Sign in

Chalin

@chalin.bsky.social
127 followers 131 following 622 posts

Louisiana ex-pat, IP attorney, and panda lover. Mom to 2 daughters and too many cats.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Chalin
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...
332019576
Reposted by Chalin
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
6474120613896
Reposted by Chalin
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
192071633
Reposted by Chalin
enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
THIS is truth. #DeportTheAssholes
325666
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I borrowed the best seller #LuckyLoser from the Alexandria city library but didn’t get a chance to get into it. But when I tried to renew or re-enter a hold request, the title was suddenly not in the catalog. Did someone make them pull it from their shelves?
010
Reposted by Chalin
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I’ve seen enough. Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
434182663328
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
After a half century on this planet I’ve come to realize that’s the kids are right, we’re right, have always been right. About Vietnam, about Wall Street, about Bernie, about Gaza. Maybe instead of demanding they join us in the moderate seats we should let them drive the bus?
020
Reposted by Chalin
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Decades of US diplomatic efforts being unwound. @reuters.com 🇮🇳 www.reuters.com/world/china/...
31682218
Reposted by Chalin
ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I couldn’t read anything after learning that less than 2% of $$ raised by these former DCCC staff-turned-fundraising consultant & PAC founders actually goes to candidates. @democrats.org need to stop this now before it kills the party. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...
data4democracy.substack.com
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
022
Reposted by Chalin
DrHello @drhellodarkness.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Doge wasted $22 billion. Thanks, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social . www.inc.com/chris-morris...
inc.com
DOGE Is Accused of Wasting $21.7 Billion in Just 6 Months
Here are five takeaways from Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal's new 54-page report accusing DOGE of waste.
32989373
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Being anti-Netanyahu, anti-settler, anti-IDF, anti-Gaza genocide =/= antisemitic.
010
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Apparently I’ve been mispronouncing “mien” my whole life. #nytconnections
000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Shocked, SHOCKED to hear that luring all the 50-yr olds into an early retirement delivers a huge hit to experience, expertise, and institutional knowledge. 🙄 wapo.st/3YTivKW
wapo.st
Trump’s actions are pushing thousands of experts to flee government
The U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime staffers fear.
051
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
People: It’s fen-ta-nill (-CH3) not fen-ta-nawl (-OH)
000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Unconscionable. wapo.st/4iDFVux
wapo.st
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
020
Reposted by Chalin
Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them. DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it. #Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them. Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.
0143
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Eddie Izzard’s prescient recap of the Trump tariff policy: “We don’t want your Deutschiemarkies!” {pause for market collapse} “Oh we do? We do? Terribly sorry. Redial…” youtube.com/clip/UgkxJeF...
youtube.com
YouTube
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
000
Reposted by Chalin
Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 10/04/2025
Video shows Georgetown researcher Suri's ICE arrest in Arlington VA. An Indian national in US on a work visa, Suri is a postdoc at Georgetown, conducting research on peacebuilding in conflict zones like Iraq & Afghanistan. He was transferred to detention facility in Louisiana where he remains held.
wusa9.com
New video captures ICE arrest of Georgetown researcher, ACLU says
Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, said ICE agents did not tell her husband why he was being detained before placing him in a car and driving away.
14628
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Lord, I know we’re supposed to open our hearts to the converted but I *cannot* NOT pull my hair out when I read quotes like this. Did these people listen to anything he said in the past 3 years?
000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Why are these people celebrating themselves? Asking on behalf of the Associated press. White House correspondents’ dinner scraps plan for comedian to host www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...
washingtonpost.com
White House correspondents’ dinner scraps plan for comedian to host
Amber Ruffin was removed after a Trump official accused her of being “hate-filled” and took aim at the White House Correspondents’ Association for booking her.
000
Reposted by Chalin
davidnelsonORL @dnelsonorl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“….you will be prosecuted.” But they weren’t prosecuted. Prosecuted would be having a day in court. Prosecuted would require the government to prove gang membership. Prosecuted would mean the chance to mount a defense. They weren’t prosecuted. They were kidnapped.
1183484
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Fuck all these people (Brian Schatz?! So disappointed)
020
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Get ready for this on a grand scale. They are going to sell off government properties, services and contracts to their friends and families. This is how authoritarian oligarchies are formed. wapo.st/3DGyt3z
wapo.st
Brother of Trump’s GSA leader tried to buy prime federal property
The proposal to buy a parcel in Silicon Valley prompted a complaint to the inspector general. The GSA says it rejected the offer and its acting administrator followed ethics rules.
050
Reposted by Chalin
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Senate Democrats were offered nothing in exchange for voting for a GOP budget and decided it was a deal that was too good to pass up
782332416
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Where is the lawsuit? Why do these people think appeasement will work ? Fucking grow a pair!
030
Reposted by Chalin
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.
452399697
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
List of historical lessons that Americans insist on learning first hand: 1. Everyone loses in a tariff war (google “Smoot Hawley” & “great depression”). 2.Tax breaks for the rich do not “trickle down”(something -DOO economics). 3. Government austerity leads to reduction in growth (Hello Kansas👋🏻).
000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
People from around the world see our courts as a fair arbiter of justice, our banks as a haven of stability, our dollar as the gold standard. We will lose ALL of this if we continue on the current path of open corruption and bullying on the world stage.
000
Reposted by Chalin
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
1. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided. And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract. So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.
muskwatch.com
Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker
New tool reveals Musk has overstated verified DOGE savings by at least 92%
17666572459
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Dear @democrats: why am I not being barraged w/Willie Horton style ads re: the drug dealer, domestic abuser, pedophile that Trump’s DOJ willingly extended Jan 6 pardon to? They had the option of narrow interpretation and voluntarily sided with the criminals. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
washingtonpost.com
Justice Dept. says many Jan. 6 pardons extend to crimes after that date
Defendants who picked up more charges while being arrested for Jan. 6 argue that Trump’s pardon extends to those too. The Justice Department agrees in most cases.
000
Reposted by Chalin
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It’s impossible to express how radicalized I’ve become against the Democrats in the past two months. Just an absolutely worthless political party that’s sold us out to literal fucking fascism.
993480472
Reposted by Chalin
Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.com · 05/03/2025
We took a deep dive into what contracts DOGE slashed — and what it left untouched. Most of the biggest contractors were unscathed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Share of spending among ...

Small businesses
All contracts 23%
Contracts on DOGE site 29%

Minority-owned businesses
All contracts 10%
Contracts on DOGE site 19%

Businesses owned by women
All contracts 5%
Contracts on DOGE site 11%

Nonprofits
All contracts 5%
Contracts on DOGE site 11%

Source: USA Spending, DOGE
Based on obligated spending in the 2024 fiscal year for all federal contracts and those on DOGE's list.Spending on the largest government contractorsThese agencies have the largest share of federal spending on contracts ...... and these agencies have the largest share of spending on contracts cut by DOGE
24533189
Reposted by Chalin
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law.
5035231067
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Catherine Rampell is a modern day Cassandra - speaking the absolute truth to deaf ears. How to lose the 21st century, in three easy steps wapo.st/41H1uoQ
wapo.st
Opinion | How to lose the 21st century, in three easy steps
Trump is throwing away what could have been the next great American century.
000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Seriously @postopinions.bsky.social ? Joseph Bankman? As in father to the felonious con man Sam Bankman-Fried? A man who not only raised a crook but benefited directly from his fraud? Hard pass. How Trump’s sovereign wealth fund could solve a tax problem
130
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Always telling to see who they think deserves clemency. Youngkin commutes sentence of ex-officer who fatally shot unarmed man
100
Reposted by Chalin
Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 03/03/2025
"Don't destroy your own economy and your own bureaucracy; only a complete dumbass would do that"
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
3052091072
Reposted by Chalin
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
791187283594
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Dear @washingtonpost.com - could you maybe include even one sentence about how this order just names a study group and is not itself “establishing” a crypto reserve (which would require the House as purse holder)? Crypto prices jump as Trump touts national crypto reserve
000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
When you see your besties at a party you weren’t invited to. 💔😭
000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Timmy was robbed. #oscars
010
Reposted by Chalin
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What is wrong with Senate Democrats? There is a five-alarm Article I constitutional crisis. No votes. No attending joint session Trump speeches. No normal operations at all until all the illegal stealing of Congress’ authority stops. Why is this so hard?
401024246
Reposted by Chalin
Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/02/2025
“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”
642223468613
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The WHCA will do nothing more than “condemn” the move and then host their little nerd prom in April. wapo.st/41hnyoz
wapo.st
White House will decide which journalists get access to it in an unprecedented step
Journalists and media critics warned that White House control of the press pool threatens the foundations of a free press.
022
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
100%
000
Reposted by Chalin
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2025
When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...
Michelle Beutler cleared 67 trees off a U.S. Forest Service road in two days. It was the spring of 2023, after a record-breaking winter in the Stanislaus National Forest in California’s Sierra Nevada. Beutler, 59, worked alone with a chain saw to remove every fallen tree on a 10-mile stretch of road between the town of Long Barn in Tuolumne County and the popular Hull Creek Campground. She single-handedly finished the work so the road could open in time for Memorial Day.

As a recreation technician based out of the Summit Ranger Station in the Stanislaus National Forest, Beutler’s job was to clean toilets, pick up trash and maintain recreation sites and campgrounds up and down Sonora Pass. She’d typically drive her Forest Service truck 100 miles a day. She sprayed pit toilets with a fire hose. She wiped away graffiti and removed thousands of pounds of house trash, old furniture and useless stuff that people dumped in the forest. She extinguished hundreds of abandoned and illegal campfires. She assisted law enforcement during emergency accidents, helping officers navigate a swath of rugged forest land that she grew up on and knows intimately.
7033721291
Reposted by Chalin
Elizabeth Matos 💙🦋🥅💞🇨🇦 @eoldoula.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
628889