Sarah Pinsker

United States Onurt of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 26-5050 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-02471-ACR Filed On: March 6, 2026 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al., Appellees V. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al., Appellants BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.

BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation.

Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it.

Haiti TPS is safe for now.

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery Breeding is getting more competitive, suggesting the population is growing, a new study shows.

Let’s do some good news for once

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Coffee, straight out of my nose.

A handdrawn poster with a frog at a mic and a frog holding a book open with its foot. Text says Song/Book music and fiction from people who write both join us! March 6 at 7 pm at Black Cherry Puppet theater 1115 Hollins street. Featuring Devon Halliday, Sarah Pinsker, Owen Lyman-Schmidt, JB ARIS. (It also says another name but that author had to cancel.)

Huh. Apologies for the no-ALT-text. It's supposed to not let me post without it. Tonight! No puppets at the puppet theater! Authors who make music will do both. #AWP2026

Tonight a buncha authors who play music are doing both at Black Cherry Puppet Theater! #awp2026

Script if you need it:

I’m calling to tell Representative ____ to oppose H.R. 7661. This bill would pressure schools to remove titles that discuss lived experiences that some politicians find controversial. I don’t think trans people are controversial. (contin)

Pete Hegseth loves war crimes, it's the entire reason he has the job in the first place.

These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.

In addition to common decency. Leaving sailors to drown is outlawed by the Geneva Convention.

Jeepers, Ursula, that's on the nose.

Probably not the same one.

I played a chicken in an off-off-Broadway play.

Or Jane Campion Hearts of Horses!

NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?

WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

Anti-Trans Democrats Blown Out In North Carolina Primary Election Anti-trans Democrat Nasif Majeed lost to Veleria Levy, who ran on a pro-LGBTQ+ platform. Other conservative Democrats lost as well on primary day.

1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus.

Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts.

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WTAF is wrong with people

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

“Ellis, a registered nurse who is Haitian-American, said she is outraged and called for an investigation into Damas' death, which she said came weeks after the man first complained of tooth pain to Florence staff.

'Nobody should die from a toothache,’ Ellis said. 'Something has to be done.’”

Okay, three if you count LEGO Lord of the Rings.

There are only two video games I've ever played that made me say "Oh! Somebody made a game just for me!" This is one of them.

It is SO good.

Books are the best!

Graphic of Alex Holladay. It features a picture of Alex with a blue shirt and blazer the text, "Democratic Win: Alex Holladay wins Arkansas House District 70, flipping seat blue."

HUGE: Alex Holladay has won the special election for Arkansas House District 70, flipping this seat blue!

Congratulations, Rep.-elect Holladay!

More than 1000 Iranian civilians have been killed already including 160+ schoolgirls.

If and when there is a war crimes trial, Hegseth's prosecutors will have a wealth of evidence.

Why is the song stuck in my head this morning "Blame it on the Bossanova?"

Breaking: Arkansas Democrats just flipped a Republican seat It's the ninth red-to-blue pickup in a special election in Trump's second term

JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in *Arkansas*.

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried hard to delay this race and wanted the seat to stay vacant for 8+ months, but the courts told her to hold it today. If she was worried, she was right to be.

Our full recap:

The FO is oh so sweet.

If the story gets published I'll point it out, but at the start of my classes we make a community agreement. it was this class's decision that you could share a passage you liked in a classmate's work with a friend but not post it anywhere. I respect and adhere to that as I would in a pro workshop.