Omar Figueroa
@californiacounsel.bsky.social
Lawyer, legal author, and social entrepreneur. 🌲🍄🇺🇸⚖️ 💚
Cannabis law expert.
Yale, Stanford Law, and Trial Lawyers College grad.
Experienced litigator.
Brazilian jiujitsu brown belt.🇧🇷
Ganjier Circle member.
Sonoma County, California🍷
www.OmarFigueroa.com
Cannabis law expert.
Yale, Stanford Law, and Trial Lawyers College grad.
Experienced litigator.
Brazilian jiujitsu brown belt.🇧🇷
Ganjier Circle member.
Sonoma County, California🍷
www.OmarFigueroa.com
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this is the greatest thing i have ever heard
September 26, 2026 at 11:59 PM
this is the greatest thing i have ever heard
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I’ve been obsessed with this possible trendline for a decade. If you cut the things that keep people who remain in state healthy and increase access to guns guess what happens
Deaths now outnumber births in reliably Republican counties for the first time since at least 1982. We explain how this may already be affecting voting patterns in America bit.ly/471apDL
September 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM
I’ve been obsessed with this possible trendline for a decade. If you cut the things that keep people who remain in state healthy and increase access to guns guess what happens
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Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵
September 26, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
www.lemonde.fr
September 25, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.
September 24, 2026 at 9:55 PM
There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.
If history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes, what rhymes with tulipmania 🌷?
"AI investment is projected to total $10.3 trillion from 2025-32 ... a staggering 3.6% of GDP/year. Never before has the US economy been so dependent on the buildout of a single industry."
And we were told a clean-energy transition was too expensive
(gift link) www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
And we were told a clean-energy transition was too expensive
(gift link) www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
www.wsj.com
September 24, 2026 at 3:42 PM
If history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes, what rhymes with tulipmania 🌷?
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You can thank Mike Rogers and his boss Donald Trump for your $5 gas and $7 diesel.
September 23, 2026 at 3:43 PM
You can thank Mike Rogers and his boss Donald Trump for your $5 gas and $7 diesel.
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Not sure I've ever seen numbers like this before.
People *really* don't like how badly they were scammed by this president.
People *really* don't like how badly they were scammed by this president.
September 23, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Not sure I've ever seen numbers like this before.
People *really* don't like how badly they were scammed by this president.
People *really* don't like how badly they were scammed by this president.
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He's the top of the disapproval rating. No other president has had disapproval ratings like this. Some say he's the most hated. Another historic moment for Trump! Thanks for your consideration.
September 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
He's the top of the disapproval rating. No other president has had disapproval ratings like this. Some say he's the most hated. Another historic moment for Trump! Thanks for your consideration.
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We don't talk enough about the experience all historians have in front of the classroom where you say the thing you always say, have been saying for years, and all of a sudden, it takes on new meaning
September 23, 2026 at 4:33 PM
We don't talk enough about the experience all historians have in front of the classroom where you say the thing you always say, have been saying for years, and all of a sudden, it takes on new meaning
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The president and Republicans have become useful idiots in coward Putin’s shadow war on the US and Europe.
Vote out Republicans. All of them.
Get Russia TF out of our elections.
Arm Ukraine so they can drive Russia back into their failed nation’s borders.
youtube.com/shorts/LZkVT...
Vote out Republicans. All of them.
Get Russia TF out of our elections.
Arm Ukraine so they can drive Russia back into their failed nation’s borders.
youtube.com/shorts/LZkVT...
A Twilight War to Weaken the U.S.
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
youtube.com
September 23, 2026 at 12:01 PM
The president and Republicans have become useful idiots in coward Putin’s shadow war on the US and Europe.
Vote out Republicans. All of them.
Get Russia TF out of our elections.
Arm Ukraine so they can drive Russia back into their failed nation’s borders.
youtube.com/shorts/LZkVT...
Vote out Republicans. All of them.
Get Russia TF out of our elections.
Arm Ukraine so they can drive Russia back into their failed nation’s borders.
youtube.com/shorts/LZkVT...
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Jacob Reproaching Laban, by Hendrick Terbrugghen, 1627, 📸 by @iamrandyjw
September 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Jacob Reproaching Laban, by Hendrick Terbrugghen, 1627, 📸 by @iamrandyjw
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This is what happened to the Republican Party from the 90s on in increasingly blue states like Oregon, Washington, and California. Rather than trying to move TOWARDS voters, they radicalized AWAY from them, becoming ever more electorally unviable in statewide races. It’s a peculiar dynamic.
we always assume politicians want to get re-elected & parties want to win control
but republicans kinda just . . . don't anymore
but republicans kinda just . . . don't anymore
September 23, 2026 at 10:16 AM
This is what happened to the Republican Party from the 90s on in increasingly blue states like Oregon, Washington, and California. Rather than trying to move TOWARDS voters, they radicalized AWAY from them, becoming ever more electorally unviable in statewide races. It’s a peculiar dynamic.
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Quince has filed an amended complaint in its antitrust case against the maker of UGG boots.
"Deckers operates a litigation assembly line....Deckers asserts exclusive rights in unregistered product design trade dress defined by common, ordinary features of sheepskin
footwear...."
"Deckers operates a litigation assembly line....Deckers asserts exclusive rights in unregistered product design trade dress defined by common, ordinary features of sheepskin
footwear...."
September 23, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Quince has filed an amended complaint in its antitrust case against the maker of UGG boots.
"Deckers operates a litigation assembly line....Deckers asserts exclusive rights in unregistered product design trade dress defined by common, ordinary features of sheepskin
footwear...."
"Deckers operates a litigation assembly line....Deckers asserts exclusive rights in unregistered product design trade dress defined by common, ordinary features of sheepskin
footwear...."
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Overnight, a small ICE Air jet (max 16-18 passengers) landed in Yangon, Myanmar, marking the fourth deportation flight to the country. The flight originated in Mesa, Arizona, with the journey lasting approximately 24 hours.
September 23, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Overnight, a small ICE Air jet (max 16-18 passengers) landed in Yangon, Myanmar, marking the fourth deportation flight to the country. The flight originated in Mesa, Arizona, with the journey lasting approximately 24 hours.
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I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
The GOP needs to get serious. His family needs to get serious.
This is not something that a stable mind puts out.
This is not something that a stable mind puts out.
September 23, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Don’t think Republicans OR Democrats have fully absorbed what happens if Talarico and/or Hinojosa wins Texas. It completely rejiggers their fundraising strategy. Republicans now have to pour resources they’d use to flip the Midwest to win back/defend Texas.
September 23, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Don’t think Republicans OR Democrats have fully absorbed what happens if Talarico and/or Hinojosa wins Texas. It completely rejiggers their fundraising strategy. Republicans now have to pour resources they’d use to flip the Midwest to win back/defend Texas.
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Marist now has a Texas poll (after their Iowa poll last night).
It has Talarico leading Paxton 50/44.
And Hinojosa leading Abbott 49/46. (All among registered voters.) maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/2026-m...
It has Talarico leading Paxton 50/44.
And Hinojosa leading Abbott 49/46. (All among registered voters.) maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/2026-m...
September 23, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Marist now has a Texas poll (after their Iowa poll last night).
It has Talarico leading Paxton 50/44.
And Hinojosa leading Abbott 49/46. (All among registered voters.) maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/2026-m...
It has Talarico leading Paxton 50/44.
And Hinojosa leading Abbott 49/46. (All among registered voters.) maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/2026-m...
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It’s really rare how few contemporary politicians are talented at doing what I am calling “Mayor Quimby shit”
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor.
Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister?
Child: No
Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister?
Child: No
Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
September 22, 2026 at 10:31 PM
It’s really rare how few contemporary politicians are talented at doing what I am calling “Mayor Quimby shit”
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Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.
September 22, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.
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i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...
September 23, 2026 at 1:16 AM
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2026 at 8:06 PM
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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sitting down to write a column about how too many minorities are getting nominated for prizes these days is real loser shit like scraping the bottom of the racism barrel loser shit
September 22, 2026 at 10:32 PM
sitting down to write a column about how too many minorities are getting nominated for prizes these days is real loser shit like scraping the bottom of the racism barrel loser shit
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Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign.
The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign.
The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
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Turned down last week:
2 festivals with no budget for speakers
1 writing course with no budget for teachers
1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free.
Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
2 festivals with no budget for speakers
1 writing course with no budget for teachers
1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free.
Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
September 21, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Turned down last week:
2 festivals with no budget for speakers
1 writing course with no budget for teachers
1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free.
Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
2 festivals with no budget for speakers
1 writing course with no budget for teachers
1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free.
Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.