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Brooke

@brooklynmarie.bsky.social

Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.

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Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 2h ago

Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3h ago

Broken equipment and broken promises. New Yorkers deserve better from their government. 

Meet Renew Crew: NYC’s first-ever team dedicated to fixing playgrounds, sports courts, and rec centers in every borough.  See something broken at your park? Report it to 311. Renew Crew will be on the way.

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FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 9h ago

Sailor on the USS Lincoln whose father was arrested by ICE: "This is heartbreaking for me. I don't know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h ago

This is VERY big news. Previously, even vacated or expunged convictions could still get someone deported, if an immigration judge determined that the conviction was vacated for reasons unrelated to a legal defect (such as for rehabilitation-related purposes). The 4th Circuit says not any more!

Courts and agencies have long struggled with how to analyze the immigration effects (if any) of a vacated conviction. Eventually, agency practice cobbled together a framework that sought to balance policy priorities. Under that framework, a conviction vacated because of a substantive or procedural defect in the underlying proceedings no longer qualifies as a conviction for immigration purposes, while a conviction vacated for rehabilitation, immigration hardship, or another reason still does. Many courts deferentially accepted that distinction. But the statute we apply here does not make the continuing effect of a vacated conviction turn on the state court’s reason for vacating it. It makes inadmissible “any alien convicted of” the relevant offense. 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(A)(i). In this case, the petitioner’s conviction was vacated and her charge dismissed. At that point, she was no longer “convicted of” that offense. So we grant in part the petition for review
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 4h ago

4th Cir. says that post-Loper Bright Enters. it will not defer to the Board of Immigration Appeals' framework for treating vacated convictions as nevertheless having immigration consequences. Big. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

While we understand this line of reasoning, we cannot endorse it. The statutory definition of “conviction” does not allow it. There is no statutory basis for asking why the state court acted and distinguishing between substantive defects and rehabilitative purposes. The effort to focus on state-court motive boils down to a policy judgment and an attempt to divine what Congress would do if faced with the question of vacated judgments. But that’s not how statutory interpretation works. See Scalia & Garner, Reading Law § 60 (rejecting the “false notion that when a situation is not quite covered by 18 a statute, the court should reconstruct what the legislature would have done had it confronted the issue”).
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h ago

A very positive sign that, nearly a year after Kirk's death, many if not most of the people punished for speaking truthfully about him have won legal cases against their former employees and compensation. Again, panicked compliance with Trumpism has only *cost* institutions.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 13h ago

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

nytimes.com

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 5h ago

Brief moment of heightened tension as an agent draws their baton while another agent moves a black sedan. "Heated but calm" still describes the situation.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 5h ago

Happening now: A crowd is gathering outside a Target parking lot off 33rd and Damen on Chicago's south side, in reaponse to ICE agents who appear to have been involved with some kind of car collision earlier today. Press, elected officials also on scene.

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 8h ago

Well that's terrifying: "Today 57 million American adults are functionally illiterate. That number represents 28% of the adult population, a significant surge from 18% just over a decade ago." sciencepolitics.org/2026/08/21/a...

Adult Literacy Is Mysteriously Declining Across Many High-Income Countries - Science Politics

COVID and smartphones alone cannot explain the decline. One thing we do know: both young and old need to retain the ability to gather and process information.

sciencepolitics.org

Dustin Du Cane@dustinducane.bsky.social · 7h ago

My next book is about how anti-semites militarist racists infiltrated the National Socialist Party in Weimar Germany.

Luke Harding@lukeharding1968.bsky.social · yesterday

Here's an exclusive extract from my new book Betrayal, about how Russian spies infiltrated Nigel Farage's party. It tells the inside story of Nathan Gill, a former UKIP MEP, now in jail, who accepted £££ in bribes to make pro-Russian speeches. Thanks @thenerve.news www.thenerve.news/p/luke-hardi...

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11h ago

this punk we used to know turned out to be an abuser and the scene wouldn’t eject him so my buddy was like ‘ok then i’m just gonna beat the shit out of him every time i see him.’ and he did! like three times a week on the sidewalk or at the store til the jerkoff quietly disappeared on his own lol

r o o@jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 20h ago

found out Larry David just starts verbally abusing Alan Dershowitz whenever he sees him, this is very good

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 8h ago

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*.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · yesterday

anytime people raise concerns about land use for solar projects or anything like that i just want to point out that half the corn we grow in this country gets used to make gasoline slightly worse