Dan Canon
@dancanon.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer & law prof. Past: won a big case at SCOTUS, wrote a book called PLEADING OUT, was a hired-gun guitarist in a million bands. Present: Externships & civ pro, studies election violence, writes appeals, raises kids. He/him. Fascism is bad.
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d agoThe situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
More brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”
Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities (Gift Article)
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
nytimes.com
Had he renamed it "Lake Dolly" we'd have a real dilemma on our hands
Looks like your number's up if you're exactly 80 years old ... ... ... (Ahem) ... I SAID
[me, texting a group of lawyers who have long since given up on social media] hey did you guys see that Spider-Man beat up a nazi in Minneapolis
Entrepreneurs: if my town had a late-night library/bar, I would spend all of my money there. All of it.
The stuff that's going to come out about this guy when he finally dies is going to melt even the most durable brains
I have conducted an informal survey and I have concluded that everyone is broke as fuck
85 years ago, Charlie Chaplin delivered his famous speech at the end of his first film with dialogue - The Great Dictator. He spoke these timeless words as Nazis rose to power, and the drums of war beat in Europe, echoing across the world. As relevant, and necessary to hear, today as ever #Resist
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
youtube.com
I would say that domestically trump has not consolidated authoritarianism to the extent his worst critics feared, but in foreign policy his record has been exponentially worse than anyone was talking about, short of actual nuclear war. (still a possibility!)
Stop making me choose between kidney beans and kidney cancer.
It's like me trying to speak French. Except I am not TRYING to say stupid shit
Bobby Silverman@robertsilverman.bsky.social · 4w agoHe's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"
The people in my small island community are VERY excited about the new Quiznos and I'm thinking of writing a Broadway musical about it
When this era of extreme xenophobic stupidity is over, I hope that we can rethink what it means to be a free human being on a big, beautiful planet, and that our kids wonder why we ever made it so damn complicated for ourselves to move from place to place.
I'm going to guess that the worst thing Anthony Fauci has ever done *in his entire life* is: keep a diary on a government computer. He should be held accountable for that.
"You know, defamation of character is also an investigative offense" -- a thing I just read online that is giving me a very slow-moving brain aneurysm
I can assure you that it's not
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last mo.“The baldness is the root cause of the fascism.” @adamfriedlandshow.bsky.social & @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss how Stephen Miller became a racist fascist asshole. (Adam’s cousins went to school with Miller) #WereNotKidding
At some point in the not-so-distant past, someone told this moron that EVERY public comment has to refer back to an "enemy" group of some kind. That idea alone has managed to take root in his demented brain, all logic and rationality be damned.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last mo.Now he's blaming a fire started by an Army vet from NY on immigrants.
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
Just a heads up that it costs a minimum of $500 to leave your house
OSSOFF: “.. Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the President’s delusions?”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoOSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
These statements getting lazier over time is the predictable result of them not facing consequences for their previous murders. Why would they make up some convoluted reasoning to explain themselves? They don't have to
David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 2mo agoWHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?
The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.
The feds just made it official: They won't fight a bid by members of the "Broadview 6" for attorneys' fees. They do "not concede that the United States has acted or done anything to warrant those fees." They also say there should be no discovery. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/dc/d1/e34a37...
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere have been plenty twists and turns in Chicago's federal courthouse since the "Broadview Six" case collapsed in late May. It's been a lot to keep up with. So here's where things stand, one month later, via @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
A guiding principle can be observed here: Whatever the wrong call is, the DNC will make it. I am sure it's more complex than that but it's hard to interpret the last decade or so any other way.
Justin@sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2mo agoA reminder that the DNC went ahead and endorsed Platner before the primary.
let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election