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FinTech attorney. Principal at Middlebrook LLC. Interests: prepaid cards, payments, earned wage access, civil rights, Native American and Inuit art, old photographs, chipmunks.
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Are you a fish smuggler or a fish trafficker?
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Ground control to Major Tom
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Exactly. This is all horse shit. Sen. Padilla was in the building to receive a briefing from Homeland Security and said he was going to the press conference. They knew who he was when he entered the room. And he identified himself multiple times. This was an intentional assault.
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Every day? Feels like every hour.
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Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser:
“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”
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She’s so good.
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I blame immigrant babies.
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Oh lord. Now do I have to shop at WalMart? It is definitely not my favorite store. Please someone get to Target and fix their pathetic response to all of this.
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Given the use of the military to detain people in LA is unlawful but done “under color of law,” isn’t this activity also a violation of 18 USC 241 and 242? Section 241 criminalizes a conspiracy to deprive persons of their federal rights. Wouldn’t that reach Hegseth, Bondi, Noem, Miller and others?
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And aphids.
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Don’t know about Louis, but Weinstein did do it.
www.avclub.com/the-tale-of-...
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Is he the guy who jacked off into the potted plant?
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The Major General’s JAG Officer needs to have a talk with his client,
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Really? I would have pegged him as a bottom.
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Amen. What’s particularly galling is that she never apologizes for the harm she has done to trans kids and other people. It’s all just “who’s going to protect MY RIGHTS?”
She can go eat a bag of dicks.
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Is Musk admitting that he lies on Twitter?
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Love the kitties, but god damn, that wall paper.
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Remember when Republicans called Obama an “Emperor.”
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Yeah. I knew the Chinese Exclusion Acts existed, but didn’t really learn about them until law school. Challenges to the Exclusion Acts created important Supreme Court decisions like Wong Kim Ark which holds individuals born in the US, regardless of their parents' nationality, are U.S. citizens.
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For clarity, the OK History requirement is in high school.
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So we went to the library and looked it up and I was right. In reading real historical accounts, I also learned that what I was taught in high school was not a particularly complete nor honest rendition of the facts. That was decades ago. I’m glad the facts about the massacre has been revisited
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In Oklahoma there is a requirement for a semester of Oklahoma History so we were told about the “Tulsa Race Riot.” In college in a discussion about civil unrest I mentioned Tulsa as one of the worst disturbances and was challenged because no one had ever heard of it and didn’t believe it happened.
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I hope you don’t mind if I use this thread to plug my educational video series “A Million and One Uses for a Banana.” I just posted episode #42,583 “Suicide.” Be sure to like and subscribe.
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Must be their professors.
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I hear you. I went to public schools in Oklahoma. But lucky for me, my Dad took us to the library a lot.
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If you want to learn more about the Chinese Exclusion Acts, I highly recommend this PBS American Experience documentary. It explains the history of Asian immigration, the origin of the Exclusionary Acts, and the social and legal challenges to the laws. It’s really good.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
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If you want to learn more about the Chinese Exclusion Acts, I highly recommend this PBS American Experience documentary. It explains the history of Asian immigration, the origin of the Exclusionary Acts, and the social and legal challenges to the laws. It’s really good.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
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This is wonderful. I sense that you, like me, like many here on BlueSky, are angered/devastated/scared by what’s happening. I know you personally have had to endure some extreme nastiness. I want you to know that who you are and what you do is much appreciated by many people. Stay safe, my friend.
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Please God just let it be easy to opt out of this crap.
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Donald Trump declares war on America.
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Is “journalist” the new, all-purpose insult among these Neanderthals? What a totally bizarre choice.
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Darth, the neo-Nazi community on Twitter is a loving, supportive community that nurtures its members.
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If you don’t prioritize his comments and put them at the top, he feels that you’ve blocked his ability to comment.
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I have to wonder if this was pushed this weekend in part to ensure protests in DC next weekend which will be used to justify federalizing the police there and taking control of the DC government.
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Is Stephen Miller acting like this just because Musk is going to inseminate his wife?
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Rioters and looters in Los Angeles?
Is he watching a movie and thinks it’s real?
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Good price too
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Thanks. Seems like a prudent purchase.
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Would this protect one from tear gas?