Michael P. Scott
@empeescott.bsky.social
retired CA attorney, living in Olympia WA
Mundus Sine Caesaribus
Only "shithole countries" immunize their Presidents
I "cloud nine" when I want to
We still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
Let a hundred Luigis bloom
Mundus Sine Caesaribus
Only "shithole countries" immunize their Presidents
I "cloud nine" when I want to
We still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
Let a hundred Luigis bloom
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Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."
God, what a fucking ghoul
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
God, what a fucking ghoul
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when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
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Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants detained by Suffolk for ICE
A federal jury found the county and the Sheriff's Office violated the Constitutional rights of 674 people.
longisland.news12.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
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SCOTUS6: POTUS can fire anyone.
IGs: Even IGs?
SCOTUS6: Everyone but Fed Chairs.
IGs: Even IGs who discovered someone framed a Fed Chair?
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
IGs: Even IGs?
SCOTUS6: Everyone but Fed Chairs.
IGs: Even IGs who discovered someone framed a Fed Chair?
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
SCOTUS6: POTUS can fire anyone.
IGs: Even IGs?
SCOTUS6: Everyone but Fed Chairs.
IGs: Even IGs who discovered someone framed a Fed Chair?
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
IGs: Even IGs?
SCOTUS6: Everyone but Fed Chairs.
IGs: Even IGs who discovered someone framed a Fed Chair?
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
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They’ve been trying to blow up the ACA for over a decade, yet they don’t have viable plan to replace it.
They don’t have anything to make it better because they don’t want to make it better.
What they want is the ACA gone and everyone at the mercy of private insurance again.
They don’t have anything to make it better because they don’t want to make it better.
What they want is the ACA gone and everyone at the mercy of private insurance again.
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
They’ve been trying to blow up the ACA for over a decade, yet they don’t have viable plan to replace it.
They don’t have anything to make it better because they don’t want to make it better.
What they want is the ACA gone and everyone at the mercy of private insurance again.
They don’t have anything to make it better because they don’t want to make it better.
What they want is the ACA gone and everyone at the mercy of private insurance again.
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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Oh no! Rest in peace, Sally Kirkland. This is especially heartbreaking: SAG-AFTRA canceled Medicare supplemental insurance in 2021 for members over the age of 65 and she died with a go fund me page in hospice care.😢💔
www.masslive.com/news/2025/11...
www.masslive.com/news/2025/11...
Hollywood icon dies at 84 after entering hospice amid ‘significant health crisis’
A veteran actress who appeared in more than 200 films has died following a string significant medical incidents over the past year.
www.masslive.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Oh no! Rest in peace, Sally Kirkland. This is especially heartbreaking: SAG-AFTRA canceled Medicare supplemental insurance in 2021 for members over the age of 65 and she died with a go fund me page in hospice care.😢💔
www.masslive.com/news/2025/11...
www.masslive.com/news/2025/11...
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POLITICO: "English comedian Russell Brand will deliver an 'eloquent rant' before Kennedy takes the stage to close the [MAHA Summit]."
An English comedian, you say? How charming! Do we know anything else about him?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
An English comedian, you say? How charming! Do we know anything else about him?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
POLITICO: "English comedian Russell Brand will deliver an 'eloquent rant' before Kennedy takes the stage to close the [MAHA Summit]."
An English comedian, you say? How charming! Do we know anything else about him?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
An English comedian, you say? How charming! Do we know anything else about him?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Groceries are cheaper if you do it the right way. First go to the oval office and give the president a fake award and tell him he's very strong and handsome. He will then call the grocery store and threaten them until they give you a discount. It's called the free market
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Groceries are cheaper if you do it the right way. First go to the oval office and give the president a fake award and tell him he's very strong and handsome. He will then call the grocery store and threaten them until they give you a discount. It's called the free market
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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“What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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By sending us $2,000 to give to billionaire insurance CEOs, and by tripling the interest we pay to mortgage companies while he continues to limit what we can write off, he's effectively looting the treasury and using us a mules to launder the stolen money; funneling it to the wealthy.
QUINTANILLA: What's more likely -- a $2,000 tariff rebate check or a 50 year mortgage?
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
By sending us $2,000 to give to billionaire insurance CEOs, and by tripling the interest we pay to mortgage companies while he continues to limit what we can write off, he's effectively looting the treasury and using us a mules to launder the stolen money; funneling it to the wealthy.
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‘Make it make sense’: Advocates stunned as WA lawmaker helps slash funds for groups clearing old drug convictions www.investigatewest.org/make-it-make...
WA lawmaker backed cuts to legal aid for people like herself
After being fired from the legal aid group she once led, Rep. Tarra Simmons supported state cuts that crippled similar organizations
www.investigatewest.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
‘Make it make sense’: Advocates stunned as WA lawmaker helps slash funds for groups clearing old drug convictions www.investigatewest.org/make-it-make...
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The government has reopened, but we cannot stop calling out Republican hypocrisy when and where ever we see it. ⬇️
https://www.rawstory.com/senate-phone-records-jack-smith/
https://www.rawstory.com/senate-phone-records-jack-smith/
GOP sneaks $500K bonus for senators probed by Jack Smith into shutdown-busting budget bill
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is accepting credit for adding a provision to the bipartisan government funding bill that would award senators a half-million dollars for having their phone records collected as part of the Jan. 6 investigation.Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who says he's one of the l...
www.rawstory.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The government has reopened, but we cannot stop calling out Republican hypocrisy when and where ever we see it. ⬇️
https://www.rawstory.com/senate-phone-records-jack-smith/
https://www.rawstory.com/senate-phone-records-jack-smith/
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I wish this were true, but it wasn't even the dumbest thing he said on that call
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I wish this were true, but it wasn't even the dumbest thing he said on that call
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"Scared of Charlotte" is a whole new level of "scared of cities" that I'd never even considered possible
Rep. Pat Harrigan: "I have asked Josh Stein, our governor, to consider working with President Trump to allow the National Guard to come into Charlotte ... use the National Guard as a force multiplier and they can a lot of load off the Charlotte PD."
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"Scared of Charlotte" is a whole new level of "scared of cities" that I'd never even considered possible
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This is the resting site of Technical Sergeant Leonard Phillip Matlovich.
Race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
He purposefully outted himself as gay to fight their ban, the first to do so.
This is what real courage looks like.
Happy Veterans Day
#Pinks
Race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
He purposefully outted himself as gay to fight their ban, the first to do so.
This is what real courage looks like.
Happy Veterans Day
#Pinks
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is the resting site of Technical Sergeant Leonard Phillip Matlovich.
Race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
He purposefully outted himself as gay to fight their ban, the first to do so.
This is what real courage looks like.
Happy Veterans Day
#Pinks
Race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
He purposefully outted himself as gay to fight their ban, the first to do so.
This is what real courage looks like.
Happy Veterans Day
#Pinks
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This is a huge victory that should be broadcast nationwide in all the major outlets. Big big big deal. I have been following this. Make them pay
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret. Editor says court cases against city continue #ksleg
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is a huge victory that should be broadcast nationwide in all the major outlets. Big big big deal. I have been following this. Make them pay
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From the man who spends every waking hour complaining...
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
From the man who spends every waking hour complaining...
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Fetterman: Do better, man.
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Fetterman: Do better, man.
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Among the many presidency-ending things it is Congress' job to police & it is failing to do, allowing the Mad King to incinerate our closest alliances is top of the list. It should have all ended w/ threatening to invade our NATO allies. Alas, we are not a serious country.
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The Trump regime is ruining America’s most valuable alliances and international partnerships.
The level of trust needed to do high level intelligence sharing is rare, and Five Eyes cooperation has been a major asset.
The US chose to throw it away, harming its own power and security. And for what?
The level of trust needed to do high level intelligence sharing is rare, and Five Eyes cooperation has been a major asset.
The US chose to throw it away, harming its own power and security. And for what?
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Among the many presidency-ending things it is Congress' job to police & it is failing to do, allowing the Mad King to incinerate our closest alliances is top of the list. It should have all ended w/ threatening to invade our NATO allies. Alas, we are not a serious country.
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