Jamie Baker Roskie
Lawyer. Former director, UGALaw Land Use Clinic. Buddhist practitioner. Long ago immigration practitioner. Coloradan, my people are Montanans. No one is free unless all are free.
- Rosa's gotta go.
- NEW: U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro exchanged heated words Friday with Connecticut clergy who called on her to push for abolishing ICE. "If the vote comes up, I will not vote to abolish ICE,” she said in the tense meeting. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #nutmegsky
- Everyone, please listen to this episode JJ and @gokp.bsky.social take the time to read the extensive, sworn documentation by clients and lawyers both of 1) denial of access to counsel, 2) violence and ill-treatment in custody, including the horrific conditions at Whipple, 3) DHS flouting ct. orders.
- New episode! Clocking in at over 2 hours. We have some THOUGHTS about the recent DOJ lawyer meltdown in Minneapolis this week. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
- I actually think that once you learn to make what you like, home cooking can be better than restaurant food. And certainly better for you.
- The puppy is the same size as the marshal's foot. It was zero threat. Also cops kill an estimated 25-30 dogs _daily_, violence toward animals is just as much SOP as violence to humans.
- "The deputy marshal’s action was not done with malice,” they wrote in a statement. “It was a last-resort, split-second action taken by a law enforcement officer to control the environment." trib.al/5tFTy7o
- I really need people to understand that there is _no current model of policing that is making our communities safer_. Resources make communities safer. Not cops. Follow @npapjustice.bsky.social to learn more.
- Instagram just tried to show me an ad featuring Susan Sarandon, and just no.
- Makes giant cup of mint tea. (Sorry, @gokp.bsky.social just can't handle the matcha the way you can.) Settles in to listen.
- New episode! Clocking in at over 2 hours. We have some THOUGHTS about the recent DOJ lawyer meltdown in Minneapolis this week. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
- No matter what hell we experience, irrational money machine go brrrrrr.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average blew past the historic 50,000 mark and the S&P 500 ended sharply higher, as Nvidia and other chipmakers soared and Amazon tumbled after the cloud heavyweight forecast a sharp increase in spending on AI infrastructure reut.rs/3ZTw78P
- "About 71,000 immigrants are currently imprisoned, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data, which shows that most have no criminal record." 71,000
- A growing number of U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) doctors, nurses, and officers are resigning rather than accepting deployments to the Trump administration’s expanded immigration detention operations at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This story was published in partnership with @kff.org.
- The framers are dead. It's our country now.
- Gonna steal the phrase “when the framers walked the earth” from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
- Since this is getting some traction I should acknowledge I saw someone else say this on some social media platform at some point. If anyone knows its origin please help me credit that person.
- Here's the thing that pisses me off the most about the measles outbreaks, from a personal perspective. My mother, born in 1945, was never inoculated against measles. She's now on an immune-suppressant and CANNOT be inoculated. And because all these anti-vaxxers won't get the shot or inoculate 1/2
- their kids, but WILL TRAVEL, spread measles through the airports. Which means my mother can never get on a plane and come to see us. Because people will also not take common sense precautions and mask while flying. 2/2
