@cristianfarias.com
Legal journalist and beachgoer. I write and talk about courts, the law, and the politics shaping them in a number of places. Working on a new thing. Signal: cristianfarias.33
@cristianfarias.comI just got out of ‘14th,’ Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary out in December, premiering today at the New York Film Festival.
I won’t review it here, but its undisputed star is @sifill.bsky.social, whom the director introduced as “the Meryl Streep of our film.”
And that’s not an overstatement.
@jamellebouie.netReposted by @cristianfarias.coma livestreamed execution is just a lynching
@adamserwer.bsky.socialReposted by @cristianfarias.comI think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
@cristianfarias.comThen and only then we may begin to dream of a world where the death penalty doesn’t exist.
@cristianfarias.comMany abolitionists have been calling precisely for this: To bring the barbarity of state-sanctioned killings as close to the public as possible. Let everyone see and experience how our government, with our own tax dollars, puts a human being to death.
@cristianfarias.comIt’s a bit of a HIIT workout: I do 100s and rest for about a minute in between. 😅
@cristianfarias.comShort and sweet. Didn’t have a lot of time.
@cristianfarias.comEarly bird gets the pond.
@willoremus.comReposted by @cristianfarias.comFun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
@cristianfarias.com“Attending a live CLE webinar from the beach. Is that lawyerly?” A meta CLE course on ethics, taught by Cristian Farías.
@gbrumfiel.bsky.socialReposted by @cristianfarias.comThe IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
@mfroomkin.bsky.socialReposted by @cristianfarias.comRelative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
![Dear [name],
For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!
With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.
Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.
I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.
May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!
Sincerely,
[signed]
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:nnffk6m46cmabw3e6cxo2fhj/bafkreidnkmkq4exjng37i7mvp4oqyjftbfleykhwke4k22lsnpntgmxpla)
@elienyc.bsky.socialReposted by @cristianfarias.com“Snap back to reality, oops, there goes gravity” Supreme Court term about to start
@mrdanzak.comReposted by @cristianfarias.comA Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status.
He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted.
“Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
@cristianfarias.comGet your head stuck or setting one free?
@cristianfarias.comNew personal policy: If a publication I write for doesn’t have free gift links for me to share with people, I’ll make one of those annoying “Reporter Reads” videos off a teleprompter and put it up freely. Fair is fair! Upside: You get a load of my imperfect accent and perfectly symmetrical mug.
@cristianfarias.comYes, I did go in.
@anthonymkreis.bsky.socialReposted by @cristianfarias.comBefore people make up lies about the common law, aliens in England had the right to not be detained indefinitely and could challenge their imprisonment.
@stevevladeck.bsky.socialReposted by @cristianfarias.comOver dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS *grants* Tennessee's request to vacate the stay of execution the Sixth Circuit had entered in the case of Christa Pike, clearing the way for her execution:
@cristianfarias.comSomeone called me a “lawtino” unironically, and I need to sit with that for a moment. It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, so I may just allow it.
