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chrisgarfield.bsky.social
Trying to restart this account. Focus will be history, law, and politics. Midwestern guy living in the desert. Love good food, history, politics, musical theater, and baseball. I’m married, we have two dogs. Lawyer by day.
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Pam Bondi is a liar. If she isn’t, this is true. Incompetence is one of this administration’s most common defenses. For some reason, they are allowed to get away with it.

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There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American. A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

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Mitch McConnell has a net worth of up to $52 million, and has had high quality government-financed healthcare for decades. Losing your healthcare, losing your loved ones, losing your life, isn’t something people should be told “get over it.”

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It’s not that they don’t know; It’s that he doesn’t know.

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What’s the most damning sentence in this screenshot? “Silence overtook the room.” SILENCE. OVERTOOK. THE. ROOM?

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“We’re on it”? What do you mean “we’re on it”? DRILLING FOR OIL ISN’T SOMETHING THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY DOES. EVER. WHAT ARE WE DOING. *throws things*

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It’s always the warriest right before the peace?

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The truth is scary. But denial about who create this danger is even scarier. Doctors know where the threat is coming from.

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@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social is so good at this. Not only is he knowledgeable, he is very patient and methodical in answering all of the questions on this thread.

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Why push for impeachment? Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate. The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention. Performative public investigations matter

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I fixed it

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@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social is so good at this. Not only is he knowledgeable, he is very patient and methodical in answering all of the questions on this thread.

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Out of context Trump “It’s such a beautiful pole.” #OutOfContextTrump #Trump

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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

This is an important clarification for #LGBTQ people. Please share widely.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

submitted 7 days ago • 134 comments

How wrong do you have to be to have Tucker, Bannon and MTG be on the right side?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Look, I don’t much care what Tulsi Gabbard says either, but here’s the thing: I didn’t appoint her to be my Director of National Intelligence.

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Trump just shared this alarming text from Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee, effusively praising him while telling him that no president has been in his position "since Truman in 1945" (when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan) & that he "will hear a voice from heaven" telling him what to do.

submitted 8 days ago • 655 comments

Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

submitted 10 days ago • 66 comments

Please. Do not engage. If you are there to be peaceful, sit down and do not be led on by instigators. Do everything you can to remain peaceful.

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