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Thomas Frampton@tframpton.bsky.social · last wk.

The other absolutely bonkers (& probably bigger) thing here is the revelation that there was some kind of coup inside LASC several years ago, in which "administrative responsibilities and internal governance of the Court" was stripped from the Chief Justice (but he retained "ceremonial duties").

Super normal stuff: Citing "extraordinary" misconduct, the other six members of the Louisiana Supreme Court have forced the Chief Justice to recuse himself from a case (after he refused to do so on his own).

I like the NYT data visualization stuff, but this is an insane way to depict a deadly and lopsided war of aggression. (A $3.1M tomahawk striking a school that kills 110+ schoolgirls should not look the same as a $35,000 Shahed drone falling into the desert outside a U.S. military installation.)

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · last wk.

My new office is in Stuart Hall and I chuckle to myself every time I see this.

Picture of cultural theorist Stuart Hall.

A Polish-born woman in Des Plaines who “had done everything right” has been in ICE custody for the past year. Green Card for 20 years, sought citizenship. “And it didn’t matter.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/27/i...

Illinois woman with green card has been detained by ICE for 12 months. Her daughters plead for her release.

ICE arrested Beata Siemionkowicz, a Poland native and green card holder of more than two decades, last year while she was gardening in her daughter’s backyard in Des Plaines.

chicagotribune.com

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · last wk.

This is amazing. A single 77 guy staging a protest against Flock cameras. It reveals the depth of people’s frustration with growing networks of self surveillance. And yet reveals three deep misunderstandings of the challenges ahead. 1/5 www.cltampa.com/news/a-77-ye...

A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against St. Pete’s Flock cameras

Carl Gunn in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 25, 2026. Photo by Valerie Smith. Carl Gunn, 77, was concerned for his privacy when he spotted a camera

cltampa.com

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · last wk.

I wonder whether the boards of Tesla and SpaceX have any reaction to Musk's call for political assassinations, or more specifically to his call for the killing of the Economist's editor in chief. If I were a journalist, I might make some calls.

Bolts@boltsmag.org · last wk.

Law profs doing bad things for democracy have gotten (and should get) attention recently. But a brief shout-out to Prof. @jackchin.bsky.social: He wrote a law review article flagging this issue 20 years ago; some brilliant attorneys eventually read it and litigated it . . . and won.

A federal judge has ordered Virginia to restore the voting rights of thousands of people who were illegally barred from voting under the 1870 Virginia Readmission Act, the law that readmitted Virginia into the United States.

Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Imagine going to the WHCA dinner tonight honoring the dude secretly subpoenaing your mom’s phone records and lying to federal magistrates about it.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 2w ago

With respect to the statement that the investigation was "not public," AUSA Kevin Sullivan admitted that was "not correct." The judge also asked why DOJ failed to inform the magistrate that the subpoena involved reporters. Sullivan said that was an "oversight." bsky.app/profile/anna...

Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦@shadowspar.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are literally thousands of National Guardsmen standing around DC street corners today doing nothing but choking on this air.

just as an example, here's a story from 2025 about some of the mutual aid exchanges between Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota via the Great Lakes Forest Fire Compact. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Universal Health Services bought the medical practice that all our GW doctors are a part of (MFA) and now they’re all fleeing? Today the OBGYN (who is great and we love) said she’ll be gone in a few weeks because UHS doesn’t offer any parental leave. To their OBGYNs. $1.45B net income in 2025.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3w ago

The unitary executive giveth; the unitary executive taketh away.

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

The Parties used the existence of federal litigation as a means of conferring legitimacy upon a course of action that they were unwilling to subject to judicial review.
The context of the "settlement," the relationships of the people involved in negotiating and approving it, the ethical implications of their conduct, and the Parties' swift efforts to
dismiss this case after the Court raised fundamental jurisdictional questions all support this conclusion. Accordingly, the Court expressly finds that Plaintiffs acted in bad faith.
See Sofaly v. Portfolio Recovery Assocs., LLC, 155 F.4th 289, 295 (3d Cir. 2025) (monetary sanctions were proper under the court's inherent power where the lawyers acted in bad faith and committed fraud on the court by using "their clients to bring
contrived lawsuits"). That finding is enough to invoke the Court's inherent authority. See JTR Enter., LLC V. Columbian Emeralds, 697 F. App'x 976, 986 (11th Cir. 2017) ("The key to invoking a court's inherent power to sanction is a finding of bad faith.") (citation
omitted).

Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 4w ago

I hate American healthcare so much. #graphicdesignismypassion

Chief Justice Roberts made clear for a 5-4 Court in Trump v. Hawaii (2018) that absolutely nothing Trump said or did would “support an inference of religious hostility” against Muslims (in a legally cognizable sense). Straight line from there to here.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.

1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last mo.

Coincidentally, FIFA also found about 11,700 votes for Trump that he definitely didn’t ask for in Georgia.

Anyone who doesn't understand that this is Trump doing the same mob boss shit he always does is being naive

Breaking News
9m ago
Trump says he asked FIFA's president to review
U.S. star's World Cup suspension but 'didn't tell him what to do'

Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · last mo.

A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

Graph showing that the U.S. incarcerates people at a rate of 614 per 100,000. This is at least 4x higher than any other founding NATO countries.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last mo.

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

Frank Conde Tangberg@frankctangberg.bsky.social · last mo.

Glad Egypt won, but bummed FC St. Pauli captain Irvine (who connected on his penalty) is going home.

Socceroo footballer Jackson Irvine has spoken out for human rights. Footballers can use their platform at the World Cup to speak out against injustice. #HumanityMustWin Quotes from an interview with the Guardian published on 29th April 2026. Credit: Irvine’s Instagram #AUSEGY 🇦🇺🇪🇬

Wild stuff from the Louisiana Supreme Court, which has now (5-2) issued a "stay" of the proceedings against AG Murrill. I can't think of a time when they have ever done something like this in a criminal case; Justice Guidry not pulling punches in dissent. Opinions: www.lasc.org/actions?p=20...

Feeling like Yugoslavia could've made a deep run in this World Cup.