Southern lawyer. Blue dot in a formerly independent but now very red state. Could be a textualist or originalist if the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amends are included. Profanity = Art (& a 2d Language). Aldo Raine (& the Czech partisans) did nothing wrong.
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NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldn’t back Trump’s lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire — a lie 🇺🇸 media has let him get away with with even as India’s media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
Culling our population lays ground work for invasion... you compromise the military by this stupidity; hope you know Russian!! abcnews.go.com/Health/forme...
Would be hilarious if it were true. And poetic.
I don’t know if you all remember, but Sharice Davids was reelected in Kansas even after the GOP gerrymandered her district…
This story just got even worse: Firefighters question leaders’ role in Washington immigration raid Wildfire veterans believe top officials on the fire sent their crews into an ambush
Here's the govt bid to get him detained. I think they try to misrepresent photos for body cam. Why is there body cam of the gun, but not the alleged assault? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Bullshit.
The contrast between #JoeBiden and #DonaldTrump is evident… But the Media did a hit job on Biden & propped up Trump! Joe is doing great 💙 but Trump looks like he’s at death’s door!!! #MSMTraitors
Where’s Jake Tapper? The White House Press Corps? The NYT?
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
i know i shouldn’t be surprised at the speed with which america’s news outlets have pivoted to stenographers and propagators of trumpism but it’s still startling to see stuff like this
He’s really calling most Americans “Nazis.”
Putin playing his bitch.
Mark is right, although I confess I am a hypocrite here, for I wholly support the "remigration" of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. They have failed to assimilate to our cultural norms and instead have tried to impose their foreign backwards ways upon us, and so must be removed to protect our heritage.
To read the 337-page transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, is to be horrified, even enraged, by Maxwell’s brazen airbrushing of her conduct, and by Blanche’s placid acceptance of her rendition of events.
Want to understand Russian policy? Ignore what they say to us in the West, listen to what they say among themselves:
Trump isn’t just axing the Constitution. He’s axing something we all love. Watch. https://youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?feature=shared
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
How did a civilized society come to embrace Hitler’s extreme ideas?
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Sherman didn’t burn nearly enough and Reconstruction should have never ended. Also past time to enforce the Guarantee Clause in Texas & other Red States.
RFK Jr doesn’t want to protect health. He wants to demonize science that could cure and prevent infectious diseases, cancers, and even autoimmune disorders. 4/
RFK Jr cut half a billion dollars in research funding for mRNA vaccines. He & Marty Makary claim mRNA vaccines are “risky” so they’ll shift to “traditional, older” vaccine tech that’s “safer.” Guess what? We used to immunize people by blowing powdered smallpox scabs up their noses. 1/
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Mallory McMorrow: "When we take back power, we need a party who is not afraid to use it."
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
I do appreciate recent history for allowing me to have a deeper appreciation of Soviet humor
She’s a hundred times the judge John Roberts et al will ever be.
Instead of posting the Ten Commandments in public places let’s post the 25th Amendment
🗳️ Countering election misinformation A study in the US and Brazil found that prebunking (warning about false claims in advance) and credible corrections both boosted trust in elections. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... #SciComm #Elections 🧪 #Politics
They’re looking for perverts fixated on kids’ genitals - in other words, their own kind.
I wouldn't make a big distinction between the situation for Black women and Black men. The labor market situation for both has deteriorated sharply since January. The Black unemployment has risen a full pp to 7.2%, the white rate hasn't budged at 3.7%
From the editor and publisher of the Uvalde Leader-News following the July 4 floods. His paper is the only one in the whole state that's editorialized against HB 15 at the #txlege, which wd close records being sought by the families of the children who were murdered at Robb Elementary 3.5 years ago.
Putin is celebrating. Netanyahu is celebrating. Taliban is celebrating. The oligarchs and billionaires are celebrating. KKK is celebrating. Proud Boys are celebrating. Insurrectionists are celebrating What does this mean, on the face of it?
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Hey! Just icymi: FEMA is now evicting THOUSANDS of Hurricane Helene survivors Our government hates us. And millions voted for this degree of brutality and cruelty. Why?
Or better … depending on how you look at it.
And, it shouldn't go unnoted that Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who has done her job at all hours today over a holiday weekend, was one of the final Biden appointees confirmed to the bench. Each one of those lame-duck confirmations very much matter.
Wait, what the fuck are the sandbags for. Sandbags are for floods and fighting positions.
This is what failed Republican policies look like. #VoteThemOut
Cosplay Noem fired 24 FEMA employees for failing basic security protocols and allowing hackers access. I thought the whole point of DOGE was to expose our data to everyone. Just paying customers then? Fuck these amateurs. www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
“I can’t stomach Trump. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” JD Vance
Trump did this
Trust doctors and science, not certain Trump fanatics.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
You know what to do. Get on it.
I’m old enough to remember when Scooter Libby was convicted & sentenced to 31 months for doing what Gabbard just did.
I think when it happens we should call it “congestive heart success”
O'Neill isn't an RFK Jr type of guy. He is a Thiel type of guy. So is Vance. This isn't MAGA, it's NRx. The Dark Enlightenment is a heartbeat away from taking power.
''Members of the French Resistance with Molotov cocktails during the liberation of Paris'', August 1944 📸 : Robert Doisneau
Was the mixer 15 years old?
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
Talking to journalist Pete Rothpletz about his piece on one of the biggest scandals and news stories of the Trump Administration. Why aren't Dems and corporate media focusing on this? Live 1 pm et. Thelefthook.substack.com. No paywalls. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
A lot of the studies on media influence on political behavior focus on Fox's position in the channel line-up to generate an exogenous effect. This one looks at the effect of a city boycotting a particular newspaper because of its coverage of a sports tragedy. theconversation.com/did-the-sun-...
It took cops three hours to finally go into the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting. If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷♂️
Occam’s Razor.
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
Fighting the fires or dying in them, either way I’m fine with Border Patrol being put in the middle of the fires.
The only way the Epstein abuse could have gone on for decades is to have the "right people" in place. The right people have always been in place. The right people are STILL in place.
“15?!!!”
🦋 RFK Jr. wants to rewrite science using vaccine critic David Geier in his Autism study Millions of scientific hours have been spent studying hundreds of thousands of children in hundreds of peer-reviewed papers To debunk a 12 child study by a gastroenterologist who was struck off in 2010 🦋 #MMR
How about holding them (like in a cell) in contempt until the kids are brought back? 🤷♂️ Seems right. Or we could make a trade, kids for doj lawyers.
Maybe the government lied to her earlier? bsky.app/profile/jjin...
The immanent threat in America that requires national guard deployment sleeps in the White House. He defines waste fraud and abuse and needs to be removed from office. 8647
“Murderer” is far more accurate.
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
Any passengers? Was he passed out behind the wheel? Was the woman in his statement the mother of his date?
Yarvin, like so many of his Tech Bro fans, is actually pretty damn stupid.
To be fair, he meant he would end it by killing us all.
The Kremlin appears to have launched a coordinated information campaign demonstrating military strength on the battlefield to shape Western thinking and falsely portray a Russian victory as inevitable. This is stated in a report by the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
I grew up during a time when the press would have demanded that the White House release the President's medical records and ask why no one has seen him for four days.
Same.
Pursuits are one of the most dangerous parts of policing -- for suspects, officers, and the public. This, from @bytomfrank.bsky.social, is very much worth your time. www.usatoday.com/pages/intera...
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Was she the mother of his date?
I have good friends at DIA. I've done contract jobs and had an open offer for employment for years, but with too many logs in the fire, I haven't been able to consider it. But, some things are settling so that I can take on such a job and I was considering it. Then Trump returned. Agency is ruined.
More of this.
You can’t go anonymous to ATC either, has there been any effort to name & shame these child traffickers?
Jim Brown 
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