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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · Jun 19

It might get lost in the primary but what happens in the next week will have a huge impact on indigent legal services in #NYC.

The union representing the majority of legal aid lawyers and advocates is taking the historic step of deciding whether to strike because the City won't give us fair pay.

LAS Attys United @lasattysunited.bsky.social · Jun 18

Today our Board voted unanimously to ask members to authorize a strike at The Legal Aid Society for the first time in over 30 years. On Monday, members will begin voting. Rudy Giuliani thought he could break us in 1994, but @uaw.org members will never be divided. Solidarity Forever.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 19m

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 1h

Pushback against an effort to manufacture consent isn't thought policing.

Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 1h

Has Bari written a single piece critical of the right-wing war on free speech? The targeted harassment, death threats, and enemies lists of academics? The purging of college and university faculty who aren't sufficiently pro-maga? MAGA book bans? The firing of people mildly critical of Charlie Kirk?

Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 1h

bari weiss is the kind of "entrepreneur" who is able to sell a reputation as a crusader against cancel culture while spending her career trying to cancel professors for being pro-Palestine

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 1h

Tale as old as time

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h

Hundreds of people have been doxxed, fired or threatened for social media posts that were seen as callous or celebratory after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In a Texas town, people flooded online feeds with attacks that spilled into the real world for a paramedic. nyti.ms/4n7CSND

A woman with tattoos and pink hair stands in front of green foliage. A headline reads: "She Despised Charlie Kirk. A Former Mayor Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay." Photo by Desiree Rios for The New York Times

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 3h

really don't understand why incels are so desperate to pay $70 for porn when it's ubiquitous and free

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 3h

Because Trump will not tolerate anybody around him with an actual moral compass, the MAGA political apparatus from top to bottom is almost entirely people like Vance and Noem and Bondi; people whose only qualification is saying and doing anything that benefits their political and personal ambition.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 2d

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment

New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

www.nydailynews.com

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 16h

Had dinner tonight with a friend who’s a middle school teacher in the southwest. They told me schools now have trainings for when ICE agents sweep through schools to take children, and it’s worse than active shooter trainings, because it’s the government kidnapping children.

This is where we are.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22h

They could be doing ~90% as much substantive damage on half the pushback and political self-harm. But they're fittingly emblematic for the era of "everything has gotten dumber." They're sloppy, inept, ham-fisted. Merits aside, the Court might be at its least intellectually adept in American history.

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 3d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 2d

eagles are a paper tiger

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 3d

Big news in the legal world

storage.courtlistener.com

Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 3d

Any journalist reporting on this should be clear that prosecutors do have Brady and other ethical obligations in the grand jury, and there's objective evidence that Tish James hasn't committed mortgage fraud.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

Per Fox News, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia is currently weighing whether to charge NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud.

Fox News & @FoxNews
X.com
BREAKING: A federal grand jury is meeting in the Eastern District of Virginia court, weighing charging NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud, two sources confirm to Fox News.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

When the Supreme Court struck down Biden's policies, it was tempting to think: "At least these limits on executive authority will bind Trump if he comes back into office." But no—the court's skepticism of executive power vanished on Jan. 20, 2025. This dynamic is obvious to anyone paying attention!

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 5d

Really beyond the Q looking glass now that Trump is actively talking about pardoning his convicted pedo friend to hide his pedo behavior.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 5d

Setting aside his brain obviously turning to mush in real time, if these billions exist, it means Americans had to pay billions of dollars out of their pockets specifically because of Donald Trump, one of the biggest tax hikes in history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "Recently they said they found billions of dollars. And they couldn't understand -- I said, 'check the tariff shelf.' And they come in the next hour and they say, 'Sir, you're right, it was from the tariffs.'"

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 5d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 5d

hey did elon do one of these when a whole bunch of violent right-wing insurrectionists were pardoned by donald trump

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 5d

1. Why in the holy hell was I born at this time, when shit-posting and stupidity are seen as high art

2. What an absolute moron, doesn't have ANY IDEA what he is talking about, but does that stop him?

Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 5d

not just the inconsistent discipline, but inconsistent cap circumvention penalties too

Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 5d

lol come on man, the nhl will always be my favorite league but the inconsistent discipline is a joke

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