Reposted by PeterKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 592603895
Reposted by Peterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16hinteresting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic” 18665091023
Reposted by PeterCarey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 21hFrom @sahalied.bsky.social on Twitter: "After leaving this morning’s hearing, AM Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn is served contempt papers over the Sunday night meeting she and allies convened to elect a new leader of Brooklyn Dems despite a temporary injunction being in place." 515824
Reposted by PeterJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 322904632
Reposted by PeterKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 222832961
Reposted by PeterHell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 05/10/2026Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and the outgoing leadership of the Brooklyn Democrats have been summoned to court to face contempt charges after holding a Zoom meeting at 10 p.m. last night to select new leadership, in direct defiance of a judicial order. hellgatenyc.com/zombie-brook... 320634
Reposted by PeterMiles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The NY Times framing every fascist as tough strong & brilliant, and not a dumb racist liar, is one of many ways the NY Times tells Democrats that they are Not On Our Side, and Dems mostly choose not to listennytimes.comKaroline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox NewsA fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network. 17966194
Reposted by PeterSam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the thing to remember about the global far-right is that it is fundamentally a movement of unhappy freaks who scapegoat immigrants for their own inadequacies 362680
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’m not so sure, calling a 10 pm meeting on a Sunday night after multiple judges told you not to sounds more like desperation than confidence 120
Reposted by PeterGil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026It’s not just one billionaire. It’s a full-blown cult of billionaires who believe dictatorship should replace democracy—and that technology (crypto and AI) will make this inevitable. They say it loud. Some guy just wrote a book about it (That guy is me!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...simonandschuster.comThe Nerd ReichNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires ... 7954237
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Is Altman going to compensate everyone else for the “bad things” that will simply have to happen to make him and other oligarchs incredibly rich? 020
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026there must be some real skeletons in closets for the bk dems stop the steal caucus to violate multiple explicit court orders like this 2213
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026cancel culture is out of controlknightedgemedia.comStephen Colbert's 'Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past' Paused Post-Merger (EXCLUSIVE)With Paramount Pictures-Warner Brothers merger now officially complete the newly formed conglomerate is hitting pause on Stephen Colbert's Lord of the Rings film, Shadow of the Past. 020
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The GOP attack on Jack Smith for only seeking phone records of Republican members of Congress is inconceivably dumb. Of course those are the records he’s seeking, nobody is accusing Trump of conspiring with Democrats to direct the 1/6 MAGA terrorist insurrection attempt. 001
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026McDavid decided to go for a pure Jumbo Joe stat line of zero goals and 300 assists this year 000
Reposted by PeterTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This reminds me of this bonkers story from the Marshall Project: www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/f... ... which was also told on the podcast Crime Show: open.spotify.com/episode/0MfW... Anyway. It sort of shifted how I think about DNA evidence.themarshallproject.orgFramed for Murder by His Own DNAWe leave traces of our genetic material everywhere, even on things we’ve never touched. That got Lukis Anderson charged with a brutal crime he didn’t commit. 316028
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Committee to Abolish the Strike Zone for Republican Presidents, Chaired by John Roberts 000
Reposted by PeterCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571692054
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If your entire personality on this website is “everybody else is wrong and stupid and I alone am smart enough to have the secret knowledge” contrarianism, you don’t get to complain and call it a bubble when a lot of people disagree with you. It’s barely a step above trolling. 000
Reposted by PeterWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...inquirer.comWe need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will BunchThe media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy. 891818706
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026honestly enjoyed almost nothing about the movie, there wasn’t even good fashion 110
Reposted by PeterKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I bet insurance companies are thrilled with the Trump administration‘s message to policyholders that they need to file claims on every policy they have or they might risk losing it. 462012361
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026MAGA is running a human trafficking ring out of a black site in Lower Manhattan 010
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So lucky that all the press, op-eds, publicity, and profit immediately materialized after she made her totally spontaneous and principled decision after hearing Oprah speak 030
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hey do any of those voters of color in Texas count as working class? It’s pretty revealing that to use the description for one group and intentionally omit it for the other! 1160
Reposted by PeterAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026The free speech™️ people are at it again. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 19959263
Reposted by PeterAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If you’re a random person and you have to deal with death threats and harassment from internet stalkers, it’s my understanding that the FBI basically ignores you in most circumstances. But the Millers are so powerful they can demote the head of the FBI’s DC field office for investigating too slow. 43793291
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s not “rare authority,” it’s brazenly unconstitutional. 000
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Nice little aside in that article about how he stole 300 million Americans’ Social Security information immediately after SCOTUS let Trump illegally give it back to DOGE 0202
Reposted by PeterScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.cnn.comFBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN PoliticsThe FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with... 281557899
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Continuing to defend the egregious prosecutorial misconduct in the grand jury should get an ethics referral 130
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI and gambling companies are the 2020s equivalent of the Sackler family in the 2010s and the cigarette industry in the 1990s 000
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This makes Boutros and the DOJ look even worse than before, sure, but it doesn’t make Mecklenberg look any better. Everybody being in the same cesspool of unethical misconduct doesn’t make her any less unethical. 111
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One overarching theme of the Roberts Court is that voting rights are simply not that important to the six MAGA justices. They don’t even bother to acknowledge harms to the franchise, let alone articulate a standard of scrutiny. 030
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026LPC is a scam. It’s not historic preservation, it’s NYC’s HOA. 000
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Rough approximationstatic.klipy.comLeonardo DiCaprio Laughing as Jay GatsbyALT: Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing as Jay Gatsby 040
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Roberts Court has found one neat trick for balancing the equities to produce its preferred outcome: simply erase the harms to the disfavored side 1406
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the bk dems coup caucus shouldn’t have any role in city politics, not just because they are disgraced deniers, but because they are totally incompetent to even run the meeting they where planned to do the election theft 030
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The faction of the Brooklyn Democratic Party that’s spent months having an increasingly pathetic temper tantrum in an effort to steal an election they lost embarrasses themselves more each day 120
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026bibi reminding everyone of the gutter racism of andrew cuomo’s failed mayoral campaign and why Zohran is more popular than Bibi among American Jews 031
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the money-grubbing hypocrisy of money in college sports in one perfect nutshellon3.comBrian Kelly on proposed $5 million salary cap for coaches: 'I think it's hard to cap the coaches'. 010
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Cannot stress enough that beyond being an unreconstructed neo-confederate, Tommy Tuberville is one of the dumbest people to ever walk the halls of Congress, and it’s a very low bar. 020
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026the thing is these AI cultists actually believe this stuffwsj.comZuckerberg’s Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AIMeta’s CEO is promoting a future where artificial intelligence is increasingly intertwined with people’s lives. 120
Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You’re only English if your ancestry traces directly to one of the laborers who built the first phase of Stonehenge in 3100 BCE. 000