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Margaret
@margfive.bsky.social
loves abstracts, bubbly, progressive thinking, democracy, co-ops, oxford commas, and all things weird
lawyer + artist
UMich x 2
Stocksy United VP Legal & Advocacy
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Hunger Games.

Cool, cool.
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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This is an outrageous lie

Nobody is telling the troops to disobey LAWFUL orders

They are bound to follow the Constitution

So Democrats reminded them they must refuse ILLEGAL orders

Like when Trump ordered the killing of the Venezuelans on boats and deployed the National Guard against Americans
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I had a similar thought!!
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:

u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Once again: every accusation is actually a confession.
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
so many options--somebody, please!
Reporters must stop accepting this. Options:

-Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others)
-"It's your job to be informed"
-"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?"
-"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often"
-"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
😂
Next up on CBS News: Constitutional law scholar Nicholas Cage!
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
good lord, I cannot
“Following the jewel heist at The Louvre, [Bari] Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown…Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code…”
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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POTENTIAL?! He’s LITERALLY stealing from us.
October 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Sigh
Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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But he's not taking his presidential salary!
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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This is a desecration and an abomination. First he posts an AI video of himself wearing a crown dumping shit on the heads of Americans, then he starts tearing down part of the White House for his Mar-a-Lago style ballroom.
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Chicago No Kings
October 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Chicago has had enough
October 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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It's meaningful that this is Santos. He has no friends. He has no power. He has no influence. This isn't the kind of corruption where Trump gets money or favors. This is a message: no matter how big an asshole you are or how much everyone hates you, the law does not bind you if you are a Republican.
I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I was always a fan of Al. Even moreso after this.
Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.
October 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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October 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Omg, it's so true
it occurs to me we could’ve avoided all this if we’d just given him a whole bunch of giant lego sets back in 2015
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 16
On Wednesday, the president showcased models for a grand new monument to be added to the gateway of the National Mall: a large, neoclassical arch topped with eagles and a gilded, winged figure.
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.
October 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too.
#NoKings
snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...
No Kings — Freedom (video)
Why protest is patriotic
snyder.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Nothing like this should happen anywhere
At least 6 vehicles racing through a quiet suburban neighborhood; multiple agents, all of them armed and masked.

the excessive response plus the violence against this 15 year old girl is outrageous.
Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck
October 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Truth!
October 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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It's happening right in front of you.

Trump and the GOP are creating their own manufactured crises, lighting the Reichstag fires, blaming "them" for the violence (their critics), citing "left-wing" terrorism, all as a setup for martial law and the Insurrection Act.

It's happening in plain sight.
October 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM