Shockratees
@thatshockratees.bsky.social
Sometime-attorney, sometime-social-worker, tea-leaf reader, starer-at of maps, habit of creatures, tweedler, law-talkin’ wood elf. Any pronoun. Not a cat. Blue dot in Charleston, WV.
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All the choices in this situation are risky. There is no non-risky choice.
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Getting vaccinated is the real punk rock.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
CDC’s new top deputy had ordered his state health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations amid a flu surge www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Getting vaccinated is the real punk rock.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
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"McMinnville High School students staged a walkout Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement, days after agents detained a high school senior on his lunch break."
Oregon teenager’s ICE detention sparks high school walkout
Hundreds of McMinnville High students walked out Monday, days after ICE detained Christian Jimenez, 17.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"McMinnville High School students staged a walkout Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement, days after agents detained a high school senior on his lunch break."
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This Thanksgiving, there is no need to pardon another turkey, the President already freed this bird:
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
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A Nevada politician was convicted of using funds meant to honor a slain officer on plastic surgery. Trump just pardoned her
President Trump has issued a full pardon for loyalist Michele Fiore, who paid for her plastic surgery with funds that were meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer.
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This Thanksgiving, there is no need to pardon another turkey, the President already freed this bird:
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
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My statement on FBI request for interviews.
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My statement on FBI request for interviews.
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Three GOP appeals judges swooped in last week to lift a lower court order which told the Trump admin to stop brutalizing protesters, priests, & press in Chicago
I played the connect-the-dots game to see how they justified their decision--it's a hot mess, tbqh!
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
I played the connect-the-dots game to see how they justified their decision--it's a hot mess, tbqh!
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How Conservative Judges Turned a Throwaway Line Into a Free Pass For ICE Violence
For these judges, the White House not getting its way is a legal crisis that requires immediate intervention.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Three GOP appeals judges swooped in last week to lift a lower court order which told the Trump admin to stop brutalizing protesters, priests, & press in Chicago
I played the connect-the-dots game to see how they justified their decision--it's a hot mess, tbqh!
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
I played the connect-the-dots game to see how they justified their decision--it's a hot mess, tbqh!
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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The worst thing about all this is not that Bovino is a brain-dead fascist who wants to gas everyone (we know that) but that the Trump admin’s war on its own citizens is protected (for now) by Trump judges
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Three GOP appeals judges swooped in last week to lift a lower court order which told the Trump admin to stop brutalizing protesters, priests, & press in Chicago
I played the connect-the-dots game to see how they justified their decision--it's a hot mess, tbqh!
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
I played the connect-the-dots game to see how they justified their decision--it's a hot mess, tbqh!
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How Conservative Judges Turned a Throwaway Line Into a Free Pass For ICE Violence
For these judges, the White House not getting its way is a legal crisis that requires immediate intervention.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The worst thing about all this is not that Bovino is a brain-dead fascist who wants to gas everyone (we know that) but that the Trump admin’s war on its own citizens is protected (for now) by Trump judges
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November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Sen. Jim Justice and his wife didn’t pay his taxes going all the way back to 2009, and now have to pay the IRS $5 million.
Justice made hundreds of millions in profit from the sale of coal mines in 2009, vaulting him to the Forbes list of billionaires, which he stayed on until 2021. trib.al/RCZDSh4
Justice made hundreds of millions in profit from the sale of coal mines in 2009, vaulting him to the Forbes list of billionaires, which he stayed on until 2021. trib.al/RCZDSh4
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sen. Jim Justice and his wife didn’t pay his taxes going all the way back to 2009, and now have to pay the IRS $5 million.
Justice made hundreds of millions in profit from the sale of coal mines in 2009, vaulting him to the Forbes list of billionaires, which he stayed on until 2021. trib.al/RCZDSh4
Justice made hundreds of millions in profit from the sale of coal mines in 2009, vaulting him to the Forbes list of billionaires, which he stayed on until 2021. trib.al/RCZDSh4
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1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
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Genuinely wonder how the hell an economy killer administration comes to “dress up to travel” as their winning messaging.
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Genuinely wonder how the hell an economy killer administration comes to “dress up to travel” as their winning messaging.
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"This guy who is famous for being so off-putting he's a pariah in Martha's Vineyard will save our network"
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"This guy who is famous for being so off-putting he's a pariah in Martha's Vineyard will save our network"
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ah yes, the people yearn for the dersh
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
ah yes, the people yearn for the dersh
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"Black women are disproportionately working-class. So if it was really about class, explain to me why Black women understood exactly what he [Trump] was going to do, which is make life harder for working-class people," says Kimberlé Crenshaw. newrepublic.com/article/2036...
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Black women are disproportionately working-class. So if it was really about class, explain to me why Black women understood exactly what he [Trump] was going to do, which is make life harder for working-class people," says Kimberlé Crenshaw. newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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here’s the thing though. The fact that Trump just pardoned a guy who funneled billions of dollars to Hamas will not do anything to convince right wing Jews that he’s bad for Israel, because they already could’ve seen the time when he gave the names of embedded Mossad agents in Syria to the Russians
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
here’s the thing though. The fact that Trump just pardoned a guy who funneled billions of dollars to Hamas will not do anything to convince right wing Jews that he’s bad for Israel, because they already could’ve seen the time when he gave the names of embedded Mossad agents in Syria to the Russians
So I just had the followup with my PCP after the hospitalization. They’d told me at discharge that my calcium score is “very low.”
My doctor told me the actual number. It’s ZERO.
my calcium score was zero
My doctor told me the actual number. It’s ZERO.
my calcium score was zero
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So I just had the followup with my PCP after the hospitalization. They’d told me at discharge that my calcium score is “very low.”
My doctor told me the actual number. It’s ZERO.
my calcium score was zero
My doctor told me the actual number. It’s ZERO.
my calcium score was zero
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📣 Trump apparently set to reverse himself on #ACA tax credits...but with several poison pills included...
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Trump set to reverse himself on tax credits...but with several poison pills included
Via Politico this morning, a mixed bag of good & bad news on the enhanced ACA tax credit saga today: The White House expects to soon unveil a health policy framework that includes a two-year extension...
acasignups.net
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
📣 Trump apparently set to reverse himself on #ACA tax credits...but with several poison pills included...
acasignups.net/25/11/24/tru...
acasignups.net/25/11/24/tru...
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Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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We’re out here looking for positive examples of masculinity and here’s Hegseth like “it’s crypto Nazi tattoos and sexual assault.”
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We’re out here looking for positive examples of masculinity and here’s Hegseth like “it’s crypto Nazi tattoos and sexual assault.”
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MORE: Judge Currie basically slams the door on re-indicting Comey here. She notes that "there is no legitimate peg" to extend the expired Sept. 30 statute of limitations. The window for James is a little wider. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
MORE: Judge Currie basically slams the door on re-indicting Comey here. She notes that "there is no legitimate peg" to extend the expired Sept. 30 statute of limitations. The window for James is a little wider. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Oregon is suing the Trump administration for relocating, without notice, a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that has saved lives in dangerous waters near Newport. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Oregon is suing the Trump administration for relocating, without notice, a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that has saved lives in dangerous waters near Newport. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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So turns out in the UK, it’s only a crime to sexually harass a child over the course of several weeks if she’s NOT transgender. Live and learn.
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a transgender activist, but was found guilty of criminal damage to her mobile phone.
Father Ted’s Graham Linehan cleared of transphobic harassment
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
So turns out in the UK, it’s only a crime to sexually harass a child over the course of several weeks if she’s NOT transgender. Live and learn.
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They’ll be picked up next week for possessing child porn.
Justice will be served at the White House on Tuesday as Trump pardons a pair of turkeys for fowl reasons, participating in the 78th annual National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation. https://cnn.it/48iywxI
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
They’ll be picked up next week for possessing child porn.