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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 11h

Me every time somebody says "groin injury":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9r...

Cheers: Sam's Groin Injury

YouTube video by TheGasGuru

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 11h

Me every time somebody says "groin injury":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9r...

Cheers: Sam's Groin Injury

YouTube video by TheGasGuru

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 11h

It also strikes me as a sign that the hangers-on who are driving much of this are coming to realize that Trump's political fortunes (and possibly his health) are declining faster than expected, so they're hitting the gas and trying to speed-run the country to authoritarianism before the music stops.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 12h

Pretty wild that it takes no fewer than EIGHT masked ICE goons to pull one unarmed woman out of her car and arrest her.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 12h

Pssh. Last month he was promising to bring down drug costs by 1500%. That's Trump and the GOP for you, folks. Always moving the goalposts.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 14h

The 4th Amendment doesn't "protect" the government. It protects people *from* the government by setting standards and requirements the government must satisfy before it may search or arrest someone.

Also, "reasonable suspicion" is not sufficient grounds for an arrest.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 15h

Comey is going to end up owning Mar-a-Lago when this is all over.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 15h

SCOTUS majority: Of course states can restrict or ban health care practices they deem harmful.

20 states: OK, we're banning gay conversion therapy because it harms kids and doesn't work.

SCOTUS majority: No not like that, we just meant abortion and gender-affirming care.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 16h

YOLO Marge has entered the chat.

To answer your question, what's happening is she wanted to run for the Senate and wanted Trump's endorsement, but GOP leadership told the White House not to let Trump endorse her because she couldn't win, so now she's decided to make their lives hell.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 18h

Pretty wild that the disorganized smash-and-grab run by a ketamine-addled megalomaniac and a bunch of 20-year-old shitposters turned out to be a complete failure. Who could've seen that coming? 🤔

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 19h

And to think Pennsylvania could've had either Conor Lamb or Malcolm Kenyatta. Instead they're stuck with this guy for another three years.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 1d

I'm originally from Charleston, SC, and there's a bunch of street names in downtown Charleston that serve this purpose well:

Legare (Le-GREE)
Hassell (Hazel)
Hayne (Hay-nee)
Huger (Yew-gee)
Beaufain (First syllable rhymes with "new," not "know")

Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

So the "antifa horde" is a dozen or so protesters and a guy in a chicken suit.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

Still trying to figure out if they have a specific problem with Bad Bunny that goes beyond "He performs in Spanish and he's Puerto Rican, so yeah, sure, he's technically American, whatever, but you know, not *really* American. You know what I mean."

So far, that seems to be it.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

SCOTUS majority: Sure, states can restrict or ban health care practices they deem harmful.

Colorado & 19 other states: OK, we're banning gay conversion therapy because it harms kids and doesn't work.

SCOTUS majority: No not like that, we only meant abortion and gender-affirming care.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

Hard as it might be to believe, there was a time when Schumer was a really good, tough, effective political fighter. He won his Senate seat by beating a 3-term GOP incumbent, Al D'Amato, and flipping a seat that had been in GOP hands for 42 years. Good to see him find some of that old fight again.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

It's the Superfans.

a man wearing a chicago bears jersey and a hat is sitting at a table in a bar .

ALT: a man wearing a chicago bears jersey and a hat is sitting at a table in a bar .

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

OK, real question. Do they have any specific objection to Bad Bunny other than he performs in Spanish? Is that really all this is about?

Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like the Jay Jones story is already starting to fade. In the Richmond area, it's been knocked off the front pages by the recovery of a local hardware store's lost cat.

(To be fair, it's a really sweet feel-good story.)

richmond.com/news/local/a...

Francine the Lowe's cat has been found

After weeks of frantic searching, Francine, the beloved Richmond cat who calls a local Lowe’s home, has been found.

richmond.com

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

And the Jay Jones story is already fading from view in Virginia. In the Richmond area, it's been knocked off the front pages and out of the A-blocks on local TV news by the recovery of a local hardware store's lost cat.

I'm absolutely serious about this.

richmond.com/news/local/a...

Francine the Lowe's cat has been found

After weeks of frantic searching, Francine, the beloved Richmond cat who calls a local Lowe’s home, has been found.

richmond.com

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

As soon as she wants? She's been in DC asking to be sworn in since last week. So, like, today would be good.

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

SHE LITERALLY WANTS IT RIGHT NOW!

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

...and run a major, high-profile prosecution is like asking a pilot who's type-rated on a Cessna 172 to jump in the cockpit and learn to fly an F-35 when the F-35 is already in the air.

/end

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

EDVA is perhaps the most challenging docket in the country and its judges do not suffer fools. Being from out of state and unaccustomed to the district's rules of practice gets you no slack whatsoever from them. Asking lawyers who've never handled a case in this district to take over...

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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 2d

She literally just watched this scene from The Newsroom and thought this is really how the news works.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt_S...

The Newsroom - i'm not fucking around

YouTube video by luz lorenz

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