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echezesq.bsky.social
wonk, nerd, attorney, mama, minnesotan. delights in crisp weather, eclectic word usage, & a good cocktail. i read, therefore i furrow.
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There is no hell hot enough for the deployer of Monday night fireworks.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

From Justice Sotomayor's dissent: Given its conduct in these proceedings, the Government’s posture resembles that of the arsonist who calls 911 to report firefighters for violating a local noise ordinance

submitted 17 hours ago • 27 comments

‘None of us are tired’: Democratic AGs pledge extended court fight against Trump @keithellison.bsky.social minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/23/r...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

submitted 13 hours ago • 548 comments

Folks, this is why “it’s a distraction” takes are dumb. We make noise about everything that matters because (1) it matters, and (2) right now noise is all we’ve got, and noise isn’t nothing.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

A part of me thinks it’s bc of the attention the Alien Enemies Act expulsions got. Extensive media reporting & public outrage over the admin’s lawless denials of due process. There hasn’t been the same kind of coverage or focus on 3rd country removals - even tho they’re no less appalling or lawless

submitted 15 hours ago • 29 comments

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:

submitted 16 hours ago • 544 comments

This is simply horrific. @timmiller.bsky.social reacts to disturbing footage of masked ICE agents violently beating the father of U.S. Marines

submitted 23 hours ago • 160 comments

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

submitted 5 days ago • 648 comments

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 4 days ago • 3209 comments

The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not protect everybody equally. Instead it upheld the Tennessee law that seeks to eradicate trans kids. My latest in @thenation www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 5 days ago • 68 comments

If a legislature banned all treatments, medicines, procedures pertaining to prostate glands, would the Roberts Court sill review with rational basis?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Welp. This strikes me as correct and has sent me spiraling about how we’re doing everything all wrong.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "What is going on with these masks?'...That's not something we can be doing in this country...I keep being shocked that there's not more pushback that [ICE] isn't properly showing who they are as they're trying to arrest people."

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

A disgrace.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Paging Dr. Freud.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Aside from the inhumanity and trauma, what is the cost of all this gear, all this personnel, all this hybrid military-immigration-fascism cosplay? Can a few small government Repubs get on this? Where my Reagan stans at?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The majority opinion is rubbish, but this separate writing is utterly divorced from reality. The ban at issue literally proves widespread operationalized animus.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 6 days ago • 128 comments

Great dissent. Trash majority decision.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“The skater dudes, grandmothers, and dog walkers forever taunt us, my love.” [chef’s kiss]

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve always been a @smith.senate.gov superfan, but henceforth, this is a Senator Smith Staffer stan account as well

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Nice work, Idaho. You appear to have exceeded the Trump Vanity Exercise attendance.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is monstrous. Melissa Hortman was kind and smart and worked for decades trying to make life better for Minnesotans. Sending love out to all who knew her and praying for the safety of all of her colleagues and their families.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s $45 million birthday parade with its tanks and helicopters is an authoritarian ego trip. But the real show of force this weekend won't take place in D.C., it’ll happen in the streets as protesters gather nationwide to declare "No Kings in America!"

submitted 11 days ago • 131 comments

My family owes everything to America's acceptance of a refugee named Nicholas Pritzker on its shores over a century ago. My story, however, is not unique — our state and nation have been strengthened by people from across the globe seeking freedom, opportunity, and refuge here.

submitted 11 days ago • 129 comments

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

So video of this 2012 interview is popping up on other sites. Feels super relevant at the moment. Wait for the moment Rubio gets pinned to the wall about his grandfather’s deportation order… (h/t @reuben_reyñoso)

submitted 11 days ago • 113 comments

Put this on a billboard.

submitted 11 days ago • 100 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 11 days ago • 838 comments

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 11 days ago • 2260 comments

This! Thank you!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

submitted 11 days ago • 2747 comments

BREAKING: Judge says Mahmoud Khalil cannot be detained or deported based on Rubio’s determination. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 270 comments

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

submitted 12 days ago • 178 comments

This. 100% all in.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

“Trump…called for the arrest of Newsom. If you saw all this in any other country—soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened—it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Y’all, I’m starting to worry that this place is trending echo chamber. I really don’t want to go back to the bad place. Is it time to kick the social media habit all together?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Mainstream Republicans are mugged by the Trump Administration over and over and over, and still refuse to press charges.

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

I know the word dystopian is doing a lot of work these days but hard to find another equal to the task…

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

“I’m not going to give legal analysis, but I *am* going to call for grisly extrajudicial violence against a governor,” is a hell of a thing for any lawyer—but especially the Speaker of the US House of Representatives—to say aloud in front of cameras and microphones.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"Mass deportation" is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism. As it was always intended to be.

submitted 15 days ago • 124 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 15 days ago • 3066 comments

This is lawless and inhumane and worthy of protests in the streets, folks!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

submitted 18 days ago • 222 comments

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

submitted 18 days ago • 429 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 18 days ago • 1692 comments