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hoosiernathaniel.bsky.social
Lawyer (but not yours, and not speaking for my employer). From Indiana, now in VA. Probably want to take a nap right now. I like live music and collecting baseball cards. Perpetually exasperated by life and…all this.
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lol, lmao even.

So petty

That’s … a detention facility.

When I did missions for Human Rights Watch in Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, one of the things we looked for were illegal prisons, places where people were being detained incommunicado without proper facilities. This sounds an awful like that. (Link to a chapter on that research below.)

Per Rolling Stone (and others) — Trump’s Fox News consumption is why he went from saying we had nothing to do with it to taking credit (?) for the attack: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... (Meanwhile Iran says they did not ask to come to the White House, despite Trump’s claim)

Batshit crazy.

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people. But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person. Denial makes things worse

JFC

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"[S]heriffs and cops fired tear gas and pushed the protesters, unprovoked. They trampled an elderly man with their horse and then clobbered him with their batons and fired ... projectiles at the crowd. The police chased people down, hitting protesters indiscriminately. They beat people bloody."

These numbers are way higher than I’d thought. Based on the numbers in this article, the trump regime intends to sell: - 12% of Washington - 16% of California - 23% of Alaska - 35% of Oregon - 48% of Nevada The regime is a chop-shop and America is the car they just stole

Once you have one the world contorts around how well it’s actually not that bad that you have one, really provides stability even.

This photo makes me cry. It is always the innocent who will be the victims of war, as tyrants will go unharmed. War is always an injustice, and the USA and Israel only produce more martyrs as they bomb the neighborhoods of civilians. She is so beautiful and happy. I hope she is in peace.

Two-thirds of counties that have lost funding from this FEMA program supported President Trump in the 2024 election. www.cbsnews.com/femagrantcuts/

Musk succeeded in destroying an entire sector of the American economy (international humanitarian assistance), and is trying to do the same to another (public lands management).

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

This is a) part of a broader pattern by this admin to use "fraud" claims as a means to remove basic safety net supports b) not true, IRS validates income c) sort of ironic, since this admin has crippled the ability of the IRS to investigate fraud, esp for high income earners like them

Via @tessowen.bsky.social at @wired.com: The Minnesota Shooting Suspect’s Background Suggests Deep Ties to Christian Nationalism —> www.wired.com/story/christ...

At least one in five of the men currently being held captive in El Salvador were legal immigrants to the United States. Not just not "THE WORST OF THE WORST." Literally people who did nothing wrong. That's life without due process.

Listen to her. "I'm worried about you tainting it. I worry that you've given the order to use lethal force against unarmed civilians." And listen to the sulky adolescent who's Hegseth, and his dismissal of the statement of his predecessor under Trump.

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

NEW: The child sex abuse material trade on X is spiraling out of control… and a key child safety partner just cut X off after they say to company stopped paying them www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

The individual maximum a person can donate to a NYC mayoral candidate is $2100. Mike Bloomberg just donated $8.3 million to Andrew Cuomo through a super PAC. This is what a rigged campaign finance system, designed to let the wealthy buy elections, looks like.

Someone needs to tell this dumb fuck that this will be bad for gas prices for his new jet from Qatar or whoever the fuck.

it is hard to convey in words how bad the bloodbath has been for professionals working in the "not evil" sectors

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Fahhhhhhhk

A majority of everybody should be against this shit.

block and walk

He came here because he knows that's where the trans people fled to. That is the only reason. He just wants direct contact with his victims.

No shit, Tim. Do better.

blocked & reported the vice president, normal things to do

Bro, you gotta block that guy, not because he sucks, but because he’s only here to get you to say stuff to him that will get you in legal trouble.

As the US flirts with war in Iran, it's important to note that any nuclear threat there is largely one that we created when Trump pulled out of the JCPO agreement in 2018. It can't be overstated how stupid that was. More explanation here: medium.com/cognitive-fe...

BREAKING: U.S. regulators have approved the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV.

They want us dead. I don’t know how they could possibly make that more clear.

Given the news out of SCOTUS today about healthcare for trans kids in Tennessee, now is the time to support orgs doing good: Trans Youth Emergency Project: southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/forms/60 Transgender Law Center: transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/ OUTMemphis: www.outmemphis.org/donate

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.

Just asked SDNY if they were opening an election interference investigation against the people who arrested @bradlander.bsky.social yesterday, given Emil Bove's representation that such a thing would be election interference. Nicholas Biase declined to comment.

The Supreme Court of the United States voted 6-3 in favor of politicians being able to take life-saving, medically necessary, doctor-prescribed, parent-approved health care away from trans kids. The so-called party of “parental rights,” “small government” and “freedom” just spat on all of that.

Small wins, I guess.

When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court. Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.