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Pokorak, J.

@immanentize.bsky.social

Law Prof (Criminal & Constitutional). Dir. Sup. Ct Clinic. Frmr: Dir. of Clinics; Uni. Vice Provost. Public Defender: Miami FL & Roxbury MA. Capital Defender, Texas. Juv. LWOP advocacy. Habeas, Appellate, SCOTUS Practice Widow to cancer, 1 awesome son.

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Who wore it better?

10.02.2026 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Blue, blue, electric blue ....

10.02.2026 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Uh, this makes no sense at all! If we are deporting so many who had jobs, then new job rates should be skyrocketing. First, a deported person does not go on unemployment rolls. Second, all those empty positions need workers so hiring must naturally be way up causing unemployment to fall further.

10.02.2026 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have been trying to warn that the vast warehouses that DHS has purchased are not just for undocumented immigrants. They do not need that huge capacity for the immigration issue.

They are planned for everyone who raises their head or their voice.

10.02.2026 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I do not believe these vast warehouses are for immigrants alone. They are for yes, immigrants -- legal and undocumented;
but also dissenters, democrats, "liberals", and everyone who is not white if they raise their head or their voice.

09.02.2026 21:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ma ma ma ma. Pogo Pogo!

09.02.2026 19:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photograph of General William Tecumseh Sherman in his military dress uniform

A photograph of General William Tecumseh Sherman in his military dress uniform

Can we please have the burning of Atlanta, too?

09.02.2026 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"I love Dalmatians! Very fine with mustard."
W.C. Fields' wife maybe.

09.02.2026 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The hard and brown nature of the pole should have tipped you off.

09.02.2026 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My son, 25, comp engineer, tells me it is time for paid-for browsers. I think he may be right.

(Duck Duck Go just uses Bing)

09.02.2026 00:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That post seems to have deeply hidden cruelties.

08.02.2026 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This was the Cuomo game plan. Empower republicans to keep the democrats from actually exercising power.
Remember, Jeffries almost supported Cuomo over Mamdani until the fat lady had already done the victory song's dress rehearsal.

08.02.2026 18:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I haven't been to Kos in years now. But I always read and loved your work and that of the other black kos writers. Thank you so much. I have learned so much from you -- especially about Puerto Rico.

08.02.2026 18:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Why I saw fit to own guns," is my best bet for Davis' appropriation.

08.02.2026 18:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I get the feeling that Jeffries started taking seriously the polls showing he was gonna lose his primary. Well, welcome to the resistance.

Now put away your consultant-tested hand gestures and we can talk.

08.02.2026 16:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a fabulous take! It is the reverse cross that used to keep vampires away as it would burn them. Now, it is like manna to the the wandering zombies of hatred.

08.02.2026 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good one! Doug for the composite pop-reference / current events / horror of our times win!!

08.02.2026 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Charade" is also one of my favorites of her's -- sure it is a comedy mostly but also a story of when the US government would fight thieves and killers even if they were at one time in the army fighting nazis.

Justice means for all, always.
Or it did once.

08.02.2026 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
YouTube video by Chuck Berry - Topic Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Chuck Berry's "Brown Eyed* Handsome Man" is a Jacki Robinson song:

Two, three, the count with nobody on
He hit a high fly into the stands
Rounding third, he was headed for home
It was a brown eyed handsome man
That won the game, it was a brown eyed handsome man

* Skinned

youtu.be/5Eo-aQjw7eE?...

08.02.2026 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My favorite thought by Souter was his amazing humble recognition that when he might disagree with a prior decision or its reasoning, he always was left to wonder why he had any better insights or knowledge than they.

That's what is missing today: the humility of knowing wisdom is not certainty.

08.02.2026 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of my father's excellent lessons (he was a mechanical engineer):
"Figures don't lie,
But liars figure."

07.02.2026 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 55    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wurman is what you have to buy at the Crap Store when you realize that the Jonathan Turley you bought is a year past his "use by" date.

07.02.2026 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wurman is what you have to buy at the Crap Store when you realize that the Jonathan Turley you bought is a year past his "use by" date.

07.02.2026 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

God I miss Joey Bananas in the papers.

07.02.2026 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump is post-morbidly obese.

07.02.2026 04:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mmmmm
Panthers.
Cat People.

07.02.2026 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2020

06.02.2026 00:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Space ship above a cloudy planet with "Serenity VR" text

Space ship above a cloudy planet with "Serenity VR" text

06.02.2026 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One in a million is a probability.

06.02.2026 00:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a great piece. Thank you.

03.02.2026 22:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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