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Liberal mountaineer, lawyer, 25 years of government service, anti-fascist, EX-X. Do not comply in advance.

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Opinion | We Encourage Political Violence When We Look the Other Way

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o.... @nytopinion.nytimes.com โ€œWeโ€ donโ€™t encourage violence- REPUBLICANS encourage violence. There fixed it for you.

20.06.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Padilla: โ€œWe will hold this administration accountableโ€

12.06.2025 19:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24408    ๐Ÿ” 6081    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 867    ๐Ÿ“Œ 385
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Return of Wrongly Deported Man Raises Questions About Trumpโ€™s Views of Justice

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u... โ€œTHE FAILURE TO RETURN WRONGLY DEPORTED MANโ€ฆโ€ there @nytimes.com i fixed it for you.

07.06.2025 11:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What BS. Itโ€™s ok if the kid gets a gun and shoots someone

01.06.2025 22:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Couple thoughts on this Ukrainian operation:

18 months of planning with no leaks is crazy impressive.

The intelligence picture, the OpSec, and the execution were all top notch.

Iโ€™m curious to see what else they have planned, and yes Iโ€™m worried about how Russia will respond.

01.06.2025 22:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15189    ๐Ÿ” 2105    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 572    ๐Ÿ“Œ 98
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Early rumors are that up to 40 Russian strategic bombers were destroyed in one of the most audacious operations Iโ€™ve ever seen.

Get fucked, Vlad.

01.06.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16595    ๐Ÿ” 3646    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 764    ๐Ÿ“Œ 394
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CBS reporter Scott Pelley:

This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think โ€œhe was so rightโ€.

If you havenโ€™t already shared this, please do.

27.05.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17367    ๐Ÿ” 8323    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 468    ๐Ÿ“Œ 488

Lmao ๐Ÿคฃ

02.05.2025 00:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

24.04.2025 00:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 79626    ๐Ÿ” 20397    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 844    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1263

Itโ€™s a cover up for racism and sexism. The rest is BS.

16.04.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chris Hemsworth: 6โ€™3โ€, 225 lbs.
Grandpa RICO: 6โ€™3โ€, 224 lbs. ๐Ÿฅด

16.04.2025 20:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10577    ๐Ÿ” 2985    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1207    ๐Ÿ“Œ 367
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If the government can do what they did to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, it could be you next.

We are ALL Kilmar Abrego Garcia

BRING HIM BACK TO THE USA

16.04.2025 21:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump ends protected status for thousands of Afghans, Cameroonians The Trump administration has terminated temporary deportation protections for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians in the U.S., a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said on Friday, building on Trump's far-reaching immigration crackdown.

The cruelty *never* stops. Trump just revoked TPS for Afghans & Camerooniansโ€”people who fled war, starvation, and chaos.
Now heโ€™s forcing them back into danger.

These are human beings, not political pawns.

This is what depravity in power looks like.
๐Ÿ”— tinyurl.com/TPS-Afghans

11.04.2025 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 399    ๐Ÿ” 213    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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Hereโ€™s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS.

(Hint: it has nothing to do with โ€œefficiency.โ€)

08.04.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19333    ๐Ÿ” 7183    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 486    ๐Ÿ“Œ 335
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Last night I wrote about Abrego Garciaโ€™s case. Today, SCOTUS confirmed itโ€™s true. Even though their stay is just temporary, he remains in cruel & unusual conditions in a foreign prison with no recourse. It could happen to any of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

07.04.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12764    ๐Ÿ” 4486    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 454    ๐Ÿ“Œ 197
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Moskowitz: He tariffed the penguins. He tariffed Vietnam. Madagascar. I donโ€™t know what the plan is. Is the plan to get people who live in Vietnam to move to Greenland to make the shirts there? Nobody really knows.

06.04.2025 21:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15673    ๐Ÿ” 2962    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 525    ๐Ÿ“Œ 119
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Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy' Read more here.

โ€œThis does not just affect North Carolina,โ€ Riggs said. โ€œThis is like dropping a match in a really dry forest. And if we let this kind of anti-democratic effort take hold, we will not be able to contain it. So this is a fight for the very soul of democracy. Todayโ€™s decision was deeply misinformed.โ€

06.04.2025 21:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21322    ๐Ÿ” 6838    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 361    ๐Ÿ“Œ 244
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Where is our humanity?

06.04.2025 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33782    ๐Ÿ” 11301    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1779    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1102
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor
). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they arenโ€™t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they arenโ€™t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

If you think this canโ€™t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

04.04.2025 19:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46358    ๐Ÿ” 14232    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 696    ๐Ÿ“Œ 352
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Fact :
Most people are 2 paychecks away from being evicted , with their jobs being uncertain sure doesn't help !!!
#FascistPig ๐Ÿ–

13.03.2025 05:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1973    ๐Ÿ” 1155    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 78    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

@whitehouse.senate.gov do not comply with these people. We need to close things down till they stop this lawless destruction of America.

13.03.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Meta is repeatedly deleting this video. They donโ€™t want it to be seen. Spread it everywhere.

12.03.2025 13:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Perkins Coie Drags Trump Administration Clear To Hell In New Lawsuit - Above the Law They're cooking.

Boom! Williams and Connolly in the suit against the orange felon for Perkins Coie.

โ€œThe complaint wasnโ€™t written by a โ€œbunch of pussies.โ€ No, the filing goes for the jugular. โ€œ

abovethelaw.com/2025/03/perk...

11.03.2025 23:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Works for me!

09.03.2025 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I enthusiastically endorse Diane Seltzer for DC Bar President. The election is coming up soon. If you are a DC Bar member please make sure to vote for her!

09.03.2025 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10563    ๐Ÿ” 2872    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 79    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45

Works for me.

05.03.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You can literally see the stock market plunge in real-time on Fox News as Trump announces new tariffs.

04.03.2025 16:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8072    ๐Ÿ” 1827    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 303    ๐Ÿ“Œ 100

Trump signed executive orders to expand logging on public lands while bypassing environmental protections. His โ€œenergy emergencyโ€ declaration lets him override regulations entirely.

04.03.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6614    ๐Ÿ” 2203    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 440    ๐Ÿ“Œ 218
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldnโ€™t find itโ€ฆso donโ€™t RT right now this very second.

02.03.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54331    ๐Ÿ” 37229    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2038    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3093

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