Lin Meneguin

OMG I didn’t know that! Awwwww

Today I learned, courtesy of The Rest is History, that Christopher Plummer played Incan leader Atahualpa in a movie.

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I am livid.

Currently enjoying dinner in our neighborhood with two cocktails called “Chinga la Migra” and “Bad Hombre.” We previously tried the “Abolish ICE.” And they’re super delicious cocktails, too.

Cc: @rmcgibbo.bsky.social

Raffi, you’re making miss the formules

There was Dexter, too.

Woooooooooooo!!

That is one of the tells. 😬

It’s like a reverse state espousal of claims, I take it? Like state responsibility for acts of private actors through attribution? (Just a guess.)

Today @rmcgibbo.bsky.social and I accidentally reenacted the cheese scene from Schitt’s Creek when making a cabbage dish from the NYTimes.

“You just … slice it. It says slice it, Robert.”

On this day, women first allowed to argue Supreme Court cases On February 15, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a new law that would admit women as members of the Supreme Court bar and allow them to submit and argue cases at the high court.

constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this...

Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.

ICYMI: We @propublica.org set up a tracker for immigration-related habeas cases, which means it tracks the number of suits filed by immigrants claiming they are detained illegally. The number has hit historic highs. We'll update it regularly with new data. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

Whether it's Oberlin students asking for trigger warnings or ICE agents gunning down Americans, both sides have a trigger problem.

Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery.
This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 —
is terrifying.

dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/

“Well, you’re always talking about your trips to Greece. You’re basically Lord Byron”

- @rmcgibbo.bsky.social to me

Angry Bernese mountain dog

DO NOT USE DOGGO TO SELL PAWLICE STATE

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

the halftime show is a master class in joy as resistance

Someone is going to write a dissertation about this half time show and I will read it.

halftime show

what a shot

opalite mv

What Franco’s fascist regime in Spain can teach us about today’s America Comparisons of Trump to Hitler have become common. But some of Trump’s policies may more closely resemble those of Francisco Franco of Spain, says a Spanish scholar.

There’s been a lot of comparisons of ICE tactics to Hitler. But a better historical comparison is the fascist dictatorship of Spain’s Franco, according to a scholar of Spanish culture. buff.ly/Jbo9lA4

I lied, I have a 3/3.

Regardless of this judge’s usual style (which I didn’t know when I saw the first screenshot), I think the outrage coming through is real. I believe it’s important for courts to tell the public they see what’s going on, too. No comment on the merits, but may Liam come home.

Then I found the link and realized the opinion (i) analytically is… not the best, and (ii) contains biblical cites. As a lifelong fan of separation of church and state, I immediately thought “yikes.” But I’m not the audience. And the opinion says loud and clear that these are not normal times.

Data point of 1: I saw a screenshot before I found the link, and kind of glanced over the scripture (I was like, “oh time stamps? Ignore”). I amplified because my jaw dropped at the outrage and denial of the presumption of regularity coming through. That was the instantaneous takeaway for me. 1/2

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

A screenshot from the graphic novel Persepolis IT WASN'T JUST THE BASEMENTS. THE INTERIORS OF HOMES ALSO CHANGED. BUT IT WASN'T ONLY BECAUSE OF THE IRAQI PLANES. MOM, WHAT'RE YOU DOING? THE MASKING TAPE IS TO PROTECT AGAINST FLYING GLASS DURING A BOMBING AND THE BLACK CURTAINS ARE TO PROTECT US FROM OUR NEIGHBORS. ACROSS THE STREET. THEY'RE TOTALLY DEVOTED TO THE NEW REGIME. A GLIMPSE OF WHAT GOES ON IN OUR HOUSE WOULD BE ENOUGH FOR THEM TO DENOUNCE US! WHAT NEIGHBORS? YOU KNOW TINOOSH'S DAD? TINOOSH, YEAH. WHAT ABOUT HIM? THE OTHER NIGHT TWO GUARDIANS OF THE REVOLUTION PATROLS PAID THEM A VISIT. SOMEONE TOLD US YOU WERE PLANNING a PARTY. YOU KNOW THAT IT'S STRICTLY FORBIDDEN!

We are not gonna like an America where neighbors are informing on each other

From the court's order granting habeas corpus for the 5 year old & his father:
"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us,the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."

Only if you’re related by blood! Otherwise it still doesn’t count, we heard.

My green card is awaiting removal of conditions, with naturalization pending, and I was just debating (arguing) with my husband the benefits of carrying my original extension notice as opposed to a photocopy on my person at all times.

Yep.