Reposted by Sean Lew-SarraMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11hI am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now. 8613857510256
Reposted by Sean Lew-SarraStatus Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 14h🚨"We want ICE the f*ck out of our neighborhood! I am pissed off, I am outraged, ICE does not belong in the Bronx or anywhere in this city!" -Vanessa Gibson, Bronx Borough President, after ICE shot man in the Bronx with his 5-year-old in the back seat. WE'RE LIVE NOW🔽 20887346
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026someone set up a superpac in case anyone sees a tall, depressed polymath country lawyer walking around quoting psalms 1101
Reposted by Sean Lew-SarraKevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Brnovich and Callais have done nearly the same to the sword. For the first time since 1965, we live in a nation where it is all-but-impossible to strike down racially discriminatory voting policies. 1171
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026on the topic of the common prosperity campaign, what did you make of the wsj report on Xi during the visit? 000
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026are there any good write-ups anywhere on the tl;dr here? I'm confused as to why quebec is losing its mind when carney is so popular (and there's a threat next door)? 110
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026and thankfully, rules and proceedings are not justiciable (and rightly so) anyway, so the Senate may interpret these provisions as it wishes. 010
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think this is right for generic R ghoul, but I'm wondering how much Vance's anti charisma would change things (if any) 110
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026politics never ends (laudatory, derogatory). My vague impression in Lee's case (I haven't been able to pay attention to Korean politics recently) is that his own incompetence is partly to blame. Which isn't to say that Korea isn't susceptible to rightwing social media brainrot (far from it) 0220
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Is there anything we olds can go to help? Aside from fighting like hell politically and in social spaces 120
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026yeah it's kinda funny and probably completely unrelated that the views of the dead always seem to be the exact opposite off what academic historians have documented, and in perfect alignment with fox news 040
Reposted by Sean Lew-SarraMake the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In a momentous victory for immigrants’ rights, the Southern District of NY issued a final, landmark ruling prohibiting ICE officers from conducting civil immigration enforcement actions in or near immigration courthouses, except under limited circumstances, in New York City & across the nation. 210631
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026(strip the court of most/all of its jurisdiction) 000
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My take: in terms of productive capacity and technology, we're functionally a post-scarcity society. The issue, as with many things, is equality and distribution. 010
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026does that mean the senate results assume a D+3, or that they also found D+3? 110
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You know, old man, sometimes life seems so complicated. Nothing is truly good or truly evil. Everything seems to be a shade of gray. And then you spend some time with a man like Dukat, and you realize that there is such a thing as truly evil. 090
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026where I've landed is a massive block grant; $200B/year, no strings attached except tuition reductions and university governance reform (your faculty and students elect the board) 0100
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026tired: pack the federal courts to break republican juristocracy wired: pack the federal courts to speed up SV prosecutions and lawsuits 0100
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov @brookejenkins.bsky.social and jeff rosen are clearly asleep at the wheel. 000
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026can any wild speculation be made from this data? 140
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026even if he got on tv and "declared" martial law nationwide, how is he going to enforce it? is northern command going to take an illegal order to prop up a president polling in the ~20%? and to what end? to occupy the country forever? to seize the 10,000 organizations that count ballots? 080
Reposted by Sean Lew-SarraBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.thecityreporter.nycDHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal PlazaA reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst. 14692380
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026it's not easy being an american falangist in 2026. you want magisterium and ceremony, but you oppose the pontiff, so you consider jumping ship, only to find that the anglicans are run by socially liberal lesbians. im somewhat surprised some of the chuds haven't converted to russian orthodoxy tbh. 040
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the whole system needs to torn out, root and branch. Anything that need to be litigated can go to federal district court. 000
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm genuinely looking forward to when the laws are enforced again. especially bribery, hacking, and fraud. 040
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"what if charles I was also george w. bush, and a pedophile" 040
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026five way tie, ICE murders/terrorism/violence/concentration camps and the occupation of American cities by federalized troops 220
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's a four-way tie between these and all the damage (actual as well as psychic) he's caused to our allies/global democracy 130
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026(institutionally) turn the court into glue. Packing was the moderate solution 5-10 years ago. 010
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Roberts court not only regularly violates precedent, makes bad faith readings, etc. They've also straight-up lied about what statutes/provisions say; violating every canon of construction 1Ls are taught, exercising schmittian constituent power to rewrite the plain, reality-based meaning of texts 041
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing is, no one in the legal profession who is functionally literate can seriously believe that position without a medical-grade dose of denialism, or intentional malice. 120
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026nowhere near the most important issue here, but god these fascists assholes have brought the greatest shame upon my country. 071
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026anecdote alert, but i had a professor of south african history who said it was a thing among white south africans to celebrate the first colonists, including the fact they were (only) men. in his estimation, it wasn't smart to ask them how a colony settled only by men has modern descendants 2342
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I assume crazy billionaire me would have everything remastered. Well, anything not made by alex kurtzman. 050
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026my crazy rich person project would be buying the franchise and making it a non-profit foundation on the model of sesame street 1261
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026there was a conversation on here yesterday about the parallels between now and the english civil wars, and yeah, not great. the last two years have been a clown show version of charles i and james ii; ship money and tonnage, dispensing and suspending, offending the state (in our case civic) religion 010
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026hopefully we repeat the part of 1801-1805 where the supreme court was institutionally turned into glue. 100
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026we're really not beating my personal theory that banning social media and doing something (???) about smartphones are societal imperatives at this point if we're to survive the next few centuries 000
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026the english parallels aren't so great either. the restoration, while highly contingent, ultimately sticks in a nation traumatized by civil war. The desire for stability after the wars is so strong you get two radically protestant nations happily acclaiming a catholic king, for want of any king. 010
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jonathan Healey gives a great breakdown of the constitutional conflicts and debates in both of his books (I'm currently in the middle of The Blood in Winter), and Anna Keay's Restless Republic has some great stuff on the republican constitutions. Hunt's Republic is next on the list 020
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026hey now, if a mishmash of norms, statutes, and case law is good enough for the British.. 140
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026apropos of nothing, I've been reading a lot of english civil war history lately, and it's unfortunately been as helpful to think things through as I hoped/feared it would 160
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026this is for the UK, right? wonder if it's in any way tied to the transphobia panic, leaking into homophobia and biphobia? 160
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026strong argument to be made that the american revolution was really the british civil war. 010
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026and I love that enterprise implies that we sort of just fell into it. We happened to be the only people who the Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites could agree were alright, and we got stuck doing all the coordinating of the alliance. 011
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026not to mention domestic pressure, from multiple sources. the newly-empowered general population, socialist academics, former industrialists, the far right; lots of people would be looking at rising living standards in the US and Europe and demand that for Japan. 011
Sean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I also think washington would have eventually come around to active support anyway, given that it was also moving towards rebuilding germany and western europe. either the flair-up of another cold war hotspot, or changing attitudes toward occupied/allied territories, would have eventually given way 241
