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bethmcclain.bsky.social
Lawyer, nurse, digging deeper to fight bad guys, hope you will too.
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Wow, wow, wow Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum: "The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States." Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!

submitted 20 hours ago • 132 comments

Judge Howell, once again, bringing 🔥

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

“And then I grew up … and I read books.” As someone else who’s proud of his NC ties, I respect the hell out of @davidjoy.bsky.social for speaking out like this.

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

The New York Times confirms that Twitter is nothing more than the rigged playpen of a billionaire who lies daily about loving free speech. I think it possible that Elon Musk is the single most pathetic human being alive.

submitted 9 days ago • 144 comments

My understanding of presidential pardons is that they were traditionally granted at the end of a president's term. Trump, on the other hand, seems to be issuing them for his allies as soon as convictions happen. I know we all expect this sort of corruption, but is there precedent for such an effort?

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

Unbelievably brazen corruption. www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Oh

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Died (alas!) on this day in 1444, Robert Campin of Tournai. Here, his beautiful Annunciation in a Gothic chapel. Mary trying to finish the chapter before she has to deal w/ this.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

i feel like trumpcoin, and the fact that we never talk about it, is pretty emblematic of the way the press refuses to grapple with trump. it exists in order to pay him bribes. it expressly gives you political access. it does not pretend to have a licit motive. it was a one-day scandal.

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

Must-read article from @radleybalko.bsky.social about a truly decent lawyer just trying to help folks in his community through pro bono—and the feds who showed up at his home to intimidate him for doing so. Ht to @clayjak.substack.com. You are a good egg. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

“Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America,” writes @adriennelaf.bsky.social. If you wait to speak out against autocrats, you have already lost:

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Resistance is NOT futile

submitted 13 days ago • 605 comments

I don’t care do you?

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

it's not all bad news

submitted 32 days ago • 29 comments