Stephanie A.
@smdalbrig.bsky.social
Born and raised in Newport News now in the DMV. Denbigh High School, UVA, and Richmond Law. Fair to middling tennis player and lover of dogs.
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Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
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I don’t want to see “experts say Trump can’t pardon a state conviction.”
That’s like “experts say sun rises in east, and some scientists claim water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom.”
It’s just a fact.
He CANNOT do this.
And the media DAMN well better get their coverage right.
That’s like “experts say sun rises in east, and some scientists claim water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom.”
It’s just a fact.
He CANNOT do this.
And the media DAMN well better get their coverage right.
Trump says he's pardoned Tina Peters, but that may not save her from prison
Trump has no jurisdiction over state-level cases to offer the pardon.
www.axios.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I don’t want to see “experts say Trump can’t pardon a state conviction.”
That’s like “experts say sun rises in east, and some scientists claim water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom.”
It’s just a fact.
He CANNOT do this.
And the media DAMN well better get their coverage right.
That’s like “experts say sun rises in east, and some scientists claim water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom.”
It’s just a fact.
He CANNOT do this.
And the media DAMN well better get their coverage right.
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for instance: its been an hour since the treasury secretary said "nothing bad is happening" two weeks before a holiday when families will have higher costs, less to spend, and have probably been laid off. the democrats should be all over it. tweets denouncing it. releases mocking it. etc.
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
for instance: its been an hour since the treasury secretary said "nothing bad is happening" two weeks before a holiday when families will have higher costs, less to spend, and have probably been laid off. the democrats should be all over it. tweets denouncing it. releases mocking it. etc.
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The leaders of Wahoos4UVA making the case that the entire BOV should be removed www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
BROWN AND FORD: U.Va.’s Board of Visitors cannot escape accountability with silence
While the faculty, alumni, students and multiple university organizations call for accountability and demand the resignation of the Board’s leaders, the remaining members of the Board — 11 persons in ...
www.cavalierdaily.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The leaders of Wahoos4UVA making the case that the entire BOV should be removed www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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A song that is still on rotation in my house
The #1 song on the Billboard R&B chart on this day in 1988, "Dial My Heart" by The Boys
🗣I call my baby on the phone....
🗣I call my baby on the phone....
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
A song that is still on rotation in my house
Like my mom and Nanny - if I make dinner and you are at my house, you will be fed. Just unlocked new level of mom status when my daughter’s friend asked to save leftovers for her because she couldn’t make it to dinner but would love it tomorrow.
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Like my mom and Nanny - if I make dinner and you are at my house, you will be fed. Just unlocked new level of mom status when my daughter’s friend asked to save leftovers for her because she couldn’t make it to dinner but would love it tomorrow.
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According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
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sex criminals stick together
🚨 New York Times reports more details than we've had before on how Donald Trump's administration pulled strings to pressure Romania to allow Andrew Tate to travel while he was charged with crimes including trafficking minors and violently beating and raping a 15-year-old girl.
December 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
sex criminals stick together
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“… according to a study in the medical journal The Lancet, 14 million people could die over the next five years because of USAID cuts.” This is the projected death toll from Musk listening to this conspiracy theorist.
Mike Benz, who does not know which finger is his pinky, is now a "special government employee" at USAID, where he is attempting to investigate its "pernicious influence."
You'd think this guy would be too dumb even for the Trump regime. Nope!!!
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
You'd think this guy would be too dumb even for the Trump regime. Nope!!!
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“… according to a study in the medical journal The Lancet, 14 million people could die over the next five years because of USAID cuts.” This is the projected death toll from Musk listening to this conspiracy theorist.
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NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
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"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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From Amnesty International:
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
From Amnesty International:
There is a reason I was not a trial attorney - I knew it wouldn’t be a good fit for me. Apparently, none of Trump’s lawyers had that same realization.
Does Trump's sparklemagic libelslander lawyer Alejandro Brito know how supplemental authorities work? What is this shit?
Hearing tomorrow morning in the case Trump filed against the WSJ for saying he drew boobs 20 years ago. Should be amazing!
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Hearing tomorrow morning in the case Trump filed against the WSJ for saying he drew boobs 20 years ago. Should be amazing!
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
There is a reason I was not a trial attorney - I knew it wouldn’t be a good fit for me. Apparently, none of Trump’s lawyers had that same realization.
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Do they think King Herod was the good guy in the story?
Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA, and US government agencies are sanctioning this as an operating principle on a daily basis:
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Do they think King Herod was the good guy in the story?
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NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer.
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer.
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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Read, people, read.
What’s largely considered a solitary activity can improve communication skills and strengthen empathy and compassion, say experts in mental health and geriatric care.
Older adults are slowly abandoning this hobby — but the health payoff is huge
What’s largely considered a solitary activity can improve communication skills and strengthen empathy and compassion, say experts in mental health and geriatric care.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Read, people, read.
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
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The Constitution: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
The Supreme Court: "We'll clear up this uncertainty!"
The Supreme Court: "We'll clear up this uncertainty!"
December 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The Constitution: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
The Supreme Court: "We'll clear up this uncertainty!"
The Supreme Court: "We'll clear up this uncertainty!"
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This is stomach-turning, and giving Chinese Exclusion Act
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is stomach-turning, and giving Chinese Exclusion Act