Eamonn Hart
@eamonnhart.bsky.social
Law stuff, Maine, dogs, and parenting, not necessarily in that order. All views my own. If you want to hire me, here's my website: https://brannlaw.com/attorneys/eamonn-r-c-hart/
This is gonna sound unfathomably arrogant but I think I could do every current cabinet secretary’s job better than it is currently being done
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h agoEvery military leader since antiquity: wars are won by logistics hegseth: you win wars when military look like fitness influencers
I am here for the war on ticks. I do feel like the article could have elaborated slightly on "deer vasectomy" though; seems complicated.
Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · yesterdayIf tick eradication becomes a centrist-brained obsession, I'm here for it gift link: www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
One of the funniest things about social media: It has created this weird mindset where people feel entitled to access. The number of people going "How dare (Celebrity) block me just because I called them an asshole and said they should be executed?" Without an ounce of introspection is hilarious.
Dem Senators who are allowing Collins to.give herself moderate cover are either stupid or evil. I am completely out of patience with this quisling behavior
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d agoPatty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.
The occupier of the White House is effectively in a cold civil war with half the states in the Union.
Update: the Law Court agrees with everything I have to say about gravel pits. www.courts.maine.gov/courts/sjc/l...
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Eamonn Hart@eamonnhart.bsky.social · 2mo agoHad the privilege of arguing again before Maine's highest court earlier this week on the scintillating topic of gravel pit regulation. A reminder of how much I love appellate arguments! Video here, if you are deeply interested in the nuances of 38 MRS 490-D: youtu.be/Z_ucnvdTvFI?...
Well this sure was a fun experiment putting the literal worst possible people in charge of important pieces of the government, maybe let’s try competency next, I dunno
Apparently there’s some kind of revival of interest in Homer which reminds me I saw him live in Thrace in 790BC I bet most of these posers can’t even name three of his epics
RIP Glen Hansard. There was no better depiction of near-strangers falling in love over music than this one.
Once (2016) - Falling Slowly (Glen Hansard ft. Markéta Irglová) - The best scene.
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I’m 39 and didn’t need to get hurt this hard on a Sunday morning.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2w agoJust another data point: Jackman in the first X-MEN movie was the old guy of the cast at 31 (along with Halle Berry at 33), basically the same age Tom Holland is now. Anna Paquin was 18 and James Marsden was 26!
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
Key thing to understand about "remigration" is that it doesn't mean "send immigrants home." He's an immigrant, Peter Thiel is an immigrant, etc. It's not even a white nationalism project, it's a trans-Atlantic white continentalism project, nations themselves aren't important, only race matters.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoElon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
This has been an off-the-rails 24 hours on this website.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w agoLiterally every single person replying is doing the whole “I refuse the premise! I would simply derail the trolley so no one gets run over!” thing that people do when they don’t like the implications of a hypothetical
For a very long time there was an international taboo on assassinating foreign leaders even of countries you were at war with, and the Trump administration thought it was because people were pussies not because "now they're gonna try to kill YOU"
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w agoI’m sorry, but like, did they think that the enemy in a war would not actually try to kill them?
"Historically accurate" Ancient Greek mythology involving supernatural beings and wars that never happened between people who aren't real in a poem recited by a guy named Homer who we basically know nothing about
Leave my boy Taco Bell out of it, it was bitch ass Taylor Farms, the world's largest salad processor. Fight the real enemy Big Salad
Taylor farms , owned by a Trump donor, supplies bagged lettuce to *everywhere*. Taco bell did the right thing proactively, and they are getting all the blame. The blame lies with RFK period. Taco bell being the fall guy is crazy.
and i will note again that Wurman is a first generation immigrant from societies that are still struggling with democracy. on what basis does he get to claim that he has the capacity for self-governance? (we know the answer)
also spare me these crocodile tears. you signed up to defend a movement with an explicitly racialized vision of citizenship. lie down with dogs and you can’t complain that people think you have fleas.
Just so we’re clear: this is morally and legally wildly wrong. It could also command a SCOTUS majority, so I‘m trying to increase awareness of it.
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 3w agoI need people to understand that this administration’s litigating position is (1) federal law currently mandates the detention, without bond, of every noncitizen who is allegedly unlawfully present and (2) constitutionally, they don’t get a day in court. they’re generally losing, but they’re trying.
![Ochoa Ochoa v. Noem: Due Process
Having concluded that Ochoa Ochoa's detention is discretionary and not
mandatory, the court turns to whether it violates due process. "Procedural due
process imposes constraints on governmental decisions which deprive individuals of liberty' or 'property' interests within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the
Fifth or Fourteenth Amendment." Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 332 (1976).
"Freedom from imprisonment-from government custody, detention, or other forms
of physical restraint-lies at the heart of the very liberty that [the Due Process
Clause] protects." Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678, 690 (2001).
To support its argument that Ochoa Ochoa has limited due process rights in
the detention context, Respondents rely on Dep't of Homeland Sec. v. Thuraissigiam, where the Supreme Court held that a petitioner who was still "at the threshold of initial entry," though technically in the country, could still be treated as "an alien
seeking initial entry." 591 U.S. 103, 114 2020) holding that a noncitizen detained "within 25 yards of the border" is treated as if stopped at the border and had not acquired due process protections). Contrary to Respondents' position, Thuraissigiam held only that noncitizens detained close to the border "shortly after unlawful entry"
have not yet "effected an entry." Id. at 140; see also Shaughnessy v. United States, 345 U.S. 206, 212 (1953) (explaining that noncitizens "on the threshold of initial entry
stand[] on a different footing" than those who have "passed through our gates").](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3/bafkreieofbtos26t3epka4a7c2p3xw477nfbl2guurqcuoslw2h24qolye)
The assumption in all of these manifestos and proclamations is that there is some kind of Final Settlement that can be made on contentious cultural issues that will remove them from the playing field entirely, and I will just say that I think that this is very, very unlikely.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w agoAt this point, it's basically a monthly thing where the NY Times has some boomer Dem write a piece saying the party should abandon trans people.
Joan Sebastian Salguero, the 26-year-old husband & father killed by ICE today in Maine, was at least the 9th person killed by federal immigration agents, and at least the 22nd person shot, during the lawless regime of Donald Trump.
Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 4w agoLorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three who built houses in Houston, started his own business, and raised his family here for 35 years. His son became a teacher. ICE agents killed him in cold blood. 🧵
the longer this goes on, the more extreme the measures that resolve it need to be. if you are a concerned moderate, that was a reason to stop it early.
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
”abolish ICE“ means (1) abolishing a particular agency and (2) salting the earth so that nothing that does what it does can ever emerge again—no matter what it‘s called or who is in charge of it.
