Melinda Hudspeth
@melindahud.bsky.social
Legal recruiter. Former Antitrust/ Commercial litigator. I see liability everywhere.🤘
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Perimenopause and menopause can manifest in so many more ways than most people know. I took a look at the full-body spectrum of effects.
What Menopause Does to the Body
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December 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Perimenopause and menopause can manifest in so many more ways than most people know. I took a look at the full-body spectrum of effects.
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A Guatemalan immigrant held at Camp East Montana here in El Paso has died. He had been held at the facility since September. At least 25 migrants have died in ICE detention this year.
Guatemalan immigrant held at Camp East Montana dies
A Guatemalan immigrant has died in the Camp East Montana immigration detention facility.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A Guatemalan immigrant held at Camp East Montana here in El Paso has died. He had been held at the facility since September. At least 25 migrants have died in ICE detention this year.
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U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, has co-sponsored the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, which would improve conditions in ICE immigration detention facilities. This comes at a time that she has sounded the alarm about the inhumane conditions in the Camp East Montana facility.
My story:
My story:
US Rep. Escobar joins calls to improve conditions at ICE facilities
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, co-sponsored a bill to establish oversight and human-rights protections in immigrant detention facilities.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, has co-sponsored the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, which would improve conditions in ICE immigration detention facilities. This comes at a time that she has sounded the alarm about the inhumane conditions in the Camp East Montana facility.
My story:
My story:
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“I look down at the crashing swell. Alone at the after-party, a kind of honeymoon in hell. I am on the list, a bit of grave misfortune. I am in the New York Post, even worse. The ink is black, the pages yellow. Everything, some kind of lie. What of doubt? Scientists cannot see the soul.”
Sentences From American Canto That Sent Me To The Hospital
I reviewed Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto for Slate. There's far less RFK Jr. in it than you'd expect.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“I look down at the crashing swell. Alone at the after-party, a kind of honeymoon in hell. I am on the list, a bit of grave misfortune. I am in the New York Post, even worse. The ink is black, the pages yellow. Everything, some kind of lie. What of doubt? Scientists cannot see the soul.”
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Target list included tuna, salmon and shrimp fishermen.
"Bradley told lawmakers that the orders he received from Hegseth were to kill the individuals on the approved target list, which included everyone on the boat, then destroy the drugs and sink the boat, those sources said."
They were civilians.
They were civilians.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling ve...
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Target list included tuna, salmon and shrimp fishermen.
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The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office.
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office.
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
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This is awesome.
It's time to choose a side.
It's time to choose a side.
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is awesome.
It's time to choose a side.
It's time to choose a side.
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For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work was shown outside the Soviet Union. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
Erik Bulatov, Russian Painter Who Undermined Soviet Propaganda, Dies at 92
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work was shown outside the Soviet Union. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
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IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
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Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War
In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.
thebarbedwire.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
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“So we’ve been trying to get access to Tom Homan and the folks over at DHS at the secretary level.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Border czar’s former clients cash in on Trump’s immigration crackdown
“So we’ve been trying to get access to Tom Homan…”
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December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“So we’ve been trying to get access to Tom Homan and the folks over at DHS at the secretary level.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The El Paso White Sox baseball team circa 1915-1920. Such a glorious shot. I think my favorite is the kid (bat boy, perhaps?) sitting up front, staring a hole through the photographer. He appears to be pretty serious about the whole affair. He was probably a great bat boy!
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The El Paso White Sox baseball team circa 1915-1920. Such a glorious shot. I think my favorite is the kid (bat boy, perhaps?) sitting up front, staring a hole through the photographer. He appears to be pretty serious about the whole affair. He was probably a great bat boy!
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SCOOP: Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale assisted the Honduran presidential campaign of Nasry Asfura, the right-wing candidate Trump endorsed.
Parscale says he had nothing to do with Trump's endorsement or his pardon of ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Parscale says he had nothing to do with Trump's endorsement or his pardon of ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Trump’s Former Campaign Manager Assisted Honduran Presidential Candidate
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December 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
SCOOP: Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale assisted the Honduran presidential campaign of Nasry Asfura, the right-wing candidate Trump endorsed.
Parscale says he had nothing to do with Trump's endorsement or his pardon of ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Parscale says he had nothing to do with Trump's endorsement or his pardon of ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez.
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RFK Jr. is at it again: Now he blames pills—not guns—for school shootings. He's pushing a long disproven theory and promising “massive” new research on it. Weirdly enough, the agency he runs refused to give me any details at all when I inquired. My latest 🧵 👉 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. blames pills—not guns—for school shootings
There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but Kennedy now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.
www.motherjones.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
RFK Jr. is at it again: Now he blames pills—not guns—for school shootings. He's pushing a long disproven theory and promising “massive” new research on it. Weirdly enough, the agency he runs refused to give me any details at all when I inquired. My latest 🧵 👉 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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While we were sleeping, a huge ruling:
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
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Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Excerpt from ruling:
“Bluntly put, why the Court ruled as it did remains unclear-and without reasoning,
this order cannot even be considered as persuasive. Second, Justice Kavanaugh's conclusion that the plaintiffs lacked standing in Perdomo rested on the claims asserted in that case specifically, plaintiffs there sought to enjoin defendants from targeting individuals for immigration stops based on certain factors, such as race or ethnicity, their accent, and the type of work they did. Id. Justice Kavanaugh reasoned that plaintiffs in Perdomo likely lacked standing under Lyons, as defendants may "stop suspected illegal immigrants based on a variety of factors," and thus "plaintiffs ha[d] no good basis to believe that law enforcement will unlawfully stop them in the future" based "only on [prohibited] factors." Id. at *3 (emphases in original). In contrast, this case concerns an entirely different context, namely, civil immigration arrests rather than immigration stops, which were at issue in Perdomo, and a different type of challenge. Specifically, plaintiffs are not arguing which factors defendants may consider in their application of a legal standard, but rather contend that defendants have abandoned the proper legal standard entirely. See Pls.' Reply at 8. Thus, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Perdomo, to the extent it has persuasive, let alone controlling, authority, is inapposite.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jech7rem6vijss4euf4fijao/bafkreidy2tm2mkrt4kkxcnhlmc6uess22cabrg7b5juyauqoolvoqd7teu@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
While we were sleeping, a huge ruling:
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
I do in fact stay awake at night sometimes thinking about how the MAGA ghouls are destroying actually-essential counterterrorism efforts in favor of directing resources towards brutalizing elderly taco truck workers
NEW: Oregon could lose nearly $18 million worth of terrorism prevention and emergency funding.
In the past, the money has paid for bomb detectors, law enforcement training and barriers that prevent cars from plowing into crowds.
In the past, the money has paid for bomb detectors, law enforcement training and barriers that prevent cars from plowing into crowds.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
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In opening arguments Monday, Front Row Motorsports and 23XI Racing argued that the trial will show that NASCAR prevented competition in the top-tier stock car racing market. #nascar
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Denny Hamlin opens NASCAR antitrust trial with emotional testimony
“There’s only one side going out of business,” professional stock car driver Denny Hamlin and co-owner, alongside Michael Jordan, of a racing team taking NASCAR to trial.
www.courthousenews.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
In opening arguments Monday, Front Row Motorsports and 23XI Racing argued that the trial will show that NASCAR prevented competition in the top-tier stock car racing market. #nascar
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Kara Swisher is referring to Ryan Lizza’s latest substack about his ex, Olivia Nuzzi, and RFK Jr. I don’t know if anyone has picked up on this, but Nuzzi rips off Joyce Carol Oates’ novel Black Water in American Canto. Black Water is a fictional account of Chappaquiddick (sp?).
Just call me Encyclopedia Brown: The Case of MAKE IT STOP, BAMBOO BOY.
December 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Kara Swisher is referring to Ryan Lizza’s latest substack about his ex, Olivia Nuzzi, and RFK Jr. I don’t know if anyone has picked up on this, but Nuzzi rips off Joyce Carol Oates’ novel Black Water in American Canto. Black Water is a fictional account of Chappaquiddick (sp?).
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Just call me Encyclopedia Brown: The Case of MAKE IT STOP, BAMBOO BOY.
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just call me Encyclopedia Brown: The Case of MAKE IT STOP, BAMBOO BOY.
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Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well...
Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov.
We called the auditor.
He resigned in August.
That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks.
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Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov.
We called the auditor.
He resigned in August.
That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks.
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Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma May Have Violated SEC Rules After Another Filing Discrepancy
Alt5 Sigma told regulators its accountant resigned in November, while he says he notified the company three months earlier.
www.forbes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well...
Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov.
We called the auditor.
He resigned in August.
That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks.
1/
Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov.
We called the auditor.
He resigned in August.
That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks.
1/
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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Is America contagious?
Is America contagious?
Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Is America contagious?
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It's Austin Thanksgiving Venn time
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's Austin Thanksgiving Venn time
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No one has ever lost their juice more than this
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
No one has ever lost their juice more than this