Dan Margolies

The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I’m writing threads that really should be the basis for posts at LGM. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days. Here’s a ...

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City hall
Ohio, IL

President Pritzker is going to get record ratings when he takes a wrecking ball to that ballroom on prime time TV.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

DAILY MEMO: Feds Return To Monrovia Home Depot Where Carlos Montoya Was Killed

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This, exactly. You should convene one - pick a day and a place. Needs to address immediate-term expediences like the Transition Integrity Project tabletop on the 2020 election did with some impact, and then a much bigger effort to start the work of building new frameworks and de-__ifying the U.S.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

More great reporting. Outrageous but unfortunately completely expected, corrupted greed.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

To the generals & admirals in attendance, it signals that overt ideological conformity with the administration is not just appropriate, but key to their career advancement and to protecting their units and commands. 3/

Crow: They’re doing things that are deeply unpopular. Their approval ratings continue to go down—that is, Republican members of Congress and this administration—and yet they don’t seem worried about it.

Which raises the obvious question: what are they going to do?

YouTube video by Democracy Docket Can We Actually Save America?

I feel very strongly that we must use the next three years to build a new opposition movement. I tried to lay out my reasons and what I think we need to do to make it happen.

Please watch, comment, and share. youtu.be/_GUgnpAYMCc

Okay but the Portland farmers market is a well known hotspot for the notorious Venezuelan gang Trendy Arugula

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
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Brutal sports writing is always a pleasure to read

"Bill Belichick is only embarrassing himself. UNC is embarrassing all of us."

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DAILY MEMO: Feds Abduct At Least 23 Workers Today, Highest in Weeks

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Useful. And kind of insane to contemplate with what is being said here

YouTube video by Puro Conjunto "Mi Primer Amor" Felipe Perez y Sus Polkeros. puro conjunto

New album out now!

Conjunto Accordion Hall of Famer Felipe Perez y Sus Polkeros

A San Quilmas Records- Zarza Records collaboration!

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YouTube video by Jose Arana y Su Grupo Invencible - Topic La Chikungunya

Or this better one from José Arana y su Grupo Invencible
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There's a pretty substantial body of music about chikungunya from across Latin America, such as
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Working up to the Full Derek Chauvin. It's a matter of time.

Interesting to observe professional standards, especially when current rates of ICE recruitment means $100,000 in cash bonuses for two ICE agents

Exactly as the founders intended our taxation and trade policy to be run

Among its targets are "campaigns of... radicalization," that is to say, speech persuading people to adopt radical views, grounded in aims such as wanting to "change or direct policy outcomes," which might also be understood as "petition for the redress of grievances." /2

The Trump-Vance administration really went ahead and declared a national security emergency over couches.

DAILY MEMO: Federal Agents Target 15 Different Cities Across Southern California Today
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