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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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Data was so close!

24.11.2025 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Always remember that Elon Musk isn't disliked because he's awkward and unfunny. Plenty of awkward and unfunny people have friends. Elon Musk is disliked because he is destructive and cruel.

24.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 128    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 0

The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again

23.11.2025 01:42 — 👍 373    🔁 68    💬 16    📌 128
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Shot + chaser

21.11.2025 20:46 — 👍 4841    🔁 1995    💬 44    📌 118

Seems like they had a source in the chat & not that they’re able to hack into signal or get the records via warrant. Important distinction for organizers & guardian article should’ve made it more clear.

They are spying ON ORGANIZERS, not just the signal chat. Understand how they will come after you

21.11.2025 18:29 — 👍 466    🔁 235    💬 5    📌 2
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How Dare You Embarrass My Esteemed Guest, Jason Voorhees “President Trump assailed an American journalist in the Oval Office on Tuesday for asking Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, about t...

"Look, things happen. And what happens at Camp Crystal Lake should stay at Camp Crystal Lake. We can’t hold everyone accountable for every little thing they’ve ever done."

19.11.2025 19:28 — 👍 633    🔁 154    💬 4    📌 4

Periodic reminder that Jerry Smith was the right wing of the 5th Cir, is now firmly in the court’s ideological middle.

19.11.2025 22:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tom Brady: hey! I resemble that!

19.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The government screwed up the prosecution in Ex Parte Bain? No wonder he keeps getting out of Santa Prisca…

19.11.2025 20:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starting to think we need mandatory reading comprehension tests at all levels of government.

18.11.2025 03:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"We have always been at war with Christmas."

17.11.2025 23:27 — 👍 30    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Rev. Stryker’s podcast.

17.11.2025 22:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Missouri town will pay $500k to settle lawsuit over deputy shooting blind and deaf dog Sturgeon, Missouri will settle a lawsuit filed by a man whose 13-pound blind and deaf shih tzu dog was shot and killed by a police officer.

Latest: A Missouri town will pay $500K to settle a lawsuit after a police officer shot and killed a man's 13-pound blind and deaf shih tzu.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund says it's one of the largest settlements for a police shooting of a dog reason.com/2025/11/17/m...

17.11.2025 20:22 — 👍 54    🔁 12    💬 7    📌 4

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

17.11.2025 04:53 — 👍 12509    🔁 2690    💬 131    📌 85

“Romantic” advice…

17.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.

All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”

And I’ve thought about that every day since.

16.11.2025 01:47 — 👍 1365    🔁 289    💬 25    📌 32

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

14.11.2025 04:16 — 👍 5499    🔁 1992    💬 2    📌 56

Marvel Two-In-One Annual 7!

15.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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been awhile since I felt a literal chill down my spine but this honestly scared the shit out of me

15.11.2025 13:44 — 👍 961    🔁 262    💬 28    📌 10

Bill Clinton was the most powerful man in the world, and Monica Lewinsky was an intern and his subordinate, and in any other workplace that would be called sexual harassment, and if you don't take power dynamics into account when you talk about things like this, you don't actually understand consent

15.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 2485    🔁 407    💬 84    📌 21
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we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.

14.11.2025 23:24 — 👍 3326    🔁 758    💬 28    📌 24
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Bruce Springsteen’s “Badlands” is about Predator now

14.11.2025 22:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”

“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”

*Record scratch*

*Freeze frame*

"Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation..."

14.11.2025 22:11 — 👍 30    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 3
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Atlanta PD used Flock cameras to track migrants, records show Atlanta PD denied that it has assisted in immigration enforcement, but records show 15 immigration-related Flock searches in March 2025.

flock cameras are in nearly every city in the country now and Atlanta police were using them for immigration searches. this is the model -- once the surveillance grid exists it can be turned on anyone
atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/a...

14.11.2025 19:48 — 👍 20    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0

Rather than trivializing how much toilet paper Ghislaine Maxwell has access to behind bars, remember that most incarcerated people have little to their name.

Toilet paper isn't a luxury – it's a basic necessity.

14.11.2025 19:56 — 👍 86    🔁 37    💬 1    📌 0

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

14.11.2025 19:02 — 👍 9737    🔁 1241    💬 93    📌 32

🌲

14.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Even Meatloaf knew there were some lines not to cross.

14.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is this also the NYT’s justification for their reporter ignoring his Epstein tips?

14.11.2025 17:43 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Look, as a person of Irish descent, he might be their best!

14.11.2025 17:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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