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Joshua Erlich
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civil rights lawyer, exhausted


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seen some folks asking about lawyers who help federal employees so:

1. obviously, you can call us. we'll try to fit you in considering ~everything~

2. go to MWELA.org. that's the plaintiff's employment bar association in the DMV. go to NELA.org nationally. search for lawyers who do federal work.
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Tish James said Lis Smith worked as an operative for Cuomo, ruining the lives of the women who came forward about Andrew’s alleged harassment.

Why are @democrats.org like Mallory McMorrow still working with her? This is a reflection ON THEM as CANDIDATES.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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There are @joshuaerlich.bsky.social -coded posts everywhere, for those with eyes to see.
TREBEK: something my date asked even after i leaned over to helpfully point out who this title character is

ME: what’s chappie?

TREBEK: you’re on the board
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Not even Ezra Klein thinks that Schumer did politics the right way on this one.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
realizing that FANTASTIC FOUR and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER both have elements that pivot on the question “what time is it?”

in this essay,
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
getting outplayed by god’s most dim witted soldier
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
this definition of moderate just means “I think I’m right but not because I’m an ideologue”

it puts no weight on the actual belief you’re espousing. it’s all about how people react to the belief.
Self-described “moderates” and mainlining right-wing bullshit and lies. Name a more iconic duo.
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
AI air traffic control diverting planes to avoid hitting santa
TRUMP: US TO LAUNCH NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM WITHIN 2–3 WEEKS
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
this is *exactly* the same idiocy as when Musk killed 2FA because he said most of the emails don't get a response. that's the point!
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
i'm not clicking but i don't think this one is going to be sound advice, folks
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
more like angus vassal

got his ass
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
lol we’re so cooked
When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Members fly and the donors and people close to them fly a LOT. My first thought when I’d heard they were caving
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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What are you talking about? There are no recent examples we can point to suggesting such a thing.
Democrats didn't call witnesses because 'people want to get home for Valentine‘s Day': report
More information is coming out about the decision by House impeachment managers to refrain from calling witnesses during Donald Trump's Senate trial.On Saturday, the Senate voted 55-45 to allow witnes...
www.rawstory.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
yes, stopping members from traveling home is famously a sort of leverage used in these fights. what are you even trying to say?
The insinuation here is that some members might cave because they were personally inconvenienced and not like for example the fed unions getting nervous.
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
what
Like this bullshit
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
would be a shame if people called venues the way they did for Jeffries’ book tour
John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
ffs *I’m sorry* that our chimerical AI doesn’t meet your beauty standards. pure misogyny. smdh.
Say what you will about AI actress Tilly Norwood, but I think she's adorable. She has a real "mutant next door" look.
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
lol, going to Roy Cohn’s birthday party? not great

going to Roy Cohn’s birthday party *in 1979*? lol lmao
apropos of nothing, here’s a photo of a young chuck schumer attending trump lawyer & confidante (& joe mccarthy associate) roy cohn’s birthday party at studio 54, in 1979
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
McMorrow posting about how she’d to stand on principle while stroking paychecks to Lis Smith lol. ok.
Americans can’t afford this deal.

Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.

A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
considering Musk owns Twitter and presumably everything he does there is, on some level, for the purpose of making money, I just cannot imagine how this video is not illegal commercial appropriation of someone’s image
Musk used Grok to animate Sydney Sweeney to make her say “you are so cringe.”

Not only does it look and sound awful, I don’t think he understands how embarrassing this is for him.
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM