MichNz
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I love my country and its constitution. Head down and push forward. Always forward. Never backwards. Mom, Wife, Artist and a crusader for democracy https://www.threads.net/@michlcnazz
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Now that Chicago won--at least thus far--at the 7th, reupping my video on how Chicago beat Stephen Miller's bullshit claims.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlv...
Stephen Miller's Fever Dreams
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Yay!! If it walks like a 🦆 quacks like a 🦆 …it’s a freakin’ 🦆 !!
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Federal court (after six years!) rules on and dismisses Gavin McInnes' lawsuit against the @splcenter.org

The case sought to declare it defamatory to say McInnes and the Proud Boys are "extremists," "far-right," a "hate group", or "white supremacists."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Aside from what is actually alleged in the complaint
(including materials adopted in it) , which is all the
court may look at, see Coral Ridge, 6 F.4th at 1253,
Mcinnes's briefing returns to the same losing refrain: the Proud Boys says it is not a hate group; SPLC
acknowledges that the Proud Boys says it is not a hate
group and that the group contends that it has engaged in
non-hateful activity; therefore, SPLC acted with actual
malice in describing it as a hate group. Under this
flawed formulation, any published statement denied by a
public figure is, by virtue of that denial, published
with actual malice.
squarely rejected. The Eleventh Circuit has noted that "there is a
fair debate about whether the term hate group is
definable in such a way that it is provable as false" and
that the "debate is complicated [further] by the fact
that SPLC put its own definition of the term on its
website." Coral. Ridge, 6 F.4th at 1252 n.7. This court
need not resolve at this time the questions posed in that
debate. But if it had to, it has already found that
SPLC's hate group designation was not provable as false
because "there is no single, commonly understood meaning
of the term 'hate group'" from which to test the label's
veracity. Coral. Ridge, 406 F. Supp. 3d 1258, 1274 (M.D.
Ala. 2019) (Thompson, J.).
The underlying issue highlighted throughout
Mcinnes' s arguments is that SPLC has amassed too much
influence over social media companies. This is neither
here nor there. It has been said that the film critic
Roger Ebert could make or break a film's financial... success in three words or less. Ebert could have declared
that "The Godfather" was a hateful, misogynistic, deeply
racist film and that could have ruined the film's boxoffice.
But that would not, by fiat of Ebert' s influence,
make his judgment-based opinion a fact. That is, Ebert
calling the movie hateful does not make the movie, in
fact, hateful.
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VICTORY!

The Arizona Supreme Court dismissed a Republican lawsuit challenging the state’s 2023 Election Procedure Manual (EPM), citing the “need for clarity in upcoming elections.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In Win for Voters, Arizona Supreme Court Tosses GOP Challenge to State’s Election Manual
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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The unanimous 7th Circuit panel - of Trump, Obama and Bush appointees - made once banal, now profound comments about the legitimacy of political protest, as Republicans regularly call peaceful protesters "terrorists."

It's worth a read ⤵️

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/7th-cir...
7th Circuit: ‘The Administration Remains Barred From Deploying the National Guard of the United States Within Illinois’
A 7th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously Thursday to maintain...
talkingpointsmemo.com
While asthma is affecting millions of ppl…
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Congratulations to my friend a co-host of the @dailybeanspod.com. Well deserved!
I am BEYOND thrilled to share that I have been inducted into the iconic #Out100 for 2025! It’s a huge honor to be recognized alongside so many brilliant and inspiring individuals who are shaping our world and advocating for greater inclusivity and diversity.

www.out.com/out100/2025/...
The 2025 Out100: Dana Goldberg
These are the LGBTQ+ people making the world bolder and brighter in 2025.
www.out.com
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EXCLUSIVE: This tech has been used to track heads of state, journalists, and maybe even you.

@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries.

It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.
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A great moment from Oliver:

“While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”
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A moment of profound relief and overwhelming joy. They are home. After too many months of darkness, a ray of light. Deeply grateful for the resilience of the returned hostages and for the tireless work of all who made this moment possible.
At this point is there anyone left at the IRS?
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"Roughly three out of every four high-value, “emergency procurement” contracts the governor’s office has awarded are missing the legally required public documentation,"
His tell…plays with his nose. Or…he just opens his damn mouth!
Another dot com bubble…
He needs to go harder at him. He needs to over talk him and shut him up.
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I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.
Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.