maewest974.bsky.social
@maewest974.bsky.social
Retired attorney; pro democracy, progressive politics; love the outdoors & women's basketball
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July 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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History will see that he manufactured chaos because he had nothing good to offer. No vision. No ideas. Just tearing down what others have built, and blaming them for his shortcomings. Generations will be taught he was nothing but a pathetic failure.
July 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Tell me your government is a dictatorship without telling me it’s a dictatorship 💁🏽‍♂️
April 26, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing…

There would be bipartisan calls for investigations

Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion

Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day

Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse
March 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Grimly fascinating read. Sadists R Us leading the US federal govt.
“The 5 bullets email was the administration’s declaration of psychological warfare: Petty on its face and lacking sufficient instructions, its one and only purpose was to scare the shit out of workers already living in peril.”
Move fast and break people
For Elon Musk's government, the psychological warfare is the point.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
February 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging?

Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.
February 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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“I think calling Elon Musk a dick is pretty kind, actually, considering everything he’s done.”

Watch full interview with @briantylercohen.bsky.social at: youtu.be/Eac2IQ9lR5k?...
February 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The Democratic Party right now is pretty close to f—ing useless.
the year is 2025. Bill Kristol is more left-wing than the leadership of the Democratic Party
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February 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Excellent post
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Nor am I!
January 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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January 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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“City leaders, fire officials & firefighting experts describe a disaster that no amount of additional firefighting or stores of water could have prevented.” Nah…it’s just a lot easier to get political and blame someone or believe some stupid conspiracy. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Why firefighters say the Los Angeles blazes have been unstoppable
In the Pacific Palisades, the monster fire quickly outmatched anything firefighters were ready to handle.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Agreed with @NormOrnstein - definitely do NOT share this image!!! Lol bluevirginia.us/2025/01/satu...
January 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.

The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
December 28, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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Who had “going to war with Panama over the Canal” on their 2025 bingo card?

Trump’s statements are so impossibly inane. Stupid didn’t begin to describe it. He’s a first rate fool and a horse’s ass.
December 23, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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Not to normalize the idea of a president-elect attacking a judge in this unhinged manner, but it was actually, the US Supreme Court that declined to lift the gag order on Trump.
December 17, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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I would like to raise the highest of middle fingers at Senators Sinema and Manchin for voting AGAINST President Biden's NLRB nominee, thereby ensuring DEMs lose control of the National Relations Labor Board for at least the next 2 years.

Fuck you, you shitty fuckers. 🖕🖕
December 11, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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Definitely sounds like the kind of even tempered person who should be entrusted with the powers of the FBI
Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.
December 4, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Just sitting here thinking about all those paycheck to paycheck folks who elected a billionaire who put other billionaires in charge of taking shit away from paycheck to paycheck folks, so they can make more billions.
November 29, 2024 at 3:29 PM