Tom Hagy

Tom Hagy

@tomhagy.bsky.social

Legal writer and host of the Emerging Litigation Podcast. Doodler. Drummer. Family guy. Unapologetic democracy lover. Spontaneous smartass. Often correct. Open to suggestion. Glib. I can’t even sometimes. Meta Facebook refugee.

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If someone rips millions away from Rupert Murdoch, Larry Ellison, Betsy DeVos, The Waltons, and Henry Kissinger, I’d sentence them to community service and award them the Nobel Prize. #elizabethholmes

“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations." Jefferson “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet." Kennedy “No nation can meet the challenges of this world alone." Obama “I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country... can do anything I want." Trump

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Last year I published "A New Way for Republicans to View the Poor and Undocumented," in which I try to help GOPers look at these folks in a self-serving way, which is their thing. Maybe intellectual jujitsu would work? medium.com/p/a-new-way-...

medium.comA New Way for Republicans to View the Poor and UndocumentedHow you can help your selves by helping them. Consider it an investment in trickle up economics. Caring for desperate strangers not…

I was driving along thinking my job is too complex for me. Surely I’m better suited for something else. Something I could explain in two words. Then I came across this sign. While I’m here, if you need a stump removed in Chester County, PA, we have a guy.

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DHS agents took 12 minutes to decide if you're a citizen. A federal judge just shut that down. Now they can't interview anyone they know or should suspect is a citizen. The point was never fraud. It was fear, and to make you afraid to vote ahead of a midterms that Trump knows he's going to lose.

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When someone tells me who they are I believe them. As long as I don’t like them. If I like them I still believe them but it takes me four full business years to process what they said.

I think cats must have a great PR agency. We actually go around thinking they are saying “meow.” How cute. What I hear first thing in the morning when Mugsy wants immediate food and beverage service is “NOW.” Now … now …. NOW …

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Why would a physical search of Omar’s home in 2026 be relevant to or necessary for an investigation into whether her dad filled out a form incorrectly decades ago?

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.

Lady Liberty waits for us to get our act together while Jesus admires her sandals and Trump does his two-fisted “milk the sky cow” dance on the roof.

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I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Can just one reporter please ask Trump to name the “eight wars” that he settled? 🤨

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more. I settled eight wars. I stopped the total obliteration of the world."

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🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/

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NEW: A Georgia court dismissed a lawsuit challenging Fulton County's absentee ballot drop-off policy that increased the number of sites where voters could drop off absentee ballots. The ruling comes after the county board unanimously voted to end the entire policy earlier this year.

democracydocket.comGeorgia court dismisses lawsuit seeking to block Fulton County absentee ballot drop-off policyA Georgia judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block a Fulton County absentee ballot drop-off policy.