For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.
Lawyer trying to transform public defense. Author of The Price of Mercy ( www.emilygalvinalmanza.com ). Can drive a truck and trailer through places you shouldn't. Personal account, personal opinions.
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For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.
This afternoon, in addition to Charlie Kirk, there was a school shooting. Bullets don't know and don't care if you are a Republican or Democrat. It is time for Republicans and Democrats to find a way to work together to reduce gun violence. www.wcpo.com/us-news/crim...
"Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence, but no other justice joined it—perhaps they reasoned that it was better to remain silent and be thought a racist fool than to speak, as Kavanaugh did, and remove all doubt."
Lfg
Someone literally said WHERE WAS DUE PROCESS FOR LAKEN RILEY to me yesterday & like...due process was that her killer was duly arrested, tried, convicted, & sentenced to life in prison??? It's up there with "illegals are violating my right to life, liberty, and property by coming here illegally"
Seemed like a good time to talk about high tech and predictive policing with @malwarebytes.com awesome podcast Lock & Code. Want to know more? It's scary. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6d8s... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Here are some nice things people said bsky.app/profile/galv...
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Crying as I type . . .
Signs bearing President Trump’s name have gone up at major construction projects. They were financed by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law which he passionately opposed ahead of its passage.
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
Noting that this is great, but doesn't touch on *availability* Like, AFAIK no pharmacies near me are ordering the pediatric covid shot, leaving us out of luck for now. Hope these rule changes by states shift ordering plans.
I got it from someone brilliant on the internet, I would tag them if I could remember who!
This is true (and known to be true) at the local level too. One recent account abt Chicago gang violence argued that the relatively successful decapitations of Chicago’s fairly-organized gangs left a huge power vacuum that produced hyper-local cliques that have proved MUCH harder to address.
PlantNet, run by a university botany lab, has been working great at identifying every known plant in the world for 15 years. Well, I say fuck them. We need AI to tell us that belladonna is strawberries. Give me 5 billion dollars
Juries are one of the only tools the people have to directly, personally curtail government power
Nice! What a date
Having to listen to RFK Jr untether America from science while sounding like a spoon in a garbage disposal has inspired me to go get my covid booster today. Celebrations!
California, I love you so much "Luigi Mangione Act" controversial health care initiative | cbs8.com share.google/25aGm4xeYeqX...
Totally
This is one of the MAGA things that exhausts me the most---the idea that there is some kind of elaborate conspiracy involving most federal judges, lawyers, experts, etc...rather than wondering if maybe this government is particularly partial to doing illegal things.
The Trump administration "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of the [Administrative Procedure Act], the First Amendment and Title VI."
We the people, baby. We the People are going to put a stop to some things
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Oh also that code is only good until 9/5 so...use accordingly lol
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When I was in 3rd grade I won an out loud reading prize, beating out even the 6th graders. I am now once again attempting to win out loud reading by recording my upcoming book The Price of Mercy!
Go to a school board meeting. Get out there. This is bullshit.
Also this article is a perfect demonstration of the fact that our sentences are way too long and pretty much everyone in this article should be home instead of building a successful career from prison.
This is FANTASTIC. We live in a country where more than half of people released from prison end up back in prison. Letting people earn real money, build a life, save a nest egg- this is the path to true safety share.google/J8EM2aYHEUXj...
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Guys I don't want to sound crazy but the images from this morning look exactly like this video from June
Pizza orders at the Pentagon 👀 www.pizzint.watch
Some perspective…
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
This is the best possible argument in favor of Graham Platner
The owl of Minerva takes flight only at dusk, etc.
Elevated risk was part of my core personal style
Oh good I can easily prove my eligibility with Polaroids from 2006
He is wrong on the facts. 1. The data is clear, VBM benefits Democrats electorally and it remains true. Rejected mail ballots skew Democratic as well. 2. Strict photo ID laws also disadvantage Democrats, particularly young voters and those in urban areas. Again, this is data not opinion.
Why do we still allow people with serious mental illness to buy guns? Because the first law Republicans passed under Trump in 2017, made it easier. There were over 4,000 mass shootings between 2017-2024, and this country elected him again. If that’s not proof America is sick, I don’t know what is.
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Robots are bad eyewitnesses How the N.Y.P.D.’s Facial Recognition Tool Landed the Wrong Man in Jail www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
Well to be fair, throwing a regular sandwich (even a superlong) is not a felony. We may yet see nullification! But in this case, the jury just did the right thing.
Even if you're not in DC. You might get called up and find yourself in a position to look more skeptically at a case than others would, and give your fellow citizen a fairer shake in court. Lincoln called it our most important civic duty.
Given the EO it feels like as good a time as any to remind you all that cash bail was a dumb idea from jump, and other countries have already moved on www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlRM...
This is why it's important not to skip jury duty.
Here they are again! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Unmentioned: Liberty's last champions, the brilliant public defender service of DC, filing the motions & planning the strategies that are giving DC jurors and judges an opportunity to reject bogus charges. If you like freedom, Fund Public Defense www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Catelin Drey just flipped a Trump +11 Iowa Senate seat! Democrats have now overperformed in 37 out of 38 elections so far this year.
At least grand juries are finally living up to their intended role of serving as a check on prosecution that enforces community understandings of right and wrong over badly applied (or just bad) laws
Ah, I see Texas has moved on, post-gerrymander, to the important next task of making it harder to investigate deaths in jail boltsmag.org/texas-jail-d...
now that redistricting is over in the Texas legislature, lawmakers are moving on to their next priority... make it harder to investigate when people die in local jails.
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Chicago doesn't even crack the top 20 most dangerous cities. Denver has a higher crime rate than Chicago.
Chicago had the lowest number of homicides since 1962 last month. Just remember this for whatever happens next. Listen to: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson discusses Trump's threat to deploy National Guard - one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5514...
Hey thanks so much for tuning in!
It's always a good time for a conversation about freedom
If you are wondering what Democrats are doing (like me) maybe take your eyes off Washington and look to the states :-) cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act. Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
Dear @washingtonpost.com: these two paragraphs are absolute malpractice. Utterly disgraceful. You use total counts, not rates … for the THIRD BIGGEST CITY IN THE US. Of COURSE it has a high total. And rates “have come down” … with a link, but no number. Down FIFTY PERCENT IN FOUR YEARS.
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
JUST IN: Judge Berman agrees that effort by DOJ to unseal Epstein grand jury files is a “diversion” when DOJ could just release a trove of far more comprehensive documents without court involvement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Do you have a citation for that figure? I haven't been able to find a breakdown of active duty military voting
Oh good AI ruins doctors Listen to: A new study raises concerns about whether doctors become too reliant on AI - one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5501...
Political military is bad IMHO Listen to: Six Republican governors are sending National Guard troops to D.C - one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5507...
This looks interesting!!
It's a mixed bag but the takeaway is that even weather services that are restored have the outside research that makes those predictions good experiencing cuts. Fact check: Did the Trump administration defund the National Weather Service ahead of flooding? share.google/bP8gV7oCMxbT...
Ooh something smells like the malice element of malicious prosecution www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
Hi 👋 just popping in to say that it's really dumb to have the national guard busy intimidating tourists and beating up delivery drivers in DC when hurricane season is starting and the government defunded crucial national warning infrastructure
The data doesn't lie; the court order in Los Angeles had a clear and measurable impact.
This is the best political ad I have seen in a very long time. And one of the most exciting campaigns!
So basically a taxpayer funded pack and play
You guys, JD Vance has taken EIGHT VACATIONS JUST SINCE JANUARY. Vermont ski Greenland Italy (Rome) India (Taj Mahal) Disneyland Nantucket Ohio River boating UK Cotswolds If any of us took *eight* vacations immediately upon starting a new job, how fast would we be fired?
Next time I meet a "Constitutional conservative" I'm handing out pop quizzes on the actual content of the document
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The Reverse Jailhouse Snitch is no more trustworthy than the Conventional Jailhouse Snitch. Conventional Snitches lead to a lot of wrongful convictions. The Reverse Snitch will obviously lead to a lot of wrongful exonerations.
The responses to this from some on the left are just what Trump & MAGAs want. Either this is an existential crisis or it’s not. If it is, then anti-Trump allies are anti-Trump allies, even if not on everything. “Well, that position you took 3 years ago was wrong” is a fight we can’t afford anymore.
This! All of us have to fight for the rights of all of us!!
I love watching boys realize girls were right
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I have big news: I wrote a book! It’s called The Price of Mercy, and it’s about the violence, cruelty, and dysfunction baked into our legal system, and what we can do about it. It’s full of real-world stories, hard data, and the voices of people fighting to fix what’s broken.
like when was the last time a new poem made me fucking cry
The TSA is claiming they aren't storing your face...but they really really don't want to tell you that you have the right to opt out, and they really really don't want a bill saying they can't store your face. share.google/9JXUQZcZhfOV...
Oh noes drama at the farmers market www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Oh, I see we're once again in I Bought A Watermelon And Yet No One Is Eating It season
Damn straight.
It’s a disgrace that Massachusetts pays criminal defense attorneys $65 per hour when New Hampshire pays twice that much. Our state cannot claim to be serious about equal justice unless it rectify this injustice. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/o...
This is exciting work!
Please watch. Being tough on crime is not about more cops, more jails. Another component: special education services. If you don't give disadvantaged disabled kids special education when they're in school, you're setting them for higher jail risk as adults.
So I read a really dystopian piece of research... which I will tell you about here. But the good news is that this piece of research highlighted, for me, all the ways we could lower crime (fairly easily!)...if we chose to. Watch for more 👇👇👇 youtube.com/shorts/qzEoy...
I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge? 900?!
This is why I'm generally still in the "nah it's faster to just write it myself" camp What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study futurism.com/ai-coding-pr...