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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 13h

you can disagree with this because of Vibes if you want. you can also look at voting history and see that Kagan has been on the right side of the (few) antitrust cases she's participated in on the Court, plus the major 2024 bribery case. she was obviously wrong to join McDonnell though (in 2015)

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 14h

nor is there any reason to think this action was taken out of class solidarity or fascism or corruption

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 14h

guys it is not Elena Kagan's fault that this merger is happening, please get a grip. if you do not understand this then simply do not lawpost

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.so... 39m

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i'm not a "both parties are the same" person, that's obviously not true, but it is true that everyone in the federal government exercises class solidarity with each other to some degree, and for SCOTUS that degree is something in the neighborhood of 99%

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social

Joined Apr '23 Bluesky Elder

The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.

[Screenshot of a Deadline post saying Kagan denied a last minute stay request]

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 16h

isn't the primary outcome of this stuff to reduce human agency? like, the whole thing is outsourcing your thinking and action to a bot? bots that are famously called "agents"?

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 16h

There's this understated "of course no one who cares about individual or collective privacy even a little bit should ever use this product for any reason" subtext to a lot of launch-adjacent Meta product coverage that gives way to blasé "7/10 because the battery life could be better" gadgetisms

theverge.com

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses actually make the future look cool

Still a novelty, but one that people might actually use.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 17h

polling. border crossings and these components of trans issues poll badly, and he thinks Dems can't swing the public by force of will

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 17h

anyway I'm just ranting into the void in the hopes of purging some of this from my brain

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 17h

(he also at one point said my morality isn't everyone's morality and it's presumptuous to impose it on everyone. that in particular has me despairing quite a bit)

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 17h

two examples used were he thinks that Biden should've kept Title 42 his whole term and that Dems should cede the issues of trans sports and youth transition entirely

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 17h

recently argued with someone I'm close with who is also a Chief of Staff to a member of Congress. core argument was he thinks it's appropriate for Dems to create or allow clearly unethical policy if it improves their chances of winning the next election. it really depressed me and I can't shake it

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 04/10/2026

September 30, 1996 - President Bill Clinton signed IIRIRA, which mandated detention without individualized custody hearings, created the 287(g) program and made far more crimes grounds for deporting green card holders, retroactively. learn more: doi.org/10.1177/2331...

The opening page of Division C of Public Law 104-208, dated September 30, 1996, titled "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996," followed by its short-title section and the start of a table of contents listing border enforcement provisions such as border patrol agents and improvement of barriers at the border.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the responses to this are so unhinged lmao. bluesky not beating the allegations

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

regret to announce the National Museum of African American History and Culture is a bit late in updating this exhibit

Supreme Court plaque with a history of cases that ends with Fischer v. University of Texas (which has since been overturned)

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve resisted calling ICE arrests/detention “disappearances.” But now ICE’s apparent policy is that in some cases, you might not even know if your loved one is still in the US. IDK what else to call that. documentedny.com/2026/10/02/i...

documentedny.com

The Throughline: Is ICE “Disappearing” Detainees?

ICE is deliberately withholding the locations of some detainees from lawyers and loved ones. At what point does that amount to “disappearing” them?

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i spent my thursday night sculpting 20 creatures so they could sing @themountaingoats.bsky.social. is that okay with everyone

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

good example of the "legally present" vs. "lawful status" distinction. she's allowed to be here but is also deportable whenever ICE finds a country who will take her. US immigration law is fundamentally cruel

Traore is in the United States legally on a 2011 “withholding of removal” order, which grants recipients legal protection from deportation to a country where they face harm or torture. She has no criminal history.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I repeat, the first step of reform that requires no complex new proposals is to just repeal IIRIRA

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

huge news if we can sue people for being unethical now

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

completely agree, the question of something being covered is different than the question of people reading it. information silos are an enormous problem for democracy and I have no idea how it gets fixed

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

10 minutes of googling btw stop lying on the internet for points

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

okay here's 6 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u... www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/u... www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... www.latimes.com/politics/sto... www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

okay but to be fair if I were a judge I wouldn't read this DOJ's briefs either

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master: His songs are stronger songs and his feet are faster.’ Tom opens the barrow, sings away its spell, and awakens Frodo’s companions.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

key to family separation running under the radar is that it isn't a Big Policy anymore. it's just the deportation machine quietly working as intended

Also different: The separations of the first Trump administration were the result of a distinct policy (“Zero Tolerance”) that, once brought to light, could be challenged in federal court. Today, family separations appear to be incidental—the consequence of a ruthless effort to hit a quota, no matter the cost. And this time, people with firsthand knowledge of separations are keeping quiet. Many temporary caregivers are undocumented themselves or have relatives who are; they worry that drawing attention would put their own families at risk. Government and nonprofit workers are also scared to speak up. The White House has attacked organizations that oppose its goals by cutting funding, launching dubious criminal investigations, and issuing retaliatory executive orders.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is like the prime use case pushed by adopters ("make this rote task quick and easy!") and it just doesn't work at all

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

decided to try using my work's in-house chatbot to scan 30 big documents and cite where certain information could be found in each one. gives me a good-looking response. start manually confirming, immediately discover a complete hallucination. great stuff

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I continue to think that most people not steeped in this stuff are missing the important point this attorney made. ICE and CBP do a lot of heinous, unethical shit, and pretty much all of it is legal. The laws governing immigration enforcement are so excessively permissive it's hard to break the law

The ACLU is suing to stop ICE's use of Guantanamo for immigration detainees, but that suit is still pending. Twin Cities immigration attorney Marc Prokosch, who represented Abdullah and three of the other Somali men held at Guantanamo, said in an interview Friday that because the detainees had deportation orders to their nation of origin, ICE's actions do not appear to run afoul of federal law.

"We can all debate the morality and the ethics of it, but legally, it seems like it was solid," Prokosch said.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I see multiple drivers every day blow through red lights or stop signs, plus many more staring at their phones. Literally watched someone drive three blocks while scrolling TikTok the other day. Another guy just had YouTube playing on the dash. It's so so bad out there

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

they're calling it the least compelling writing of all time

Marielys Padua Soto, Esq. Federal Immigration Attorney

Chimpanzees, Bees, and Borders: Understanding Migration Through Evolution

January 16, 2026

When people talk about migration, borders, and xenophobia, the conversation usually gets heated very fast. It becomes deeply personal. People argue about all sorts of things. But what if part of the reason these debates are so intense has less to do with policy and more to do with human nature? Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, offers an interesting metaphor that

may help explain why we react so strongly to outsiders.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a niche pseudo-controvery I can't look away from right now is the former immigration advocate who joined OPLA last year and now makes anti-immigrant bait posts on LinkedIn with accompanying AI art, then gets mad when people argue with her in the comments

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lots of thoughtful and good proposals for overhauling DHS and/or ICE, and lots of people saying nothing short of abolition is sufficient, but simply repealing IIRIRA would go a long way towards reform

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

important to underscore that third country removals can and do still happen. the thing they're running to SCOTUS about is being able to do it *without allowing the person to claim fear of torture or persecution*

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my priors, they're being confirmed bsky.app/profile/mfor...

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

their stance seems to be, "we are creating god, which humanity will inevitably do, and only we are capable of putting safe limits on it, but it's so much harder than anyone else can possibly understand." and like. shut up

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am not qualified to weigh in on technical specifics of AI and its capabilities. But these people sound insane, and I am increasingly sure it's because they're insane

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

plugging ERO efile as an option for attorneys. you'll get automated notifications anytime a client is booked into a new place

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you don't need to be admitted in immigration court. it's a form with DHS and you can just list the matter you represent your client in - criminal, immigration, habeas, whatever

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

on the off chance you don't know about this, you get automated transfer notifications if you have a G-28 through efile. that hasn't been affected

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