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Lawyer. Trekkie. Proud progressive committed to preserving (and one day improving) the constitution. UCLA ‘93. @Mets @NYRangers

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A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.

12.08.2025 17:29 — 👍 4920    🔁 1734    💬 145    📌 60
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12.08.2025 14:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A huge elephant in the room here is that the right does not live in the same universe as we do. They may pay lip service to the rule of law but then they ignore or simply don’t believe facts that are staring them in the face. Trump is the personification of this. Everything about him screams fraud

12.08.2025 11:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t know how to even fight back against this.

10.08.2025 12:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They won’t comply.

20.06.2025 21:13 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump is going to try to do what he wants. Only Congress and the Courts can stop him.

19.06.2025 00:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He was probably Trump’s caddy and before that worked as a “data analyst” at Palantir.

17.06.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hahahahaha!

15.06.2025 02:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sources say two Minnesota lawmakers have been shot Sources have told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS' Tom Hauser that two Minnesota Lawmakers have been shot.

absolutely horrifying: "Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer."

14.06.2025 13:54 — 👍 12900    🔁 4748    💬 1096    📌 698

Trump will pardon him because he wants to normalize political corruption.

14.06.2025 12:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Let's all be the rain on this motherfucker's parade.

#NoKings #NoKingsDay

14.06.2025 10:41 — 👍 30202    🔁 6040    💬 833    📌 275
Man Child
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Man Child

At the brink of war, our military is being led by an incompetent drunk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUo...

13.06.2025 16:50 — 👍 11731    🔁 3597    💬 463    📌 173

Zero confidence in this “administration” to improve the situation

13.06.2025 00:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🤬

12.06.2025 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What?

12.06.2025 18:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ok, so a few people act like assholes. Not much anyone can do about it.

10.06.2025 22:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well, that’s uplifting.

10.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I really dont see how we can break through this mess. A large portion of this country lives in an alternate universe.

09.06.2025 14:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

09.06.2025 00:39 — 👍 56038    🔁 17056    💬 884    📌 826

Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and Trump didn't call in the National Guard.

08.06.2025 15:09 — 👍 5600    🔁 1771    💬 203    📌 83
A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.

A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

05.06.2025 11:56 — 👍 16793    🔁 4745    💬 273    📌 266

Hegseth is a racist, homophobic POS.

03.06.2025 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

31.05.2025 20:53 — 👍 20161    🔁 4531    💬 7058    📌 4462
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“.. it’s unclear why the children were zip-tied during their detention or why they were detained at all.”

@mysanantonio.com
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

31.05.2025 18:22 — 👍 4130    🔁 1861    💬 377    📌 189

Yeah, sadly you’re 100% right.

31.05.2025 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I don't know if there is a more appropriate goodbye to Loretta Swit, than her last scene in MASH in the series finale.

Loretta won two Emmy's for her role as Major Houlihan.

31.05.2025 00:57 — 👍 16670    🔁 3093    💬 556    📌 288
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Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?

My brother passed away from AIDS over 30 years ago - right before the emergence of more powerful antiretroviral drugs that helped control HIV.

We are dealing with people who have no values other than greed and power. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

31.05.2025 13:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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30.05.2025 19:53 — 👍 28    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love how she bounces when she wants to emphasize one of her lies

29.05.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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