Sean N.🔫

I sue the Feds for violating your rights. States too. #2A #EqualProtection Cilantro tastes like soap. 🔫

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@NYYRC It's not at all unusual to be barred in New York, but not New Jersey. New York and California is pretty common too (though the bar shows she's inactive in CA). They're probably getting paid directly by their clients. A lot of the protestors are disaffected rich kids.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@CrosbyBaseball I had to google the last two Pirates' pitchers. Those names are too spot on.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@Stellaaa That's not how class actions or civil RICO work.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@DamonE73270 You don't have e-filing in Massachusetts?

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Today is 37 years since the Tiananmen Massacre

On this day in 1989, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to open fire on its own citizens.

Peaceful pro-democracy students and workers who gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding freedom, anti-corruption, and basic human rights were crushed under tanks and gunfire.

The protests began in mid-April 1989, triggered by the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang. On May 13, students began a hunger strike. Martial law was declared on May 20, but protesters remained peaceful.

In the early hours of June 4, troops advanced with tanks and live ammunition. Soldiers fired on unarmed civilians blocking their path in the streets surrounding the square.

Hundreds to thousands were killed. Thousands more were imprisoned, tortured, or disappeared.

To this day, the Chinese government censors all mention of it, erases it from history books, and threatens anyone who remembers.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@gatorgar @TheStuewe Still doesn't really make sense. No power plant on the Moon to power it. Multiple orbital refueling missions, etc. We should send some form of a boring machine up there, but this one doesn't work for that mission.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@dumbitpro @gatorgar 361+ tons. Not currently feasible (and it runs off the power grid, so they'd have to also create a power plant on the moon).

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

More than that. It's 361+ tons. Putting that much mass on the moon would require dozens to hundreds of launches (including support staff, orbital refueling, and other supporting launches). Plus it's powered off the grid, which the Moon doesn't have. Probably makes more sense to design a smaller custom boring machine for the moon.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@isssaparty @ATLSportsZone I doubt he'd agree to an extension without testing the market. Back-to-back AL Cy Young isn't going to a team-friendly deal and the Braves aren't going to pay market rate.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

Unfortunately I see this rebounding and hurting citizens in the near future.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Trump is using Treasury and financial institutions to target illegal immigration, cartel finance, fraud, and access to the U.S. financial system.

This is the domestic financial-border regime starting to appear.

The physical border is only the visible layer.

The deeper border is access to banking, payments, welfare flows, payroll, credit cards, remittances, debit cards, prepaid cards, and identity-linked financial rails.

That is what this is really about.

The administration is moving enforcement from geography into transaction permission. The question becomes less “who crossed the border?” and more “who is allowed to operate inside the financial system?”

That is a much more powerful enforcement layer.

A person can avoid a checkpoint. A person can move cities. A person can use sympathetic local systems. A person can live in a sanctuary jurisdiction. But modern life requires payments, bank access, cards, transfers, payroll, rent, app-based services, benefits, and digital identity.

Once access to those rails becomes conditional on legal status, the border follows the person everywhere.

That is the phase shift.

The important phrase is “legal right to be here” tied to “access to financial systems.” That fuses immigration status with financial permission. That means KYC/AML, Treasury surveillance, bank compliance, welfare eligibility, tax records, state IDs, employer verification, and suspicious-activity frameworks all start converging into one enforcement machine.

Banks will overcomply because banks always overcomply when Treasury risk appears. Compliance departments do not play heroic constitutional politics. They close accounts, restrict flows, demand documents, de-risk entire categories, and move liability off the balance sheet.

That is how this scales.

The state does not need to individually prosecute everyone. It can pressure institutions into filtering access. Once the banks, processors, card networks, fintechs, remittance providers, and benefits administrators understand the penalty risk, enforcement becomes distributed.

This also reveals the next battlefield: blue-state identity systems.

Driver’s licenses, local IDs, welfare access, school enrollment, municipal services, work authorization gray zones, payroll practices, remittance networks. The federal government is signaling that state-level access documents may no longer be enough to justify financial access. That sets up direct conflict between federal legality and state permission.

The deeper political function is discipline.

This is designed to make illegal presence harder to finance, harder to hide, harder to normalize, and harder to operationally sustain. The administration is treating the financial system as a sovereign perimeter.

That is a very Trump-regime move: control the chokepoint, force institutions to carry the pressure, make the cost of noncompliance terrifying, then let private infrastructure execute state policy.

The cartel/fraud language is the strongest legal wrapper. Human smuggling, drug trafficking, welfare fraud, stolen taxpayer funds, criminal facilitation. That frame gives Treasury a broader mandate and makes opposition harder because the policy can be sold as anti-criminal finance rather than immigration enforcement alone.

But structurally, the net widens.

This will not stay neatly confined to cartel accounts.

Once banks have to determine whether accounts are enabling illegal immigration, the compliance surface expands fast. Landlords, employers, remittance senders, benefits recipients, prepaid-card users, shell accounts, family accounts, informal payroll, cash-heavy businesses, money-service businesses.

Everything becomes suspicious if the identity layer is weak.

That means fraud/identity infrastructure becomes even more important.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@RobertFreundLaw Damn that's harsh. Looks to be a solo trying to take on a Big Law firm. That usually doesn't go well.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@KenCuccinelli Why not both?

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

Holy fuckin’ shit I would like to report a murder!

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@680TheFan @Buster_ESPN

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@MLBONFOX @Braves @foxone Who are the announcers tonight? I know Brandon Gaudin from the Braves. Who is the other guy?

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@MbarkCherguia Organ donor.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@Ally_Sammarco Because the "qualified" candidates are awful and he's offering a Trumpian alternative. I don't live in LA, but travel there a few times a year for work. It's definitely declined compared to what it was a few years ago.

[Sean N.🔫 @dsean]

@ASFleischman Sounds like your client got some home cooking in the district court