Hank Lacey

Hank Lacey

@hlacey.bsky.social

Journalist, retired lawyer, dad, baseball fan. From Colorado. I don't argue online.

1,885 Followers 4,042 Following 3,824 Posts Joined Aug 2023
9 hours ago
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test launch of strategic cruise missiles from a new 5,000-ton naval destroyer, the country's state media said.

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9 hours ago

I think the odds are at least 50-50 that Trump nukes Iran. Why? Because he will do anything other than accept responsibility for a mistake or an error of judgment and because he will decide that doing so will impress MAGA.

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9 hours ago

‘Murica

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12 hours ago

Juan de Fuca

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1 day ago

Americans should never, ever be put at risk in order to protect Saudi Arabia.

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2 days ago

So don't send him any bills.

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2 days ago

I notice that Senator Schumer says the Democrats "will not help pass" the horrid SAVE Act. He does NOT say that Senate Democrats will block the bill via the filibuster.

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2 days ago

Attention, fellow journalists: There is no such thing as the U.S. "Department of War." Federal statute declares that agency to be the Department of Defense, a situation that has existed since the late 1940s. Trump's silly and unlawful attempt to rebrand the Pentagon should be disregarded.

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2 days ago

Jimmy Carter was a good man. He dealt with the aftermath of the economic pressure caused by the Vietnam War and the OPEC embargo. And while the Iranian revolution did happen in 1979, the roots of that event dated to the 1950s and were driven by years - decades - of the Shah's despotic rule.

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3 days ago

Please consider helping @mollyknight.bsky.social.

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4 days ago
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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5 days ago

Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana, a Navy veteran, assaulted a U.S. Marine at the Capitol yesterday. He cannot plausibly claim that the Capitol Police needed his help. Sheehy committed a crime. He should resign and be prosecuted for it.

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6 days ago

How about holding Trump and his minions accountable to law, reining in SCOTUS, ending ICE, and insisting that Congress decide when we go to war?

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6 days ago

Every two or four years I read the speculation that Texas will elect a Democrat to statewide office or to the U.S. Senate. It won’t. The election rules in that state are set up to favor the GOP and the electorate is clearly Republican-leaning.

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1 week ago

He will join his parents in a grave if he takes that job. The Israelis will for sure make that happen.

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1 week ago

WTF is "elite human capital"?

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1 week ago

This is straight-up open corruption.

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1 week ago

I understand that Iran’s government is hostile to the US and should be deterred. I don’t understand how it is legal to bypass Congress when starting a war or what this war is intended to achieve.

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1 week ago

The AG is a politician, a manager, not a litigator. She or he does not and should not try cases or argue appeals. And I think Griswold is saying that her pushing of the Anderson case was an argument. She was a party. I cannot say that is wrong except in strict lawyer language.

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1 week ago
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

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1 week ago

I encourage you to watch Harrison Ford's remarks. This is a good man, lifting up others. We need more of this.

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1 week ago

Khameini was evil. It’s good he’s dead.

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1 week ago

It's a bad look for Democrats to take stances that can be seen as favorable to the regime in Tehran. Better to focus on the question of Congressional approval and the safety of U.S. personnel. Khameini, etc. deserve no sympathy. And forget about the 1950s coup, which is not very relevant now.

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1 week ago

Gonzales has very little money. Hick has a lot of money. Game over. Though Hick is too old to be in public office any longer and should therefore retire . . .

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1 week ago

Democrats should focus on the importance of Congressional decision making on wars, and point out strategic worries, but not comment in ways that might seem sympathetic to the Iranian regime. Khamenei and his helpers are/were evil. Make that clear.

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1 week ago

Trump should've gone to Congress for authorization. But shed no tears for Khamenei and his henchmen. Iran has been a determined U.S. enemy for near 50 years. It has spread terrorism, killed its own citizens, murdered Americans. And the radical Islamists there took hostages in 1979. Justice is done.

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1 week ago
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kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain with the words `` yay ! '' ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain with the words `` yay ! ''
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1 week ago

Here we are, into the first day of a new U.S. war and with several other conflicts raging, and this idiot, who holds no appointed office in the U.S. government, is going to be given this diplomatic responsibility.

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1 week ago

The American people are not likely to learn, at least not very quickly, about any American casualties in this new war. Pete Hegseth's Pentagon has made clear its disdain for the press, after all.

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1 week ago

Fine, but in the end Schumer will settle for the White House accepting a stern letter of concern.

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