@calattorney.bsky.social
Appellate lawyer who believes in anachronistic things, such as democracy and the rule of law.
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.
www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...
www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...
October 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.
www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...
www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...
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Kamala Harris warned us that Trump would turn the military against civilians. She warned us that he would pursue Project 2025. The media mocked her, but she was dead right about both.
October 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Kamala Harris warned us that Trump would turn the military against civilians. She warned us that he would pursue Project 2025. The media mocked her, but she was dead right about both.
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I am just so fucking proud of her.
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort
September 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort
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If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
September 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
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So James Comey has been indicted for testifying, in essence, that he didn't authorize Andrew McCabe to be an anonymous media source about the Hillary Clinton email investigation—which McCabe disputes.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
![INDICTMENT
COUNT ONE
False statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States Government
[18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)]
1. On or about September 30, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant, JAMES
B. COMEY JR., did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the
Government of the United States, by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing that he, JAMES B. COMEY JR., had not "authorized
someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports" regarding an FBI
investigation concerning PERSON 1.
2. That statement was false, because, as JAMES B. COMEY JR. then and there knew, he in fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding
an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1.
3. All in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreig64rkqqi3z5ssu66f2fy6nimwfxyaymydwqfrhxveid6skd36m7m@jpeg)
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
So James Comey has been indicted for testifying, in essence, that he didn't authorize Andrew McCabe to be an anonymous media source about the Hillary Clinton email investigation—which McCabe disputes.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
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ICE badly injure 80-year-old U.S. citizen who owns the car wash—leave him with broken ribs & dislocated elbow.
"They told me: ‘You don’t F with ICE! We are here!’ and then threw me on the floor."
"I told them I'm an old man and need my heart medication, but they said ‘No!’"
Van Nuys, California
"They told me: ‘You don’t F with ICE! We are here!’ and then threw me on the floor."
"I told them I'm an old man and need my heart medication, but they said ‘No!’"
Van Nuys, California
September 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ICE badly injure 80-year-old U.S. citizen who owns the car wash—leave him with broken ribs & dislocated elbow.
"They told me: ‘You don’t F with ICE! We are here!’ and then threw me on the floor."
"I told them I'm an old man and need my heart medication, but they said ‘No!’"
Van Nuys, California
"They told me: ‘You don’t F with ICE! We are here!’ and then threw me on the floor."
"I told them I'm an old man and need my heart medication, but they said ‘No!’"
Van Nuys, California
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
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Jordy: I call it the leaky fascist faucet. You have CEOs giving Trump gold, then it's let's do a little gerrymandering, let's send the National Guard into this one city, and the next. And then? It'll be:
We need to deploy the military during elections to make sure no "election fraud" is happening.
We need to deploy the military during elections to make sure no "election fraud" is happening.
August 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Jordy: I call it the leaky fascist faucet. You have CEOs giving Trump gold, then it's let's do a little gerrymandering, let's send the National Guard into this one city, and the next. And then? It'll be:
We need to deploy the military during elections to make sure no "election fraud" is happening.
We need to deploy the military during elections to make sure no "election fraud" is happening.
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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To elaborate a bit on why inviting Putin to Alaska for talks on ending the war without Zelensky (or European allies) represents, among many other things, the death of US diplomacy 🧵1/
No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.
Putin is COMING TO THE UNITED STATES? Even by Trump 2.0 standards, this is beyond belief. U.S. diplomacy is dead.
August 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
To elaborate a bit on why inviting Putin to Alaska for talks on ending the war without Zelensky (or European allies) represents, among many other things, the death of US diplomacy 🧵1/
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This doesn’t really sound like how you conduct a criminal investigation. Which is what DOJ does.
July 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This doesn’t really sound like how you conduct a criminal investigation. Which is what DOJ does.
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It’s taken like two fulls days for them to get behind springing Epstein’s *only known, confirmed and convicted accomplice in sexually abusing middle school girls*
Charlie Kirk proposes offering Ghislaine Maxwell something in exchange for testimony re Epstein.
"Maxwell is currently sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sex trafficking, but is pursuing a claim that her trial was unfair ... maybe some kind of a deal could be reached for information."
"Maxwell is currently sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sex trafficking, but is pursuing a claim that her trial was unfair ... maybe some kind of a deal could be reached for information."
July 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It’s taken like two fulls days for them to get behind springing Epstein’s *only known, confirmed and convicted accomplice in sexually abusing middle school girls*
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Trump/Epstein is a full-on DC dumpster fire right now.
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July 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Trump/Epstein is a full-on DC dumpster fire right now.
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Trump could give Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon on his last day in office exchange for favorable testimony now (SCOTUS has already said he can’t be prosecuted for it). She knows he’s her only chance for release. That means any “new” testimony she offers is inherently unreliable unless backed by evidence
July 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Trump could give Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon on his last day in office exchange for favorable testimony now (SCOTUS has already said he can’t be prosecuted for it). She knows he’s her only chance for release. That means any “new” testimony she offers is inherently unreliable unless backed by evidence
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Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)
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Our government shouldn't be able to consign people to conditions in a foreign country that would be constitutional violations, and criminal too, here.
July 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our government shouldn't be able to consign people to conditions in a foreign country that would be constitutional violations, and criminal too, here.
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“Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line…The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
“Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line…The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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"Cruz inserted language into the reconciliation bill that eliminates a $150m fund to 'accelerate advances & improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, and dissemination of info to the public' around weather forecasting."
Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding
Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Cruz inserted language into the reconciliation bill that eliminates a $150m fund to 'accelerate advances & improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, and dissemination of info to the public' around weather forecasting."