Gail Ehrlich
@gehrlich.bsky.social
Married, Queer 🌈, Jewish, dog lover, senior powerlifter🏋️♀️, retired prosecutor, researcher for a non-fiction book I am writing on American Queer Legal History
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J.B. Pritzker is 100% right.
Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
August 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right.
Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
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One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead.
They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
August 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead.
They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
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I’m horrified by the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event in DC last night.
The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.
The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.
May 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’m horrified by the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event in DC last night.
The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.
The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.
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A book I will always recommend on this broader topic.
May 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A book I will always recommend on this broader topic.
Perfect
May 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Perfect
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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
April 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
Be reminded that Auschwitz was in Poland not Germany.....
April 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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If they can illegally send anyone to an El Salvador prison illegally and not bring them back, they can illegally send you to an El Salvador prison and not bring you back.
How can anyone defend this?
How can anyone defend this?
April 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If they can illegally send anyone to an El Salvador prison illegally and not bring them back, they can illegally send you to an El Salvador prison and not bring you back.
How can anyone defend this?
How can anyone defend this?
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"Even when adjusting for inflation, that amount would be triple the tax increase put in place in 1942 to pay the cost of fighting World War II."
April 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Even when adjusting for inflation, that amount would be triple the tax increase put in place in 1942 to pay the cost of fighting World War II."
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The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.
April 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.
This is so wrong!
The Justice Department’s latest filings make it abundantly clear that it is creating a black site for migrants in El Salvador that’s worse than Gitmo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
April 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is so wrong!
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Tom Nichols: POTUS would use force against an ally in an unprovoked war [agnst Greenland/Denmark] & the entire world is so used to ignoring him like a crazy grandpa in the attic that it’s not the biggest story on the planet.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-31-2...
Tom Nichols: POTUS would use force against an ally in an unprovoked war [agnst Greenland/Denmark] & the entire world is so used to ignoring him like a crazy grandpa in the attic that it’s not the biggest story on the planet.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-31-2...
March 31, 2025
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Heather Cox Richardson:
Tom Nichols: POTUS would use force against an ally in an unprovoked war [agnst Greenland/Denmark] & the entire world is so used to ignoring him like a crazy grandpa in the attic that it’s not the biggest story on the planet.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-31-2...
Tom Nichols: POTUS would use force against an ally in an unprovoked war [agnst Greenland/Denmark] & the entire world is so used to ignoring him like a crazy grandpa in the attic that it’s not the biggest story on the planet.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-31-2...
Everyone means everyone.
Everyone deserves due process. Even bad guys.*
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* We don't actually know who is and isn't a "bad guy" without due process.
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* We don't actually know who is and isn't a "bad guy" without due process.
April 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We don't need vaccines because we don't see widespread disease
We don't need clean water regulations because we have clean water
We don't need bank regulation because we haven't had a financial crisis since 2008
We don't need NATO/US hegemony because Europeans haven't killed each other since WWII
We don't need clean water regulations because we have clean water
We don't need bank regulation because we haven't had a financial crisis since 2008
We don't need NATO/US hegemony because Europeans haven't killed each other since WWII
1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.
March 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We don't need vaccines because we don't see widespread disease
We don't need clean water regulations because we have clean water
We don't need bank regulation because we haven't had a financial crisis since 2008
We don't need NATO/US hegemony because Europeans haven't killed each other since WWII
We don't need clean water regulations because we have clean water
We don't need bank regulation because we haven't had a financial crisis since 2008
We don't need NATO/US hegemony because Europeans haven't killed each other since WWII
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There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
March 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
Sadly I think there is wisdom to this post.
George...all the sponsoring groups should make clear that there is no litmus test to join in if you oppose the actions of the administration.
You voted for Trump but regret it - welcome!
You wanted border security but not goons abducting people & sending to goolag - welcome!
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You voted for Trump but regret it - welcome!
You wanted border security but not goons abducting people & sending to goolag - welcome!
1/
March 31, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Sadly I think there is wisdom to this post.
True that.
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
True that.
The thing I keep coming back to is that if a random airman who worked on the flight line had disclosed this info on an unsecured device, they'd be court martialed
March 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
March 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Their stupidity is a feature not a bug.
The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.
March 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Their stupidity is a feature not a bug.