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A. English

@h2ofcounsel.bsky.social

Environmental lawyer, focused on water, climate, and disaster issues. Vermont Law & Graduate School alumnus (JD/MELP ‘13) All opinions my own. (He/him/his)

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Fair enough, I suppose. Until the Allies took a match to the whole shebang, they kept their fires strictly confined—concentrated, if you will—to specific, fenced-in, open-air residential districts.

09.03.2026 19:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Conversely: the Reichstag (either literal or metaphorical, depending on context of and justification for said fascist goin squads).

09.03.2026 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The following has lived in my head rent free since I first saw it roughly 4 years ago:

09.03.2026 19:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Let’s not let Reagan off the hook, here.

09.03.2026 18:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who wants to set odds on him having some sort of financial interest in Florsheim?

09.03.2026 18:41 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

His hands are so tiny that it’s hard for them to not be full.

09.03.2026 18:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Isn’t that how we got 50 Shades of Grey?

09.03.2026 18:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m reminded of Milo Minderbinder in Catch-22, but unlike surplus cotton, falafel is at least edible.

09.03.2026 18:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Keyboard Warrior Markwayne Mullin:

LEFT: Pounding his little warrior chest on the Internet.

RIGHT: Cowering and shitting his pants in real life.

09.03.2026 18:02 — 👍 4154    🔁 1377    💬 338    📌 60
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Ahead of 2028, Sen. Cory Booker to unveil bill to make $75,000 in income tax-free The bill is a marker for the next time Democrats get a chance to rewrite the tax code. The New Jersey senator told NBC News he's keeping the door open to a 2028 presidential bid.

not really the time for this particular discussion, but for the record, this is a stupid idea www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

09.03.2026 13:55 — 👍 878    🔁 99    💬 43    📌 50
09.03.2026 18:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

While Trump is unleashing a war in the Middle East, do not lose sight of the cruelty being inflicted at home by this regime.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/at-largest-ice-detention-camp-staff-bet-on-detainee-suicides-ap-reports/

09.03.2026 18:15 — 👍 1199    🔁 534    💬 36    📌 32
‘I had never the intention of working a job, and when I got into the pilot, you'd
think that that would convince me even more not to work, because why do I
need to work, right? I've got the money coming in. But when the pilot came
through, I thought, “Well, if I work, then I can save all the money from the pilot
and maybe some from the job as well,” and if I'd never been tempted by the
pilot weirdly enough to go and do more work to get more money, then I never
would have become more social and gone out of the house, and just developed
as a person as I have over the past 2 years.. it made me happy. It changed how
I acted quite a lot’ (YP62 - End of Pilot)

‘I had never the intention of working a job, and when I got into the pilot, you'd think that that would convince me even more not to work, because why do I need to work, right? I've got the money coming in. But when the pilot came through, I thought, “Well, if I work, then I can save all the money from the pilot and maybe some from the job as well,” and if I'd never been tempted by the pilot weirdly enough to go and do more work to get more money, then I never would have become more social and gone out of the house, and just developed as a person as I have over the past 2 years.. it made me happy. It changed how I acted quite a lot’ (YP62 - End of Pilot)

Love this experience by one of the basic income pilot participants in Wales. They got £1,290 a month after tax for two years (about $1,862/mo), and at first they planned to not get a job, but then after getting into the pilot, they changed their mind, because why not do more to get more money?

09.03.2026 17:58 — 👍 137    🔁 47    💬 5    📌 6
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I can't compete with this.

09.03.2026 16:20 — 👍 10241    🔁 1733    💬 230    📌 409

Iran has now partially blinded key radar systems the US & the Gulf States rely on for missile defense. Qatar's Ministry of Defense just confirmed destruction of the $1.1 billion US-operated AN/FPS-132 Block 5 Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) which gives early warning of ballistic missile launches

04.03.2026 12:43 — 👍 90    🔁 48    💬 5    📌 12

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

04.03.2026 04:49 — 👍 8328    🔁 2493    💬 98    📌 107
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MRFF Inundated with Complaints of Gleeful Commanders Telling Troops Iran War is “Part of God’s Divine Plan” to Usher in the Return of Jesus Christ “This morning our commander opened up the combat readiness status briefing by urging us to not be “afraid” as to what is happening with our combat operations in Iran right now. He urged us to tell our...

So, while it may not be particularly widespread, it’s disingenuous to say that it’s not happening AT ALL.

More direct source here:

www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2026/03/mrff...

03.03.2026 18:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jonathan Larsen (@jonathanlarsen) SCOOP: At more than 30 military installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation tells me it’s been “inundated” with complaints...

substack.com/@jonathanlar...

03.03.2026 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Setting the conditions for the Rapture isn’t the motivating factor, but it is absolutely part of the *justification* (read: sales pitch) that the administration is relying upon to get/maintain support from their base.

28.02.2026 20:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

CONGRESS declares war.

NOT President tRumpstein.

28.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 15460    🔁 3355    💬 654    📌 102
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A mad king's illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump's unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep

This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil

My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

28.02.2026 18:32 — 👍 3413    🔁 1079    💬 75    📌 53
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The constitution grants Congress alone the power to formally declare war, something that even Republicans on Capitol Hill have sought to remind Trump of this week. In his video remarks, the president indicated that he understood this operation to be a war, citing the possibility of American "casualties that often happens in war." His declaration that "no president was willing to do what I am willing to tonight" speaks to the likely unilateral decision-making from the White House.

20 minutes ago Robert Jimison The constitution grants Congress alone the power to formally declare war, something that even Republicans on Capitol Hill have sought to remind Trump of this week. In his video remarks, the president indicated that he understood this operation to be a war, citing the possibility of American "casualties that often happens in war." His declaration that "no president was willing to do what I am willing to tonight" speaks to the likely unilateral decision-making from the White House.

An action so lawless even the New York Times can’t both-sides it.

28.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 777    🔁 252    💬 24    📌 5
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He did it again. #crashout #history #lesson #loop #time

28.02.2026 19:32 — 👍 451    🔁 106    💬 22    📌 2

"Trump is the peace candidate, unlike Harris" is quite possibly the most disproven statement in recent American history.

Hell, "vote against Harris if you want peace in the Middle East and Central Asia" is even more so.

28.02.2026 09:18 — 👍 116    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 2

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

27.02.2026 14:07 — 👍 11973    🔁 4777    💬 598    📌 307

Arguably, killing the coal industry would fall under their fiduciary duty to their investors, given the massive costs it imposes on everything else.

27.02.2026 12:11 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

This should be a bigger story.

A Reagan-appointed judge just ruled Trump’s Energy Secretary illegally ran a secret panel of climate deniers to cook up a biased report and sabotage clean air rules.

05.02.2026 20:50 — 👍 1121    🔁 504    💬 19    📌 20

Hey folks, I hadn't thought of it in these terms, but protesting planned AI data centers in your local area *could literally bring the entire fascist house of cards down*, b/c the big fascist tech cos have bet HEAVY on AI, but the demand ain't happening so their $100s of billions of Nvidia chips...

27.02.2026 12:54 — 👍 244    🔁 139    💬 7    📌 1

the chief of staff at the DOJ and the US homeland security advisor publicly begging on twitter for lawyers to *DM them* about applying for AUSA jobs should tell you volumes about how staffing is going at the DOJ, even restaurant owners don’t do this

31.01.2026 20:15 — 👍 999    🔁 204    💬 30    📌 7

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

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