DDMcGrooves
@ddmcgrooves.bsky.social
Public Defender. Sports fanatic. Family guy.
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The transcript of the MN hearing where an AUSA said “This job sucks” is remarkable for more reasons than that. It’s a searing portrait of a crisis perpetrated by depraved & oblivious high-level officials. Read it all. ...
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www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
19-TS of 020326 hearing - Segundo APG v. Bondi, 26-CV-603
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February 5, 2026 at 1:52 AM
The transcript of the MN hearing where an AUSA said “This job sucks” is remarkable for more reasons than that. It’s a searing portrait of a crisis perpetrated by depraved & oblivious high-level officials. Read it all. ...
1/7
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
1/7
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe.
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
Fixing the $12 Billion Lie
How Mayor Mamdani Plans to Fix NYC's Existential Budget Crisis—And Why It Affects Every Single American Nationwide
www.qasimrashid.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:20 PM
2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe.
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
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I recently put together a list of essential @bsky.app starter packs for every major (and not-so-major) sport.
No one can check out this site and whine about a lack of sports anymore. No more excuses!
badfaithtimes.com/your-guide-t...
No one can check out this site and whine about a lack of sports anymore. No more excuses!
badfaithtimes.com/your-guide-t...
Your Guide To Bluesky, The Official App of Sports
Using the power of sports, we can extract people from the society-destroying influence of Elon Musk
badfaithtimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I recently put together a list of essential @bsky.app starter packs for every major (and not-so-major) sport.
No one can check out this site and whine about a lack of sports anymore. No more excuses!
badfaithtimes.com/your-guide-t...
No one can check out this site and whine about a lack of sports anymore. No more excuses!
badfaithtimes.com/your-guide-t...
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if the Indiana Hoosiers just won the college football national championship, in football, you can make a difference in your local politics
there are some people in my replies showing how UNinvolved they are saying PROGRESSIVES CAN'T WIN RED DISTRICTS -- and like.... not right away, probably. But we flipped the school board. We got bike lanes. We pressured a mayor to order the local PD not to help ICE. Local politics isn't ONE election.
January 20, 2026 at 5:49 PM
if the Indiana Hoosiers just won the college football national championship, in football, you can make a difference in your local politics
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Doc Rivers, Steve Kerr, the T-Wolf fans, Sportsguy Nick Wright. More please. Let’s go sports world. You want to see brave? Be an immigrant walking to work in Minneapolis. That’s brave. You just have to say “state murder is bad.” It’s not fucking hard and it’s needed from all corners.
Doc Rivers: "What happened in Minnesota was a straight-up murder"
January 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Doc Rivers, Steve Kerr, the T-Wolf fans, Sportsguy Nick Wright. More please. Let’s go sports world. You want to see brave? Be an immigrant walking to work in Minneapolis. That’s brave. You just have to say “state murder is bad.” It’s not fucking hard and it’s needed from all corners.
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
@pdefenselesspod.bsky.social discovered your pod today because you had two of my colleagues from Las Vegas on. Then I heard in the first five minutes you also have a dachshund.
Instant follow.
Instant follow.
January 8, 2026 at 3:59 AM
@pdefenselesspod.bsky.social discovered your pod today because you had two of my colleagues from Las Vegas on. Then I heard in the first five minutes you also have a dachshund.
Instant follow.
Instant follow.
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Everyone is talking about the headlines in the Maduro indictment.
Very few are talking about the legal gymnastics inside it—especially flight allegations, terrorism designations, and immunity workaround.
I read the whole thing. Here’s what DOJ is actually doing.
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Very few are talking about the legal gymnastics inside it—especially flight allegations, terrorism designations, and immunity workaround.
I read the whole thing. Here’s what DOJ is actually doing.
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Objection: The Maduro Indictment, Read Closely
Breaking Down the Maduro Indictment: What DOJ Actually Alleged—and What It Is Stretching to Claim
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Everyone is talking about the headlines in the Maduro indictment.
Very few are talking about the legal gymnastics inside it—especially flight allegations, terrorism designations, and immunity workaround.
I read the whole thing. Here’s what DOJ is actually doing.
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Very few are talking about the legal gymnastics inside it—especially flight allegations, terrorism designations, and immunity workaround.
I read the whole thing. Here’s what DOJ is actually doing.
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria are all in Trump’s gunsights. Turns out that together, the 3 countries also hold almost a third of the world’s oil reserves.
Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.
Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.
December 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
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This is Dino. He is not just "going through a dinosaur phase." Obviously, it is a lifestyle. 12/10 (IG: dinoandluka)
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is Dino. He is not just "going through a dinosaur phase." Obviously, it is a lifestyle. 12/10 (IG: dinoandluka)
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Remember that little boy who cried uncontrollably because he wanted A’ja Wilson to come to his house??? He got to MEET her and I cannot deal… 🥹😭❤️ #WNBA
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Remember that little boy who cried uncontrollably because he wanted A’ja Wilson to come to his house??? He got to MEET her and I cannot deal… 🥹😭❤️ #WNBA
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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Forget about politics & policy, Americans have lots of trouble understanding basic demographic information about their own country. YouGov did a survey in 2022 asking Americans basic demographic questions like what % of the country is white, Hispanic, are transgender, etc. and the results are WILD.
October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Forget about politics & policy, Americans have lots of trouble understanding basic demographic information about their own country. YouGov did a survey in 2022 asking Americans basic demographic questions like what % of the country is white, Hispanic, are transgender, etc. and the results are WILD.
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I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.
Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
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i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
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Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.
October 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.
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Aaron Judge is hitting .524 with a 1.345 OPS in the postseason. The Yankees may still get bounced tonight but he’s been the least of their problems
October 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Aaron Judge is hitting .524 with a 1.345 OPS in the postseason. The Yankees may still get bounced tonight but he’s been the least of their problems
How do you know someone is undocumented by looking at them? Don’t answer. We know.
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
How do you know someone is undocumented by looking at them? Don’t answer. We know.
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When two Democratic Minnesota state representatives were assassinated, the right's response was basically "Oh, gee, that's too bad jk lol." And then the media memory-holed it.
Don't fall for their trap. It's ok to keep thoughts to yourself.
Also, guns are bad.
Don't fall for their trap. It's ok to keep thoughts to yourself.
Also, guns are bad.
September 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
When two Democratic Minnesota state representatives were assassinated, the right's response was basically "Oh, gee, that's too bad jk lol." And then the media memory-holed it.
Don't fall for their trap. It's ok to keep thoughts to yourself.
Also, guns are bad.
Don't fall for their trap. It's ok to keep thoughts to yourself.
Also, guns are bad.
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Take the subway to college football games instead of your car to help fight the Nazis is a hell of a promotion.
it’s 1942, which college football game should we go to on the subway?
September 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Take the subway to college football games instead of your car to help fight the Nazis is a hell of a promotion.
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used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...