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Ungovernable Ed Walker

@edwalker.bsky.social
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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 · 04/10/2026
I don't know which part of this is more awful. www.npr.org/sections/hea...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So why the military modifications?
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In a park in Paris
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Shithead megadonors couldn't do this without the assistance of anti-democracy creeps on Wall Street. The billionaires and their enablers despise you as much as they despise Trump's base. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-28-...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Neoliberal and centrist Dems still punching left, now channeling Mitch McConnell's attack on Barack Obama's agenda. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Here's the actual image that should be in that post: it's a photo of Charles Sumner, who led the charge for enactment of the Reconstruction Amendments, which I found in his Wikipedia entry.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Todd Blanche understands the sensitive feelings of the ICE goons killing people across the country. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/19/n...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A good lawyer would have pounced on this point. These six rogues have ignored every guardrail on their power, including standing, mootness, and stare decisis, as well as judicial restraint, in their drive to restructure our democracy. Chotiner prefers to let Honig writhe in his own mess.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Mass impeachment. Or you don't have a democracy.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Andrew Jackson's first inauguration. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_i...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Do any Republican senators or representatives think Trump is fit to be President? Doesn't that seem like a plausible question for reporters to ask? open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The applicable provision is the Illinois version of Rule 8.4 of the ABA Model Code Of Professional Conduct. Prosecutors have high responsibility under this Rule. See Comment 7. www.americanbar.org/groups/profe...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
From the Michelangelo Rodin exhibit at the Louvre. Body of Michelangelo by Daniele de Volterra ca. 1565.
 Bust of Michelangelo car. 1565 by Daniele de Volterra.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The WaPo begs to differ.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
AUSA withheld information about a murder warrant in home country of detained immigrant at a habeas hearing. Lacking the knowledge, Judge released him. Trump;s DHS attacked her. Turns out ICE demanded secrecy. He's vanished. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/08/m...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The actual cost of the War on Iran. Does not include the cost of ameliorating the blow to Trump's ego for being the biggest and fastest loser in US history. popular.info/p/the-real-c...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
US Atty for Chicago admits he obtained indictments from a Grand Jury before completing his investigation. He's forced to dismiss cases after imposing personal and financial costs on innocent people. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Surveiled by duck.
Dick staring at camera from pool at the Medici fountain in the Luxembourg Garden. Paris
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Surveiled by duck.
Dick staring at camera from pool at the Medici fountain in the Luxembourg Garden. Paris
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Afternoon at one of my favorite places in Paris; the Medici Fountain in the Luxurious Garden. With a book.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social discusses campaign finance, and the staggering amount of money donated by billionaires to buy elections. Decades of Republican anti-democratic Republicans on SCOTUS gutted campaign finance lawsm leading to this immoral regime. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social offers a history lesson to the cowardly Republican politicians neutered by the Mad King. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
So Netanyahu says the war will take some time. Did he mention that to Trump?
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
And in case you think that's too bloodthirsty (their impure blood will water our fields), here's the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Not all sheep are pastoral.
Tried to get a pic of sheep resting under a tree by a stream in a French field. The sheep charged us, bleating their hostility.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
ICE is killing and wounding us. Holy Speaker Mike is worried someone might say something ugly to the shooters or their families. This is your Republican Party. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/n...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A racist Kavanaugh stop. Attacks on Somali-Americans justify attacking every Black person in the nation. Focusing on Latino people was just the first step for Trump's racist regime. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The Trump-fluffers on SCOTUS love this. Tthey let their special boy get away with attacking democracy in Trump v. US. Lower courts stayed their injunctions barring Trump from randomly imposing tariffs. SCOTUS has sat on the case for months. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...?
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Meaningless nothing from the spineless Susan Collins, whose state is currently under assault by the murderous Trump/Miller goons. Talk but no action. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/n...
I have lots of principles but refuse to act on them unless Trump approves.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In case you were wondering if you are a domestic terrorist, here's the definition. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Robert Kuttner @prospect.org prospect.org/2026/01/27/i...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The US Attorney for Chicago, Andrew Boutros, is a loser. Look at this horrible record on cases coming from ICE/CBP. Only a chump takes the word of ICE/CBP. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The record of Chicago's US Attorney, Andrew Boutrous, is appalling. No fed prosecutor should be bringing cases they can't win. Boutrous and his AUSAs do not meet the ethical and moral standards we are entitled to expect. chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Time for the oil companies and others to enter the Trump Venezuelan Oil Bribery Games.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Trump will pardon all of his criminals, and John Roberts and the Fash Five have pardoned Trump, so how the hell is Congress supposed to insure compliance with laws? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Judge Ellis kindly listed the weapons the ICE goons and the other thugs use against my fellow Chicago residents.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
From the order, a handy list of weapons ICE goons deploy against my fellow Chicagoans.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The judge is not thrilled with Bovino. Apparently sua sponte she increased the time he must sit for depositions. The pics in this article are shocking. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is a hot judge. She already extended the time that thug has to sit for depositions from 2 to 5 hours apparently sua sponte. The plaintiffs will be ready to cross-examine him. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This is Wheelbarrow. He’s about 20 years old and about 15 poudsds. He likes people food.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
AI is making us stupid. Think what it's doing to the kids. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Texas National Guard troops are "protecting" the ICE facility in Broadview IL, near Chicago. news.wttw.com/2025/10/09/n...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Well, ducks have already become tape. i5.walmartimages.com/asr/f36388e7...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Vampire generated by AI. AT Jeu de Paume. Are we impressed?
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
CNN: it's a "brazen breach of Senate protocol" to violate a Senate Tradition that nobody ever heard of. Repub Senators: we can't release the Epstein Files because Protocol! Non-pedophile Americans: if that's what it takes to out rich pedos, then it's great.
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The District Court made extensive findings of fact. Kavanaugh made up his own. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This is from a WaPo description of the District Court opinion. Kavanaugh says that there's a law and a rule, so the Constitution doesn't. matter. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Kavanaugh explains that if you have a statute and a rule, the Constitution doesn't matter. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Ungovernable Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Kavanaugh says a statute + a rule > the Constitution.
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