@melaw.bsky.social

Former dc lawyer and intel wonk, current Maine small-town indigent defender with cute pups, cats and kids.

416 Followers 1,010 Following 96 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 week ago
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They always insist on helping to change the sheets.

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1 month ago

Susan Collins with a red hat this week - she should address it and apologize, but either way, that with this should sink her.

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1 month ago

This is so helpful to my state of mind. Thank you.

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1 month ago
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School of Minneapolis 5-year-old detained by ICE closes due to bomb threat The bomb threat was emailed to several schools in the Columbia Heights Public School district after Liam Conejo Ramos returned home from Texas on Sunday night.

WTF
School of Minneapolis 5-year-old detained by ICE closes due to bomb threat
The bomb threat was emailed to several schools in the Columbia Heights Public School district after Liam Conejo Ramos returned home from Texas on Sunday night.
www.ms.now/news/school-...

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1 month ago

Can this be challenged before he demolishes it? He’s going to tear it down to build some kind of imax/go-cart/mini-gold entertainment complex. There must be a way to stop it before it’s just an East Wing hole in the ground.

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1 month ago

Tbh that would be really bad for Canada. Many People don’t know, but they love hockey.

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1 month ago
Screenshot of Hannah Pingree’s post on Facebook 

“Several have shared this quote in reaction to Susan Collins insane release last night:
“The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.”

U.S. Senator Susan Collins position is absolutely untenable. I don’t know whether the Senator is capable of doing something brave (and this press release about “training” doesn’t indicate she will), but now would truly be the moment. Senator King said he’d vote “no” on this budget. We need Collins to say NO.

Please call Senator Collins. Congress must hold this president accountable now. Democrats are in the minority but the majority in this country don’t support this reign of terror and turning our country into a lawless, authoritarian state where the rights in our Constitution and our laws no longer matter. Arresting five year old children, executing Americans citizens on the streets - we all know ICE needs to be stopped, now. Tell Susan Collins her proposal is absurd:  https://www.collins.senate.gov/contact”

👀 @hannahpingree.bsky.social sharing this quote she is hearing from Mainers in reaction to Susan Collins feckless “untenable” position on ICE/DHS funding

“The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.”

Call your senators at 202-224-3121 today.

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1 month ago

After the Sheriff’s statement, ICE pulled all detainees and moved them to MA, in violation of FedCt TROs. Last night judges ordered those moved detainees be released immediately and they can not apprehended again. Silver Linings.

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1 month ago
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I’ve been struggling to square the Christianity I grew up with and the Christian Nationalism pushed by the far-right. How compassion & care for the least of us is Woke, while power & blind allegiance are Christian. Highly recommend this book- lays out all the ways they’ve corrupted & ignored Jesus.

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1 month ago

Maine has some attorneys ready - we’ve been coordinating with MA immigration lawyers for a few months to fire off emergency Habeas petitions- it’s rewarding and we’ve had some success! NH has very few on board, so if you’re barred there, help is needed!

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2 months ago

So odd. Her issue is the annual leave? I mean, they get paid out for that regardless, right? She’s so weird.

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2 months ago
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At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

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Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

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2 months ago

And confidence that our children of any gender will grow up in a land of free and fair elections.

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2 months ago

Honestly, I’m Much more concerned about this Administration’s commitment to destabilization of the entire world order than I am about the price of steak.
I supported you previously - PLEASE adjust your messaging to reflect the appropriate outrage for the appropriate issues.

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2 months ago

Jack, this is such an important take. Thank you for speaking up.

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2 months ago

What are the chances the Alaska summit included ceding Alaska to Russia? Makes sense to include it in their Sphere, as long as we get the Venezuelan oil?

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2 months ago

Look where they were when he started in 2016!

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3 months ago

I guess we’re pirates?

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3 months ago

Please bring Suit Guy into this. And what’s that stain on his boob?

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3 months ago

I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.

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3 months ago

Just imagine if Epstein were Black or Arab or Asian.

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4 months ago

Looks like 1/2 inch bronze

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4 months ago

My husband hasn’t been paid in a month, some of my clients aren’t able to pay me due to their own pay cuts, some are hurting due to SNAP cuts, and I’m not going to see my dad for his 80th birthday due to flight cancellations, but I will be furious if @chuck.senate.gov caves on health care.

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4 months ago

As I recall it, the R’s named it Obamacare to tie him to what they thought would be wildly unpopular. They really miscalculated.

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4 months ago

There’s hope, but except for a couple who may push some children off a lifeboat, I bet most of them are going down with the ship.

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4 months ago

Best argument I’ve heard for annual minimum wage increases tied to inflation.

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4 months ago

If there’s an upside to all the atrocity, they’re creating space for themselves with all these prisons they’re building.

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4 months ago

I’m confused because I thought all Dems were actual radical jihadist communists who hate America.

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