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Michaela Cogswell

@mcogswell.bsky.social

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JD #CABarExamSurvivorJuly2025, Former Texan in NorCal, Baylor Grad, #HTown Raised, Ex-Republican, Ex-Church. Former-IT, Former-Chef, Cats, Sports (especially CFB, CBB, WNBA, Texans)

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Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · Nov 14

Welcome to BlueSky. This is a thread of some of the starter tips, I've picked up in the last week and an extra bit of information for the newskies who are #BaylorFamily.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 6h

I repeat myself: this is a town of 6000 people in Waldo County, Maine

Neal Harkness @nealharkness.bsky.social · 6h

#NoKings #BelfastMaine

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 5h

I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.

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Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 8h

You should probably console yourself with ice cream if we lose.

Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 8h

Nope

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Brian @sirfahrenheit.bsky.social · 9h

13 plays, 92 yards, just like you’ve come to expect from the Baylor Bears

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Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 9h

Too late

Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 9h

Oof, looks like a typical humid day in #HTown.

84 in Houston but feels like 97 because of humidity

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 10h

$172 million can fund a lot of medical research. Or 2 fancy private jets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

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OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 10h

#NoKings Miami!

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 12h

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Know your First Amendment

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Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 23h

My rule is similar but involves Nathan Fillion instead.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · Apr 23

Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.

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Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 23h

A comic book show isn't what I had in mind.

Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 1d

Went through this with my Dad via Alzheimer's and my Father in law with Lewy body dementia. Both had been attorneys. The loss of cognitive ability was so rough on my FIL because he was fully aware of how much he had lost cognitively.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The purge of prosecutors with professional integrity continues.

Apply the law impartially, according to established procedure? Then you’re not welcome in the Department of “
Justice.

What was once a Saturday Night Massacre is now a regular occurrence.

🐸 Helen Kennedy 🐸 @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Two more career prosecutors fired for refusing to indict NY AG Letitia James because they could not find probable cause to charge her. 🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired

www.nytimes.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

u should post however u like
respond to whoever u want

just remember some people come here desperate for the trolling engagement it is not your duty to provide them with it

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Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 1d

That boy is home. 😻

Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to create a series where the public defenders are the heros... Basically an anti-Dick Wolf.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

Law & Order and its various spinoffs have done more to erode the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments than the Supreme Court

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

I continued to be baffled at this. It looks terrible for Johnson, for the GOP, and most of all for Trump - drawing extra attention to the Epstein story - while further energizing Dems. And for what? To postpone by a bit one moderately tough vote?

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 1d

Rep. Johnny Olszewski D-MD (lower left) tried but failed to get recognized on the House floor today to get Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ sworn in. Speaker Johnson has refused to seat Grijalva for more than 3 weeks. "This is wrong and you know it Mr. Speaker."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 1d

I am both angry and not surprised that ICE is willing to violate our rights.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Michaela Cogswell @mcogswell.bsky.social · 1d

Insulin is about to be cheaper out here