Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
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Today’s gentle reminder. Make time to frolic 🤓🌞💜✨
January 6, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Today’s gentle reminder. Make time to frolic 🤓🌞💜✨
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Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
January 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
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Happy fifth anniversary to the day (true story) I decided to go on a lunchtime run around Capitol Hill only to have a very panicked police officer blocking Constitution Avenue suddenly redirect me
January 6, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Happy fifth anniversary to the day (true story) I decided to go on a lunchtime run around Capitol Hill only to have a very panicked police officer blocking Constitution Avenue suddenly redirect me
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We now live in the country the Jan. 6 attackers and coup plotters hoped to create.
January 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
We now live in the country the Jan. 6 attackers and coup plotters hoped to create.
As a youth: either when I walked into a wall and broke a tooth or when I got hit in the head with a ball and it knocked me unconscious
As an adult: the time I threw my back out getting some milk off the bottom shelf
As an adult: the time I threw my back out getting some milk off the bottom shelf
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
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January 6, 2026 at 4:12 AM
As a youth: either when I walked into a wall and broke a tooth or when I got hit in the head with a ball and it knocked me unconscious
As an adult: the time I threw my back out getting some milk off the bottom shelf
As an adult: the time I threw my back out getting some milk off the bottom shelf
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
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three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
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I was hoping when large media covered Mobile Fortify, the ICE facial app we revealed in June, it would add substantial information. Instead this front page WSJ piece rehashes our reporting, presents it as new attributed to officials, and forgets to capitalize M in 404 Media bsky.app/profile/cori...
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I was hoping when large media covered Mobile Fortify, the ICE facial app we revealed in June, it would add substantial information. Instead this front page WSJ piece rehashes our reporting, presents it as new attributed to officials, and forgets to capitalize M in 404 Media bsky.app/profile/cori...
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So it passed in a . . .
. . . Yeah. Even I'm not Dad enough for this joke.
. . . Yeah. Even I'm not Dad enough for this joke.
By unanimous consent, the #Senate passed S.1626 - National Landslide Preparedness Act Reauthorization Act of 2025, as amended.
January 5, 2026 at 11:14 PM
So it passed in a . . .
. . . Yeah. Even I'm not Dad enough for this joke.
. . . Yeah. Even I'm not Dad enough for this joke.
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It was only a matter of time before the 3rd Amendment discourse became activated.
January 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM
It was only a matter of time before the 3rd Amendment discourse became activated.
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People who teach classes related to U.S. law, government, & politics:
Here's your first reminder of 2026 to put The Originalism Trap on your syllabus!
While it's especially appropriate for law students, it's really for everyone--my last talk of 2025 was to 7th graders!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Here's your first reminder of 2026 to put The Originalism Trap on your syllabus!
While it's especially appropriate for law students, it's really for everyone--my last talk of 2025 was to 7th graders!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
January 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
People who teach classes related to U.S. law, government, & politics:
Here's your first reminder of 2026 to put The Originalism Trap on your syllabus!
While it's especially appropriate for law students, it's really for everyone--my last talk of 2025 was to 7th graders!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Here's your first reminder of 2026 to put The Originalism Trap on your syllabus!
While it's especially appropriate for law students, it's really for everyone--my last talk of 2025 was to 7th graders!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.
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This is my friend Jessie. She's amazing and a sweetheart to organize alongside. Saw a lot of comments asking how she is. She was released same day. We hope to have more soon. Media contacts can get in touch with grandrapidsopponentsofwar@gmail.com
Not our first problems with GRPD to be sure....
Not our first problems with GRPD to be sure....
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 6:39 PM
This is my friend Jessie. She's amazing and a sweetheart to organize alongside. Saw a lot of comments asking how she is. She was released same day. We hope to have more soon. Media contacts can get in touch with grandrapidsopponentsofwar@gmail.com
Not our first problems with GRPD to be sure....
Not our first problems with GRPD to be sure....
arresting someone during a tv interview is crazy
they're claiming the arrest was for 'obstructing a roadway and failure to obey a lawful command' but it certainly looks like they just saw her talking to a reporter and said Oh that's enough of that
they're claiming the arrest was for 'obstructing a roadway and failure to obey a lawful command' but it certainly looks like they just saw her talking to a reporter and said Oh that's enough of that
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 7:08 PM
arresting someone during a tv interview is crazy
they're claiming the arrest was for 'obstructing a roadway and failure to obey a lawful command' but it certainly looks like they just saw her talking to a reporter and said Oh that's enough of that
they're claiming the arrest was for 'obstructing a roadway and failure to obey a lawful command' but it certainly looks like they just saw her talking to a reporter and said Oh that's enough of that
My main New Year's Resolution is to ask myself 'does this (or will this) actually serve me?' more often
give myself a lil push to do things that are good for me, even if I don't wanna do em lol, & permission to leave behind or decline things that, if I really thought about it, I don't want or need
give myself a lil push to do things that are good for me, even if I don't wanna do em lol, & permission to leave behind or decline things that, if I really thought about it, I don't want or need
Whew its kinda of heavy and icky on here this morning.
Tell me .... what good energy and positivity are you birthing this week? This year?
Tell me .... what good energy and positivity are you birthing this week? This year?
January 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM
My main New Year's Resolution is to ask myself 'does this (or will this) actually serve me?' more often
give myself a lil push to do things that are good for me, even if I don't wanna do em lol, & permission to leave behind or decline things that, if I really thought about it, I don't want or need
give myself a lil push to do things that are good for me, even if I don't wanna do em lol, & permission to leave behind or decline things that, if I really thought about it, I don't want or need
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Precisely. This isn’t about Kelly as if they expect it to have any effect on him or other members of Congress. It’s about using his prominence to make an example of what they can and will do to people vastly less powerful and secure.
This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Sen. Mark Kelly will face administrative action
January 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Precisely. This isn’t about Kelly as if they expect it to have any effect on him or other members of Congress. It’s about using his prominence to make an example of what they can and will do to people vastly less powerful and secure.
This is correct, and part of why Senator Kelly needs to fight it, in courts of law and courts of public opinion alike--not just for himself, but so other vets aren't intimidated out of speaking up
This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Sen. Mark Kelly will face administrative action
January 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
This is correct, and part of why Senator Kelly needs to fight it, in courts of law and courts of public opinion alike--not just for himself, but so other vets aren't intimidated out of speaking up
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There's a rising faction of the legal academy that stays quiet when their MAGAdemic colleagues produce fraudulent psuedo-scholarship in service to the cruelest aspects of Trump's agenda ... then leap in to police the discourse when their progressive colleagues criticize those MAGAdemics too bluntly.
January 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
There's a rising faction of the legal academy that stays quiet when their MAGAdemic colleagues produce fraudulent psuedo-scholarship in service to the cruelest aspects of Trump's agenda ... then leap in to police the discourse when their progressive colleagues criticize those MAGAdemics too bluntly.
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anyway, her family has a gofundme and I'm sure they could use any support anyone can offer
Black women deserve better!
To live and to deliver their babies safely!
This is not okay!
Even if they did everything right by her medically, this highlights the deadly risks Black women face in childbearing
Black women deserve better!
To live and to deliver their babies safely!
This is not okay!
Even if they did everything right by her medically, this highlights the deadly risks Black women face in childbearing
This is beyond heartbreaking 💔
www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...
www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...
January 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
anyway, her family has a gofundme and I'm sure they could use any support anyone can offer
Black women deserve better!
To live and to deliver their babies safely!
This is not okay!
Even if they did everything right by her medically, this highlights the deadly risks Black women face in childbearing
Black women deserve better!
To live and to deliver their babies safely!
This is not okay!
Even if they did everything right by her medically, this highlights the deadly risks Black women face in childbearing
People who teach classes related to U.S. law, government, & politics:
Here's your first reminder of 2026 to put The Originalism Trap on your syllabus!
While it's especially appropriate for law students, it's really for everyone--my last talk of 2025 was to 7th graders!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Here's your first reminder of 2026 to put The Originalism Trap on your syllabus!
While it's especially appropriate for law students, it's really for everyone--my last talk of 2025 was to 7th graders!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
January 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
People who teach classes related to U.S. law, government, & politics:
Here's your first reminder of 2026 to put The Originalism Trap on your syllabus!
While it's especially appropriate for law students, it's really for everyone--my last talk of 2025 was to 7th graders!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Here's your first reminder of 2026 to put The Originalism Trap on your syllabus!
While it's especially appropriate for law students, it's really for everyone--my last talk of 2025 was to 7th graders!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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No interest in democracy, sovereignty, or the rule of law. Just profits.
Dow rallies 500 points to record as investors see little market risk from Venezuela action, Chevron shares surge: Live updates
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/04/s...
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/04/s...
Dow rallies 500 points to record as investors see little market risk from Venezuela action, Chevron shares surge: Live updates
Global markets reacted to the U.S.' attack on Venezuela and capture of leader Nicolas Maduro.
www.cnbc.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
No interest in democracy, sovereignty, or the rule of law. Just profits.
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Happy new year to One First and Law Dork, included in The Hill's Jan 1 article about legal coverage in the Trump era:
"Geidner said working independently has allowed him to cover stories that major publications may not see as important or find amid other legal news."
thehill.com/media/566118...
"Geidner said working independently has allowed him to cover stories that major publications may not see as important or find amid other legal news."
thehill.com/media/566118...
January 1, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Happy new year to One First and Law Dork, included in The Hill's Jan 1 article about legal coverage in the Trump era:
"Geidner said working independently has allowed him to cover stories that major publications may not see as important or find amid other legal news."
thehill.com/media/566118...
"Geidner said working independently has allowed him to cover stories that major publications may not see as important or find amid other legal news."
thehill.com/media/566118...
what if--hear me out--Venezuelans run Venezuela?
Trump: We're running Venezuela
Rubio: We're not running Venezuela
Miller: Maybe I'll run Venezuela
Rubio: We're not running Venezuela
Miller: Maybe I'll run Venezuela
U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela clouded in confusion
In Washington and Caracas, the vision for administering Venezuela in the weeks and months ahead appears uncertain and stubbornly complex.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:16 PM
what if--hear me out--Venezuelans run Venezuela?
goddammit man
January 5, 2026 at 3:09 PM
goddammit man
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Roberts’ 2024 opinion without textual or historical legitimacy, granted Trump immunity for virtually all crimes ushered in reign of domestic terror, and now an unconstitutional and shameful war for oil. No one has done more to destroy the “rule of law” than Roberts. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
If We had a Functional Constitution, We Wouldn’t have an Illegal War
MAGA stooges destroyed the rule of law
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Roberts’ 2024 opinion without textual or historical legitimacy, granted Trump immunity for virtually all crimes ushered in reign of domestic terror, and now an unconstitutional and shameful war for oil. No one has done more to destroy the “rule of law” than Roberts. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...