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Deb Golden

@debgoldendc.bsky.social
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Lawyer. Not your lawyer. Mother. Not your mother. By day (and frankly nights and weekends), a civil rights lawyer for people who are incarcerated. Other times, just exhausted. Washington DC based.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h
Time for this classic again.
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Anna Maltese @annamaltese.bsky.social · 16h
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Juan C Chavez @inafutureage.bsky.social · 18h
We’re even passive-voicing the police shooting their own dog.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
His defense was that he took the money, but lied to the briber that he was going to do anything. Seems like there should have been other charges brought, but I am no crim law expert.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some bright news in these dark times.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a GIF
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Heathers Croquet Game
Alt: Heathers Croquet Game
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DC politics time: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Tell Brooke Pinto: No Guard Outside Our Schools
As DC parents and caregivers with kids at several different schools we are alarmed by how the National Guard and other heavily-armed federal law enforcement agencies are congregating in large numbers ...
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's so much to cover about the Western Mass lesbian bar, but no one seems to have mentioned the "volunteers" at the for-profit business. FLSA would like a word.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How does one sleep the night before oral arguments? Just curious
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lmao, love reading First Amendment caselaw
screenshot of a court opinion summarizing Tennessee caselaw on profanity and disorderly conduct. One cite reversed a conviction for disorderly conduct “when the defendant, driving past the police station, called to the officer, ‘sooey’”
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have to admit that a benefit of the pandemic is that it's now standard to be able to watch a court cattle call from the comfort of my own home, as I wait for the one case I need to observe.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The emotional journey from "I've totally got a winnable legal point" through "OMG I'm so stupid, they opposing party is right that I'm just incapable of understanding law" and back to "no, truth and justice are on my side."
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am not really built for appellate arguments, yet I have one on Thursday. I am reviewing the record until my eyes bleed.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have not responded to the email that you sent me and which you probably spent awhile writing Forgive me it was so long and my executive functioning is completely shot
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By any chance, is this your car parked for the H Street festival?
Smooshed carVolvo with VA plate
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Neagley is mindlessly enjoyable, but the backstory for the villain is just comical. Laughably insane.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Graphic Design is NOT my passion. But I'm running an ad in Prison Legal News about this problem. PLN isn't flashy, but if you want to get information out to the US prison population, it's about the best. LMK what you all think?

FRAUD ALERT
Scammers Are Impersonating Prisoners' Rights Lawyers

Scammers are contacting incarcerated people and their families, falsely claiming to represent Golden Law, in order to steal money. Protect yourself — here's how to tell:

SIGNS SOMEONE IS IMPERSONATING GOLDEN LAW
- Real emails from us only come from @debgoldenlaw.com — never Gmail, Yahoo, or any other domain
- We never ask for payment before a signed representation agreement
- We never ask for payment through Cash App, Venmo, or similar apps, or in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency

VERIFY ANY LAWYER — NOT JUST US
Every real lawyer has a bar number and is listed on their state bar's website. Ask for it, and check it, before sending money or personal information.

HOW TRUST ACCOUNTS WORK
Real lawyers keep client funds in a separate account regulated by the bar, often through platforms like LawPay or Confido — never a personal account, cash app, or crypto wallet.

Not sure a message is really from us? Call before you send anything:

(202) 630-0332

Golden Law • 700 Pennsylvania Ave SE, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003
debgoldenlaw.com
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you've been following the fall out of the sex abuse ring at the federal women's prison, FCI Dublin -- another officer was just charged with abuse of two women: www.ktvu.com/news/11th-fc...
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11th FCI Dublin officer charged with sex crimes, even though prison closed
The Department of Justice has charged the 11th correctional officer at the now-closed FCI Dublin women's prison with sex crimes, roughly two years after the facility closed and been left vacant.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you want a sense of how integral the Kennedy Center is to the DC skyline, watch this landing video. It’s the first thing people see when crossing the Potomac from Virginia. This is what Trump wants to demolish because he can’t put his name on it.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
20 year old me would be gobsmacked that I am legally married. And that I had adjusted at Georgetown, a law school she wasn't even applying to bc it explicitly discriminated against queer people. And I think impressed with the career I've been able to have. Disappointed that I cut my hair.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A discredited experiment now used as an example of unethical research design? Let's make it reality TV! No pesky IRB. High probably of psychological or physical injury. Yay!
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happened again today. Got a call from someone double checking below they sent money by Cashapp to someone claiming they could help their imprisoned loved one. I hope no one is falling for this.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Content Creator is the strangest "job" title.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/09/2026
"Character development is a wonderful thing therefore it should be present in all books" makes as much sense as "chocolate is a wonderful ingredient therefore it should be present in all dishes". Sushi would disagree.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
On the suggestion of a friend, I'm listening to a pop culture podcast about a legal case. It's a good window to understanding how normal people understand legal proceedings. Which is not how lawyers understand them.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Do not do this. In any house of worship.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Got married in 2008. Our caterer told us the formulas they used to estimate how many people would show up based on number invited went up after 2001. We realized life is unfairly short, and so we have to show up and dance. Remember that.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A lightheaded memory, amid the horror. On 9/11, the phone network in the DMV got overloaded. I'm not sure if the mechanical reasons, but you just couldn't get lines out. I was late for work (per usual), so I was at my apartment in Vienna VA. Although later disproven, there were reports of car
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The bravery of those people on Flight 93, what a debt we owe them
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ParkMobile is the ne plus ultra example of an app that debuted as perfect and has degraded itself with every ‘update.’
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why is ParkMobile, an app that's basically a necessity for me, determined every day to become worse?
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do I know any experts in the ways of Depop? I am new to the app and very much need a shirt I found to wear for oral arguments
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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some days you wake up and find a really strong wikipedia page with first-rate clockwise captioning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_...
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The US government has a lot of broken promises in it's history, but what we did to people who worked with us in Afghanistan is just evil. This story has me in tears this morning. www.npr.org/2026/09/10/n...
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'I'll never trust them again': Some Afghans who helped the U.S. post-9/11 regret it
Soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. launched what would become a 20-year war in Afghanistan. Some Afghans who helped the U.S. prosecute that war regret it.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's a cancer vaccine! A literal miracle made by many hands.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hard to comprehend that half of my post-toddler life has been in the post 9/11 world. I've been thinking about the days immediately after. On the 12th, I told my boss that I didn't understand but I felt like I was walking under water. She told me that was shock. I was in literal shock.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can someone tell me what plant just went into bloom in DC? I need to kill it all with for t
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One of the greatest advances in modern medicine is phenazopyridone. A definite iykyk.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is anyone else watching Spooky in Love and do you know where to buy the suits that Chairwoman Baek wears? The show is delightfully silly, and all the fashion blogs are about Park Eun-bin's outfits. But I'm a middle aged lawyer and I want to dress like Ye Soo-jung!
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Roll it up. Quilting has been won forever. “My father was an alcoholic and I heard all the time, ‘Can’t you do anything right? What’s the matter with you? Can’t you do anything right?’, so with the ribbons, I was like, ‘Oh, I can do something right.’,” Johnson said.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have just returned from Coyote v. Acme and it will enter my personal pantheon on law movies.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Most terrifying thing I've ever read
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Geoffrey Hatchard @imgoph.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
***CAN ANYONE USE A SENIOR TICKET FOR THE MARYLAND RENN FAIR TOMORROW???*** (Saturday, September 5) I have an extra ticket and would rather it doesn't go to waste!
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Some neighbor kids are trying to do ding dong ditch (well, knock knock ditch), but they are soooo bad at it and it's the funiest thing I've seen so far this week.
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ACOG @acog.org · 02/09/2026
We continue to strongly recommend vaccination for COVID-19, RSV and influenza for anyone who is pregnant, postpartum, or contemplating pregnancy during the respiratory virus season. Read the press release: bit.ly/4gykc9J
Statement graphic from ACOG titled, "ACOG Releases 2026–27 Respiratory Virus Season Immunization Recommendations for Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals." The text is a quote from Lead Guidance Author Dr. Kevin Ault emphasizing the importance of passive immunity for newborns and the role of maternal vaccination in protecting infants from serious illness. The background is a gradient of blue to purple.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Correct. People 19 and under should not have babies.
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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Once again, your best friend is not the guy who will back you up in a bar fight. Your best friend is the guy who drags you out of the bar because you’re out of pocket and need to sleep it off.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My kid (Thing One) wants to be a theoretical physicist. Their high school physics teacher told the whole class not to study physics bc there's no money in it. Ma'am, keep your career disappointments to yourself.
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