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Old Miakka
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Florida Native, Cracker Cow-hunter; connoisseur of all things La Florida. FL Patriot War of 1812 descendent. East & West Florida were the 14th & 15th British Colonies in America (Revolutionary War battles were fought in FL).
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Old Miakka @oldmiakka.bsky.social · Dec 13
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
-Plato’s The Republic.
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meidastouch.com
Powerful.
aaronparnas.bsky.social Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result was “institutionalized hunger.”

@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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lmh82.bsky.social
Because everything they are doing is straight out of P2025. Everything. www.project2025.observer
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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thewarningses.bsky.social
While Donald Trump destroys the White House, he's also destroying our long-lasting relationship with Canada. I react to the tariff talks with Canada and the potential for war in Venezuela.

Watch here: youtu.be/fs1udQXjOCc
Trump Tarnishes Reagan's Legacy in Trade War with Canada
YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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bc60.bsky.social
I like this guy
October 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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mary1kathy.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · Oct 16
#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
October 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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ericumansky.bsky.social
BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
A law was passed a long time ago to place a plaque on the wall to honor the officers who defended the Capitol on J6. The plaque is done and has been ready to hang up for a long time. MAGA Mike refuses to comply with that law, which is a slap in the face to every officer. bsky.app/profile/atru...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 15
Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."
October 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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debpearlstein.bsky.social
Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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andyheppelle.bsky.social
And here we are - Nazis lied to German voters & fascists lied in Italy and Spain!
#DontBeASucker #USArmy movie shows how Nazi & fascist lies led to dictatorships in WW2 just as in 2025 lies by POTUS, VP, Speaker, AG, GOP & media minions are damaging USA🇺🇸 #ProtectTheConstitution🇺🇸 youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
Don't Be a Sucker
YouTube video by US National Archives
youtu.be
October 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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sbagen.bsky.social
Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 7
Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
Trump before the election: “I know nothing about Project 2025.”

Trump today:
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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atrupar.com
Ty Cobb: "The simple theme is rewriting history. Trump wants to rewrite history so the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection... America needs to learn from the mistakes that we've had. And one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was reelecting President Trump"
September 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
Every law prof rn
a cartoon of a man saying " so professor would you say it 's time for everyone to panic ? "
Alt: Kent Brockman: Professor would you say it’s time for everyone to panic Yes I would Kent
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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wishda.bsky.social
The legal concept of truth as the absolute defense for libel, which the free press in the U.S. is based on, came out of this court case:
John Peter Zenger - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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melissjpeltier.bsky.social
They’re accelerating the timeline. They need an excuse for Martial Law that won’t make SCOTUS look even more corrupt for agreeing with it.
September 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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organizingpower.bsky.social
Make them do it. Even the unions representing federal workers support a shutdown. Force this administration to shut down the government and own the consequences
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
White House to agencies: Prepare mass firing plans for a shutdown
In memo, the Trump administration says the Reduction-in-Force plans would go beyond standard shutdown furloughs.
www.politico.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
the policy landscape of education is bleak dude. GOP want to burn public education to the ground and put kids in megachurch clickfarms or homeschool them so dems are sort of the only game in town if you actually give a shit about schools, and the lib education establishment is plenty flawed
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
In dissent as to the stay, Justice Kagan — joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson — lays out the lawlessness of the majority plainly.

"Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars."

Order/dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
I dissented from the majority's prior stay orders, and today do so again. Under existing law, what Congress said goes-as this Court unanimously decided nearly a century ago. In Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935), we rejected a claim of presidential prerogative identical to the one made in this case. (Indeed, the suit emerged from a discharge at the very same agency.) Con-gress, we held, may restrict the President's power to remove members of the FTC, as well as other agencies performing "quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial" functions, without violating the Constitution. Id., at 629. So the President can-not, as he concededly did here, fire an FTC Commissioner without any reason. To reach a different result requires reversing the rule stated in Humphrey's: It entails overriding rather than accepting Congress's judgment about agency design. The majority may be raring to take that action, as its grant of certiorari before judgment suggests. But until the deed is done, Humphrey's controls, and prevents the majority from giving the President the unlimited removal power Congress denied him. Because the majority's stay does just that, I respectfully dissent. Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars. Still more, it should not be used, as it also has been, to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation's separation of powers.
September 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM