thumpernyc.bsky.social
@thumpernyc.bsky.social
Lawyer, lefty, licentious
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NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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So many senior appointees in the Trump admin got positions they were utterly unqualified and unprepared for because of their social media presence or Fox appearances. MAGA cheers it on. Then it constantly comes back to bite them when they screw things up - like the Texas gerrymander.
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy.

Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
193. The "War" on Judges
Deputy Attorney General Blanche's attack on lower courts is an impressive combination of light on substance; shamelessly hypocritical; and profoundly dangerous. More people should be condemning it.
www.stevevladeck.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Thread!
/4 Worry that the opportunities to demonstrate peacefully are diminishing under a cloud of lies and thuggery and hostility to free speech.

Worry that someday you will be ashamed of yourself if you just let this happen without saying anything.
October 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th.
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Thank you, Ambassador!
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Mamdani: I run against a disgraced former governor who, in this moment, has chosen to issue a statement in which he cannot even say the name Tish James, nor the name Donald Trump.

If you cannot say Trump’s name today—how will you stand up to him tomorrow?
October 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Here’s video of the incident
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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10 days until the biggest peaceful protests in modern American history. A No Kings Day event is likely happening near you wherever you are. Please join us to show we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
October 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
@cbsmornings.bsky.social well, I kinda liked watching you all but I can’t possibly trust a news operation run by the likes of Bari Weiss. Good luck, I hope the good journalists among you land somewhere you like
October 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military.

Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:
181. Courts and Domestic Use of the Military
In response to adverse judicial rulings, the President's advisers and supporters are claiming courts lack the power to halt domestic use of the military. A critical early precedent is to the contrary.
www.stevevladeck.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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If you read nothing else today, I pray that you will read every word of this necessary, powerful, and much-needed piece by @nhannahjones.bsky.social.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
After some difficulties in figuring out how, just canceled our Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions. A small gesture I know but it’s something
September 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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We need your help to make October 18 the biggest peaceful protest of the year. Please spread the word, register your local event as soon as you can, and start RSVPing for the local protests to help build momentum: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
September 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Mark your calendars and tell your friends: No Kings 2.0 on October 18.
The sequel will be (and HAS to be) even bigger.
September 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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If you didn't manage to see this calmly furious and defiant statement by @govpritzker.illinois.gov yesterday, please find 12 minutes to see or hear it today.

Best, strongest statement by sr official of where we stand and what is needed now.

Civil duty to see it.
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
August 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
@celinegounder.com thank you for speaking the truth so plainly about the COVID vaccine this morning on @cbsmornings.bsky.social … it’s refreshing to see someone who doesn’t pull their punches
August 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
@cbsmornings.bsky.social this treatment of the paramount/UFC deal as “news” is ridiculous. I am embarrassed for you
August 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Once in like 1999 I went into a Gristedes to buy some cereal and milk and when I opened the milk fridge a fucking bat flew out, hit me in the face, and flew up to the ceiling (its home, clearly) and when I told the woman at the front she was like yeah, he gets trapped in there sometimes
June 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hard to mistake the message here
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Oh my god
May 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Spotted on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn
May 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM