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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

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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.

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.

07.03.2026 03:58 👍 2291 🔁 631 💬 17 📌 29

If you find my work valuable, support it with a premium subscription to The Handbasket :)

www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

06.03.2026 23:47 👍 317 🔁 60 💬 3 📌 0
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

The litigation over who has lawful control of the USIP building plays on, with the Trump administration maintaining control for now. But I'm proud @rcfp.org and I were able to obtain this footage and shed important light on DOGE's intentions when they entered the USIP building nearly one year ago.

06.03.2026 22:46 👍 709 🔁 113 💬 3 📌 1
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

Body cam footage shows Kenneth Jackson, the Trump-installed new USIP President; Laken Rapier, Jackson’s Chief-of-Staff; DOGE workers Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox; and DOGE lawyer Justin Aimonetti were present at the raid. MPD let them in through a side door, despite USIP staff's objections.

06.03.2026 22:23 👍 838 🔁 185 💬 5 📌 4

This story is wild. As far as I can tell from the body camera clips I watched, the footage shows MPD special operations strategizing their forcible entry into private property without a warrant, based on the say-so of a political appointee with nothing more than a stack of print outs.

06.03.2026 23:35 👍 630 🔁 201 💬 6 📌 4
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LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.

Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

07.03.2026 00:16 👍 1123 🔁 412 💬 24 📌 32

me: you think somewhere there's a taxidermist who uses a stuffed pig as a piggy bank?

wife: we don't actually have to talk about every thought you have

07.03.2026 00:29 👍 1874 🔁 168 💬 50 📌 11

give whoever’s idea this was a merit badge

07.03.2026 00:51 👍 873 🔁 95 💬 29 📌 3

Those school girls and musicians from the Iranian navy were people who thought they’d be able to live.

07.03.2026 02:21 👍 363 🔁 83 💬 7 📌 1
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🚨🚨🚨URGENTE🚨🚨🚨

07.03.2026 00:13 👍 1787 🔁 443 💬 40 📌 132
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You know you’re at a Black funeral when:

06.03.2026 19:34 👍 1250 🔁 259 💬 35 📌 77

Thank you so much!

06.03.2026 23:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Supreme Court Continues to Shoot Self In Foot In Second Amendment Cases The Bruen decision is somehow getting even more embarrassing with time.

Justice Jackson knows the Bruen standard is goofy but pushed the Court to lie in the jurisprudential bed it made

This proved frustrating for Justice Sam Alito, whose commitment to originalism waned when confronted with the prospect of not prosecuting a brown man

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/us-v-...

06.03.2026 21:10 👍 158 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 4
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Supreme Court Continues to Shoot Self in Foot in Second Amendment Cases US v Hemani, case about gun rights of drug users, shows the Supreme Court's Second Amendment standard is comically unworkable.

to figure out whether a prohibition on drug users possessing guns that passed in 1968 is still legal in 2026, one must figure out how drunk the Founding Fathers got in 1776 --the Supreme Court, basically

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/us-v-...

05.03.2026 23:22 👍 350 🔁 93 💬 15 📌 11
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The American King Goes to War This is not what the Founders intended.

Republicans "supposedly worship at the cult of the Founders," but they don't "venerate the Founders’ beliefs and democratic principles"

they "project their contemporaneous views backwards onto men who have been dead for centuries" tell em @adamserwer.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

06.03.2026 18:01 👍 93 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 0

these sermons, my goodness. they've barely started and I'm already feeling feelings

06.03.2026 17:50 👍 38 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I have Jesse Jackson's memorial on and thought 'did I just see Rod Blagojevich?' and I know the cameraman musta had the same thought cuz the camera stayed with him for a smooth two minutes

06.03.2026 17:14 👍 94 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 1
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LIVE: Presidents Biden, Obama, Clinton speak at Rev. Jesse Jackson Memorial YouTube video by MS NOW

SOON: Presidents Biden, Obama, Clinton speak at Rev. Jesse Jackson Memorial.

WATCH LIVE HERE: www.youtube.com/live/mqxgKJV...

06.03.2026 16:15 👍 256 🔁 101 💬 14 📌 6

First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her

06.03.2026 16:05 👍 2394 🔁 513 💬 6 📌 0

Exactly right.

The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.

06.03.2026 15:25 👍 831 🔁 241 💬 9 📌 2

The whole point of the VRA was to fight back against the "systematic and ingenious discrimination" plaguing elections in the South. As LBJ argued before passage, "No law that we now have on the books... can ensure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it."

06.03.2026 15:19 👍 133 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 1
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The Bygone Era of Supreme Court Support for Voting Rights Sixty years after upholding the Voting Rights Act, the Court has dismantled most of it.

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.

We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.

New from me at @brennancenter.org:

06.03.2026 15:15 👍 773 🔁 295 💬 8 📌 10

Telling courts that refunds would be "automatic" and "assured" was the government's way of avoiding emergency relief.

06.03.2026 16:06 👍 1362 🔁 274 💬 26 📌 2

first time I saw that shit I swear I cried real tears laughing, could not believe that was Tom Cruise

06.03.2026 16:18 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

the "everyone is 12" theory going so hard rn bc what is this childishness, so embarrassing

06.03.2026 15:57 👍 209 🔁 22 💬 16 📌 2

The fuck you mean? Put the money in the bag.

06.03.2026 15:42 👍 6424 🔁 864 💬 213 📌 22

But you can call me Ishmael.

06.03.2026 14:34 👍 241 🔁 29 💬 6 📌 0

lsdkf this is the one

06.03.2026 14:43 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

getting a fake ID that says im 38 so they dont kick me off bluesky for being underage

06.03.2026 14:39 👍 698 🔁 58 💬 4 📌 2

the wife has now informed me that since she has a job that requires her to be at work when her boss wants we will absolutely be changing the clocks and my new project is to find a real problem

06.03.2026 13:53 👍 883 🔁 54 💬 40 📌 3