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Civil rights lawyer. Colorado and Oklahoma
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He got a little carried away

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

The #Oklahoma cabinet secretary of energy & environment learned today via social media that he had been fired by Gov. Kevin Stitt because he attended a federal court hearing on the state's decades-long lawsuit against large poultry companies. www.readfrontier.org/stories/stit...

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

I have a joke about qualified immunity. I clearly made it up.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

submitted 92 days ago • 634 comments

An OKCPD Internal Affairs investigation found numerous flaws in a sergeant's response to a noise complaint resulting in a resident's injuries. | Brett Dickerson reports:

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

I have covered both Musk and Alex a lot, and only one of them is a useful idiot for Putin and also a heinous person. The other is a patriot who did his job with distinction and is a very good man. Guess which is which: thehill.com/policy/techn...

submitted 93 days ago • 553 comments

If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site. www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

submitted 94 days ago • 950 comments

A quick story: I visited the county jail in Flint, Michigan, this fall to witness something highly unconventional...

submitted 94 days ago • 10 comments

The resistance will be broadcast from Colorado (until our elected officials shrink in the face of adversity)

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Quite minor in the grand scheme of things, but one thing I think blue states (and CA in particular) should be doing if we morph into tariffsland is require companies operating in the state (above some size) to list the price of tariffs on receipts separately

submitted 95 days ago • 277 comments

SCOTUS declines to take up a takings clause question—does the gov't have to compensate you when police destroy your home in the course of stopping an armed fugitive?—but Justices Sotomayor and Gorsuch have a statement saying the question would benefit from "further percolation" in the lower courts.

submitted 96 days ago • 11 comments

Dems need to make it a high priority to find a few R votes and push this through. There's currently no practical way to hold any federal law enforcement (or for that matter, any federal official) accountable for even egregious civil rights/constitutional violations. SCOTUS has also . . .

submitted 96 days ago • 15 comments

File under “state’s rights for me but not for thee.” Feds should learn how to do this by themselves and stop mooching off blue states

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

More Krivas less Dell’Orso

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone should have access to an inclusive education

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