bricklawyer
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Kansas roots
still working for a multiracial democracy
stax/volt, man
one of paper equals four of coin
still working for a multiracial democracy
stax/volt, man
one of paper equals four of coin
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Expect more of this. There are more of us than there are of them but even a minority of self-appointed ICE agents can make a lot of people's lives hell
Councilwoman "Arroyo revealed that city police had recently investigated her citizenship status and required her to prove her citizenship."
"[A] painful reminder that a [..] disgruntled resident can disrupt her life by making a false allegation."
#Kansas #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[A] painful reminder that a [..] disgruntled resident can disrupt her life by making a false allegation."
#Kansas #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Police investigate a Kansas city council member's citizenship after a complaint left via voicemail • Kansas Reflector
Lenexa City Councilwoman Melanie Arroyo speaks out after city police investigate her citizenship status and require her to prove her citizenship.
kansasreflector.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Expect more of this. There are more of us than there are of them but even a minority of self-appointed ICE agents can make a lot of people's lives hell
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once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them
Gina Carano and Disney have settled their legal dispute
Disney is now looking forward 'to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future'
Disney is now looking forward 'to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future'
August 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them
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It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!
According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans.
President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!
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Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Thomas wouldn’t let a President Mamdani do away with DHS by firing everyone in its building. But they’ll let Pres. Trump do it to the Dept of Education, and they don’t feel obliged to articulate a principle that would lead to both outcomes.
July 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Thomas wouldn’t let a President Mamdani do away with DHS by firing everyone in its building. But they’ll let Pres. Trump do it to the Dept of Education, and they don’t feel obliged to articulate a principle that would lead to both outcomes.
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John Roberts, smothering the Constitution with a pillow.
A single tear tolls down his cheek because he heard someone mildly object.
A single tear tolls down his cheek because he heard someone mildly object.
July 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
John Roberts, smothering the Constitution with a pillow.
A single tear tolls down his cheek because he heard someone mildly object.
A single tear tolls down his cheek because he heard someone mildly object.
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let's take stock here:
(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.
Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷♀️ YOLO?
(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.
Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷♀️ YOLO?
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
let's take stock here:
(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.
Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷♀️ YOLO?
(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.
Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷♀️ YOLO?
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Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.
June 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.
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Whenever bad things happen to the weak and helpless it's always punishment for their overreach. It's the mindset of the bully and the predator, which is becoming our national ethic.
June 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Whenever bad things happen to the weak and helpless it's always punishment for their overreach. It's the mindset of the bully and the predator, which is becoming our national ethic.
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Faceless government goon arrests public official for refusing to hand over a vulnerable person without a warrant.
Guess the country.
Guess the country.
June 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Faceless government goon arrests public official for refusing to hand over a vulnerable person without a warrant.
Guess the country.
Guess the country.
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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
June 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
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This was the best moment of his first term, the sad womp-womp walk home after the lame Tulsa rally, and our goal should be to make him feel like this every day of his Presidency and life, and today was a good start
June 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This was the best moment of his first term, the sad womp-womp walk home after the lame Tulsa rally, and our goal should be to make him feel like this every day of his Presidency and life, and today was a good start
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While you're drinking your Sunday coffee, enjoy this long thread from Doug Landry on the advance planning failures of Trump's birthday party.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19340...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19340...
Thread by @dougblandry on Thread Reader App
@dougblandry: I just got back from the Trump parade and I have to say it was legitimately the worst executed mass attendance event I’ve ever seen One overarching thought: how do you spend $80 million ...
threadreaderapp.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
While you're drinking your Sunday coffee, enjoy this long thread from Doug Landry on the advance planning failures of Trump's birthday party.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19340...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19340...
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He’s getting a sneak preview of what his funeral will be like and he’ll be thinking about that as he tries to sleep tonight.
June 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
He’s getting a sneak preview of what his funeral will be like and he’ll be thinking about that as he tries to sleep tonight.
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One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
June 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
this is going to happen all over the country to blue cities in red states
Gov. Mike Kehoe activated the National Guard, declaring a state of emergency due to civil unrest, but no evidence existed of riots or other widespread violence. He singled out KC, St. Louis & Springfield where events were occurring or “could occur“
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Missouri governor activates National Guard ahead of anti-Trump protests
Mike Kehoe’s order triggers a state of emergency due to civil unrest, even as no evidence existed of riots or other widespread violence in Missouri.
www.kansascity.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
this is going to happen all over the country to blue cities in red states
dumbest politician on the planet
Trump: "Russia fought with us in WWII and everybody hates them. And Germany and Japan, they're fine — some day somebody will explain that...Everybody hates Russia and they love Germany and Japan...It's a strange world."
June 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
dumbest politician on the planet
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Honestly if you’re looking for a model of positive masculinity, you could do a lot worse than Greg Popovich: extraordinarily accomplished, crusty and prickly on the exterior, but also warm, caring, honorable, and a man who has never taken himself too seriously.
May 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Honestly if you’re looking for a model of positive masculinity, you could do a lot worse than Greg Popovich: extraordinarily accomplished, crusty and prickly on the exterior, but also warm, caring, honorable, and a man who has never taken himself too seriously.
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Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu
May 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu
two things are true simultaneously:
the president is an idiot
the president is an effective propagandist
the president is an idiot
the president is an effective propagandist
Reposting by request the exchange from Trump's ABC interview about Abrego Garcia's tattoos here on Bluesky 👇👇👇
TRUMP: He had MS-13 on his knuckles, tattooed!
MORAN: That was photoshopped
TRUMP: Terry, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. I picked you. But you're not being very nice.
TRUMP: He had MS-13 on his knuckles, tattooed!
MORAN: That was photoshopped
TRUMP: Terry, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. I picked you. But you're not being very nice.
April 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
two things are true simultaneously:
the president is an idiot
the president is an effective propagandist
the president is an idiot
the president is an effective propagandist
so, pitchfork time
The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
April 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
so, pitchfork time
repubs' anti-antisemitism is just antisemitism
SCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives.
New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections.
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New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections.
More ⬇️
forward.com/fast-forward...
Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
The Antisemitism Awareness Act's added language says it would not infringe on religious liberty to protect the claim that Jews killed Jesus.
forward.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
repubs' anti-antisemitism is just antisemitism
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America was founded on a bunch of well-off white men thinking “You can’t treat ME that way!” but writing it down as “You can’t treat ANYONE that way,” and away it went
April 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
America was founded on a bunch of well-off white men thinking “You can’t treat ME that way!” but writing it down as “You can’t treat ANYONE that way,” and away it went