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Hannah Abbott

@partyboots.bsky.social
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DOES NOT BITE unless mishandled Philly livin’, SF born. First Amendment lawyer, for my sins. Opinions my own, do not steal

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Hannah Abbott @partyboots.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026
This single episode was a greater assault on free speech, & hurt more people, than *anything that happened during Woke 1*.
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xanadian @xanadian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And this post is how I found out. I'm glad to know. www.them.us/news/gloria-...
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Looking Back on Gloria Steinem’s Turn Toward Transgender Rights
​The late feminist icon spent her later years using her voice for transgender rights.
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Hannah Abbott @partyboots.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Really good thread on the Anderegg decision and the different legal frameworks involved. I think this was clearly the right decision, and I wrote an amicus brief explaining why the First Amendment requires this outcome: www.fire.org/cases/united...
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United States v. Anderegg
When prosecutors appealed dismissal of a possession-of-obscenity count, FIRE joined the First Amendment Lawyers’ Association to explain how every reason it offered had already been considered—and reje...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There's no standing for states to sue over that EO yet because it's just the president of the United States officially proclaiming his order to illegally interference in state elections, and you have to wait and see how and if agencies actually follow what he said first, is pants-on-head lunacy.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
feeling sort of insane seeing brits say that the Arday situation shows the need for tougher 'standards on media' like yeah your tabloids are fucking ghouls, but your libel laws caused this! the causal chain leading to racist with an agenda being the one to break the story here is extremely clear!
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Frankly, I want to divest SCOTUS of jurisdiction to enter *any* orders reversing a lower court without a complete elaboration of the reasons why. They are the least busy judges in America with a self-selected workload. If they can't bother to explain it, they should not do it.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
And as Craig Forman, former McClatchy CEO noted, @jkbjournalist.bsky.social didn’t do it alone. Emily Michot and Casey Frank were integral to the Epstein project. So were company execs who paid almost $1 million plus in legal fees. Compare that to the pusillanimous charlatans at ABC, CBS et al.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
if the Hays Code didn't exist, modern fans would have invented it
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The state’s interest issuing IDs is to have an accaurate way to ensure a person is who they purport to be. Mandating licenses that inaccurately reflect a person’s appearance and public presentment undermines the state’s interest because of a bare desire to harm. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Kansas revokes driver’s licenses from trans residents in latest assault on rights
Law demanding IDs match ‘sex at birth’ also includes bathroom ban provision for trans people in public buildings
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/02/2026
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
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How to stop a dictator
I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.
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Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
In America, we can't eradicate racism with law or policy. But we can make racism shameful again. Doing so is ultimately a political and cultural act, and it must be a conscious one. And it is an important part to restore some semblance of our liberal democracy. /fin
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 11/02/2026
Jeanine Pirro tried to jail six Democratic Congress members for accurately stating the Uniform Code of Military Justice. She will forever be a person who has done that and must always be viewed through that prism.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Denaturalization as criminal punishment is not a thing in American law, it's unconstitutional under any circumstances. It can only be done in the narrow case of somebody who fraudulently obtained the naturalization itself. Otherwise they are no different from natural-born citizens who commit crimes.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”
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Hannah Abbott @partyboots.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My younger sister was mugged by a couple of protestors who called her a snitch and stole her phone because she was covering the Ferguson protests in Berkeley as a student journalist for the Daily Cal. She quit journalism for good that year.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers. Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Ok. Simple thing for each other. We're here for each other. Nothing else matters. If we hold that, we'll probably be OK.
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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 18/01/2026
To clarify why DHS is wrong - the standard for an arrest is the same as the standard for a warrant, probable cause. Reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, a lower standard, is what is used to justify a brief detainment for the purposes of determining if criminal activity is occurring.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Another day, another impeachable offense. Also, that Natanson "has spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers and redirect much of the work force to enforcing his agenda" makes pretty clear that this is not about national security.
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/01/2026
This is literally what the 4th amendment was written to protect against. There are lots of things that are up for discussion and debate about how one interprets the 4th amendment. This isn't one of them.
Constitution of the United States
Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/12/2025
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
a note from the CBS reporter behind this story to her colleagues tonight
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18/12/2025
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
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Chicago News Bot @chicagonewsbot.bertshouse.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation' abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chic…
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Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
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Hannah Abbott @partyboots.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Too much happening that I am simply incapable of commenting on with anything approaching an appropriate level of restraint
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 13/12/2025
Huh. It's almost like when institutions stand up to that spineless coward fascist, he loses and folds. I sure wish more institutions would take note of that.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
You know who else was indicted out of the Southern District of New York following an investigation that was primarily conducted during the first Trump administration (and then convicted by a federal jury and sentenced to 45 years in prison)?
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of helping drug traffickers move more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., was released from prison on Tuesday after being pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in prison in June 2024 after being arrested at the request of the United States in February 2022, weeks after handing over power to current President Xiomara Castro.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 30/09/2025
dril tweet: "this whole thing smacks of gender," i holler as i overturn my national defense apparatus and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of shit
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This keeps being a “debate” and people like me who say obviously the government is a bigger threat to speech keep being right.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech. He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter. The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2025
under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus
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Hannah Abbott @partyboots.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The mob-driven censorship of the last few days has me more freaked out than anything I've seen in a long time, so I'm going to post my thoughts publicly if anyone looking for thought crimes wants to screenshot them and send them to my employer.*
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
With all the chaos, let's not lose track of the fact that elected officials are (successfully) calling for the firing of private citizens for expressing protected viewpoints about Kirk. www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...
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People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk
Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/09/2025
Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism' We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 07/09/2025
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
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