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@spenceriley.bsky.social

Lawyer (once upon a time), girl mom, dog mom, American & Aussie. I’m way too into news and podcasts

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I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

01.02.2026 00:08 — 👍 3904    🔁 2060    💬 63    📌 81
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This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

28.01.2026 03:12 — 👍 12674    🔁 5600    💬 282    📌 445

That’s amazing. I knew the people of MN were stepping up like crazy but had no idea of the support network they created for their community. Thank you for your daring reporting despite the treacherous conditions of airport lighting.

23.01.2026 16:10 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Mom reveals last words from son killed in U.S. Maduro assault Saul Pereira Martinez had finished his shift on guard duty at Fort Tiuna, where Maduro was sheltered. The last time his mother spoke to him was at 2:00 am.
19.01.2026 11:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Does a woman of color gifting her Nobel Prize to an undeserving white man mark the end of DEI—or a new beginning?

16.01.2026 22:16 — 👍 1041    🔁 139    💬 26    📌 7
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Trump’s Most Dangerous Gambit His irrational obsession with Greenland could lead to global conflict.

Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well.
I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III.

(Gifted.)

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

14.01.2026 19:50 — 👍 2139    🔁 979    💬 228    📌 153

Sometimes they just tell us they are weaponizing the criminal justice system to push their political agenda.

13.01.2026 23:41 — 👍 5487    🔁 1428    💬 283    📌 42

Agreed. And for those choosing to cancel performances at (Trump’s) Kennedy Center, come support these American cities

10.01.2026 10:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Links to report or McClatchy?

10.01.2026 10:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They are going to Epstein Files a murder

08.01.2026 16:11 — 👍 2058    🔁 622    💬 54    📌 16

💯 this

08.01.2026 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Didn’t they do the exact same thing with the “drug boat” bombings?

08.01.2026 10:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

24.12.2025 14:40 — 👍 2646    🔁 670    💬 112    📌 32
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.

CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

22.12.2025 02:48 — 👍 949    🔁 350    💬 76    📌 85
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DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls Read more here.

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

03.12.2025 13:21 — 👍 11536    🔁 6384    💬 472    📌 343
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Opinion | The Real Reason Trump Is Fawning Over Saudi Arabia’s Ruler

I tried to convince the Times that the title of this column should be ... Behead of State: Inside Trump's Petrostate Fantasy.

This one is pretty good, too. Hope you'll give it a read.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

22.11.2025 13:48 — 👍 120    🔁 31    💬 6    📌 1

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

20.11.2025 23:04 — 👍 8403    🔁 3543    💬 173    📌 274
Trump embarrassing Ramaphosa in the White House

Trump embarrassing Ramaphosa in the White House

Trump being offensive and embarrassing towards Zelenskyy in the White House

Trump being offensive and embarrassing towards Zelenskyy in the White House

„You don’t have to embarrass our guest“

19.11.2025 07:02 — 👍 840    🔁 196    💬 16    📌 2
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“Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen, but [Mohammed] knew nothing about it,” said President Trump about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi. https://wapo.st/4igmwkX

18.11.2025 20:46 — 👍 182    🔁 63    💬 67    📌 21
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Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.

14.11.2025 19:50 — 👍 8706    🔁 3471    💬 912    📌 286
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Worth 1,000 words. This picture is so revealing about so much about this “administration.”

Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…

14.11.2025 13:10 — 👍 1169    🔁 367    💬 66    📌 35

This is just too on the nose… they’re investigating her for a trip paid for by Qatar while the president gets to keep a $500M plane from Qatar, no questions asked

07.11.2025 00:11 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

05.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 31522    🔁 15031    💬 1053    📌 1003

May shame follow them the rest of their lives and may they never know a moment’s peace. Jagoffs.

04.11.2025 04:34 — 👍 200    🔁 59    💬 18    📌 2

What if POTUS decided to simply demo the entire White House, pave it over, and conduct all business from some other location.

Camp David. NYC. Moscow.

If he just allowed to do that? No notice? No permission?

The answer now seems to be: Sure.

22.10.2025 23:55 — 👍 1713    🔁 396    💬 146    📌 19

But don’t worry: your self-driving car will operate through a cloud outage just fine. 🤓

22.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 485    🔁 108    💬 24    📌 2

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

17.10.2025 04:16 — 👍 29151    🔁 9280    💬 1187    📌 378
In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

17.10.2025 13:23 — 👍 4880    🔁 1894    💬 467    📌 889

Uline's owners "have used their wealth to funnel millions of dollars into the most extreme RW politicians & mvmts... contributed $144 million to conservative groups in the 2024 election cycle... donated $4+ million to bankroll anti-abortion groups who pushed to overturn Roe v Wade."
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16.10.2025 01:29 — 👍 744    🔁 463    💬 14    📌 18

Yeah, I need to workshop Fomebody… Fear Of Missing Everything doesn’t capture the angst like that extra O

06.10.2025 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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