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Buddy Spell

@buddyspell.bsky.social
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New Orleans born & raised, girl dad, retiring felony defense lawyer, dissident, anti-fascist, Deadhead, rugby, Lego, reader of books. #TNRT “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” - Charles Bukowski

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 9h
The Warden of Delaney Hall, the subject of allegations of abuse & neglect, has lent his name & likeness to an org founded by a woman doing 9 years in federal prison for a forced labor sex cult & who's in the Epstein Files. Why oversight of detention centers is so critical. youtu.be/uCy71zDQVZw?...
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SHOCKING Epstein Connection EXPOSED Between DISTURBING Cult & Trump ICE Facility!?!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h
Spain. France. India. Chile. Different countries, different demands-but one common thread: a generation that refuses to stay silent. Young people are taking to the streets for education, for their future, and against decisions they cannot accept. USA needs to wake TF up
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Annie Spell @anniespell.bsky.social · 10h
"At the Jena [Louisiana] facility, they reported that there had been detainee deaths, people being shackled for more than 24 hours, contaminated food, filthy cells and bathrooms, physical abuse ..., and the use of solitary confinement as retaliation." from @veritenews.org article
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
muellershewrote.com
EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is one example of how a crowd-control confrontation can develop. Police charges can unfold differently depending on the situation, and a police line may reposition or pull back when the crowd does not respond as expected. STAND YOUR GROUND!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Keep up the fight! Demanding justice for the Minnesota 15 and all anti ICE protesters - drop the charges ICE OUT NOW Minneapolis, Minnesota
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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Annie Spell @anniespell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New Orleans Claiborne Planned Parenthood Louisiana is reopened and providing in-person and telehealth services.
Planned Parenthood Louisiana building front
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hundreds of protestors are in the streets of downtown Minneapolis to stand up for the Minnesota 15, demanding justice for all victims of ICE terror.
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Bruce Scott @brucescott55.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The White House will never be secure from RIS SIGINT. In 1987, when new construction of US Embassy Moscow was riddled with KGB bugs, it was abandoned, so is the end of our WH.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.” - Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A group of interfaith leaders in California is marching 96 miles from an ICE processing center in the Mojave Desert to Downtown L.A. to protest ICE and demand a shutdown of "all detention centers."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Watch ICE goons threaten to pepper spray a man they hold down on the ground in New Brunswick, New Jersey this morning
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026
spoken like a guy found liable of sexual assault
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Astoundingly dishonest, fragile little man who consistently and mistakenly believes he's the smartest guy in the room.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Local community activists and faith leaders from Louisiana and beyond marched and prayed Thursday at the fenced-off barracks and trailers at the airpark site where the Trump Administration is preparing to open a privately-run facility to hold children..." religionnews.com/2026/10/02/a...
religionnews.com
As ICE readies Louisiana facility for children and families, faith leaders hold vigil
ALEXANDRIA, La. (RNS and Verite News) — Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up deportations, the facility — which will hold unaccompanied minors and families — is situated beside an air...
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We were there Thursday.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is psychosis. The president of the United States is psychotic. Is the media going to start talking about this, or continue to normalize it?
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.laurenjewett.com jamieforlouisiana.com
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This cannot stand.
thequeenzone.com
New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Alabama lawmaker and Satsuma school board president arrested on charges of human trafficking | WKRG.com
Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Oct. 2, 2026 ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — Alabama State Representative Brett Easterbrook and Satsuma City School Board President Kory Wesley were arre…
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026
"At the end of the day, this may be the hardest thing for people like us to accept: The free world now views America as a threat. The free world is right to. And no one, or two, or three elections will change that." ICYMI:
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Canada Is Making America Its B*tch
The story of how a crafty middle power pantsed a moronic superpower.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
San Francisco is my favorite city I've never visited. Given my politics and my taste in music, one would think that I would have made a trip there by now. It's on my bucket list and I think I have time. ONWARD, San Fransisco!
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nazi scumbags.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He had already surrendered. Video captured today in Oasis, California shows a federal goons kneeling on a man he threw to the ground while tasing him. This whole time the man is surrendering.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Fred Hampton Free Store in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward.
veritenews.org
Thrift Store. Clinic. Roller Rink. Center becomes ‘radical’ lifeline amid homelessness, drug crises.
Located in the Lower 9th Ward, this abandoned building has become a community sanctuary and resource.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Suuuuper interesting, I was not tracking this. The judge found the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is a voter qualification statute, and therefore outside of Congress’s power. Surprisingly, this is an issue of first impression! Decision is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The best reading of the actual statute that underpins this criminal case yields an inescapable
conclusion: 18 U.S.C. S 611 is a voter qualification statute, and the Constitution does not authorize
Congress to legislate voter qualifications for federal elections. Except for very specific constitutional
provisions (that cannot support this statute; we will go through them, Congress has no power to say
who can vote or who cannot vote in federal elections-that foundational power is reserved for the States,
and limits Congress.
Some legal principles are so fundamental that they form American constitutional bedrock, and
this case reveals a big one: When you're prosecuted based on a law that Congress did not have the
authority to pass, the prosecution cannot stand. That principle in federal law harkens back to cases
like Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 180 (1803), and United States v. Hudson, 11 U.S. 32, 34 (1812), and
has had explicit and unbroken support in criminal cases since Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 376-77
(1879) ("An unconstitutional law is void, and is as no law. An offence created by it is not a crime. A
conviction under it is not merely erroneous, but is illegal and void, and cannot be a legal cause of
imprisonment."). The principle is so fundamental that it even predates our constitutional republic; it
lies at the very heart of our constitutional heritage. See, e.g., Bayard v. Singleton, 1 N.C. 5, 9-10 (1787) (striking down a legislative act as unconstitutional and holding that a court cannot enforce an
unconstitutional law in any type of proceeding). This principle acts as a shield for every person facing
criminal prosecution in the United States, citizen and non-citizen alike. That shield protects the
Defendant here, and none of the Government's arguments break through it.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This was always going to happen. Fascists detest criticism.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yikes! New partially unsealed court filing in a @protectdemocracy.org case shows ICE has been dumping protester photos, license plate numbers, and other info into Palantir database. Via @wired.com www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
jamieforlouisiana.com
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There was a small, but vibrant, punk scene in New Orleans around 1977-1982. If you were part of that, you don't want to miss this show. Tickets are going fast.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Snow flake AF.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Do Wah Diddy Diddy
YouTube video by Manfred Mann - Topic
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's going to be a push, but there's a lot of energy in this campaign across the state. Jamie seems to be all over the place; everywhere at once. Out of an abundance of caution, you might look into renting a defibrillator. Fingers crossed.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keep an eye on Jamie Davis running for US Senate in Louisiana. We may be the November surprise.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Weirder and weirder every day that passes.
politico.com
Musk-led war commission triggers alarms in Pentagon
Two of the Defense Department’s biggest contractors will help lead a project that could directly benefit them.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keep an eye on Jamie Davis running for US Senate in Louisiana. We may be the November surprise.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
Republicans are pulling money out of North Carolina to defend KANSAS. That’s bleak af for them and I Iove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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Annie Spell @anniespell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
MAGA Louisiana Gov Jeff Landry hiding Meta data center and SpaceX information in 300+ NDAs and giving away billions in tax benefits has done nothing to move Louisiana from it's highest poverty rate (double the national average), but voting against Republicans will.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That ain't right.
lagniappemobile.com
Mobile won’t charge for Trump rally security detail
Potentially substantial payroll costs in order to host President Donald Trump securely this Friday for a Republican campaign event will be covered with local funds, city officials say.
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Annie Spell @anniespell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bearing witness to Child Detention at England Airpark in Alexandria, Louisiana today after a prayer walk to the building interning babies, children, single females and single mothers. In community with Erin Tracy, friends, clergy, Free Families @buddyspell.bsky.social holds "Los Vemos" sign.
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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Therein lies the sport.
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