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Ed Chaney

@edchaney.bsky.social
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Counsel to #nonprofits and #philanthropy. Member, tortured photographer’s department. A dog in a human suit. Somehow married to @mandyhitchcock.bsky.social.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/08/2026
This is incredibly disturbing. The number of cases in Mississippi alone of Black people who met their deaths in dubious/highly suspicious ways, only for authorities to shrug it off and do a piss poor job if investigating...there are so many names
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Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home
The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
First cousin once removed (my mom’s cousin). He captured history.
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Gene Takagi @gtak.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Independent Sector and Council on Foundations File Amicus Brief Defending Charitable Gifts and the Freedom to Give independentsector.org/blog/stateme... re: American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Hispanic Scholarship Fund
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Independent Sector and Council on Foundations File Amicus Brief Defending Charitable Gifts and the Freedom to Give - Independent Sector
Independent Sector and the Council on Foundations filed an amicus brief defending lawful charitable gifts and freedom to give.
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Gene Takagi @gtak.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Lawyers’ Committee and Partners File Amicus Brief in Support of Hispanic Scholarship Fund in Section 1981 Case www.lawyerscommittee.org/lawyers-comm...
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Lawyers’ Committee and Partners File Amicus Brief in Support of Hispanic Scholarship Fund in Section 1981 Case
WASHINGTON— The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with partner organizations, filed an amicus brief in American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Hispanic Scholarship Fund in the U.S. Di...
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I call it unconstitutional but these days that is only slightly more serious than disconcerting.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Supreme Court justice discovers that facts, principles, and words matter.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
"The clinic ... run by the Christian, Maryland-based humanitarian organization World Relief and funded by USAID, provided a key weapon in the fight: IV bags to stave off dehydration and death. The bags cost just 62 cents each, and in three months, the clinics had helped save more than 500 people."
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Yep. The biggest threat to the GOP are GOP voters, and no one is trying to suppress their vote.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I used to worry about civil war. Now I worry about the US being the site of a proxy war and potentially more.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Immunity for the executive now creates a terrible double standard that that will actually foster obedience to illegal commands
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The MAGA twist on forum shopping is maybe more wretched than imagined.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
There is something very GenX about this: gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
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AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Kavanaugh visiting the Queen City, so I see.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Grade: C- Josh is very bright and quick of thought but often does not spend enough time on his assignments.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 15/11/2025
On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death.
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Nov. 15, 1830 | NC Mandates Death Sentence for Dissemination of Anti-Slavery Pamphlet
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Can confirm.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A competent democrat with good messaging can parlay this into a victory in red districts. newrepublic.com/article/2021...
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Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse
It’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Isn’t this also a national security nightmare? Exposing the bones of the White House for all to see?
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Guess it’s time to increase my rates.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Specifically, nonprofit clients.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The whole administration is now subject to arrest.
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways. blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...
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The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence
Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Posting this three hours before the start of Yom Kippur is quite a choice
FBI Director Kash Patel & @
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James Comey wrote "love letters" to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them - a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans.
That era is OVER. This FBI won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.
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Patel cuts ties Comey's FBI
made with ADL as organization faces backlash for TPUSA
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That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey's policies and any partnership with the ADL, Patel said
By Rachel Wolf • Fox News
3:32 PM • 10/1/25 • 758K Views
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/10/2025
this is basically portland's version of a haka
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
So much depends upon A statement Of fact That needs a Citation That doesn’t Exist
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
So much depends upon A statement Of fact That needs a Citation That doesn’t Exist
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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Chilling stuff.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Lawyer friends, consider volunteering and spreading the word. The eye of Sauron is turning to nonprofits and civil society. nonprofitdefense.org
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Home Page - Nonprofit Legal Defense Network
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I thought sketch comedy was illegal now.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Weirdly, I left Facebook for good the day Kirk was killed because I had noticed a disturbing increase of random content clearly created to foment divide. Someone is paying a lot of money to poison the well.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
It has never been the “left” that fantasizes about civil war.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kirk was vile but his assassination much more so. Not being discussed yet: a head/neck shot at 200 yards requires skill, training, and the right equipment. This was not a random angry lefty.
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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Kavanaugh in 2023 in the argument on Biden’s loan forgiveness: “Some of the biggest mistakes in the Court’s history were deferring to assertions of executive emergency power. Some of the finest moments in the Court’s history were pushing back against presidential assertions of emergency power.”
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Citation needed.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Guess what? The endowment tax is unconstitutional for the very same reasons.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Would resulting defamation suits necessitate the release of the Epstein files or could DOJ continue to withhold?
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Bro, our ancestors also thought it was cool to own other people and force them to work at the pain of death.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I had an entire therapy session devoted to this sentence
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Trump administration moves to bar states and even private (!) nonprofits, such as Red Cross, from helping undocumented immigrants after disasters. Evil. s2.washingtonpost.com/4467742/68af...
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DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants
Disaster-aid groups said the new contracts would make it harder for nonprofits to help the most vulnerable Americans in the aftermath of a disaster.
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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 07/08/2025
reiterating what i said earlier today at #nabj25: support student journalism and student media in anyway you can. they stay on folks’ necks.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Wonder how the @nytimes.com will spin this?
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
“Big First Amendment stakes” is a funny way to say “a blatant First Amendment violation.” Either that or it’s really good Pepper Brooks energy.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The board for which is led by Chief Justice John Roberts
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
So shareholders are paying for the tariffs?
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I do not like this framing at all. The tax increase was on annual net income, not corpus, and the tax simply reduced a foundation’s payout requirement by that same amount.
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Ed Chaney @edchaney.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Remember when the right accused the left of being arrogant?
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The latest edition of our nonprofit layoff tracker finds that nonprofits shed 3,130+ jobs in June, bringing the total number of workforce reductions across the sector to at least 23,000 since Inauguration Day. Read the full story: phlnthrp.com/4lWsGHK
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What We Know — and Don’t Know — About the Nonprofit Layoff Crisis
The Chronicle of Philanthropy is culling layoff information from news reports and 48 WARN databases. This estimate is unavailable elsewhere because the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes unempl...
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