Susan Simpson @TheViewFromLL2

Podcaster at @proofcrimepod. Attorney in Washington, DC. viewfromll2.com Washington, DC Joined October 2011

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Brendan Karet @bad_takes

10 hours ago

rfk jr, almost crying: over 40%. 40%! of dogs don't even have thumbs. it's a tragedy but nobody -- excuse me -- nobody wants to talk about it. PetCo bought, and SOLD, everyone in this room. i haven't -- let me finish. seen a beagle with thumbs. since the 80's

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Jesse Lee @JesseCharlesLee

22 hours ago

I’m confused by this. Trump has fired thousands of government workers over literally nothing, and purged the DOJ and FBI of people who were just prosecuting the cases they were given. But this guy who openly accused Trump and Bondi of a massive Epstein cover-up still has a job?

U.S. Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar

3 days ago

"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s brokenness that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur." publicnotice.co/p/rfk-jr-monar…

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Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates

3 days ago

we don't seem to grasp that the UK is, or has become, an authoritarian government that arrests people (like this Irish comic) for something they've said or posted on social media; not anything they have done. nothing one merely says should be treated as a crime--a crime is…

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Joey⚡️ @joeygllghr

7 days ago

I have a friend whose cousin is in the secret service on the presidential detail and allegedly the president tried to use the toilet with both seats up and fell in and they can’t get him out. He said there’s been three casualties in the extraction effort so far

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Susan Simpson @TheViewFromLL2

a week ago

Cracker Barrel shouldn't have backed down, that pumpkin-spleen thing has always creeped me out and I want it gone from highway signs.

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Susan Simpson @TheViewFromLL2

2 weeks ago

Republicans don't give a shit about free markets. They want a state-directed economy that uses corporate profits to punish enemies and deport people that are the wrong color.

Acyn @Acyn

2 weeks ago

Republicans don't give a shit about free markets. They want a state-directed economy that uses corporate profits to punish enemies and deport people that are the wrong color.

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome

2 weeks ago

Another P.S. My view doesn't just come from history, economics and principle: I once did a good amnt of legal work for a big state-owned enterprise, so I've seen the decision-making from the inside & been able to compare it to a wholly private entity. It's not good.

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Justin Murray @JustinNYLS

3 weeks ago

Brady is a trap that keeps snapping shut bc we keep believing its false promise—that better enforcement or modest tweaks will finally deliver fairness. Meanwhile statutory reforms, ethics rules, & state constitutions all get conscripted into Brady's failed paradigm.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick

3 weeks ago

My personal read of the Home Rule Act is that nothing in it even remotely authorizes the Attorney General to personally take control of DC police. I hope a judge agrees.

ABC News @ABC

3 weeks ago

My personal read of the Home Rule Act is that nothing in it even remotely authorizes the Attorney General to personally take control of DC police. I hope a judge agrees.

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ProPublica @propublica

3 weeks ago

In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs. propublica.org/article/fda-dr…

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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️ @JayShams

4 weeks ago

This is a great scoop about the inner workings of the Justice Department and quite an interesting reaction from a government official

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Susan Simpson @TheViewFromLL2

3 weeks ago

"You heard about the federal surge that Donald Trump's putting out? ... All right, so, Trump's got all federal agencies kind of coming together, for seven days..." An indication that the feds have been told this ridiculous display is only going to last for a week?

philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_

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Susan Simpson @TheViewFromLL2

4 weeks ago

People complain about the word fascism being thrown around lightly. But how else to describe seizing control of local government operations, deploying federal forces with orders to "remove" undesirables and defend "our sacred monuments", and lying about crime data to justify it?

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Daniel Dale @ddale8

4 weeks ago

In general: 1) DC is a relatively high-crime place; 2) DC did have a crime spike in 2023; 3) DC is now and was even in 2023 way safer than it was in the 1980s and 1990s; 4) Crime in DC fell sharply in 2024 and is falling sharply again in 2025. Good post: jasher.substack.com/p/assessing-dc…

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Matthew Gertz @MattGertz

4 weeks ago

The feds run the juvenile probation system, which seems to be really bad at its job. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/744450… washingtonpost.com/investigations…

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Sam Stein @samstein

4 weeks ago

One way we could make DC safer and cleaner without using the national guard would be to restore the $1b in cuts to the city budget that was passed into law with Trump's signature—which Trump and Republicans were supposed to reverse but never got around to.

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Colin Grabow @cpgrabow

a month ago

Many people recognize that the Jones Act is a very bad law that inflicts considerable harm on the US. So why is it so impervious to change? Let's take a deep dive, starting with an overview and then getting into the nitty-gritty of JA influence ops. (warning: *very* long 🧵)

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Susan Simpson @TheViewFromLL2

2 months ago

I have rejected any and all Epstein conspiracy theories. Other than: what he did was terrible and due to his influence he got away with it for a long time. But now I think I was wrong about that, geez. Trump pretty much has to be implicated in some documents, based on all this.

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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy

2 months ago

kinda hard to fathom the horrors that will come from this bill giving $45 billion to ICE (aka the secret police!) to cage and torture people, and untold other billions to swell the masses of ICE agents. just catastrophically bad honestly