Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
10.11.2025 12:09 β π 10953 π 2478 π¬ 179 π 59@henrie72.bsky.social
Was @amidthetumult for over 15 years at the other place. Professor Indigenous Studies; Ph.D. (Leiden) Anthropology. Hoping something can be saved of Democracy and world order in the next few years. I stand with Ukraine
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
10.11.2025 12:09 β π 10953 π 2478 π¬ 179 π 59Stefanik's NY governor announcement is straight from the Trump School of Belligerent Capital-Letter Nicknames. Even after last week's GOP drubbing, she's treating Trump as a winning role model. What can she be thinking? It's a mystery. Or maybe not. @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/elise-stef...
10.11.2025 13:31 β π 240 π 59 π¬ 21 π 9The server I keep my βImagine If Biden Had Done Thisβ file on is using more energy than all AI models combined.
10.11.2025 21:56 β π 871 π 146 π¬ 45 π 3In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
This echoes the conservative counterargument to union rights a century ago, the so-called "liberty of contract."
As FDR's Interior Secretary Harold Ickes noted, that kind of "liberty" merely gave helpless individuals the freedom to "drive a bargain with a great corporation."
When are people going to start talking about the clear cognitive decline of the president?
09.11.2025 15:43 β π 920 π 186 π¬ 40 π 8Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
07.11.2025 12:34 β π 13984 π 4206 π¬ 172 π 984/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).
09.11.2025 09:23 β π 3041 π 538 π¬ 3 π 123/ One of the two panels described how a million African-Americans volunteered for service during World War II, but had to fight against both the enemy and racism on their own side, including segregation within the army itself that confined many to supporting roles.
09.11.2025 09:23 β π 3133 π 577 π¬ 7 π 112/ The Dutch newspaper reports that two memorial panels installed at the NAC were removed some time earlier this year. They commemorated African-American soldiers who helped liberate Europe from German occupation during World War II.
09.11.2025 09:23 β π 2953 π 586 π¬ 16 π 151/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. β¬οΈ
09.11.2025 09:23 β π 10976 π 7285 π¬ 873 π 1746Heritage is just cartoonishly evil. Just the worst scum on the face of the planet.
10.11.2025 01:20 β π 1381 π 284 π¬ 26 π 11Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"
10.11.2025 00:20 β π 4632 π 1065 π¬ 262 π 76Dems backed Trump into a corner where heβs advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing itβs a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
09.11.2025 22:58 β π 26734 π 7511 π¬ 842 π 530BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): I've been invited to speak across the country about January 6. And now that I'm relaunching Oath Keepers, I'm getting more invitations to come speak as well. So, yeah, I'm relaunching the organization and rebuilding it. ... They tried to take us out after January 6 but what man means for evil, God will use for good. I came out stronger after it, and so my goal is to rebuild the organization stronger than ever because it's an essential mission. Absolutely. JIM HOFT (HOST): Oh, that's wonderful news. So the Oath Keepers is going to have a relaunch here, and Stewart's breaking that news this weekend? RHODES: Yes, sir. ... RHODES: I mean, I have to make sure that if I'm ever taken out again or if I'm or when I'm taken out again, that the organization can drive on without me. That's not what happened last time. ... So we want to make sure it's got resilience and redundancy built in that it can drive on strong. With the same mission, though. You can't call yourself an Oath Keeper if you're not willing to protect people against radical antifa and other leftist violence in the streets.
STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us β in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience. Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play. ... And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country. ... He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to βcall us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
GRANTING PARDONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATED TO THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION .....β’ - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation. Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any State or State official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election, as well for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Blection. This includes, but is not limited to: β’ Mark Amick β’ Kathy Berden β’ Christina Bobb β’ Tyler Bowyer β’ Joseph Bxannan β’ Carol Brunner β’ Mary Buestrin β’ Darryl Carlson β’ James "Ken" Carroll β’ Brad Carver
Robert Cheeley β’ Kenneth Chesebro β’ Hank Choate β’ Jeffrey Clark β’ Vikki Consiglio β’ Nancy Cottle β’ James DeGraffenreid β’ John Downey β’ John Eastman β’ Jenna Ellis β’ Boris Epshteyn β’ Amy Facchinello β’ B111 Feehan β’ Carolyn Fisher β’ Harrison Ployd β’ Clifford Frost β’ Kay Godwin β’ Edward Scott Grabins β’ Stanley Grot β’ Rudolph Giuliani β’ John Haggard β’ Scott Hall β’ Misty Hampton β’ David G. Hanna β’ Mark Hennessy β’ Mari-Ann Henry β’ Durward James Hindle III
β’ Burt Jones β’ Anthony T. Kern β’ Kathy Kiernen β’ Timothy King β’Trevian Kutts β’ James Lamon β’ Cathleen Latham β’ Jesse Law β’ Stephen Lee β’ Michele Lundgren β’ Meshawn Maddock β’ Michael McDonald β’ Mark Meadows β’ Shawn Mechan β’ Robert Montgomery β’ Daryl Moody β’ Samuel I. Moorhead β’ Loraine Pellegrino β’ Sidney Powe11 β’ James Renner β’ Bileen Rice β’ Mayra Rodriguez β’ Mike Roman β’ Rose Rook β’ Kelly Ruh β’ Greg Safsten β’ David Shafer β’ Marian Sheridan β’ Ray Stallings Smith III
4 β’ Robert F. Spindell Jx. β’ Shawn Still β’ Ken Thompson β’ Pam Travis β’ James Troupis β’ Kent Vanderwood β’ Kelli Ward β’ Michael Ward β’ C.B. Yadav This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The Attorney General, acting through the Pardon Attorney, shall administer and effectuate the issuance of certificates of pardon to eligible applicants. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.
Trumpβs pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other βalternate electors.β
Note: Trumpβs Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president canβt pardon people for state crimes.
Trump has threatened to bomb or invade 7 countries with a shot to play in the 2026 World Cup. He *has* bombed one (Iran) and said he'd deny them visas. He's preparing for war with another (Venezuela). He has summarily executed citizens from at least 3. He has imposed tariffs on nearly all of them.
10.11.2025 12:56 β π 718 π 249 π¬ 42 π 28Though Trumpβs pardons canβt extend to state crimes, I think itβs worth pointing out the message being conveyed:
Trumpβs allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.
Now heβs pardoning them for it.
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A felon freed by Trump in his first term is sentenced again, this time to 27 months after a judge found that he sexually assaulted a nanny, swung an IV pole at a nurse and dodged tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
10.11.2025 20:00 β π 701 π 239 π¬ 54 π 28people.com/donald-trump... I just knew this was coming. And if you think this doesnβt end with a massive gold trump statue in DC youβre not paying attention
10.11.2025 20:19 β π 417 π 111 π¬ 65 π 57"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasnβt receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
10.11.2025 21:06 β π 597 π 291 π¬ 5 π 6I'm told Sen. Ted Cruz led this effort. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats weren't consulted on the addition of this language, per a source familiar. Committee's top Dem, Dick Durbin, was among the 8 Ds who voted to advance the spending measure last night.
10.11.2025 20:23 β π 363 π 74 π¬ 12 π 8Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"
10.11.2025 22:28 β π 2710 π 852 π¬ 134 π 33His fuckery regarding the civil suit alone should prevent his ever being an attorney again.
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