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Ungovernable Ed Walker

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I read a lot of books, Some of them are interesting enough to write about at emptywheel.net. Retired lawyer. Currently reading After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. Avatar: detail from Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden by Masaccio.

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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 52m
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 8h
The Roberts Majority says this is well within the core executive power, and if the president does it it's not a crime. Or at least you stupid citizens can't expect any accountability. Also, no accountability for the unAmerican SCOTUS majority. Excrpt impeachment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump campaign ads paid with public money violate federal law, critics say
White House has labeled ads ‘public service announcements’ and has responded defiantly to criticism
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 10h
I guess if you have no morals you don't mind working for immoral companies. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/29/b...
bostonglobe.com
ICE to buy modified Boston Dynamics robot dogs in $1.3 million contract - The Boston Globe
The agency inked the deal with Connecticut company Radeco, which modifies the original machines with military grade add-ons that include a robotic arm, thermal camera, and sensors for explosive materi...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 11h
The Roberts Majority is the ultimate death panel Letting Trump and Stephen Miller send people to war-torn countries where they don't speak the language is a death sentence for an unknown number of human beings. Blood runs thickly out the doors and down the stairs at the Supreme Court.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Segall writes: " But until the American public sees the Court in a fundamentally different way, not because of disagreement with decisions, but as an institution defective in original design, the chances of success are slim." Impeaching the Roberts Six will focus attention on the problem.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It was the Cornell student paper, with an editorial board that appears to be all women, that first named the rapists and REFUSED to let the story die.
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Kristin Louise Raught Photography 🌀 @kristinlraught.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Last night’s Harvest Moon over Seattle. The clouds made it feel even more dramatic as it rose above the Space Needle and the Cascades. Also called the Corn Moon, this is the full moon closest to the autumn equinox.
Orange Harvest Moon behind wispy clouds above Seattle’s Space Needle and skyline, with the Cascade Mountains in the background.
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FunkmasterP @funkmasterp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gas and diesel reach record high prices. trump admin: Not high enough, let's make cars and trucks LESS EFFICIENT. 🙄
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Last year David Brooks read After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre, and wrote about it. I wonder if Brooks ever read anything without making it fit his priors.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SCOTUS continues it's drive to upset the election in Missouri. The critical thing is not people, voting, or democracy. The critical thing is giving Thomas and Alito lots of time to rant and rave in a pointless dissent. Because their traditions are the only thing that matters.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In related news, Trump gifted Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett with invitations to a very fancy party honoring another autocrat.
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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dear Judge Kelly, Trump and the White House are literally spitting in your face. Try to grow a backbone.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All Republicans fall prostrate before their King, shouting I do love you with all my heart and soul and wallet!
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Roberts Majority supports chaos in Missouri. Very supreme.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chicago looking for a Subway Series: White Sox and Cubs clinch play-offs within minutes of each other!
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This mess brought to you by John Roberts and his crazy majority. And by your Missouri Republican Party: screwing things up for personal gain since forever.
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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Things Trump has said about men's bodies: "Look at this guy. Look at the muscles on this guy." "You are a handsome devil. He's a good-looking guy." "Now, if you rip off the jacket, you'll see the muscles are serious." "He's so strong. He has those muscles."
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
*screenshotting this story so the doctor stops making me do homework*
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”
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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, according to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social it was NOT a credible source.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tommy should ask his good buddy and fellow crazy person Sean Duffy to rid us of this terrifying thing.
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
motherjones.com
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At Emptywheel.net I've been writing a series explaining why we should impeach the six Repub partisans on SCOTUS. For the doubters and skeptics, this is a revealing book review. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
How the Supreme Court seized power to rule over the rest of us
A false mythology put the justices on top. The people could knock them down.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Your regular reminder that Elon only has power because Wall Street bankers sho d his shitty stock into our retirement funds.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interesting, but what about the lawyers? why would they risk professional discipline and personal exposure with this nutty case?
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
They even made DoorDash apologize.
DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fun 🧵 for lawyers.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
nbcnews.com
Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These polls make it easier for fence sitters to jump to Blue. A lot of people vote like their fellow Church goers, or members of local groups. If they think everyone is dump Trump, it makes it easy for them to do the same.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This will continue until the Courts slap the crap out of the lawyers who file this crap.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When I look at this poll I realize I live in a kind of bubble. Kamala Haarris for Pres? That has to be name recognition and lack of attention. Right? www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-dem...
liberalcurrents.com
What Are Democrats Thinking?
Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Look, it’s bad that Trump’s war in Iran has pushed gas prices up to historic highs, but it’s a small price to pay for not releasing the Epstein Files.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...
reuters.com
Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People know who's benefiting from Trump;s corrupt regime and they want accountability. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
‘People are pissed off’: anger at the elite and the establishment is fueling this year’s midterms
Coming midterm elections are starting to be framed not as right versus left but instead the ‘well-fed versus the fed-up’
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Concessions don’t work. That’s why the State AGs need to take their case to trial. They've got the Ellisons on the ropes. Protect consumers and workers. Block the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Sign the Petition! noparamountconcessions.com
noparamountconcessions.com
#BlockTheMerger
Twelve state attorneys general sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Concessions don’t protect workers, consumers or creators. Tell the AGs to hold strong and take it to trial. SIGN THE P...
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Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Clarence Thomas and the Roberts Majority on SCOTUS flatly disagree. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Way too many guns around’: experts say firearm access key factor in spate of US family killings
Acts of ‘familicide’ have increased dramatically this year – in the US, the killer is more likely to have easy access to a gun
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Our government is full of little Adolf Eichmanns rushing to do the bidding of the demented old fool and the moral monsters he hired. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Jyellsatclouds @jasonmile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Also the tech people aren't being rational either because it is always about what it will be able to do in the future. Every implementation of it sucks but its in everything on the promise that one day it will not suck. ALSO the people making it are a death cult.
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Spamuel J. Risk @itshard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yeah, the biggest red flag is people who like it seem like self absorbed fascist pieces of shit and people who don’t like it seem smart and cool and chill.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You'd think that after all this time they'd come up with a new lie.
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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You can always count on @jasonleopold.bsky.social to carefully get and mine important FOIA material to produce outstanding reporting.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump's flying monkeys try to hide the potential to formally diagnose Trump's deterioration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science
Participants in Pittsburgh may never learn the results of their cognitive tests – and funding cuts that target ‘DEI’ have the potential to delay vital diagnoses
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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Vichy Dems
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well, in fairness, conservatives don't have the brain power to get a law degree from those liberal law schools with their law books and scholarly professors.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is all that's left of MAGA: Grift upon grift.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“What we’re trying to convey ... we will hold you to account,” Corporation Counsel Mary B. Richardson-Lowry said. “You cannot procure these assets and then not take care of them and cause blight and harm to communities.”
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A judge Trump put on the federal bench blocked his mail ballot rule on Sunday. On Monday the Supreme Court refused to rescue it. By Tuesday he was attacking the justices he appointed, calling the ruling a "bad decision" and describing his own appointees as "merely a shell of their original selves."
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Trump's Own Judge Blocked His Mail Ballot Rule
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
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