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Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken)

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Indefatigable defender of democracy & humans. Lawyer. Mom. ADHD. Gaelic-stubborn: they’ll give up before I do. I cope by gathering reliable info (Bsky sources ctgrzd into 16 dffrnt lists). Disagreement won’t offend me. Self-appntd Empress of the World. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙

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Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken) @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social · Jun 30

Please watch all the way to the end!

Alternative Project 2025 @altproj2025.bsky.social · Jun 29

When you’ e decided you’re ready to do the work, please join us: www.facebook.com/share/g/1AiV...

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 5h

This article's framing truly captures the problem with the media: Republican lies can't be factually assessed by the media itself, only courts can do it. In fairness, this article does actually point out all of the lies, but it concludes with the idea that only judges can establish veracity now.

CNN @cnn.com · 6h

"Repeatedly now, judges have said Trump’s proclaimed hellscape isn’t reality," writes Aaron Blake | Analysis
https://cnn.it/46OsBBd

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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 18h

The Roberts court cannot be understood outside the context of the decades old far-right project to resuscitate the most successful business strategy in history: convince society that there are different groups of people, with some inherently better than others.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it

"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."

www.motherjones.com

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 18h

"[Trump v US] was the fullest expression the Court has ever made of a maximalist view of that power, narrowly checked by the Court and Congress."

But that is merely the R unitary executive (presidnet as King; authoritarian) theory. Roberts was fulfilling a lifetime agenda, not protecting the Court.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 18h

"As the legal scholar Peter Shane ’74 wrote in The Atlantic in July, Roberts’s opinion didn’t anticipate Trump acting in any of those ways"

Please. Only a political naif would not anticipate that. And Roberts is highly politically skilled.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 1d

“EIGHT children and she’s AMAZING? Out of the 20–35 THOUSAND Russia’s kidnapped, that’s 0.02%. Maybe Putin sent her flowers for the optics. But sure — let’s cue Fox’s halo lighting. Saint Melania saves the world! 🙄”

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 18h

If you ever doubt the existence of affirmative action for conservative white men just remember that Ross Douthat exists…

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 20h

On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19h

ICE is in the ballpark of twenty to thirty thousand people, we're not talking millions. Some of them are doing relatively mundane things, even things a post-Trump reconstructed government might still reasonably do. It doesn't matter. They're permanently tainted and they're replaceable.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 23h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Redshift ❌👑 @redshift42.bsky.social · 20h

And it should be repeated often by Democratic officials and candidates (which is starting to happen more), immunity from the Supreme Court only covers the president, and everyone else is subject to prosecution. Do you really trust this crew enough to risk it all on their dictatorship?

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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 20h

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him (Antonio María Delgado/Miami Herald)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 19h

This is pretty straightforward because we need to amend the FTCA and we can just set it to be retroactive. May be some ex post facto questions if we lift Westfell Act protections retroactively but this is debatable.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 1d

In addition to destroying ICE and DHS, we should probably start thinking about a reparations framework. If they keep records on which officers conduct arrests, we could make individual officers liable to pay damages to their victims.

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Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken) @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social · 17h

They overestimated themselves, and now they’re finding out that governance is a whole lot harder than they thought it would be.

Thank goodness for Dunning & Kruger; without their work, we would find this baffling.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h

In Berlin they have Stolpersteine marking where Jews, Gypsies and others were abducted off to concentration camps. In the US, we now have site of abduction notices.

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Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken) @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social · 18h

Can it not be both?

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 21h

They'll never do it, but Portland's public transit cards are Hop cards & I would love to see this design on one. "Taking Tri-Met to a protest? We have a Hop card for that."

Image of a frog that looks similar to the inflatable frog costumes people are wearing to protest ICE in Portland, OR. The image is done in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic Barack Obama "Hope" poster, but done mostly in shades of green. The frog is wearing a neckerchief in the stars & stripes of the American flag, which what appears to be a cape of red & white stripes. Beneath the frog it says "Hop".

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken) @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social · 20h

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alegalnerd.bsky.social @alegalnerd.bsky.social · 21h

1. Must establish that the Govt's (here Trump/Halligan) conduct was so outrageous that it would be "fundamentally unfair" to allow Trump/Halligan to seek to deprive James (or Comey) of the "liberty" guaranteed by Due Process. To the extent that a VP claim is going to be based on an argument that

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Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken) @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9d

Chris Murphy says Dems should lay down a simple marker for Trump: No Dem support for anything that funds his lawbreaking.

"if you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness. This isn't a normal time...the world [is] watching to see what we stand for." 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 1d

Their record is damning
bsky.app/profile/jack...

Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · Jul 20

Holy shit this is clarifying
data4democracy.substack.com/p/on-data-an...

Graph illustrating the ideological extremism of SCOTUS vs district and appeals courts

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jim0novak.bsky.social @jim0novak.bsky.social · 1d

100 years of standard Obama-Biden tyranny does less damage than 1 year of Trumpist chaos.

IOW: what took a century to build up can be destroyed in short order by lack of vigilance against fascism.

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