Mark D. White

@profmdwhite.bsky.social

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Professor, author, editor, and fan of comics, movies, and music

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-d-white-4a568730a/

See my books here: http://amzn.to/2aFC66M

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 14d

It seems "Batman and Ethics" is currently 25% off at Amazon: amzn.to/3NumZ7R

Batman and Ethics

amzn.to

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.

[start quotation] MEMORANDUM OPINION
On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of
all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President
Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8
U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United
States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS
holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take."[end quotation]

Underneath is a screenshot of a tweet, which reads: " Secretary Kristi Noem
@Sec_Noem
I just met with the President.
I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.
Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom-not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS.
WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.
6:52 PM
Dec 1, 2025
13.2M Views

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting

Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon

www.nrtoday.com

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Cultura @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 13h

The Gutter's own @flashymcflash.bsky.social on Sook-Yin Lee's Paying For It (Canada, 2025) ://wp.me/pb1kL3-djz

“Saturday at the Movies: Sook-Yin Lee’s ‘Paying For It’ Is A Non-Traditional Love Story Brought To Life”

At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo has some thoughts on Sook Yin-Lee’s Paying For It (Canada, 2025), her film adaptation of Chester Brown’s eponymous graphic novel. &…

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 14h

All must work to serve the state!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

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Leon’s Existential Cafe @leonscafe.bsky.social · 14h

We’ve never been thoughtful about why things, whether pursuing moral purity or Instagram follows, matter to us or what their outcomes could be, especially if we, as philosopher Immanuel Kant suggested, turned these things into universal laws. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/perf...

Looksmaxxing Is Just Another Dead End

Looksmaxxing is the heterosexual male obsession with maximizing one's appearance, founded on the false belief that it's possible to become happy by looking good.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "Minnesota is a mess. There's something in the water up there. I won the 3 three times but I got no credit for it. It's a rigged state. Really rigged badly w/ the Somalians, and the Somalians & the theft. We gotta get 'em out, most of them. 92% don't work. Many of them drive Mercedes-Benzes."

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 16h

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

Press statement From Islip Forward:

At approximately 9:30 a.m. this morning, federal agents were documented using infrastructure located on the property of the Central Islip Fire Department Station 2, at 110 Wheeler Road-without prior authorization to be on or use that space.

When a volunteer with Islip Forward approached to document the activity, federal agents threatened the volunteer with arrest for alleged trespassing, despite the agents themselves operating in an area where no prior permission had been granted.

Immediately following this interaction, the Central Islip Fire Department took swift action to protect its property and the public. Temporary restrictions were implemented, including closing the gate to the area being used and preventing external access.

The use of municipal fire department property for federal enforcement activity—without authorization-and the subsequent threat directed at a community volunteer raise serious concerns about transparency, overreach, and respect for local institutions.
We are deeply grateful to the volunteer firefighters of the Central Islip Fire Department for their decisive and responsible response.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities.

The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.

Case 1:25-cv-02463-JMC Document 52
Filed 02/02/26 Page 1 of 9
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
JOE NEGUSE, in his capacity as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
Case No. 25-cv-2463 (JMC)
V.
U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS
ENFORCEMENT, et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Pending before the Court is Plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order, or in the alternative, for a stay under 5 U.S.C. § 705. ECF 49' For the reasons discussed below, the Court
GRANTS the motion for a temporary restraining order pending further proceedings on Plaintiffs'
request for a Section 705 stay.

ORDERED that Defendants are TEMPORARILY ENJOINED from enforcing against
the Plaintiffs the oversight visit policy as announced on January 8, 2026, or otherwise requiring
any Plaintiff to provide advance notice before conducting oversight visits at any facility operated
by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens; and it is further
ORDERED that this Order shall apply to the maximum extent provided for by Federal
Rule of Civil Procedure 65(d)(2); and it is further
ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 65(b)(2), this Order shall expire in 14 days, subject to any further order from the Court; and it is further
ORDERED that, should Defendants intend to file a supplemental brief in support of their opposition to Plaintiffs' request for a Section 705 stay, they shall have until February 8, 2026, to do so. Plaintiffs shall have until February 11, 2026, to file any additional reply in support of their request for a Section 705 stay. The Court will shortly contact the Parties regarding a hearing.
Should the Parties confer and agree on an alternative briefing schedule, they may request
alternative dates by submitting a joint status report.
SO ORDERED.
ЛА М. СОВВ
United States District Judge

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 17h

Gulp: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Gossip

<p>Sexual misconduct in the legal academy often occurs in spaces that the formal law does not meaningfully regulate: informal mentoring relationships, conferenc

papers.ssrn.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

like this is absurd, get over yourselves

The justices claim their papers belong to them, not the government or the public, and generally arrange to have them locked away until long after their deaths. The court releases no visitor logs to reveal who meets with the justices.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 20h

Each of these 7 items would easily be the biggest scandal for like 45 Presidents.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Rep. Pete Sessions on the Kennedy Center: "I was unaware. But just like the East Wing of the White House, if they are redoing something to make it better, dramatically better, I would understand construction. I need to look at that and next time you have me on I would be glad to give you my opinion"

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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 20h

I've been thinking about this line from Pascal's Pensées lately. It does feel like a lot of life is simply finding things to avoid having to think about life, how empty and meaningless it can feel, or how hopeless it can be.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20h

Kathleen Walters worked at the IRS for years before resigning over an order to share data on immigrants that her legal team said would actually break the law. “If you lose a job, you can get another job,” she says. “But if you lose your integrity, it is very hard to get it back.” theatln.tc/onXe8Ee4

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...

‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini

In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."

dailyillini.com

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Kittens MLT (ASCP) @warkittens.makeitbouncy.net · 1d

You are incredibly lucky (and talented).

Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh wait, the fifth time was the charm..."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: In Texas, a Democrat won a special election in an area you won by 17 points. Your reaction?

TRUMP: I don't know. I didn't hear about it. Somebody ran -- where?

Q: In Texas

TRUMP: I'm not involved. You mean I won by 17, and this person lost? Things like that happen. I'm not on the ballot

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Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 2d

That's correct. Including the Founders.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

Based on what I've seen, at least 4 current/former Harvard professors have now been named as Epstein associates. Which seems notable given prior reporting that Epstein used false promises of "elite" college admissions to lure young girls into his web of abuse.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Epstein survivors say financier lured them with promise of college education

Multiple survivors claim Epstein dangled admission to top universities to ensnare them in his sexual abuse network

www.theguardian.com

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David F Brand @davidfbrand.bsky.social · 2d

Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner

Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system

@gothamist.com @wnyc.org

gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

Mamdani names reformer Stanley Richards to steer chaotic Rikers complex

Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.

gothamist.com

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 2d

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d

We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg:

It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:

www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 2d

As an anthropologist, something stands out to me from the Epstein files: these men weren't just motivated by their depraved desires, but also wanting to be liked by the Party Guy. They were clambering for invites because they wanted to be part of the special in-group. It's sort of pathetic

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking MS NOW:

The Trump admin is now eyeing Ohio for immigration enforcement operations that could begin as early as next week.

The operation is expected to target Haitian immigrants — with temporary protected status for Haiti expiring on Feb. 3.

ICE eyeing Ohio next, where it is expected to target Haitian immigrants

An estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Haitians live in Springfield, Ohio, a community that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance targeted during the 2024 campaign, falsely accusing the community ...

www.ms.now

Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 3d

"Youse a to-mat-ah?"

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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis - First Ave 260130

YouTube video by Nate Reiter

www.youtube.com

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 3d

momentary exception to not posting to amplify how beautiful & powerful this Providence protest is #ICEout

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