Southern lawyer. Southern dissident. Blue dot in a formerly independent but now very red state. Could be a textualist or originalist if the intent of the drafters of the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amends is the polestar. Profanity = Art (& legit 2d Language).

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It should not need a “business model” and reporters who write about it should acknowledge that.
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Prison stocks jump on expectations of more detentions. GEO Group and CoreCivic shares jump www.marketwatch.com/story/prison-stocks-jump-on-expectations-of-more-detentions-e9cda78b Parasites! Reminds me of 9/11 which also rescued private prison stocks because of the anticipated need for more detention space.
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"What [President Trump is] interested in at any given moment is 'am I winning?' and 'is this a victory?'" said @anneapplebaum.bsky.social.
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WH would rather build monuments to false history than make history — truly tragic and pathetic leadership for a nation trying to cling on to the rim of the future
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This is so bad. Freedom of navigation ops are the core mission of the Navy. They started a war no one wants and because of that can’t fight it and now opened Pandora’s box. What a disaster.
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The Timeline of the United States
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"The judge concluded his opinion with an unusually sharp rebuke of the Trump administration: 'Suppression of political speech is the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy — as the Framers recognized when they drafted the First Amendment'...”

www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/09/judge-pentagon-press-access/
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I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.
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And a few hours later, a justice of the peace convicted Meredith in absentia on trumped up charges of lying on a voter registration form, sentencing him to a year in prison.

Segregationists weren't subtle about it. Their racist heirs still aren't.
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We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war.

Art of the deal, baby.
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I remember a time when it was rising teen pregnancies that gave conservatives a case of the vapours. Now it’s a reduction. I’m not leaping to the conclusion that the GOP/conservatives in general are *all* inclined to paedophilia, but I’m not rejecting the idea out of hand either.
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Stick 'em all in one resolution, with one or down vote. Let's see who actually believes in standards of decency versus scoring bullshit partisan political points.
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There it is: A full year of days spent playing golf in just over five years as president. www.pbump.net/outofoffice
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How many more people will RFK Jr murder?
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Imagine Hitler "pardoning" his inner circle and people respecting that. If we don't punish each and every one of these people, we'll deserve whatever comes back to us. Like when people said it was "extrajudicial" for Biden to have tossed Trump in jail. It's the right thing to do for society.
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There's some coverage of JD's help for Russia's Hungarian puppet.

There's some beat sweeteners abt how poor JD Vance has to try to clean up Trump's disastrous war.

But little abt how JD went directly from sucking up to Iran's patron to negotiating "for the US" in Pakistan.
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10/ Amanda Ungaro 😃
Zampolli began grooming her at 15
On Epstein's plane at 16
Not married, 19 yrs

The court awarding me full custody would mean Paolo would have to pay years of unpaid child support and continue to finically support our son into adulthood.

🏆 bekahdayyy.substack.com/p/a-message-from-amanda-the-epstein?utm_medium=web
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The first American pope has chosen Lampedusa — the Mediterranean island that has become an entry point for African migrants attempting to reach Europe — over Washington on July 4th.

Hell of a statement.
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Jared is Bibi’s godson, and at odds with JD of how to resolve this war. None of them have the brains God gave a rat, so no comfort there. However, JD may shit the bed here. His swagger was palpable as he ”Obama’d” down the stairs of the plane. Out of his depth-🤞🏻his ineptitude kills his ’28 chances.
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We have the President's son-in-law, who is lifelong buddies with Bibi and on the payroll of the Saudis (who, to be fair, aren't getting their $$ worth).

We have Trump's developer buddy whose spawn is in the fake $$ business with Trump's spawn.

And JD, fresh off doing Putin's bidding.
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I wrote this post two weeks ago. Since then, JD Vance has gone to Hungary to defend Putin's puppet, and is now leading negotiations in Pakistan.

emptywheel.net/2026/03/27/how-vladimir-putin-intends-to-recruit-trump-to-russias-side-in-wwiii/
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The fact that the ask is "joint control" and not "freedom of navigation" tells you everything you need to about the thugs running the US atm.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Trump, Reality TV like, said, "OK JD, you've got one day to make a deal with Iran.

Otherwise we bring the nukes!"

NOT SAYING THAT HAPPENED.

Just saying it is 100% consistent with this fucker.

And if it happened, would Jared have an incentive to help, or undermine it?
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NEWS: Two U.S. Navy destroyers were forced to turn back while attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatened them and launched a drone toward the ships, per Bloomberg citing a regional intelligence official. 1/
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Lying from the White House Podium is now a family tradition.
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Picture of the century. 😍

📷 credit: Science Tube
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Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/pope-leo-criticism-iran-war
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Acting CDC director delayed release of study showing benefit of Covid vaccines www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/acting-cdc-director-delayed-release-study-showing-benefit-covid-vaccin-rcna273724
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