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Henry Gargan

@hankyjg

bird watcher, runner, bike rider, enviro lawyer, North Carolinian, embarrassing dad. Posting solely in personal capacity

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Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

11.03.2026 00:40 👍 10981 🔁 2758 💬 178 📌 50

Have a little self respect

10.03.2026 00:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if you believed this you should be fired on the spot because you are one of the dumbest people alive

09.03.2026 13:31 👍 2429 🔁 310 💬 65 📌 1

It's genuinely incredible how "listens to what Trump says and interprets it as a policy goal" puts you in the top 5% of Trump understanders

09.03.2026 14:56 👍 808 🔁 112 💬 13 📌 5

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

07.03.2026 02:38 👍 2842 🔁 326 💬 16 📌 14

Think about how much worse Trump’s job numbers would be if the administration itself wasn’t a jobs program for people who would be unemployable in literally any other context

07.03.2026 12:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

06.03.2026 23:10 👍 8249 🔁 2105 💬 96 📌 38

Bold words about “culture” for someone from Charlotte

04.03.2026 11:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry

03.03.2026 14:08 👍 2111 🔁 459 💬 47 📌 10
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Law School Tells Students, 'You MUST Be Aligned Politically With President Trump,' For Summer Job - Above the Law 'GPA is not a strong factor.' No kidding.

The meritocracy!

abovethelaw.com/2026/03/law-...

03.03.2026 13:41 👍 986 🔁 318 💬 64 📌 62

It's kind of wild how driving the speed limit feels like an act of resistance against car culture

03.03.2026 15:02 👍 831 🔁 105 💬 14 📌 36
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They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

01.03.2026 15:06 👍 19472 🔁 6098 💬 1669 📌 480

This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.

28.02.2026 11:45 👍 554 🔁 107 💬 4 📌 4

Genuinely pathetic

25.02.2026 01:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

24.02.2026 10:11 👍 10200 🔁 5127 💬 335 📌 630

What a genuinely tragic way to live

22.02.2026 11:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

21.02.2026 00:51 👍 11815 🔁 3924 💬 107 📌 128

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

19.02.2026 15:58 👍 6459 🔁 1901 💬 146 📌 47

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

17.02.2026 02:53 👍 7342 🔁 1884 💬 134 📌 59

Embarrassed that UNC didn’t make this list and Duke did

15.02.2026 12:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Feds buy Romulus warehouse as ICE detention facility worries grow The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has purchased a large building on Cogswell Street in Romulus.

"[The previous owner] said a non-disclosure agreement prevents him from disclosing the purchase price, when it was sold, and to which federal agency it was sold."

Why does a government agency get to keep this info from the public?

www.crainsdetroit.com/real-estate/...

14.02.2026 01:44 👍 99 🔁 47 💬 4 📌 3
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My paper, Patronage Pardons, is forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal.

This has appeared in popular press, but here is the full dress version. What distinguishes Trumpist clemency corruption is its communicative function - it powers a loyalty for protection racket.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

10.02.2026 14:52 👍 87 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 2

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

09.02.2026 01:38 👍 20650 🔁 5270 💬 108 📌 179

What’s this I’m hearing about an maleficent rabbit

09.02.2026 01:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

09.02.2026 01:33 👍 28921 🔁 5011 💬 177 📌 154
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every year i make a 'super bowl advertisement' bingo card for my friends. in these trying times,,, here's this year's:

08.02.2026 16:53 👍 460 🔁 127 💬 25 📌 1

NO. 68-71

08.02.2026 01:50 👍 233 🔁 68 💬 3 📌 9

What’s happening to WaPo seems to call for revising my thesis below to extend also to any kind of meaningful institution of civil society

05.02.2026 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you defend ICE’s conduct on the basis that law-breaking justifies whatever consequences the state imposes, I’d love to hear whether you agree that speeding by any amount—which by any measure causes more harm than being undocumented—should be punished at least as severely

05.02.2026 16:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Turns out when the metaphorical barrel of a gun is pressed against your forehead, a lot of luxury beliefs like being an alt-health quack sudden vanish from your mind.

05.02.2026 02:43 👍 547 🔁 147 💬 9 📌 4