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Chris Wheaton

@privacyesq.bsky.social

Recovering Republican. GenX lawyer with a love for family, music tech, law, and politics.

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Have a great trip. You deserve it.

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Opinion | Why the Texas Democrats’ Walkout Worked

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o... (gift article)

29.08.2025 23:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

…while black.

21.07.2025 07:51 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Adjust your retirement and savings to align with this.

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It’s a time that tries attorneys’ souls - MinnPost The Trump presidency is challenging respect for the Constitution and constitutional norms. Lawyers should stand up and say so.

OPINION | David Schultz, Hamline University

“The present time approaches what Thomas Paine saw 250 years ago when the stakes were too great for people to remain silent and on the sidelines.” buff.ly/3QDgVIm

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Recovering Republican. Voting Democrat for the last 4 presidential elections.

22.02.2025 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

6 years ago?

22.02.2025 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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All the problems in our great state and this is the shit they come up with. 🤦🏼‍♂️

21.02.2025 03:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who hurt him as a child?

18.02.2025 21:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Refusing to Carry Out Trump’s Flagrantly Dishonest Orders The Trump administration is trying to bake quid pro quo deal making, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American government.

Refusing to Carry Out Trump’s Flagrantly Dishonest Orders.

17.02.2025 15:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Jealous. My R2 is on order and I can't wait.

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vance, trump and musk are no more reliable as narrators than putin, peskov and lavrov.

14.02.2025 21:37 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
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Brilliant letter.

14.02.2025 18:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Read Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.

Integrity.

13.02.2025 21:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

Those with a special obligation to the profession should affirm that commitment.

I support the rule of law.

11.02.2025 19:46 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.
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So gross to have to look at.

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Trump administration suspends $5bn electric vehicle charging program Highway agency ordered states to no longer spend funds allocated under Biden’s EV fast-charging station program

Trump’s oft promised/never delivered until Biden infrastructure week is now being undone.

He’s so twisted.

07.02.2025 20:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to Stop the Dismantling of Our Government Podcast Episode · George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell) · 02/06/2025 · 58m

Depressing analysis from George Conway but worthy of your time.

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Judge Amy Berman Jackson has formally dismissed the case of Jan. 6 defendant DJ Rodriguez, who drove a taser into the neck of MPD officer Michael Fanone and had been sentenced to 12 years in prison

"Michael Fanone's heroism will never be moot," she says.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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To be fair, we have no business promosting democracy at the moment.

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Nah.

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Can anyone rid us of these meddlesome madmen?

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Same.

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We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

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