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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

i agree these dog whistles are so weird but also you are right.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

what's a Klan rally between friends.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

sigh. fed a diet of propaganda i guess.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

it's true. it's a terrible job.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

absolutely. i never totally understood why precedent was so important, and now i see i really didn't need to know.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

it's just all sort of this joke, like there are "rules" in prison, sure, but obviously not all of them are enforced all the time and thus they largely serve to discipline people who get on someone's nerves or are perceived as troublemakers.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

chuckle. "watchers of desperate housewives"

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

For all the but actually people in my mentions.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

I am wondering if all of Bluesky are bots or are people really this tedious.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

it's just selective enforcement by guards. people have them, and if a guard hates your guts or gets mad, they can get you in trouble.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h

just part of the whole conquest plan, i guess

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h

reliably, the media gets really distracted by "bleeds it leads".

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h

(this is just my theory, that it's a game of shuffle)

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h

I don't understand this either. I assume this is partially why they stopped updating the tracker for people in ICE custody -- they are probably moving people around to make it look like something is happening and then releasing them in some other state, so it's hard to piece together.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h

It's not as exciting as a live-streamed execution, I'll grant that.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h

Worth mentioning again that some of the states that did not pass Stephen Miller-written state laws to require ICE cooperation are, in fact, libertarian ones.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h

It's a lot of things, of course, but I think if you look at this deployment of federal cops, it's largely designed to quash the idea of local control. The legal community isn't really ready for this, I don't think, because local control has long been a conservative thing.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h

Another example of thwarting local sovereignty, invading sanctuary states. (Pretty sure Mullin said he would do this last week, but I didn't see it reported on very much) www.opb.org/article/2026...

opb.org

Sudden spike in immigration arrests around Portland metro spark fears of new surge

At least nine people were confirmed detained on Tuesday, according to immigrants’ rights advocates. Detentions resumed Wednesday in Washington County.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

idk either. but this is definitely afoul of tribal sovereignty.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

Suggests to me that legal doctrines simply aren't fixed or neutral and the liberal reliance on them for the arc of justice was perhaps misplaced. (This might be a "no duh" realization, but I am a lawyer and it took me a minute to figure it out.)

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

Local sovereignty was, of course, the legal argument the Confederacy made to continue white supremacy, and, like most other legal doctrines designed to protect minority populations, it's being flipped so that "nullification" is now something local leaders do to fight fascism.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

I've written a few times about this administration's Jim Crow-like push to run over local sovereignty. Arresting Black politicians, storming majority-Black cities, taking over tribal lands, etc. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

democracydocket.com

Trump’s Drive for Power Threatens Local Sovereignty

Read more here.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

i used to think that was how it went but i think i was proven wrong, alas.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

i mean how else are prosecutors supposed to "win," come on. What, prove every case?

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

(i kind of assume jlwop is the same although i confess i haven't looked into them lately)

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

yeah, i mean nowadays most capital cases aren't capital cases because 1) lawyers are better at talking prosecutors into downgrading them before trial starts; and 2) defendants really don't want to be on death row.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

I think if people understood that a lot of things are on the books to help prosecutors and police coerce confessions and pleas, that might alter their view. But there are, indeed, people who do terrible things, and those people give the public permission to accept a lot of cruelty.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

Upon reflection maybe that is something that makes me extra upset -- keeping draconian punishments bc prosecutors know they can get people to cop a plea to avoid execution or life in prison. You don't need to use it for it to be a threat.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

I have long thought that getting rid of the death penalty is just too difficult for Americans because of our history. Prosecutors mostly want it to coerce plea deals.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

Prosecutors want something in their back pocket just in case they need it (to coerce a plea).

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah. SCOTUS is mostly at fault bc of Jones v Mississippi. I do think those sentences are less common although the Miller resentencings have been a mixed bag. It's another case of, it's a lot less common and also few want to outlaw the practice altogether.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

that is, in fact, their real job description. promise victims how great it will be, how brave they are, how fantabulous justice will be. get a win, whatever the cost. follow up on these cases 10 years later. oops.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

horrible. (interesting how police executed her and not other sovereign citizens, i wonder why?)

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

It's hard to actually make amends.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

current events suggest this is a prudent strategy, even self-preserving!

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

I used to agree, but now I kinda worry the definition is trending the other way. Like, I remember when most people wanted to give juveniles sentenced to life a chance at parole, and then people were like j/k hate those kids.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

and we also know the death penalty isn't about victims because those who kill in self-defense end up in prison. it's just a cruel system purging expendable people to justify all the apparatus.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

most of the time, victims want the execution because prosecutors have told them this is will "close the book" on the case. that's just a lie. victims who don't want the death penalty are just ignored.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

chuckle, always kind trying to be right but also very wrong

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

lots of people favor the death penalty. imho better to just admit it than to pretend like you are an abolitionist except for some people. once you actually look into the inner working of a capital case, however, you can never see the system the same way.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

that's true. probably pre-emptive to discuss who to execute when we dont even know how to to remove them from power.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

Thank Tom Tillis for making all the wrong arguments.

“Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it? Beyond disgusting,” Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, wrote on social media. “Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do. It should not be happening in America.”

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

i don't think executions are a solution to fascism.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

and please don't explain the holocaust to me, i'm jewish

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

i don't think killing people is a "vaccine," sorry. that's just accepting the logic of fascists.

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