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volcommie.bsky.social

I make offbeat noises with my little guitar 🎸 In-House Tech Lawyer ⚖️ Virginia Tech Hokie 🦃 Recovering Emo Kid Huntsville, AL | San Diego, CA He/him/his @volcommie on all other socials, opinions my own. Not your lawyer.

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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 8 hours ago • 334 comments

I see people talking about leaving the US and get citizenship in other countries and I just gotta say that I was born here, an I wash raised here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter

submitted 12 hours ago • 23 comments

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

submitted 1 day ago • 1292 comments

I, too, am advocating for due process of law for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

do y’all remember when we wouldn’t shut up about how everyone should be trying to imagine Trump with “no guardrails”? yeah, well, it’s not as hard now, is it?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

To the surprise of absolutely no one, they’re taking Thomas’s suggestion to challenge Griswold seriously. Fuck these people

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The entire POINT is to cultivate an obedient press and docile population that accepts accusations without pushback. The fact that the administration’s accusations are increasingly overtly ass-damp is a feature, not bug.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 4 days ago • 125 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 4 days ago • 1338 comments

I think that’s the first earthquake I’ve felt in a decade living in San Diego, holy shit

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I spent a good amount of time reflecting on the state of #Hokies Athletics and writing this with fairness to the best of my abilities but in my view, the time has come for Virginia Tech to make changes and bring in new athletic leadership. Read more here: techlunchpail.com/blog/time-fo...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We have to consider the possibility that CBP is acting like this because this is how they’ve always wanted to act and the change isn’t Trump saying they should so much as there’s no longer anyone to tell them no.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Parsley! At The Disco

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US. They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US. www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...

submitted 7 days ago • 93 comments

I’m calling it now, the government is gonna challenge whatever definition of “facilitate” the Dist Ct comes up with, regardless of how reasonable it is. They already have an easy out—the Order requires due regard for “the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

When I told a colleague that my partner and I were going to spend a day in Solvang (the kitschy Danish town north of Santa Barbara) I got a quizzical look and was asked why? BECAUSE KITSCHY SHIT IS FUN THATS WHY!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments