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Bear Wilner-Nugent

@saltlick.bsky.social

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Lawyer (criminal defense, appeals, civil and administrative litigation), festival operations volunteer, musician, outdoorsbear, cook, lover, dad. You can find my professional contact information at https://bwnlaw.com.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · Apr 5

On this important day of mobilization, don't be scared off by self-appointed experts giving you a bunch of rules for how to protest or what not to do. The most important thing we need is more people in the streets, period. Our safety comes from numbers. As a criminal defense lawyer for decades...

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 8h

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, I agree that it’s simply tactically advantageous to popularize the view

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

i don’t actually think the epstein shit is why johnson is delaying swearing her in but i am fine perpetuating the rumor that he is

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 1h

Portlanders will not be cowed by this administration. When undignitaries like Kristi Noem visit for their photo ops and get mocked by people in animal costumes it’s because that’s the level of respect they deserve. Doing the work of mass deportation is the least honorable thing a person can do.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 1h

I mean, he literally would be elevated to office, but I refer to elevation in the public eye. Think low info voters in our impoverished media environment.

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 2h

they hate us because of our freedoms.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1h

habeas corpus is the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 1h

One of the ways in which we need to get ready for the Day When It Happens is to prepare our communications about Vance’s many inadequacies, his radical un-American agenda, and his moral and personal weakness. It’s crucial to prevent him from being whitewashed and elevated in the glow of the Event.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

The federal government as ordained and established by the Constitution has ceased to function, and what has replaced it isn't our government under our Constitution. That's not flippant rhetorical hyperbole, I don't say it insensitive to what the consequences are. But it's the grim reality we face.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

They are, and the consequences are extremely dire, but that pales in comparison to the much bigger problem: we don't have a legitimate president of the United States right now. What we are to make of his enablers and supporters who have thereby also delegitimized themselves is a secondary problem.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 3h

There are many worse potential outcomes. When those fucks are gone, it’s key to make our constitutional refounding a good one.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 3h

Then we'll need to number our republics, like the French.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3h

The fraudulent electors scheme wasn't an official act. Inciting the attack on the Capitol wasn't an official act. Coercing and inducing people to commit fraud for him wasn't an official act. The actual crimes as charged were all things somebody who wasn't president could have done just the same.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3h

"He charged Trump for official acts he took as president" is completely false, Roberts lying about that notwithstanding. He was not prosecuted for an executive order, or vetoing a bill, or issuing a pardon, etc. He was prosecuted for crimes he committed while president, but in no way *as* president.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 3h

Michael Fuller is tireless. He gets the goods. He will win this case for Mr. Miranda.

Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 3h

“I haven’t done anything,” Miranda said to the officers in the video.

“Turn around or you’re going to get the dog,” an officer said. “We’re going to put you in cuffs, or you’re going to get the dog.”

Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 3h

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 4h

A century’s progress from banality to absurdity of evil

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 5h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 4h

As a criminal defense lawyer, I endorse this view.

Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 4h

An exploitative-seeming documentary project purportedly about Epstein-related victims

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 6h

Underrated part of this story is that official USG business is done by Truth Social DM. It almost makes you miss the good old days of the PC small group Signal Chat.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 6h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 6h

Guys like this are just making porn of it, don’t go to that extreme.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 6h

The Republicans are errified of the Epstein news and plan-free as to the merits of the shutdown

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 15h

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 6h

… sigh…

Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans are really striving for a thermonuclear-level Streisand effect with their loud, persistent Epstein scuttle.

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 6h

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 6h

She doesn’t even go here!

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 9h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 9h

Like I mean seriously. He's so confused

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 7h

this is amazing

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 7h

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

like, the lies about chicago and portland are getting more egregious and cartoonish, the white house can’t even stay on their own message about shutdown, thune and johnson are publicly disagreeing about shit, bondi’s mean girl act in front of the senate, it all feels a little wobbly

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