@atticmadman.bsky.social
Father, Husband, Retired Lawyer. Lucky. Go figure.
“We are, without a doubt, watching the regime attempt to create violence in U.S. cities, so it can pin the blame on the Democratic Party—and seize permanent power”
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“That’s one of the disturbing things about Trump’s invasion of American cities: He is clearly yearning for pretext. And when he can’t find one, he’s attempting to manufacture it.”
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“At this point the entire administration is a crime scene, a constant output of false, coercive propaganda designed to incite violence—or to pretend there is violence when there isn’t any—all in an unconstitutional conspiracy to abuse power.”
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The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.
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“Trump told the U.S. military commanders..that “inner cities” should be used as “training grounds” for the military. This was evident in the Chicago theater of operations, where agents also enacted Trump and Hegseth’s redefinition of the battlefield and the enemy.”
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Questions After Quantico
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“As Ta-Nehisi Coates asks piercingly: “If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?”
We cannot afford to look away.
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Resignation letter from ousted longtime federal prosecutor in Eastern District of Virginia
It issues a scathing rebuke of Justice Dept leadership:
"The leadership is more concerned with punishing the President's perceived enemies than they are with protecting our national security"
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Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.
“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.
“It is an abandonment of the fundamental mission of journalists — to hold power accountable. But most egregiously, it is a terrible betrayal of our colleagues in Gaza who have been killed for chronicling the daily savagery in Gaza, for doing their job.”
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“Stephen Miller confessed that when he uses such dehumanizing language he is, “using this language to mark people. To put a target on them. … It is a message [he] is sending to all the crazies and lunatics out there” to go target the people he dehumanizes.”
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“The Trump administration was presenting a holistic plan to shift the culture and conduct of the United States military to accommodate the lawless character of this nascent regime.”
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“I have considerable confidence that the current crop of general and flag officers do not want a kind of a military that looks like or behaves like ICE, and that they would resist it. But what of the military leadership three years from now?”
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“We are at a point where our military may soon have to reject unconstitutional orders to use deadly force against civilians in our cities. Trump made that clear in his speech, and it is no doubt top of mind for anyone coming out of that meeting.”
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““This case—…squarely presents the issue of whether non-citizens lawfully present here in [the] United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us,” Young wrote. “The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do.”
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