Matthew Van Meter

@abfettig @radleybalko I also worked (very briefly) with Pete. If Pete doesn’t make the cut for clerking, very few people do. (I wonder how many @MISupremeCourt clerks have gone on to be parasitic corporate lawyers or make a living helping rich people dodge taxes…)

Attacking another judge for hiring a qualified, dedicated and brilliant attorney (I've worked with Pete) because he is formerly incarcerated - this bias cannot be ignored. Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein should resign, by @radleybalko open.substack.com/pub/radleybalk…

I've known Pete Martel for at least a decade. He is a good man, smart & talented leader, and someone who deserved this chance. People who are formerly incarcerated shouldn't be shut out of key positions. We should value the skills & experiences of qualified people like Pete!

I’m trying to contain my anger after seeing this. We’ll let any unscrupulous idiot with a pulse and a JD become a lawyer, but this brilliant, dogged man (I worked with him years ago) can’t even clerk for a judge?

@SIfill_ Looks like he’s playing theramin. Although if he said he played theramin, I wouldn’t believe him.

Helping a few “local producers of food, gifts and cosmetics” sell their stuff at a Whole Foods to atone for your complicity in plutocracy is NOT “rethinking capitalism.” Good grief.

Even if you’ve been suckered into believing in the fairy tale of “doing well by doing good,” the article’s premise is absurd.

If your reaction to the headline is, “That sounds really stupid,” you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Look at your hometown on the NYT map. Does the emissions impact look more related to density or to income and wealth?

Or the wealthiest parts of Oakland County, which are also relatively dense but are ranked among the highest emissions in the region.

This story dedicates two short grafs to the effect of economic class on emissions, which might be the right ratio for NYC, but not for the rest of the country. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The Onion’s brief in Novak v Parma is what we have all been waiting for. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2…

Pick your poison! This story was in partnership with @palabranahj and @TexasObserver, two badass publications doing great reporting on the US-Mexico border.

@stephanielily Back atcha!

My district has the fiercest, most brilliant, dedicated community activists who do not. ever. let. up. I am so lucky.❤

Many aid organizations are doing heroic work to serve the migrants being bused by Abbott, DeSantis, et al. If you want to help, def hit up @CarecenDC, @CathCharitiesNY, @samu_usa, or your local migrant aid org.

“This great city throws wide the gates of the heart,” said Rev. Taylor. “If the white supremacy groups want to keep sending Negro families, we’ll keep receiving them. We’ll break the White Citizens Councils’ treasury!” @ConcordBrooklyn

Out today: the story of how activists from @urbanleaguela, @NAACP, and others fought against the Reverse Freedom Rides in 1962–and how @CarecenDC and others are taking up that fight against the dehumanization of migrants today. texasobserver.org/reverse-freedo…