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Government transparency & voting rights lawyer. Previously: Voter Protection Director WisDems. Musician. Immunocompromised/disabled. Lawyer. Fan of N95s, democracy, and righteous fights. he/him. Opinions are mine alone but generally pretty good

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Michael points out that a rise in students registered as disabled doesn't equate to a rise in accommodations & that's true but also who cares? Disabled people have long hesitated to ask for what we need because we fear retribution. If more kids are seeking the support they need, that's a good thing.

04.03.2026 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

but dunkins has to prove it's safe. got it. that makes sense.

04.03.2026 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

04.03.2026 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5389    πŸ” 1096    πŸ’¬ 206    πŸ“Œ 41

If you’re tailgating me on a 2-lane highway when I’m 7th in a line of cars traveling the same speed and no ability to pass, I need you to know that you’re almost entirely responsible for the decline of American civilization

02.03.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump doesn’t owe us an explanation, he owes us jail time. This mealy mouthed nonsense is why nobody trusts democrats to ever genuinely meet the threat

01.03.2026 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a tweet from x.com by Senator Dave McCormick that reads: 
Now would be a good time for Democrats to drop their opposition to DHS funding and pass the bill to support our homeland security.
Continuing to play political games with our national security given the unfolding situation in the Middle East is dangerous.

Screenshot of a tweet from x.com by Senator Dave McCormick that reads: Now would be a good time for Democrats to drop their opposition to DHS funding and pass the bill to support our homeland security. Continuing to play political games with our national security given the unfolding situation in the Middle East is dangerous.

Boy, does this make me think of Justice Jackson’s Youngstown concurrence, in which he warns of the danger of a president unilaterally initiating a war, and then using that war as a bootstrap to claim extraordinary powers at home.

01.03.2026 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1527    πŸ” 419    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 15

legacy media insists on the perpetuating the fiction that donald trump actually holds any core beliefs beyond personal enrichment and aggrandizement rather than simply being willing to spout any lie that he thinks will serve him in the moment and that's part of the reason we are where we are

01.03.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything ICE says is a lie.

01.03.2026 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 744    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

28.02.2026 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8310    πŸ” 1326    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 22

if we've learned anything from history it's that unnecessary regime change wars in the middle east always turn out fine, so i'm sure this is all fine and a lot of iranians and american troops won't die for absolutely nothing

28.02.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i've been yelling for YEARS that having principles & fighting for them is not pie-in-the-sky idealism, it is smart politics! i was constantly scolded by status quo "realists" that candidates would be punished for being "too liberal," but now i have numbers to prove my point bsky.app/profile/gell...

27.02.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Another day, another analysis proving @davekronig.bsky.social right, yet again, that the average voter largely doesn’t care about platform as long as the candidate comes from Team Fight. I’m *still* mad about the DNC leadership we could have had and what that could have meant for the party.

27.02.2026 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I am begging Democrats to learn the lesson that you can get shit done while also being a principled progressive--perhaps BECAUSE of being a principled progressive. Bullies don't respect capitulation, they respect strength.

26.02.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
As noted, Rosen asserted in his email that "[t]he lawyers in my civil division
didn't deserve" the supposedly inaccurate January 28 order. Putting aside the fact that
the January 28 order was not inaccurate, Rosen failed to mention that this Court said the
following in the show-cause order that preceded the January 28 order:
The Court expresses its appreciation to attorney Ana Voss and her colleagues [in the civil division], who have struggled mightily to ensure that respondents comply with court orders despite the fact that respondents have failed to provide them with adequate resources.
ECF No. 7 at 2 n.1.
The judges of this District have been extraordinarily patient with the government
attorneys, recognizing that they have been put in an impossible position by Rosen and
his superiors in the Department of Justice (leading many of those attorneys- including, unfortunately, Ana Voss- to resign). What those attorneys "didn't deserve" was the
Administration sending 3000 ICE agents to Minnesota to detain people without making
any provision for handling the hundreds of lawsuits that were sure to follow.

As noted, Rosen asserted in his email that "[t]he lawyers in my civil division didn't deserve" the supposedly inaccurate January 28 order. Putting aside the fact that the January 28 order was not inaccurate, Rosen failed to mention that this Court said the following in the show-cause order that preceded the January 28 order: The Court expresses its appreciation to attorney Ana Voss and her colleagues [in the civil division], who have struggled mightily to ensure that respondents comply with court orders despite the fact that respondents have failed to provide them with adequate resources. ECF No. 7 at 2 n.1. The judges of this District have been extraordinarily patient with the government attorneys, recognizing that they have been put in an impossible position by Rosen and his superiors in the Department of Justice (leading many of those attorneys- including, unfortunately, Ana Voss- to resign). What those attorneys "didn't deserve" was the Administration sending 3000 ICE agents to Minnesota to detain people without making any provision for handling the hundreds of lawsuits that were sure to follow.

If anything is "beyond the pale," it is ICE's continued violation of the orders of
this Court. Increasingly, this Court has had to resort to using the threat of civil
contempt to force ICE to comply with orders. The Court is not aware of another
occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten
contempt -again and again and again - to force the United States government to comply
with court orders.
-5-
CASE 0:26-cv-00107-PJS-DLM Doc. 12
Filed 02/26/26 Page 6 of 6
This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law,
including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt. One way or another,
ICE will comply with this Court's orders.
Dated: February 26, 2026
(s/ Patrick J. Schiltz
Patrick J. Schiltz, Chief Judge
United States District Court

If anything is "beyond the pale," it is ICE's continued violation of the orders of this Court. Increasingly, this Court has had to resort to using the threat of civil contempt to force ICE to comply with orders. The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt -again and again and again - to force the United States government to comply with court orders. -5- CASE 0:26-cv-00107-PJS-DLM Doc. 12 Filed 02/26/26 Page 6 of 6 This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law, including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt. One way or another, ICE will comply with this Court's orders. Dated: February 26, 2026 (s/ Patrick J. Schiltz Patrick J. Schiltz, Chief Judge United States District Court

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz in Minnesota threatens criminal contempt, if necessary, to address ICE noncompliance in an order calling out U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen's response to Schiltz's earlier questions about noncompliance with court orders.

"ICE will comply with this Court's orders."

26.02.2026 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2278    πŸ” 732    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 64

We’re on day 4 of no power. It’s coming back on in some parts of town & there is a huge presence of crews working around the clock, but at least half of the town is still without power. People without generators are reporting temps inside their houses have dropped into the 30s. This is rough, y’all.

26.02.2026 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Years ago, I had a dream in which I was asked β€œis it chestnuts or dreams you keep in your chest?” and I’ve been puzzling on that since 2018.

26.02.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

25.02.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11845    πŸ” 5325    πŸ’¬ 387    πŸ“Œ 295

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

25.02.2026 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15125    πŸ” 3514    πŸ’¬ 284    πŸ“Œ 1

We also of course have no internet, and cellular data comes and goes. Being so disconnected is extraordinarily isolating and disconcerting in ways I couldn’t have understood before. Feels like we are fully on our own

24.02.2026 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An alert this afternoon from my town’s police chief said the town is 100% without power & we still have no estimates as to when it will be restored. People are soon going to really be suffering. I’ve been fortunate through my life not to experience this before & I gotta say it’s really fucking scary

24.02.2026 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

noise pollution causing actual real physical health problems in humans is one of those things that sounds fake but isn’t

24.02.2026 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5036    πŸ” 480    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 56

This is my first time too. I’m hooked up to municipal gas so I hope indefinitely, but Β―\_(ツ)_/Β― Stay safe!

24.02.2026 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
More than 149,000 Eversource customers on Cape Cod were without power as of 1 p.m. Monday during a blizzard expected to last until early Tuesday. The total outages jumped from around 106,000 at 9 a.m. Monday.
Of the Cape's 15 towns, Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet β€” the Cape's outermost towns β€” were 99% or completely without power. Just south, Eastham was 98% without power, and neighboring Orleans was 95% without power.
Towns with at least 70% of customers with no power also included Barnstable, Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Falmouth, Harwich, Mashpee and Yarmouth.

More than 149,000 Eversource customers on Cape Cod were without power as of 1 p.m. Monday during a blizzard expected to last until early Tuesday. The total outages jumped from around 106,000 at 9 a.m. Monday. Of the Cape's 15 towns, Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet β€” the Cape's outermost towns β€” were 99% or completely without power. Just south, Eastham was 98% without power, and neighboring Orleans was 95% without power. Towns with at least 70% of customers with no power also included Barnstable, Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Falmouth, Harwich, Mashpee and Yarmouth.

Well, we are well and truly fucked. I’ve never seen numbers like thatβ€”95-100% of entire towns without power. I have a generator so I’m safe for now, but this is going to be rough, and I don’t think I’m totally bonkers to worry that Trump will withhold aid from a blue state. archive.is/pJhQH

23.02.2026 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

oh well I’m thoroughly fucked

23.02.2026 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Counterpoint: No.

ICE doesn’t need reform. Abolition and prosecution is the bare minimum.

22.02.2026 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 8463    πŸ” 1653    πŸ’¬ 346    πŸ“Œ 114

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

22.02.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4217    πŸ” 2333    πŸ’¬ 210    πŸ“Œ 247
Screenshot of text: Eversource: Blizzard conditions expected. Damaging winds and snow could damage electric system and cause widespread and extended outages. Hazardous conditions may delay our ability to safely respond. Based on current forecast, restoration could take 3-5 days. See storm center: eversource.com

Screenshot of text: Eversource: Blizzard conditions expected. Damaging winds and snow could damage electric system and cause widespread and extended outages. Hazardous conditions may delay our ability to safely respond. Based on current forecast, restoration could take 3-5 days. See storm center: eversource.com

when the power company is preemptively texting to say β€œsorry babe, you’re fucked,” that doesn’t seem great

22.02.2026 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you say β€œonly the vulnerable” are at risk… you’re saying that vulnerable people are expendable.

When you say β€œonly those with pre existing conditions will die”… you’re saying our lives don’t matter.

You can become one of the β€œvulnerable” at any time.

Many of us were healthy…until we weren’t.

22.02.2026 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 348    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Maybe I’m insane but it just seems like a perfect scam

> implement tariffs
> raise prices and make people give more of their income to capitalists
> use their tax dollars to pay the capitalists for the tariffs they already offset with raised prices
> profit

22.02.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 467    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 4

Me, too. I wouldn’t be able to work an in person job these days, especially without any mitigations for airborne illnesses

22.02.2026 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0