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Joe Thomas

@jobius.bsky.social
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Free pitch to anyone good at making political ads: YOUR VOTE MATTERS THAT'S WHY TRUMP'S REPUBLICANS KEEP TRYING TO STEAL IT DON'T LET THEM Make sure you're registered to vote at vote.org. Targeted call-to-action: Early voting starts tomorrow. You can register and vote in person with photo ID at [QR]
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump's RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton www.courtlistener.com/docket/66695... which he lost and got sanctioned for, was denied en banc rehearing in May, got another extension from Clarence Thomas on the deadline to file a petition for certiorari, to Oct. 9 www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...
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Donald Trump v. Hillary Clinton, 22-13410 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Donald Trump v. Hillary Clinton, 22-13410 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 13/08/2026
i feel like this post and the hed really miss the most important part of this which is that the United States Federal Government convened a grand jury and presented a complete hoax to them, complete with graphic illustrating a wide-ranging conspiracy involving every liberal organization.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/07/2026
Yes, it is chef’s kiss cosmic screenwriting that the “deportation fleet” has thus far only repatriated Americans. gillianbrockell.com/whats-missin...
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What’s missing from Bloomberg’s story about the DHS ‘deportation’ fleet
In the ongoing saga of DHS’s “deportation fleet,” Bloomberg gets the facts vaguely right and story all wrong.
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I'm tracking 64 election-related cases in CourtListener. I'm probably missing some. Nine dockets had updates yesterday. www.courtlistener.com/tags/jobius/...
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Tag: "elections" by jobius, 11 views – CourtListener.com
jobius created tag "elections" containing 64 items. Tags allow you to create public and private collections of items you wish to track.
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Thomas O’Mahony @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 07/07/2026
The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For the Performing Tarps
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Emergency motion to keep Trump's name on the Kennedy Center is denied. Millett, Wilkins, and Katsas storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BEFORE: Millett, Wilkins, and Katsas, Circuit Judges
O R D E R
Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal and an immediate administrative stay, and the opposition to the motion for an immediate administrative stay, it is ORDERED that the motion for an immediate administrative stay be denied. It is FURTHER ORDERED that appellee file a response to the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal by June 22, 2026. Any reply is due by June 29, 2026.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.
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A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target
The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Somebody needs to do a redline of the 14th and 15th Amendments, with all of the violence the Supreme Court has done to them since they were ratified.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
NEW: The transcript of today's sealed hearing in the "Broadview Six" case IS IN. Read it here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/75/a403b7...
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026
Thiebaudesque
photo of a very steep street in San Francisco
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"Hello daddy. I hope you are OK. Tell everyone from my class hello." here's some of what I saw and learned this week when I visited the Dilley ICE family detention center in Texas.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
NGL, I'm captivated by these new shirts at temu
Jesus it better Tim know know him before's work drot in helllI I served my my my fou coutnry my childrry my futurey my fiverr grand grandpaI'm not porfect but Jesus thinks I'm thinks tie for
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Carla Astudillo @carla-astudi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Small but important update to our @propublica.org habeas tracker: By clicking on the little icon in our table, you can download all habeas cases for each state or court district since Jan. 2025, inc. case names, docket number along with Court Listener link. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
A table of habeas cases by state and court district with an icon on the far right where you can download habeas data since Jan. 2025.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now. They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A magistrate judge denied Law Dork's intervention in the Minnesota refugee case. We objected Wednesday. I had to post the filing online so you could read it. Otherwise, you'd need to go to the actual courthouse in Minnesota to do so. It shouldn't be like that for any of the filings in the case.
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Here's the Law Dork filing you can't access on PACER. All of this refugee case's filings should be online.
A magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for online access to the docket in a significant refugee rights case in Minnesota. Law Dork's lawyers filed their objection on Tuesday.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/02/2026
OpenAI Introduces Premium Video Generator For White House Advisors Manipulating Trump theonion.com/openai-introduces-prem…
OpenAI Introduces Premium Video Generator For White House Advisors Manipulating Trump
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Trump's lawsuit against JPMorgan for "debanking" him after J6 was filed in "IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA" by Alex Brito. Shouldn't it be in district court first @kenwhite.bsky.social? www.foxbusiness.com/politics/tru...
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Trump sues JPMorgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon for $5B over alleged 'political' debanking
FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump is suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon in a $5 billion lawsuit filed Thursday, accusing the financial institution of debanking him for political reasons.
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
ok so I’ve come up with the perfect defense for Greenland burritojustice.github.io/maplibre-glo...
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Green who? Don't know any Greenland
Display a globe with a vector map.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Trump managed to get his frivolous lawsuit against pollster Ann Selzer dismissed from federal court so he can proceed in Polk County, Iowa court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... The Polk County case number is, I shit you not, 69420. Where's Elon? www.iowacourts.state.ia.us/ESAWebApp/TV...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/11/2025
HUGE THING: 100,000 people volunteered for Mamdani. 1000s volunteering for the FIRST TIME. And they just won BIG. So that's a massive army of progressives HUNGRY to keep on winning. That's worth more than all the billionaires' money. We're going to keep working. And we're going to keep winning.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This isn't new, by the way. Trump and his minions wanted an "antifa" Black Bloc to show up and fight with cops on Jan. 6, 2021. If that had happened, he would have then called out the National Guard to a) arrest leftists and b) shut down the Capitol and prevent the election from being certified
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Rainbow alert SF
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_... Demisemimillennial
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United States Semiquincentennial - Wikipedia
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2025
for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Amos Goldbaum @amosgoldbaum.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
“Three Towers” New mural featuring merged views from Portola: the McLaren water tower, Sutro, and Bernal tower. And some roses to represent the “Garden District” where flower nurseries once bloomed.
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Donald Trump lost his lawsuit against Bob Woodward and Simon and Schuster in July, but he's back with a motion to file a third amended complaint. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The *solicitor general* filed this, over his own name. The court is up to speed on trade issues, and will see through this crap immediately--total US imports are about $4 trillion, for example, so "trillions" at stake is a wildly dumb claim. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A letter to the appellate court in the Trump tariff case, reading: 

"Dear Mr. Perlow:

On July 27, after stating his intention to impose IEEPA tariffs, President Trump announced the largest trade agreement in history with the 27-nation European Union, America’s most significant trading partner. See Alex Gangitano, Trump, EU’s von der Leyen strike trade deal for 15 percent tariffs, The Hill (July 27, 2025). President Trump entered historic agreements with Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan on July 22; and with the United Kingdom on May 8.

These agreements support our request for a stay if the Court affirms. Opening Br.5, 54-60; Reply Br.27-30. Suddenly revoking the President’s tariff authority under IEEPA would have catastrophic consequences for our national security, foreign policy, and economy. The President believes that our country would not be able to pay back the trillions of dollars that other countries have already committed to pay, which could lead to financial ruin. Other tariff authorities that the President could potentially use are short-term, not nearly as powerful, and would render America captive to the abuses that it has endured from far more aggressive countries.

There is no substitute for the tariffs and deals that President Trump has made. One year ago, the United States was a dead country, and now, because of the trillions of dollars being paid by countries that have so badly abused us, America is a strong, financially viable, and respected country again. If the United States were forced to pay back the trillions of dollars committed to us, America could go from strength to failure the moment such an incorrect decision took effect.

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"These deals for trillions of dollars have been reached, and other countries have committed to pay massive sums of money. If the United States were forced to unwind these historic agreements, the President believes that a forced dissolution of the agreements could lead to a 1929-style result. In such a scenario, people would be forced from their homes, millions of jobs would be eliminated, hard-working Americans would lose their savings, and even Social Security and Medicare could be threatened. In short, the economic consequences would be ruinous, instead of unprecedented success.

Sincerely,

D. John Sauer 
Solicitor General

Brett Shumate 
Assistant Attorney General"
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
One thing I’ve learned from watching and reporting on how the news ecosystem works on YouTube and other social media platforms is that you can and probably should just repeat your same reporting over and over again to make it really stick
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Redaction fail: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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amandagefter @amandagefter.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
You might enjoy this piece I recently wrote about Wheeler's least known student (but one with whom he had a lifelong friendship and correspondence). nautil.us/finding-pete...
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Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/06/2025
i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 21/06/2025
6/21, Los Angeles: A neighborhood volunteer documenting ICE was stopped by agents in an unmarked car, surrounded, and threatened by masked agents while they filmed him on their phones.
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Question for immigration lawyers: At this point, should anyone with an appointment with immigration services have a lawyer with a habeas petition ready to submit to the nearest Article III judge? So ICE doesn't have time to ship them out of state before it's filed? Any reason not to? #LawSky
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/06/2025
Many of the LA Sheriffs didn't have their gas masks on yet so the Sheriffs got gassed by LAPD LAPD was on the radio crying about getting shot by rubber bullets by the sheriffs, so I'd say fair trade Typical level of professional policing for Los Angeles. Waiting for CHP to join the fun.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I'm just gonna go ahead and say it: I don't think King George should sponsor the Army birthday celebration Apparently they are military contractors and I am apparently not the only person who's mentioned the issue here
A swag table with a banner over it that says "King George"
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Bobby Measles has assembled an incredible panel of Quacks, Cranks and Crackpots to Destroy Vaccination in America and Make Transmittable Diseases Great Again!
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
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Joe Thomas @jobius.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
On this day in 2020, early in the pandemic, I went down a rabbit hole that started with these drawings of Garfeye the Sailor Cat.
A combination of Garfield and Popeye with Popeye's face on Garfield's body with the exception of him also having Popeye's beefy forearms.Garfeye curled up in his little cat bed.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/05/2025
They’re lashing out against Habeas and arresting Mayors because they know their position is weak and getting weaker, and they’re panicking. It’s scary to live through, but it’s less scary when you remember this isn’t coming from a position of strength, it’s sweaty desperation.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/05/2025
I know it's heartbreaking and discouraging when ICE succeeds in kidnapping someone despite the neighborhood showing up. But people showing up, delaying them, making ICE waste half their shift, is still an effective nonviolent organizing tactic especially at scale. The machine can be slowed down.
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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 03/04/2025
Trump has said many times that he thinks trade deficits are fiscal deficits. He sees an imbalance and thinks that country OWES US MONEY AND ISN'T PAYING. An under-reported part of his insane worldview.
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