Matt Henry 🥄
@matthenry.fyi
Tech, law, philosophy, and abolition. Web optimist. I build design systems for governments. This is (obviously?) a personal account. he/him
If I were hoping for a pardon I’d probably be a little bummed that DOJ was still cranking through forfeiture proceedings
Big Cases Bot@bigcases.bots.law · yesterdayNew filing: "U.S. v. Combs" Doc #651: SERVICE BY PUBLICATION as to Sean Combs. A Notice of Criminal Forfeiture was published in the www.forfeiture.gov on October 15, 2025 through November 13, 2025. Document filed by USA as… [full entry below 👇] Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69167625
The split between “Police” and “Criminal Justice System” here is *wild*
Chris Warren@chriswarren.info · last wk.
Very excited to share this with the world. We have been working on it for a while! www.wired.com/story/the-ac...
The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
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Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
We need to move all of administrative adjudication, not just immigration courts, to Article III, with article III judges appointing what are currently administrative judges as magistrate judges. I outline the case in part III of this article: www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-l...
I'm surprised at the apparent enthusiasm the GOP has for enshrining the right to a pasta pass in the Constitution.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoWhite House spokesperson Abigail Jackson: "I saw a tweet yesterday from Olive Garden that in order to take advantage of their never-ending pasta pass, you have to show photo ID. I thought, that's weird, Olive Garden takes pasta pass security more seriously than Democrats take election security."
“So I said it sounds like [my kid’s] just feeding [water bottles] to [lost & found]s and then [I] started crying”
I'm so grateful I get to work in public service. While the humans who make AI are intent on ruining the craft of building for the web and ruining the web itself, I feel so fortunate that I can still do meaningful work that actually helps people.
This would be a great time to have functioning public health infrastructure at the federal level. Oh well!
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 3w agoWe’re all going to get diarrhea I guess.
People are always asking “why is there something instead of nothing?” But nobody ever does anything about it.
Paul Simon really went for it when he wrote “Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard.”
not me judging which countries might be fun to move to based on their having web component-based design systems (Belgium, hello 👀) github.com/ctrimm/Gover...
GitHub - ctrimm/Government-Design-Systems-List: A List of All Known Federal, State, & Municipal Government Design Systems
A List of All Known Federal, State, & Municipal Government Design Systems - ctrimm/Government-Design-Systems-List
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I don't want to go too far on a limb here, but A Love Supreme is a *pretty good album*.
There aren't criminal statutes that address the sabotage of administrative agencies but there are many dealing with government data and evidence tampering. We should be looking at statutes of limitations and thinking about responses to mass pardons.
WIRED@wired.com · 4w agoA government report claims DOGE didn’t access sensitive systems. It also says the agency deleted records that would show if they had. Signal handle: Vittoria89.82
It might be impossible to get Siri to play the record “Mingus Ah Um” because it removes the syllables it thinks are pause words which are, um, 2/3 of the title.
1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:
The least surprising thing in the world—the idea that people who are trained in the humanities are better thinkers and problem solvers and more creative than people who have no humanities education. Perhaps the business world will tell the education world?
Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.futurism.com/future-socie... lol
This is not today's most important news but THAT IS THE POINT. Anyone who doubts that the Roberts Court deliberately hides their most partisan rulings with careful timing should consider how little reporting there is today on NRSC v. FEC. It gives Republicans a major boost in November's elections.
Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as
I never ever fail to mention this. NCSA Mosaic, a public project from the University of Illinois.
the mjl (michael j leblanc)@themjl.bsky.social · last mo.Andressen's main claim to fame is that he pulled a Coding Weekender to 'clone' Mosaic (aka "steal public IP") to make Netscape right after the Supercollider project was canned. NCSA Mosaic was paid-for with SSC money. Andressen is a THIEF. Never forget that.
In MA, there are public defenders for family court which is great, but they were always trying to get people to come over from criminal to do a rotation and almost nobody does because it’s too fucked-up and sad. I have to stress: family court is too fucked-up and sad for public defenders.
Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · last mo.This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
that ideology is opposing state violence. half a century in prison for daring to protest racist state violence. that’s the message.
DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · last mo.Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
I had missed that OLC published a memo that seeks to undercut the legal basis for deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities or serious mental health problems www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...
