Catherine Boyle
@catherineboyle1.bsky.social
Volunteer Attorney at Northern California Innocence Project, mom, swimmer, basketball fan. Occasional pics of my golden retrievers. I'm so happy bcs today I found my friends
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"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
October 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
what a terrible decision @stanforduniversity.bsky.social - especially in light of Cornell. Shameful to be leaving your students vulnerable at a time like this. As an alum and parent of an alum I am outraged. Do better
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October 4, 2026 at 12:38 AM
what a terrible decision @stanforduniversity.bsky.social - especially in light of Cornell. Shameful to be leaving your students vulnerable at a time like this. As an alum and parent of an alum I am outraged. Do better
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It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.
October 1, 2026 at 4:10 AM
It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.
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Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
September 29, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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It's not enough to just take this shit down in 2.5 years. We've gotta desecrate it. Flip it over and turn it into a halfpipe. Make the sides of it a dog park so something can piss and shit on it. It's the only way out of this.
President AOC, I will make this happen free of charge.
President AOC, I will make this happen free of charge.
NEW via @washingtonpost.com:
"Trump officials say work will start on triumphal #arch within two weeks
The planned 250-foot-tall structure near Arlington National Cemetery is one of the president’s top construction priorities."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"Trump officials say work will start on triumphal #arch within two weeks
The planned 250-foot-tall structure near Arlington National Cemetery is one of the president’s top construction priorities."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump officials say work will start on triumphal arch within two weeks
The planned 250-foot-tall structure near Arlington National Cemetery is one of the president’s top construction priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 3, 2026 at 9:59 PM
It's not enough to just take this shit down in 2.5 years. We've gotta desecrate it. Flip it over and turn it into a halfpipe. Make the sides of it a dog park so something can piss and shit on it. It's the only way out of this.
President AOC, I will make this happen free of charge.
President AOC, I will make this happen free of charge.
Yep. And the so-called wine moms too
In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record:
The Resistance Libs Were Right.
The Resistance Libs Were Right.
August 29, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Yep. And the so-called wine moms too
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KBJ has them cold:
August 24, 2026 at 9:07 PM
KBJ has them cold:
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She is in fact very very generous to them by suggesting the majority maybe didn’t see what the administration is up to - when they obviously see it and ruled, yet once again, with malice aforethought to aid and abet the trashing of our electoral system and the very idea of democratic legitimacy.
August 24, 2026 at 9:47 PM
She is in fact very very generous to them by suggesting the majority maybe didn’t see what the administration is up to - when they obviously see it and ruled, yet once again, with malice aforethought to aid and abet the trashing of our electoral system and the very idea of democratic legitimacy.
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The next reconstruction:
- Expand the House to 700 Seats
- Use MMP to create a multi-party system with PR
- Use RCV for US Senate elections
- End the filibuster + add DC
- Limit the power of the Supreme Court
- Expand the court to 13 Justices
- Term limits and ethics rules for the court
- Expand the House to 700 Seats
- Use MMP to create a multi-party system with PR
- Use RCV for US Senate elections
- End the filibuster + add DC
- Limit the power of the Supreme Court
- Expand the court to 13 Justices
- Term limits and ethics rules for the court
House expansion is crucial. There should be at least 700 House seats.
Expand the SCOTUS and the House
April 30, 2026 at 4:07 AM
The next reconstruction:
- Expand the House to 700 Seats
- Use MMP to create a multi-party system with PR
- Use RCV for US Senate elections
- End the filibuster + add DC
- Limit the power of the Supreme Court
- Expand the court to 13 Justices
- Term limits and ethics rules for the court
- Expand the House to 700 Seats
- Use MMP to create a multi-party system with PR
- Use RCV for US Senate elections
- End the filibuster + add DC
- Limit the power of the Supreme Court
- Expand the court to 13 Justices
- Term limits and ethics rules for the court
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I am very ashamed to live in a country where people will wake up with the terror that the secret police are coming to kidnap them, separate them from their families, and brutalize or even kill them because they are not white.
July 27, 2026 at 1:36 PM
I am very ashamed to live in a country where people will wake up with the terror that the secret police are coming to kidnap them, separate them from their families, and brutalize or even kill them because they are not white.
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Anthea Hartig is a brilliant professional and a stellar public historian. She does not deserve this smear job and we must stand up for her, Lonnie Bunch and the Smithsonian.
In a House DOGE subcommittee hearing, GOP representatives excoriated the director of the National Museum of American History, following a White House report earlier this month that also criticized her. n.pr/44GtxWs
Smithsonian too focused on 'oppressors and the oppressed,' say House Republicans
In a House DOGE subcommittee hearing, GOP representatives excoriated the director of the National Museum of American History, following a White House report earlier this month that also criticized her.
n.pr
July 21, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Anthea Hartig is a brilliant professional and a stellar public historian. She does not deserve this smear job and we must stand up for her, Lonnie Bunch and the Smithsonian.
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I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino.
A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.
Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.
www.nytimes.com
July 16, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino.
A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
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just worth emphasizing here that there's no way to deport 30 million people without committing genocide. ethnic cleansing on this scale always, always leads to mass death, and is intended to.
wrote about why ICE keeps killing people.
it's because they're part of a pretty explicitly genocidal project. trump wants them to kill people, and so they do. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ices-missi...
it's because they're part of a pretty explicitly genocidal project. trump wants them to kill people, and so they do. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ices-missi...
ICE’s Mission Is Murder
It is a genocidal organization and it will keep killing people.
www.everythingishorrible.net
July 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
just worth emphasizing here that there's no way to deport 30 million people without committing genocide. ethnic cleansing on this scale always, always leads to mass death, and is intended to.
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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
July 14, 2026 at 12:11 AM
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Impeach
If this is accurate, even a "Trump says this, but evidence does not support it story" will be insufficient. This speech is part of an explicit threat against democracy, to overturn and control democratic outcomes. If we can't call this out clearly, we are lost.
It's all fun and games until we gather at the Capitol
July 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Impeach
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You're supposed to represent us Californians, and this sure doesn't: most of us here will remember Graham's selling out to Trump even though he knew better and his enthusiasm for harming others at home and abroad. He was fully on board with so many lies, so much killing.
July 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM
You're supposed to represent us Californians, and this sure doesn't: most of us here will remember Graham's selling out to Trump even though he knew better and his enthusiasm for harming others at home and abroad. He was fully on board with so many lies, so much killing.
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Trump is preparing to fire the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, one of America's most prestigious scientific and historical research and education organizations.
He wants in particular to censor the Smithonian's American History exhibits:
He wants in particular to censor the Smithonian's American History exhibits:
White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can't be trusted
The report released late on Independence Day by the White House Domestic Policy Council comes in the midst of Trump’s aggressive campaign to overhaul some of Washington's most sacred cultural and hist...
www.pbs.org
July 6, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Trump is preparing to fire the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, one of America's most prestigious scientific and historical research and education organizations.
He wants in particular to censor the Smithonian's American History exhibits:
He wants in particular to censor the Smithonian's American History exhibits:
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Today’s chalking. Pass it on.
IMPEACH
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IMPEACH
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July 2, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Today’s chalking. Pass it on.
IMPEACH
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Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below.
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ
![Still, most freed Blacks resisted the pressure to self-deport. Instead, many started organizing toward the creation of the kind of Nation the colonizationists opposed—one that guaranteed liberty and justice for all. In the decades leading up to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Black Americans organized and gathered at more than 600 local and national conventions across the country. There, delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more generally.
Critically for present purposes, these visionaries already understood themselves to be American citizens. “The refrains ‘we are Americans’ and ‘we are citizens’ echoed in conferences throughout the North.” Moreover, “[b]irthright figured importantly” as “delegates frequently characterized their status as that of native-born citizens.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreieuwdbxpjo22e7fg26a65dobwofwaytq6ilqp4cy7bcicw5fsk63a)
![The delegates argued that, as such, they had the requisite allegiance, so, at a minimum, the Federal Government owed them the duty of protection.
The famed orator Frederick Douglass was one of these delegates. Capturing the spirit of the moment, Douglass proclaimed that Chief Justice Taney—the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857)—“[could] do many things, but he [could not] … change the essential nature of things.” In the absence of the artificial evils of slavery and racial subordination, Douglass explained, “the glorious birthright of our common humanity, will become the inheritance of all the inhabitants of this highly favored country.”
Do note this: The citizenship thesis of the Colored Conventions was thus not that some new status should be created and conferred on freed Blacks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreidxenf7ggfe5sghdwpe5v7pwn3kfh4mqkxiccusnrknq7zfr7qhtm)
![It was instead that freed Blacks already had a rightful claim to citizenship because they had been born on American soil. After all, the Nation, from its founding, had “boldly proclaim[ed] that all men are born free and equal, and that consequently life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are inherent in every individual, vested inalienably by natural birthright.” No ideal was more inherently American. Now, “rest[ing their] cause on the republican standard of the revolutionary Fathers,” freed Blacks were “knock[ing] at the doors of the constitution and demand[ing] an entrance.” And “[i]f … asked what evidence [they] bring to sustain [their] qualifications for citizenship, [they would] offer them certificates of … BIRTH and NATIVITY.” Would the Nation live up to its promise?
Such universalist appeals were a conscious choice. Yes, Black Americans had suffered a singular wrong. And yes, they had “fought and bled” for the Union, paying a steep price for their freedom. But the delegates did not rest on these laurels. Rather, they drew upon the moral and political force of the universal principles that were already core to the Nation’s identity.
That bears repeating: Freed Blacks did not advocate for a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation. Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to, or at the expense and exclusion of, other marginalized groups.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreig7o5wpfpkbjt7zcvghbco4zafj6m64etq7blz7r542gh7b3gn3oa)
![Instead, those whose gatherings helped galvanize the push for full equality understood that “[a] diverse origin does not disprove a common nature, nor does it disprove a united destiny.” The firmest foundation for freedom would require an anticaste reset—“both for his sake and for ours”—and would benefit all.
During his U. S. Senate candidacy, Abraham Lincoln developed a similar vision. In the lead-up to the now-famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln explained that the promise of liberty and equality in the Declaration of Independence “was held sacred by all, and thought to include all.” Lincoln expressly and intentionally linked the fate of Black Americans and immigrant groups (“among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all” of the Founders), and noted that the Nation’s future hinged on a universal definition of citizenship that excluded neither. He explained that the Declaration’s promise that “all men are created equal” was the “electric cord … that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together,” regardless of race or descent.
The case was made. First, there was war. And then, the delegates’ (and Lincoln’s) universalist view of citizenship made its mark on the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreigucpltb6mmwuwxswipazl56ki3v4dmsr7fx4lkmf5jncrsuvwp4a)
July 1, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below.
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ
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People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory.
It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?
It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?
June 30, 2026 at 6:53 PM
People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory.
It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?
It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?
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About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.
June 30, 2026 at 2:50 PM
About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.
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Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.
June 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.
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It’s important to keep today’s birthright citizenship decision in context. First, SCOTUS left the status of a fundamental, explicitly articulated constitutional right uncertain for over a year all to affirm what was clear from the issuance of Trump’s EO. Birthright citizenship cannot be abridged.
June 30, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It’s important to keep today’s birthright citizenship decision in context. First, SCOTUS left the status of a fundamental, explicitly articulated constitutional right uncertain for over a year all to affirm what was clear from the issuance of Trump’s EO. Birthright citizenship cannot be abridged.
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Again, if there's a Democratic majority in the House in 2027, I think it's imperative that they start impeaching Supreme Court justices.
June 29, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Again, if there's a Democratic majority in the House in 2027, I think it's imperative that they start impeaching Supreme Court justices.
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Trump is terrified of being impeached
Jeffries won't even discuss impeaching him
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Jeffries won't even discuss impeaching him
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June 25, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Trump is terrified of being impeached
Jeffries won't even discuss impeaching him
Something is very wrong with this picture
Jeffries won't even discuss impeaching him
Something is very wrong with this picture