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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is who I’m voting for today. Go @peggyflanagan.bsky.social!

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 (2006): In this Icelandic dark horror classic, a retired hitman takes in a mysterious infant left at his door--and soon discovers it may be channeling the souls of his past victims. Released as 𝘞𝘰𝘢𝘩! 𝘔𝘺 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘩! in the U.S.

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I actually agree that calling ICE the Gestapo is inaccurate, because the Gestapo was far more sophisticated. ICE is much more like the Sturmabteilung (SA): violent, racist, fat, poorly educated and undisciplined thugs too stupid to do anything other than random street-level terror.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Thinking a lot lately about Justice (Robert) Jackson's dissenting opinion in Mezei, especially its discussion of the importance of due process even (if not especially) for those the government claims are "dangerous": tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Procedural fairness, if not all that originally was meant by due process of law, is at least what it most uncompromisingly requires. Procedural due process is more elemental and less flexible than substantive due process. It yields less to the times, varies less with conditions, and defers much less to legislative judgment. Insofar as it is technical law, it must be a specialized responsibility within the competence of the judiciary on which they do not bend before political branches of the Government, as they should on matters of policy which comprise substantive law.
If it be conceded that in some way this alien could be confined, does it matter what the procedure is? Only the untaught layman or the charlatan lawyer can answer that procedures matter not. Procedural fairness and regularity are of the indispensable essence of liberty. Severe substantive laws can be endured if they are fairly and impartially applied. Indeed, if put to the choice, one might well prefer to live under Soviet substantive law applied in good faith by our common-law procedures than under our substantive law enforced by Soviet procedural practices. Let it not be overlooked that due process of law is not for the sole benefit of an accused. It is the best insurance for the Government itself against those

blunders which leave lasting stains on a system of justice but which are bound to occur on ex parte consideration. Cf. Knauff v. Shaughnessy, 338 U.S. 537 , which was a near miss, saved by further administrative and congressional hearings from perpetrating an injustice. See Knauff, The Ellen Knauff Story (New York 1952).

Our law may, and rightly does, place more restrictions on the alien than on the citizen. But basic fairness in hearing procedures does not vary with the status of the accused. If the procedures used to judge this alien are fair and just, no good reason can be given why they should not be extended to simplify the condemnation of citizens. If they would be unfair to citizens, we cannot defend the fairness of them when applied to the more helpless and handicapped alien. This is at the root of our holdings that the resident alien must be given a fair hearing to test an official claim that he is one of a deportable class. Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath, 339 U.S. 33 .

The most scrupulous observance of due process, including the right to know a charge, to be confronted with the accuser, to cross-examine informers and to produce evidence in one's behalf, is especially necessary where the occasion of detention is fear of future misconduct, rather than crimes committed. Both the old proceeding by which one may be bound to keep the peace and the newer British "preventive detention" are safeguarded with full rights to judicial hearings for the accused. On the contrary, the Nazi regime in Germany installed a system of "protective custody" by which the arrested could claim no judicial or other hearing process, 8 and as a result the concentration

camps were populated with victims of summary executive detention for secret reasons. That is what renders Communist justice such a travesty. There are other differences, to be sure, between authoritarian procedure and common law, but differences in the process of administration make all the difference between a reign of terror and one of law. Quite unconsciously, I am sure, the Government's theory of custody for "safekeeping" without disclosure to the victim of charges, evidence, informers or reasons, even in an administrative proceeding, has unmistakable overtones of the "protective custody" of the Nazis more than of any detaining procedure known to the common law. Such a practice, once established with the best of intentions, will drift into oppression of the disadvantaged in this country as surely as it has elsewhere. That these apprehensive surmises are not "such stuff as dreams are made on" appears from testimony of a top immigration official concerning an applicant that "He has no rights."

Because the respondent has no right of entry, does it follow that he has no rights at all? Does the power to exclude mean that exclusion may be continued or effectuated by any means which happen to seem appropriate to the authorities? It would effectuate his exclusion to eject him bodily into the sea or to set him adrift in a rowboat.

Would not such measures be condemned judicially as a deprivation of life without due process of law? Suppose the authorities decide to disable an alien from entry by confiscating his valuables and money. Would we not hold this a taking of property without due process of law? Here we have a case that lies between the taking of life and the taking of property; it is the taking of liberty. It seems to me that this, occurring within the United States or its territorial waters, may be done only by proceedings which meet the test of due process of law.

Exclusion of an alien without judicial hearing, of course, does not deny due process when it can be accomplished merely by turning him back on land or returning him by sea. But when indefinite confinement becomes the means of enforcing exclusion, it seems to me that due process requires that the alien be informed of its grounds and have a fair chance to overcome them. This is the more due him when he is entrapped into leaving the other shore by reliance on a visa which the Attorney General refuses to honor.

It is evident that confinement of respondent no longer can be justified as a step in the process of turning him back to the country whence he came. Confinement is no longer ancillary to exclusion; it can now be justified only as the alternative to normal exclusion. It is an end in itself.

The Communist conspiratorial technique of infiltration poses a problem which sorely tempts the Government to resort to confinement of suspects on secret information secretly judged. I have not been one to discount the Communist evil. But my apprehensions about the security of our form of government are about equally aroused by those who refuse to recognize the dangers of Communism and those who will not see danger in anything else.

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Frustrated Fan @frustratedfan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Me watching this halftime show, feeling all of my (almost) 55 years:

Homer: “brilliant. I have absolutely no idea what’s going on.”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Super Bowl commercials are never actually funny but they seem like they should be funny because they are very expensive

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

when somebody tries to build an affordable housing unit in your zip code

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

men only want one thing

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Another unassailable banger from Jamelle, the Max Martin of political takes

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My god Christian destroyed the Dr. Pepper football throw competition. What a thrilling modern age we live in.

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm sorry, we live in a time where Hunter Bardon gets Pidened?! 🤔

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

we don’t talk enough about the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha Skytop experience imagine if you had the option to take this on your next vacation instead of squeezing into an airplane seat or white-knuckling it on the highway…

Train with windows all around the car pulling out of a train station with a detailed tower dating from the 1800s

Painting or drawing of a train labeled Milwaukee Road and with windows all around and on top of the train car

People sitting in the front car of a train with windows all around and above them

Photo of a train with windows all around and above it

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

More than anything I'm just regretful. They could have worked in two, if not three more catastrophes before the clock hit triple zeroes. Let the boys cook. An awesome specter of possibility. #Bears

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

in competitive chess you can legally win a match by declaring “checkmate” at any time, regardless of where the pieces are on the board. it’s considered rather tasteless and won’t win you many friends, but it’s there whenever you really need to get out of a jam

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

As a prominent podcaster I was never even consulted about important military matters

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Seeing media reports portraying yesterday's Fed Soc panel on "judicial independence" in disappointingly equivocal terms. I'm just going to post the full video here and let everyone's behavior speak for itself. I start @ 41:30; Judge Jones @ 50:23; replies @ 1:12:50: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DBl...

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The Continued Independence of the Judiciary [2024 NLC]

YouTube video by The Federalist Society

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Quote tweet with the last baseball related photo on your phone (no cheat).

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

when I dip fries into a frosty

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

I am convinced that Duke operatives invented load management, turned knee tweaks into season enders, and now they’re going to make us get rid of court storming. I say we shut Duke down until we can figure out what the hell is going on

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

I'm sure this will completely undermine Trump's upcoming appearance at Sneakercon.

An excerpt from Judge Engoron's decision in the NY fraud case. It states, in part, that the Trumps' "complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on the pathological."

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

This...was not prudent.

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Sometimes you gotta go back

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

this lede screams "don't read this article"

An insufferable lede from The Cut that reads: "I was at a long-awaited panel discussion at my friends’ private home, listening to Senator Kristen Gillibrand speak about paid leave and reproductive rights with women’s-health entrepreneurs Priyanka Jain and Alessandra Henderson, when I first heard it: the Cough."

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

whas the fucking point of even posting on here when you cant get dmed by a 24 year old e girl saying "This is us" with a picture of two rats wearing sweaters or some shit

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Watching the Minnesota Flag committee:

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

The new André 3000 album puts us much, much closer to a Sufjan Stevens collab than experts ever believed possible

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I’m about to have a fucking stroke

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Wes @wanders.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Giants-Raiders is the B1G QB duel we were all hoping for. Can they swap the national broadcast??

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Why do you post on a public forum if you don't want me to annoy you? Why do you do that. Why do you go outside if you don't want me to hit you with my car

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