Scott Medlock
@scottmedlock.bsky.social
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Civil rights lawyer with the ACLU of Colorado. Matt Murdock and Jennifer Walters are the only Super Lawyers. Ex Texas Civil Rights Project, Edwards Law, and Greisen Medlock. Opinions aren’t those of my employer (except when they are).
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scottmedlock.bsky.social
I encourage everyone to find a partner who will let you have readings from Mark Gruenwald and @fabiannicieza.bsky.social in your ceremony!
lindsaytheo.bsky.social
This weekend I married my best friend @scottmedlock.bsky.social and our union happened all because of @jortsthecat.bsky.social 🥰🐈
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cathygellis.bsky.social
I interned at a local news station. I didn't particularly like the station manager, but I kind of admired his refusal to allow the newsroom to call Candlestick 3Com Park.

"They didn't pay ME for the name!" he reasoned.
passantino.bsky.social
CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements
scottmedlock.bsky.social
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edidin.bsky.social
In closing: Shutter Rikers, cancel the BBJs, and roll back carceral MH interventions as a "substitute" for incarceration.
scottmedlock.bsky.social
Since possession of Bulls gear makes you an MS-13 member, this seems low, actually.
jtischauser.bsky.social
that's right Kash and all we have are Mids
Screenshot from twitter that shows Kash Patel on Fox News. The post states "Breaking FBI Director Kash Patel has just revealed nearly 5% of Chicago's 2.5 million residents, approx 110,000 people are active gang members."
scottmedlock.bsky.social
If Fisher misses the .4 shot, and Manu doesn’t foul Dirk at the end of regulation in WCF game 7, Timmy’s Spurs win 5 straight titles. Timmy and Pop are stronger 🐐s. #GSG #PorVida
howardbeck.bsky.social
For this sliding-doors piece, I compiled about 50 what-ifs of the 21st century and whittled it down to five. But I left out some damn good ones (Hello, Wolves drafting two point guards over Steph Curry).

What were your favorite what-ifs (2000-2025) that didn't make the cut?
howardbeck.bsky.social
Every dynasty starts with a missed train. For the Ringer's quarter-century project, I explored some of the biggest sliding-doors moments of the 21st century. (h/t Gwyneth Paltrow)
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
talleststone.bsky.social
I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.
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audacityofdespair.bsky.social
When a law enforcement officer aims a weapon at someone wielding a camera, it is procedurally unsound and unprofessional in two fundamental ways:
1) It is disproportional to any actual threat and is instead an unprovoked threat against a citizen.
2) The officer is a crazed, untrained asshole.
bobgeiger.bsky.social
Call me a libtard but this doesn't seem like something that should be happening in the United States of America.
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kagrox.bsky.social
Shades of the Aurora, CO Tren de Aragua origin story.

Similar scapegoating there by another neglectful landlord.
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat
atrupar.com
Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."
scottmedlock.bsky.social
Sending up to Dolly with support from two Pops, a Grogu, and Captain Picard!
Oferenda candles: Two GOATS (Greg Popovich), my lord and savior Grogu, Dolly Parton, and a Captain Jean Luc Picard action figure.
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corene.bsky.social
NOT FUCKING NOW OR EVER, SATAN
raxkingisdead.bsky.social
listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly
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premthakker.bsky.social
I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us
Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.
scottmedlock.bsky.social
Missouri? A random client of ADF?
organizingpower.bsky.social
It’s patently unlawful but who would have standing to challenge it?
peark.es
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
scottmedlock.bsky.social
All you really need to know is that Missouri and ADF clients always have standing.
tomscocca.bsky.social
One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy
www.nytimes.com
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.
atrupar.com
Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."
scottmedlock.bsky.social
James Ho going to sua sponte issue an order that Fifth Circuit does not recognize ©️ as pronouns.
lawzag.bsky.social
If this is the first sentence and footnote in a decision about your appeal, you are going to lose.
scottmedlock.bsky.social
If I was driving a Tesla, I don’t think I’d pick a vanity plate with the name of an apocalyptic planetary dictator.
Blue Tesla with a “DRKSEID” plate
scottmedlock.bsky.social
I guarantee you every one of these doofuses knows who Data is but is so media illiterate they have no idea what the point of Measure of a Man as about.
lollardfish.bsky.social
We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.
josie.zone
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
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lollardfish.bsky.social
We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.
josie.zone
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
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thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social
Anyone who’s rooting for the Yankees is a cop
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mjsdc.bsky.social
When President AOC federalizes the National Guard in 2029 to protect abortion clinics, Ilan is going to magically discover an English treatise written in 1610 that proves Matthew Kacsmaryk can issue a nationwide injunction against her.
patsobkowski.com
We don’t have to carry water for dictators. Just my thought.
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
On Mar 21, 1933, Hitler issued an Amnesty (Straffreiheit) to all his followers who had previously been arrested and punished for their involvement in street fights—in order to secure their involvement in a new series of confrontations the NSDAP was organizing in opposition-loyal parts of the country
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gregpak.net
absolutely court martialed and dishonorably discharged by starfleet
ahmadchildress.bsky.social
As a reminder, this is who we're talking about. This guy.