Frank
@frankvaladez.bsky.social
Director, ABA Division for Public Education. Skeptical of everyone, cynical about everything, but not without hope.
1/ We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare,
July 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
1/ We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare,
1/ He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
July 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
1/ He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
July 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
July 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
1/ He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
July 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
1/ He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
July 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, [founded] on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
July 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, [founded] on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
July 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
July 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Rough night outside my courtyard, I guess
May 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Rough night outside my courtyard, I guess
I know what you mean.
February 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I know what you mean.
Vacation happy hour at an undisclosed location @chicagobars.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Vacation happy hour at an undisclosed location @chicagobars.bsky.social
Happy hour vacation Boulevardier at undisclosed location @chicagobars.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Happy hour vacation Boulevardier at undisclosed location @chicagobars.bsky.social
Great Lakes Porter at undisclosed location @chicagobars.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Great Lakes Porter at undisclosed location @chicagobars.bsky.social
Remnants of Monarch's Cocoon
January 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Remnants of Monarch's Cocoon
I hope I don’t need the steak knife for the braised spare rib at an undisclosed location @chicagobars.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I hope I don’t need the steak knife for the braised spare rib at an undisclosed location @chicagobars.bsky.social