Scott Medlock
@scottmedlock.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer with the ACLU of Colorado. Matt Murdock and Jennifer Walters are the only Super Lawyers. Ex Texas Civil Rights Project, Edwards Law, and Greisen Medlock.
Opinions aren’t those of my employer (except when they are).
Opinions aren’t those of my employer (except when they are).
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Scott Medlock
@scottmedlock.bsky.social
· Sep 16
This weekend I married my best friend @scottmedlock.bsky.social and our union happened all because of @jortsthecat.bsky.social 🥰🐈
I encourage everyone to find a partner who will let you have readings from Mark Gruenwald and @fabiannicieza.bsky.social in your ceremony!
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i don't want to minimize any of the kinds of cruelty of this administration, but given the nature of the american justice system versus the american educational system, this harms way more actual trans people than sports bans in a way more immediate and way more dangerous manner
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
i don't want to minimize any of the kinds of cruelty of this administration, but given the nature of the american justice system versus the american educational system, this harms way more actual trans people than sports bans in a way more immediate and way more dangerous manner
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hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it
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“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”
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Just slap in the face after slap in the face to the factfinders.
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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as cities debate Automated License Plate Readers, we often hear the same reassurances: don’t worry, we’ll regulate them/set strict rules/never share data with ICE/we'll only use them for speeding/etc. political promises may feel comforting but it misses that the INFRASTRUCTURE itself is the danger.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
as cities debate Automated License Plate Readers, we often hear the same reassurances: don’t worry, we’ll regulate them/set strict rules/never share data with ICE/we'll only use them for speeding/etc. political promises may feel comforting but it misses that the INFRASTRUCTURE itself is the danger.
Someone needs to ask which test it was exactly, so they can also take it.
TRUMP: If they want to release my MRI it's ok w/me. It's perfect like my phone call where I got impeached
Q: What part of your body were they were looking at?
TRUMP: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn't the brain bc I took a cognitive test & aced it, which you would be incapable of doing
Q: What part of your body were they were looking at?
TRUMP: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn't the brain bc I took a cognitive test & aced it, which you would be incapable of doing
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Someone needs to ask which test it was exactly, so they can also take it.
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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There is a direct line from Trump’s calling Somalians garbage and Hegseth murdering people at sea.
It’s racism. It’s seeing people of color as less than human. It’s dehumanizing them to the point where others feel justified to hurt them.
Trump gives the justification and Hegseth acts. Direct line.
It’s racism. It’s seeing people of color as less than human. It’s dehumanizing them to the point where others feel justified to hurt them.
Trump gives the justification and Hegseth acts. Direct line.
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
There is a direct line from Trump’s calling Somalians garbage and Hegseth murdering people at sea.
It’s racism. It’s seeing people of color as less than human. It’s dehumanizing them to the point where others feel justified to hurt them.
Trump gives the justification and Hegseth acts. Direct line.
It’s racism. It’s seeing people of color as less than human. It’s dehumanizing them to the point where others feel justified to hurt them.
Trump gives the justification and Hegseth acts. Direct line.
When is the air strike on Stately Sackler Manor scheduled for?
I asked the mothers of kids who overdosed and they said “why are you talking to us about random boats, our kids died from opiates, getting hooked on prescription meds, what are you doing about that?”
Batya might be just fine with a dudetrustme basis for a terrorist designation, but Americans with a functioning moral compass actually expect a plausible public rationale for who is to be treated as a terrorist in our name.
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
When is the air strike on Stately Sackler Manor scheduled for?
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Hakeem Jeffries tweet: President Trump could be striking Venezuelan boats with missiles made by an American small business but he chooses not to
Bill Kristol tweet: The Romanov children would have grown up to be Nazi collaborators
Bill Kristol tweet: The Romanov children would have grown up to be Nazi collaborators
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Hakeem Jeffries tweet: President Trump could be striking Venezuelan boats with missiles made by an American small business but he chooses not to
Bill Kristol tweet: The Romanov children would have grown up to be Nazi collaborators
Bill Kristol tweet: The Romanov children would have grown up to be Nazi collaborators
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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There’s no safe jail for pregnant people because there’s no safe jail. Put people in jail; people die.
I think people want to feel okay about “some” people in jail and no, you shouldn’t feel okay. People are in death institutions; there’s not a nicer word for it.
I think people want to feel okay about “some” people in jail and no, you shouldn’t feel okay. People are in death institutions; there’s not a nicer word for it.
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Kavanaugh stop
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Kavanaugh stop
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The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.
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AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
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Definitely not as good as Odelay.
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Definitely not as good as Odelay.
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At this point, it's really just a party of sociopaths and sadists.
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
At this point, it's really just a party of sociopaths and sadists.
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Kids love Kierkegaard!
December 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Never stop bullying corporations. It’s always morally correct
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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obligatory
DARKSKA IS
DARKSKA IS
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
obligatory
DARKSKA IS
DARKSKA IS
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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side note: Roberts cited Federalist 70 in Trump v. US but one arg Hamilton makes in there is that a sole executive is a good idea because it makes lines of responsibility--and therefore accountability and punishment where necessary--obvious!
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
side note: Roberts cited Federalist 70 in Trump v. US but one arg Hamilton makes in there is that a sole executive is a good idea because it makes lines of responsibility--and therefore accountability and punishment where necessary--obvious!