23-year veteran of US Courts/recovering attorney, Rocky Mountain enthusiast, teaching ESL to adult immigrants & refugees in Aurora CO, ally, wife & mother of good men, all are welcome at my house.
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“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
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There wasn’t a tonsils out one?! But yes, is forgotten the ether 😅
Hey, does anybody remember that two-word phrase that whipped up all the anti-Obamacare tea partiers in 2009
And Curious George
#2 version has been made every year of my life since I can remember. That would be around 1968. They mellow and turn into the consistency of fudge, with a nice pecan & bourbon bite. Seriously. Try them.
The Judge I worked for got his every year for 23 years. It was his favorite treat o' the season. Truth.
Both I and my youngest stepdaughter, in 2 successive generations, were known to search the house for the tin during those 2 weeks to sneak some before they're ready. My mother always hid them under her bed. I sort of left them out to be "snuck."
The bottom recipe has been a family staple since I can remember (at least 1968). I promise they are made, left to "mellow" for 2 weeks, and opened (yes, in the blue Danish butter cookie tin, right before Christmas.
How can this not break your heart. The people who desire this, perpetrate this, should never know love or a moment’s peace ever again.
What is f#%^g WRONG with these people?
I threw the sandwich But I did not do a felony 🎶
A critical mass of outraged white, affluent, symphony-loving Utahns is exactly what is needed in this moment. Whatever it takes.
"How would you help advance the President's ... agenda?"
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my husband knows this is a fact and our long-established prenup is he talks to insurance, plumbers, and orders the Chinese food
"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
Clint Smith is the best. Story gifted here www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
John Bolton refused to testify at Trump's impeachment, preferring to sacrifice national security to make money with his book. He could have helped bring accountability and erode the mafia state, enduring that Trump and his cohort could not return. He did not, so now the mafia state comes for him.
I love this observation. Cracker Barrel is stradling the 36th parallel ...
Here, fixed it.
bring it, asshole. We've got lots of sandwich shops, panaderías, burrito stands, halal bakeries, dumpling shops, and fed up middle aged hippies with good throwing arms. Oh, and the young people, the suburban people, the mountain people, and even the gentleman ranchers hate you, too.
The files are in the house…
Cute that she thinks the point is to be funny.
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Orange face-paint line showing, hence b&w
Does every nonsensical, cognitively impaired thing he says now just get filtered through the, "Oh well, we know he meant the opposite" filter without so much as an eyebrow wiggle?
The hostess will seat you as soon as she’s sat the party that arrived before you.
Oh I needed this good laugh.❤️
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I know he ruins everything, but this is actually hilarious… And I hope Andrew Sullivan is happy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
He looks like those stiff, terrified soldiers in silver daguerreotype photos from the 1860s.
I’m shite at physics but photos of birds accelerating/decelerating/diving to catch fish just make me wonder how much energy or force they must manifest to do these remarkable things…
Sometimes my Dutch background allows me an extra chuckle
Always gotta be creating new markets.
They totally get even our street trees right!
Creating the $$$ market for treating preventable diseases. Crony capitalism at its finest.
EXCLUSIVE: @timmiller.bsky.social spoke to Andry as he shared his journey through U.S. detention that led to imprisonment in El Salvador. He speaks about abuse, survival, and rebuilding his life through faith and his hope for the future. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySs...
Wow -- they orchestrated their renditions through an elaborate ruse of mechanical "problems" (both cars & planes) to time it for a weekend when courts were closed. Told them they were being deported back to Venezuela & then this total ruse to send them to CECOT in El Salvador. Utter corruption.
Saigon Azteca Night Market returns to Westwood this weekend denverite.com/2025/08/07/s...
Dear God
The federal judge I worked for would be there on a Rule 34 site visit so fast DeSantis's head would spin. And he'd write the heck out of an order describing what he saw, too. Someday there will be Congressional hearings, and exposés, and prison terms for all of this.
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one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
and their reliance on the fact that dems will underlies a huge part of their 2025 strategy
What a complete and utter doofus
Jeezus. Spelling is not hard. Autocorrect will do it for you: descendents
The energy he has to expend playing off all his tells
Never thought I’d see the day when someone could write The Gulag Archepelago about us. They’re not going to be able to bury these stories for long. History will not be kind.
Validating "local patriotism," loving the neighborhoods, food carts, vibes in specific places city dwellers know and feel pride in, so refreshing.
Great insight. This paragraph struck me as maybe not a New Yorker but someone who loves food & being in a city full of great food in diverse neighborhoods. There are a lot of non-partisans/regular people this resonates for.
The higher up the relatively safe chain you are the louder you have to yell. People with people to lose understandably don't want to "poke the bear..."
"A canary in the coal mine of the rule of law." This is an immensely important story about the DOJ being turned into an institution that is breaking the law at the behest of the President...the kind of story that would have tanked previous administrations. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/p...
Epstein *tapes*?
Great article. I loved me some Billy Joel in my day ...
When you can declare the law any attempt to prevent you from breaking the law is against the law
projection? Every weird thing they come up with out of nowhere ends up being something one of theirs is doing
hiLArious
and deep down they didn't feel a tad betrayed...?
Who knew Marc Maron was such a soothsayer? This is sadly so accurate! (From 2020)
And it’s “fewer.” Stupid snark is sad snark.
The U.S. desperately needs a way to maintain social order beyond police & prisons This is only possible, not paradoxically, if we overcome libertarian biases across the political spectrum A good social order requires rules that are internalized and enforced, and tax-funded public goods & services
Gifted www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/w...
No, it's a perfect word! It goes proudly, knowingly, in the lexicon now.
I used to do this reading to my kids when they were little. Sometimes they caught me with a "MOM! You're doing it again!"
Yes! And I either just learned the meaning of the word "liminal" or it's popping up all over the place in these strange times ...
No, just to give them time to extort Ghislaine Maxwell into implicating Bill Clinton & exonerating Trump.
Sounds like the Pillow Guy.
And the QAnon/MAGA base will be so relieved ...
Suuuuuure, Todd. These people are comic villains. Hopefully too smart by half.
Really good post. This final "But" is going to disappoint, but it's the point we've got to keep making...
When you're too corrupt or authoritarian for FIFA ...
a pardon quid pro quo?
But isn't that reasonable when those class-grievants elected & revere & excuse Donald Trump for everything? I can't believe it's straight class grievance; it's QAnon crazy they're eating babies stuff. That's the only way to distinguish Trump from the bad elites.
🚨DHS is sending deportation letters to children in Illinois 🚨 At least 12 unaccompanied minors in the Chicago area—many just recently reunited with family—have received sudden deportation letters from DHS. No hearing. No explanation. Just a threat: “Leave or the federal government will find you" 🧵
Blanche was Trump's personal counsel. This is like witness intimidation at the highest official policy of the federal govt level.
The irony is that Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz et al are going to help Trump bury it, isn't it? Sure it betrays the MAGA base, but 5th Avenue & everything.
Maybe I’m dense, but doesn’t releasing a bunch of FBI files on a whim draw attention to the fact that they could totally release the Epstein files, too?
I wonder how a hypothetical presidential candidate who said something like "I'll put Trump and his co-conspirators in jail, I'll prosecute anyone in ICE that violated rights, I'll nationalize Elon Musk's companies, and leave everything else to Congress, elect me if you want those things" would do.
Every out-of-nowhere accusation is moored in something they’ve done and think it obscures. They are so dumb.
Researched & evidence-based. This is what journalists should do.
A hugely underdiscussed effect of the creeping fascism of ICE is that debt collectors and landlords are filing more cases against immigrants, even when they're inflated or outright falsified, because they know immigrants are too fearful of deportation to show up to court to fight them.
Think of the states that will not rebuff him. From screeching "Stop the Steal!" calling dems pedophiles, every crazy thing the Trump GOP comes up with is to feint because they're doing it already...
The kind of “being welcoming” the church seems too often concerned with offering right now means saying “Christians can keep working for ICE,” but the actual love demanded of the church is saying “we will pay your rent so you can quit your job with ICE” ⚓️
“Native Land Digital” Maps…Native Lands Worldwide & Has Free Teacher Guides larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/07/18/n...
It wouldn't be the biggest thing or the thing with the worst consequences, but I'm not sure there would be a purer distillation of the constitutional failure we're experiencing than the confirmation of Emil Bove to a lifetime seat on the federal bench.
Great list. Love 8, would add to 9: A female mentor (unusual, back then) when I was a baby lawyer at a large law firm told me to experiment with writing an initial draft without any adjectives or adverbs, adding them in only after the first edit. Tighten it up.
Read this and touch your humanity today.
Jesus, reading this ripped me back to being a 12-year-old reading The Diary of Ann Frank for the first time. The sweetness, the observational perspective, the lack of venom or judgment. My mother was a girl in Nazi-occupied Holland. I never even considered it would happen again in one lifetime.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was one of the ways the government spent money so that remote parts of America aren’t left behind, and voters from there who say they’re being left behind elect politicians who work to leave them further behind, then complain that no one cares about them.
I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like. I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
'People are quite literally disappearing with no due process, no rights' sentinelcolorado.com/nation-world... #ICEraids #massdeportations #Immigration
I have been trying to understand what is going on with this whole thing, and this column was helpful
What cowards so many of us are.
Exactly, and the nascent Federalist Society they were becoming tribal about. So many khakis. So many Oxford shirts.
i've never been particularly interested in epstein stuff, but if it turns out that the missing footage involves people entering or leaving the area of the cell it would probably be the biggest scandal in american political history.
A large percentage of Americans do not fully comprehend the magnitude and scale of the impact of the gutting of federal gov't functions, funding for research, cutting Medicaid, attacking immigrant workers, + ballooning the national debt on future economic productivity and growth.
This UVA Law ‘89 grad can VOUCH
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