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Ā. Sömmer

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Mark Twain said it well • Very amateur musician • Chiefs fan since 4th grade • Bourbon is nice • Pragmatist • Lawyer by trade

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‘Horsefeathers!’: Judge blasts Hegseth’s attempt to demote Sen. Kelly over video to U.S. troops The fiery decision against Hegseth included 15 exclamation points.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated Sen. Mark Kelly’s First Amendment rights by moving to strip him of his retired military rank for reminding troops in a video last year that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders, a federal judge ruled Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

12.02.2026 19:10 — 👍 3004    🔁 826    💬 81    📌 38
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RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?


KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment

12.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 5983    🔁 1221    💬 538    📌 286

The New York Times just launched a new "newsletter about the law and the courts." They are calling it "The Docket."

The Times may not care that Democracy Docket has been publishing "On the Docket" and "Daily Docket" for years, but I believe our 400,000 subscribers might.

More on this tomorrow.

13.02.2026 03:47 — 👍 12604    🔁 2682    💬 293    📌 67

One Battle was fun, but I’m not likely to watch it again. And that’s okay.

04.02.2026 04:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The president had his DOJ raid an election office and seize ballots. Now he is threatening to take over elections. Sadly, this is treated by legacy media as just another normal day.

I founded Democracy Docket because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

04.02.2026 03:48 — 👍 9026    🔁 2664    💬 159    📌 54

This is the way

31.01.2026 14:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Perfect fit. A stats machine perennial playoff contending QB who couldn’t get past the chiefs or broncos.

24.01.2026 04:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Protest if it feels right.

Stand up and shout.

Then, get involved with your local government. Learn. Be curious. Read your city ordinances. Learn about your county commission. Your state house.

We’re going to need a bottom up rebuild. Get to work.

14.01.2026 02:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honorable move by the owner. Also, I assume that means the owner likely said something like “Anything he needs right now, let me know.” Then that came back “Booze.”

Essentially.

12.01.2026 03:47 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The level of propaganda flowing through Facebook is truly amazing.

I have intentionally liked or commented on posts that are CLEARLY of opposing views just to see.

So I get all angles.

It is a candy store for the uncritical thinker.

11.01.2026 03:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

These are the most pathetic “men” on planet earth.

11.01.2026 01:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s horrifying seeing people so twisted up with hate that they consider sexual assault and rape, often of underage girls, to be an acceptable price to pay in order to fuck over trans women.

31.12.2025 20:02 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Yes. We have a different system for a reason. It’s sore of our WHOLE THING here in the USA. We have a big holiday party just to celebrate, every year. Maybe I can send my 10 year old to explain.

12.12.2025 00:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pivot - Scott Galloway and Kara swisher (Rachel and I both love)

I mostly listen to sports pods, and read my news like I used to. Lots of reading !

10.12.2025 00:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m glad she’s saying these things out loud. I’m sad it seems to be with an angle of seeing sympathy. I’d hope MTG would move into a more offensive position. You can’t play weak defense against Trump. You have to score. You have to throw the ball.

08.12.2025 03:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Anti-small business
Anti-consumer
Anti-low wage earner
Anti-family

29.11.2025 00:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The human rights abuses need to be talked about more than Trump’s wardrobe.

26.11.2025 03:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All this talk about “reclassifying” what counts as a profession is a distraction from the real trend..women-dominated fields like nursing, teaching, social work, counseling, PA programs, physical therapy, are losing funding, while male-dominated sectors keep the capital flowing. This is Project 2025

23.11.2025 20:05 — 👍 560    🔁 214    💬 25    📌 13

Say it with me now: Discovery

22.11.2025 22:38 — 👍 41    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

When I was in my last year of law school he was running for AG. He came to MU and did a talk on originalism with Hawley. It was like listening to a goat explain how to sing opera.

20.11.2025 02:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ed is a full blown dummy

19.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Border map of Missouri with Caption:

Missouri 
Zero
Days
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Being A
National 
Embarrassment

Border map of Missouri with Caption: Missouri Zero Days Without Being A National Embarrassment

No one who knew Ed in St. Louis should be surprised by any of this

Whistleblower accuses Ed Martin of ‘concealing and destroying’ records related to DOJ’s weaponization group

thehill.com/homenews/hou...

19.11.2025 20:26 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

Fuuuuuuc. Health insurance via ACA equal to what I had this year went up 55%. #aca #fuckGOP

19.11.2025 15:39 — 👍 24    🔁 4    💬 7    📌 0

The law is especially difficult to navigate when you don’t know how to follow the rules.

19.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When Texas tried to steal 5 seats, I said to watch the litigation my law firm had filed because we had a good chance of winning in court. Today a federal court BLOCKED THE MAP.

While the legacy media ignored our case, Democracy Docket covered it from gavel to gavel. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

18.11.2025 18:16 — 👍 6921    🔁 1496    💬 230    📌 75

This will happen in others as well.

18.11.2025 20:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If Trump uses a legal technicality to continue withholding the Epstein files it might be the biggest political miscalculation in a very, very long time.

18.11.2025 04:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A remastered rerelease of Drive By Truckers “Decoration Day” - yes please

15.11.2025 03:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

13.11.2025 01:07 — 👍 17746    🔁 6018    💬 67    📌 115

If your city is next, mutual aid and neighborhood watch networks are the most important things to scale up, but whistles are a great tool to get people taking the first step.
linktr.ee/apwhistles

11.11.2025 05:09 — 👍 140    🔁 68    💬 4    📌 0

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