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Retired lawyer, dad, baseball fan. From Colorado. I don't argue online.

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · Dec 14

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” - Whitney v. California, 274 U. S. 357 (1927) (Brandeis, J.) #freedomofspeech #freespeech #civilliberties

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 15h

It's unclear whether this corporate lobbyist-populated soiree in Vail violated Colorado's constitutional ethics requirements for state legislatures. One thing is clear: many of the state's Democrats are okay with cozying up to the billionaires and big companies. coloradosun.com/2025/10/13/c...

A group of Democratic state lawmakers gathered with lobbyists at a Vail retreat. Who paid the tab?

The Colorado Opportunity Caucus, considered among the more moderate Democrats in the legislature, organized the event. The caucus was formed as a nonprofit that doesn’t disclose its donors.

coloradosun.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

The justices are not, in reality, judges. They are politicians in robes. You'd think they'd be more attentive to appearances, but I think the Roberts Court has shown, at least for the Republican Six, that such a ship has long ago sailed.

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

American universities should consider this.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

We have two choices: a food system that doesn't poison people with under-regulated and dangerous pesticides that, all too often, also wreak havoc on nature or a food system that is allowing rampant contamination and destruction of biodiversity. It is possible to effectively regulate. We don't.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

Game 1 tonight . . .

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

It is a shame on our entire society that those who raped teenage girls at Epstein's palaces of sex crimes have faced zero accountability.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010 Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein in an email “we are in this together” after a picture of the British royal with his arm around a teenage Virginia Giuffre was first published in 2011. The email will pile further pressure on Duke of York and the royal family as he previously told the BBC he had ceased contact with the paedophile financier by that point. Continue reading...

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. military is obligated, most of all, to defend the U.S. Constitution's practical application to our society. If a president violates that charter, and a correction by other branches of government is not possible or ignored, then the military has an obligation to act to fix the problem.

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 2d

So apparently, in Illinois, the state patrol is helping the Trump administration suppress peaceful political protest. So much for a blue state governor caring about standing up for free speech.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 2d

Ban them all.

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 2d

Periodic protests really amount to theater. They do not change anything the government does. For that to occur, constant protests must happen. Like, every day. And in every city.

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 2d

andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...

The AI water issue is fake

On the national, local, and personal level

andymasley.substack.com

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 2d

I have never allowed Roundup to be used on my property. And I never will. Pesticides and weed-killers are destructive to bees, in many cases, and very likely harmful to humans and domestic pets, too, as well as other animals. Avoid Roundup. Period.

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 3d

She's almost 80 years old. The very idea of running for another pubilc office is just silly. And, really, selfish. Go home. Retire.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 3d

Colorado's leaders are way, way too gutless to even try to do a "soft secession." He's a Dem, but our guv basically seems to agree with Trump on a number of things and, besides, he's more into social media posts than doing much. And the AG is too busy running for another office to work very hard.

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 4d

More of this, please, Your Holiness.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 5d

Schumer doesn't care about people. He cares about Wall Street money that goes to his campaign and keeping his sweet, six-figure-salaried gig in the Senate. That's it.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not sure if you were responding to my comment or not. I think Sen. Sanders should not have run for reelection after his first term; he was too old to serve even then. But water under the bridge. He should certainly retire now.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 5d

The Constitution forbids the entry into an unconsenting state by troops from another state. But Americans, by and large, are either ignorant or apathetic about the Constitution's mandates and don't seem to care much about the real threat to everyone's freedom that sending TX troops to invade IL is.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 5d

Blue state governors are still pretending that the courts will save us. They are, so far, unwilling to use their authority to do anything to protect the people of their states from the invasions by Red state forces that are now underway in California, Oregon, and Illinois. It's lethargy and naivete.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 6d

Mr. Jeffries, statesmen find solutions. They don't play the blame game. I agree with the goal of preserving affordable health care access. But it is irresponsible of Congress - everyone in Congress, regardless of party - to allow this shutdown. It's an abdication of duty.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 6d

But Trump, Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Noem, Bondi, Vought, Miller and everyone else who is a Trump crony thinks they are. We are on the brink of catastrophe. And what are senators doing? Nothing.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 6d

Every state and city where there is a Democratic governor or mayor is now at risk of invasion by military forces from hostile Red states. Residents of those Blue states - innocent people - are certain to be assaulted and murdered in these invasions. If Dem governors and mayors won't act, then what?

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 6d

I want to live long enough to see Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, Noem, Bondi, Miller, Vought, and everyone else who is involved in murdering people in the Caribbean, terrorizing people because they have different ethnicities, hiding the evidence of involvement with Epstein, etc. in prison cells.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 6d

But if that's the extent of a "taking," then why has SCOTUS pushed, at times, the idea that limiting use of land via regulation is a "taking"? Clearly, those guys don't think that a "taking" has to involve only a physical seizure of land.