Aa handful of complicit sycophants does not count as "many great legal scholars." Also, they urged people to disobey illegal orders, which is part of their training and required by law.
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Aa handful of complicit sycophants does not count as "many great legal scholars." Also, they urged people to disobey illegal orders, which is part of their training and required by law.
24.11.2025 18:19 β π 7617 π 1380 π¬ 525 π 110A lot of the people lamenting Marjorie Taylor Greeneβs departure from Congressβand celebrating her as some kind of principled maverickβare going to end up eating their words when she reemerges in 2028 to help lead a pro-groper, pro-Fuentes βAmerica Firstβ faction of the GOP.
22.11.2025 14:49 β π 11123 π 1685 π¬ 719 π 180Am I the only one who baulks when journalists suggest Zelenskyyβs position in peace negotiations is undermined by the corruption scandal βwhirling aroundβ him - what barefaced hypocrisy - the current White House is full of corruption and grifters that knock Ukrainian corruption into a cocked hat!!
22.11.2025 12:05 β π 975 π 238 π¬ 38 π 6Its very very bad that the President publicly posts a statement that, were I to post the same thing about him, would have the FBI knocking on my door.
20.11.2025 17:18 β π 4344 π 998 π¬ 90 π 36the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
20.11.2025 03:19 β π 3853 π 886 π¬ 4 π 12In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
21.11.2025 03:53 β π 2179 π 371 π¬ 28 π 14NOW HEAR THIS: Every service member has an OBLIGATION to NOT carry out βBlatantlyβ Unlawful orders:
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is:
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
Waut so some folks in Congress made a video saying yo you don't have to follow illegal orders and the president got so mad he starting tweeting about hanging them, do I have that right?
20.11.2025 20:51 β π 1659 π 235 π¬ 45 π 16Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
20.11.2025 18:24 β π 8352 π 2980 π¬ 78 π 54a year ago the idea of an artificial intelligence chatbot designed to make the richest man in the world sound like a renaissance man no matter what question it was asked would sound like the setup for a black mirror episode.
now its reality.
Canβt believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other peopleβs expertise makes them feel bad
20.11.2025 04:19 β π 26574 π 6651 π¬ 7 π 222Today I have seen more βjust use Linuxβ messages than ever before.
Gurl, until Linux can absolutely get down plug-n-play like behavior, the general public will not be ready for Linux unless everyone gets a huge dosage of computer literacy.
And I will tell you now, from teaching adults: hahahahaha
Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview.
If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.
and for people who are getting reach on twitter these days, it might be worth looking at your content and thinking about why itβs getting eyeballs
not a coincidence that the reactionary centrists still do just fine there
If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered βviolent rhetoric,β how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?
20.11.2025 17:55 β π 8523 π 2043 π¬ 254 π 88Exclusive U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols now
Sounds about reich
20.11.2025 18:29 β π 4511 π 1233 π¬ 54 π 175I'm convinced Nationalist Christians believeβwithout evidenceβimmigrants are here to rape, pillage,& steal, because deep down they know that's exactly what their European colonizer ancestors did to America's Indigenous Peoples
Nat-Cs must be a drive in movie theatre because their projection is wild
If the pro-life and anti-Christian persecution groups truly believe in their causes, why are they quiet about the president hosting a tyrant at the White House who had a man brutally assassinated and dismembered and who is part of a regime that persecutes Christians?
20.11.2025 10:17 β π 5017 π 1336 π¬ 270 π 68If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
21.11.2025 01:31 β π 3514 π 1067 π¬ 25 π 42To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?
20.11.2025 17:42 β π 23728 π 7003 π¬ 849 π 344They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
FBI Redacted Trumpβs Name in the Epstein Files
FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents βwould not be appropriate or warranted.β
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www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not just the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.
18.11.2025 17:28 β π 14948 π 3956 π¬ 426 π 155i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying
18.11.2025 19:41 β π 12016 π 1370 π¬ 309 π 45Oh they donβt like the whistles? Hey everyone, they donβt like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
18.11.2025 23:57 β π 7479 π 1926 π¬ 324 π 74I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They arenβt misreading literary references β they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.
17.11.2025 14:08 β π 648 π 142 π¬ 25 π 8Quote picture of Dr. Jane Goodall from @JaneGoodallAau "Hope is often misunderstood. People think it is simply passive wishful thinking. This is the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement." DR. JANE GOODALL @JaneGoodallAU
Iβve been trying to articulate this forever and this quote says it perfectly. Real hope isnβt passive, itβs active. But itβs also worth remembering that action doesnβt always mean sweeping change or grand gestures. Small choices count too. What a fabulous woman Dr. Goodall was. RIP.
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