@delgriffith62.bsky.social
Retired trial attorney in the Midwest. I don’t comment on subjects I don’t know about and wish more people lived by this credo.
Never vote for a Republican at any level of government.
Never vote for a Republican at any level of government.
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The thing that's always frustrated the right wing ideologues who've glommed onto Trump is that he doesn't have the attention span to actually be a committed ideological warrior. He can scream all the right culture war shit, but it's just WWE pugilistic showmanship. He basically has no belief system.
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The thing that's always frustrated the right wing ideologues who've glommed onto Trump is that he doesn't have the attention span to actually be a committed ideological warrior. He can scream all the right culture war shit, but it's just WWE pugilistic showmanship. He basically has no belief system.
That’s a shame.
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
That’s a shame.
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In other words, Judge Oldham has a sock puppet account on Bluesky, and Judge Oldham definitely searches for his name on Bluesky, which means that Judge Oldham will see your posts about him on Bluesky.
So definitely don't call Judge Oldham a Trumpian hack judge on Bluesky.
So definitely don't call Judge Oldham a Trumpian hack judge on Bluesky.
No matter how too-online you are, you are nowhere near as too-online as Republican federal appointees, judicial and executive.
Judge Oldham's call for the end of certifying questions from CA5 to state Supreme Courts includes this somewhat inexplicable shot at this here website.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In other words, Judge Oldham has a sock puppet account on Bluesky, and Judge Oldham definitely searches for his name on Bluesky, which means that Judge Oldham will see your posts about him on Bluesky.
So definitely don't call Judge Oldham a Trumpian hack judge on Bluesky.
So definitely don't call Judge Oldham a Trumpian hack judge on Bluesky.
There is no way this asshole knows how to spell “seditious” or what it means.
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
There is no way this asshole knows how to spell “seditious” or what it means.
Everything wrong with the MSM in one question.
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Everything wrong with the MSM in one question.
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This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
This sums it up well.
So an invalidly appointed prosecutor brough an unvoted indictment, based on evidence violating the 4th amendment, attorney client privilege, and the 5th amendment. Against "false claims" that were literally true, all on direct order of a vindictive president?
Is this the most dismissable case ever?
Is this the most dismissable case ever?
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sums it up well.
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This is incredibly accurate😬
A “Maga Years” explainer…
A “Maga Years” explainer…
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This is incredibly accurate😬
A “Maga Years” explainer…
A “Maga Years” explainer…
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It will not go to the 5th Circuit. By law it goes straight to SCOTUS. Ron DeSantis is a moron.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It will not go to the 5th Circuit. By law it goes straight to SCOTUS. Ron DeSantis is a moron.
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She is the Carolyn Polhemus of journalism.
I'm reminded that @talkingpointsmemo.com actually had a small but perhaps key role in Olivia's origin story. This goes back to 2013 during @hunterw.bsky.social's first stint at TPM. I haven't done day to day story assignment in a very long time. Late one afternoon I was at my desk and Hunter ...
November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
She is the Carolyn Polhemus of journalism.
I would say it slightly differently. Voters want someone who unflinchingly stands for his/her beliefs, even if some of those beliefs are unpopular.
GWB was the second worst president of my lifetime, and I never voted for him, but I respected that he stood for his beliefs when they were unpopular.
GWB was the second worst president of my lifetime, and I never voted for him, but I respected that he stood for his beliefs when they were unpopular.
to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I would say it slightly differently. Voters want someone who unflinchingly stands for his/her beliefs, even if some of those beliefs are unpopular.
GWB was the second worst president of my lifetime, and I never voted for him, but I respected that he stood for his beliefs when they were unpopular.
GWB was the second worst president of my lifetime, and I never voted for him, but I respected that he stood for his beliefs when they were unpopular.
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This fool belongs in a memory care unit.
Trump: "I gave them as you know unlimited water, Biden came back with a rigged election, and he immediately restricted the water again. But I came back in and immediately unrestricted it again. So now you have unlimited water to clean your damn dishes."
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This fool belongs in a memory care unit.
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Olivia Nuzzi needs an editor. I would be happy to meet her for a private session.
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Olivia Nuzzi needs an editor. I would be happy to meet her for a private session.
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
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A grim comedic aspect of Mag Judge Fitzpatrick's ruling in Comey's case, finding that Halligan "potentially undermine[d] the integrity of the grand jury" with "fundamental misstatements of the law," is that AG Bondi purported to review those minutes & to ratify everything Halligan did—twice.
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A grim comedic aspect of Mag Judge Fitzpatrick's ruling in Comey's case, finding that Halligan "potentially undermine[d] the integrity of the grand jury" with "fundamental misstatements of the law," is that AG Bondi purported to review those minutes & to ratify everything Halligan did—twice.
This. Too many people are glossing over the “legally entitled to” phrase in his tweet.
Coons on Epstein files: "My hunch is that AG Bondi, having just been ordered on social media by the president to open an investigation into a series of high-profile Dems, will promptly say, 'No, there's an ongoing investigation, we can't disclose any of this,' and the president will back that up."
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This. Too many people are glossing over the “legally entitled to” phrase in his tweet.
Pretty easy when you don’t have a spine.
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Pretty easy when you don’t have a spine.
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Images of Jeffrey Epstein’s Elite Parties Reveal A Different Era When Men Took Fashion Seriously
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Images of Jeffrey Epstein’s Elite Parties Reveal A Different Era When Men Took Fashion Seriously
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
JFC. Even someone pretending to be a journalist, like Brennan, should be supremely embarrassed to ask this question.
Margaret Brennan to Tom Suozzi: "Can you explain the focus this past week in the House by Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files? Is this a tactic to distract from the failure to extract healthcare changes?"
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
JFC. Even someone pretending to be a journalist, like Brennan, should be supremely embarrassed to ask this question.
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It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’s never real or doesn’t matter unless it happens to them.
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It’s never real or doesn’t matter unless it happens to them.