Katiesaurus

Katiesaurus

@katiesaurusseven.bsky.social

Never read the writers who signed the Harper's letter. Substack supports Nazis. Please use alt text. Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy. BTS ARMY 💜⁷

4,294 Followers 4,056 Following 1,664 Posts Joined Sep 2023
8 hours ago

Whatever we need to do to trump I think israel needs to do to netanyahu

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The Non-Profit Security Grant Program (NSGP) for 2025 has been released, including the FY 2025 Dept of Homeland Security  Standard Terms and Conditions. No, our congregation will not comply with the administration's requirement to neglect DEI and to cooperate with ICE. We will not apply for funding that is supposed to protect us if it means sacrificing democratic principles. Such an agreement would not make Jews or anyone else safer. As Jewish Council for Public Affairs Director Amy Spitalnick teaches us: Jewish safety requires inclusive democracy and inclusive democracy requires Jewish safety.

This administration has made synagogues less safe.

DHS offers security grants, but under Trump they've added requirements which many synagogues, including my own, will not compromise their values to make—insisting that we reject DEI and turn away the stranger, directly contradicting the Torah.

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8 hours ago

I don’t want to discourage the brave people doing this work but this is really lacking:

do you have the right? absolutely yes

if an ICE agent says fuck you and beats you to within an inch of your life, can you file a lawsuit for damages? basically no

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Gannett has some community newspapers that have only one reporter, and they are hiring someone to cover the royal family? Give me a break.

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ROTC students at Old Dominion University subdued and killed shooter who left 1 dead, 2 hurt The FBI says the suspect has been identified as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.

>The students subdued him and “rendered him no longer alive,” Evans said. “I don’t know how else to say it.” She confirmed Jalloh wasn’t shot but didn’t provide further details.

"rendered him no longer alive"

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9 hours ago

Some of the attacks on the state of Israel are rooted in antisemitism. Some are based on policies the state is pursuing or military campaigns it is waging in the region. It is offensive to compare attacks on the state of Israel to attacks on synagogues, which are always rooted in antisemitism.

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Tweet from the Prime Minister of Israel: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

Antisemitism knows no limits or boundaries.

Israel is attacked because it is the Jewish state. Temple Israel in Detroit was attacked today because it is a Jewish house of worship."

Speaking as a Jew living in Diaspora, who needs to exist as a minority at a time of rising antisemitism, I would really appreciate it if the Prime Minister of a country where I do not live would not say that attacks on a sovereign country are analogous to attacks on a synagogue.

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U.S. Negotiators Were Ill-Prepared for Serious Nuclear Negotiations with Iran | Arms Control Association

Here's some of the detail I've been looking for on Steve Witkoff's nuclear ignorance.

h/t @marktfitz.bsky.social

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8 hours ago

Ukraine, which continues to be under attack from a four-year long Russian invasion, is sending resources to help defend US interests in the Middle East, after the US started a new conflict there.
The US has responded by giving money to Russia.

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Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict

AAAAAAAAAAAnd there it is www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

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WA lawmakers roll back estate tax hike amid wealth exodus fears On the last day of the legislative session, lawmakers approved an expedited measure intended to soften last year's sharp increase in the top estate tax rates.

THRILLED about the millionaire’s tax. But it is years away, legally uncertain, and will face a ballot initiative.

In the meantime, the legislature is cutting inheritance taxes for billionaires almost immediately, with certain, big losses of revenue.

Yuk.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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9 hours ago

What a self-own by the city’s lawyers on top of CPD’s original malfeasance.

The new evidence is so damning that even Ald. Ray Lopez says he’s going to support the new $27 million settlement.

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Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion

AI bubble? A month old start up with 12 employees, worth $3.5 billion???

Gift article.

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9 hours ago

I love how we used to joke about how we were being governed by the dumbest people imaginable and the universe took that as a personal challenge.

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11 hours ago

Our story on the ruling, gift link — www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

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10 hours ago
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Flying cabs, next-gen aircraft cleared for takeoff in 26 states FAA launches pilot projects starting this summer The skies over parts of the US could soon get busier, as the Federal Aviation Administration launches pilot projects spanning 26 states to test electric air taxis and other next-gen aircraft, with operations expected to begin by summer 2026.…

FYI: Flying cabs, next-gen aircraft cleared for takeoff in 26 states

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Orlando-born twins, age 12, wrongly deported to Guatemala with their mother The girls, who are U.S. citizens, and their mother flew to Guatemala on Tuesday and by Wednesday were back in Orlando, after a stop in Texas.

Twins born in #Florida, age 12, wrongly deported to Guatemala with their mother. By Wednesday they were back in Orlando. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/03/12/o... via @cristobalreyes.bsky.social

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10 hours ago

Correct. Today, on Twitter, tons of right wing accounts are all singing the same chorus about capital flight. Evidently they want to establish that narrative in what's left of the mass media in our region. But what they don't appreciate is that their credibility is gone. WA voters don't trust them.

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10 hours ago

But OP should have 👍

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10 hours ago

It was so ugly, I declined to alt text it myself 😞

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Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

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10 hours ago

Time to find the bright side of mass shootings.

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15 hours ago
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CT Jewish leaders denounce new rules for federal security grants Recipients of the nonprofit security grant will be prohibited from DEI programming, staging some boycotts or helping undocumented immigrants.

fun fact: the department of homeland security added restrictions last year to its nonprofit security grants program that help synagogues and other jewish institutions hire security that effectively makes it so that liberal jewish organizations can't qualify

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14 hours ago
19 We raised at oral argument concerns that CACI failed to accurately represent quoted language in Hencely.  Oral Argument at 48:55, Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Tech., Inc., No. 25-1043 (Sept. 9, 2025), https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/OAarchive/mp3/25-104320250909.mp3 [https://perma.cc/X38P-5433].  In its reply, CACI writes, “In Hencely, 120 F.4th at 426, this Court held that combatant activities preemption is designed to further the ‘federal interest in eliminating non-federal tort regulation of the military during wartime.’”  Reply Br. at 21–22 (emphasis added by CACI).  In fact, CACI substituted the term “nonfederal” for “such” without properly noting this alteration.  The original text of Hencely is as follows: As our Court has explained, however, the conflict between federal and state interests in this context ‘is much broader’ than the discrete inconsistency between federal and state duties in Boyle.  “Instead, when state tort law touches the military’s battlefield conduct and decisions, it inevitably conflicts with the combatant activity exception’s goal of eliminating such regulation of the military during wartime.”  In other words, when it comes to warfare, “the federal government occupies the field” and “its interest in combat is always precisely contrary to the imposition of a non-federal tort duty.” 120 F.4th at 426 (quoting Burn Pit, 744 F.3d at 349).  The term “non-federal tort duty,” used in Burn Pit, originated in Saleh.  See 580 F.3d at 7.   CACI’s failure to mark its alteration concerns us because the change benefits its position.  We are especially troubled because this is not the only instance where CACI misrepresents authority to a self-serving result.  See infra note 30.  These errors, whether intentional or representing the failure to closely cite-check the briefs, are troubling offenses to counsel’s duty of candor to the tribunal.  We elect not to escalate this matter further, as we find that the public reprimand herein and on the record at oral In its discussion of damages, CACI makes another misrepresentation of the law.  CACI says, “While precedents are sparse, it appears that courts borrow forum damages law for ATS claims.”  Opening Br. at 58 (citing Yousuf v. Samantar, No. 1:04-cv-1360, 2012 WL 3730617, at *16 (E.D. Va. Aug. 28, 2012)).  Yousuf, an ATS case, contains the comment that “punitive damages are typically governed by state law to comply with due (Continued) process” but goes on to discuss the factors required by the Fourth Circuit specifically.  2012 WL 3730617, at *15–16.  The court does not enumerate any factors sounding in state law, cite to any state statute, or reference any state court case.  Again, this overrepresentation is self-serving, as CACI goes on to use this rule to argue for the imposition of a state punitive damages cap.  We again register our concern that CACI’s citation overreach treads on its duty of candor to this tribunal.

Also, the Court reprimands the operators' lawyers for misrepresenting the law in their brief.

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14 hours ago

4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute.

Damages awarded: $42 million.

www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

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11 hours ago

Each paragraph about the replacement is more alarming than the one preceding it.
1. Rogers is a relative newcomer to government office, having previously worked in private legal practice, where she represented the National Rifle Association and other right-wing organizations..

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11 hours ago

also insane, as @chrisgeidner.bsky.social noted today at @lawdorknews.bsky.social, is the fact that this press release's headline starts with the phrase "President Trump's Justice Department"

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Before Executing a Muslim Man, Alabama Denied Many of His Final Religious Requests - Bolts Keith Gavin made a number of requests about his final moments, all stemming from his Islamic faith. But the prison largely ignored them, as it has with Muslim prisoners in the past.

Alabama Senator Tuberville posted today that Muslims are the enemy.

Please read this piece about how his state of Alabama is treating Muslim prisoners. boltsmag.org/alabama-exec...

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Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency A mom says a suburban school district is erroneously denying her daughter's enrollment because of data from a license plate reader company.

This is bonkers.

“According to the school district, her daughter’s new student enrollment form was denied due to ‘license plate recognition software showing only Chicago addresses overnight’ in July and August.”

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Florida approves guardian program expansion for colleges, universities Supporters said the measure would make Florida’s college campuses safer, but critics fear more guns will only add to chaos and anxiety during an emergency.

The Florida GOP legislature has approved a bill to allow professors and staff at universities and colleges to carry guns if they apply to “train as guardians.”

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