Michael Elizondo
@krillent.bsky.social
I'm a Bay Area lawyer and Associate Editor for TrueBlueLA.com.
My political rants live here now
My political rants live here now
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George HW Bush marveled at a new kind of grocery scanner in 1992 and was pilloried for being out of touch.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."
April 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
George HW Bush marveled at a new kind of grocery scanner in 1992 and was pilloried for being out of touch.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
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Trump is raising your taxes 25% tomorrow.
Raising your cost of living by 25% or more.
Sadly, this is NOT an April Fool's joke
(unless he cuts some other "deal" to delay it a month at the last minute, like some cheap publicity stunt for TV ratings)a
Raising your cost of living by 25% or more.
Sadly, this is NOT an April Fool's joke
(unless he cuts some other "deal" to delay it a month at the last minute, like some cheap publicity stunt for TV ratings)a
April 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump is raising your taxes 25% tomorrow.
Raising your cost of living by 25% or more.
Sadly, this is NOT an April Fool's joke
(unless he cuts some other "deal" to delay it a month at the last minute, like some cheap publicity stunt for TV ratings)a
Raising your cost of living by 25% or more.
Sadly, this is NOT an April Fool's joke
(unless he cuts some other "deal" to delay it a month at the last minute, like some cheap publicity stunt for TV ratings)a
Also, fuck off Meghan.
April 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Also, fuck off Meghan.
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France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.
South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.
Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.
Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.
South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.
Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.
Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.
Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027
Far-right leader found guilty of embezzlement of European funds and immediately barred from running for office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.
South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.
Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.
Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.
South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.
Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.
Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.
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this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke
NATO leaders now speak Gaullism with an accent. Atlanticism is their first language. I do not think that will be the case 15-20 years from now.
March 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke
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John Adams defended British Soldiers who murdered colonists.
NAACP lawyers traveled to the South and sued for integration even though they were not allowed to sleep in the local hotels.
And today law firms won't sign their name to a brief because they are scared.
That is not my profession.
NAACP lawyers traveled to the South and sued for integration even though they were not allowed to sleep in the local hotels.
And today law firms won't sign their name to a brief because they are scared.
That is not my profession.
March 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
John Adams defended British Soldiers who murdered colonists.
NAACP lawyers traveled to the South and sued for integration even though they were not allowed to sleep in the local hotels.
And today law firms won't sign their name to a brief because they are scared.
That is not my profession.
NAACP lawyers traveled to the South and sued for integration even though they were not allowed to sleep in the local hotels.
And today law firms won't sign their name to a brief because they are scared.
That is not my profession.
Sam Altman can f right off.
OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Sam Altman can f right off.
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They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
March 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
Cause a ruckus = exercise her 1A rights through an OpEd.
The same stuff I do as a hobby. Some chilling Nazi shit right here.
The same stuff I do as a hobby. Some chilling Nazi shit right here.
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Cause a ruckus = exercise her 1A rights through an OpEd.
The same stuff I do as a hobby. Some chilling Nazi shit right here.
The same stuff I do as a hobby. Some chilling Nazi shit right here.
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Chris Murphy: "They're sitting there telling the American people that 2+2=7...those were attack plans, those were war plans, that was classified information, everybody knows it. The idea that they think they can get away with this level of gaslighting- it just strikes at the foundation of democracy"
March 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Chris Murphy: "They're sitting there telling the American people that 2+2=7...those were attack plans, those were war plans, that was classified information, everybody knows it. The idea that they think they can get away with this level of gaslighting- it just strikes at the foundation of democracy"
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Why are we letting the Trump administration make us debate whether the attack info was classified, or war plans? If an enemy or a journalist had obtained it wrongfully & made it public, is there any doubt in your mind how the Trump government would’ve treated them? Let’s not play their game.
March 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Why are we letting the Trump administration make us debate whether the attack info was classified, or war plans? If an enemy or a journalist had obtained it wrongfully & made it public, is there any doubt in your mind how the Trump government would’ve treated them? Let’s not play their game.
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National Review writer Mark Antonio Wright minces no words: Hegseth must go. 🔥🔥
Let’s be sure to signal boost (no pun intended) conservatives who are able to see what’s in front of their nose!
www.nationalreview.com/corner/yes-p...
Let’s be sure to signal boost (no pun intended) conservatives who are able to see what’s in front of their nose!
www.nationalreview.com/corner/yes-p...
March 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
National Review writer Mark Antonio Wright minces no words: Hegseth must go. 🔥🔥
Let’s be sure to signal boost (no pun intended) conservatives who are able to see what’s in front of their nose!
www.nationalreview.com/corner/yes-p...
Let’s be sure to signal boost (no pun intended) conservatives who are able to see what’s in front of their nose!
www.nationalreview.com/corner/yes-p...
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This is a very simple and compelling message that the Dems should be screaming from the rooftops every single day: "The richest man in the world is destroying the most popular government program in American history."
The richest man in the world is destroying the most popular government program in American history. I continue to believe that DOGE will not survive contact with political and material reality, but in the meantime it would be nice if Dems hung this around the president's neck all day every day
One of the few areas of overwhelming consensus in the United States is that Social Security is a good thing and needs to be protected (and even expanded). With no legal authority whatsoever, Musk is destroying this system, which is a lifeline for millions.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
March 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This is a very simple and compelling message that the Dems should be screaming from the rooftops every single day: "The richest man in the world is destroying the most popular government program in American history."
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I am BEGGING people to frame this properly. The issue here is not one colossal blunder where a reporter got info. The issue is it’s clear these people are all routinely ignoring the most absolutely basic security protocols, and WE HAVE NO IDEA what breaches this has already enabled.
I am glad that Senators are grilling DNI Gabbard and CIA Director Ratcliffe today.
Today should be the start of a 4-year drum beat on Trump's team putting US troops in jeopardy by sharing operational war plans with a reporter before undertaking the operation.
Too much is not enough.
Today should be the start of a 4-year drum beat on Trump's team putting US troops in jeopardy by sharing operational war plans with a reporter before undertaking the operation.
Too much is not enough.
March 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I am BEGGING people to frame this properly. The issue here is not one colossal blunder where a reporter got info. The issue is it’s clear these people are all routinely ignoring the most absolutely basic security protocols, and WE HAVE NO IDEA what breaches this has already enabled.
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Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one.
This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay.
AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.
This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay.
AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.
March 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one.
This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay.
AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.
This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay.
AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.
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You may not be aware that over the last 50 years, the Supreme Court has chipped away at your Miranda rights case by case, rendering them weak and ineffective. You no longer have the right to remain silent, to an attorney, not with the foece you used to. Time for a history lesson. /🧵
Please document the gutting of Miranda in the US. I’ll wait.
November 21, 2024 at 10:11 PM
You may not be aware that over the last 50 years, the Supreme Court has chipped away at your Miranda rights case by case, rendering them weak and ineffective. You no longer have the right to remain silent, to an attorney, not with the foece you used to. Time for a history lesson. /🧵
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Democrats need to have disciplined messaging on this clip right here for the next 3 days. We have the memory of goldfish. All hands on deck around this clip of Lutnick and Social Security revealing the greed and cruelty of Trump, Musk, and the GOP.
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
March 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Democrats need to have disciplined messaging on this clip right here for the next 3 days. We have the memory of goldfish. All hands on deck around this clip of Lutnick and Social Security revealing the greed and cruelty of Trump, Musk, and the GOP.
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This was always where it was going to go: when the President claims it can detain and remove anyone without judicial review or due process, they will try to deport and remove people without judicial review and due process.
Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.
Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This was always where it was going to go: when the President claims it can detain and remove anyone without judicial review or due process, they will try to deport and remove people without judicial review and due process.
Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.
Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.
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Here's @elidelajandro.bsky.social on the Department of Defense attempting to whitewash Jackie Robinson from history
www.truebluela.com/2025/3/19/24...
www.truebluela.com/2025/3/19/24...
Attempting to whitewash Jackie Robinson from history
The Defense Department is literally erasing its own history involving Jackie Robinson, and others.
www.truebluela.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Here's @elidelajandro.bsky.social on the Department of Defense attempting to whitewash Jackie Robinson from history
www.truebluela.com/2025/3/19/24...
www.truebluela.com/2025/3/19/24...
Men who think females orgasms are a myth for $200, Ken
(The POS from DoD, not Kruse)
(The POS from DoD, not Kruse)
An entire administration of 12-year-old boys trying to act tough.
Read the statement below and then look at this dweeb.
Read the statement below and then look at this dweeb.
March 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Men who think females orgasms are a myth for $200, Ken
(The POS from DoD, not Kruse)
(The POS from DoD, not Kruse)