Michael Barclay 🇺🇦

Volunteer at @EFF (tweets are my own). This account is for legal, tech, politics, music, cats, humor, and Oxford commas. My Taylor Swift fan account is @mbarc13

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

What I find most disturbing about the Graham Platner allegations is that, today, a federal judge ordered Donald Trump to pay the civil judgment of $5 million (+ interest) for raping and defaming E. Jean Carroll.

[Michael Barclay 🇺🇦 @mbarc52]

@MeidasTouch https://t.co/Cmg61aXWdo

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

"I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky.”

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Let's hope Donald is just as successful in his attempts to rig the midterms as he was in his attempt to rig the World Cup.

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

Any word on whether FIFA has overturned last night’s loss to Belgium yet?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of Palantir, called Pope Leo “a Chinese communist agent” for writing that AI must be used to “truly benefit the common good, and is not just used to accumulate wealth and power in the hands of a few.”

Who do you trust? Pope Leo or Mr. Thiel?

[Michael Barclay 🇺🇦 @mbarc52]

@Mollyploofkins The USMNT can still win if Mike Pence has the courage

[Michael Barclay 🇺🇦 @mbarc52]

@DougJBalloon The USMNT can still win if Mike Pence has the courage

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

I’M CRYING 😂😂

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This clip, from Larry David's new show "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness" is one of his FUNNIEST ever.

Awesome to have Rob Reiner as George Washington in possibly one of his final on-screen performances.

Cameo by Kimmel is chef's kiss.
RIP, Rob Reiner.

[Michael Barclay 🇺🇦 @mbarc52]

@DarthPutinKGB You forgot: I remain a master strategist

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

America is done being divided.

As one team, we’re unstoppable.

Happy Fourth of July!

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Children born in the United States to non-citizens should not be allowed to become citizens or to serve in Congress.

by Marco Rubio

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Clarence Thomas argued the 14th Amendment was written narrowly for former enslaved people and doesn't apply broadly today. Using that same logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets and doesn't apply to AR-15's, but somehow, he's never made that argument.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Mayor @ZohranKMamdani: In January, our city was reckoning with a $12 billion deficit, a fiscal crisis larger than any since the Great Recession. For too long, New York City had relied on budgeting tricks instead of budgeting honestly. After long nights and painstaking work, we presented an executive budget that brought that $12 billion gap down to zero.

[Michael Barclay 🇺🇦 @mbarc52]

@Number10cat Actually four of them, sorry to say

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@AntiTrumpCanada

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@SundaeDivine

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Critics of the Supreme Court say that today's Slaughter ruling will give future presidents far too much power. They're wrong—the court will reverse itself as soon as there's a Democrat in the White House.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Oh WOW…the guy they said that would bring Sharia law to NYC is now out there leading the Pride parade