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Defender of Justice 🔹️Criminal Defense, Poverty is not a Crime, Accountability Not Persecution, Anti-Genocide, & Supporter of Many Paths to Citizenship 🔹️Land of Enchantment 🌶🔆🌵 🔹️Brain moves faster than my fingers, expect typos 🔹️CWRU Law Alum
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If you believe in the "Rule of Law" that means the government has to follow the law too...

Not sure what to make of this reporting. Is the plan to save the government money to kill us? COVID deaths saved Social Security a modest $205 billion

Think before you act... Art by @adamzyglis.bsky.social

Honestly didn't know Drunk Flying was a thing ✈️ The Trump administration fired several FAA lawyers tasked with helping keep reckless and drunk pilots out of the skies — and officials are baffled @rollingstone.com

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Finger puppet More scrapeable content on Patreon patreon.com/glenlelievre #Trump #Putin #Ukraine

For those of you in New Mexico this Starter Pack will easily connect you to your state & federal representatives and senators who are on BlueSky Now is the time to let them know they represent you go.bsky.app/7M1jYio

Never top early to teach your kids about democracy, free speech, and the right to peacefully assemble

If youve been avoiding news, @lastweektonight.com has an excellent summary to get you caught up in just a few minutes youtu.be/cw0F8G4-dMw?...

The Trump architects see "anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The CIA is afraid of lawyers? 🤔 "51 employees at CIA and the Office of Director of National Intelligence received calls Friday from their human resources office telling them to report to the visitors center at CIA headquarters in Virginia at 8AM on Tuesday with their badges and without lawyers"

If you believe in the "Rule of Law" that means the government has to follow the law too... Watch for a flurry of motions to come from Luigi's lawyer disclosing "serious search and seizure issues" in his case & related to Mayor Adams and a top NYPD official improperly discussing evidence @npr.org

Walmart version of Trump Lololol inshallah i never act so shamefully that my kids need to call my ass out

Homelessness is a reflection of government policy failures... 🔹️Education 🔹️Employment 🔹️Healthcare Staffing at HUD which pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84% Watch for record-high homelessness to get even worse. @npr.org

@washingtonpost.com analysis finds hundreds of the contracts DOGE cancelled represent savings of $0 each - saving American taxpayers nothing

Have we started mandating Russian in public schools yet? Art by Gary Markstein

Hard to have a decent witch trial these days

Rally Sanctuary Citizens!

And Aaron Parnas is Lev’s son

Sacrificing Ukraine to appease Russia paves the way for a massive European land grab by Putin Art by @billbramhall.bsky.social

It's not just budget cuts, Musk and his co- dictator are bringing back the death penalty Art by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

900 former federal prosecutors emphasize the oath they swore "was to the Constitution—not to the President, Attorney General, or any other individual." @axios.com

“Everyone, cops and communities alike, has an interest in keeping officers with histories of misconduct from rejoining the profession. Nonpartisan public safety reforms like these should be placed above politics and maintained across administrations.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

An FCC probe of an SF radio station over a story it didn't like. A judge-ordered takedown of a newspaper editorial. We are watching the 1st Amendment die rapidly, inspired by a president who declares himself a king How can the media fight back? My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

DOJ threatening prosecution of a New York sheriff, setting up a test case for whether federal officials can successfully spook local officials into compliance with ICE

Anyone seen a jobs report from the federal government since Trump took office? 🤔

The Trump administration is significantly shrinking the agency that helps state and local officials protect voting systems, Stateline reports. stateline.org/2025/0...

Trump’s special envoy says there will be strings attached to California wildfire aid, but months after thousands lost their homes still doesn't know what those are... He floated the idea of targeting the California Coastal Commission calling it “a disaster” and unelected group of “crazy woke left”

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Reclassifying everyone as probationary so they can "legally" fire them... "The reclassification exposes these employees to termination without due process" www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Abt. 30,000 federal workers fired in the 30 days he has been in power. @nytimes.com has a tracker you can follow 👇 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Details matter... Art by @tomgauld.bsky.social

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

Don't look away 👀

“to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia” 2012 RAGE plan: Retire All Government Employees "gut the federal bureaucracy. Then, replace civil servants with political loyalists who would answer to a CEO-type leader Yarvin likened to a dictator"

“I worry we’re going to have a generation that follows AI blindly"

Prisons are generally horrible places, but this rises to a whole new level... New York's prison guard strike now has almost all of the state’s 42 prisons on lock down meaning people are confined to a small cell where they can't shower and have no access to medical care or food.

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

Infant mortality rates in the US increased by 7% following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. This is from October. Anyone know what it is now?

Annoyed migrants know their basic rights Trump's border czar said “Sanctuary citizens are making it very difficult to arrest the criminals" Know that while restaurants are public spaces "the general public can’t enter the kitchen or the manager’s office, neither can ICE without a judicial warrant"

Making America Great by cutting cancer research & meals on wheels to pay for a $200 million PR campaign bowing to the president’s ego @rollingstone.com

"he has become more and more interested in the advantages of dictatorship, and the absolute control over the military that he believes it would deliver" “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had” @theatlantic.com Oct. 2024

Watch he is going to fast track deportations by removing all the Immigration judges 👀 Citing that they are "unelected and constitutionally unaccountable" the Justice Department announced it will not defend removal restrictions for administrative law judges against challenges in courts

39 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America A disturbing interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB. bigthink.com/the-present/...

The cause of homelessness is not simply, not having a home. It’s unaddressed trauma, untreated mental health struggles, and systemic barriers that keep people trapped. To truly end homelessness, we must go beyond shelter, we must heal, support, and empower people at the root of their struggles.

Judge Ho appoints former U.S. solicitor general to review Mayor Eric Adams criminal corruption case & asked for additional briefs from the parties adding he would take oral arguments on March 14 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/n...