Love the Low Road that’s really the high road

Last week, Jonah Goldberg argued against free public transit in NYC since ppl who use it should pay for it. Pick one, maybe! @thebulwark.com

Yanno, on The Remnant Jul 3, May I please retort: SALT deductions make some fiscal sense because those residents tend to not benefit directly from federal programs as much; they pay for local services via SALT - which used to be the GOP preference.

Objection: HOMEWORK FOR THE HOUSE The Senate passed the bill. The House is up next. Let’s make them feel the heat.

The Senate passed the MAGA budget. Now it’s up to the House—and we’ve got a list of 27 vulnerable reps and their top donors. It’s time to apply pressure. Start calling. Start tagging. Let’s do this! Link to the spreadsheet included below:
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Eliza has given us homework! Please read her post and check out the spreadsheet.

This is awesome and I hope people do their homework! I will!

Tho I’m not a theocratic fascistic ethnostate fan by nature anyway so I think that should be a part of international law. TST tenants are even better than the “democracy” religion, IMO. Check it out, yall @kateshaw.bsky.social @dahlialithwick.bsky.social

@mswmedia.com @coolzonemedia.bsky.social search for the annihilation matrix betwixt US, Isreal & various Middle East countries in the past 5 years, compared with the creation of NATO & The UN & various non-military actions. Seems adding all warring countries to the UN as members is overdue.

@muellershewrote.com I really, really <3 your style. Still.

@dahlialithwick.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social @justsecurity.org @mswmedia.com @openargs.bsky.social

Is it me, or is SCOTUS downright hostile towards the APA? I mean, how can someone’s legal status (Venezuela) change in a day without having gone thru analysis, evidence specifically showing how & why DHS or State made their decisions re: deportation but not travel advisories? I am a civil servant.

Indeed. Illustrative of the swath of mostly dudes who claim it’s the blue haired feminists (whatever the fuck that is; old? Creative? Brave?) who help us as a culture understand enthusiastic consent causing all their problems. Dude has taken too many colors of pills, I’m sure.

i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything

Sending love and strength to President Biden who’s done incredibly hard things from raising a family after his first wife died to parenting kids through cancer & addiction. When you look at his life being president might have been the easiest. If anybody can beat this, it will be Joe from Scranton.

By Blocking aid, leveling cultural centers, executing doctors & aid workers, apartheid system, no water/power access, siege of strip & occupation of West Bank seem no less aggressive than Russia-Crimea-Ukraine. Isreal has a right to exist but not to ignore responsibilities to international law.

Furthermore, anti-genocide isn’t pro-Hamas, which anyone who is intellectually honest can understand. Hamas hasn’t wiped out Israeli population, culture & memory. Same can’t be said about Israeli actions for quite some time. SPLC is wrong about anti-apartheid / anti-genocide & criticizing govt.

@theremnant.bsky.social Jonah, your thoughts on staying in our lane certainly keeps our points of view narrow, which your knee jerk dismissal of intentional diversity & inclusion, increasing equity as a core value in business & govt is likewise narrow minded serving to perpetuate “traditional” harms

Shameful tactics.

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Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story (2019) ⭐ 6.1 | Documentary, Comedy 1h 46m | Not Rated

@mswmedia.com @murdersheherwrote.bsky.social @andymccabe.bsky.social factcheck for Unjustified. @kathygriffin.bsky.social got detained & harassed by DHS (& I think Sec Service) et al after the photo in 2017; she eventually stopped trying to travel or tour, esp abroad. www.imdb.com/title/tt9617...

'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government COVID sites The new page emphatically promotes a theory that many scientists question. Meanwhile, basic information about COVID testing and vaccines has disappeared.

Um...

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Dear Senator Van Hollen, Thank you for fighting to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Please get all the unjust deportees home! Thank you!

You should always send a nice note.

I’m pretty livid listening to some of these.

Of course Districts 4, 5 & quite a few others seem quite delayed in posting case updates & audio to their websites, so I’m sure I haven’t heard the worst of the inertia yet.

Who *cough* **DOGE** *cough* manages or processes their sites’ content?

Some circuits don’t want to follow the 1st Step Act, even as narrowly as SCOTUS says they must. They must at least do a review for qualified incarcerated ppl (served over 10 years served,more to go, would’ve resulted in many fewer decades today) for resentencing.

Add to that further non-contextualized “reasonableness” and “dangerousness” and “state of mind”. But whatevs.

8th seems a little split.

The government fails to really persuade me or anyone they had better case, IMO.

They act as if “extraordinary” and “compelling” are objective standards equitably & consistently applied if comparing 3 cases’ opinions usage, or even 2 different cases within their own.

What’s up with these judges who insist on changing the subject back to Chevron?

Are the senior judges able to remain awake the whole time & digest the current cases’ args in court?

Are they jazzed or pissed to become super-agency judges in different ratios than the less experienced judges?

This may be why 4th circuit stopped updating audio online. Perhaps they’re just waiting til things get thru scotus or something. That makes some sense but not really. Because courts are OURS, must be equitably accessible to public we can contact reps re: power wielded in our name by Articles 1,2&3

www.ca4.uscourts.gov/OAarchive/mp... —> Yup. When the government doesn’t do its job properly, or even can be construed as reasonably by judges *twisting themselves into knots* throwing bones to attorneys, they’re due ZERO deference & no presumption of immunity or privilege. Unitary, Elected or not.

4th Circuit court of appeals, ends 3/21/2025

4th Circuit calendar skips April 2025

DOJ-OSG finally has some updates (March 2025) but apparently has already filed on 12/05/2025 - this means they’re not showing a system date on this page OR their host is ahead of today (04/18/2025) by several months.

@lawandchaospod.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social @openargs.bsky.social @citationsneeded.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com @coolzonemedia.bsky.social www.justice.gov/osg/supreme-... includes some March. Note one has a filing date of Dec 2025? 4th Cir. appeals hasn’t updated since 03/21/2025.

Stability isn’t an excuse to funnel public funds into some industries without oversight, accountability & a proven value to the public at large. Kills me to hear this govt use stability as an excuse in court, ffs.

1 hour 5 minutes, “because that’s the way it has always been” or “we said so” is never an acceptable final response to any question. We stopped putting off ramps after on-ramps. Officials (private or govt) must show evidence that decisions have solid foundations w good results AND adjust w changes.