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Artist, avid reader, Pro Democracy, anti-MAGA radical, past my prime and don't GAF; labeled a subversive in HS - trying to stay true to it. Also, I torture people for a living.
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A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.

The opinion in the Perkins Coie case is, among other things, a barely patient dissection of the Government’s terrible lawyering. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Effective May 10, NOAA is gone. NOAA protects food systems, disaster preparation and public health, clean air and portable water When NOAA dies, parts if civil society dies. This is just brutal. We, as a society, are going to suffer incredibly.

This criminal complaint seems pretty thin on the statutes charged. She allowed the defendant to leave the courtroom by a different door in her courtroom. The arresting agents literally saw him in the hallway right after going to elevator 1/

"The most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Due process denied to ANYONE will soon become due process denied to EVERYONE… Remember that.

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In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

If you love your library, listen up…

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

Trump is claiming the powers of a tyrant. Not an exaggeration, not a joke. Literally what his administration has argued in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx