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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 8h

They had to shoot. They were afraid for their…
… feelings?

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 8h

Kurt Loeder is 80.
I don’t want to deal with this alone.

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t know who it’s going to be, but it will NEVER be this sellout cornball bitch.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 15h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18h

We will rebuild

Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.bsky.social · 20h

Horrible, horrible images from Portland:

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

"surely I, a layperson without a legal degree, cannot parse the august mind of John Roberts": not actually true! try it sometime, your "wow this is some bullshit" instinct is just as correct as any actual lawyer's

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 18h

But also, yes, you'd be surprised how accessible the bullshit this Court writes is! You mostly don't need to know technical legal precedents and doctrines (although that does help), just to be able to read a paragraph and say "wait that made no fucking sense, dafuq did I just read??"

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Ten years and five months apart

Greg Abbott & @GregAbbott_TX
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I've ordered the Texas State Guard to monitor Jade Helm 15 to safeguard Texans' constitutional rights, private property & civil liberties
2:21 PM • 4/28/15

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not the point but these people have real jobs. They volunteered for real emergencies like hurricanes, floods, and actual wars if needed.
First Lone Star, and now this BS?! I bet we won’t be able to get anyone to sign up for the Guard now that it’s clear they’re just dictators’ favorite toys.

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 1d

“Join the TX national guard!, help out in emergencies like hurricanes and floods! You’ll be a hero!”

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 2d

I’m just not getting it. If you’re willing to build the homeless a place to live, wouldn’t it be cheaper just to stop there and simply NOT staff the place with people to hold them there under penalty of violence?

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 2d

If I were the judge I’d feel pretty damn insulated that a lawyer in my court had considered the audience and decided on that as the best strategy for their client.

Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 2d

Was it good? I think I really want to see it.

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 3d

There’s literally no such thing as “legal insurrection”
This man has no volume but 10.

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 3d

Ok but also- COOL

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 3d

No no. Im accusing Bill Maher of turning a show that used to be a comedy political talk show into an unfunny shoutdown of any criticism of Isra*l such that it’s now basically more cringe than taking Saudi money to do regime-safe jokes.
You were on Maher before it became IDF agitprop.

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 3d

Let me know when an agent refuses to arrest and perp walk an innocent person who’s NOT a high profile former director.

Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 4d

Less of a sellout move than going on Bill Maher.

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 4d

Less embarrassing than going on Bill Maher.

Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 4d

I’m getting you a “20% worse than Diddy” Tshirt.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 4d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 5d

Waive tuition for students interested in the hard sciences?! For what?? So we can subsidize the undergraduate degrees of people who have to move to the EU to do graduate studies and research??

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 5d

Ice cold.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 7d

"I have no regrets at all"

Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey sends a message from the Global Sumud Flotilla.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6d

God bless the Sumud Flotilla and their devotion to the Palestinian people.

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