Christine Brandt
@wordbourne.bsky.social
Lawyer. Writer. Sports Fan. Democrat Activist in the Deep South. Tea, History, and Books Enthusiast. From New Orleans.
(Formerly LavishTantrums).
(Formerly LavishTantrums).
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Breaking on MSNBC: Two top criminal lawyers in the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired: Elizabeth Yusi, the criminal chief, and her deputy Kristin Bird. Both had been involved with Letitia James case and were skeptical of it.
October 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Breaking on MSNBC: Two top criminal lawyers in the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired: Elizabeth Yusi, the criminal chief, and her deputy Kristin Bird. Both had been involved with Letitia James case and were skeptical of it.
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The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.
Mark my words.
Mark my words.
October 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.
Mark my words.
Mark my words.
🚨 ICE is reportedly launching “Freaky Friday” tomorrow, a plan to target migrant children.
Who: Children 14+ but could be 10+
What: Threat letters to children to urge them to give up their rights under TVPRA or self-deport for $2,500. If they refuse, they risk: imprisonment, parents arrested.
Who: Children 14+ but could be 10+
What: Threat letters to children to urge them to give up their rights under TVPRA or self-deport for $2,500. If they refuse, they risk: imprisonment, parents arrested.
October 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
🚨 ICE is reportedly launching “Freaky Friday” tomorrow, a plan to target migrant children.
Who: Children 14+ but could be 10+
What: Threat letters to children to urge them to give up their rights under TVPRA or self-deport for $2,500. If they refuse, they risk: imprisonment, parents arrested.
Who: Children 14+ but could be 10+
What: Threat letters to children to urge them to give up their rights under TVPRA or self-deport for $2,500. If they refuse, they risk: imprisonment, parents arrested.
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all the right people are mad about this (gift link)
F.D.A. Approves a New Generic Abortion Pill
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
all the right people are mad about this (gift link)
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Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes:
Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands.
bit.ly
October 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes:
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No need to be scared of him. The trend is clear - everyone outside of his hard base is abandoning him.
October 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
No need to be scared of him. The trend is clear - everyone outside of his hard base is abandoning him.
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"What you fail to see Mr Pope" is gonna haunt me forever
really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"What you fail to see Mr Pope" is gonna haunt me forever
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Judge Sooknanan has some problems with recent “prosecutorial machinations” in Washington, D.C., cataloguing a list of abuses and excesses she says have exploded in recent weeks ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
October 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Judge Sooknanan has some problems with recent “prosecutorial machinations” in Washington, D.C., cataloguing a list of abuses and excesses she says have exploded in recent weeks ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
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REQUEST: If anyone has the memo in question, pushing such prosecutions, apparently sent from a lawyer in Blanche's office to "U.S. attorney’s offices in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit and Maryland, among others," please send it my way. Signal: crg.32
Breaking News: A Justice Dept. official is pushing prosecutors to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor whom President Trump has demanded be thrown in jail.
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation
The directive suggests department leaders are following orders from the president, a major break from decades of past practice meant to insulate the agency from political interference.
nyti.ms
September 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
REQUEST: If anyone has the memo in question, pushing such prosecutions, apparently sent from a lawyer in Blanche's office to "U.S. attorney’s offices in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit and Maryland, among others," please send it my way. Signal: crg.32
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I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
September 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
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BREAKING
A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial.
Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial.
Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
BREAKING
A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial.
Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial.
Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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“With the federal government in retreat, vaccine wars have shifted to the states.” @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social writes about how states are abiding by, enforcing, or fighting against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s vaccine-policy rollbacks.
A New Era of Vaccine Federalism
As confidence in the C.D.C. wanes, states are asserting more control over their vaccine policies, creating a fragmented public-health system.
www.newyorker.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“With the federal government in retreat, vaccine wars have shifted to the states.” @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social writes about how states are abiding by, enforcing, or fighting against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s vaccine-policy rollbacks.
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Why is @nytimes.com claiming to know that FCC chair Brendan Carr's motives for state censorship of liberals are authentically felt, as opposed to an invented pretext? NYT headline writers can't see into Carr's mind.
September 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Why is @nytimes.com claiming to know that FCC chair Brendan Carr's motives for state censorship of liberals are authentically felt, as opposed to an invented pretext? NYT headline writers can't see into Carr's mind.
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Oklahoma promoting Hitler-Youth-like Turning Point U.S.A. clubs in public schools. State government joining with Charlie Kirk’s organization to indoctrinate high school students into Republican Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Turning Point chapters at Oklahoma high schools will counter ‘woke indoctrination’, official says
Superintendent says all high schools in state will have chapters of the conservative youth group following Charlie Kirk’s killing
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Oklahoma promoting Hitler-Youth-like Turning Point U.S.A. clubs in public schools. State government joining with Charlie Kirk’s organization to indoctrinate high school students into Republican Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...
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It’s #MythBustingTuesday.
Today’s target: “Natural immunity is always better than vaccine-induced immunity.”
I hear this all the time. Although it sounds appealing, it’s dangerously misleading. 🧵
Today’s target: “Natural immunity is always better than vaccine-induced immunity.”
I hear this all the time. Although it sounds appealing, it’s dangerously misleading. 🧵
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It’s #MythBustingTuesday.
Today’s target: “Natural immunity is always better than vaccine-induced immunity.”
I hear this all the time. Although it sounds appealing, it’s dangerously misleading. 🧵
Today’s target: “Natural immunity is always better than vaccine-induced immunity.”
I hear this all the time. Although it sounds appealing, it’s dangerously misleading. 🧵
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Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."
September 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."
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to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)
Opinion | This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)
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All hail VICTOR!!! He's a real-life hero whose selflessness & courage is an inspiration to us all.
Wishing you a complete & speedy recovery.
I salute you, sir! 🫡
Wishing you a complete & speedy recovery.
I salute you, sir! 🫡
September 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
All hail VICTOR!!! He's a real-life hero whose selflessness & courage is an inspiration to us all.
Wishing you a complete & speedy recovery.
I salute you, sir! 🫡
Wishing you a complete & speedy recovery.
I salute you, sir! 🫡
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This guy doesn’t know anything. I’m so jealous.
September 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This guy doesn’t know anything. I’m so jealous.
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An officer fatally shot a person who injured an ICE agent during an immigration arrest in the Chicago area, according to federal immigration officials.
A person is killed and an ICE agent injured at an immigration arrest near Chicago
A spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said officers were conducting a vehicle stop as part of a "targeted law enforcement activity" on Friday morning.
nbcnews.to
September 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
An officer fatally shot a person who injured an ICE agent during an immigration arrest in the Chicago area, according to federal immigration officials.
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Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
September 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours