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Jenny Hunter

@jennyhunter.bsky.social
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Labor lawyer (formerly @seiu), into court reform & judicial nominations, writer, consultant, person with kids, watcher of TV, she/her

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 4h
The botched execution of Christa Pike shows again why we must abolish the death penalty. It erodes our nation's soul. My column on Pike, and on watching Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh die and seeing the inherent immorality of the death penalty firsthand: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
usatoday.com
Christa Pike's botched execution is a moral stain on America | Opinion
I understand the shock over Tennessee's botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. But it never should have happened in the first place.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11h
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
newrepublic.com
The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
wrote about why dinging Doja Cat for being too elitist for country music is pretty fucked up. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/there-are-...
everythingishorrible.net
There Are A Lot of Reasons Not To Have Heard “Choosin’ Texas”
Country music’s racism is one.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026
To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one."
Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.

"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal). 

"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]

"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The heartlessness here from the Republican operatives in judicial robes in Roberts SCOTUS is unimaginable yet not surprising. Just keep that in mind when you hear any member of the elite media attempt to suggest that Roberts Court is reining in the Trump regime.
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, to recap: a mom became homeless, went to DFCS for housing aid, had her children taken away instead, and was then *billed* for their foster care—leaving her $13k in debt and making it harder to secure the very housing she needed to get them back. Hard to imagine a crueler, more perverse system.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 29/09/2026
It’s almost as if there are more ways to measure the value of work than just the amount of money it makes people.
 A country with fewer social workers and teaching aides, with less study of the arts and history, is a country that’s not investing in its own future.
newrepublic.com
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This reminds me of the other day when my teen asked ChatGPT to make a Connections puzzle. It did, but when asked for the solution said, Oops, there’s no solution. Then it made another one and said, I checked this time! And then, Oops you caught me, that one was flawed too. OVER AND OVER
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if we felt like it, we could make the ambiguous legal status of children born on airplanes a matter of as significant public controversy as transgender athletes since each affects roughly the same number of people
Wikipedia: Birth aboard aircraft and ships

articles: Birthright citizenship in the United States of America and United States nationality law
U.S. law holds that natural persons born on foreign ships docked at U.S. ports or born within the limit of U.S. territorial waters are U.S. citizens. An important exception to this rule is children born to people who (in line with the 14th Amendment) are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States, e.g. foreign diplomats accredited with the United State
Department of State or invading foreign
enemy forces. 6! Despite a common misconception to the contrary, birth on board a U.S.-flagged ship, airliner, or military vessel outside of the 12-nautical-mile (22 km;
14 mi) limit is not considered to be a birth on U.S. territory, and the principle of jus soli thus does not apply.
In addition to the question of a child's citizenship, there is also a question of how to report "Place of Birth" for children born in transit. US State Department guidance instructs that a child born in international waters should have their place of birth listed as "AT SEA", while those born in the territorial waters of any country would list the name of that country.!! A child born in flight over a region where no country claims sovereignty (eg. international waters or Antarctica) would list their place of birth as "IN THE AIR"
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
trib.al
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Journalists may not have much. But we retain the right to call the frauds and bootlickers masquerading as the pillars of the media industry a bunch of scumbags. Truth, after all, comes free." remarkable @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social piece www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...
hamiltonnolan.com
The Free and Unfree Press
Journalism, and its adversaries.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 28, 1874. The U.S. military defeated the Comanche in Palo Duro Canyon, south of modern Amarillo, Texas, largely by stealing their horse herds. This made previous Comanche ways of life, including their work cultures, impossible and forced them into a reservation!
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
holy god this is depressing
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake." 🎯
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
Tierra Walker died from preeclampsia at 20 weeks pregnant. Dozens of doctors refused to offer her an abortion during multiple trips to the ER. “People should not lose their fundamental constitutional rights just because they are pregnant” -Molly Duane, the Walker family's attorney. @autonomynews.co
autonomynews.co
New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
autonomynews.co
New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“For 55 years, people have been going in and coming out changed … Carrying music that could sustain them through times of trial, or the encouragement of shared laughter, or the seditious sense that they were not alone. Root it out! Stamp it out! Knock it down with a wrecking ball!”
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Danger! Danger!! www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
theatlantic.com
The Kennedy Center Is the Most Terrifying Building in America
This place is much too dangerous.
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why should states have to pass new legislation? Companies are already liable for damage caused by their products. AI companies are talking about their bots’ actions like it’s not their responsibility, but that doesn’t mean that’s true legally
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I changed my mind on Supreme Court expansion. The reason was the repeated anti-Constitutional behavior of the current Supreme Court.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am v old but it seems clear to me that you should not bring any beverage to a job interview. It's arbitrary, but showing you can follow arbitrary rules signals you won't ignore other, important rules. Like how you stage your house to sell it to signal you haven't been eccentric with the plumbing
washingtonpost.com
Three generations of Post staffers settle the iced coffee interview debate
Is it chill to bring a beverage to a job interview? We discuss.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DON'T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN.
EXPAND THE COURT
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wisdom for the ages
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
motherjones.com
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The approach of turning candidates into poll-tested robots reminds me of how so many movies now are formulaic & blah instead of unique & interesting. But worse, b/c unlike with comic book movies, you can't rely on 18-25 year olds to turn out to vote for a candidate you've turned boring!
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The far right justices of the Supreme Court made this kind of corruption easy by striking down campaign finance laws & ruling bribes are fine as long as the quid pro quo a tiny bit less than explicit
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"It surprises me that this counts as a radical proposal, but here it is: If you are losing your ability to evaluate the models you have now, maybe don’t let them build models you’ll be even less capable of controlling in the future."
nytimes.com
Opinion | There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I. (Gift Article)
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The far right justices of the Supreme Court made this kind of corruption easy by striking down campaign finance laws & ruling bribes are fine as long as the quid pro quo a tiny bit less than explicit
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Horrifying as usual. Randomly atarted chasing a guy, shot mutiple times into his car, didnt render assistance ince he was in custody. Local cop ended up ended up doing that. Isnt even in thr country illegally, tho obvs that shldnt include a death sentence open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If only it were illegal for companies to merge in a way that harms consumers by lessening competition or creating a monopoly in a given market (it is)
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So in addition to being a former clerk to SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch, Mike Davis’ lobbying clients include Hewlett Packard and Walmart. Have the CEOs of those companies been asked to “disavow” and “sever their relationships” with Mike Davis?? He is a grotesque racist.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What if I told you AI was being used to kill people right now? arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/09/2026
With just under one month to go until the next No Kings, there are already more than 1,000 events on the map. That means October 17 will be the largest early vote activation in American history. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
FFS! Of course the Holocaust Museum should give the paintings back to the family of the survivor who was forced to paint them! And if other victims’ families want their belongings back, give them those too!
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Federal agents and the National Guard – assisted by a U.S. Park Police helicopter – flooded into Park View this morning, scaring parents of kids at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School. Federal officials say it's to help fight crime; critics say it's overkill: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/dc-fed...
washingtonsun.com
Neighbors Upset Over Federal Agents’ Presence at D.C. School
Agents and National Guard troops handed out fliers outside a Northwest elementary school, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW POLL: 53% of Americans support expanding the Supreme Court, including majorities of both Democrats and independents. Two weeks ago, House Dems stood united to keep that option on the table. Happy Constitution Day! law.marquette.edu/poll/
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Brianne K Nadeau @brianneknadeau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am aware of increased federal law enforcement presence this morning at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School and in Park View. The National Guard has no business being here in the District of Columbia. The FBI has no business patrolling our schools. brianneknadeau.com/statement-on...
brianneknadeau.com
Statement on today's increased federal presence in Ward 1 - Brianne K. Nadeau
I am aware of patrols by National Guard and increased federal law enforcement presence this morning at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School and in Park View. I have confirmed with my own eyes that federal l...
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I somehow missed this great episode when it came out (prob b/c it was before Labor Day). Loved to hear Kate Shaw and Jamelle Bouie fully endorsing Supreme Court expansion + term limits + regular appointments + lower court expansion + more!
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