Deb Golden

Representing people in government custody and the journalists who tell their stories, nosy mentsch

DC resident, lover of science, hater of bullshit

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

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[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

@TyRoseClemons @GeorgetownLaw Awww, thanks!

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

@leahanelson I miss you too, just couldn't handle *gestures broadly at this website*

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

I'm back to tell you that I'm hiring an associate attorney! If you know a relatively new attorney who wants to litigate against the federal government for all the right reasons, send them here: https://t.co/R7PKCB2H1D

[Building Community Not Prisons @NoNewBOPprison]

TAKE ACTION: Tell @BureauOfPrisons to stop pushing plans for a new federal prison that will further the disaster of mass incarceration, threaten the health of prisoners, and harm the unique biodiversity of Central Appalachia.

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[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

@jacopocomin @DiplomatOfNight @NickTagliaferro @saoirsefashion My work is all civil, related to the criminal system. I really don't know the answer here. But it does sound concerning. I don't like the idea of banning someone from a place they live.

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

Fed up with making money for an antisemitic asshole? DM me if you want a Bluesky invite code.

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

DM if you want a Bluesky invite code. Or just give your credit card info to a goof that shouldn't be trusted with safety scissors

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

Very proud to have filed this lawsuit with @CAIRNational.

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[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

@LissaJoStewart Take all my money.

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

Why is there a hannukiah?

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

@cemiller9903 Right???

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

As I said in this story -- I cannot think of a time where that many guards were fired that quickly. This must have been extraordinary violence.

[Paul Flahive @paulflahive]

Texas Prison guards put an inmate who assaulted one of them in the hospital. The state says they used excessive force and seven were fired, six resigned and a criminal investigation is ongoing.

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[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

Does anyone want a Bluesky invite? DM for code.

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

@DestinyASingh A parenthetical (holding, without support.. )?

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

@KatAMacfarlane Running around screening!

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

@J_Dot_J I'm so very sorry you are going through this

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

When the minute order couldn't be any clearer:

"Court advised the parties to consider carefully and discuss settlement in this case."

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

Although this case wasn't a QI question, these facts highlight the bullshit at the heart of qualified immunity. Guards don't just need clear case law to tell them what to do. They don't care about case law. Even when it is literally handed to them.

[Raffi Melkonian @RMFifthCircuit]

A devoted Rastafarian wanted to keep his locks while imprisoned, and TOOK a copy of the Fifth Circuit's opinion saying he could with him to intake.

The guards threw it away and forcibly shaved him. However, he loses his case for damages under circuit precedent.

Link coming.

[Deb Golden @DebGoldenDC]

My favorite amusement left on this dumpster for is watching people go 🤯 when they are reminded Akiva is frum

[akivamcohen.bsky.social @AkivaMCohen]

Hard disagree on the second and third. I fully understand that the Wiccan Rede ("an ye harm none ...") has become the baseline rule by which most people assess morality these days, but (1) I don't think it's the correct one and (2) the commodification of sex does harm ppl, IMO.