I don’t think I’ve ever seen a judge select the jury foreperson as was just done in Commonwealth vs. Lindsay Clancy. Is that common outside of Massachusetts?

I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...

Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

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We used to be a proper society

Seamus O'Flaugherty@seamussaid.bsky.social · 2y ago

Things were much simpler when the guy who ran the comic book/baseball card shop in my hometown sold cocaine out the back room and the local cop would pretend he didn't know because if the local plumber couldn't get his cocaine nobody's toilet worked

Kevin Reddington’s brutal cross-examination of prosecution witness Dr. Avram Mack in the trial of Mass. vs. Lindsay Clancy— —will be on syllabi for law school trial practice clinics and trial advocacy CLEs by Monday morning at the latest.

clearly Kevin Reddington has been playing with us mortals for weeks. months. 3 years. everything until now has been light work. mere wind up. turns out Puppet Master been holding back, only to now unleash heretofore unfathomable legions of fury and righteous wrath in defense of Lindsay Clancy. ⚖️🐐

Nearly every past atrocity was legal, nearly every liberatory movement to end it was not. Resistance is criminalized because oppressors write laws that protect their cruelty and make our objection to it illegal.

unless you’ve ever put yourself out there, you can’t possibly know what it’s like to run. you can’t fathom the toll it takes—for those of us with a soul, that is. [note: do NOT put yourself out there. it is very bad out there. 10/10 would not recommend going out there.]

Cmon Michigan. Let’s go St. Louis. You got this.❤️

ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”

Ireland would never. 🇮🇪⚖️

gonna make a tshirt — “all four of my grandparents survived the holocaust and all i got was a genocidal apartheid garrison state instead of a system of international justice to hold war criminals to account”

Here's to Silas Soule, the US Army officer who refused to participate in the Sand Creek Massacre. He was later murdered for his testimony against fellow soldiers. coloradosun.com/2026/07/26/n...

At Silas Soule's gravesite, a minister honors a heroic figure by reading his letters

Visitors converged on Soule’s grave at Denver’s Riverside Cemetery for what has become an annual ritual organized by Rev. Dr. Nancy Niero

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The regime is doing A LOT behind the scenes so most of the public has no idea what the repression of movement work currently looks like.

It's right to be outraged. Just as it's right to be outraged when ICE guns someone down. But I also want us to remember all of the people dying due to deplorable conditions in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers, bc they are also being murdered by the state.

👏👏👏 "When activists n Ireland heard that Peter Thiel’s secret club, Dialog, was planning to meet n the Irish countryside, they launched a campaign to stop it. They succeeded" PEOPLE OF IRELAND CAME THRU & SHOWED THIEL THE DOOR: DON'T LET THIS PASS W/O THEIR PROPS therealnews.com/peter-thiels...

Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference in Ireland shut down by grassroots action

A former Google worker describes the #DropDialog movement and organizing against Big Tech in Ireland.

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Periodic reminder that I would love to line edit or copyedit your nonfiction books about building a better world or understanding the world with an eye toward liberation. Organizing books, academic books, books in the interstices...

On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE

Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.

nj.com

Congrats to all the Democratic Party electeds and staffers over the last 30+ years who validated the rightward shift in immigration policy every step of the way.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Mullin says that election officials in states that don’t cooperate with the Trump administration may face jail time

Perhaps one of the best things these media outfits have done in a while. Do not allow a lying president with the power of his office to demand that you give him a platform to tell his lies.

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 2mo ago

JUST IN: NBC, ABC and CNN will not air Trump’s primetime address live

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you know that kwame ture quote about how nonviolence only works as a strategy when your opponent has a conscience? something similar at play with pointing out your opponent's hypocrisy. that only works if your opponent agrees that he's playing a word game not prosecuting a holy war

Colorado is one of the least religious states in the U.S., but even in this land of heathens & heretics, over a million Coloradans regularly drink the blood of a son of god and pray to cast out demons. claiming to kill a man at 7? noteworthy. but spiritual warfare is run of the mill Bible thumping.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2mo ago

Colorado's Republican candidate for governor hunts demons and says he killed a man when he was seven.

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📣 What do we want? INVESTIGATIONS! 📣 When do we want it? EVERY DAMN TIME THE SAME PREDICTABLE THING HAPPENS!

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree@pingree.house.gov · 2mo ago

On the scene here in Biddeford where ICE shot and killed someone this morning. Still so many unknowns. Let me be clear: Federal immigration enforcement should NOT be using deadly force against anyone in our communities. Period. We need a full, independent investigation, and we need answers.

If you followed me from just one post you liked I promise I’ll disappoint you soon with my unpopular opinions lmao

I know everyone’s making their jokes, but to be real: it’s an American sickness that the media and political class are praising someone who has spent last year calling for a genocide. Lindsay Graham was the worst of us. He wanted the blood of children to flow in the streets of Gaza and got his wish.

Welp, the Donald Trump Of Getting Away With It team has advanced once again

what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2mo ago

Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.

It's diabolical to say things like "defang the white Left" about Black people who are the actual children and grandchildren of Emancipated people, who lived through Jim Crow as CHILDREN. Innocent kids! You're entitled to have your little opinions about "idpol," but NOT alternate histories & facts.