Mark Anthony Frassetto
@mark-frassetto.bsky.social
Personal account, views my own.
Dept. Director 2A History and Scholarship, Everytown Law
Studying the history of firearms regulation.
History, Rugby, Marquette Basketball, miniatures, and occasional figure skating and gymnastics takes.
Dept. Director 2A History and Scholarship, Everytown Law
Studying the history of firearms regulation.
History, Rugby, Marquette Basketball, miniatures, and occasional figure skating and gymnastics takes.
We also have a direct test of whether giving up all your principles to appeal to public opinion polling leads to widespread support with the British Labour party and the answer is not positive!
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We also have a direct test of whether giving up all your principles to appeal to public opinion polling leads to widespread support with the British Labour party and the answer is not positive!
Train Dreams was the best movie I've seen this year.
Just beautiful.
Just beautiful.
December 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Train Dreams was the best movie I've seen this year.
Just beautiful.
Just beautiful.
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Judge Emil Bove is attending this rally - and presumably in the crowd.
(… is he chanting?)
(… is he chanting?)
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Judge Emil Bove is attending this rally - and presumably in the crowd.
(… is he chanting?)
(… is he chanting?)
My kids insisted on adding the 28mm diner to our 15mm scale civil war game.
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
My kids insisted on adding the 28mm diner to our 15mm scale civil war game.
Every right wing federal judge of the last 25 years has tried to quip like Scalia and they are all terrible at it.
JUST IN: Famous 9th Cir Judge Jay Bybee (GWBush) pens 64-page opinion on how Constitution's 'domestic violence' clause may block Trump deployment of National Guard in OR. Judge Eric Tung's (Trump) insulting response: 'A great labor producing a mouse.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
OregonvTrumpCA9AmOrd120825
www.documentcloud.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Every right wing federal judge of the last 25 years has tried to quip like Scalia and they are all terrible at it.
UVA does not deserve to get in even if they win this.
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
UVA does not deserve to get in even if they win this.
The football gods are punishing Ryan Day for not going for it on 4th and 1 from the 9 with a whole offensive line of 5 star recruits.
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The football gods are punishing Ryan Day for not going for it on 4th and 1 from the 9 with a whole offensive line of 5 star recruits.
NXT seems to really focus on women doing weird pinning counters and counter-counters and it's very strange.
December 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
NXT seems to really focus on women doing weird pinning counters and counter-counters and it's very strange.
All the quads and a backflip in a single program is insane.
He's unambiguously the best technical skater of all time and I honestly think if he needed them he could start throwing quad-quad combos.
He's unambiguously the best technical skater of all time and I honestly think if he needed them he could start throwing quad-quad combos.
December 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
All the quads and a backflip in a single program is insane.
He's unambiguously the best technical skater of all time and I honestly think if he needed them he could start throwing quad-quad combos.
He's unambiguously the best technical skater of all time and I honestly think if he needed them he could start throwing quad-quad combos.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Helicopter
December 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Helicopter
Democrats could hold hearings and bring these people in to tell their stories in a high profile setting, but they choose not to.
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Democrats could hold hearings and bring these people in to tell their stories in a high profile setting, but they choose not to.
Evil, everyone involved in this is evil.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Evil, everyone involved in this is evil.
My kids are just playing diner with Warhammer minis.
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
My kids are just playing diner with Warhammer minis.
Is corpus linguistics passe now?
December 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Is corpus linguistics passe now?
It's really not an exaggeration to say that one of the most significant, intentional, and successful projects of the Roberts Court has been to end meaningful legislative elections in the United States.
We need to talk about the massive loophole that the Supreme Court just carved into election law over the shadow docket—giving states a free pass to enact patently unconstitutional voting rules within nearly *one year* of an election. A stunning new limit on judicial review. slate.com/news-and-pol...
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's really not an exaggeration to say that one of the most significant, intentional, and successful projects of the Roberts Court has been to end meaningful legislative elections in the United States.
The Court did not grant cert in any of the many 2A cases under consideration in its orders list.
The birthright citizenship question was taken up though.
I'm a bit less optimistic than many people in the know on birthright citizenship.
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
The birthright citizenship question was taken up though.
I'm a bit less optimistic than many people in the know on birthright citizenship.
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov
December 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Court did not grant cert in any of the many 2A cases under consideration in its orders list.
The birthright citizenship question was taken up though.
I'm a bit less optimistic than many people in the know on birthright citizenship.
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
The birthright citizenship question was taken up though.
I'm a bit less optimistic than many people in the know on birthright citizenship.
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
An interesting piece by Prof. Noah Shusterman on the (original) Second Amendment connection to the Trump administrations occupation of American cities.
www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/depl...
www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/depl...
Deploying Federal Troops to U.S. Cities Is a Second Amendment Issue
But not because the founders wanted to see more guns in the hands of Americans.
www.historynewsnetwork.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
An interesting piece by Prof. Noah Shusterman on the (original) Second Amendment connection to the Trump administrations occupation of American cities.
www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/depl...
www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/depl...
So there is roughly a 100% chance that the Supreme Court is going to rule it's OK to consider race in drawing congressional maps to hurt black people but unconstitutional to draw maps to help black people.
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
So there is roughly a 100% chance that the Supreme Court is going to rule it's OK to consider race in drawing congressional maps to hurt black people but unconstitutional to draw maps to help black people.
Labour, given an overwhelming majority in parliament, have done everything shitty centrists want and if things hold they won't exist as a political party by the next general election and it may be run in the country of England rather than the United Kingdom.
📊 Seat estimate | Labour wipeout
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Labour, given an overwhelming majority in parliament, have done everything shitty centrists want and if things hold they won't exist as a political party by the next general election and it may be run in the country of England rather than the United Kingdom.
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The fall semester has been SUPER busy for the members of the Historians Council on the Constitution. Walk with me through this 🧵for highlights from the historians' work on some of the most pressing legal issues of the day, from agency independence to voting rights... @brennancenter.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The fall semester has been SUPER busy for the members of the Historians Council on the Constitution. Walk with me through this 🧵for highlights from the historians' work on some of the most pressing legal issues of the day, from agency independence to voting rights... @brennancenter.org
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Prepping year end & many cities are recording historic lows in murders in 2025. Through November, Detroit (fewest since 1964), Baltimore (1962), Philadelphia (1966), Oakland (1967), & San Francisco (likely since at least 1942). Additionally, New Orleans is on pace for the fewest murders since 1970.
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Prepping year end & many cities are recording historic lows in murders in 2025. Through November, Detroit (fewest since 1964), Baltimore (1962), Philadelphia (1966), Oakland (1967), & San Francisco (likely since at least 1942). Additionally, New Orleans is on pace for the fewest murders since 1970.
Along with his other very bad views on birthright citizenship and homelessness, Wurman also doesn't believe in incorporation.
December 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Along with his other very bad views on birthright citizenship and homelessness, Wurman also doesn't believe in incorporation.
Probably not much hope from the courts in Minnesota either as the 8th Circuit is probably the worst in the country.
Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:
Jordan Uhl on Instagram: "ICE is reportedly increasing its presence in Minneapolis/St. Paul to target Somali communities."
The Trump administration's plan to increase ICE's presence in Minneapolis and St. Paul has sparked concerns among local leaders and residents. Critics argue it amounts to racial profiling, violating d...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Probably not much hope from the courts in Minnesota either as the 8th Circuit is probably the worst in the country.
The idea that immigration adjudications will comply with due process (any.level of due process) after this is just absurd.
BREAKING NYT:
The Trump admin just fired eight immigration judges in New York City.
All the judges were dismissed from the immigration offices at 26 Federal Plaza — a building that houses the NYC headquarters of ICE and has become the epicenter of migrant arrests in the city.
The Trump admin just fired eight immigration judges in New York City.
All the judges were dismissed from the immigration offices at 26 Federal Plaza — a building that houses the NYC headquarters of ICE and has become the epicenter of migrant arrests in the city.
Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The idea that immigration adjudications will comply with due process (any.level of due process) after this is just absurd.