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California Attorney. Ginger. Wonk.

The horrors persist but so do I.
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Well this seems to fit with the times.
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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"This inquiry is not some academic exercise. Approximately 137 men were spirited out of this country without a hearing and placed in a high-security prison in El Salvador, where many suffered abuse and possible torture, despite this Court’s order." —Judge Boasberg
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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So the US just hijacked an oil tanker and the president casually says “I guess we keep the oil”

Is this not just theft
December 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Chief Justice John Roberts: Why don’t we make the most powerful criminal in the world invincible?
December 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Read this on air to @sifill.bsky.social tonight.
Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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And even if you're right, the punishment for drug smuggling isn't death.
Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
December 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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can we skip to the part where the union dissolves or there’s a new constitutional convention or something this is exhausting
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Witch: You will be one of the most famous Chief Justices ever.

Roberts: Wow!

Witch: Oh, not in that way.
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Need to hear some beauty.

youtu.be/EKkzbbLYPuI?...
Lindsey Stirling - Carol of the Bells (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Lindsey Stirling
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery. But that amendment came with a sinister loophole: a Slavery Clause that allowed for slavery “as punishment for crime.”

We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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In case you missed it...
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
December 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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She seems nice
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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"The Attorney General of the United States has set a new low for this committee," Whitehouse said.

Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Captain Kelly says, "Bring it. My boots have more time in service than you."
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.

"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Do you feel a sudden sense of fear & uncertainty, as if your life is upended?

That you might lose your health insurance & have to update your resume & apply for jobs in a terrible market?

Did you think your job was secure only to find out it’s not?

Oh no. Anyway

www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
They've also reassigned a ton of JAGs to serve as immigration judges and special AUSAs.
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM