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Ellis Hankins

@forrepdemruleoflaw.bsky.social

Indignant American in North Carolina. Retired lawyer & public policy/management professor in a purple state (the state, not me). Married up. Public commercial airport board member, aviation enthusiast.

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Bye Barbie!

05.03.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Arkansas county voters nominate murder defendant for sheriff Aaron Spencer is charged with killing a man accused of molesting his daughter. He just won the GOP primary in a landslide.

The ironies. Is sexual abuse of minors bad or not? Looking at you, Pam Bondi.

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Iran Is One More Humiliation for J. D. Vance Trump’s war shows that, within the administration, the vice president’s opinions matter less and less.

Poor J.D.

Trouble in MAGAstan.

05.03.2026 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hell no.

04.03.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A gem from the New Yorker.

04.03.2026 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sociopathic moron.

04.03.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a surprise.

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Russia says ready to ship 9.5 million oil barrels to India amid supply crisis India has witnessed a vulnerability in terms of its crude reserves, following the breakout of the Middle East crisis. At present, it has crude stocks covering 25 days of demand along with low inventor...
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ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools β€” purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration β€” to monitor, ap...

ICE is using mass surveillance on American citizens, activists

This secret police surveillance state has to be reined in, when we finally have a responsible, functioning Congress.

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'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

β€œThis is about more than convenience at the airport: It’s about whether the government is punishing speech it dislikes and seeking to deter people from exercising their fundamental freedoms.”

That’s exactly what the regime is doing, of course. It’s about control.

04.03.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Alito misleading? Shocked.

03.03.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because he is a sociopathic moron and a Russian fool tool.

03.03.2026 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every day is a new low.

03.03.2026 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Has Given America a Constitutional Dilemma Congress should not have to argue over whether to trigger the War Powers Resolution, and certainly not in the midst of conflict.

Tom Nichols on the War Powers Resolution.

03.03.2026 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So tired of all this winning.

03.03.2026 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MAGA partisan hypocrites.

03.03.2026 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow.

02.03.2026 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was a sham negotiation.

02.03.2026 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can't believe Matt flipping Walsh of all people is making sense here.

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He might be the 2d dumbest senator, after Tuberville, but Ron Johnson & others make it a contest.

02.03.2026 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump administration drops suits against law firms with ties to Democrats and other Trump foes | CNN Politics The Trump administration has decided to drop its prolonged court fights against four law firms with ties to Democrats, after it had sought and failed to cut out the firms’ access to the federal govern...

Congratulations to the law firms that refused to obey, & for going to court & prevailing.

Shame on those that folded, & these gutless lawyers:
β€œThough the…orders didn’t survive in court, they have widely curtailed large American law firms’ willingness to oppose the administration….”

02.03.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He’ll say it out loud eventually.

02.03.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfit.

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Lying liars lie. Hegseth just said again that β€œWe didn’t start this, but we will finish it.”

We started it. And it likely won’t be finished for a long time.

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He Sounds Like He's Winging It As bombs fall on Iran, President Trump’s own words--scattered across interviews with reporters--expose a war launched without clear aims, a defined outcome, or an endgame.

Terry Moran:

β€œThe danger is not only strategic. It is democratic. Americans are being asked to accept war on faith, to trust that Trump’s improvisationβ€”always in pursuit of his own interests first, and the nation’s secondβ€”will somehow produce order.

It sounds to me like he’s winging it.”

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β€˜Elaine From Atlantic … She Needs to Leave’ Representative Jasmine Crockett claimed I wasn’t kicked out of her rally. Here’s the audio.

Does not reflect well on Jasmine Crockett.

Final polls before the TX primary election tomorrow show close races in the Democratic and Republican primaries.

02.03.2026 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Biggest beneficiary of higher oil prices: Russia.

02.03.2026 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0