Reposted by J. CardellaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop. 132389256
Reposted by J. CardellaChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Emergency court filing from Pike's lawyers seeking to "halt and stay" the botched execution tonight in Tennessee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 18573146
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And somehow more has been invested in this technology than the railroads. 011
Reposted by J. CardellaMike Pusateri @mikepusateri.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Da Pope on a garbage truck is the most Chicago thing ever 420746
Reposted by J. CardellaDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way. 574105162146
Reposted by J. CardellaBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten. 401203424088
Reposted by J. CardellaRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“The pope shares his dinner with his Peruvian secretary..,No cook is required for the leader of the Vatican microstate. ‘They prepare their own meals…It depends on the schedule: if there isn’t time to cook because he came home late, he might settle for a peanut butter sandwich or a bowl of cereal.’” 2654544
Reposted by J. CardellaJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 28/08/2026And there it is... 62626128
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026These tech overlords on a fundamental level just don't like being human. 030
Reposted by J. CardellaGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Among other reforms, it cannot stand that the President can sue everyone all the time but never face any lawsuits or criminal charges himself because he’s president. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...nytimes.comTrump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic (Gift Article)It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment. 573133834
Reposted by J. CardellaAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This shouldn't be happening to them or anyone else, but the fact is they were fine with it happening to other people as long it did not happen to them, and the same is true of tens of millions of other voters. It certainly says something about the American electorate bsky.app/profile/brad... 852676514
Reposted by J. CardellaAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...muellershewrote.comBREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response. 352130044911
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This is a problem that is going to get exponentially worse over time. 000
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is at its heart what the history and tradition standard is about. Tying ourselves to the prejudices of the past like an anchor, always dragging us down, always making progress impossible. 000
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It’s hard to choose my favorite detail about this map, but listing judiciary square as the stop for union station is definitely in the running. 010
Reposted by J. CardellaBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all. 4261941616
Reposted by J. CardellaSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026In case it’s not obvious, what this reveals about Musk is that he understands the world in completely authoritarian terms, one is either the imprisoner or the imprisoned. He thinks the exertion of raw state power is the permanent state of the world because democracy and the rule of law is a sham. 518732
Reposted by J. CardellaRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Pope Leo at Port of Arguineguín: “Dear migrants: before saying any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. You are not numbers, nor files! You are people with a family and a home that you have left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to despise.” 16917
Reposted by J. CardellaBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment CrisisThe Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing. 1924081011
Reposted by J. CardellaChicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 03/06/2026Frank Casillas, appointed by Reagan as assistant secretary of labor, dies at 100chicagotribune.comFrank Casillas, appointed by Reagan as assistant secretary of labor, dies at 100 162
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Not at all surprised that Bari Weiss misunderstands the concept of a hostile work environment in the same way she misunderstands the first amendment. 000
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Your reputation is the only thing you have at the end of the day. Too many people during this administration have been willing to voluntarily sacrifice their dignity. Too few have taken a principled stand. Pelley has acquitted himself well. 000
Reposted by J. CardellaElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this 13849852035
Reposted by J. CardellaSarah Milstein @sarahmilstein.com · 01/06/2026I deeply regret reading this piece--but also feel compelled to point out that it contains this absolutely spectacular example of Both Sides-ing it. An NYT all-timer "influencers who are accused of human trafficking and rape" are "functionally equivalent" to feminists 31987181
Reposted by J. CardellaMicah @rincewind.run · 30/05/2026watching the chuds turn literally everything into Gender at all times is so exhausting and stupid figuring out that You Don't Have To Do That is, I believe, the single most helpful realization a young man can make, it's such an enormous life improvement to just embrace what you actually like 293601585
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The central question of this era is: how should we define our political communities? Two interesting pieces bearing on that question. First, @pbump.com analyzes which officials have the largest constituencies. Second, a Delaware court allows corporations to vote in some elections. 100
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This is a complete miscarriage of justice and everyone involved deserves to be drummed out of the legal profession. 000
Reposted by J. CardellaMelody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 27/05/2026Preventing Americans from returning home for quarantine or treatment is "shocking," and the entire plan raises "profound ethical concerns," @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS building Ebola quarantine center in Kenya for Americans amid outbreakSome experts criticize White House approach and say not allowing Americans to return to US hurts treatment efforts 2299
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Fascinating to see the Pope warn about datasets incorporating existing biases when the federal government has all but banned any inquiry of that issue (speaking in my personal capacity). 060
Reposted by J. CardellaMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class. 152129815103
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Unless you’re actually verifying original sources, you’re just playing a game of telephone and you will inevitably pass along falsehoods. Everyone praising AI is just looking for an easy answer. The research is the point of the whole thing. 020
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 14/05/2026We are living in the era of actually litigating every galaxy brained idea cooked up by obnoxious 1Ls in their first con law class. 010
Reposted by J. CardellaDon Bones @donbones.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I dunno. Maybe because that's a stupid thing to want? 2233110314
Reposted by J. CardellaBolts @boltsmag.org · 09/05/2026American Samoans occupy a strange in-between as U.S. nationals but not citizens. They pay taxes, have Social Security numbers, and can join the military—but they can’t vote. A voter fraud case in Alaska highlights their unusual predicament.boltsmag.orgAmericans by Name, Punished for Believing It - BoltsIn a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public officials—and has made them a new target for policing voter fraud. 213545
Reposted by J. CardellaJames Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 09/05/2026It might be more accurate to refer to it as a throne room, since that's its real purpose--pomp and grandeur to reflect on the sovereign. Besides, you just know it will end up with something akin to a golden throne when it's done. 815935
Reposted by J. CardellaRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The Pope in Naples: “There is no peace without justice, and justice is not complete without charity…Welcoming migrants and refugees is not an emergency response but an opportunity for encounter and mutual enrichment.” 07222
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Trumpism is causing a lot of direct harm through public policy. But this indirect harm is worse imo. Because it’s not the state denying these newborns the shot. Somehow the parents have been convinced to hurt their newborns. The parents have willingly turned themselves into monsters. 010
Reposted by J. CardellaAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims 4840721744
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The risk imo is that people want a return to the economy of the post WW2 order, and that’s gone permanently bc of Trump. So this level of unpopularity will attach to most administrations going forward and may even be the springboard for reactionaries to return to power. 000
Reposted by J. CardellaDave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 03/05/2026"Our neighbor was kidnapped here" Seen tonight at the corner of Pulaski and George in Chicago 219878
Reposted by J. CardellaMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 01/05/2026In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9 523103432148
J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 28/04/2026At the same time the conservative legal movement is steamrolling over affirmative action and race based protections on the basis that racism is over, its luminaries are publicly saying things like this. 010
Reposted by J. CardellaC on the scene @conthescene.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Gorgeous sunrise over Rock Creek Park in DC today 🌅 @capitalweather.bsky.social 0173
Reposted by J. CardellaBarry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 19/04/2026On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina. 281112611452
Reposted by J. CardellaErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 18/04/2026He's currently sending me photos of the reinstallation, which happened today. Here's the British ambassador helping carry Parvati's palanquin; here's happy celebrants; here's a dignitary who's going to need to go to the drycleaner; here's Parvati back in worship and ok I'm tearing up again. 450133