gordonbloem.bsky.social
Lifelong liberal Dem eager to join hands with principled conservatives to save this republic from Trump’s authoritarian threat. Proud Central Michigan University and Wayne State Law alum. Go Detroit Tigers!
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I thought I was the only one worried about Trump pardoning Boelter.
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Of course there is no attempt to connect the dots to the broader right wing militia movement.
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Confirmation! We live in the dumbest timeline.
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The right wing, from top to bottom, has no desire to discern the cause of this tragic event. They only see it as something to be spun to their advantage.
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You crazy left winger you!
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More women leaders solving all of our problems with war is an annoying liberal trope that should be put to rest.
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Including the CJ who employs no deference to the conclusions of Congress as to what is appropriate legislation under the 15th Amendment.
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I suspect he’s about to take off his shoes and prop up his feet.
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I did read the article and would love to have your take on how much of the legitimate Israeli concern can be attributed to Trump scuttling the JCPOA.
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His political acumen was on full display in his 1965 strategy on voting rights that was contrary to LBJ’s wishes while still retaining him as an ally.
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I think you know the answer.
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Thugs.
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We never seem to learn the difference between the two or that we need both. This book helps.
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@asharangappa.bsky.social and @emptywheel.bsky.social were all over this as soon as CECOT started being used.
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I’m in big trouble.
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Well I think we have our answer.
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And immigration law was largely nonexistent before the triumph of nativism.
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Protest movements must learn that civil disobedience aimed at an unjust law, reveals the folly of enforcing that law. Civil disobedience aimed at common sense laws (traffic regulations for example) does the opposite.
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And the MSM needs to stop calling him an anti-vaccine skeptic. A skeptic is fact based and subject to persuasion.
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He isn't a skeptic. A skeptic can be persuaded with facts. He is simply a non-fact-based anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist.
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I spent most of my career representing indigent criminal defendants. Far too many were mentally ill and getting almost no treatment. They frequently became a source of sadistic entertainment for their cellmates.
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It was a well intended bipartisan disaster.
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I keep returning to this.
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Trump tariffs make “The Big Rock Candy Mountains” real! youtu.be/NMAPOQedRxA?...
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I think a year would be good for at least half of the college students I taught. Let them take a year to drink too much, chase their choice of sexual partner, and, in general, learn how to behave reasonably without parental monitoring.
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Talking to a GOP politician about what this bill does is way too much like the Monty Python argument clinic sketch.
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Hegseth and Trump are seemingly unaware that true heroes like Medgar Evers fight against fascists in Europe and in the United States.
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I wonder how closely it will resemble this.
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How bad does it need to get before a court issues an order directing her, in legalese, to STFU?
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If the SCOTUS wants to do the work of the trial courts I say we should make them ride the circuit.
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I’m pretty sure the maximum sentence for the alleged crimes doesn’t include indefinite detention in a Salvadoran gulag. If that is to happen to Mr. Garcia, the Salvadoran government will be the state to impose that punishment.
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And if convicted, he will face punitive measures established by legislation. Those measures will not include indefinite detention in a foreign gulag.
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I’ve been saying it since 2016. It is why, even if we survive Trump and replace him with a virtuous president, our allies will shy away from us. They know they cannot trust the American voter.
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It seems as if they’ve hired the dumbest, most aggressive, Barney Fife like officers available.
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Hey judge, why does my client, charged with OWI 3rd enhanced to habitual 4th, have so many more convictions than his teetotaling neighbor?
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Because he approves of those threats.
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My emotional response after listening to your conversation? Run Rahm run!
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You and John Heilemann really need to do a limited run podcast on the music of the 70s and 80s. I’d listen.
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He was a much different kind of criminal, there were principled conservatives in the Republican Party who spoke truth to Nixon, and the SCOTUS was conservative but believed in the rule of law.
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🤔
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When Elian was being unlawfully withheld from his father.
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Department of Grift, Insanity, and Evil.