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Public defender. Professional troublemaker. Burrito and word game enthusiast. ITMFA.
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lot in my lifetime alone (since the late 60s). But this is a unique and particular kind of danger. We as a nation must stand by them. Don't forget the #NoKings protests are this Saturday, a strong national showing will demonstrate that what happens in Los Angeles affects all of us, and that we 2/
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My partner, who is a much better darts player, keeps getting what he calls a Gerald
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I’ve spent years thinking I should get a tattoo of the 14th Amendment
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DO IT
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Kinda sick of these fucking people always insisting that the only Americans that ever mattered were all the worst ones. What's wrong with me fighting for an America that is represented by John Brown, Ruby Bridges, Jonas Salk or Dr. George Tiller?
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Why does James Lankford hate American values like free speech?
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One thing I have suggested before and will suggest again is that Dem politicians, if they insist on posting on Twitter, should at least adopt a policy of posting here *first* by like 15 minutes or an hour or whatever, which will draw political reporters to check here and engage here more.
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Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
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Statement from all Democratic governors.
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Sincerely yes
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It turns out there are a lot of not-great lawyers out there! (The good ones exist; it’s not always easy to identify them when you’re hiring an attorney.)
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"anything to declare"
"the country has become a dangerous kakistocracy with the worst people with zero qualifications making terrible decisions that will be felt for generations"
"i meant your luggage"
"two dozen russ and daughters bagels"
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I’ve traveled back from NYC with, among other things:
• bagels
• Zabar’s tuna salad
• hamantaschen
• assorted Chinese food
• a foil-wrapped chicken parm sandwich that I belatedly realized was going to look suspicious in the X-ray machine
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Nope, that wasn’t it
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I’ve posted on here about how you shouldn’t worry too much about security planning for your average Saturday-morning protest, so let me say that this is the kind of thing where you should come prepared to be tear-gassed or arrested