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Justine C

@jlivc927.bsky.social

San Franciscan, occasional lawyer, dog lover, travel addict, beachcomber, democracy junkie A republic, if you can keep it.

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These words demand attention.

“In a real sense this is holy ground, consecrated by blood spilled here. The cost is high, and so I had to be here to stand in the very place where this tragedy unfurled… I think we’re at a defining moment for our country…” ~ Rev Warnock

Take a moment, so much more…

28.01.2026 03:16 — 👍 9430    🔁 3090    💬 231    📌 152
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

27.01.2026 00:22 — 👍 23363    🔁 7809    💬 332    📌 890
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This is exactly like Nox who thoroughly examines every treat and then delicately consumes it. Then there’s Charlie who inhales every treat before I’ve even blinked.

13.01.2026 21:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

11.01.2026 02:44 — 👍 24576    🔁 9989    💬 1999    📌 946
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This is one of our favorites!

24.12.2025 20:24 — 👍 9867    🔁 2174    💬 81    📌 50
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The White House is promising to announce a new healthcare plan "very soon." We've heard that one before...

12.12.2025 22:01 — 👍 3574    🔁 997    💬 549    📌 178

The President of the United States should not be batshit insane.

11.12.2025 02:48 — 👍 6464    🔁 1161    💬 310    📌 93

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

03.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 11001    🔁 3264    💬 46    📌 80

If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.

05.12.2025 00:23 — 👍 7914    🔁 1466    💬 281    📌 74

My aunt and uncle spend a few weeks in the Delta every summer and always bring back fresh corn. We feast on it!

18.11.2025 09:06 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So another vote for Universal Healthcare! Along with Lindsey Grahams statement. Spin it better Dems. No $ for insurance companies, straight single payer from your dollars to doctors like 32 other countries.

08.11.2025 15:52 — 👍 170    🔁 24    💬 4    📌 0
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19.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 28154    🔁 5100    💬 961    📌 413
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@indivisibleparis.bsky.social
No Kings Rally, Paris

18.10.2025 18:47 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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@indivisibleparis.bsky.social
No Kings Rally, Paris

18.10.2025 18:40 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

14.10.2025 03:35 — 👍 13758    🔁 6250    💬 470    📌 357
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That @JoeBiden put out this magnanimous & gracious statement AFTER all the horrible, dishonest things Trump said about Biden today, says so much about who Joe Biden is as a person. And reminds us all once again of what an utterly horrible, small, bad, & insecure person Trump is.

14.10.2025 00:28 — 👍 1975    🔁 531    💬 94    📌 28
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#WarRavagedPortland

08.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 36258    🔁 11256    💬 1271    📌 1807

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

30.09.2025 16:59 — 👍 18318    🔁 6463    💬 770    📌 396

Will they quote him?

18.09.2025 08:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant.

“I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.

Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant. “I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

14.09.2025 03:00 — 👍 4482    🔁 2183    💬 183    📌 279
The injunction is silent as to the use
of force. And it is not necessary for the injunction to address
that use-of-force question because the Fourth Amendment’s
reasonableness standard continues to govern the officers’
use of force and to prohibit excessive force.
To the extent that excessive force has been used, the
Fourth Amendment prohibits such action, and remedies
should be available in federal court. I agree with the
dissent on that point. But to reiterate, this injunction
against brief stops for questioning does not address the useof-force issue.

The injunction is silent as to the use of force. And it is not necessary for the injunction to address that use-of-force question because the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness standard continues to govern the officers’ use of force and to prohibit excessive force. To the extent that excessive force has been used, the Fourth Amendment prohibits such action, and remedies should be available in federal court. I agree with the dissent on that point. But to reiterate, this injunction against brief stops for questioning does not address the useof-force issue.

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

08.09.2025 17:06 — 👍 13015    🔁 4413    💬 524    📌 221

I hate these fuckers on the Supreme Court so much I'm almost consumed by it.

08.09.2025 18:39 — 👍 11614    🔁 1395    💬 685    📌 120
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Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”

My latest in @thebulwark.com

www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

30.08.2025 11:44 — 👍 21846    🔁 6237    💬 972    📌 406
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1/ Judge in Habba ruling

"Manipulation of official appointments had long been one of the American revolutionary generation’s greatest grievances against executive power, because the power of appointment to offices was deemed 'the most insidious and powerful weapon of eighteenth century despotism'"

21.08.2025 20:55 — 👍 1924    🔁 549    💬 29    📌 15
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."

15.08.2025 01:50 — 👍 23742    🔁 7824    💬 479    📌 318

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

12.06.2025 18:59 — 👍 11562    🔁 3528    💬 16    📌 155

Imagine the biggest problem in your life being about which bathroom a total stranger uses.

Imagine pretending random people you'll never meet are somehow victimizing you with their existence.

Imagine being that hard up for troubles that you have to invent them just so you can play the victim.

28.04.2025 23:14 — 👍 12017    🔁 2482    💬 267    📌 93

😂😂😂😂😂😂

20.04.2025 21:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

EVERY SINGLE THING you are talking about is what Democrats campaign on and what Republicans reject. I am a union lawyer. I work for those with back breaking jobs and am VERY aware of what the GOP is doing to dismantle unions and destroy those you are describing.

20.04.2025 09:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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