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09.10.2025 01:44 β π 48 π 6 π¬ 5 π 0@ebwrite.bsky.social
Lawyer, mother, cat mom, firm believer in kindness, justice and the rule of law
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09.10.2025 01:44 β π 48 π 6 π¬ 5 π 0Know your rights. Guard your tone. Protect your neighbor. Panic is surrender in advance; knowledge is armor.π₯π
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Russia took less than 1% of Ukraine since Nov 2023. Only cost them at least half a million soldiers.
09.10.2025 01:44 β π 1528 π 294 π¬ 64 π 11MAGA like it when their leaders rip them off because it always owns the libs
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09.10.2025 01:45 β π 22 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Everyone. Vote. Them. Out
09.10.2025 01:45 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0People are pushing back. 11/4 10+ cities have mayoral elections and we can all follow Fairbanks lead.
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So sang the great Shania Twain: I'd rather die standin' than live on my knees
09.10.2025 01:00 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Want to hear about a party that isnβt too keen on democracy, deporting people who side with their opposition and stifling the opposition press to remain in power?
The Alien and Sedition Acts have a LOT to say.
We are ruled by criminal morons
09.10.2025 00:00 β π 1054 π 246 π¬ 39 π 18substack.com/inbox/post/1...
08.10.2025 23:01 β π 154 π 69 π¬ 2 π 0Mikie Sherrill is kicking Jack Ciattarelli's ass in the governor debate. Jack gives Trump an "A" grade; Mikie says "F" and backs it up well. Trump wants to cut the Gateway infrastructure improvements; Ciattarelli meekly goes along with it. abc7ny.com/post/watch-l...
08.10.2025 23:21 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0At least Fox is putting the date on the screen, but itβs hilarious that theyβre showing a protest from 2019 because if they showed footage from this week it would be masked ICE goons tear gassing elderly vets and tackling completely non-threatening people dancing around in animal costumes.
08.10.2025 19:49 β π 51 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0When Mr. Trump attacks democratic institutions, he does so in the manner of a car wreck β so flagrantly destructive as to command public attention. When the Supreme Court undermines our democracy, as it seems poised to do in Callais, it feels more like a slow poisoning: the attacks may be harder to notice, but they are just as deadly
My conclusion:
08.10.2025 17:41 β π 141 π 33 π¬ 4 π 0My piece quotes the Supreme Court in the 1987 case of City of Houston v. Hill: βThe freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.β /7, end
08.10.2025 22:22 β π 53 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0Explicit agency acknowledgment of a right to record would make a vital first step in turning around abusive informal cop culture. As federal courts have found, filming police serves goals of truth, public information, and accountability that are central to First Amendment law and a free republic. /6
08.10.2025 22:22 β π 39 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0It's entirely routine after a journalist, local lawmaker or citizen activist with a phone gets roughed up for DHS to claim that person had assaulted or obstructed agents. It's often hard for outsiders to weigh the conflicting stories (and especially, of course, if footage is unavailable!) /5
08.10.2025 22:13 β π 45 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0We now have the Marimar Martinez case from Chicago, for example. Allegedly, she was following unsafely as she tailed border patrol agents in her car and reported in real time on their doings. Did an officer shoot her five times over her careless driving, or over her having chased *them*? /4
08.10.2025 22:08 β π 52 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0"Numerous reports from raid scenes," I wrote, "suggest that ICE agents are already informally 'enforcing' their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by shoving, beating and even shooting (with less lethal munitions) journalists, freelance photogs, and others." Is "less lethal" outdated already? /3
08.10.2025 22:02 β π 49 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0I wish I could say I'd compiled some sort of grand list of ICE assaults on persons using cellphones or cameras, but there are just too many reports of such attacks for me to hope to keep up. My piece does link to the TRO in the Los Angeles Press Club case which aggregates some L.A. instances. /2
08.10.2025 21:59 β π 66 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally βenforcingβ their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1
08.10.2025 21:59 β π 406 π 160 π¬ 7 π 4Important thread and article.
08.10.2025 22:24 β π 23 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis
08.10.2025 22:24 β π 1984 π 434 π¬ 84 π 14Trump: "People are saying that some poor guy broke his glasses on the steps of the Portland Library because it was such a mess. And the eyeglass store was boarded up. And the guy was going to read "The Art of the Deal". I'm telling you, Portland needs the National Guard."
08.10.2025 22:17 β π 54 π 7 π¬ 4 π 3Stephen Miller is a corrupt loser with a microphone and a Napoleon complex. Heβs also basically running the government.
08.10.2025 22:02 β π 2040 π 574 π¬ 198 π 51The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
08.10.2025 21:55 β π 470 π 173 π¬ 13 π 4Thanks to RFK, parents are encountering all sorts of obstacles when trying to find pediatric covid shots, inc. for infants and toddlers younger than 2, who are at higher risk - we knew this would happen.
Some of the problems:
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I challenge the media to show pictures of Portland. Go to a store with glass. That's all you have to do
They can't do it because it would offend Deal Leader