crystal lamour 🫘
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late to the game politcal junkie, mother, true blue, retired prenatal health educator
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TODAY: They won't release the files, but the House goes on vacation while your health care premiums skyrocket. Watch today's free episode here: youtu.be/j4EVcQj_s_E?...
Beans Talk | House Goes on Vacation as the Epstein Files Get Released
YouTube video by MSW Media
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December 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
TODAY: They won't release the files, but the House goes on vacation while your health care premiums skyrocket. Watch today's free episode here: youtu.be/j4EVcQj_s_E?...
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:
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“Trump took a bludgeon to the borderlands during his first term, bulldozing national monuments, dynamiting wilderness areas and eviscerating ecosystems to build ineffective border barriers — all made possible by these reckless waivers of law.”
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April 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Trump took a bludgeon to the borderlands during his first term, bulldozing national monuments, dynamiting wilderness areas and eviscerating ecosystems to build ineffective border barriers — all made possible by these reckless waivers of law.”
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Laws waived to rush this project include the Endangered Species Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the Clean Water Act, the Wilderness Act and dozens more.
April 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Laws waived to rush this project include the Endangered Species Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the Clean Water Act, the Wilderness Act and dozens more.
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🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
docs.google.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
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March 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Indiana Rep Spartz (R): “You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process.”
Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
March 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Indiana Rep Spartz (R): “You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process.”
Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
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Iran declares its armed forces have readied missiles with the capability to strike US-related positions.
This report comes in response to Trump’s threats of “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” if Tehran does not agree to a new nuclear agreement.
This report comes in response to Trump’s threats of “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” if Tehran does not agree to a new nuclear agreement.
March 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Iran declares its armed forces have readied missiles with the capability to strike US-related positions.
This report comes in response to Trump’s threats of “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” if Tehran does not agree to a new nuclear agreement.
This report comes in response to Trump’s threats of “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” if Tehran does not agree to a new nuclear agreement.
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Senior partners at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, a firm of 115 lawyers, write: "partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession & the rule of law itself is at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump (Gift Article)
The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Senior partners at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, a firm of 115 lawyers, write: "partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession & the rule of law itself is at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
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If you're looking for an explainer on why due process matters to share with friends and family members who might ... need convincing, I've removed the (partial) paywall from my March 19 post for "One First" on the topic:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...
Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law
Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life, liberty, or property.
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March 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
If you're looking for an explainer on why due process matters to share with friends and family members who might ... need convincing, I've removed the (partial) paywall from my March 19 post for "One First" on the topic:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...
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March 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This is one of those points where the complete institutional failure of the US media really becomes apparent. It's a ridiculous threat because the US doesn't import any Russian oil, obviously, but neither the journalist conducting the interview or other media outlet will point that out.
March 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is one of those points where the complete institutional failure of the US media really becomes apparent. It's a ridiculous threat because the US doesn't import any Russian oil, obviously, but neither the journalist conducting the interview or other media outlet will point that out.
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That's not how States Secret privilege works at all (and I've litigated several).
Executive Branch does not get to shut down judiciary inquiry. Quite the opposite, per Supreme Court.
Trump Administration is proceeding at its own peril.
Executive Branch does not get to shut down judiciary inquiry. Quite the opposite, per Supreme Court.
Trump Administration is proceeding at its own peril.
Hooooo boy: "The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court’s March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
That's not how States Secret privilege works at all (and I've litigated several).
Executive Branch does not get to shut down judiciary inquiry. Quite the opposite, per Supreme Court.
Trump Administration is proceeding at its own peril.
Executive Branch does not get to shut down judiciary inquiry. Quite the opposite, per Supreme Court.
Trump Administration is proceeding at its own peril.
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Once again I ask:
Do you get it yet, law firms?
These orders aren’t isolated threats to Covington or Perkins or Jenner.
They’re existential threats to the independence of the legal profession.
You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next.
Say something. Do something.
Do you get it yet, law firms?
These orders aren’t isolated threats to Covington or Perkins or Jenner.
They’re existential threats to the independence of the legal profession.
You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next.
Say something. Do something.
NEW: Trump has signed an executive order targeting law firm Jenner & Block…
Details of the order TK
Details of the order TK
March 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Once again I ask:
Do you get it yet, law firms?
These orders aren’t isolated threats to Covington or Perkins or Jenner.
They’re existential threats to the independence of the legal profession.
You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next.
Say something. Do something.
Do you get it yet, law firms?
These orders aren’t isolated threats to Covington or Perkins or Jenner.
They’re existential threats to the independence of the legal profession.
You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next.
Say something. Do something.
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Feeling overwhelmed by the chaos?
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says we’ve been through turbulent times before—and we can fight our way out. But only if we understand what’s really happening.
This is the conversation you NEED right now.
Make sure to like & subscribe!
youtu.be/lK9V2Wlwxok?...
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says we’ve been through turbulent times before—and we can fight our way out. But only if we understand what’s really happening.
This is the conversation you NEED right now.
Make sure to like & subscribe!
youtu.be/lK9V2Wlwxok?...
Heather Cox Richardson on Trump, Democracy, and American History
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
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March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Feeling overwhelmed by the chaos?
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says we’ve been through turbulent times before—and we can fight our way out. But only if we understand what’s really happening.
This is the conversation you NEED right now.
Make sure to like & subscribe!
youtu.be/lK9V2Wlwxok?...
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says we’ve been through turbulent times before—and we can fight our way out. But only if we understand what’s really happening.
This is the conversation you NEED right now.
Make sure to like & subscribe!
youtu.be/lK9V2Wlwxok?...
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I recorded a special episode of my Bulwark podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social this morning to discuss Paul, Weiss’s appalling capitulation to the First Extortionist of the United States. I didn’t mince words. Link below.
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The MOST DISGRACEFUL Action By A Law Firm EVER (w/ George Conway)
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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March 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I recorded a special episode of my Bulwark podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social this morning to discuss Paul, Weiss’s appalling capitulation to the First Extortionist of the United States. I didn’t mince words. Link below.
@thebulwark.bsky.social
@thebulwark.bsky.social
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This morning, the White House issued a Presidential Memorandum titled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”
Elias Law Group Chair @marcelias.bsky.social Elias issued the following statement in response.
elias.law/newsroom/pre...
Elias Law Group Chair @marcelias.bsky.social Elias issued the following statement in response.
elias.law/newsroom/pre...
Statement from Elias Law Group Chair Marc Elias
elias.law
March 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This morning, the White House issued a Presidential Memorandum titled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”
Elias Law Group Chair @marcelias.bsky.social Elias issued the following statement in response.
elias.law/newsroom/pre...
Elias Law Group Chair @marcelias.bsky.social Elias issued the following statement in response.
elias.law/newsroom/pre...
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New from me at Cato: in its demands that Columbia surrender its academic and administrative independence to federal overseers, the Trump administration has violated one law after another. And there's every reason to think it's planning to roll out the same game plan to other universities. /1
What Can the Feds Legally Demand of Columbia University?
The Trump administration is using the threat of a funding cutoff to demand sweeping changes at Columbia University, including a drastic overhaul of its system of student discipline, and the putting of...
www.cato.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New from me at Cato: in its demands that Columbia surrender its academic and administrative independence to federal overseers, the Trump administration has violated one law after another. And there's every reason to think it's planning to roll out the same game plan to other universities. /1
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Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."
March 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."
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Letter from members of the Columbia Political Science department:
danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
March 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Letter from members of the Columbia Political Science department:
danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
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When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
Leavitt: "We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos."
March 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
March 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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Key word is “actual.” They want to eliminate due process for deportation and this is their test case. Kind of like how they wanna arrest protestors without due process, and fire government employees without due process, and indict people without due process, and seize assets without due process.
The thing is, it would be easy to give actual gang members the limited due process they get and send them on their way if that was the goal.
March 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Key word is “actual.” They want to eliminate due process for deportation and this is their test case. Kind of like how they wanna arrest protestors without due process, and fire government employees without due process, and indict people without due process, and seize assets without due process.
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