Tom Klitus
@tklitus.bsky.social
Filming and editing. Fascinated by science, history, genealogy, interviews. Betsy-Tacy, Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, anything by Baldwin. All music!
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Florida has had 30 exonerations from death row, more than any other state in the country.
When the stakes are life or death, we cannot afford to settle for anything less than what the Constitution promises.
When the stakes are life or death, we cannot afford to settle for anything less than what the Constitution promises.
BREAKING: The Florida Supreme Court upheld Florida’s law, making it the only state to allow juries split 8-4 to sentence people to death.
Permitting non-unanimous, divided juries to sentence people to death is unconstitutional and increases the risk of executing an innocent person.
Permitting non-unanimous, divided juries to sentence people to death is unconstitutional and increases the risk of executing an innocent person.
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Florida has had 30 exonerations from death row, more than any other state in the country.
When the stakes are life or death, we cannot afford to settle for anything less than what the Constitution promises.
When the stakes are life or death, we cannot afford to settle for anything less than what the Constitution promises.
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Just in: Florida's supreme court today has UPHELD a recent state law that enables juries to sentence someone to death nonunanimously.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
Exonerees Sound the Alarm on New Florida Law Allowing Death Sentences by Split Juries - Bolts
Herman Lindsey braced himself for news that he would be sentenced to death as he sat inside a courtroom in Broward County, Florida in 2006. A jury had convicted Lindsey... Read More
boltsmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just in: Florida's supreme court today has UPHELD a recent state law that enables juries to sentence someone to death nonunanimously.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
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It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
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Welcome to A New Era, Sherif Soliman!
December 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Welcome to A New Era, Sherif Soliman!
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Jurors aren't buying Homeland Security's lies about protests.
"Body camera footage played at trial revealed that Reid had not intentionally struck the agent. Instead, the agent had scratched her hand on a wall while assisting another agent who had shoved Reid and told her to 'shut the f—- up.'”
"Body camera footage played at trial revealed that Reid had not intentionally struck the agent. Instead, the agent had scratched her hand on a wall while assisting another agent who had shoved Reid and told her to 'shut the f—- up.'”
DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump's immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled
The Justice Department has embarked on a monthslong effort to prosecute people accused of assaulting federal officers during protests of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
apnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Jurors aren't buying Homeland Security's lies about protests.
"Body camera footage played at trial revealed that Reid had not intentionally struck the agent. Instead, the agent had scratched her hand on a wall while assisting another agent who had shoved Reid and told her to 'shut the f—- up.'”
"Body camera footage played at trial revealed that Reid had not intentionally struck the agent. Instead, the agent had scratched her hand on a wall while assisting another agent who had shoved Reid and told her to 'shut the f—- up.'”
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For your pleasure I wrote up the news that apparently the University of Austin is not a great place to work: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Texas' 'anti-Harvard' university is losing its founders
Who will teach the "Forbidden Courses" now?
www.chron.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
For your pleasure I wrote up the news that apparently the University of Austin is not a great place to work: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
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There's a vaccine. It's incredibly effective. But rabies has a delay, by the time you have symptoms it's too late, and it can take 5 years.
If you get bitten by anything get a rabies shot, it's still effective after the bite because it's so slow (you have days, maybe weeks, to get it).
If you get bitten by anything get a rabies shot, it's still effective after the bite because it's so slow (you have days, maybe weeks, to get it).
December 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There's a vaccine. It's incredibly effective. But rabies has a delay, by the time you have symptoms it's too late, and it can take 5 years.
If you get bitten by anything get a rabies shot, it's still effective after the bite because it's so slow (you have days, maybe weeks, to get it).
If you get bitten by anything get a rabies shot, it's still effective after the bite because it's so slow (you have days, maybe weeks, to get it).
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Speaker Johnson has the power to schedule a vote right now on the Democratic-led bipartisan discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits. We have the votes. Let's get this done.
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Speaker Johnson has the power to schedule a vote right now on the Democratic-led bipartisan discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits. We have the votes. Let's get this done.
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218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
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My weekly email to my Congressman.
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My weekly email to my Congressman.
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Happy Public Domain Day 2026 (Jan. 1) from Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain. To read more about the public domain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f...
More information here:
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
#books #literature #publicDomainDayCountdown
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f...
More information here:
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
#books #literature #publicDomainDayCountdown
December 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Happy Public Domain Day 2026 (Jan. 1) from Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain. To read more about the public domain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f...
More information here:
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
#books #literature #publicDomainDayCountdown
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f...
More information here:
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
#books #literature #publicDomainDayCountdown
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the NAACP Conference of Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, the Nevada Alliance for Retired Americans, and the Institute for a Progressive Nevada my law firm has filed to intervene in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Nevada’s complete, unredacted voter registration list.
🚨 United States of America v. Aguilar
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the NAACP Conference of Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, the Nevada Alliance for Retired Americans, and the Institute for a Progressive Nevada my law firm has filed to intervene in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Nevada’s complete, unredacted voter registration list.
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The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price.
Here we are again.
We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
Here we are again.
We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
Trump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels Maduro regime a "terrorist" group
The escalation exerts unprecedented pressure on the Maduro regime, threatening to bankrupt Venezuela's already struggling economy.
www.axios.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price.
Here we are again.
We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
Here we are again.
We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
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Stephen Miller's cousin unloads on him:
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.”
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.”
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Stephen Miller's cousin unloads on him:
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.”
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.”
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Ukrainian defenders are the same civil people as you and me. They took arms both voluntarily and forcibly at the same time: because it was their response to russian aggression.
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Ukrainian defenders are the same civil people as you and me. They took arms both voluntarily and forcibly at the same time: because it was their response to russian aggression.
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We taught Germans how to act in the first hours of a russian attack while they wait for rescue from the Ukrainian army. And I died.
My first visual exhibition took place this weekend in Stuttgart. Together with designer Iolanta Filenko, we created the concept of a “game.”
My first visual exhibition took place this weekend in Stuttgart. Together with designer Iolanta Filenko, we created the concept of a “game.”
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We taught Germans how to act in the first hours of a russian attack while they wait for rescue from the Ukrainian army. And I died.
My first visual exhibition took place this weekend in Stuttgart. Together with designer Iolanta Filenko, we created the concept of a “game.”
My first visual exhibition took place this weekend in Stuttgart. Together with designer Iolanta Filenko, we created the concept of a “game.”
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Dropping this here. Please follow The Drey Dossier on Substack for more.
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Trump Isn’t Building a Ballroom
When Trump announced a $300 million ballroom at the White House, something went off in my brain.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Dropping this here. Please follow The Drey Dossier on Substack for more.
open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!