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Spencer in Law

@spencerinlaw.bsky.social

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Friendly neighborhood lawyer hating on fascism and fighting the system. Organizing to build a better society through solidarity, abolition, liberation, and justice. Also criminal, disability, and intellectual property law.

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Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · Nov 15

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

Let's go @govpritzker.illinois.gov Where you at buddy? It's time to put your money where your mouth is

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 9h

As head of this body, I have determined the radical antibody activists—operating domestic T-cells—to be spreading self-destructive ideologies through extrinsic pathways that are an inflammatory response to the regular functioning of the body.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 12h

Portland isn't burning, it's lit

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 14h

This is awesome.

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Sakher and Reem 🍉🇵🇸 @sakher-gaza.bsky.social · 1d

They say the war is over... but the pain inside me hasn’t ended.
The bombs may have stopped falling, but the struggle is far from over.
I'm Sakher — a young man who lost everything in this war.
My home… gone. My memories, my work, my future all destroyed
More talk in the comments

gofund.me/f116bf44

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Fuck Hillary Clinton

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

She wants to test out the same Hasbara and have us pretend like she still also has credibility by doing so.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

people who are always wrong. wrong about Biden, wrong about Newsom, wrong about Gaza, wrong about Democratic complacency in 2025, wrong about trans rights, wrong about Mamdani

all the same assholes. always wrong.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

essentially no one looks worse in all this than Biden, followed closely by the tiresome, morally bankrupt blue wave scolds who shouted at all of us about how Biden couldn’t do anything

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 1d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

he does not regret to inform you and neither do I

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

I know it's sort of a cold take but your perspective on US foreign policy dramatically improves once you consistently read or watch non US media

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

* hoppening

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

How unusual is “Baby Elephant March” as a request?

Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 6d

Some day, I'll realize how foolish this is. Until then, here's another year-end list from New England's biggest & weirdest covers gig.

Screenshot of a list of the 741 songs I played by request this year on the Fenway organ (DM me if you need a text version of the list to be able to read it).

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

One of the best feelings in the world must be to be a baseball organist who’s like fuck it, I’m playing Thriller

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Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu incited and directed military resources toward committing genocide, but he did not go out and fly bombers over Palestinians, that was the IOF. The US and UK provided material support, diplomatic cover, legal cover, propaganda support, intelligence, financial, arms, and munitions to Israel.

Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a Zionist?

No, Bibi didn’t commit genocide. I’m sorry if you can’t understand that butchering Palestinians required world governments to conspire to exterminate a people. Stop holding harmless actors who could have prevented a genocide and chose not to. He’s a garbage human being.

Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

No, genocidal intent was confirmed prior to October 2023. They constantly made and make statements about genocide. Those are all confessions. People are not usually so bold as to voice out loud their genocidal aspirations as the Israelis are.

Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

At any point in time Biden could have picked up the phone and called it off. If they refused, he could legally and justifiably use deadly force against Israel to prevent them from committing genocide. Stop projecting powerlessness onto democrats. They gaslight us into complicity.

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Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Because he made us complicit on genocide. Full stop. He made ZERO good faith attempts to bring the genocide to an end. He wanted it to happen and told Begin in 1982 that he’d allow this to happen. He strung along the public and let the government lie to us for two years. He’s a vile human being

Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

The ICJ had already invoked provisional remedies against Israel for its genocidal conduct as triggering its obligation to prevent a likely genocide from occurring and had revised its order again and again by May 2024. Who the fuck are you selling compliance to the law to, and who isn’t buying it?

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Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

It was one shipment that was ultimately just delayed.

Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Former Senator Patrick Leahy attended Biden’s State of the Union speech to press him on complying with the Leahy laws (Section 630M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 22 USC § 2378d and 10 USC § 362), which Biden obviously ignored.

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Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Section 4, paragraph 2 of Biden’s February 2023 memorandum on conventional arms transfers

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Screenshot of Section 4, paragraph 2 of Biden’s memorandum on conventional arms transfers
In light of these considerations, and consistent with applicable law, no arms transfer will be authorized where the United States assesses that it is more likely than not that the arms to be transferred will be used by the recipient to commit, facilitate the recipients' commission of, or to aggravate risks that the recipient will commit: genocide: crimes against humanity; grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, including attacks intentionally directed against civilian objects or civilians protected as such; or other serious violations of international humanitarian or human rights law, including serious acts of gender-based violence or serious acts of violence against children. This assessment shall include consideration of the available information and relevant circumstances, including the proposed recipient's current and past actions, credible reports that the recipient
committed any of the above violation other information related to the overall

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Spencer in Law @spencerinlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Yes they can if it’s likely to be used to commit genocide or other war crimes

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