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Not to be, like, a phrenologist, but he has a bribeable gestalt

Making people buy their freedom back from the government isn't just wrong, it also increases crime. www.salon.com/2025/09/20/c...

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

This afternoon, in addition to Charlie Kirk, there was a school shooting. Bullets don't know and don't care if you are a Republican or Democrat. It is time for Republicans and Democrats to find a way to work together to reduce gun violence. www.wcpo.com/us-news/crim...

"Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence, but no other justice joined it—perhaps they reasoned that it was better to remain silent and be thought a racist fool than to speak, as Kavanaugh did, and remove all doubt."

Lfg

Someone literally said WHERE WAS DUE PROCESS FOR LAKEN RILEY to me yesterday & like...due process was that her killer was duly arrested, tried, convicted, & sentenced to life in prison??? It's up there with "illegals are violating my right to life, liberty, and property by coming here illegally"

Seemed like a good time to talk about high tech and predictive policing with @malwarebytes.com awesome podcast Lock & Code. Want to know more? It's scary. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6d8s... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

YOU GUYS THE GALLEYS ARE HERE!!!!! THIS IS SO REAL! If you haven't ordered one...but you like knowing things the criminal court system would prefer you didn't know... please consider a pre-order! Link in bio :-)

Crying as I type . . .

Signs bearing President Trump’s name have gone up at major construction projects. They were financed by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law which he passionately opposed ahead of its passage.

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

Noting that this is great, but doesn't touch on *availability* Like, AFAIK no pharmacies near me are ordering the pediatric covid shot, leaving us out of luck for now. Hope these rule changes by states shift ordering plans.

This is true (and known to be true) at the local level too. One recent account abt Chicago gang violence argued that the relatively successful decapitations of Chicago’s fairly-organized gangs left a huge power vacuum that produced hyper-local cliques that have proved MUCH harder to address.

Juries are one of the only tools the people have to directly, personally curtail government power

Having to listen to RFK Jr untether America from science while sounding like a spoon in a garbage disposal has inspired me to go get my covid booster today. Celebrations!

California, I love you so much "Luigi Mangione Act" controversial health care initiative | cbs8.com share.google/25aGm4xeYeqX...

This is one of the MAGA things that exhausts me the most---the idea that there is some kind of elaborate conspiracy involving most federal judges, lawyers, experts, etc...rather than wondering if maybe this government is particularly partial to doing illegal things.

The Trump administration "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of the [Administrative Procedure Act], the First Amendment and Title VI."

We the people, baby. We the People are going to put a stop to some things

When I was in 3rd grade I won an out loud reading prize, beating out even the 6th graders. I am now once again attempting to win out loud reading by recording my upcoming book The Price of Mercy!

Go to a school board meeting. Get out there. This is bullshit.

This is FANTASTIC. We live in a country where more than half of people released from prison end up back in prison. Letting people earn real money, build a life, save a nest egg- this is the path to true safety share.google/J8EM2aYHEUXj...

Guys I don't want to sound crazy but the images from this morning look exactly like this video from June

Pizza orders at the Pentagon 👀 www.pizzint.watch

Some perspective…

Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.

It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime

RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC

This is the best possible argument in favor of Graham Platner

The owl of Minerva takes flight only at dusk, etc.

Oh good I can easily prove my eligibility with Polaroids from 2006

He is wrong on the facts. 1. The data is clear, VBM benefits Democrats electorally and it remains true. Rejected mail ballots skew Democratic as well. 2. Strict photo ID laws also disadvantage Democrats, particularly young voters and those in urban areas. Again, this is data not opinion.

Why do we still allow people with serious mental illness to buy guns? Because the first law Republicans passed under Trump in 2017, made it easier. There were over 4,000 mass shootings between 2017-2024, and this country elected him again. If that’s not proof America is sick, I don’t know what is.

Robots are bad eyewitnesses How the N.Y.P.D.’s Facial Recognition Tool Landed the Wrong Man in Jail www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...

Well to be fair, throwing a regular sandwich (even a superlong) is not a felony. We may yet see nullification! But in this case, the jury just did the right thing.

Given the EO it feels like as good a time as any to remind you all that cash bail was a dumb idea from jump, and other countries have already moved on www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlRM...

This is why it's important not to skip jury duty.

Unmentioned: Liberty's last champions, the brilliant public defender service of DC, filing the motions & planning the strategies that are giving DC jurors and judges an opportunity to reject bogus charges. If you like freedom, Fund Public Defense www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Catelin Drey just flipped a Trump +11 Iowa Senate seat! Democrats have now overperformed in 37 out of 38 elections so far this year.

At least grand juries are finally living up to their intended role of serving as a check on prosecution that enforces community understandings of right and wrong over badly applied (or just bad) laws

Ah, I see Texas has moved on, post-gerrymander, to the important next task of making it harder to investigate deaths in jail boltsmag.org/texas-jail-d...

now that redistricting is over in the Texas legislature, lawmakers are moving on to their next priority... make it harder to investigate when people die in local jails.

Thanks @mathuclair.bsky.social !!!!

bsky.app/profile/galv... Just heard a great interview w/Emily on The Weekend Show w/ Anthony Davis Pre Order her book: The Price of Mercy

Chicago doesn't even crack the top 20 most dangerous cities. Denver has a higher crime rate than Chicago.

Chicago had the lowest number of homicides since 1962 last month. Just remember this for whatever happens next. Listen to: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson discusses Trump's threat to deploy National Guard - one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5514...

It's always a good time for a conversation about freedom