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@morgangodvin.bsky.social

Drug policy. Prisons and jails. Journalism. Research. Harm reduction. Veterans. Heart in Portland, skin under San Diego sun.

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Gabbard’s Attacks on Obama Put the Attorney General in a Tough Spot

Trump’s DOJ is an unabashed bringer of vengeance, and no one pretends otherwise:

“‘After what they did to me, and whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,’ Mr. Trump said on Tuesday of his desired Obama prosecution.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

29.07.2025 05:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, of course! But until it becomes illegal, which is so highly unlikely, they literally cannot be prosecuted for that conduct. The number of things that seem like crimes — that would be crimes if committed by anyone else — is wild. They can steal your money (asset forfeiture), impersonate cops, etc

21.07.2025 22:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The point here is this tactic is legal, so, don’t hold your breath

21.07.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Impersonating an officer, ain't that a crime?!

21.07.2025 06:49 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Speaking with author @melodyglenn.bsky.social and joined by fellow panelist @maxjordan.bsky.social!

20.07.2025 19:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Flyer for a book talk on the opioid crisis, “Mother of Methadone” by Dr. Melody Glenn, joined by panelists Morgan Godvin and Dr. Max Jordan Nguemeni.

Flyer for a book talk on the opioid crisis, “Mother of Methadone” by Dr. Melody Glenn, joined by panelists Morgan Godvin and Dr. Max Jordan Nguemeni.

“Mother of Methadone” book talk this Thursday in Culver City. I’m a panelist and finishing the book and loving it, it’s going to be a great talk.

Learn how history shaped policy, and why we are so dysfunctional, hear me rant, and more!

7/24 at 7pm www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

20.07.2025 18:51 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I can tell you’re not American by the way you spell defense, but problems of that nature are bound to happen. typically people shoot at police when police breach their door without announcing themselves, not when cops knock + announce. You wouldn’t be insulated from prosecution for shooting them.

20.07.2025 18:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Couple allege ICE arrested them after pretending to be cops in ruse Parisa Firouzabadi and Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad say the agents claimed to have questions about a hit-and-run incident in order to get them out of their Baton Rouge apartment.

We knew cops could lie. But did you know ICE agents can lie and say they’re city cops, there to investigate the crime you reported?

How naive of me to be shocked at the depravity, but damn. This is low. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

20.07.2025 16:48 — 👍 243    🔁 115    💬 12    📌 3
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Come here me, a methadone patient, rant as a panelist this Thursday in Culver City! www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

18.07.2025 23:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Los Angeles people:

Come see me speaking at a book talk with @maxjordan.bsky.social and “Mother of Methadone” author @melodyglenn.bsky.social.

I’m on methadone, it’s gonna be a lively chat!

Thursday July 24, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

16.07.2025 22:31 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year.

The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive.

11.07.2025 01:53 — 👍 1213    🔁 456    💬 46    📌 25
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

ah the small government libertarian utopia realized

11.07.2025 23:55 — 👍 1177    🔁 293    💬 41    📌 24
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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact - Wikipedia

The Kremlin also didn’t want to have to explain what happened between 1939-41 under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact when they allied themselves with the Nazis to carve up Poland & other countries. That’s why Russian war memorials say WWII happened between 1941-45 instead of 1939-45. They lied in stone.

05.12.2024 14:55 — 👍 25    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

“Have you considered the drugs are actually bad for you and you should therefore stop doing them?”

WHAT A NOVEL IDEA! No, it had never occurred to me. Not once in my life has someone suggested that.

12.07.2025 09:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Mass overdose in Baltimore sends 27 to hospitals but no deaths so far As of Friday morning, there were no fatalities but 27 people had been hospitalized for suspected overdoses, according to Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace.

Harm reduction works!

A “bad batch” of what I infer to have been sold as fentanyl caused 27 overdoses in Baltimore, ZERO DEATHS.

Everyone was reversed with naloxone. A few years ago, this would’ve been a very different story. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/pu...

11.07.2025 15:27 — 👍 297    🔁 123    💬 2    📌 6

For sure, I didn’t know any of this before I was taught it in school.

Medicare for All is scalable right now, today, so it’s seen as the pragmatic solution, but the best return on investment and most equitable care would be the creation of a national health system, which we do have! The VA. Nuanced

05.07.2025 12:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The fascist dictatorship that ruled Portugal until 1974 had a favorite tactic: deporting people to places they’d never been, specifically chosen because they were so hostile and disease-ridden they’d surely never return.

The tried and true tactics of tyrants, from Tarrafal to Florida.

05.07.2025 11:31 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

mi gente

04.07.2025 23:05 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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How Volunteer Patrols Are Working to Protect San Diego Immigrant Communities From ICE In response to mass deportation threats and mixed messages from county leaders on federal cooperation, San Diego organizers are taking action to inform residents of ICE activity.

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

04.07.2025 23:00 — 👍 176    🔁 64    💬 1    📌 6

is this what further case law is based off refusing the right to affirmative intervention from police and/or immunity shields?

04.07.2025 23:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Googled: cannot sue a town and its police department’s outright refusal to enforce a legal restraining order, even when it led to the murder of three children

this exercise has me reflecting on my time in Europe and statement about US political choices thinking we’ve been cooked for a while.

04.07.2025 22:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

explained for us non lawyers: forced sterilization doesn’t violate due process

04.07.2025 22:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

for the uninitiated such as me, per the internet: upholding the internment of Americans of Japanese descent, upholding the death penalty despite racist implementation, upholding life sentences for shoplifting by saying California’s three strikes law didn’t violate 8th amendment, respectively.

04.07.2025 22:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trying to think of a more barbaric SOCTUS case in the last 100 years, and only a handful are even in the ballpark. Korematsu. McKlesky. Ewing v. California.

04.07.2025 22:45 — 👍 149    🔁 66    💬 5    📌 1

you have no further response to the fact you’re schilling for a capitalist system of healthcare instead of a nationalized system? 🥺

04.07.2025 22:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

after you get done googling the difference between single payer and nationalized healthcare, capacitation vs fee-for-service, maybe move on to ad hominem logical fallacies

04.07.2025 22:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dear Americans:

Medicare for All is not nationalized healthcare, it’s single payer, like Canada. The government pays for private doctors to provide care via fee-for-service.

National healthcare is the VA system, where payer and provider are both the govt, and doctors are salaried govt employees.

04.07.2025 22:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You’re still dumb and wrong, did i win you over yet

04.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Not to mention they’re just exceptionally wrong and the quickest of Google searches could confirm this

04.07.2025 22:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Dunning Kruger effect on full view today while simultaneously demonstrating all that is wrong with the American “Left.”

04.07.2025 22:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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