People who believe children shouldn’t be medicalised, don’t seem to connect it to the fact that everyone, the elderly, the menopausal, the obese, pregnant people, babies, preterm infants, are more medicalised than ever before and that’s progress, actually. So they don’t die/suffer preventably.

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

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Politico@politico.com · yesterday

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

Love to be blocked after someone has a chance to read the study showing they are full of shit

Make the bros afraid again

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 3d ago

heard an interview recently with an anonmyous wall street bro who said his employer would not subscribe to the president's truth social insider trading scheme because they did not want to go to prison when the rule of law returns

You do not have to personally like every person that you are in community with. if you want to do something important that takes a lot of effort and moving parts, you'll likely be in contact with people you don't like or vibe with. that's ok! you do not have to like or want to hang with everyone.

A recurring feature on The View with a different immigrant each week explaining how their process actually works would be helpful.

Jonathon M. Floyd@jfloyd314.bsky.social · 3d ago

Genuinely, the vast majority of American voters believe that only laziness or criminal intent could be stopping the average immigrant from obtaining US citizenship. The truth is that becoming a US citizen takes years upon years of work and requires navigating a baroque bureaucratic nightmare.

An honest assessment of COVID is that communities found out who gave a shit about their neighbors and who didn't, and the people who didn't have been mad over being revealed for who they were since.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3d ago

this boils down to "the pandemic didn't actually happen but they still closed the applebees" which frankly i think is a trauma response by a lot of people that buy it - lot easier to be in denial that things were that bad instead of reckoning with 1.3m dead people [in this country]

anyway every man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind, but some diminish me a lot less than most.

I've never seen anything remotely approaching a good answer — or even a good faith effort to *attempt* to answer — what the “schools should never have been closed” crowd thinks would've happened when we ran out of teachers & other school staff willing to die (pre-vaccine) in order to keep them open.

Max Miller highlighting the extent to which a woman’s mental illness can function as a get-out-of-jail-free card for abusers. Abusers often target the vulnerable *because* they know this about you.

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4d ago

“My former wife has struggled with significant mental health challenges…This is medically diagnosed that she has admitted on audio.” I would like Sen. Moreno to respond to this please. 

Wow, I checked the QTs for the recent garbage discourse and the OP has apparently blocked everyone who posted even mild disagreement with something dehumanizing and offensive

“Hey, why don’t you want to go back to legal practice?”

Adam Richardson@ajrichar.bsky.social · 5d ago

One of the things Claude has done for me is make it possible to work from anywhere on *my phone*. It’s the workspace, supplemented by Word, with Dropbox as storage for research and product. As a litigator, this is pretty helpful.

Those who rhetorically insist but cannot tolerate being insisted to are my least favorite type of poster

The story of aging is the slow horrifying realization that at some point, you hurt yourself in what used to be a minor way, except instead of healing fully it’s just how your body works now.

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John Galliano found guilty of anti-Semitic Paris rants

British fashion designer John Galliano is given two suspended fines totalling 6,000 euros (£5,250) for anti-Semitic rants in a Paris restaurant.

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Deadline@deadline.com · 5d ago

John Galliano will be the subject of its spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition, with the Met Gala set to celebrate the acclaimed British designer.

If your coalition doesn’t include morons who make you incandescently angry your coalition is too narrow to win.

If convicted, Gavin ought to pardon this cop

Alex@purplechrain.bsky.social · 5d ago

An officer reported other cops for using racist, sexist and homophobic slurs at work, filed an Internal Affairs complaint & submitted recordings of the other cops being bigoted as evidence b/c otherwise nothing would be done about it. He’s now charged with 16 felonies & could get 13 years in prison.

"treating JD Vance like a useless weirdo piece of trash" is in fact one of the few bipartisan positions left in the United States, as evinced by the fact his own administration doesn't give him anything to do and just pushes him out to eat shit whenever things are particularly bad

"It's crazy to be racist against your own kids" isn't "over the line" it's actually the correct and decent thing to say

In Cambridge I went to an Episcopalian house blessing and it was *definitely* magickal-white-privilege.

disc horse bot@horsedisc.bsky.social · 6d ago

I don't think Episcopalians should do magick. I think when they do it they're reinforcing white privilege.

IMHO, Douthat's 2018 opinion piece advocating for "fairer" access to women's bodies is terrorism apologism. It justifies political violence in the name of male supremacy, specifically the lookist (incel) radical milieu. Why the New York Times kept platforming him after that is mind-boggling.

Violence Has Grown Since California Incel Shooting

Prominent media outlets like The New York Times have downplayed the threat of domestic terrorism, while also legitimating male supremacism.

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Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”

This is why the number one thing liberal con law people should be working on is arguments that Trump’s pardons are not valid. Obviously none of this can happen without court packing but once the new liberal court is in place, there need to be arguments ready to hand them.

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 5d ago

I think that not only is this good politics, but the stability of American society depends on it. Liberal American normies are out for blood, but *everyone* is in an anti-system mood. If we don't feed that beast some sacrifices, it'll find someone who can, and those sacrifices will be innocent.

“don’t be evil” was apparently too big a lift to maintain but i would’ve thought “don’t be fucking stupid” would be easier to carry

H. Jon Benjamin. As Archer. As Odyseus.

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law

People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.

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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d ago

Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?

I was already uncomfortable with my kid watching YouTube videos in school without having them preceded by foul political ads. I do not send my child to public school to hear political ads and if the teacher played them intentionally we’d be having kittens. How is it so hard to just. Not?

Moth@walkingminnesota.com · 6d ago

My kid came home from his mps program on Monday and overheard me talking about Peggy Flanagan then in a scary tv voice said “Peggy Flanagan Lied To Us” and I was like…uh wtf was that? He said he heard it school, they were watching a YouTube video about Lego and that ad came on ahead of it 🤬

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

I'm old enough to remember a "Tea Party" movement that was incensed about the government giving money to companies that were "too big to fail"

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d ago

The definition of “picking winners and losers.” @thehill.com thehill.com/policy/techn...

News: Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego, one of three witnesses to ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado in Houston, has been released from ICE custody. "I want justice for Lorenzo Salgado. My boss was a good boss." www.chron.com/news/houston...

Hours after release from ICE custody, witness visits Lorenzo Salgado memorial

"I want justice for Lorenzo Salgado. My boss was a good boss."

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