Scott Medlock
@scottmedlock.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer with the ACLU of Colorado. Matt Murdock and Jennifer Walters are the only Super Lawyers. Ex Texas Civil Rights Project, Edwards Law, and Greisen Medlock.
Opinions aren’t those of my employer (except when they are).
Opinions aren’t those of my employer (except when they are).
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Scott Medlock
@scottmedlock.bsky.social
· Sep 16
This weekend I married my best friend @scottmedlock.bsky.social and our union happened all because of @jortsthecat.bsky.social 🥰🐈
I encourage everyone to find a partner who will let you have readings from Mark Gruenwald and @fabiannicieza.bsky.social in your ceremony!
24 and 46, but otherwise spot on.
The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
January 4, 2026 at 2:11 AM
24 and 46, but otherwise spot on.
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Support Steve Rude! I just picked up a bunch of digital sketchbooks from his web store.
www.steverude.com/collections/...
www.steverude.com/collections/...
Veteran US Comic Artist Steve Rude Needs Your Help
Help The Dude Out Over on his Facebook page, US comic artist Steve Rude (Nexus) announced that he needs our financial help (photo©Greg Preston. All Rights Reserved)… Friends, Another birthday. Another...
tripwiremagazine.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Support Steve Rude! I just picked up a bunch of digital sketchbooks from his web store.
www.steverude.com/collections/...
www.steverude.com/collections/...
Obvs @fabiannicieza.bsky.social on the New Warriors Omnibus.
It’s your mayoral inauguration. Who’s swearing you in, and on what book?
January 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Obvs @fabiannicieza.bsky.social on the New Warriors Omnibus.
I remember when the Big Ten only had eleven teams LIKE GOD INTENDED.
The only college football divisions that matter are the original, pre-1990 Big10, and the original Pac10.
December 31, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I remember when the Big Ten only had eleven teams LIKE GOD INTENDED.
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I think we should end stepped up tax basis, uncap social security, change LT capital gains tax rates to income tax rates, and ban share repurchases, and eliminate private equity.
The mega-rich would need to invest in public dividend-paying companies, and pay normal taxes on that income.
- Devin 🏳️⚧️
The mega-rich would need to invest in public dividend-paying companies, and pay normal taxes on that income.
- Devin 🏳️⚧️
Per NYT, billionaires are threatening to leave Cali if a wealth tax doesn’t let them keep all their billions — and Gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is opposing it, raising money against the ballot measure.
Pls pray for the billionaires in this difficult time 🙏🏽
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
Pls pray for the billionaires in this difficult time 🙏🏽
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I think we should end stepped up tax basis, uncap social security, change LT capital gains tax rates to income tax rates, and ban share repurchases, and eliminate private equity.
The mega-rich would need to invest in public dividend-paying companies, and pay normal taxes on that income.
- Devin 🏳️⚧️
The mega-rich would need to invest in public dividend-paying companies, and pay normal taxes on that income.
- Devin 🏳️⚧️
But hey, he likes beer!
This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
December 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
But hey, he likes beer!
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This is the worst F/M/K ever
With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.
Brigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91
December 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is the worst F/M/K ever
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Don't blame me, I voted for Friendster
December 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
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one thing 2024 made abundantly clear is that the electorate’s memory is that of a concussed goldfish and while prosecuting this administration is necessary on its own it is very important to be constantly reminding people how awful and corrupt it was
December 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
one thing 2024 made abundantly clear is that the electorate’s memory is that of a concussed goldfish and while prosecuting this administration is necessary on its own it is very important to be constantly reminding people how awful and corrupt it was
The “pro life” party.
“the doctor explained that the aid cuts were causing an epidemic of life-threatening pregnancy complications. Starving women were giving birth to premature babies. Even those who made it to term were often dangerously underweight….”
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid — ProPublica
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
apple.news
December 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The “pro life” party.
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Three-year-old energy and liquor store raccoon energy are nearly indistinguishable
December 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, explores strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to go where no one has gone before.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, where the shadows lie, One Tim to rule them all, One Tim to find them, One Tim to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, blew up the Death Star.
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, explores strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to go where no one has gone before.
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“what is DIE HARD about”
“it’s a cautionary tale about working for a company that schedules a mandatory social event on Christmas Eve”
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
“what is DIE HARD about”
For years litigating the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons: you know who else baked people to death in prisons…
Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
December 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
For years litigating the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons: you know who else baked people to death in prisons…
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Roberts: It appears a plain reading of the room is that you are an incompetent asshole.
Kavanaugh: My original intent was to enjoy this beer.
Kavanaugh: My original intent was to enjoy this beer.
a man in a hat is drinking a glass of beer while sitting on a bench .
Alt: a man in a hat is drinking a beer while appearing forlorn.
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Roberts: It appears a plain reading of the room is that you are an incompetent asshole.
Kavanaugh: My original intent was to enjoy this beer.
Kavanaugh: My original intent was to enjoy this beer.
Gang, cyber bullying works! #KavanaughStop
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Gang, cyber bullying works! #KavanaughStop
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“Just about wherever you go in this country — if you pay attention to history — you can find a spot where the U.S. government decided to incarcerate a group of people without any kind of trial or judicial process based on that group’s identity.”
Of historic proportions:
December 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
“Just about wherever you go in this country — if you pay attention to history — you can find a spot where the U.S. government decided to incarcerate a group of people without any kind of trial or judicial process based on that group’s identity.”
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there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
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If JD Vance really wants a theocracy, then Pope Leo is in position to do the funniest things in the world right now.😈
Pardons: tired
Excommunications: wired
Excommunications: wired
I don’t know if I know anyone who knows anyone but can someone just suggest to Pope Leo how good it would feel to excommunicate the American Vice President?
December 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
If JD Vance really wants a theocracy, then Pope Leo is in position to do the funniest things in the world right now.😈
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Look, perfectly normal to be searching for documents in the restroom - it’s where their boss keeps his!
December 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Look, perfectly normal to be searching for documents in the restroom - it’s where their boss keeps his!
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Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”