Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !

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a federal judge sanctioned the lawyers who tried to help Trump create a $1.776 billion slush fund so obviously House Republicans are now targeting the judge, saying *she's the one who committed professional misconduct ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ballsandstrikes.orgHouse Republicans: Judges Who Rule Against Trump Must Be Punished Swiftly and HarshlyNothing is more important for GOP lawmakers than soothing their boss’s wounded ego.

while Republicans are out here defending the honor of Cheesecake Factory, let's take a moment to remember how they're actually spending their time--and our money 👇🏾 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ballsandstrikes.orgHouse Republicans: Judges Who Rule Against Trump Must Be Punished Swiftly and HarshlyNothing is more important for GOP lawmakers than soothing their boss’s wounded ego.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

i for one could not imagine going to bat for the lawyers who tried to pull off a $1.776 billion heist for Trump but then again im not a Republican member of Congress ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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As usual, the NYPD opposes any impediment to police shooting.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

If they are losing “Mountain Dew at the dinner table America” then they are in big trouble

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None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

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Raphael Satter@raphae.li

This just hit the @reuters.com wire: BRAZIL'S LULA REELECTED PRESIDENT IN RUNOFF VOTE, DATAFOLHA PROJECTS

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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24 📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg

I am currently working on two puzzles that I turned color-side-down and mixed up together, so that's kind of a large black-and-white puzzle? this project also prompted The Husband to buy me a new puzzle 😅 he was like, clearly you finished all the puzzles we have and started making little challenges

Crip Dyke@cripdyke.bsky.social

You are not the only one. I tend to only do jigsaws as group projects and I live alone right now, but @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app does puzzles. (Never her seen her do black-and-white, but she might be dorky enough to do a B&W puzzle of all the families of fish.)

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Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

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I looked up this writer's other columns and it seems like she's really good at finding men who belong in the plastic Magneto prison

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social

I hope when I click it’s just shocked Pikachu

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it's wild how often you're watching dateline or whatever and the victim's coworkers say they knew something was wrong when they didn't show up on time for work, which is sooo unlike them. nobody's murdering us chronically late bitches bc they can't fucking find us

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no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

Holly Brewer@earlymodjustice.bsky.social

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

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The generality principle of the Rule of Law is its most essential concept. A class of people outside criminal law is incompatible with a law-based society.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

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“Anyone wanting to lead the [Democratic] party is going to have to be willing to take on this court and rebalance the scales. If they don’t, their constituents won’t stand for it.” @paulwaldman.bsky.social

ms.nowOpinion | Hillary Clinton thinks we should have 13 Supreme Court justices. Here’s why that matters.A once-fringe position in the Democratic Party has become mainstream – and the court only has itself to blame.

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What’s “wrong” for Trump is the idea that a Black and Muslim woman he deems inferior could come to the United States and be granted rights as his equal ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ballsandstrikes.orgTrump’s DOJ Is On A Denaturalization Crusade. Ilhan Omar Is Just One Of Its TargetsThe administration continues its quest to make itself the sole arbiter of what it means to be American.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

fwiw back in 2019, the last time the Trump admin directed federal authorities to comb through Ilhan Omar’s immigration records, they found no evidence of wrongdoing but actual legal wrongdoing is very much not the point of this "investigation" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Just like JD Vance telling Angie Nixon she doesn't "belong in America" "The fed govt’s ongoing attacks on Ilhan Omar are part of the Trump admin’s attempt to act as sole arbiter of who gets to be an American."

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

The attacks on Ilhan Omar are part of the federal government's ongoing effort to make equal membership in society depend on race, ancestry, and Trump’s singular will ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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I keep on saying one simple thing: if Chief Justice Roberts keeps on nattering on about the President being the only person who fire anyone, then Congress has to embrace the Chicago Way: small claims impeachment.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

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i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social

Man, Hegseth's Department of War is even more buffoonish than everything else. Kinda amazed how the US military didn't just have some basic war plans they could activate. Their lack of preparedness is astonishing. meidasnews.com/news/so-much...

What’s “wrong” for Trump is the idea that a Black and Muslim woman he deems inferior could come to the United States and be granted rights as his equal ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ballsandstrikes.orgTrump’s DOJ Is On A Denaturalization Crusade. Ilhan Omar Is Just One Of Its TargetsThe administration continues its quest to make itself the sole arbiter of what it means to be American.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

fwiw back in 2019, the last time the Trump admin directed federal authorities to comb through Ilhan Omar’s immigration records, they found no evidence of wrongdoing but actual legal wrongdoing is very much not the point of this "investigation" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Fewer than 150 Americans were denaturalized between 1968 and 2013 From 1990-2017, DOJ filed ~11 denaturalization cases per year Trump's DOJ is aiming to pursue “100-200 denaturalization cases per month” ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ballsandstrikes.orgTrump’s DOJ Is On A Denaturalization Crusade. Ilhan Omar Is Just One Of Its TargetsThe administration continues its quest to make itself the sole arbiter of what it means to be American.

fwiw back in 2019, the last time the Trump admin directed federal authorities to comb through Ilhan Omar’s immigration records, they found no evidence of wrongdoing but actual legal wrongdoing is very much not the point of this "investigation" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ballsandstrikes.orgTrump’s DOJ Is On A Denaturalization Crusade. Ilhan Omar Is Just One Of Its TargetsThe administration continues its quest to make itself the sole arbiter of what it means to be American.

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sigmund? sigmund it's your cousin marvin... marvin freud... you know the thing you've been talking about where there's some libidinal force inside us that seeks egoic shattering even unto death... well you're not gonna believe this but I'm looking at the news and im thinking, call it the death drive

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the navy isn't as much of a surprise but i was not expecting we'd get the United States Marines in the national divorce

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

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The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.

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AI firms want you to believe their fraud bot is alive so they won’t be held responsible for the fraud bot’s crimes. But there is no gray area here, they hold the on/off switches in their very human, very prosecutable hands.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Major American banks have reported unauthorized artificial intelligence bots inside consumer accounts, sources told Axios Thursday. trib.al/mmFWL8c

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Legitimately a dream to write something that inspires a reader to "go Martin Luther Mode."

Jürgën Blurgën of the Hÿurgën Fjörds@mrmatthewgeorge.bsky.social

@davidjroth.bsky.social the county Republican party (in Ohio) is in the same building that I work in, and I taped up part of your column to their door today, because you express your disgust much more civilly and coherently than I do, much thanks.