Jas Easterly

FBI scheduling interviews with 6 lawmakers who encouraged military members to refuse 'illegal orders'

Found this:

www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi...

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL CONFIRMS FBI HAS REQUESTED INTERVIEWS WITH SIX U.S. LAWMAKERS WHO WARNED ABOUT ILLEGAL MILITARY ORDERS

The 28-point 'Peace Plan': A crisis of trust, influence and strategic delusion - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com Explore the implications of The 28-point 'Peace Plan' and its links to Russian proposals amid a political earthquake.

“There is no agreement that can restrain a man whose aim is the elimination of Ukrainian statehood. And there is no “ceasefire” that will be honoured by a regime that interprets weakness not as an invitation to compromise, but as an invitation to strike.”

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When courage fails: UVa's donors chose ambition over duty | Guest column UVa faces a choice: Will it be remembered as the university that bent the knee to political ambition? Or as the one that found its backbone when it mattered most? Moral courage is not convenient. It i...

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The cowardice of our current leaders is repugnant.

Can you be an astronaut if you have bone spurs?

Extradite Trump…

Just to make the periodic point of which Americans seem blissfully ignorant: for a large part of the Hispanic population, they did not cross the border into the US, rather the US border moved deep into Mexico to cross them.

Senator Ruben Gallego didn't mince words. Read the full daily bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

So Trump calls for six serving members of Congress to be hung. The Sec Def calls for a serving Senator to be recalled to active duty to be Courtmartialed. All for saying military personnel can refuse ILLEGAL ORDERS. Absurd. Separation of powers. Statement inherent in the UCMJ.

One Of The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre's Last Survivors Dead At 111 One of the last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma has died at 111.

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Unconditional Ceasefire before any negotiations.

I once saw Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh play together at D.A.R. Constitution Hall circa 1982. It was the same segregated venue that refused to let Marian Anderson sing in 1939 because she was black. The smell of ganja in that blue blooded establishment was remarkable.

194. Another Bad Week for the Presumption of Regularity Three different flashpoints highlight how much the Trump administration has done, in such short order, to undermine its own litigation efforts and to damage—perhaps irreparably—DOJ's credibility.

Me on DOJ’s behavior: “it’s malevolence *exacerbated* by incompetence. That’s problematic enough for the government’s credibility before federal district judges. But at some point soon, one suspects that the Supreme Court itself may well have to grapple with its consequences—or risk being duped.”

Opinion | Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation

“Trump has put the military in an impossible situation. He’s making its most senior leaders complicit in his unlawful acts, and he’s burdening the consciences of soldiers who serve under his command.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.

"While elite journos and businessmen kiss the ring of Trump, people in jammies and slippers confront ICE in the street. The courage of ordinary people has been stunning compared to the elite."

On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is good on Trump's downward spiral:
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Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY

Pope Leo calls out 'extremely disrespectful' treatment of migrants in the U.S. The U.S.-born pope has spoken out several times against his native country's treatment of migrants in the U.S.

Pontifex maximus: “When people are living good lives for 10, 20 years… (Trump) is treating them in a way that’s extremely disrespectful, violent — We have to look for ways to treat people humanely and with dignity.” www.npr.org/2025/11/18/g...

Scratching my head about what we lawyers like to call “reasonable, articulable suspicion.”

This one might be even more uncanny mirror-wise.

Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

Excellent post - and this is how I begin every discussion with a potential Lost Causer, because once you separate their Southern culture (family ties, geographic roots, etc) from the argument, you can actually have a discussion without the “I have to defend the South” walls coming up.

Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.

CNBC article proclaiming that "Americans are heating their homes with bitcoin this winter."

It's like we're stuck in a techno-dystopian Dickens novel.

This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

Politics is irrelevant because abusers are defective people.
Plenty of people who talk the talk but don’t walk it. It’s not just MAGA-friendlies.