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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · Feb 25

@law360.bsky.social is launching a live tracker of legal challenges to every action & EO coming from the Trump admin. Updating daily, and we’re keeping score of how POTUS fares in court.

Reporting @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social, editing by @hp-zz.bsky.social, gfx by me. www.law360.com/trump-legal-...

Web graphic titled “Trump's Legal Battles”

UPDATED Feb. 25, 2025 -- States, federal employee unions, various advocacy groups and several individuals have filed over 80 lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's implementation of executive orders and other initiatives. Law360 has created a database of those lawsuits, separated into categories based on their subject matter.

SCORECARD
Trump's record
Wins -10
Losses - 21

Relief obtained
Temporary restraining orders - 11
Preliminary injunctions - 10
Final judgments - 0

Table and subheds below showing Civil Rights cases related to DEIA programs (challenging E.O. 14151 and E.O. 14173)

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 9m

Why won’t the news report on this thing I read about there?

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 10m

This is not true. All three have shutdown stories on their front pages. The NYT has two

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 39m

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 2h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 2h

Friendly reminder that Josh Naylor’s walkup song is Stan

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 3h

America receiving and rejecting god-tier $1.50 fried chicken will be as sure a sign as any that we’re in terminal decline

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 3h

If I had one galaxy brained takeaway from Japan, it’s that Famichiki is made possible (and consistently fresh and cheap) by that country’s incredible urban density, which America famously lacks. I would be so happy to be proven wrong.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h

The Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven is betting billions of dollars that it can expand its business in the U.S. by making its convenience stores more like the food meccas they are in Japan. nyti.ms/3KTwGve

A photo shows a 7-Eleven store with the headline: Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 10h

When the opposition to this park was at its peak and people were complaining about the loss of trees or telling Carlina Rivera to resign, all I could think was that this, too, would pass — as it always does. Change is hard. Then you get something new and awesome and everything is fine in the end.

After All That, the New East River Park Is...Fucking Awesome

We'll have to see whether the new resiliency infrastructure will withstand another superstorm, but we're happy to report that the park itself is, so far, a smashing success.

hellgatenyc.com

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:

Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain

www.nytimes.com

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

They finally invented a strain of weed that makes you stupid

'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw a weed strain named after Trump, I would never buy that. wtf

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1d

They got out of funding housing & now we live in midst of that particular generational mistake.

Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 1d

In deficit-worry pieces like this Saturday's in @theglobeandmail.com, the praising of the 1995 budget doesn't include considering those of its effects that worsened human misery.

If we're reliving the 1990s, let's not repeat the cruelty

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/330b5b5...

For Canada’s finances, it’s looking like 1995 all over again. How will today’s Liberals handle it?

Once again, the country is being led through a polycrisis by a pragmatist Liberals surrounded by activists. There are lessons in how Chrétien and Martin handled this last time

www.theglobeandmail.com

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

Large and in charge 🫡🔱

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 2d

Get a seat along the third base line if you ever go, well worth it for the CN Tower view

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 2d

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Productive Outs @productiveouts.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know that we're talking about Logan Gilbert's Resting Pitch Face enough. Elite. Karstens-esque. Simply breathtaking.

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 2d

Naylor v. Kirk, battle of the stoutbois 🛢️

Stephen 🇵🇸 @tgk.bsky.social · 2d

Alejandro Kirk ilysm

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 2d

They also could have simply asked Josh Bernstein if any of this was correct

The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 2d

That flavor has been stuck at the back of his mouth for 22 years

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 2d

"I.P.A. arms race" 2018 wants its excuse back

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Sigh. Guess it's that one day a year we have to utter that assholes name.

For Immediate Release
Italian-American Trade Unionists of America Condemn Columbus on Columbus Day

The ltalian-American Trade Unionists of America (IATUOA) has once again reaffirmed its condemnation of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day.
"We only mention the son of a bitch's name once a year and it's when we announce that he's a son of a bitch on his name day," the IATUOA Executive Committee announced from a dark, smoke-filled room in the Italian-American Club of Shamokin, PA.

The IATUOA, founded on the principles of cultural solidarity through bargaining, mutual aid, shared dining experiences, and anti-imperialism, believes Columbus represents the antithesis of these core values. Based on his writing and contemporary accounts, Columbus was a greedy, self-indulgent strunz, a jerk-off that gleefully engaged in the enslavement and genocide of indigenous people for personal gain and fame.

Further, this fucking guy, supposedly Genoese, rarely spoke or wrote in Ligurian or any Italic language. What kind of "Italian" does that?

Italian-Americans deserve recognition and a holiday in the United States, but also deserve a figure worthy of their name. "If you're gonna name the fuckin' day Columbus Day, you might as well go-all in and make the fucking holiday Columbus/Mussolini Day to piss on a few more graves,"' the IATOUA Executive Committee further scoffed

As of this time,the IATUOA DaVinci Genealogy Caucus still questions the authenticity of Columbus' Italian ancestry. Based on this, and the organization's position that Columbus is "a piece of shit" the organization maintains its position that Italian-Americans (as well as indigenous people) deserve a holiday that truly recognizes our heritage and not one that celebrates a jackass.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 2d

idk, looks like a normal-sized Polanco to me

Screenshot of Jorge Polanco with a score bug that shows “Little (the pitcher)” and Polanco stacked

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 3d

The anti-Zohran crowd went from: "Zohran isn't visiting any synagogues," to "he isn't visiting the right kind of synagogues" (or to quote JG: "he isn't visiting any mainstream synagogues" [sic]).

To now just protesting that he is actually engaging with mainstream synagogues 🤦‍♀️

Screenshot of a Twitter post from @Olivia_Reingold.

It reads:
"Outside of Congregation Beth Elohim, where congregants are protesting Zohran Mamdani's upcoming speech this afternoon.

"Does anyone think CBE would invite a white Proud Boys member to speak?" - Ramon Maislen

Reporting for @TheFP"

Followed by a cropped photo of a small group of protesters outside the synagogue, holding US and Israeli flags.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 3d

cop, lying: Me and my friends, who are troops, will delete Candy Crush if Zohrani 'Hussein' Mamdani is mayor of New York City. We are the most active users on the platform and this could affect the stock market

Bari Weiss: Chilling. And not the cool weed kind of chilling. This week on 60 Minutes

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Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 3d

"Business leaders – panicked to the point of paranoia about a candidate whose most radical position seems to be 'free bus fares' and not, you know, 'seize the means of production' or 'wheel out the guillotines' – will surely salt the earth out of spite, but they'll just be hurting themselves."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

campaign-trails.ghost.io

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 3d

Tackling congestion in #TOpoli needs the relevant levels of government & our elected reps to flex their #PoliticalWill & speak honestly to their constituents that are drivers.

Creating space for bikes lanes, investments in public transport, doesn’t cause traffic.

Your singe occupy vehicle does!

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