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@dan4ucla.bsky.social
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Lawyer. Trekkie. Proud progressive committed to preserving (and one day improving) the constitution. UCLA ‘93. @Mets @NYRangers

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 12/08/2025
A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2025
absolutely horrifying: "Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer."
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Sources say two Minnesota lawmakers have been shot
Sources have told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS' Tom Hauser that two Minnesota Lawmakers have been shot.
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Let's all be the rain on this motherfucker's parade. #NoKings #NoKingsDay
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13/06/2025
At the brink of war, our military is being led by an incompetent drunk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUo...
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Man Child
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/06/2025
Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and Trump didn't call in the National Guard.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2025
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.
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dan4ucla.bsky.social @dan4ucla.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Hegseth is a racist, homophobic POS.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“.. it’s unclear why the children were zip-tied during their detention or why they were detained at all.” @mysanantonio.com www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I don't know if there is a more appropriate goodbye to Loretta Swit, than her last scene in MASH in the series finale. Loretta won two Emmy's for her role as Major Houlihan.
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dan4ucla.bsky.social @dan4ucla.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
My brother passed away from AIDS over 30 years ago - right before the emergence of more powerful antiretroviral drugs that helped control HIV. We are dealing with people who have no values other than greed and power. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/05/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2025
i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve
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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you want to hear a worthy commencement address, I suggest you listen to former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh’s address to GW Law’s graduates. It starts at minute 55.
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2025 GW Law Diploma Celebration
YouTube video by George Washington University Law School
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dan4ucla.bsky.social @dan4ucla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Bingo.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Saying that the Library of Congress should only have books appropriate for children is a mind-boggling statement, even in the present moment. Just an embarrassing admission that you know nothing about anything.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I’m not sure how Duffy can fix any of the issues with air travel when he’s on Fox 24/7 complaining about it and blaming other people. STFU for 5 minutes and do your job! This isn’t a reality TV show - people’s lives and livelihoods are in the hands of these unqualified dipshits.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is what the start of an economic collapse looks like. #BlameTrump
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.
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Ian Landsman @ianlandsman.com · 27/04/2025
We're almost to where it's going to start to get really fun
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💙💙💙💙Blue wave resistance💙💙💙💙 @eliminatethegop.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. This is how prayer works." —Pope Francis
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
What a mess
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
With its latest abuse of power the White House is providing Democrats with clear affirmative acts every Democrat can do to concretely oppose Trump criminality. Donate THROUGH Act Blue. A bit part of this new abuse of power is to scare people off from using Act Blue. Keep using it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“We want to stay in the loop,” the Houthis said.
borowitzreport.com
Houthis Send Friend Request to Hegseth’s Wife
The rebels said that they want to “stay in the loop."
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dan4ucla.bsky.social @dan4ucla.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
In other words, Nosferatu is full of crap.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Protesters in Westerville, Ohio are getting into some good trouble! Thank you for showing up, Ohio!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”
stevevladeck.com
144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/04/2025
This is some sick shit
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/04/2025
NEW: I've read a lot of court documents in my time, but this is one of my new favorites. How a Judge tells a President to F**k Off. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/how-a-judg...
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How a Judge Tells a President to F**k Off
I read a lot of court documents, and I like to highlight some from time to time that really encapsulate the moment we find ourselves in. The latest from the 4th Circuit does it perfectly.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“.. He has been insulated from the consequences of his own actions his entire life and appears to care very little about the economic sinkhole he just created. He shared a video of himself golfing over the weekend ..” - @timobrien.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
S&P 500 down 285 points. @cnbc.com ⛳️
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 03/04/2025
The President’s policies are “liberating” you from your 401(k) and retirement savings.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
WEDBUSH: “.. it is becoming crystal clear this tariff/US policy will cause pure chaos to the global auto industry .. “.. the concept of a US car maker with parts all from the US is a fictional tale that does not exist and would take years to make this concept a reality.” $GM $F $STLA
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Imagine watching other Big Law firms do this, and then choosing to fold anyway.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
wow this SUCKS
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/03/2025
Texted LITERALLY WAR PLANS
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