gene belcher, public defender (@abolitionesq) 's Twitter Profile
gene belcher, public defender

@abolitionesq

mountain PD, fights the government for a living. Go Bills.

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calendar_today10-12-2012 20:44:37

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he’s really starting to sound like his brain is actively seeping out of his left ear while he talks. it’s a fascinating thing to watch.

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Adrian says ā€œpolicyā€ here because ā€œexecutive action taken against a specific set of persons in direct retaliation for constitutionally protected conduct, without due process of lawā€ is more descriptive but starts to peel away the stale paint on this whole democracy argument.

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a variation on one of my favorite phenomena! direct: cop remembers savant levels of detail, including things he’s never told anyone before, sometimes which require mild levels of X-ray vision cross: cannot remember a single thing for his life without being repeatedly refreshed

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don’t need reasonable suspicion or probable cause if we just make every ten feet you have to walk a new checkpoint. got you now defense attorneys!

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i went to one of their informational/recruitment events in law school bc they had Ike’s sandwiches and that was the elite tier of law school lunch that year, and it was one of the funniest things i’ve ever experienced.

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the feds should be engaging in zero intimidation campaigns against journalists but if they were gonna do it, Ken is by far the funniest person they could have picked.

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the use of ā€œweā€ here like she’s discussing a bad trade for an aging vet who only rebounds and keeps fouling out in 20 minutes is sending me

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i think we’re so constantly battered with hyperbole and hot takes that i’ve been underestimating how totally unreservedly stupid he sounds in every single one of these clips. like, dumber and less interesting than the single worst ā€œthat guyā€ in your philosophy 101 class.

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i really love that there’s this goofy dark money ad campaign that’s just like ā€œhey. Jesus sometimes got an achy tummy from drinking wine on a work night, tooā€

i really love that there’s this goofy dark money ad campaign that’s just like ā€œhey. Jesus sometimes got an achy tummy from drinking wine on a work night, tooā€
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Law of Please Sir Let Me Dine on Your Glorious Fucking Boot, Please Tread All Over Me Ooh I Even Like it a Little if I May Be So Honest šŸ‘‰šŸ‘ˆ

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pretty incredible for him to post these three bios which, when you read them, make these folks seem both extraordinarily qualified and thoroughly nonpartisan, but i suppose the people he’s appealing to here also cannot read

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it’s really funny to me that this is like the worst parody of a ā€œwokeā€ hot take and it comes from some hack at Bari Weiss’s shitty website

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i went to a private liberal arts college where i majored in philosophy & religious studies, both phenomenal departments, and that qualifies me for very little - but it does qualify me to reliably promise you that community colleges do not have a monopoly on this phenomenon.

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i can’t quite explain it but when you get back to the Midwest after years of living in the southwest, it feels like there’s something wrong with the sky here.

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by what insane metric has this hack, of all the big law sociopath-to-US Government sociopath pipeline lawyers whose shit we have to be subjected to in the news, had a ā€œstoried legal careerā€?