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jswaneylaw
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Criminal and juvenile defense attorney in DC, neighborhood cat lady
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Kids, parents, teachers, and principals shouldn’t have to worry about this.

Fuck ICE, fuck Donald Trump, fuck anyone who voted for him or couldn’t be bothered to vote
Just got an email from my son's school. Because of ICE activity in our neighborhood, they're forced to do indoor recess and dismissal.

Fuck ICE.
FYI, ICE is trying to kidnap people in Lincoln Park right now.
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ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
Really important read. Unbelievable that OLC can just declare murder legal and there is no recourse. A democracy cannot operate this way. We’re far down the road to fascism when Trump is the final legal authority and even courts won’t intervene.
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
www.nytimes.com
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From my Cato colleague @foxmike90.bsky.social: judges in protest cases have excused jurors who admit they don't trust ICE or have strong feelings against it. But those are legitimate positions, and a jury lacking them isn't representative of the local community ("vicinage") the Constitution demands.
Now Is Not the Time for Federal Judges to Be Removing ICE Skeptics From Jury Selection
The government has made its bed, and now it must lie in it.
slate.com
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This is a great quote, it really brings to light how money is MEANINGLESS to people that rich, taxing them fairly wouldn’t change their day-to-day lives at all, they’re just addicted to seeing the number go up and to using money to punish the enemies in their heads.
MAMDANI, on Bill Ackman:

“.. He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him!"

@casestudyqb.bsky.social #NYC
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MAMDANI, on Bill Ackman:

“.. He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him!"

@casestudyqb.bsky.social #NYC
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hey so any GOP in Congress want to weigh in on continuing support for the psychopathic serial killer or nah
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
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OK, so we get the state intervening in the market, but not in a socialist way, in a right-wing nationalist way that’s corrupt and corporatist. A social nationalism, if you will. We can workshop the name later.
And repeating the lie that he will pay for any of it himself.
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Brooklyn friends, especially Bushwick and parts of Ridgewood, please keep an eye out for my friend’s dog Penny who ran away last night ❤️
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"No planning. No proposals to the National Capital Planning Commission. No opportunity for notice and comment from the public. Just Trump’s whim—and a beloved national symbol tumbles to dust. It’s obscene."

@monacharen.bsky.social on Trump's White House demolition www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-mar-...
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You wouldn’t be so stressed about money if your kid was able to get free lunch. You wouldn’t be so stressed about your doctor if they hadn’t stopped taking your insurance. You wouldn’t be so stressed about rent if you had rent control. Your failure to engage in politics is *why* your life is hard
It makes absolutely no sense. These nominees will be voted thru by R votes alone. Make them do it. Don’t put your stamp of approval on the next Trump judge that will ignore the constitution and allow him to put the military on our streets. These are the easiest no votes possible and they can’t do it
Also it’s an easy purity test. Really shouldn’t be that hard to ace.
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At the shelter where I have once again lost control of a photo shoot. 😔 Last week they took in 28 CATS from a hoarding case, so they could really use some financial help right now! www.hsccvt.org/donate
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It sounds like the Republicans should stop protecting Bill Clinton and release the Epstein files.
Comer: The evidence we gathered does not implicate President Trump in any way. Public reporting, survivor testimony, and official documents show that Bill Clinton had far closer ties to Epstein
Showing up at a Congressman’s office unannounced demanding a meeting is unbelievable hubris. Not surprising though.
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NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
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“ICE uses bureaucracy and location transfers to isolate their detainees from both their families and their lawyers, limiting their ability to get out of their predicaments” and prove the government erred. [Emma Janssen, American Prospect]
How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers - The American Prospect
CHICAGO – On September 12, attorney Kevin Herrera walked up to Chicagoland’s main Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, passed a crowd of protesters who ...
prospect.org
DC Superior Ct operates on a separate budget but most of the staff, PDs, AUSAs, and I believe our judges aren’t getting paid. I have mixed feelings bc of course I don’t want my colleagues to have to deal with this financial pain but I also don’t want the Dems to cave. It’s just Rs dgaf and never do.
The funding lapse will halt paychecks for court staff and employees within probation and federal defender offices

Furlough notices will be handed out on Oct. 20 “and orderly shutdown activities will commence"

Reports @bloomberg.com
US Courts Face First Furloughs Under Shutdown in 30 Years (2)
Federal courts across the US are preparing to furlough some staffers and curb operations as the judiciary prepares to run out of funding amid an ongoing government shutdown.
news.bloomberglaw.com
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This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.
Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week
A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.
www.cbsnews.com
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Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.