catherine, would probably throw a samitch

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn ) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025

Judge's house on fire

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

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Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

US District Judge Sara Ellis in a hearing over ICE protests in Chicago:

"I can't tell you how many judges have been doxxed. I can't tell you how many judges have received death threats. … It's unfortunately part of the cost of doing business as a public servant in government."

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

these mfers wanted to take guys away from their real jobs to do fascism for free 😭

I forgot to ask, which group of framers are you talking about? The powdered wig dudes in 1787, or the ones who wrote and ratified the Reconstruction Amendments? Because the right wing SCOTUS pretends like the Reconstruction Amendments never happened and that there's only one group of framers.

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ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown

the doj was like "idk"

the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"

I think he watches TV all day and people come in and show him things, and if they're happy things he says "Yeah, post that!" and if they're bad he seethes and then types or dictates or OKs some insane TruthSocial Post and then he nods off and that's it, it's the whoever-talked-to-me-last Presidency.

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

the classic. the original. wonderful floof of a dog on a wooden porch, eyes half closed into the gale tearing through their glorious long coat as if they were Meryl Streep and her cloak on a Lyme seafront

when will my husband return from sea except it's when will Storm Amy stop making us all look like this

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

The obscene face of Christian Nationalism: outlandish untaxed wealth in defiance of Jesus. Oh, and this time, slave laborers, too! Glory!

Just remember, for any money you give to Heaven, there is always a 100% handling fee here on Earth.

In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago.

"If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary."

h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social

Noem was banned from every reservation in her home state. Every single one.

Breaking: Trump-appointed federal judge issues temporary restraining order against Federalized deployment of National Guard in Oregon.

Judge: “this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”

also what is an “ass clown factory” ??

so to state the obvious - leaving aside everything else, this is why the shadow docket is bad, this is why grabbing cases from the trial level is bad. fact finding matters! it's important to establish a record before you reach a decision. there's a reason that order exists, and SCt is upending it

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Since you’re not beholden to the government for money anymore @npr.org, now would be a good time to run stories like this.

And before you come at me let me be crystal clear I say this not out of any desire to police shame or schoolmarm anyone or out of any faith whatsoever in “the law” or our “rights” but to try to help keep people I love (even if I don’t know you) on this side of the walls and bars to *keep* resisting

If you speak spontaneously before during or after they do or don’t read you your rights - whether in direct response to an LE question or, just in front of them, say to someone filming you, they can use what you say against you.

So, in short, once in police custody it is in your interests to STFU.

It’s your friendly neighborhood lawyer again with a Friday (fr this time) fun fact:

Law enforcement *don’t* have to read Miranda rights when they arrest you (that’s a law & order TV myth) - only *before* they question you *after* detaining you. Then you *have* to say you are asserting them & STFU

I saw a post the other day that said something to the effect of ICE is a job guarantee program for racists and domestic abusers and they weren't wrong

/3 Vance, after all, is part of the school of intellectual mediocrities who delight in arguing that bringing Africans to the Americans and enslaving them is something they should be grateful for. It’s a trollish worldview aimed at fatuous provocation.

I knew they’d come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than “Our Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!”

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