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A California public defender.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Police have killed nearly 1000 people this year so far. That doesn't include deaths in custody.
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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People following the Cornell case keep asking the same questions about Jane Doe. Why did she text one of the men afterward? Why didn't she call it rape right away? Why didn't she see herself as a victim from the start? My last three articles take these questions on. 🧵
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Except, unlike in real life, Netflix can be sued by “prisoners” for any abuse they suffered so their lawyers will intervene in a way that prison lawyers won’t.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What a trash person.
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NEW: Mike Rogers is campaigning against Abdul el-Sayed based on what el-Sayed supporter Hasan Piker has said. But who's looking at the anti-American radicals supporting Rogers? They’re not hard to find. I found some because I’ve already reported on them.
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Rogers Touts Backer Who’s “Not Necessarily” on America’s Side
“Whose side do we wanna be on?” backer of GOP Senate candidate asked, “Not the United States of America, necessarily.”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a Sunday reminder for Washingtonians out there Washington is the only state where a MAJORITY of the state Supreme Court is on the ballot, all at once a very rare situation no party label on the ballot but candidates are still aligned with parties! important to learn: boltsmag.org/your-state-b...
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ite obvious that the UCLA Chancellor Frenk loves the post 9/11 National Security State that has developed and shows this support by shaming anyone who examines these other consequences of 9/11.
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yeah why — at a conference about the long-lasting consequences of 9/11 — would a law program include an atty representing a guy who was being tried in a US military court and who was so tortured by US agents that even the mil judge threw out the confession… Chancellor obv loves the 9/11 consequences
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Legal? If it were possible, ask why Republicans arent doing it NOW when they control the entire US Government! It is another Trump grift!
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Jesus. YES WE WERE! TELLING TEENAGERS NOT TO GET PREGNANT! What a-holes…
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wow, you lost the plot pretty quickly.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hormuz crossings: @bloomberg.com
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 26/08/2026
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026
Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social--on how Black migration via the Great Migration led northern cities to replace mayors with appointed city managers--has found a home at Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) ungated page proofs: drive.google.com/file/d/1bFea...
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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Only Ohioans would pay him for sex.
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Victim“ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Should have described him/her as “the idiot who dropped their own money and lost it.” (I mean it happens but who goes to the police about it??)
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gosh this guy sounds like a dick.
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Are they two guys who suck? Maybe you should do a podcast episode about famous men who reportedly stole the work of women: Einstein apparently got credit for relativity theory but his ex wife got the nobel prize money. Orwell‘s wife may have basically written Animal Farm…
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Bryan Johnson is so gross and creepy. I don’t understand why media would platform him? Does he pay them for it??
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Im reading James Loewen’s “Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism,“ & his thesis that “all white” enclaves will lead to exclusion of all the groups & attract other white supremacists and white supremacist institutions pretty much explains the rise of MAGA and its incompetence…
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Does it ever feel like you're in a cage being watched? Well, you are. By Flock cameras, thanks to Mike Rogers.
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Strong ”would boil the rabbit” vibes…
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Last week I posted these national results and messed up the local ones (used US pop as the per cap base for each state). Here are the revised real police spending per 100K. The unit here is state-level aggregates of local (city and county but not state or fed) spending. No real defund anywhere.
Generally upward sloping lines, though some are flat from ~2000 onwards. No noticeable drops.Generally upward sloping lines, though some are flat from ~2000 onwards. No noticeable drops.Generally upward sloping lines, though some are flat from ~2000 onwards. No noticeable drops, except in MI and NJ, and even then well above 1980s and 1990s.Generally upward sloping lines, though some are flat from ~2000 onwards. No noticeable drops, except NY, and still well above all 1980, 1990, and most 2000 levels.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 16/08/2026
US DOJ finds 'unbroken pattern' of sexual abuse by California prison staff A two-year federal investigation found decades of staff sexual abuse against incarcerated women at California correctional facilities.
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US DOJ finds 'unbroken pattern' of sexual abuse by California prison staff
A two-year federal investigation found decades of staff sexual abuse against incarcerated women at California correctional facilities.
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
👍 Yeahh I shouldnt have said “major defense contractor” when the Trump Admin is handing out no-bid contracts to cronies w/ no experience & other outlets are reporting that companies can get the money w/o any deliverables 😔 : www.propublica.org/article/gene...
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Future POTUS and Congress will need to enact large middle-class tax hikes, and likely couple it with even further entitlement cuts Normally it wouldn't "really" matter with the dollar as the reserve currency, the petrodollar system, etc -- but Trump is f*cking that up in addition to spending $$$$$
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
And probably he was with one of his “friends” (a major defense contractor) whose eyes immediately (and literally) turned into dollar signs when he heard this idea. “Oh, yessir, Mr. President, we could definitely do that.”
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/08/2026
Flock told 404 Media in an email it never executed the partnership with Nexar. But the presentation still shows Flock’s ambitious plan to conscript rideshare and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its network. www.404media.co/flock-pitche...
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Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.
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Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The third category of alleged "excesses" are simply real issues the right disagrees with. However you feel about the slogan "defund the police," shifting police resources to social spending isn't particularly radical — and the need for police reform is still urgent. Also, it didn't happen!
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are you sure re the Delsey? My husband has a Delsey that measures abt 55x35x20cm and he uses it for all his intl travel (he travels a lot). We were in the opposite situation as you: couldn’t use our European luggage as carry ons in the US bc too big but my husband had no problems.
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Also maybe back in the pre-vaccine day, more children were dying of vaccine-preventable diseases before they *could* be diagnosed…
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
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She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Alice Sebold, the Wrong Man and Syracuse’s Buried Rape Crisis — ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/alic...
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The Wrong Man: The Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for y...
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 01/07/2026
🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hmm. Do you think he would be interested in buying some land I own that has leprechauns??
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I would think that would violate the Privileges and Immunities clause for the USPS to treat citizens‘ mail differently depending upon their State…
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This also means that the GOP has still not flipped any legislative seat anywhere in the country since the fall of 2024. Dems have flipped roughly 30 in that period.
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Prague, Lake Bled (Slovenia), Bolzano/ Dolomites, Liechtenstein… Check out the Man in Seat 61. He has a lot of info re using trains around Europe and it may give you ideas (his site it the best for transport info in E Europe/Balkans): www.seat61.com/internationa...
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Trains from Salzburg to other European cities | 2026 times & tickets
How to travel by train from Salzburg to other European cities, including Salzburg to Munich, Salzburg to Paris, Salzburg to Vienna, Salzburg to Amsterdam or Brussels, Salzburg to Prague, Salzburg to B...
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loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
😶 Democratic Absences Mean Trump Lawyer Is Now a Judge for Life. Reminder that the Dems could have changed the outcome of Trump's disastrous budget bill with the # who died in office. newrepublic.com/post/211954/... via @newrepublic.com
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Democratic Absences Mean Trump Lawyer Is Now a Judge for Life
Justin Smith, 41, was confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship after multiple Democrats missed the vote.
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This *could* have been Mitch McConnell if he whipped the votes of 10 GOP Senators to convict that guy. Alas…
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Danielle Welch for Congress (NY-03) @votewelch.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Here's your weekend update, NY-03! Early voting has begun, which means it is time to replace The Fellowship Foundation's Tom Suozzi with a real Democrat (me)! Early voting: 6/13-21 Election day: 6/23 Learn more: votewelch.com
Image of Stefon from SNL'S "Weekend Update" sketch. 

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DC's hottest new club is C Street. This place has everything.  Weird interventions. Congressmen with nothing to hide but their address and cheap rent. Prayer breakfasts celebrating Capitalist Jesus.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Well my guillotine company goes public next week
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
JFC. Ofc NC would deny US citizens the right to vote even tho fed law authorizes it. Lawless for the court to decide that state law trumps fed law.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 07/06/2026
Lawmakers must reject VPN bans to ensure that U.S. journalists can rely on this important privacy tool, and that all Americans remain free to access information online. Now is not the time to outlaw resources that can keep our freedoms secure.
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How journalists rely on VPNs to protect press freedom
Recent attempts to ban VPNs to stop users from evading age-verification laws are a growing threat to journalism
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A Public Defender @pubdef.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I think Repubs have been pushing the SAVE Act because they do see how voters abroad swing against them. In GA & AZ in 2020 absentee ballots more than covered the difference between Trump and Biden. Bc voters abroad are largely Dems, eliminating that block could make a difference in elections.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
New jail construction is quietly booming across the United States. inthesetimes.com/article/no-n...
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No New Beds
How one coalition is challenging the construction of mega-jails in Georgia.
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