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Leftist lawyer. Marxist perpetually longing for the “revolution”. Maybe one of a possibly extinct species in Texas!
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‘Perhaps the United States would take action to defend Estonia or Poland if Russia attacked; but as things stand, there’s no reason to suppose it would, and multiple indications that it wouldn’t.’ @jamesmeek.bsky.social on Trump’s Ukraine negotiations, from the blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

Thousands of Hungarian judges, court staff and supporters marched to the ministry of justice in Budapest on Sat, demanding judicial independence, freedom of expression for judges and better pay. The independence of Hungary's courts is causing a rift between PM Orban's nationalist gov and EU.

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

Join us in saving democracy and human rights 🦋💙🦋

💥 Judge slams Trump's threats against corporations' DEI initiatives: "as the Supreme Court has made clear time and time again, the government cannot rely on the 'threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion' to suppress disfavored speech." www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

Courtesy of @mmpadellan.bsky.social

Attorney & Army veteran Dovey Roundtree (below) won a landmark 1955 desegregation case representing Sarah Keys, a US Army private who’d been forced by a bus driver to relinquish her seat to a white Marine in NC. Roundtree, an officer in WWII, had experienced a similar situation in 1943 in Miami.

Indeed

An acorn is not a tree. A seed is not a flower. An egg is not a chicken. An embryo is not a child.

Another Republican Congressman meets with mad constituents. They booed him with fiery discussions. Signs at town hall "Deport Musk" "Fire Musk" Wisconsin Congressman Fitzgerald tried to respond but the crowd responded with boos. No defenders of Trump or Musk showed up. youtu.be/vxQqShtXz0k?...

From the Daily Dispatch: Congratulations to reproductive rights activist and advocate Amanda Zurawski, who has been named one of Time Magazine's Women Of The Year for 2025! Podcast: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x ⁠https://time.com/7216391/amanda-zurawski-texas-reproductive-rights/

Julianne Moore’s book, banned. Civil rights history, erased. DEI programs, dismantled. Under Project 2025, the federal government is systematically purging diversity—from Pentagon schools to national parks. Even workplace accommodations face scrutiny. Read more:

Children are being barbarically separated from their parents in Texas.👇 www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2PNcp7r/

Inaction in the face of abuse is complicity to evil. #abuse #complicity #evil #SpeakUp #bluesky #HumansAreGreaterThanMoney #Humans>$

Putinization of America

"Moderate" Republicans vote for Trump Nominee A after A assures them they won't do X. After confirmation, they immediately do X. "Moderate" Republicans say Nominee B assured them they won't do X. After confirmation, they immediately do X. Repeat with Nominees C, D, E, F, G, etc.

Research shows that LGBTQ+ inclusion can drive economic activity. Open For Business’ latest report shows the economic case for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Poland: open-for-business.org/poland

FIRE THIS LAZY FEDERAL WORKER......

🇩🇪👀 Merz said that Trump's words are "a classic substitution of the perpetrator for the victim." "This is the Russian narrative, this is how Putin has presented it for years, and I am, frankly, shocked that Donald Trump has now apparently accepted it himself

I think it’s neat that the Biden administration gave him a monopoly on Ukrainian communications and then did nothing when he switched off their comms to protect Russian warships.

Twitter is now an American right wing disinformation machine interfering in global politics. Your participation in it, is collaboration and nothing less.

Amazing information on Social Security & its safeguards & self-audits. REAL INFORMATION, not made-up fake news. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

Fun fact: while Phony Stark and the DOGEbags are taking money from our veterans, the world’s poorest people and kids with cancer, Assistant President Poopy Pants has already spent nearly $11 million of our money… playing golf.

Words fail.

Why do they have an approval rating for this guy? And why is there 34% of ppl that approve of his role? He doesn’t have a real job. Metaphorical representation of the country

Lazier than ever.

"Liberals know their favorite political party supports war, militarism, oligarchy and inequality and is rife with power-serving corruption, and socialists know it too, so they can critique these dynamics in ways that have the unpleasant sting of truth." We trigger the shit out of them 😁

Class consciousness. Spread it.

History tells us of so many who fail to act, hesitate, or freeze and then pay the price. They sit back in shock or disbelief until it’s too late. They don’t rise to the moment. I have news for you. You are there right now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...