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embehnke.bsky.social
Retired commercial real estate lawyer living in Phoenix. Enjoying my 3d career- teaching pottery to adults. Finally, a job I love! I also paint and draw and follow podcasts about law and politics - putting my legal education to its highest and best use!
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Leavitt: Every cabinet secretary is a rock star.. there is sooo much good news flowing out of this administration every day. It’s hard for the media to keep up with… There are wins after wins after wins every single week. We saw those wins this week

"Excuse me. My eyes are up here"

RFK Jr is a nutjob, wacko conspiracy theorist. Everyone knows that. The fact that he’s in such a position of power is absolutely outrageous.

Yes, I WILL be RTing nearly any post I see on this topic. Same reason as always: local news is ESSENTIAL, and in this case sfgate.com was already a fantastic outlet that's gotten better still by expanding its coverage territory. It's one of the *only* local (or even regional) sites on the list.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one batshit crazy SOB.

"I think we made the right decision" -- Tom Homan on the deportation of a Maryland dad to a gulag in El Salvador that the administration has already admitted was a mistake

The White House just issued this statement: “The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.” How’s this real life?

Oops!

Phoenix, AZ

CNN: Stock market plummets MSNBC: Stock market craters Highlights for Children: Stock market down big FOX News:

How much untold pain and disgrace could have been avoided had a handful of GOP Senators had the guts to convict after the second impeachment? They utterly failed the test of history.

JD Vance tells Americans they are going to have to “deal” with inflation. What about families who can’t afford to “deal” with it because they are already oppressed by the system that prefers people who look like Vance? And does JD have to “deal” with it???

This isn’t hard 🔥🔥 Live and Let Live 🎯 #SheShed

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

This is the economic equivalent of treating Covid with disinfectant and UV light. It makes sense when you realize by narcissism he pathologically believes he's brilliant and has special knowledge and powers, and by psychopathy he doesn't care who he hurts or destroys.

We were cleaning Chinas clock economically. Many predicted they would surpass us by now, and they haven’t. But this tariff stuff will close the gap. Idiots

Here’s the thing about the tariffs: there will be no “short term pain”. Only long term. Every time a company realizes they can get away with charging you extra they don’t ever lower the price again. They just gouge. Whatever price hikes there are will be here for good.

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

Bezos has done some amazing things with this editorial page.

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story

At one of his frequent press conferences (because he loves being on TV), I'd love it if some reporter piped up with, "What do you say to people who call you a know-nothing narcissistic asshole, Mr. President?"

Bingo

It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.

I touched a nerve with our Lauren Boebert jokes yesterday. She's not qualified to run a Dairy Queen according to some current and former Dairy Queen employees, She can work at one though.

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

The worst news of the week. "The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social. #TrumpTariffs

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In light of the current OpSec scandal, it seems like as good a time as any to re-up the video of Pete Hegseth accidentally hitting a man with an ax on Fox & Friends like a decade ago

I’m sorry, but underlying national security crisis aside, that’s a LOT of typos and grammatical errors for an official response from the White House. Leavitt should be embarrassed for herself.

This must go VIRAL! Start now!!!

I'm going to post this every damn day (I hope you will share far and wide) and I hope Senator Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social does an update every week for us. This amount of corruption IS NOT NORMAL! youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...

ICYMI: Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social had some words for Rep. Farmer after Farmer grossly disrespected Pearson for missing time to grieve when his brother recently took his own life with a gun. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DHrFSp-...

Whatever happened to the "5 things " DoGe emails ? Talked to someone really smart who just left gov, who said all the emails bounced back as inbox full. Already forgotten Typical Ready Fire Aim

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.