Reposted by Sam HalpertQuinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've grown quite impatient with the utter refusal of some reporters to speak directly and the overreliance on weak, nondescript words like "odd" and "interesting" 412831
Reposted by Sam HalpertBenjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've seen some debate about whether using the language of interiority for AI is just semantics or not. Again, I think Skinner is informative. He argued that one consequence of this language was to posit a subject as a moral actor who should be punished or rewarded for their actions. So he waged... 4407
Reposted by Sam HalpertOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The case of Canadian ICC judge Kimberly Prost being debanked by the United States — having her credit cards and online accounts frozen — shows why Canada, Europe, and others need to develop their own financial systems outside of US control.cbc.caANALYSIS | As Canada deepens ties with Europe, could it leave U.S. banks and dollars behind? | CBC NewsPrime Minister Mark Carney last week pointed to international payments as a system that "can be used as leverage against you" before telling the EU that he sees this as an area for "deep co-operation.... 213732
Reposted by Sam HalpertProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup. None of these people were appointed by the Congress to do any of these acts; it was a criminal coup. 327669
Reposted by Sam HalpertJulian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's hard to imagine a serious effort to fix the federal government that doesn't include court reform. This is not a generic point about bad faith judges. Successful political reform will require the root-and-branch elimination of interlocking con law doctrines that choke off legislative innovation 37122
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The House isn’t even in session now, right? Johnson is still single-handedly holding the doors shut? At some point, MoC need to insist that the Speaker’s decision to prevent them from deliberating during a Constitutional crisis is an unconstitutional violation of his oath of office. 173
Reposted by Sam HalpertMrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 24/09/2026Court orders aren’t something you “defy,” they’re something you violate 191341265
Reposted by Sam HalpertBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026yes more of this please ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics... 214135
Reposted by Sam HalpertChris Edelson @chrisedelson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026yes-trump has effectively gone to war w/Democratic-led states, which he sees as enemy territory. You can't have a president who sees parts of the country as the enemy--even Lincoln was more charitable toward states that actually went to war against the US: 1/2 www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-d...theunpopulist.netTrump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American CitiesLincoln faced a real insurrection and still did not go as far as this president 1106
Reposted by Sam HalpertAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is *vastly* worse to have Hegseth, Blanche, Patel, Mullin, etc. in place than where things stood with those offices Nov-Jan 2020/21. 1232
Reposted by Sam HalpertJen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Watching the response to the NHJ article, I’m struck by how, when an unequal system becomes a problem for each family to manage, we focus on how they navigated it, scoring the private choice instead of demanding that the public system remedy the inequality. 55914
Reposted by Sam HalpertDavid Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You should demand they leave. 03411
Reposted by Sam HalpertAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026For some context, this kind of local police to ICE pipeline has been a dream for decades. “Secure Communities” under Bush/Obama was an early iteration, but never got anywhere near the funding ICE has now. It generated enough backlash against Obama that ICE was reined in. Very different times now. 144673
Reposted by Sam HalpertCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026The whole thing about the "guns don't kill people" narrative is that we have a whole fucking law on the books that prevents us from holding gun manufacturers responsible for the harm caused by their extremely dangerous product. We don't have such a law on the books for AI. 311912
Reposted by Sam HalpertCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds. 52130475
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is why it doesn’t make sense to me to speculate about what to do *if* Trump attacks voting. *This* is the attack, on our confidence in the system. The goal is to lay the groundwork for setting aside the result. He’ll argue we can’t trust the election—& many may agree. Bc he’s ensured we can’t. 121
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If defenses of the US strike on a girl’s school in Iran assume that US commanders didn’t know it was a school, do facts like this shape the strength of that assumption? Is the US entitled to claim ignorance if it also explicitly disavowed its duty to know & dismantled systems intended to inform it? 181
Reposted by Sam HalpertA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The only thing they're persuading voters is they'll back down and fold to whatever fascist nonsense Republicans come up with, abandoning the real people affected by it to abuse, terror, deprivation, exclusion, and death. 18598141
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You can’t issue an order they can’t pretend to misunderstand; you have to observe that they’re operating in bad faith and ask for sanctions. The previous order was sufficiently clear to any person not seeking to willfully misinterpret it in order to subvert the court. This is a bad faith Presidency. 161
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Investigate this? There haven’t been consequences for his destruction of the East Wing, so the precedent stands: this is a thing he can do, that he will keep doing while he has power. Telling him “no” w/o taking his powers only provokes him. Impeachment isn’t a “fetish”. It’s the only practical path 3209
Reposted by Sam HalpertAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services?? 223561
Reposted by Sam HalpertAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You can have lots of arguments about if Jeffries should have forced a vote on Massie's impeachment resolution, but that was a choice. He could have done it. Johnson's procedural gambit only worked with Jeffries' passive acquiescence. 629041
Reposted by Sam HalpertBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court OrdersJudges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them. 34931438
Reposted by Sam HalpertAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The House can, if it wants, go all Sherlock Holmes on uncovering the hidden smoking gun over many tedious months of investigation. But it's a dumb exercise when the crime was committed in plain daylight, the relevant facts are all publicly known, and everyone's already made up their minds about it. 2266
Reposted by Sam HalpertAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Correct. Anybody else raising a question of privilege like this puts it on a two-day countdown. The minority leader has the perk that he can force the vote immediately, if he wants. 121068244
Reposted by Sam HalpertDan Izzo @izzos.net · 16/09/2026www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p... Ohhhhhh Mikey did NOT want to have to hold this vote...cnn.comHouse to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN PoliticsSpeaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o... 3254
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Time for another. In the 1830’s, bipartisan majorities banned MoC from bringing petitions re: slavery to the floor. Rep John Q Adams argued the “gag rule” unconstitutionally violated his 1A duty to his constituents & forced the issue of slavery to the floor *against* the rules. He did it every day. 0164
Reposted by Sam HalpertKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much. 7684771567
Reposted by Sam HalpertWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Cops sign 287(g) deal with ICE to nab immigrants No council vote. No public hearing or input No democracy, a police state 10395149
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026@raskin.house.gov it’s wild to claim you haven’t heard this from even “a single person” when Rep. Green is making it the defining point of his 20-year career in Congress. You’re entitled to your judgment, sir. But please be honest about it: you haven’t heard a single person *who you think matters*. 1147
Reposted by Sam HalpertLiz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Trump sued IRS, insists there's no collusive fraud on the court bc parties are totally different. Now his personal attys are getting sanctioned, DOJ is riding to the rescue. Because THESE TWO PARTIES ARE THE SAME. with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-doj...lawandchaospod.comTrump’s DOJ Lawyers Leap In To Save Trump’s Personal LawyersBecause these two things are the same. 511025
Reposted by Sam HalpertU.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 15/09/2026Rep. Al Green Votes to Impeach Trump for Covering Up the Deaths of Renee, Alex, Lorenzo, & Johan. You can watch Rep. Al Green’s remarks on the floor of the House by clicking here: youtu.be/BAj8JYJWUm8?...youtu.beRep. Al Green Votes to Impeach Trump for Covering Up the Deaths of Renee, Alex, Lorenzo, & JohanYouTube video by Rep. Al Green 17397128
Reposted by Sam HalpertAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026So that's two explicit votes for immediately ending democracy plus Kavanaugh signaling not now but maybe after the midterms. I don't feel great about how this is going to go when they keep pushing the USPS ballot ban in time for 2028. 822849
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“People may say, ‘well, I think we need to have an investigation.’ We’ll have a trial in the Senate!…If we impeach, then there will be a trial. Let’s not believe that we have to have a trial in the House before we can impeach & send to the Senate.” @algreen.house.gov www.youtube.com/live/x8_s3fR...youtube.comLIVE FROM D.C.: Rep. Al Green addresses NEW articles of impeachment against TrumpYouTube video by Free Speech For People 264
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Trump has signed a document asserting “Citizenship is a privilege; Citizenship is a gift”—never mind that SCOTUS *just* ruled that citizenship is a right. ICE’s attacks on US citizens are not errors. They are not crimes solely attributable to individual agents. Trump put his name to this idea. 1113
Reposted by Sam HalpertAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026DHS's OIG also confirms people were punished in tiny outdoor cages. We knew they existed but had never seen pictures. The OIG calls these outdoor metal cages "unprecedented" and "highly unconventional," and says they were a "significant risk[] to detainee health and well-being." 22884231
Reposted by Sam HalpertPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Public opinion is dynamic. It exists to BE SHAPED. And it is ONLY a resource. It does nothing on its own. 236961
Reposted by Sam HalpertSam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Dems imagine that trans rights, immigrant rights, are ballast—weight they can shed to gain altitude. Human rights, community care, ardent attention to the dignity of all people—it’s not ballast. It’s the air in the balloon. 425570
Reposted by Sam HalpertJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The news here is that (1) the UCLA chancellor lacks a basic understanding of how our legal system works, and of the role that criminal defense attorneys play in it, (2) UCLA's commitment to "institutional neutrality" is a joke. www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comUCLA chancellor rebukes law school event featuring attorney of alleged 9/11 'mastermind'After a UCLA law school symposium on 9/11 that featured an attorney who represented alleged 9/11 'mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk issued a rare message distancing the u... 1216851
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“How many more lives must we lose, and how many more loved ones of victims have to plead for help before the self-evident evidence from videos and President Trump’s own words compel us to act?“ @algreen.house.gov will say this alone, if he has to. Because it has to be said. 171
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026@raskin.house.gov are you referring to your colleagues in Congress, or do you mean a single person generally? Because if you haven’t heard this from even “a single person”, you haven’t been listening to your constituents or your colleagues on Oversight, apparently. 132
Reposted by Sam HalpertProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I do think this a key question: who will be the next House Counsel? I might get Marc Elias or Norm Eisen on speed dial; I would trust their opinions. I also might (cough, cough) have an hearing on Administrative Law to explain it to the American People. 3296
Reposted by Sam HalpertTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Two months ago today, Johan Sebastián Guerrero was murdered by ICE in Biddeford. Susan Collins voted to give ICE $70 billion a month before his killing. ICE needs to be abolished, full stop. 18707198
Reposted by Sam HalpertJoe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If the Executive can raise and spend $1.2 trillion, we have abandoned the constitutional order. 0309
Reposted by Sam HalpertSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026we can adjust this to "people in the Western democracies" + "liberal democracy" i feel 215418
Reposted by Sam HalpertJohn Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026idgaf about "efficiency" or "productivity" when it comes to spending the time necessary to encourage kids to read, think, and speak well. this is the whole ballgame. 0132
