Kevin Mitchell
@petulantbeard.bsky.social
Public Interest Attorney. Musician. DC Sports. WWFC. PS5. All opinions are my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer.
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Interesting that both Robert Redford, who played Bob Woodward in 1976, and the real Bob Woodward outlived the Washington Post.
September 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Interesting that both Robert Redford, who played Bob Woodward in 1976, and the real Bob Woodward outlived the Washington Post.
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Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.
Not this time. Not anymore.
Not this time. Not anymore.
August 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.
Not this time. Not anymore.
Not this time. Not anymore.
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Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
August 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
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When Eric Adams, a corrupt dirtbag centrist cop, won the primary four years ago, mainstream white media was quick to anoint him as "the future" of the Democratic party. Nate Silver said he's be the party's presidential nominee.
Mamdani wins and it's like "oh, shit, well, there's still the general."
Mamdani wins and it's like "oh, shit, well, there's still the general."
June 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
When Eric Adams, a corrupt dirtbag centrist cop, won the primary four years ago, mainstream white media was quick to anoint him as "the future" of the Democratic party. Nate Silver said he's be the party's presidential nominee.
Mamdani wins and it's like "oh, shit, well, there's still the general."
Mamdani wins and it's like "oh, shit, well, there's still the general."
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For anyone who doesn’t live in Los Angeles or understand the geography of the city, the area is actually quite small where police are currently rioting.
June 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
For anyone who doesn’t live in Los Angeles or understand the geography of the city, the area is actually quite small where police are currently rioting.
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The best place to get coverage of the protests in LA is from video from individuals on the scene. The totalitarian government is lying about them and the traditional media is largely unreliable — complicit or fatuously both-sidesey.
June 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Video from about an hour ago as less than lethal rounds are being used against protesters in Southern California
June 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Video from about an hour ago as less than lethal rounds are being used against protesters in Southern California
I’m sorry, what??
Oh I am not shitposting, folks.
Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple.
Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk.
They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad
Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple.
Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk.
They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad
Meanwhile Stephen Miller is furiously subtweeting Musk on X
May 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I’m sorry, what??
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this stuff is obvious and the firms that caved did so because they wanted to
BREAKING: Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale is unconstitutional, Judge Richard Leon — a GWB appointee — finds.
"The Founding Fathers knew this!"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"The Founding Fathers knew this!"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING
HALE AND DORR LLP,
Plaintiff,
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT, et al.,
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MEMORANDUM OPINION
May� 2025 [Dkt. #15; Dkt. #16]
The cornerstone of the American system of justice is an independent judiciary and
an independent bar willing to tackle unpopular cases, however daunting. The Founding
Fathers knew this! Accordingly, they took pains to enshrine in the Constitution certain
rights that would serve as the foundation for that independence. Little wonder that in the
nearly 250 years since the Constitution was adopted no Executive Order has been issued
challenging these fundamental rights. Now, however, several Executive Orders have been
issued directly challenging these rights and that independence. One of these Orders is the
subject of this case. For the reasons set forth below, I have concluded that this Order must
be struck down in its entirety as unconstitutional. Indeed, to rule otherwise would be
unfaithful to the judgment and vision of the Founding Fathers!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiexsiazix25xfmhupeoevakheo7tg2subqyipofbquqfy4suwt6pi@jpeg)
May 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
this stuff is obvious and the firms that caved did so because they wanted to
I adore this level of pettiness
In the law firm executive order cases, DOJ takes the position that an injunction barring implementation will only be enforceable against the govt agencies named in the complaint. So Perkins Coie just amended its complaint to name all the relevant fed agencies. The case caption is now 40 pages long.
April 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I adore this level of pettiness
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Thurmond was the same age as Booker when he set the record Senator Cory Booker just broke.
Thurmond was afforded a bathroom break and read from the encyclopedia. Booker held the floor the entire time and delivered a consistent, cogent speech for more than 24 hours.
Incredible.
Thurmond was afforded a bathroom break and read from the encyclopedia. Booker held the floor the entire time and delivered a consistent, cogent speech for more than 24 hours.
Incredible.
April 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Thurmond was the same age as Booker when he set the record Senator Cory Booker just broke.
Thurmond was afforded a bathroom break and read from the encyclopedia. Booker held the floor the entire time and delivered a consistent, cogent speech for more than 24 hours.
Incredible.
Thurmond was afforded a bathroom break and read from the encyclopedia. Booker held the floor the entire time and delivered a consistent, cogent speech for more than 24 hours.
Incredible.
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Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
April 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
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The law should never function the same way a criminal does. That's banana republic shit.
KARL: Do they have any due process at all?
HOMAN: Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?
(That's a "no")
HOMAN: Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?
(That's a "no")
March 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The law should never function the same way a criminal does. That's banana republic shit.
Yeah, we know.
Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’
Vivian Jenna Wilson tells Teen Vogue she feels obliged to take stand for trans rights as Trump attacks community
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yeah, we know.
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SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids: Sources
The fate of abducted Ukrainian children is a white-hot issue for peace negotiations—and it looks like the State Department may have just undercut the cause.
newrepublic.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
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Democratic Party messaging, 2025
March 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Democratic Party messaging, 2025
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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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Carney: Canada never ever will be part of America in any way, shape, or form. We didn’t ask for this fight, but Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves.
March 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Love 🍁
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After losing everything in the wildfires, many families thought the worst was over. But some LA landlords saw an opportunity—to illegally raise rents and exploit those in crisis.
We’re suing six landlords and agents for price-gouging vulnerable residents.
Learn more at lafla.org
We’re suing six landlords and agents for price-gouging vulnerable residents.
Learn more at lafla.org
February 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
After losing everything in the wildfires, many families thought the worst was over. But some LA landlords saw an opportunity—to illegally raise rents and exploit those in crisis.
We’re suing six landlords and agents for price-gouging vulnerable residents.
Learn more at lafla.org
We’re suing six landlords and agents for price-gouging vulnerable residents.
Learn more at lafla.org
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.
February 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.
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February 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
🧐 Have a legal question? Stop by Search to Involve Pilipino Americans this Thursday where @legalaidla.bsky.social will be offering FREE legal consultations and referrals!
🗓️ Thursday, February 6, 2025
🕔 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
📍 HiFi Well-Being Center, 1919 W Court St, Los Angeles, CA 90026
🗓️ Thursday, February 6, 2025
🕔 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
📍 HiFi Well-Being Center, 1919 W Court St, Los Angeles, CA 90026