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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette

@gregdoucette.bsky.social

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In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist. Definitely Antifa. (@greg_doucette on ExTwitter)

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 6d

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October 2025

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Not much to redeem last month tbh: it got colder, started getting dark earlier, and horrors abounded

But at least there are only max-40 months remaining in Donald Trump's presidency? 🤞

AMA! Q&A will be added to the thread as quote-skeets

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 19h

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 9h

This dude just radiates “Bari Weiss, but somehow LESS accomplished.”

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 8h

On the one hand, civ-mil relations are gonna be nuts for the rest of my life

On the other hand, encouraging that the military isn’t cowed at every level

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 18h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 14h

I think seeing this sign in a warehouse could bring Karl Marx back from the dead www.reddit.com/r/Uninfluenc...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

Among the more obvious differences, this was about using the Alabama National Guard to enforce federal law *in Alabama*, where the state government was defying court orders.

Note that even in that much more extreme context, Kennedy used the Alabama National Guard, not some other state's.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963.

It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Trump: U.S. Code. Those provisions authorize the President, when faced with such unlawful obstructions against the authority of the United States as existed in Alabama, to "call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary" (10
U.S.C. § 332) and to use
"the militia or the armed forces,
or both, or
• other means" (10 U.S.C. $ 333). The
militia of the United States includes the national guard, meaning the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the several states. 10 U.S.C. § 311 and $ 101 (9), (10), (12) .
In furtherance of the President's order the Secretary of Defense immediately called into active military service all of the units and members of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard of the State of Alabama to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.
This call was transmitted by the Secretary of the Army, acting by direction of, and under delegation of authority from, the Secretary of Defense.
Copies of the Department
of the Army message (No. D.A. 340638, June 11, 1963) were furnished immediately to the Governor of Alabama and to the commanding officers of the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the State of Alabama.
It is apparent that the Alabama National Guard was properly called into federal service pursuant to 10 U.S.C.
§5 332-4, and in accordance with the procedure provided in those sections. Since the call to federal service did not invoke the authority of 10 U.S.C. $ 3500, referred to by Mr. Bowen, the procedure prescribed by that section was
not
used.
I trust that the foregoing information will be of
assistance to you.
Sincerely,
¡enera.
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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 8h

Cops are great

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11h

*But am I wrong though??*

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11h

Only on trial days. @kenwhite.bsky.social strikes me as a guy who's slightly more relaxed on days he's not in court

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Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 12h

The guy on the left is @kenwhite.bsky.social, right?

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11h

To clarify, the above post is not a knock on the sales rep! I absolutely have that same color shirt and tie and wear them together!

I'm just not bold enough for the plaid double-breasted vest 😂

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 12h

Outside counsel / in-house counsel / sales rep

Screenshot of an ESPN Monday Night Football interview, with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes seated left to right. Reid is wearing a light gray suit, light-colored dress shirt, and red tie that makes him look like he's sitting in an unpleasant deposition. Kelce is wearing a relaxed short-sleeved button-up shirt with a whimsical pattern and a brown newsboy cap that makes him look like he's in organized crime. Mahomes is in a pink dress shirt, slightly darker pink tie, and dark-pink-and-white checkered vest that makes him look like a dandy.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 1d

My daughter @madepn.bsky.social has invented a great scale for the triviality - importance spectrum. It goes from “nothing burger” to “everything bagel”.

I doff my hat in tribute to genius.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15h

I have not fully reconciled with not showering. I got a waterproof mesh sling and gonna get one of those long-reach sticks with a sponge on the end

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Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social · 15h

I'm right-handed, and found the six weeks of no showers to be the worst.

I think you'll find that you become marginally competent with your off hand, but it will take patience.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16h

Also have not figured out how to pick up the dog's 💩. Grabbing it with a bag is the easy part; inverting the bag and tying it seems impossible

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah that was one of the first things I tried to practice with b/c the rolls are on the left side. Comedically challenging

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nwapoke.bsky.social @nwapoke.bsky.social · 16h

Pre fold lots of TP.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16h

Fuuuuuck I hadn't even considered shaving 😫😫😫

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Orynx @orynx.bsky.social · 16h

It's a very big challenge.
Shower, shaving, eating. Getting dressed etc. ADLs become a major challenge.
Strong advice:
Prep meals before surgery. One serving that you can reheat and carry with one hand, use one utensil on.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16h

For example, driving right-armed: not hard...

...until needing to use a turn signal, roll down a window, or scratch an itch 🤪

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16h

Took the advice to "practice" being one-armed, and holy hell is it a challenge to deprogram decades of muscle memory

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 17h

Pritzker is everything Newsom wants you to believe Newsom is, including both actually brave and seemingly in possession of an actually beating human heart.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

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

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 17h

If by "apologize" you mean "block the weirdo," yes 😃

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 17h

Do you have something to apologize for again?

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 17h

For context, I have mentioned Puerto Rico a grand total of 2 times the entire time I've been on Bluesky -- and neither of which was really about Puerto Rico

Screenshot of a Bluesky post from Greg on 10 November 2024 at 11:35am Eastern Time. Text reads: "If the changes are statutory - something like repealing 8 USC §1402 that granted citizenship to residents of Puerto Rico - l'd expect the normal rules of due process to still exist (no retroactivity, opportunity to contest before a neutral tribunal, etc"

Screenshot of a Bluesky post from Greg on 4 October 2025 at 7:47pm Eastern Time. Text reads: "The "give us some small policy
concessions that aren't even enforceable because Trump does what he wants" feels like small ball to me. Demand DC+PR statehood as a concession instead. Call
Rs' bluff."

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 17h

Bluesky definitely has the juice

Screenshot of a Bluesky DM to Greg. Text reads: "@jdm2.bsky.social has added you to the ""Make Puerto Rico a state" apologists" moderation list"

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23h

It rots and gets disposed of. Depending on crop, could be burned, buried, composted, etc

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

These programs weren't set up this way simply for the benefit of recipients. They are by design also a subsidy for American agriculture. That's the longstanding red-blue, rural-urban political deal of it. Like how they're getting nuked by the trade war, they are cannibalizing their own coalition.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23h

Ah, but you see they're going to spend $$$$$$$$ to bail out the welfare queen farmers, so rural red America can still profit at the expense of everyone else

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