Owen Brugh
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Owen Brugh
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Lawyer, father, government nerd. Cities are for people. Posts are mine alone.
A reminder as we are threatened with troops being deployed to my city for no damn reason other than to intimidate and distract
August 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Emphasizing again that anyone who responds to "that's illegal" with some variant of "lol all law is meaningless you're a sucker for thinking that matters" is actively doing PR for Trump and helping him.

Nihilism about the law is the best way to make sure that the rule of law dies a quicker death.
February 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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In an unintended homage to Hannah Arendt, Trump is treating the United States as the Bush Administration treated the occupation gov't in Iraq - a field in which incompetent and corrupt Republican apparatchiks try their theories and fancies on a captive population.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...
Imperial boomerang - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Multiple cities reporting that ICE raids have begun.

I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, the actions each of us can take to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.

No paywall. Please share widely.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
www.qasimrashid.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Over the last 50 years, 101 million infants around the world were saved by vaccines. Elevating anti-vaccine conspiracy theories would cost lives.
November 21, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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kakistocracy, noun
November 13, 2024 at 8:57 PM
It’s nice to see so many people move over here. Time to delete the other app.
November 11, 2024 at 9:52 PM