Eugene Freedman
Union lawyer; writer about baseball labor relations; #CornellILR; #UMDLaw; #ChevyVolt driver; #Prince #Gangstarr4Ever loud rescue beagle is part of the family. He/Him
- Is this the first time I've ever agreed with Jon Heyman?
- Reposted by Eugene Freedman1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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- "Live from Bedford-Stuyvesant The livest one Representing BK to the fullest Gats, I pull it Bastards ducking when Big be buckin' Chickenheads be cluckin' in my back room fuckin' It ain't nothin'" -Biggie Smalls, "Unbelievable" produced by DJ Premier
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- Interesting connection: Joe Kernan's daughter is the spokesperson for Susan Collins.
- He really doesn't want to believe the president is a horrific racist, so he will pray that he the whole thing is fake rather than actually take a position. At least it's obvious what the president thinks of him, if he didn't already.
- There's a lot of passive voice in this statement and allowing the possibility that this was somehow a mistake is just outrageous. Even Republicans need to condemn this without caveat or deference.
- #NY17 👀
- I can only see two options here: 1) He supports her opponent and knows this will lose her the election 2) His delusions of power are beyond all prior evaluations Normally it could be both, however in this specific instance, they are mutually exclusive.
- Harbor Place is where I first saw Dru Hill perform. They were working at the Fudgery. It was probably 1991. I was watching them for over an hour and almost missed my return bus to high school. They were singing mostly New Edition songs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-BK...
- She should give up her Grammy because they left Guru from Gang Starr out of their in memoriam segment in 2011. #GangStarrForever #RIPGuru #OneoftheBestYet
- Actually nothing is Constitutional. Only Trump's whim is Constitutional and he can change that decision from moment to moment. It's the Unitary Executive to the 10,000th power. Federal workers are not possible, except to murder civilians or peel my grapes.
- At some point around page 175, the rule goes off the deep end and starts arguing about whether the civil service is constitutional. I have started writing a longer essay for @lawfaremedia.org on this topic. It's more than I can cover on Bluesky.
- Don't think of it as a slide in market value. Think of it as a transfer of wealth from those who joined the Ponzi Scheme later to those who joined at the earlier and have decided they wanted to collect real money from the suckers.
- The global crypto market has lost over $2 trillion in value since hitting a peak back in October. www.reuters.com/business/bit...
- Seriously? They're okay with these things: Renditioning people to prisons in 3rd countries Revoking asylum for Haitians & others Locking up children Deporting people w temporary status Deporting people who haven't committed any crimes Using chemical weapons, arresting & pointing guns at protesters
- Reposted by Eugene FreedmanThis pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
- Guru "Maybe your soul you'd sell to have mass appeal" Premier sample scratch–Da Youngstas: 🎶"Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal"🎶 Gang Starr
- Lowering interest rates before it's indicated can do that.
- COOK: “.. readings indicate that progress on inflation essentially stalled in 2025. .. Such a plateau is frustrating after seeing significant disinflation in the preceding few years.” @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/fed...
- Air traffic controller applicants have to take a host of psychological evaluations just to attend the training academy. But, apparently, you can have antisocial personality disorder and get into CBP and ICE. Maybe even they screen to make sure you have antisocial personality disorder.
- Spanberger served as a case officer for the CIA, in which she recruited spies overseas for the US. She knows how the game is played to undermine an authoritarian regime.
- Washington Post has been decimated. It is no longer a serious newspaper. It no longer wants to cover world nor domestic events. It is over. A world class institution destroyed by one of the richest people in the world. I hope the $250M was worth it to the Graham family, b/c it didn't matter to him.
- This is a complicated lede to write: Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein helped Woody Allen & his former daughter & current wife Soon-Yi Previn's daughter get into college by asking Bard College president for a favor. We don't know what Bard president got in return. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
- strike and replace [rare misstep] with "common goose-step." FTFY
- Stephen Miller called Alex Pretti a “domestic terrorist” after the VA nurse was killed by federal agents, a rare misstep for Miller, the White House aide stoking President Trump’s boundary-pushing impulses. 🔗: on.wsj.com/49XmNXz
- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man Prince This is the move version, not the album version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Px...
- Admin subpoenas are back in the spotlight. Worth remembering ICEs use of a similar tool: hundreds of thousands of warrantless “customs summonses,” often for non-customs cases sent for info about journalists, students, and abortion clinics, with no oversight. wired.com/story/ice-1509-custom-summons/
- Reposted by Eugene FreedmanMy apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
- You know he refers to Catholics as Papists in his house.
- Local police terrorize Black people. They kill Black people with impunity. We've seen it on camera in the last decade, although the reports were always there if you were willing to look. They are completely militarized. Saying that ICE abide by those rules is not a change at all.
- Not for nothing, but she was a judicial clerk, and then an associate at two firms in what couldn't be more than 5 years since passing the bar. She is totally unqualified for this appointment.
- This is beyond unusual. newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/jo...
- Well, that number holds a lot of meaning for them.
- The attorney working for DOJ who asked to be held in contempt so she could get some sleep and said "this job sucks" was assigned **88** federal cases in less than a month, per a court docket search. www.fox9.com/news/federal...
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- That's the whole point.
- More than 21 million American adults lack easy access to a passport or birth certificate. Requiring these documents to register to vote could disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans. bit.ly/40ysFRc
- If the Tigers have to pay Tarik Skubal what he's worth in his last season with the franchise, they will intentionally harm their own chances of winning a World Series before their window closes. If they get to underpay him, they won't improve the team, but they will pretend they are still trying.
- If Junior had been non-tendered, it would have been a coup for the Angels to get him on a minor league deal.
- K: Are you Sapper Morton? Civic number NK68514? Sapper Morton: I'm a farmer. K: I saw that. What do you farm? Sapper Morton: [putting a handful of grubs on the table] It's a protein farm: Wallace design.
- You have to realize how painful this is to Johnson, who not only is on the verge of losing his majority, but also having to swear in a Black man.
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- Reposted by Eugene FreedmanThe funding deal provides us leverage to reject specifically this. If the Thune/Schumer deal is enacted, then two weeks from now all of the govt EXCEPT DHS will have funding. Ds must then reject even a penny more for DHS until we can guarantee an end to the madness.
- The Democrats have trouble accepting a win. In this case they can fund the rest of the government and then hold out on DHS if they don't get their demands. But scuttling Transportation-HUD, and Labor-HHS-Education, they are hurting their own constituents and prolonging a shutdown that's unneeded.
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- Quarterback or offensive lineman who obviously doesn't know that Puerto Ricans ARE Americans.
- Reposted by Eugene Freedmanthe only right-wing pundit who isn't worried about the war on christmas, but only because he's more concerned about the war on Easter Island
