Pinned
le Pooch Noir
le Pooch Noir
@eltiante.bsky.social
Recently retired federal attorney. Droning on about politics & law, baseball, usage, etc. Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed
580 followers569 following1.6K posts
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
👇 spread this news far and wide
❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
le Pooch Noir reposted
🔥 @jumaane.bsky.social : “They’re going to try to make the gentleman they shot the worst human you’ve ever heard of… a father picking up his child was shot by a rogue agency controlled by Trump. That’s what occurred. He represents evil. He is doing the Devil’s work.” #AbolishICE
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
The consequences of Trump's rampage against democracy and decency are so obvious that ordinary Americans might even notice despite the Prestige Press' malfeasance. It'd be nice if more Democrats pointed it out instead of hammering "affordability."
The light tone of this piece reflects the NY Times’ attitude that Trump is just a goof and all this madness is temporary. It’s mind-blowing that a major newspaper is trivializing a fascist movement that has committed mass murder and stated openly last night that it will cheat in the midterms.
Politics could not be reached for comment www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/u...
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
Replying to @chrislhayes.bsky.social
It is such a pivotal moment. Plenty of times where people say oh you cld be brave, you cld take a stand. But take a stand and get wiped out, corker, flake, cheney. But that was that critical 2 or 3 weeks where Trump was alone and on the ropes. Conviction ends him. It was very doable.
le Pooch Noir reposted
This is exactly true. Democrats - and all Americans - have to face the fact that the Supreme Court has hardly ever been an agent of positive change. And now, especially, it is an agent of negative change. Expand the Supreme Court and limit its members' terms and authority.
A Democratic majority in Congress and the White House won’t be enough to bring progressive change, @briantylercohen.bsky.social says. “There is no world in which this Supreme Court … is not going to upend any progressive legislation the second they get their hands on it.” https://bit.ly/4qskS3m
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
Replying to @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Notably, FOUR justices would have rewritten the Constitution by fiat. Kavanaugh only concurred because he thinks the law Congress passed in the 1950s granting birthright citizenship governs the case, but he thinks Congress could eliminate birthright citizenship along Trump's lines if they wanted.
le Pooch Noir reposted
Today would be a great day for Cait Conley to announce she is cutting ties with her Palantir-pal Beltway Bandit consulting firms. @caitfornewyork.bsky.social #ny17
le Pooch Noir reposted
Today would be a great day for Cait Conley to announce she is cutting ties with her Palantir-pal Beltway Bandit consulting firms. @caitfornewyork.bsky.social #ny17
Re-upping to ask: Conley & supporters say again and again that she is the only candidate who can beat Lawler. Neither she, nor they, point to any reasons why. Specifically, *why*? Not a rhetorical question. Given Davidson's experience, community ties & accomplishments, it's sure not obvious.
Weird doings in #NY17 with these GOP fake-progressive attack ads on Cait Conley in the (D) primary to oppose #MAGAMike Lawler (1/5)
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
le Pooch Noir reposted
It’s really important that Democrats have people like Talarico (and Warnock and others) providing this kind of theologically and spiritually rigorous counter to Christian nationalism. Consigning evangelicals to the far right is a terrible mistake. Every person Talarico reaches is a badly needed win
Talarico is willing to theologically go toe-to-toe with white Christian Nationalism. And, importantly, he treats it as fundamental to this moment that Trump and Trumpism are wrecking our common life at a very profound moral and spiritual level. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2109...
"Changing X changed my life." Working on an essay to submit to the @nytimes.com, "Changing my drawers changed my life." @nytpitchbot.bsky.social