Geoff Bowser
@geoffbowser.bsky.social
Attorney. Living in Brooklyn. Dad of two boys (6 & 3)
Doing what I can to stand up for the rule of law, democratic norms, and a kinder future.
Doing what I can to stand up for the rule of law, democratic norms, and a kinder future.
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Geoff Bowser
@geoffbowser.bsky.social
· Feb 22
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
-George Orwell, 1984
-George Orwell, 1984
You can take my obsolete cables from my cold dead hands!
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
You can take my obsolete cables from my cold dead hands!
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This is weird and lovely and will effectively counteract the latest Nuzzi-Lizza horrorshow.
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is weird and lovely and will effectively counteract the latest Nuzzi-Lizza horrorshow.
The widely shared picture of JD Vance, apparently recovering from a bender with the Rat Pack, is on the official White House Flicker account.
Now today on war.gov, a picture of the Usha Vance without her wedding ring just got published (taken Wednesday).
Vance might be sleeping with the couch.
Now today on war.gov, a picture of the Usha Vance without her wedding ring just got published (taken Wednesday).
Vance might be sleeping with the couch.
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The widely shared picture of JD Vance, apparently recovering from a bender with the Rat Pack, is on the official White House Flicker account.
Now today on war.gov, a picture of the Usha Vance without her wedding ring just got published (taken Wednesday).
Vance might be sleeping with the couch.
Now today on war.gov, a picture of the Usha Vance without her wedding ring just got published (taken Wednesday).
Vance might be sleeping with the couch.
The Preliminary Statement in this dissent is fucking bonkers. Clearly Judge Smith ignored one of the most important rules for lawyers:
"You can write when your angry, but wait till you've calmed down to edit and finalize."
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
"You can write when your angry, but wait till you've calmed down to edit and finalize."
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Preliminary Statement in this dissent is fucking bonkers. Clearly Judge Smith ignored one of the most important rules for lawyers:
"You can write when your angry, but wait till you've calmed down to edit and finalize."
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
"You can write when your angry, but wait till you've calmed down to edit and finalize."
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
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The woman in this story asked for an abortion to protect her health during the first trimester. If not for Dobbs, that choice would have been hers. Instead, she got increasingly sick for another 2 months, and then died.
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The woman in this story asked for an abortion to protect her health during the first trimester. If not for Dobbs, that choice would have been hers. Instead, she got increasingly sick for another 2 months, and then died.
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Leave it to Trump to take an otherwise constitutional partisan gerrymander and turn it into an expressly racial gerrymander
"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board."
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Leave it to Trump to take an otherwise constitutional partisan gerrymander and turn it into an expressly racial gerrymander
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The debate over whether this is 'fascism' is a silly semantic one in which a small minority mean 'completed fascist authoritarianism' and the vast majority mean 'the people in power say and do things that demonstrate completed fascist authoritarianism is what they want to achieve.'
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The debate over whether this is 'fascism' is a silly semantic one in which a small minority mean 'completed fascist authoritarianism' and the vast majority mean 'the people in power say and do things that demonstrate completed fascist authoritarianism is what they want to achieve.'
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'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
. @kenwhite.bsky.social I really do love listening to your takes on the law and the Trump administration, but I think we're now at the point where I can't in good conscious keep paying for "serious trouble" as it enables your co-host. His reflexive centrism is bad enough, but this goes after my kid:
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
. @kenwhite.bsky.social I really do love listening to your takes on the law and the Trump administration, but I think we're now at the point where I can't in good conscious keep paying for "serious trouble" as it enables your co-host. His reflexive centrism is bad enough, but this goes after my kid:
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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This is a patently insane story. The BBC didn't misrepresent Trump's speech. He sent them to the Capital and claimed he would be with them.
The January 6th Committee provided unrebutted evidence that makes it clear he meant for that to occur.
Orwell would be ashamed of the BBC.
The January 6th Committee provided unrebutted evidence that makes it clear he meant for that to occur.
Orwell would be ashamed of the BBC.
The BBC says it received a letter from President Trump threatening legal action over the editing of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech.
BBC faces leadership crisis after news bosses quit over Trump speech edit and bias claims
Britain’s biggest and most important media organization, the BBC, is facing turmoil after its top executive and head of news resigned.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is a patently insane story. The BBC didn't misrepresent Trump's speech. He sent them to the Capital and claimed he would be with them.
The January 6th Committee provided unrebutted evidence that makes it clear he meant for that to occur.
Orwell would be ashamed of the BBC.
The January 6th Committee provided unrebutted evidence that makes it clear he meant for that to occur.
Orwell would be ashamed of the BBC.
Hiding the legacy of racism is racism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Hiding the legacy of racism is racism.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
The longer the Jury deliberations go on in the "sandwich guy" trial, the odds that one juror throws a sandwich at another juror, in order to prove a point, approach 100%.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The longer the Jury deliberations go on in the "sandwich guy" trial, the odds that one juror throws a sandwich at another juror, in order to prove a point, approach 100%.
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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
Has no one on the Supreme Court bothered to learn the relevant history of England that lead up to the Revolutionary War here?
The power to impose/set and collect tariffs caused multiple rebellions in England. It was a primary cause of the Revolutionary War.
They seem ignorant of this.
The power to impose/set and collect tariffs caused multiple rebellions in England. It was a primary cause of the Revolutionary War.
They seem ignorant of this.
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Has no one on the Supreme Court bothered to learn the relevant history of England that lead up to the Revolutionary War here?
The power to impose/set and collect tariffs caused multiple rebellions in England. It was a primary cause of the Revolutionary War.
They seem ignorant of this.
The power to impose/set and collect tariffs caused multiple rebellions in England. It was a primary cause of the Revolutionary War.
They seem ignorant of this.
Wow, the majority on the Supreme Court is just completely willing to debase themselves with obviously dumb and bad faith arguments on this tariff issue. It's sort of amazing how willing powerful men are willing to debase themselves for Trump. I just don't understand it.
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Wow, the majority on the Supreme Court is just completely willing to debase themselves with obviously dumb and bad faith arguments on this tariff issue. It's sort of amazing how willing powerful men are willing to debase themselves for Trump. I just don't understand it.
What a powerful acceptance speech. I hope he is incredibly successful. Let's fucking go NYC!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
What a powerful acceptance speech. I hope he is incredibly successful. Let's fucking go NYC!!
"I wish Andrew Cuomo all the best in private life but let tonight be the last time I utter his name"
Fucking cold blooded
Fucking cold blooded
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
"I wish Andrew Cuomo all the best in private life but let tonight be the last time I utter his name"
Fucking cold blooded
Fucking cold blooded
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mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.
Cuomo is going to move to Florida now, right?
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Cuomo is going to move to Florida now, right?
This is bait ⬇️
I need people to stop fighting via quote posts..I can’t click that many buttons. ONE THREAD PLEASE
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This is bait ⬇️
You better deliver @schumer.senate.gov
Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
You better deliver @schumer.senate.gov
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