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Ric Fouad

@ricfouad.bsky.social
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Adjunct prof (legal ethics) Fordham Law & Temple Law (Tokyo Campus), attorney, child welfare advocate, Foster Care Alumni of America, Milton Hershey School alum (7YRS), expert on consequences of political violence for immediate family.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 11h
Absolutely hilarious. Not only might she have committed a misdemeanor, but if she procured her “outside counsel” or “general counsel” gigs by representing or implying she was licensed, it’s fraud. Only the best ppl…!😂
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 11h
The amateur hour antics are spiraling out of control: a stupidly launched war is spiking energy prices & the GQP fears a midterm debacle—so the clown in office dispatches two jesters to announce a Russia energy gift—which sets off our Euro allies & another crisis... We elected the Marx Brothers.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12h
2/2 Passages on how Musk used his access to create DOGE & ultimately decide who lives (whites) & who dies (POC) are chilling but masterful: I haven’t seen anyone synthesize it so well or so horrifyingly. He’s right: MSM failure to call a white supremacist a white supremacist is perilous for us all.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12h
1/2 This is a self-effacing gross understatement: Joel’s essay on Elon Musk’s white supremacy & MSM failure to use that label is a breathtaking, brilliant, & compelling must-read roundup—pulls together horrifying threads of how this techno-freak has become white supremacy catalyst/cheerleader.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Utterly disgusting. But pay attn to *why* Paxton/Abbott want to deem sales of housing units securities: not to assure truth in sales, but to charge them for selling *unregistered securities.* Head of TX securities board called it “horse***t.” It’s worse: civil rights violation—DOJ shld act.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is very sad. He was truly marvelous in this role, an inspirational young man.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not if Alito retires immediately & Trump/GQP ram through replacement by year end.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
These judges need to hold DOJ senior lawyers in contempt, commence proceedings to suspend or bar them from federal courts. How much outrageous conduct will these judges tolerate? What other attys or litigants cld ever get away w flouting court orders like this? Enough already!
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why do we call the suggestion that someone had a mental breakdown a smear? Musk made a false statement bc he assumed ppl wld hold it against Talarico that he had a mental health episode. We shld make clear Musk was wrong on both counts: Talarico didn’t have such an episode—but so what if he did?
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Have we raised white flag on corruption oozing from gov? Kristi Noem has agency that fired her buy jets from crony at $20M+ markup. Kimberly Guilfoyle offers to sell influence for $100K—headlines in same week. Prez fleeces crypto marks for $1.4B. etc etc etc WTF is wrong w us? We tolerate all this?
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
3/3 business: PA Gov Josh Shapiro, when he was AG, unlawfully diverted $350M from foster care kids. That conduct is never even publicly discussed, let alone anyone holding this varmint accountable for it.)
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
2/3 James Uthmeier—DeSantis chief of staff—was responsible for clouding the trail. IOW, the state’s highest law enforcement officer is implicated, as is DeSantis, even if not charged. Remember this later if DOJ shifts to Dems. (Note also that FL GQP AG’s aren’t the only ones engaging in monkey
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
1/3 Pay attn, folks: Although the grand jury cld not determine against whom criminal charges shld be brought, it did find that criminal acts had been committed but the wrongdoers successfully blurred the trail. Grand jury also found that AG Ashley Moody was aware of the wrongdoing & that
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When Fetterman pulled a gun on the Black jogger, shld have been finito, but ppl overlooked that too. His rich dad basically funded his entire PR campaign, created monster he is now. I’ll stop there, anything I’d add wld be too mean.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If we had anything resembling a civilized criminal justice system, our Sup Court cld be moved to intervene & stop this barbaric spectacle. But as it were, the 16th Century Six have demonstrated no barbarity is beneath them: our nation will be forever diminished if this moral abomination proceeds.
"From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." Justice Harry Blackmun
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This was obvious from go: Fetterman is & always has been power-hungry narcissistic monster. The Nation launched him w flattering profile—I dealt w him on foster care issues & his cynicism was obvious. Ultimately, PA Dems are rotten to core, going back to Rendell: state progressives need to rise up.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And Letitia James & Lisa Cook & Fani T. Willis & Brandon Johnson & removing too many from federal office to list here & removal from military leadership & renaming military bases & constant stream of racial slurs &… (Seriously, the pattern is so damn obvious…)
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
2/2 imposed on networks anyway to answer stupid, abusive subpoenas: they have to hire lawyers, spend money, use employee time on this vindictive nonsense. Answer? (4) Sue DOJ for abuse of process—& report DOJ attys to bar authorities: *licenses shld be revoked,* enough w this behavior by lawyers.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
1/2 I Legit did not take this seriously when first mentioned, but here we are. (No paywall link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b... ) (1) *Can’t* be antitrust violation: they’re *losing* revenues. (2) Where the hell is the DOJ when we *want* them to investigate antitrust abuses??? (3) Note burden
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Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage (Gift Article)
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Completely deranged. Our foreign policy is too bizarre & self-destructive for words. Only consistency is promoting financial & personal agendas of Trump, his family, & his cronies, but not our national interests & certainly not world’s interests or vital world values, ideals, & aspirations.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Which is why these social media sites must be treated as utilities that cannot engage in this kind of discrimination & suppression of free speech. Our worthless Congress keeps failing us on this—& we shld 100% control our own algos, not the tech bros.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thank you. (I had no clue who he was, expected a monster, but found him remarkably temperate once I had a chance to listen in context. IDK how many of his positions I agree w (bc I know very little abt him), but so far, he's not shocked me at all—while his detractors come across as ludicrous.)
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What’s going on, Abe? (Seriously, shld we know?🤔)
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The problem was not what our enemies did but what our friends did.” (Hannah Arendt on being unmoored when her German friends cooperated w the Nazis.) Roger's superb essay is worth reading—I have a fundamental disagreement w it, but that's a subject for a private conversation, between friends.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NYC subways are a joke & the conductors are clowns. It’s taken decades, but successive governors & state legislatures have made the train transit system of the greatest, wealthiest city in the world a global laughingstock. Good job! (I’ll spare you the details—we’ve all experienced it.🤬)
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Have we raised white flag on corruption oozing from gov? Kristi Noem has agency that fired her buy jets from crony at $20M+ markup. Kimberly Guilfoyle offers to sell influence for $100K—headlines in same week. Prez fleeces crypto marks for $1.4B. etc etc etc WTF is wrong w us? We tolerate all this?
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Life In Dumbassistan, latest episode just dropped…
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Holy mackerel, this is some blistering. (No paywall.) Note that judge included side-by-side pics to illustrate that ICE lies were preposterous. Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
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Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records (Gift Article)
Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thank you, Chris, for keeping John Durham (an absolute clown) in mind: not only did he pursue this ridiculous “investigation,” but you may recall he also brought the disgraceful cases against Michael Sussman & Igor Danchenko, both acquitted—& now he’s cashed out at Big Law. Absolutely disgusting.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Note that John Yoo, lawyer handmaiden of our horrific torture crimes against humanity, makes a cameo, though the reporters don’t mention his name. In any case, that he has a position at Berkeley is a disgrace, as is his ability to involve himself in more disgusting behavior.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Impossible track every Trump WH psychotic drama. But don’t miss this distillation of ludicrous “investigation” of imaginary plot against Trump. (No paywall.) Todd Blanche must be disbarred, now. How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil (Gift Article)
The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence...
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wow, score another one for DSA, & the rule of law. (No paywall.) He Left Behind Millions. Who Would Get It — His Family, or the D.S.A.? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/n...
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He Left Behind Millions. Who Would Get It — His Family, or the D.S.A.? (Gift Article)
When a New York University professor died in 2024, it set off a legal dispute over a quietly accumulated fortune.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What a ridiculous headline: the fan interference didn’t change a thing, the outcome wld have been the same had he not caught the ball. Great way to get this guy & his family even more hounded & harassed by Yankee loons.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump’s timing is impeccable: this gruesome snuff film trailer he released will be airing nonstop on repeat from now to the midterms, bc Trump didn’t harm ppl enough already.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Jesus worked a miracle to turn 5 loaves & 2 fish into enough to feed a multitude. But a public servant who turns $153K/YR into $27M is not emulating Jesus: he’s being a crook.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jesus, who knew? Truly dumbfounding, of all places, Central PA? Wow...
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Make no mistake, Navi Pillay being awarded #NobelPeacePrize is a direct rebuke to Trump & US thugs who have sought to bully & intimidate ICC & to them & his predecessor Biden gang for abetting genocide. Chalk one up for belief in rule of law.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
a televised public execution
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AP says LWOP (life w/o possibility of parole), NY Mag piece says with.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is just so utterly deranged…
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The comments yesterday were just deranged. It also seemed that the loudest voices were the most unhinged—& that morally normal ppl simply stayed quiet bc they didn’t want to tangle with loons. IDK how to adequately distill but it was an awful day.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wealth + genocide. Why omit that?
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now they’re going after Cassidy Hutchinson too? Every lawyer implementing Trump’s revenge campaign shld eventually lose their license. This insanity will someday end, real consequences must follow. These ppl are dismantling the rule of law. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Justice Department seeks criminal charge for former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson
The former Trump aide was a star witness before the Jan. 6 committee. The case is being pursued by the Civil Rights Division, led by Harmeet Dhillon.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely insane. Does this idiot even know who was the last US soldier put to death at end of WW II? Or what his “crime” was? Hint: wasn’t a “radical Islamist terrorist” & he didn’t harm anyone. Our nation’s leaders are sickening (& that includes genocidal monster Biden, who paved way for Trump).
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Make PBA & individual officers responsible for *all* police brutality settlements/jury awards. (Same for inmate cases/CO unions & CO’s.)
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This article is deeply depressing. I wasn’t aware of how this all unfolded.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#FreeChristaPike
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Even if Saeidi prevails, the financial, personal, professional, & reputational toll is devastating: these g.d. villains suffer no personal consequences, even as they wreck ppl's lives, forcing their victims to spend years & vast sums of money just to vindicate their rights.
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Welcome to Nicaragua under the Somozas...
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