Reposted by Kyle BarryPeter @plawman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I recently tried a felony murder case in NY. The idea that our laws can punish any participant - even one unarmed far from the scene - in a felony leading to an unintentional homicide with a life sentence no differently than if they'd intentionally killed someone in cold blood is manifestly unjust. 031
Reposted by Kyle BarryCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi... 46079473375
Reposted by Kyle BarryKyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In which ghoulish prosecutors openly admit that the ‘felony murder’ rule exists only so that they can threaten & punish people for things they didn’t do, prosecute crimes they can’t prove, and trick juries to convict when they otherwise wouldn’t. www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus... 121
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In which ghoulish prosecutors openly admit that the ‘felony murder’ rule exists only so that they can threaten & punish people for things they didn’t do, prosecute crimes they can’t prove, and trick juries to convict when they otherwise wouldn’t. www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus... 121
Reposted by Kyle BarryPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/202630 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"actionnews5.comPrison inmates help to pay down school lunch debtA school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates. 418105472544
Reposted by Kyle BarryKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 280173944955
Reposted by Kyle Barryjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026right now, the best hegseth can hope for is to be remembered as a staggeringly incompetent defense secretary who gutted military leadership, tried to reimpose segregation in the highest ranks, and led the military to its worst strategic defeat in at least a generation.nytimes.comThe Battle to Save General Donahue From Hegseth’s Army PurgeGen. Christopher T. Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career? 1253297711
Reposted by Kyle BarryNBC News @nbcnews.com · 04/09/2026Maryland voters will get to decide in November on a congressional redistricting amendment being pushed by Democrats as part of a nationwide battle for control of the U.S. House in future elections.nbcnews.toMaryland’s top court allows Democratic-backed congressional redistricting measure on November ballotThe decision is a notable victory for Democrats, who are trying to counter a Republican redistricting movement pushed by President Donald Trump. 13012
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If the @nytimes.com wants to cover weddings like they are news, then it should issue a correction whenever the couple gets divorced. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/s...nytimes.comThird Time Was the Charm for a Founder of Meet Cutes NYCAaron Feinberg, who is popular on social media for documenting people’s love stories, can now put that advice into practice with Ali Parsons. 000
Reposted by Kyle BarryCongressman Wesley Bell @repwesleybellmo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026🚨Democracy scored a major victory in Missouri today. Our Supreme Court blocked the Trump-backed gerrymandering efforts, ruling 7-0 that the power belongs where it always should: with the voters! Over 305,000 Missourians demanded a say, and now they'll get one. apnews.com/article/redi...apnews.comMissouri court blocks Trump-backed US House map and orders it to be put to a voteThe Missouri Supreme Court has blocked a new U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the November election. 0149
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I feel like the Foxconn scandal, which very much remains ongoing, should be a bigger part of anti-Trump messaging. Like, massive public investment in exchange for a promised 13,000 jobs turned into 1,000 jobs and maybe a data center. It’s so insane and blatant. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/w...nbcchicago.comWhat happened to Foxconn? A look at the $1.2 billion spent and where it all wentIn 2018, President Donald Trump came to southeast Wisconsin to proclaim the coming of “the eighth wonder of the world.” But what actually happened? 011
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Ardent opponent of civil rights and racial justice to leave state supreme court bsky.app/profile/chri... 000
Reposted by Kyle Barryjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel. 8843771009
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Funny how the standing analysis came out so differently when states who had lost absolutely nothing sued to block Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. bsky.app/profile/kels... 010
Reposted by Kyle BarryTim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Don’t let a single Republican, especially the president, get away with offering their condolences. 25113
Reposted by Kyle BarryYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/08/2026West Sacramento has suspended work on its riverfront streetcar project… in part because the Trump Administration has failed to advance funding for it. The Trump DOT has not signed a single full grant agreement for a new transit project since it entered office. Zero projects funded.onsiteobserver.comWest Sacramento pauses work on long-planned riverfront streetcar projectWest Sacramento has suspended additional work and spending on the long-planned Downtown Riverfront Streetcar project 211127
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Insane, yes, but also typical. Creating crime where none exists is a well-worn strategy of American policing. bsky.app/profile/futu... 010
Reposted by Kyle BarryKyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026And here's another unfathomably cruel prosecution, this one from Florida, that uses the arcane "felony murder" doctrine to turn a tragic accident into murder --a must read from the great @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/florid...huffpost.comShe Forgot The Baby In A Hot Car. Every Moment Since Has Been Hell.The case against Rhonda Jewell threatens to upend a foundational principle of the U.S. legal system. 011
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026And here's another unfathomably cruel prosecution, this one from Florida, that uses the arcane "felony murder" doctrine to turn a tragic accident into murder --a must read from the great @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/florid...huffpost.comShe Forgot The Baby In A Hot Car. Every Moment Since Has Been Hell.The case against Rhonda Jewell threatens to upend a foundational principle of the U.S. legal system. 011
Reposted by Kyle BarryJessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026In 2023, Rhonda Jewell accidentally left 10-month-old Ariya in a hot car, resulting in the baby's death. Rhonda was acquitted of manslaughter — which would have required a finding of culpable negligence — but convicted of third-degree felony murder www.huffpost.com/entry/florid...huffpost.comA Baby Died In A Tragic Accident. Why Was It Treated As Murder?The case against Rhonda Jewell threatens to upend a foundational principle of the U.S. legal system. 65527
Reposted by Kyle BarryGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It’s weird how stays that benefit Trump are always kept in place and stays that stop him are always lifted. It’s almost as if there’s some of pattern behind legal procedure at work…. 431773412
Reposted by Kyle Barryr o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026found out Larry David just starts verbally abusing Alan Dershowitz whenever he sees him, this is very good 693664516
Reposted by Kyle Barrypdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Maine and Vermont are the whitest states in America. They also have never stripped the right to vote from people with felony convictions. It's not a coincidence. "The Maine model ain't happening in Louisiana."boltsmag.orgMaine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - BoltsMaine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process. 236079
Reposted by Kyle BarryRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right 1101286176347
Reposted by Kyle BarryKyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The @colorofchange.bsky.social endorsed Gwinnett County DA, Patsy Austin-Gatson, has turned this tragedy into a murder prosecution against a grieving mom who fled abuse while facing poverty & rasing kids w severe health needs. Unconscionable. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... 001
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The @colorofchange.bsky.social endorsed Gwinnett County DA, Patsy Austin-Gatson, has turned this tragedy into a murder prosecution against a grieving mom who fled abuse while facing poverty & rasing kids w severe health needs. Unconscionable. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... 001
Reposted by Kyle BarrySam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.youtube.comThe pundits have completely lost the plotYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 7729261019
Reposted by Kyle BarryTim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Update: After watching her Outside Lands set, I'm convinced the MUSIC, FASHION, FILM material is better live. Rocks harder, hits deeper, feels way more urgent. And the BRAT songs aren't losing any of their luster, either. 082
Reposted by Kyle BarryKyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 11/08/2026In CA, 86% (!!!) of people < age 26 sentenced to LWOP are people of color. Today SLRI & MacArthur Justice Center filed a brief arguing that this discriminatory and counterproductive sentencing practice violates CA’s constitution—a holding long overdue. state-law-research.org/wp-content/u... 031
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 11/08/2026In CA, 86% (!!!) of people < age 26 sentenced to LWOP are people of color. Today SLRI & MacArthur Justice Center filed a brief arguing that this discriminatory and counterproductive sentencing practice violates CA’s constitution—a holding long overdue. state-law-research.org/wp-content/u... 031
Reposted by Kyle BarryDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Scenes from a personalist regime; The President”s personal lawyer is sworn into high office by another of the Presidents’s personal lawyers, now a judge 552010571
Reposted by Kyle BarryKyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026New state constitutional rights against LWOP, de facto life terms, sex offense registration, double jeopardy prosecutions, and police searches … all in the last three weeks. Think the Warren Court was cool? Look what the Michigan Supreme Court is doing slri.substack.com/p/the-michig... 031
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026New state constitutional rights against LWOP, de facto life terms, sex offense registration, double jeopardy prosecutions, and police searches … all in the last three weeks. Think the Warren Court was cool? Look what the Michigan Supreme Court is doing slri.substack.com/p/the-michig... 031
Reposted by Kyle BarryRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Re-up: My heavily-documented cases for Thom Tillis and Bill Cassidy as spineless, whimpering cowards who have allowed untold death and destruction because they're terrified of a senile old man. radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-i... radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-i...radleybalko.substack.comProfiles in poltroonery: Senator Bill CassidyThe Louisiana senator and physician could have stopped the world's worst antivaxer from taking over the regulation of vaccines. He didn't. And now we're paying for it. 1429987
Reposted by Kyle BarryCharlie Nelson Keever @charliechaya.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Proud to join my colleagues at USF in standing up for the rule of law and the integrity of the legal system. Read our full statement here: sites.google.com/view/usfca-l...sites.google.comHomeA Statement from Faculty at the University of San Francisco School of Law 062
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Babe wake up new Justice Eddins just dropped bsky.app/profile/kyle... 050
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 22/07/2026New from the SLRI newsletter: Drop What You’re Doing And Bask In This State Supreme Court Justice’s Latest Broadside Against The U.S. Supreme Court open.substack.com/pub/slri/p/d... 1104
Reposted by Kyle BarryTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026NEW: It's not something you see everyday nowadays: A state run by Republicans has expanded voting rights. Missouri adopted a law last week that rolls back felony disenfranchisement, restoring voting rights to tens of thousands of people who are currently on probation and parole. Learn more:boltsmag.orgGOP-Run Missouri Becomes Latest State to Roll Back Felony Disenfranchisement - BoltsA new law will restore voting rights for tens of thousands of people on probation and parole. It’s a departure from other GOP bills this session to restrict democracy. 24799203
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 19/07/2026JD Vance appears in this several times, and right after it came out Ross Douthat interviewed Vance at length for the @nytimes.com during which he asked not one question about these highly-detailed allegations or Vance’s and his administration’s direct support of the Tates. bsky.app/profile/anna... 130
Reposted by Kyle BarryAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026If you haven’t read this in full it’s a gutwrenching account of both the sickening serial rape allegations against them and how many friends they have in the Trump administration: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comAndrew Tate’s Empire of AbuseHow the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. 341347539
Reposted by Kyle BarryPacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 08/01/2026A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts. Content-warning descriptions of abuse Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025. 8538362368
Reposted by Kyle BarryRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/07/2026They aren't claiming the officer feared for his life, but "feared for public safety" when Guerrero attempted to flee. But he was not the target of the warrant. Which means they had no reason to think he was dangerous. Fleeing an immigration stop does not make you a threat to public safety.cnn.comDHS breaks hours of silence on deadly ICE shooting in Maine, saying officer was ‘fearing for public safety’ | CNNThe man in the fatal shooting was identified by his neighbor as 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero from Colombia. 581478444
Reposted by Kyle BarryMicah @rincewind.run · 14/07/2026this is the closest ICE has ever come to saying "yeah we just murdered a guy" 283154690
Reposted by Kyle BarryKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026JUST IN: 13th straight rejection of DOJ's legal effort to compel states to turn over their voter rolls. George W. Bush-appointed Judge Thomas Johnston wonders what DOJ is really driving at. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 12678942093
Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 13/07/2026If the New York State Bar wants my $375 next March then it better fucking disbar Todd Blanche bsky.app/profile/coun... 120