Jackie Gardina
@jackiegardina.bsky.social
Higher ed supporter, podcast host, and a law and politics junkie with a social justice focus. *All opinions are my own
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Jackie Gardina
@jackiegardina.bsky.social
· Mar 23
Perkins Coie’s response to the unlawful Executive Order targeting the firm
The order violates core constitutional protections, including the rights to free speech and due process, and undermines all clients’ right to select counsel of their choice.
www.perkinscoiefacts.com
I'm starting a thread with the legal profession's response to President Trump's attacks on it. Please feel free to add any that I miss.
I'll start with Perkins Coie's response.They have created an entire website so that we can follow along. 1/
www.perkinscoiefacts.com?gad_source=1...
I'll start with Perkins Coie's response.They have created an entire website so that we can follow along. 1/
www.perkinscoiefacts.com?gad_source=1...
I have decided not to buy lottery tickets anymore. I am going to apply for coaching positions.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
LSU terminates Brian Kelly without cause, clearing way for full buyout
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I have decided not to buy lottery tickets anymore. I am going to apply for coaching positions.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
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While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed"
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed"
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
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This is cruelty beyond belief
Stephen is American. His British wife entered the US legally, didn't commit any crimes, was entitled to a Green Card
At her final interview, ICE agents swarmed her, took her 4-month-old child from her arms, and detained her
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Stephen is American. His British wife entered the US legally, didn't commit any crimes, was entitled to a Green Card
At her final interview, ICE agents swarmed her, took her 4-month-old child from her arms, and detained her
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is cruelty beyond belief
Stephen is American. His British wife entered the US legally, didn't commit any crimes, was entitled to a Green Card
At her final interview, ICE agents swarmed her, took her 4-month-old child from her arms, and detained her
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Stephen is American. His British wife entered the US legally, didn't commit any crimes, was entitled to a Green Card
At her final interview, ICE agents swarmed her, took her 4-month-old child from her arms, and detained her
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Students can only think for themselves if they’ve been exposed to competing ideas, including those that compete with ideas that I myself cherish."
www.chronicle.com/article/robe...
www.chronicle.com/article/robe...
Robert P. George and the Great Campus Vibe Shift
As progressive orthodoxy weakens, academe’s most influential conservative warns of a growing illiberalism on the right.
www.chronicle.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Students can only think for themselves if they’ve been exposed to competing ideas, including those that compete with ideas that I myself cherish."
www.chronicle.com/article/robe...
www.chronicle.com/article/robe...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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"What ties these situations together is the utter lack of critical distance from sources on the part of these writers [and] the apparent disregard for the primary journalistic mission of representing the public"
@sulliview.bsky.social on ethics failure.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
@sulliview.bsky.social on ethics failure.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
Three lessons in unethical media behavior
Plus: Some moments that made me proud to be a journalist
margaretsullivan.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"What ties these situations together is the utter lack of critical distance from sources on the part of these writers [and] the apparent disregard for the primary journalistic mission of representing the public"
@sulliview.bsky.social on ethics failure.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
@sulliview.bsky.social on ethics failure.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
Does Kevin McCarthy know that Mike Johnson is a Republican?
“I think keeping members out of Congress — you only get two years to be in the majority, and if the Democrats get you not to work everyday for two months, that’s losing two months of the majority.”
archive.ph/rEvFm#select...
“I think keeping members out of Congress — you only get two years to be in the majority, and if the Democrats get you not to work everyday for two months, that’s losing two months of the majority.”
archive.ph/rEvFm#select...
archive.ph
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Does Kevin McCarthy know that Mike Johnson is a Republican?
“I think keeping members out of Congress — you only get two years to be in the majority, and if the Democrats get you not to work everyday for two months, that’s losing two months of the majority.”
archive.ph/rEvFm#select...
“I think keeping members out of Congress — you only get two years to be in the majority, and if the Democrats get you not to work everyday for two months, that’s losing two months of the majority.”
archive.ph/rEvFm#select...
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This isn't just heart breaking, it's terrifying. Your financial situation shouldn't be a factor in receiving or responding to life-saving care. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Odds of surviving cancer drop drastically when credit score dips — Harvard Gazette
Study explores links between financial stress and mortality risk.
news.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This isn't just heart breaking, it's terrifying. Your financial situation shouldn't be a factor in receiving or responding to life-saving care. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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The Helena college elevated longtime educator Jennifer Glowienka from the role of interim president, a position she has held since July.
Carroll College names first woman president in the school’s 116-year history
The Helena college elevated longtime educator Jennifer Glowienka from the role of interim president, a position she has held since July.
montanafreepress.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The Helena college elevated longtime educator Jennifer Glowienka from the role of interim president, a position she has held since July.
No one takes an oath to the “commander-in-chief”.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
No one takes an oath to the “commander-in-chief”.
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
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Right. It will all be so much better if you're wearing fancy clothes when you're stuck in the airport for 12 extra hours. You just feel happier. It's common sense.
FOX: During the Biden administration, there was a push for greater passenger rights. They wanted to have airlines compensate people if there was a delay or cancelation. But that is something the Trump admin has said they don't want to do
DUFFY: We took a more common sense approach to it
DUFFY: We took a more common sense approach to it
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Right. It will all be so much better if you're wearing fancy clothes when you're stuck in the airport for 12 extra hours. You just feel happier. It's common sense.
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
"The same violence perpetrated on these real-life women is increasingly replicated across online platforms. Sora 2, the generative video tool released by OpenAI, is helping creators ...create fake choking videos featuring teenage girls in which they are depicted as struggling, crying and falling."
Gift article. Tough but necessary read. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"The same violence perpetrated on these real-life women is increasingly replicated across online platforms. Sora 2, the generative video tool released by OpenAI, is helping creators ...create fake choking videos featuring teenage girls in which they are depicted as struggling, crying and falling."
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Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
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“By summer, the NSC’s entire full-time legal staff of about half a dozen was gone… including the shop’s top lawyer, former Pentagon general counsel Paul Ney …Ney had been among the lawyers who had raised concerns about the legality of lethal strikes.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“By summer, the NSC’s entire full-time legal staff of about half a dozen was gone… including the shop’s top lawyer, former Pentagon general counsel Paul Ney …Ney had been among the lawyers who had raised concerns about the legality of lethal strikes.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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“there are about 42,000 journalists in the U.S., the vast majority performing ethically & honorably for newspapers large & small, television newscasts, community news startups, public radio stations &, in a few cases, independent newsletters & blogs”- @dankennedy.net dankennedy.net/2025/11/22/m...
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“there are about 42,000 journalists in the U.S., the vast majority performing ethically & honorably for newspapers large & small, television newscasts, community news startups, public radio stations &, in a few cases, independent newsletters & blogs”- @dankennedy.net dankennedy.net/2025/11/22/m...
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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It's worth a bit of further reading to find out more about this remarkable woman's life
Aida Overton Walker.
Aida Overton Walker.
Aida Overton Walker (1880 -1914), US vaudeville performer, known as 'Queen of the Cake Walk', after a 1900s dance craze. The Cake Walk, originally performed by enslaved people, mocked slave owners & high society #womensart
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It's worth a bit of further reading to find out more about this remarkable woman's life
Aida Overton Walker.
Aida Overton Walker.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952