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jkarlin.bsky.social
Mimi to 5 sweet grandkiddos, proud KU Jayhawk, former AUSA & retired judge living the life. Hatch Act & Judicial Code of Conduct no longer control my speech!
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You’re in charge…with whatever is left of your department.

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So it takes a “pretty please your excellency” call to trump from GOP to stop or reverse insane Trump RIFs. What a way to govern. Hey Congress! Remember that whole “co-equal branch of government” thing?

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Haha. As much as I fear Trump will get away with even more crap, tell me again how he’ll enforce this: “The order also bars Perkins Coie employees from entering federal buildings…”

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Not with this DOJ.

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So explain to me again @jerrymoran.bsky.social @rogermarshall.bsky.social — slowly please—-why it is “efficient” to RIF IRS employees. Me think because will help your rich donors. Prove me wrong please.

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Completely illegal. Birthright citizen challenge is stayed for forever (unless constitution is amended). Goodness sakes. Why comply in advance? Challenge this (realizing immediately post partum not exactly greatest time to be activist!!)

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And why should only ultra wealthy be able to skip the immigration line???

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Wow. Very proud of the ABA and proud of my profession. Thank you ABA.

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Imagine that. 💰

submitted 6 days ago • 1047 comments

BUT he showed up in tiny town in waaay western KS that is red red red. Won’t show up in bigger population centers.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Deep deep red rural Ks.

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Please please please.

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110%. Waaaay western Ks. Red red red rural.

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Oakley Ks—- very very very red part of very red state.

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Hey @rogermarshall.bsky.social. Are you good with not having the best possible flu vaccine (or none???) for next year's flu season?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Did you take a look at his cabinet assembled today? BY FAR, attended by white men.....

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@sharicedavids.bsky.social PLEASE DO THIS! Have it announced in advance, in the evening or on a weekend, in a huge auditorium. I've been begging Moran, Marshall, Mann for a town hall. At least Mann's office called me and said they would hold one "sometime." Moran and Marshall are hiding even more.

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Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

submitted 11 days ago • 992 comments

Kan Rep Mann’s office today said they’d have a town hall in NE Kansas (where the biggest population centers are in his district) “some time” but would not commit to any date. Not even what season of the year.

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Put her under oath when she returns from vacationing in Mexico. What a time to take annual leave! (Sarcasm font…).

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At what point, indeed @rogermarshall.bsky.social and @jerrymoran.bsky.social

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DEI hire.

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He nails it.

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Today he tweeted about a friend who had died, but doesn’t have the guts to tweet about his voting record where he is voting for EVERYTHING Trump wants —including horrendous cabinet picks, huge tax cuts for the rich & cuts to Medicaid etc for the poor. What a weakling. Wants to seem moderate. Isn’t.

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Ok I’ll bite. Why is an influencer accompanying him on US plane to any foreign country? Or anywhere, for that matter.

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i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year

submitted 19 days ago • 41 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 18 days ago • 4540 comments

Cowardly Quisling

submitted 19 days ago • 1749 comments

Freedom of association, anyone?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Up is down and down is up. Got it?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Remind me again how many lawsuits GOP filed in Matty K’s one judge district in Tx?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently $50 million loss for Kansas Univ Med Center research. And neither (GOP) senator has issued a peep. Grow a spine @jerrymoran.bsky.social @rogermarshall.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Que sera sera, right senators Moran and Marshall? It’s just cancer/life and death for possible Kansans you supposedly represent.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Welp, if we didn’t already know ….

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🤷🏻

submitted 30 days ago • 446 comments

And Kansas university medical to lose $52.5M. Allowing musk to randomly cut programs without Congress approval still ok? KS senators @jerrymoran.bsky.social @rogermarshall.bsky.social Won’t even stand up against this when own constituents harmed. Why are you there?

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And the bolded, all caps has quite the lawyerly ring to it, too!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

SO hear me out. What if every single scientist in a division researching a cure to cancer takes the alleged buyout? Good for America? Fed employees are not like factory workers making same widget. They are not fungible in most instances. Elementary concept. GOVT IS NOT A BUSINESS

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Strange, indeed.

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

Just saying.

submitted 34 days ago • 1004 comments

"The men appear to have barricaded the entrance to the bank, spray painted the security cameras, and ordered the employees to lie on the floor. We're watching now to see if they do anything wrong."

submitted 34 days ago • 47 comments

But I’m still your friend, right?

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submitted 35 days ago • 961 comments

Sorry, Mexico and Canada, we elected a dimwitted shitheel

submitted 37 days ago • 834 comments

5th circuit. Says it all.

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My friends at a Department of Veterans Affairs were instructed at a town hall to remove their pronouns from all materials

submitted 45 days ago • 362 comments

Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!

submitted 45 days ago • 595 comments

MURKOWSKI comes out against Hegseth for DOD, first GOP opponent. "The leader of the Department of Defense must demonstrate and model the standards of behavior and character we expect of all servicemembers, and Mr. Hegseth’s nomination to the role poses significant concerns that I cannot overlook."

submitted 45 days ago • 1421 comments

Angles matter.

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