Lee Gray
@jleegray.bsky.social
Dad joke enthusiast. Lawyer. Pro-democracy. Auburn alum.
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Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness.
Dems should polarize this debate to the max.
Thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dems should polarize this debate to the max.
Thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
August 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness.
Dems should polarize this debate to the max.
Thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dems should polarize this debate to the max.
Thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
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We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
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I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
newrepublic.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:
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I kinda dig this pope let’s go Leo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
May 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I kinda dig this pope let’s go Leo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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But remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils
ABC reports Trump to take “flying palace” from Qatar and use it as temporary Air Force 1 before converting it to a personal possession.
Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources
abcnews.go.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
But remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils
Alas…
It does seem like completely abandoning your denomination's raison d'être would raise more attention...
"The Long Southern Strategy" by @angiemaxwell.bsky.social l & Todd Shields traces the GOP’s strategic identity-based attacks, starting with race, but going further with gender & religion. In the last case, Southern Baptist identity was turned inside-out, it was the antithesis of traditional: 10/25
May 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Alas…
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Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 really could not be clearer.
"...no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."
"...no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."
May 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 really could not be clearer.
"...no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."
"...no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."
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It is important to recognize that a president who takes bribes and a Congress that lets that slide was itself a Constitutional crisis.
Banning bribery was so important, the Founders had the Constitution forbid it three times, including as the only directly named impeachable offense besides treason.
Banning bribery was so important, the Founders had the Constitution forbid it three times, including as the only directly named impeachable offense besides treason.
May 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It is important to recognize that a president who takes bribes and a Congress that lets that slide was itself a Constitutional crisis.
Banning bribery was so important, the Founders had the Constitution forbid it three times, including as the only directly named impeachable offense besides treason.
Banning bribery was so important, the Founders had the Constitution forbid it three times, including as the only directly named impeachable offense besides treason.
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April 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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This is so, so, so fucked up.
Message to the whole #FBI workforce from Acting Director Brian Driscoll:
February 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is so, so, so fucked up.
Yes!!
HUGE BREAKING NEWS:
Pete Buttigieg is seriously considering running for Senate in Michigan after Gretchen Whitmer says she wouldn’t run for the open seat.
Smash that RT if you agree Secretary Buttigieg would make a FANTASTIC Senator!! 💙💙
Pete Buttigieg is seriously considering running for Senate in Michigan after Gretchen Whitmer says she wouldn’t run for the open seat.
Smash that RT if you agree Secretary Buttigieg would make a FANTASTIC Senator!! 💙💙
January 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Yes!!
As one does…
They’re interviewing a dude in a coconut bikini at Auburn
January 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
As one does…
Great line: “Never bring norms to a Trump fight.”
As I wrote this morning to Democracy Docket premium members, everything we see going on in Judge Cannon's courtroom was entirely predictable.
Read my full thoughts and my weekend reading list by becoming a member today. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
Read my full thoughts and my weekend reading list by becoming a member today. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
January 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Great line: “Never bring norms to a Trump fight.”
Still feeling this. Even though I know I need to reengage as the disaster begins…
January 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Still feeling this. Even though I know I need to reengage as the disaster begins…
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Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021:
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
January 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021:
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
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RIP Jimmy Carter.
December 29, 2024 at 10:04 PM
RIP Jimmy Carter.
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Jimmy Carter is welcomed into heaven today. “Well done good and faithful servant.”
He will be missed
He will be missed
December 29, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Jimmy Carter is welcomed into heaven today. “Well done good and faithful servant.”
He will be missed
He will be missed
Excellent pack. Or as good as the summer sausage/cheese log thingy.
Get in, fellow resister/rebels/revolutionaries/insurgents/readers/travelers/empaths 🤟😎 go.bsky.app/Dso9c5T
December 26, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Excellent pack. Or as good as the summer sausage/cheese log thingy.
Nola is enjoying wearing bows from gift wrapping today.
#dogsofbluesky
#dogsofbluesky
December 25, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Nola is enjoying wearing bows from gift wrapping today.
#dogsofbluesky
#dogsofbluesky
“Everything the sun touches is my kingdom…”
#dogsofbluesky
#dogsofbluesky
December 23, 2024 at 4:39 AM
“Everything the sun touches is my kingdom…”
#dogsofbluesky
#dogsofbluesky
This is an amazing piece. Historically accurate, no doubt. And depressing as hell. 😔
As I note in this piece, we've actually seen this weird mishmash of ridiculously wealthy businessmen and dipshits whose main qualification is loyalty to the president about a hundred years ago.
It was the Cabinet of Warren G. Harding and, hoo boy, did that not turn out well.
It was the Cabinet of Warren G. Harding and, hoo boy, did that not turn out well.
December 11, 2024 at 2:25 AM
This is an amazing piece. Historically accurate, no doubt. And depressing as hell. 😔
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I suspect this will keep happening
November 20, 2024 at 1:12 AM
I suspect this will keep happening