@roparil.bsky.social
DC/NY litigator with 40 years of experience. Democrat. Unafraid of Trump, his minions or his lawless Executive Orders. Don’t obey in advance. This 🇺🇸stands with 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦. Nothing said here is legal advice.
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The premeditated extrajudicial killings have been murders
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conforms to Mr. Trump’s vision of immigration — which is to help mostly white people who say they are being persecuted while keeping the vast majority of other people out.
Yeah, it's not exactly a surprise that other conservative jurists and professors, including ones with long-standing personal or professional relationships with the justices, are against what SCOTUS is doing. We've already seen that. That isn't stopping them.
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"To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening. That’s the role Johnson is playing in Trump’s takeover of America." www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...
13.10.2025 12:16 — 👍 943 🔁 318 💬 56 📌 20This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
10.10.2025 18:57 — 👍 3180 🔁 1334 💬 111 📌 58Department of Justice lawyers, from Main Justice to AUSAs in the districts, have ALWAYS enjoyed a sort of aura of truth and justice and trust. That was arguably always unjustifiable but Trump DoJ has absolutely pissed it away with compulsive lying.
11.10.2025 00:23 — 👍 1285 🔁 219 💬 22 📌 1#econsky
Crypto is a scam
Trump cheers oil; renewables outperform. #econsky
12.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 2
The U.S. Dollar was worth almost 13 percent more on Jan. 19th compared to today.
#EconSky
The Meritocracy!
(said in the same tone of voice as the punchline to "The Aristocrats")
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
12.10.2025 00:54 — 👍 17892 🔁 4167 💬 353 📌 119A related problem for Trump/GOP is: "how are those ICE raids working out for you?"
Sure, there are Stephen Millers who thrive on cruelty, but a typical Trump voter is more "I'm okay with cruelty to benefit me."
Y'all got better jobs yet? More food on your table?
Help them see the answer is "no."
Yarvin's writing sounds like a freshman philosophy major trying to do a rewrite of Deuteronomy
12.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 64 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0This is a ginormous intro to econ class and this dude goes out of his way to make it clear he's a prima donna, but he's lamenting the lack of genuine discussion?
He's really so self-absorbed he can't tell everything about this suggests "don't talk except to tell him what he wants to hear"?
Bullshit.
12.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 5339 🔁 863 💬 342 📌 34a lot of these stories assume The Free Press is a business success. but is it? they generate a ton of subscription revenue but they spend so much that they needed to raise $15M last year. we can't see the financials, but there's a good chance that the operation is a money pit.
12.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 1061 🔁 89 💬 36 📌 6Former Presidents consistently talk about the difficulty of getting good information as President, how everyone has an agenda, is telling them what they want to hear, etc.
Most Presidents make some effort to mitigate that well-known problem, but Trump's like "moar bubble, I want only bubble."
This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.
12.10.2025 19:56 — 👍 1255 🔁 354 💬 46 📌 13Disgraceful and dangerous incitement by the President and Secretary; reassuring to see the disciplined professionalism of our military leaders amidst it.
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Trump is pledging to stand by NATO, but his Defense Department is cutting all security assistance funding for European countries, including the Baltics. And Trump is criticizing Putin, but he still hasn’t imposed any new sanctions on Russia. He even exempted Russia from his tariffs. wapo.st/4gOO40a
30.09.2025 16:31 — 👍 141 🔁 65 💬 10 📌 2Judge Young is a Reagan appointee, by the way.
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