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Kate Carasiella

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IDPH | Illinois Department of Public Health @idph.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Good morning. It's hot out there. 🥵 Illinois is in for extreme heat this week. Stay hydrated, take breaks in the shade or air conditioning, and check in on neighbors, older adults, and anyone without reliable cooling.
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Keep Cool Illinois
Welcome to Keep Cool Illinois, a collaborative effort by state agencies working together to serve the state's residents. Keep Cool Illinois is a one-stop site for information about how to beat the heat of summer in Illinois, how to stay safe during the ...
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"It's rule by algorithm that beats to a dead heart. It's a Flock camera on every corner and a Ring doorbell on every home and a frightened family on every block. It's a million QR codes that all read 'You’re fucked.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-dirty-...
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The Dirty Bill
Making a clean break with the technofascist economy.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I was mad about this so I blogged about it for @ballsandstrikes.org
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Samuel Alito’s Jab at Hawaiian Culture Is Red Meat For Online Conservatives
The justice’s reference to the “spirit of Aloha” betrays his contempt for the very idea of taking Hawaii’s history and legal traditions seriously.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026
And remember that Congress made TPS to protect people from being deported to countries where it's unsafe to return The Trump admin is deliberately sending people of color out of the country and into harm’s way, and the Court is sanitizing ethnic cleansing ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...
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The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak
No comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026
Yup. Under the actual law, all Haiti TPS holders needed to show was a likelihood that racism was at least a contributing factor Yet Alito said meh in theory someone can hate immigration for nonracist reasons imo so your claim fails Straightup racist lawlessness ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...
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The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak
No comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In light of the recent Phil Mickelson predator news, read my latest, the fourth round in my golf series on the moral rot of professional golf: channelsurfer.substack.com/p/red-flags
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⛳ red flags
Father's Day links, playing through the Doral corruption
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I wrote Jersey Shore poetry: bardicbullion.substack.com/p/26-jerzday
media asset for my jersey shore poem, "'26 JERZDAY" a handcrafted bingo board
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
As Mother Jones reported in collaboration with Wired, the proposed plant would emit more planet-heating pollution each year than the entire country of Jamaica. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Chevron wants a Texas tax break for a data center power plant that would emit more CO2 than Jamaica
Even if the data center cannot receive the incentive directly, the fossil fuel infrastructure built to support it might.
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
homegoing poetry: "... Towering lilacscent • pine all year • honeysuckle knocking my window • by the bed • bees and I • buzz unafraid • the moon hits homers night after night • only two games out • spiral pink glitter • full flower • May strikes..."
Botticelli's primavera hero image with serif font over it "ti adoro, Primavera", the title of my latest poem at bardicbullion dot substack dot com
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️
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Greg Hernandez @ghnarrator.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Pope Leo picks formerly undocumented immigrant to lead West Virginia Catholics www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...
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Pope Leo picks formerly undocumented immigrant to lead West Virginia Catholics
Pope Leo, who elevated Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala and the Rev. Robert Boxie III, has drawn a clear contrast with the Trump administration on immigration and the Iran war.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
People expect you to implicitly trust the results of a legal system that operates in service of racism and misogyny. If this results in blatant corruption at the highest and most visible levels of the system, why would we trust and assume it does right by everyday people
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026
fucking hell the Supreme Court really just dropped Callais, killing off even more of the Voting Rights Act, right as the TPS oral arguments are about to start dishing out another serving of racism to go with the heaping pile of racism already on our plates www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
very show-must-go-on, very keep-it-kayfabe
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."
Richard Brooks photographed the three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a local church one evening in July after staking out the site most evenings over a three week period. Anglia News on 23 February 2010.  http://www.richard-brooks.co.uk/3BarnOwls.html
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/04/2026
I agree that there's no place for political violence, which is why I think we need to abolish ICE and the CPB.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Michael Tracey is obsessed with smearing Epstein victims and reframing the case as a “moral panic.” Last night he reportedly yelled at Pulitzer winner Julie K Brown about Epstein until he got escorted out. If only victim-blaming was unacceptable and intolerable in elite media spaces to begin with.
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
and (up onto the soapbox i go) the pga tour is one of the infernal apotheoses of this enabling cabal
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
They’re calling it “quiet bankruptcy”: those millennials are at it again, and this time they’re letting their debt payments lapse—simply because they don’t have money!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/04/2026
All adults and some children on ICE flights—some 50 flights a day now—are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists. I have spoken to migrants and their attorneys who report being shackled for 50, 75, and 82 hours while being deported. Flight data backs this up.
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
In light of the latest inhumane SCOTUS ruling in Smith v. Scott ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...
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There Is Nothing “Qualified” About Qualified Immunity
Once again, the Supreme Court twists itself into knots to extend legal protections to cops who kill.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026
The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2026
Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8
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She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job
Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/04/2026
my angry post about this case this morning is now an angry article Roy Anthony Scott was in a mental health crisis and called 911 asking for help Cops came and killed him, & now the Court is casting doubt on whether the cops can be held accountable for his death ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...
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There Is Nothing “Qualified” About Qualified Immunity
Once again, the Supreme Court twists itself into knots to extend legal protections to cops who kill.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/04/2026
something that broke me about this case is how much Roy Anthony Scott was trying to do The Right Thing--the reason why he called the cops in the first place was because he was scared and wanted help the cops said they were there to help, too then they killed him ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...
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There Is Nothing “Qualified” About Qualified Immunity
Once again, the Supreme Court twists itself into knots to extend legal protections to cops who kill.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION
24-1099 SMITH, KYLE, ET AL. V. SCOTT, ROCHELLE, ET AL.
 The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The
judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further
consideration in light of Zorn v. Linton, 607 U. S. ___ (2026)
 (per curiam). Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice
Jackson would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Dr. Cerina Fairfax is remembered as a mentor and community leader as officials call attention to the broader impact of domestic gun violence toward Black women
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Virginia governor, advocates remember Dr. Cerina Fairfax
Dr. Cerina Fairfax is remembered as a mentor and community leader as officials call attention to the broader impact of domestic gun violence toward Black women.
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New moon in Aries poetry: '26 shoot him in the chest. <<He is Expendable, gal. / Come sit by me.>> bardicbullion.substack.com/p/26-shoot-h...
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'26 shoot him in the chest
[cardinal fire • mars/april • the ram & the sun's exaltation]
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 15/04/2026
fuck em up, professor ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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Last year, in United States v. Skrmetti, the Court allowed Tennessee to ban gender-affirming care for minors. The law’s structure shows that the Republican lawmakers who passed it were motivated by bigotry against trans people, not medical concerns: Under the statute, cisgender minors could get the exact same medications and treatments that were banned for trans kids. And the law itself admitted that one of its purposes was “encouraging minors to appreciate their sex.” 

But in his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the law “does not exclude any individual from medical treatments on the basis of transgender status but rather removes one set of diagnoses—gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, and gender incongruence—from the range of treatable conditions.” 

As a law professor, I split hairs for a living. But this is absurd: The Court’s argument is that the law is not discriminating against trans people, but is just prohibiting treatment for the specific conditions that only trans people suffer from.

As if this pretense wasn’t enough, Barrett wrote a separate concurring opinion to explain that anti-trans laws shouldn’t be viewed with any special skepticism because the United States has no history of anti-trans discrimination. It’s heartbreaking that Supreme Court justices, with some of the best legal staff and resources in the country, are apparently denied access to Google.screenshotted excerpt of two paragraphs from the linked article, with the text after the colon highlighted in green. Excerpt reads as follows:

Across these cases, a consistent dynamic emerges: The Court declines to interrogate obvious contradictions between stated justifications and underlying motives—and in doing so, enables discrimination to persist under the guise of neutral legal process.

I want to teach my students that the Court is worth respecting. But too often, the Court hasn’t earned that respect. I want to tell my fellow trans people that the Constitution’s promises protect them as much as anyone else. But when the Court won’t afford them the decency of acknowledging that bigotry against trans people is real, I can only tell them to give the Court the amount of respect it deserves.
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In the wake of the Masters, more simping and corruption on the links in another golf essay from yours truly. Fortunately, the PGA people have no idea i'm out here running with scissors: channelsurfer.substack.com/p/full-swing
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Full Swing
Fortunately, the PGA people have no idea I’m out here running with scissors
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
GOVT ASKS DC CIRCUIT TO VACATE CONVICTIONS AND REMAND FOR DISMISSAL IN OATH KEEPERS AND PROUD BOYS CASES. Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, everybody. ... www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Day 1: Bryson DeChambeau, Head Trumpsimp, used a 3D-printed club that may or may not have been conforming. Did not save his bacon from a triple bogey.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/04/2026
If a Supreme Court justice is willing to publicly call out Brett Kavanaugh as a silver-spoon doofus who has no idea what life is like for people who aren't rich white guys, I promise you that the justices are saying some WILD stuff about him in private
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Colleagues Are Getting Awfully Tired of Brett Kavanaugh
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments about the Supreme Court’s recent racial profiling case are just more evidence that Kavanaugh’s colleagues kind of hate his guts.
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"In a whistle-blower letter to Congress, Mr. Day claimed that Daren Margolin... director of courts, pressured new judges during training sessions to deny claims."
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"To build the world we want to see, we must describe the world that exists now, as clearly as possible." - www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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We Need New Language For This Moment
We Need New Language for This Moment
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Guffawing "TACO!" underplays the horrific import of what we just lived through. Dems must force an impeachment vote. @brianbeutler.bsky.social: "The main thing is the usurpation of power—the full power of the United States—for the purposes of holding the entire planet hostage. Trump did that."
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
a rank revisitation of golfworld's dumpster fire in light of Masters week and Trump's genocidal impulses
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
@michaelfdubois
Mukad A QuBoy
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#ICYMI: I wrote yesterday about the effort by a handful of academics to create a literature supporting President Trump's birthright citizenship executive order—and how such backfilling has only been encouraged by the way that #SCOTUS has utilized (and cited) legal scholarship in recent years:
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219. Drunks, Lampposts, and the Birthright Citizenship Case
Efforts to backfill academic support for the birthright citizenship executive order wouldn't have been possible without a Court open to such "scholarship."
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Kate Carasiella @bardicbullion.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Trump's genocidal impulses during Masters Week:
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Major Cult
Out for blood at the clubhouse, previewing the 90th Masters Tournament
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’ve researched the entire history that led to the 25th Amendment and what followed and wrote about all of it nearly a decade ago. Since then — and, in part, due to its limits and complications — I’ve only called for Section 4 to be invoked on two dates: January 6, 2021, and today.
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We have the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now is the time to use it.
It's past time for Trump to be removed from office. This is a global crisis. It's time for J.D. Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Ramzi is still in Gaza, still trying to feed his family. Please help if you can. chuffed.org/project/1319...
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Help ramzi from Gaza
My name is Ramzi from Gaza, I am 20 years old. My house was destroyed and we are living the most difficult days of our lives. My family consists of 4 members and we suffer every day. We have been disp...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Good time to remember that rich people are okay with this in exchange for tax cuts
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
if Trump nukes Iran it will be because no one powerful in america has ever been seriously punished for anything
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
* IRAN CUTS OFF DIRECT DIPLOMACY WITH U.S. -- WSJ @reuters.com
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?
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