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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.

A lot of the people lamenting Marjorie Taylor Greene’s departure from Congress—and celebrating her as some kind of principled maverick—are going to end up eating their words when she reemerges in 2028 to help lead a pro-groper, pro-Fuentes “America First” faction of the GOP.

Am I the only one who baulks when journalists suggest Zelenskyy’s position in peace negotiations is undermined by the corruption scandal ‘whirling around’ him - what barefaced hypocrisy - the current White House is full of corruption and grifters that knock Ukrainian corruption into a cocked hat!!

Its 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.

the 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

In 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.

NOW HEAR THIS: Every service member has an OBLIGATION to NOT carry out “Blatantly” 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?

Remember: 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.

a 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.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Today I have seen more “just use Linux” 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 it’s getting eyeballs

not a coincidence that the reactionary centrists still do just fine there

If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered “violent rhetoric,” how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?

Exclusive U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols now

Sounds about reich

I'm convinced Nationalist Christians believe—without evidence—immigrants 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?

If 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.

To 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?

They 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.

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s 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 ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

FBI Redacted Trump’s 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 ‘would not be appropriate or warranted.’

how convenient 🤬

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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.

i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying

Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.

I 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 aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.

Quote 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

I’ve been trying to articulate this forever and this quote says it perfectly. Real hope isn’t passive, it’s active. But it’s also worth remembering that action doesn’t always mean sweeping change or grand gestures. Small choices count too. What a fabulous woman Dr. Goodall was. RIP.