Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialMike H @mjh878.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Sharing, just in case anyone needs a gift version… we’re not always mean - just occasionally ;-) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThirty-Two Short Stories About Death in PrisonThese stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him. 520137
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Thanks to “institutional neutrality” an African American law prof couldn’t offer a course with “inequality” in the title, but a self-described white nationalist could win a prize for writing a paper that reads like a Klan manifesto. 301526413
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2025this wonderful piece from @profmsinha.bsky.social gets to what was truly great about lincoln — his open mind and great capacity for moral growth www.theunpopulist.net/p/abraham-li...theunpopulist.netAbraham Lincoln Wasn't Born an Abolitionist, He Became OneWe live in polarized times when freedom is threatened but this Juneteenth we should remind ourselves that we have overcome far worse 7355031260
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialDliok ・ᴥ・VGen Comms open! @dliok.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Field 🌼 #illustration #art 4608212
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialClaudia Alick @callingupjustice.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Star Wars v America. Samesies? 📽️ 25689197
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/06/2025The Minnesota assassinations, the attempted arson at Governor Shapiro's home, and the violent arrest of Senator Padilla are all straight out of the Jim Crow terrorism playbook. Same goes with cops aiming for journalists covering the ICE protests. None of these are new tactics, just a new iteration. 10669562112
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2025Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination" 21353621113197
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Americas starter Pokémon 173150013437
koifishcassidy.bsky.social @koifishcassidy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Squirrel eats only the jam off bread then tosses the 🍞 020
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past 804507729671
koifishcassidy.bsky.social @koifishcassidy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Huge turnout in D.C. today #handsoff 021
koifishcassidy.bsky.social @koifishcassidy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Do you think the ducks like cherry blossom season as much as D.C. does? 030
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialStar★Salts @starsalts.bsky.social · 31/03/2025To change is to grow and to grow is to evolve 💙💖🤍 [ #transdayofvisibility #art #pokemon ] 121864832
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialJoshferatu Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately 2661721765
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialNintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] @nintendoamericax.bsky.social · 27/03/2025DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake, a modernized version of two legendary JRPGs, continues the ‘Erdrick Trilogy’ narrative of the iconic DRAGON QUEST series. Coming to #NintendoSwitch in 2025. #NintendoDirect 132675
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialRaccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 25/03/2025 113523
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialPrison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 24/03/2025"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."prisonjournalismproject.orgWhen Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 YearsI had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass. 3756351096
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialpoorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 24/03/2025no one: spiders: 61415185
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 20/03/2025Teen Vogue presents: Introducing Vivian Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social In her 2nd-ever interview, the 20-year-old tells @ellayurman.bsky.social about going viral, protecting trans youth, her “pathetic man-child” estranged dad Elon Musk, and more @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian... 10485141853
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialMerrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 17/03/2025We have some new friends who could use your help. We recently became aware of a small group of sheep who were living in filthy, inhumane conditions and scheduled for slaughter. They are safe now but need complete vetting and care - please consider donating if you can! donorbox.org/mmfs-party-o... 3375103
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/03/2025After ICE came knocking at her door, a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University fled to Canada. “The atmosphere seemed so volatile and dangerous. So I just made a quick decision.”nytimes.comHow a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for HerRanjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey. 711044285
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution 1047324784869
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialTahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 09/03/2025There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now. The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers. 7176162131
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter: 845195915438
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Very proud of my alma mater, and Dean Treanor especially, for standing up to Ed Martin’s flagrantly unconstitutional bullying. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... 436060
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/02/2025being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality) 335136831443
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialBenjamin @hobcaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025media.tenor.coma cartoon character says ah wallet inspector while standing next to another manAlt: From “The Simpsons” - a character says “ah, wallet inspector” while a group hands over their wallets 031
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialThom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 09/02/2025The news remains shit so why not enjoy this video of someone trying to clean a water bowl for tortoises while the tortoises repeatedly try to get in it? (Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DF0jAMl... ) 11351101923
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialSam 🐈⬛ @sammakescoolstuff.bsky.social · 08/02/2025In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊 351217406591
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialJohn Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 04/02/2025So far they've been proved right. WAPO: "So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once,” said David Super, of Georgetown Law School. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.comU.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegalThe billionaire’s DOGE team has launched an all-out assault on federal agencies, triggering numerous legal objections. 45115
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialNoah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Kind of delicious that after all that it turns out the humanities are load bearing for the republic and we’re all going to die because a bunch of bros never bothered to take a history class 940773
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialBenjamin @hobcaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I may write on this, but one last point: Trump/Musk crippling state capacity would make this more of a possibility if Congress appointed a willing Acting President 011
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Ok but seriously. Some good times. Please, let them roll 212807182
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/20251. Getting word that we have another anti-trans EO tonight, this time targeting teachers. It directs the federal government to work with state AGs to put teachers who use trans kids pronouns in jail through "sexual exploitation" laws or "practicing medicine without a license." From a RW source: 18435471149
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/01/2025A few things: 1. He’s calling for the establishment of a concentration camp that will operate mostly outside of US law 2. Guantanamo’s detention center was originally built to imprison migrants (from Haiti and Cuba mostly) 3. Then it was ramped up to house others 4. As will, surely, this one 77801249
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialGeorgetown Law @georgetownlaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025“Without respect for the Rule of Law — whether it’s the Constitution, the Impoundment Control Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, or federal merit employment statutes — the fundamental structure of our democracy is at risk," says #GeorgetownLaw's David Super: bit.ly/3WH11QSbit.ly“A Brazen Violation”: Three Legal Experts Weigh in On Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze“This is an extraordinary power grab,” says law professor Paul Schiff Berman. 041
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth 862146946790
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/01/2025To be clear, this doesn't make it any more lawful; it just makes it *slightly* less awful. 2026460
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialBenjamin @hobcaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I’m surprised no one has filed articles of impeachment. They wouldn’t go anywhere, but symbols work. Dems should be making every illegal executive action a major issue 0111
Reposted by @koifishcassidy.bsky.socialBenjamin @hobcaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2025It unfortunately seems Trump is declaring war on breakfast 111
