Paul Tassin

Paul Tassin

@pilgrim33.bsky.social

Housing attorney in New Orleans, posting for me and not for my org. NOLSW Local 2320.

99 Followers 131 Following 54 Posts Joined Oct 2024
2 days ago

It's like Sun Tzu said, what the fuck is wrong with you people are you doing this on purpose

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1 week ago

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

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Prefaced of course by this exhaustive survey of Old and New Testaments

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Perversely, if a crap history article by a history PhD somehow slips by the specialist historian reviewers, probably no serious harm results. But a lawyer sneaking crap history past a 2L can swing a SCOTUS case.

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1 week ago

Show me your woke face! You got a woke face? AAAAAAAAAH!! That's a woke face!

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Trump's War If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite

“Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. ‘I guess,’ he says.”

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Half of Americans back abolishing ICE amid Trump crackdown, poll finds YouGov poll shows 50% support as Kristi Noem defends ‘terrorist’ claim and shutdown drags on

Repeat after me; “abolish ICE” is the mainstream position.

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For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

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2 weeks ago

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

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Federalist 66: “We need not be apprehensive of the want of a disposition in that body to punish the abuse of their confidence, or to vindicate their own authority. We may thus far count upon their pride, if not upon their virtue.”

Womp womp.

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2 weeks ago

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

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1 month ago

It's a Canadian message. Next time order the poutine.

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Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

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“.. This is a 37 point shift left.”

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How ‘zombie mortgages’ are coming back to haunt homeowners years later They’re called “zombie mortgages” — debts that homeowners thought were forgiven long ago, only to learn that they still exist and could cost them their homes. Economics correspondent Paul Solman and p...

"Zombie mortgages" are debts that homeowners thought were forgiven or satisfied long ago, only to learn that they still exist and could cost them their homes. https://to.pbs.org/4tgrofb

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one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

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Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism

Have you noticed this? I have.

"The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to his utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade."

That's @sulliview.bsky.social at her site.

margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...

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Striking Starbucks workers urge customers to delete coffee chain’s app Unionized baristas continue to fight for a fair contract and ask public for solidarity as strike stretches into third month

Starbucks workers are asking customers to delete the mobile app amid their ongoing strike to push the corporation to reach a first contract with the union and to stop union busting
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."

A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.

Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

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Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Median democratic voter

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1 month ago

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

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1 month ago

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

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1 month ago

It’s an affront to the idea of a written constitution that this case will reach oral argument.

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Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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1 month ago

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

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1 month ago

If someone is choking, putting a cold compress on their head and getting them to lie down won't fix the problem. Democracy is choking on ICE/CBP violence, mass detention, and civil rights violations. We have to remove the lethal problem from the body politic. We have to end state terror.

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1 month ago

She moved TOWARD him. Went right at him.

She’s braver and stronger than every single MFer in power right now. Every single MFer playing dress-up in an ICE costume. Every single MFer who would call her less than or inferior.

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1 month ago

Love the way she backed that shit down. No hesitation.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at town hall in Minneapolis.

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Looking at Louisiana and Texas lit like torches, I think: "the 5th Circuit, where liberty and due process of law go to die."

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