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No Apology Necessary Professor. You have tutored many Community members to do the work themselves or annotate your very precise civil discourse You are 500,000 strong now.

Me? I got one more form to fill out for the Cal State Bar & I will be "reactivated". Already Active ABA soon to "Active" California Bar for CA state & federal courtrooms..

Got some work do.

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Please add the 4 million subscribers of Meidastouch to the growing anti-nazi Trump/Musk resistance movement.

28 nations formed the Allies that defeated the axis powers. We must learn from history in order to defeat these deviants of the human race.

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Thank you so much! You give me hope.

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Bryan I am delighted to see my younger buddy girding his loins for this battle. At 91 I endeavor to be a rambunctious spear thrower. Hopefully, you will provide the judicial artillery.

Did you ever get my response to your question about USAID and Africa. If not, send me your e-mail address and SHAZAM!

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Bryan You can ‘stay under cover’ and respond to kwheelock1@comcast.net. Of course I may seek your pro bono assistance, were I ‘weaponized’ by the White House.

I wasn’t concerned about retribution when I was 1 of 500 on the Nixon White House Enemies List.

Now I am concerned.

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Got it. But, I am OK because I'm on Schindler's List. 🙏

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Keith time to use my official Cal State bar email: bryan.mckown@gmail.com. But, messages here OK as well unless you are a Reader of Bryan's Substack. I only have 1 rule: No paid subscriptions, always FREE.

PS: Don't have to gird my loins but, I do have take my cleats out of a shoe box.

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Is JD Vance a member of the Bar Association of his respective state?

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Eleanor JD most often can be found under the bar. He went to Yale Law School. In Chilean Spanish Yale sounds like jail.

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Too funny except that it's too awful to contemplate while he runs roughshod over some of the least among us. You're 91??? and so well I am almost 83. The youngsters need to hear from us. So do the elderlies serving in Congress but won't give up power and retire. But look where we are.

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How wonderful.

Best wishes !

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Thank You, Bryan!

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The biggest disconnect isn’t just the early morning, pre-coffee reading/writing/hit-the-send button moments… it’s trying to figure out what the hell it means in reality to both take care of self and defend country. I dream of looking away, until my grand babies’ faces float up before my eyes. Let’s get to it and kick these bastards to the curb.

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I’m with you. The “taking care of self” part is hard. And it’s precisely those images of grandkids looking up at me that does it. I have some older ones and some little ones. The oldest is at a school that just quietly dropped their DEI language. And I worry about the job/economic issues that might strike their young families. My father was a staunch Republican. In the Abe Lincoln vein. How can that ENTIRE party continue to support and promote the ruin of our country?

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I want to do more than read about the multi dumpster fires daily. I look to you for sanity, reality, court filings, as well as what agencies, organizations and people are doing to resist and what I can do for the resistance other than subscribing , making phone calls and e-mails to my legislators. Frustration sets in daily but I am not losing hope or giving up

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I crashed this evening after supper. When I woke up from my nap, I had this tune in my head or on my heart, and as though I could hear someone playing the piano, I started singing. I mean, I belted it out: God Bless America. (Irving Berlin wrote this in 1918.) I sang it and then I burst into tears. This is not my "normal" reply to one of your posts, Joyce, but this is how overwhelmed we all feel. How could they? My parents lived through WWII, my uncle landed on the beaches of Normandy to fight fascism. My grandfather-in-law flew planes in WWI and WWII. I love my country. I am so appalled.

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We all are Deb. We all are. I lost my whole family because of this maga madness. I'm exhausted but I'll never give up. #RiseResistRepeat #NeverSurrender

💔🇺🇸💙

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I'm sorry you lost your family. I've lost some of mine, but I'm not as worried about them as I am about the structural guardrails of our government and the people we don't see who are in harms way. I'm not apologizing for the tears, they are sacred. I just need to be more patient with myself when I get exhausted, because there's always more to do.

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Thank you Deb. You're so right. There's so much to do still.

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so sorry...

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Thank you.

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Satan is using Trump coins to expand hell for all the Maggots that will be flooding the gates of Hades!!!

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Exactly the same background here. The Greatest Generation would be angry and heartbroken to see what has happened to their country. As we all are now…and so sadly shocked to not recognize my America any longer.

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God does and has blessed America. But God is not in accord with the evil being done in the USA. Perhaps God's patience has worn out and we're reaping what we've sown with our idolatry. The golden calf episode in Exodus 32 has much to say to us.

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There are so many others who are suffering because of the USAID funds cancellation. We must find another way to help them.

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I just made an argument for church leadership that our priorities must be shifted from staff, overhead, and maintenance [97% by analysis] to meet the challenges of being a Matt 25 church. I called attention to what this administration has done to Church World Service [CROP Walk each fall]. Temporarily restricted accounts could be set up for pass through money members would contribute even as it is evidence of church support. The attack on USAID is of Satan and many will suffer needlessly and die.

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Start looking into Revelation. Elon Musk is the closest thing to the anti-christ that I have ever seen. The pure wickedness of the GOP and the fake christian fundamentalists is the work of Satan for sure. False prophets like Paula White.......

It goes on and on....

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I think Trump is the antichrist and that Musk is the false prophet the antichrist gives power to (see Revelation chapter 13).

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I recently studied Revelation with an assisted living Bible group. It's worth noting that the 7 churches of Asia Minor/Turkey live on today, perhaps in combination, perhaps worshiping false prophets, their monuments, straddling a line between Christianity and pagan New Age practices. Nero is likely the anti-Christ of that day. Emphasizing as my denomination does today confession but not repentance, inclusion without honoring Holy Scripture, apathetic, lukewarm. Agreeing with you.

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Good for you and your group. Looks like you are on the right track in your quest for the truth. Satan is working extra hard in these times and has hardened the hearts of millions, who follow a great deciever.

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Indeed he is, always around the corner ready to pounce but we know Satan gets into our heads. He tried that on Jesus in the wilderness after his high baptismal confirmation and Jesus responded by quoting Deuteronomy. We could do today but for biblical ignorance and going with whatever way the cultural winds are blowing. Sadly, it's affected our churches. Faith becomes nominal. And here we are and Congress is impotent after giving away its autonomy to the President and executive agencies over the decades. The War Powers Act is a good place to start.

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Trump and the Maga cult are identical to the Christian Nationalists who preach the prosperity "gospel" and subliminal racism. Jesus taught to "welcome the stranger'.........not round up people and deport them to concentration camps.

Lazarus is now in heaven........the greedy rich exist in torment for eternity.

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The great John Fugelsang...Sirius XM host has written a book

Available pre-order.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separation-of-Church-and-Hate/John-Fugelsang/9781668066898

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We are all feeling the same Deb. Please take some ‘nature breaks’ in the woods somewhere. Sanity will return in response to its gentleness.

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Crying as I read this.

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✅️💥💯

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Thank you, Joyce, for going through this incredibly depressing information and consolidatling! Honestly, even reading your litany of crazy makes me vomitous.

What do we do if the rule of law does not hold....

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My worry, indeed. What do we do?

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202-224-3121 SPEAK TO YOUR SENATE AND CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES, tell them everyday what you want and don't want. They will get the message, flood their office with call or send post cards, emails. EVERYDAY

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I do these things but my messages only go straight into the swamps of FloriDuh.

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What happens to someone like the Florida governor who hasn't been a 'staunch ally' of the current president? Does he make moves to assert his territory, at least?

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It will hold !!

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This has really been a very long day for you Joyce. please somehow find time for knitting , chickens and get ready for that cute puppy. Many thanks for all you do for us.

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Hawley - really? What good news!

Now where the hell are the others?

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Afraid they'll be primaried or the kinky photos will be released!!! Don't forget those bank accounts in the Caymans...they make the regular elected grifters look even more guilty. Cohn taught trump well & Elois' twinks probably just have to press one key & release it all.

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Afraid of being primaried, if they don't stand up for the people IT WON'T MATTER, they will lose their seats or not even get a chance to hold office. If the criminal gets this done, there won't be any senate or congress only the king and all his criminal minions.

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My reaction exactly. Who knew?

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He knows there’s a famous photo of him raising his fist an hour before the insurrection. He’s trying to walk it back. Watch them all try to walk back they they are bringing down on us.

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Sadly, many of the "distractions" or better described as "raw sewage" that Team Trump is flooding our country with are not distractions. Each is horrible in its own right.

At the minimum, he needs to be impeached but I enjoy musing about far more dire endings to Trump 2.0.

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Agreed! Each event/edict is appalling. Kennedy Centre coup too.

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As if he appreciated the arts...

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The arts, just one more thing to kick.

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Just

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You are not alone in terms of dire endings...

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Same here. Every single day.

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I dreamt that the military rounded them all up and sent them to Guantanamo.

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I don’t trust the military any more. Nor the police. #47 is a liar. The GOP, as a whole, are traitors. In fact we should be withholding THEIR paychecks, as they have abdicated all responsibility to the executive branch and an UNELECTED PRIVATE CITIZEN AND HIS TEENAGE MINIONS. They are no longer needed to legislate any thing. So their paychecks should be considered FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE. Put them all on administrative leave, or better yet, FIRE them as of immediately. Let’s be fair all the way around. Within 6 months, Project 2025 will be completely implemented and we will have a dictatorship. Every single cabinet nominee that was confirmed by the republicans LIED under oath, are loyalists, have no regard for the rule of law. They will do whatever their King says, without regard for rules and laws. The Republican Party no longer believes in the constitution, have no moral compass, or political courage. They and they alone are responsible for the death of democracy. Oh, and the millions of eligible voters who couldn’t be bothered to vote. The Republican Party is a party of misogynists, racists, white Christian extremists, and traitors. They have absolutely no desire to govern, to collaborate, to dialogue for common ground and improving the things they say are so bad with our government. They have totally acquiesced to the Felon in Chief. They will always carry SHAME in their pitiful, little, white Christian souls.

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And our word is no longer good in the world since we have betrayed Ukraine. This is no longer the America we know.

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or Mars

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Too kind.

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What about Treblinka in your dream???

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Hope springs eternal.

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"Drinking out of a fire hose for four years" is how Caltech undergraduates describe their experience. I won't know first-hand; I was only a grad turkey there during the 1980s.

You cannot imagine how much I hope that the Jack Smith Report Part 2 shows up on wiki-leaks, or that a bootlegged PDF gets posted to someone's google-drive with a link that gets circulated to to folks like you. (I already have my PDF of Part 1... and a complete PDF set of the Thompson Select Committee on January 6th reports and testimony transcripts. Before they disappear, which I fully expect they will.)

When Musk says, "First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect." I am hearing an echo of Nixon's press secretary Ron Zeigler, who was famous for his malapropisms such as "my previous statement is inoperative."

If it's really supposed to be "every state for itself" — just as it was in the early days of COVID — let me be honest about it. Louisiana, Mississippi & Florida can all go hang the next time a hurricane strikes. They wanted to rat-f*ck NYC & Northern New Jersey after Sandy hit back in 2012. So letting them take care of themselves seems only fair.

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Respectfully, you forgot Texass.

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Um, yeah... and Georgia & Alabama & two Carolinas. My memory may be faulty but I seem to recall that senators from the three states I did mention were especially stingy WRT to Sandy's impact on NYC.

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Sounds like “revenge tactics”

are subsuming the good guys.

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I so hope people have made copies and squirreled them away safely - and that they will release them. I heard that Anonymous is after Trump and Musk - not sure if that's true?

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Hope so.

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Seems like your memory is just fine!

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The crazy is getting a little thick when something like this happens: last evening on Anderson 360, Anderson Cooper was sparring with chris sununu and Anderson referred to him as a d**k. Well, if the shoe fits, no apologies needed…It’s amazing the chaos and dread “individual one” can cause. I wonder how close we are to a 1776 moment…

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I’m more worried about an 1861 moment…

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Too many citizens are just ignorant, uncaring or happy with all the HATE.

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It is much more than Trump. He is a puppet for Leonard Leo and a large cadre of powerful, unAmerican crazy men.

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This is, indeed, the winter of our discontent.

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"Elon Musk acknowledged during his Oval Office jag that he isn’t always truthful."

Is that because he likes to use "alternative facts"?

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Just like his boss who constantly spouts BS.

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DUH!

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Was that necessary? Let's not alienate anyone because they're less sophisticated or less experienced than us.

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Evening Joyce. Thank you for those details. I continue to remind myself that the majority of the American people will defend the rule of law and do what is needed to courageously defy the odds. The weirdness can never be justified by an administration that care forgot. All lines have been crossed. This is a race for all humanity. Blessings for your in-depth newsletter and for your courage 🗽🇺🇸🥁🕯️

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One has to wonder what the Pentagon…the Military …would do to the American people who courageously defy this Coup II takeover?

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I am wondering about the military when Trump gives anti constitutional orders

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I WONDER IF THERE IS SOME WAY TO TAKE THE OFFENSIVE. Instead of class actions, what if hundreds of individuals across every state filed lawsuits against Musk and Trump seeking damages for the violations of their privacy etc rights. Some in state courts? Make the Justice Department spread its lawyers thin — especially the MAGA layer.

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Mitchell,

I’ve been wondering the same.

Could that work?

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How do you know they’re lying?

Their lips are moving!

This was a lesson taught me years ago when I had dealings with a military personnel center. I remember this lesson now whenever I see people like MTG, Comer Fudd, Muskrat, OH (🍊Hitler), et al., speaking.

Follow what they do; NOT what they say!

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Perhaps media, corporate as it may be, should publish not what wind blows from Trumpet … but what actions he and daddy do.

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Fair & Balanced days are long gone.

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And Save My Ass, back in vogue.

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A moment I had with the human I have placed my trust with RE retirement funds, etc. When the biosolids hit the fan, I immediately emailed her. Some days later (as in today) she called me. She apparently does not have my concerns. I wasn't interested in a political discussion but I did tell her that "chaos wasn't efficient." So be it. We'll see how this plays out. *sigh

I'm in South Texas and said advisor is well connected. Should be interesting. 🤪

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I think I'd find a new "advisor!"

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Thank you for all the information, although increasingly depressing and frightening. We MUST keep doing something, anything to stop the crazy!

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