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Civil rights lawyer with the ACLU of Colorado. Matt Murdock and Jennifer Walters are the only Super Lawyers. Ex Texas Civil Rights Project, Edwards Law, and Greisen Medlock. Opinions aren’t those of my employer (except when they are).

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Wemby should not be able to play in the NBA because I am not also 7’6”.

04.08.2025 03:51 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I overheard a guy at the airport bragging about being at January 6th and I walked by him sitting in first class. Wealthy business owners stormed the capitol. January 6th was loaded with people who had the leisure time and travel budget to be there. Interrogate who is telling you to hate the poor.

04.08.2025 01:55 — 👍 3364    🔁 680    💬 16    📌 0

The Texas Dems have gone to rally the horde…
@nomads.bsky.social

03.08.2025 23:52 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Hey Reuters, as a Texas Civil Rights Project alum, it’s pretty awful that you slapped the TCRP legal director’s face on this instead of, I dunno, the managing partner of Paul Weiss.

03.08.2025 22:42 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

not particularly fair of Reuters to make this guy, who is the director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, the face of law firm cowardice

03.08.2025 22:35 — 👍 215    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 1

The reason you don't give ground on trans rights - beyond the simple morality of it being wrong to do so - is because you don't give ground on rights period, and if you're willing to let it slide for one marginalized group it means everyone else is just a matter of price

03.08.2025 14:36 — 👍 2430    🔁 571    💬 22    📌 14

When a team is as bad as the Rockies, players should lose the ability to pick their own walk up music. That Tovar fly out would have been a lot more fun if he’d walked up to Pink Pony Club.

02.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This would be way better than Stephen Miller, who’s gonna reach out and grab ya (if you’re Brown).

02.08.2025 14:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

01.08.2025 21:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🙋‍♂️

01.08.2025 21:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Well, this is better than @hickenlooper.senate.gov and @bennet.senate.gov who are all about handing bombs to the genocidaires.

01.08.2025 00:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Greg Abbott Principle:

01.08.2025 00:09 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

And this purported justification itself is illegal.

31.07.2025 23:49 — 👍 346    🔁 52    💬 1    📌 0

TRUMP: "For the last time, I never hang out with people who peddle in underaged prostitutes...now let me introduce you to my good friend, Lawrence Taylor!"
@davidjroth.bsky.social

31.07.2025 20:42 — 👍 440    🔁 100    💬 19    📌 4

Cops rarely fire their guns. They don't prevent crime and are mid at solving it. They kill more people in this country than ordinary people do in most countries. Their job is safer than garbage men and the group that routinely runs into life threatening situations to save lives are fire fighters.

26.07.2025 18:25 — 👍 551    🔁 130    💬 5    📌 4
The Moon Knight “random bullshit go” panel

The Moon Knight “random bullshit go” panel

31.07.2025 04:24 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, Senator.

31.07.2025 01:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

30.07.2025 01:10 — 👍 42865    🔁 9592    💬 823    📌 607
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The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

30.07.2025 01:28 — 👍 6496    🔁 1935    💬 190    📌 194

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

30.07.2025 02:04 — 👍 6287    🔁 1619    💬 191    📌 189

beyond the parallel stories, one of the reasons the Irish have such strong solidarity with Palestine is that when the British withdrew the Black & Tans in 1922, it left many of the fuckers unemployed, so the British sent 700 of them to Palestine to help protect the Zionist settlers from Palestinians

29.07.2025 04:22 — 👍 31    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

4. As we say in the prison reform movement: Hurt people, hurt people. The nature of trauma is such that the victims of genocide are surely more not less likely to commit genocide. And, surely the Israeli genocide is an expression of a deeply unhealed inter-generational Jewish trauma.

29.07.2025 04:18 — 👍 24    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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29.07.2025 03:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”

29.07.2025 00:49 — 👍 5024    🔁 1576    💬 9    📌 63

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29.07.2025 00:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rethinking my stance on prison abolition

28.07.2025 02:38 — 👍 58    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 0

Very disappointed that both Hick and Bennett are pro genocide.

28.07.2025 03:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is acceptable copaganda.

28.07.2025 03:12 — 👍 30    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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