued our paper - with colored sticky dots and acerbic wit. He took particular pleasure in tearing up the DVC Inquirer - literally.)

Yeah we got a bunch of other community college student papers mailed to us (and mailed ours out in return) - a great way to see what other good ideas everyone else is coming up with.

Oh man, Las Positas College? we totally got your paper, I remember reading it.

(apologies to DVC graduates worldwide, it's a perfectly cromulent school but we at CCC took a lot of pride in beating their brakes off at student journalism.)

Hardware - Second Place, Two-Year Reporter and Third Place, Diversity Story of the Year awards from Associated Collegiate Press.

Paul DeBolt ran one of the tightest ships in the nation. All-time great. I was on half a dozen ACP Pacemaker-winning staffs and scored a Pacemaker Finalist in 2007, the year I was editor-in-chief. Took home runner-up Reporter of the Year and third-place Diversity Story of the Year too.

oh man, hell no. they weren't good enough to make our coffee. Contra Costa College had one of the top-10 community college journalism programs in America.

Typo there - that should be "she." The editor was Melissa Navas, an exceedingly wonderful woman who went on to do some really cool stuff in Oregon politics and government.

damn, it felt good to be a student journalism gangsta.

I was awoken by a phone call from the editor of The Contra Costa College Advocate. He said, "turn on the TV, then get in here."

I did reporting all day and wrote the lead story. We rebuilt the paper in hours and had it on the campus racks at 8am Sept. 12.

I was 11 days short of my 18th birthday.

yeah, this is a pretty perceptive point. Israel wants Iran to be another Syria and Lebanon - and that would be a disaster for the Iranian people.

stenographers to the powerful

neither can American planes, tbf

If we get power again, we should go back and viciously dehumanize the southern aristocracy and the poor whites who fought at their behest at these monuments, memorials etc

the state of public history, 2026:

with one eye on the Trump administration, NPS staff worries that describing the murder of an abolitionist "might denigrate the murderers"