Chrissymick

Chrissymick

@chrissymick.bsky.social

Lawyer, mom, part-time chicken farmer, proponent of democracy. New Yorker at heart,rural VA/DC in practice. #lawsky (securities/fin reg plus some dabbler interests in criminal/constitutional law)

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Chrissymick reposted

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.

Chrissymick reposted

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Chrissymick reposted

Now is not the time for acceptance and resignation. This is - yet again - a time for commitment and action. Do not say you’re weary - before the battle has been joined. Simply unacceptable.

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