bmaz

@bmaz.bsky.social

Criminal defense, civil rights, and occasionally civil, trial lawyer. Former Emptywheel legal writer, husband, father and generally cranky observateur. Lifetime F1 fan.

This is why Steve Bannon and Roger Stone started spending money in 2017 to infiltrate the Libertarian Party with the right-wing Mises Caucus, to systematically neutralize or co-opt the Libertarian Party for MAGA. They took over the party in 2022 and worked to help Trump win in 2024. Sad!

This is incredible content, it's the same "it's cheaper if you cook / I'm too tired from work to cook" discourse from BlueSky except literally no one posting actually cooks or has a real job, so nobody has any standing to argue either side and yet they're far nastier about it.

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16h ago

for reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.

One of our TPUSA college students gave me his take on affordability:

“A burrito shouldn’t cost $20.”

Yeah, a lot of this is a hangover from Covid and Biden-era inflation, but the lived experience is the same: It just feels like basic things cost too much.

MS NOW discussing Michigan primary and electability. All I can say is that if we worried about electability in 2008, Obama wouldn’t have been the nominee.

The most fragile snowflakes may be in ICE. which makes sense since they are the least legitimate law enforcement agency in the US (which includes folks like LA Sheriffs). Wildly outside their mandate, incredibly abusive, totally unaccountable, engaging in rape and murder and lethal negligence 1/

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump has found the true culprit behind the Reflecting Pool case reversal: not the contractor, not the evidence, not the legal standard apparently, a cheap umbrella. In a Monday performance that blurred the lines between criminal justice commentary and discount store product review,

WATCH: Trump says Jeanine Pirro 'made a mistake' and 'choked' on Reflecting Pool vandalism case reversal

The president reiterated his disappointment with Pirro for a court filing in which her office blamed a contractor’s shoddy work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool rather than vandalism.

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