I’m not quite sure why Hegseth announcing a public execution is the thing that’s made my mouth go dry, after every single hideous act of this regime. But it is and it has.
Jon Feinberg
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Full time Philly civil rights & law enforcement accountability (lawyer at krlawphila.com || board president of @npapjustice.bsky.social), part time running and soccer.
Hello, BlueSky. We’re a group of former campaign & Senate staffers for John Fetterman who are disgusted with what he's become. If you were troubled by yesterday's Wall Street Journal story... trust us, that's just the tip of the iceberg. It's even worse than you thought.
Anyway @mapquest.com has refused to do this and if you are old like me you might get a kick out of knowing Mapquest is still around and seemingly on the right side of resisting propaganda and weirdos
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.Google Maps has updated to label Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the U.S., following an executive order signed by President Trump last week amid an escalating trade war with Canada. trib.al/5axpigr
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Pretty lousy to see a lying, anti-democracy, xenophobic demagogue on a podium celebrating internationalism and athletic success.
Well said by Zane Memeger, a former prosecutor and current executive director of @innocencepa.bsky.social. share.inquirer.com/7zrQdK
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court just made wrongful convictions harder to fix. | Opinion
If our criminal legal system is truly just, one should not fear looking back to make sure the right person has been held accountable, writes Zane David Memeger.
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ICE shooting victim in Maine was a 26-year-old man from Colombia with work authorization and a Social Security Number, likely an asylum applicant. It'll be interesting to see how he came to be on ICE's radar.
David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 3mo agoA theme in ICE shootings is putting their bodies in front of vehicles. This practice is dangerous for the officers and manufactures a reason for them to shoot drivers if they make one wrong move. One witness says the victim said, "I tried to stop" before dying. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...
We wouldn’t have to worry about ICE killing the “wrong person” if ICE would just stop killing people altogether.
Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe 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...
Trump has done such a massive disservice to the US football team and American fans with his intervention. He's essentially politicised the team through tainting them with his corruption. The rest of the world is now rooting for Belgium tonight for political reasons. That's not how sport should be.
Every soccer match should be followed by appeals of each foul. That is the only way soccer can become more like appellate litigation, which I understand to be the goal of all.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is actually hilarious. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
When you're too corrupt even for Sepp Blatter, that is presumably time for a reassessment.
Another example of “Trump ruins everything he touches.” There’s no good outcome for USMNT now. If Balogun doesn’t play, Trump and MAGA will lash out, threaten his citizenship. If he plays and they lose, the world will celebrate. If they win, accused of cheating forever. No good outcome.
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe call may have been bad, but this is such a bad look, on top of so many others, for America www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...
Trump did a corruption to make sure Balogun was eligible to play, but his administration is simultaneously doing everything it can to strip his citizenship. What a fucking country.
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
Concise and comprehensive indictment of our criminal legal system. Powerful stuff by @willbunch.bsky.social (as usual). www.inquirer.com/opinion/prai...
America at 250: 50-year sentences for progressive protesters. Freedom for millionaires. | Will Bunch
The shocking 50-to-100-year prison sentences to leftist Texas protesters are more fascism than true criminal justice.
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I love this one. This was the one that made me realize these were going to work. A minute isn’t much time and I worried it was too little. But this one does more in a minute than I could do in a whole semester.
Kelly Guinan@kellyguinan.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew, one-minute learning, and celebration of American History by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team #250to250 Narrated by Jim Obergefell Obergefell v. Hodges #WeAreAmerica250 #SameSexMarriage #LoveIsLove #HumanRights @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/9YaX11f19cU?...
Not a new observation, I know, but: moving the World Cup TV rights from ESPN to Fox has done real damage to soccer in this country.
I am so excited to watch the best soccer players in the world compete for the next 6 weeks. But, man, this is gross. www.espn.com/soccer/story...
FIFA's Infantino: Better to 'chill' over World Cup visa issues
FIFA president Gianni Infantino said the organization cannot dictate to the U.S. government who to allow into its country for the World Cup, saying that sometimes it is better to "chill and relax" over visa issues.
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An Iraqi soccer player was detained for hours when he arrived here for the World Cup. A Somali referee was outright denied entry. Iran's team is not allowed to stay in the U.S. The World Cup is supposed to bring the world together. Instead, Trump is using it as an excuse to be racist and cruel.
the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to
NPR@npr.org · 4mo agoSoon after winning the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff, Ken Paxton attacked Democratic nominee, state Rep. James Talarico as "too low-T for Texas," putting manhood front and center in the race. n.pr/4a5uElp
It’s worth saying this over and over again so we don’t make mistakes like we’ve made in the past — everyone in the DOJ involved in this must be fired, prosecuted, and if relevant disbarred. You could just quit. People have quit.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5mo agoCNN: The DOJ has launched a new criminal investigation into one of Trump's enemies, E. Jean Carroll. The source is telling CNN that the investigation now is focused on whether she committed perjury during her two civil lawsuits against the president.