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barak-har-elkin.bsky.social
Former US English Professor — science-minded — prefers the company of cats — D[NY] loyal to democracy — despises autocracy & theocracy — enjoys black beer, halvah, espresso, weird/twisted films, and driving my slow car too fast — NO DMs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My office is fighting back against the Trump administration's cruel and dangerous attack on transgender youth and access to gender-affirming care.   I will always fight to protect transgender youth and their right to simply be who they are.

We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

@BlueSky Curious as to how "Deleted Accounts" still have the ability to DM us with scam Chat posts.

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Tonight is "John Dies at the End" movie night. It's also "have a Guinness" night and "Gee, that pastrami looks like it would be good on a sandwich" night.

Awesome support for our family and friends🙏🏳️‍⚧️

@deanakclark.bsky.social

NEW: Trump’s DoJ Chief of Staff has filed a complaint against Judge Reyes because she bench slapped their bigoted asses into the sun three days ago.

This is how it’s done.

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

Don't know if it's true, but veddy interesting.

Judge Ho's got Paul Clement, former Solicitor General, writing an amicus brief.... www.npr.org/2025/02/21/g...

US 1, Trump 0 -- for now, anyway.... www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

America does NOT like what Trump is doing.

Secretary Turner wants to cancel HUD programs that serve seniors and people with disabilities. Harming seniors and vulnerable Americans does not make our government more efficient. Senator Warren, Senator Smith, and I are holding this Administration accountable.

This is a drug addict who can barely put together a sentence.

Heartening to see.

The problems with kleptocracies is that sooner or later you steal so much that people come after you with torches & pitchforks. And since the bottom 50% of the US own just 2.4% of the country's wealth, after seeing the top 1% steal $50 trillion from the bottom 90% over the last 40 years....

If you were an animal, what would you be?

Leader of France’s far-right party abruptly cancels his scheduled CPAC speech after Steve Bannon’s Nazi salute. www.barrons.com/articles/fra...

Watchdog group @accountableorg.bsky.social filed a bar complaint w/ the Attorney Grievance Committee in NY, requesting an investigation into whether Emil Bove violated any professional conduct or ethics rules in his efforts to dismiss the Adams case at SDNY. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

The Associated Press is suing the Trump administration for violating the First Amendment. This comes after Trump banned them from White House briefings for refusing to obey his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.

Todays hero

#Krasnov

There's no question Trump's working toward revving the country into the red; the only questions are how long will it run once he does so, how much of an explosion will there be when it blows, and will we be able to duck the flying shreds of metal that used to purr so nicely under gentler use?

On the Kleptocracy www.thenation.com/article/poli...

We should all applaud Judge Ho’s appointment of former Bush SG Paul Clement to present a perspective distinct from those of the indicted NYC Mayor Eric Adams and the Trumpservient DOJ prosecutor Emil Bove. Well played! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/n...

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

It's very possible I would on general principles despise, resent, and consider a permanent nemesis any human being who deprived me of saying "Ooh -- did the mail come yet? Let me go check!" on a daily basis; and even though that's illogical, I know there are many others like me.

here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.

How is that even remotely legal?

You will go after our political enemies, or you must resign. "she was forced to resign following a dispute with her boss over a directive that she scrutinize the awarding of a government contract during the Biden administration." apnews.com/article/just...

the only thing Canadians like more than beating Russia in hockey is beating the US in hockey. the general sentiment this morning is that last night we got to do both.

yooo I was just cited in a federal opinion & I'm ecstatic! I argued that the Supreme Court's originalist guns jurisprudence is asinine so lower court judges don't know how to apply it, & in footnote 17 this judge is like YEAH lmao www.scribd.com/document/823... ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/secon...

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

“Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd…”