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Evidence, logic, and reason before partisanship. Also, puns and dirty jokes. You’ll never find the right answers if you don’t ask the right questions. Interests include: ⚖️⚾️🥁🍣🏀✡️🐟🪴
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“The fact that a governmental body can redact more than 1,000 pages of documents that are directly related to a major business’s activities in Texas is certainly problematic,” an attorney specializing in public records said.
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.
Months after fighting to keep secret emails between Gov. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk, Texas officials released 1,400 pages of records. But they reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s i...
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“The fact that a governmental body can redact more than 1,000 pages of documents that are directly related to a major business’s activities in Texas is certainly problematic,” an attorney specializing in public records said.
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
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Rule by Project 2025
Rule by Project 2025 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
It’s so great that the media took Trump’s claims that Project 2025’s architects wouldn’t rule his administration seriously…. The environmental rollbacks came one after the next this week, potentially affecting everything from the survival of rare whales to the health of the Hudson River. On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed to strip federal protections from millions […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Rule by Project 2025
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if you can make a false claim the premise for your argument, then you can conclude anything.
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
if you can make a false claim the premise for your argument, then you can conclude anything.
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Will Democrats Govern by Democratic Principles?
Will Democrats Govern by Democratic Principles? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
If you are Abigail Spanberger and you have the opportunity to sign a bill repealing Virginia’s right to work law that would give labor organizing and thus the Democratic Party a huge boon, the answer is evidently no. Democratic State Senator Jennifer Carroll Foy of Prince William County introduced a bill to repeal provisions in Virginia’s right-to-work law. The right-to-work law […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Will Democrats Govern by Democratic Principles?
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A friend has alerted me to this pressing and very real international incident involving the very sane Candace Owens.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A friend has alerted me to this pressing and very real international incident involving the very sane Candace Owens.
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"Schlossberg’s famous cousin is of course wreaking untold havoc on the people and institutions that are trying to save the lives of people like her" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/a-ba...
A battle with her blood - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This beautifully written essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a granddaughter of JFK via his daughter and her mother Caroline, is both very moving and absolutely enraging. As to the former, it is full of det...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"Schlossberg’s famous cousin is of course wreaking untold havoc on the people and institutions that are trying to save the lives of people like her" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/a-ba...
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Right. As Swin says the lawlessness runs deep. How is it possible that media is covering battle over this video while largely pretending the elephant in the room isn't there?
Of course everyone should be worried about trump and his White House giving illegal orders, they’ve been doing it and plowing forward lawlessly constantly, on things big and small
Even on things as (comparatively) small ball as anti DEI language in contracts: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Even on things as (comparatively) small ball as anti DEI language in contracts: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Right. As Swin says the lawlessness runs deep. How is it possible that media is covering battle over this video while largely pretending the elephant in the room isn't there?
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Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
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One last point. In the Trump Murder Memo (the memo supposedly explaining legal rationale for Trump boat bombings), DOJ's *own lawyers* go out of their way to pre-exonerate lower-level people carrying out those killings. Experts tell me this signals fear *on the inside* that these orders are illegal!
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
One last point. In the Trump Murder Memo (the memo supposedly explaining legal rationale for Trump boat bombings), DOJ's *own lawyers* go out of their way to pre-exonerate lower-level people carrying out those killings. Experts tell me this signals fear *on the inside* that these orders are illegal!
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"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Donald Trump dined with this guy.
(waving to my neighbors as they see me walking out of the porn shop run by Nazis)
“It’s OK! I just come here for sports!”
“It’s OK! I just come here for sports!”
Between this and literal Nazis growing their followings, I just can’t understand why so many lefties are still voluntarily using the platform. I know I’m preaching to the choir, but…
November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Donald Trump dined with this guy.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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An argument that didn’t work for Calley at My Lai, that didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
An argument that didn’t work for Calley at My Lai, that didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg
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Upset about shitty air travel? You should dress nicer.
Upset about high prices? You should just ignore it.
Upset about bad inflation? You should just move to another state.
Upset about high prices? You should just ignore it.
Upset about bad inflation? You should just move to another state.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Upset about shitty air travel? You should dress nicer.
Upset about high prices? You should just ignore it.
Upset about bad inflation? You should just move to another state.
Upset about high prices? You should just ignore it.
Upset about bad inflation? You should just move to another state.
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Hang onto these pictures because Hegseth will have the offending sign removed as soon as he sobers up today.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hang onto these pictures because Hegseth will have the offending sign removed as soon as he sobers up today.
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Once again, I remind you that this woman cannot be allowed anywhere near the strategy or leadership of the Democratic Party:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
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Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
Slotkin: "He's trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, the Epstein files and economy. He's tweeting 'the economy is the best it's ever been' -- amazing considering the public isn't stupid. It reminded me of Joe Biden. Biden tried to tell us for a year that the economy was great."
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Once again, I remind you that this woman cannot be allowed anywhere near the strategy or leadership of the Democratic Party:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
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more like WOKE point
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
more like WOKE point
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Pure, unadulterated sociopathy
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Pure, unadulterated sociopathy
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People heard the economy was terrible, & people are partisans. And people get angry at incumbents. These are the actual stories about the Biden economy. Most of the material things didn't really matter, which explains the unprecedented gap between the material state of things & consumer sentiment:
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
People heard the economy was terrible, & people are partisans. And people get angry at incumbents. These are the actual stories about the Biden economy. Most of the material things didn't really matter, which explains the unprecedented gap between the material state of things & consumer sentiment:
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It was unpopular to say this. We twisted ourselves into all kinds of silly theories about why the economy was bad & shifted all kinds of goalposts that we'd never shifted before in decades past. All to avoid talking about the actual reason folks thought the economy was unprecedentedly terrible:
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It was unpopular to say this. We twisted ourselves into all kinds of silly theories about why the economy was bad & shifted all kinds of goalposts that we'd never shifted before in decades past. All to avoid talking about the actual reason folks thought the economy was unprecedentedly terrible:
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During an immigration raid on a Chicago apartment building, Johandry José Andrade Jiménez said his three little girls wailed when agents threw him against the floor.
Naudelys Yeyes said she pleaded with agents to stop hitting a man she knew.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
Naudelys Yeyes said she pleaded with agents to stop hitting a man she knew.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show
Detained and deported Venezuelans tell their stories of what happened when immigration agents raided their apartment building.
www.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
During an immigration raid on a Chicago apartment building, Johandry José Andrade Jiménez said his three little girls wailed when agents threw him against the floor.
Naudelys Yeyes said she pleaded with agents to stop hitting a man she knew.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
Naudelys Yeyes said she pleaded with agents to stop hitting a man she knew.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
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The crimes are happening everywhere, all the time. We’re going to learn about staggering amounts of corruption.
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The crimes are happening everywhere, all the time. We’re going to learn about staggering amounts of corruption.
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
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You don’t have to like Nuzzi or approve of her conduct to understand that Lizza’s choice to publish the material that he is publishing is meant to sexually humiliate her in public in retaliation for disappointing him romantically. The term for that is revenge porn.
ryan lizza is a bad person
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
You don’t have to like Nuzzi or approve of her conduct to understand that Lizza’s choice to publish the material that he is publishing is meant to sexually humiliate her in public in retaliation for disappointing him romantically. The term for that is revenge porn.