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Andrea Cabral

@criticalthawt.bsky.social
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Lawyer, 4 legs>2. Me: Weekly on Thursdays@11:45, The Jim & Margery Show 89-7 GBH “A line appears, the Order wanes, [Democracy] falls & Kaos reigns.”

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 1h
This is how the new CBS keeps people from remembering that the longest serving GOP Speaker of the House ultimately went to jail for covering up child rape. Which is apparently always in season.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h
One of the Democratic Party’s most prolific lawyers also is becoming one of its most prolific posters. www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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Exclusive: Marc Elias’ Democracy Docket sees Trump 2.0 success
One of the Democratic Party’s most prolific lawyers also is becoming one of its most prolific posters.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 22h
FFS can we tax billionaires properly-then regulate AI and data centers “Meta..claims..AI data centers are a giant experiment..It does this so it can tap into a tax credit..which Meta embraced to claim billions of dollars..for data center expansion” #BlueWaveIn30Days www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 8h
To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.
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Flingjore @flingjore.com · 8h
SCOTUS opens a new term stacked with consequential battles over climate liability, taxpayer funding for religious schools, semi-automatic weapon bans and immigration. The Supreme Court increasingly relies on a fast-tracked emergency docket to bypass lower courts and decide major disputes.
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The Supreme Court faces another term jam-packed with controve
The U.S. Supreme Court formally opens a new term on Monday, with big test cases on religion, bans on semi-automatic weapons, climate change, immigration and — waiting in the wings — election law cases.
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kokaneekid.bsky.social @kokaneekid.bsky.social · 21h
Her Xmas card
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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 21h
So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
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FunnyVia @funnyvia.com · 18h
If you can't hide a crime scene, just pretend you are a victim
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21h
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 15h
Nazi Hegseth must go!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Andrea Cabral @criticalthawt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Throughout the history of civilization,👇🏾is a constant truth.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/10/2026
The final results are in and 2026 came in 2nd place behind 2023 for the total number of days with global surface temperature above 16.0°C. 2023: 128 days 2026: 126 days Don't fret. There's always next year ...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.nola.com/news/courts/...
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How ICE plans to speed deportations by holding children, families beside a Louisiana airport
Government documents, interviews with officials and public testimony shed new light on day-to-day operations within the controversial new facility designed to hold undocumented women, families and una...
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Add a few more zeroes, please.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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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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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...
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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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Andrea Cabral @criticalthawt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
liberalcurrents.com
We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FLASHBACK: “You call conflict of interest ‘EXPERIENCE’?” Trump’s son-in-law @jaredkushner was so triggered by the new @CNN piece on his obvious conflicts in Israel that he tweeted for the first time in weeks — so here’s when @60Minutes asked him about it👇🏽🤔
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When a rapist sticks up for other rapists it's called a professional courtesy.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
 ”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being responsive.”
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ICE Agents Use Intimidation Tactics on Bystanders During Arrest in Maplewood - The Village Green
”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being res...
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's just breathtaking; he truly believes he is above any accountability, stealing $20M from *us* via DHS to stroke himself. "Mr. Trump was eager to see the laudatory ads on the air and told Russell T. Vought, the director of the OMB, to come up w/the money from within the govt." 🎁 t2m.co/ex6xWSO
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The former Secretary of State, who took Kim Jong Un uncritically at his word, who got irate that Mary Louise Kelly could find Ukraine on a map and he couldn’t, is getting a teaching fellowship at an Ivy League school. Hm.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 18/09/2026
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So cool that whenever someone asks the president, "did you eat the Lindbergh baby" he's like, "no but I'd be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later"
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
During a sworn deposition on Monday, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) declined to answer repeated questions from one of his ex-wife’s lawyers about whether he pushed a girl down a staircase during high school.
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In a sworn deposition, Rep. Max Miller was silent on staircase assault allegation
"If the incident never occurred, why are you afraid of answering the question?" asked his ex-wife's lawyer.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has an annual salary of $205,000. And he reported "outside income" of $250mn last year, largely based on investments with strong connections to US Government action. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/h...
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reports more than $250 million in income last year
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick unwound his ties to Cantor Fitzgerald as the billionaire financier joined the Trump administration.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Dena @denalentz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE detention, marking the 26th death in ICE custody in 2026.
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Andrea Cabral @criticalthawt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/10/2026
President Trump publicly congratulates company in which President Trump owns shares. www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/u...
Congratulations to the GREAT Boeing Company for producing a plane, the 737 Max, that was able to withstand G Forces and Strain far beyond what it was designed and expected to do. It was an amazing show of precise and powerful structural planning and design. It is about time that The Boeing Company, which builds, by far, the finest commercial airliners in the sky, was given credit for this airplane’s incredible “genius!” To Kelly Ortberg, and all of his officers and associates at Boeing, congratulations on a job well done!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Andrea Cabral @criticalthawt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The fact that they let him buy the space says it all: Corporate media has replaced the free and unfettered press.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump is planning to deliver 40,000 - 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, weapons that prompted such concerns about mass casualties in Gaza that the Biden administration halted their delivery. There is little left to bomb in the ruins of Gaza except PEOPLE. Let that roll around in your head for a while.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth, who has been rebuked by the pope and the leaders of several other churches for a stream of heretical statements (statements inconsistent with Christian theology and dogma), appoints himself the supreme authority over all chaplains serving in the US Armed Forces.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyone who doesn’t see that this is part of a long term plan-not for the midterms, really, but for 2028 and beyond Isn’t paying attention
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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Pete Hegseth appoints national security threat and Nazi owner of CSAM machine to important position.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
Impeach Hegseth on January 3. I don’t care if you don’t have enough senate votes to convict and remove.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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