AblativMeatshld
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AblativMeatshld
@ablativmeatshld.bsky.social
Pinned
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”

- H.L. Mencken
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Deeply ashamed just because you were soliciting a convicted child predator for advice on cheating on your wife my pressuring a younger colleague into sleeping with you while sneering at her and her work?

Gosh Ross Douthat better write another piece decrying woke culture
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Sex pest : i am retiring from public life

public : good fuck off

sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions

public : did we stutter
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I fucking hate this timeline.
but at least I did not have to worry about the
worm that was not a worm in his brain.

but at least I did not have to worry about the
worm that was not a worm in his brain.

BUT AT LEAST I DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE WORM THAT WAS NOT A WORM IN HIS BRAIN.
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Fuck ICE, and fuck Kavanaugh.
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I'm just glad she didn't ask the grand jury if they'd ever seen a grown man naked.
Yikes! The magistrate judge (or their clerk) makes the rookie mistake of not actually applying the redactions before saving the file.
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Yikes! The magistrate judge (or their clerk) makes the rookie mistake of not actually applying the redactions before saving the file.
November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Looking to finish what they started.
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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So there are three possibilities here. First and most likely: Bessent and other administration hacks just constantly say nonsensical bullshit without any theory or fact behind it.

/1
Last month he was a soybean farmer, this month he’s an expert on intercontinental cattle drives.
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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/2 Second: Bessent thinks South American immigrants are going through the onerous process to import cattle, which involves . . . A LOT.

www.aphis.usda.gov/live-animal-...
www.aphis.usda.gov
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Last month he was a soybean farmer, this month he’s an expert on intercontinental cattle drives.
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This opinion demands to be read in full.

Among the problems with the grand jury proceedings:

* The key evidence presented to the grand jury came from a search that may have violated the Fourth Amendment.
* Lindsey Halligan apparently misstated the law to the grand jury, twice.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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A grim comedic aspect of Mag Judge Fitzpatrick's ruling in Comey's case, finding that Halligan "potentially undermine[d] the integrity of the grand jury" with "fundamental misstatements of the law," is that AG Bondi purported to review those minutes & to ratify everything Halligan did—twice.
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Can someone get Kavanaugh on the record about this one?

Off duty asshole stands in street, pointing gun at someone demanding they answer his questioning.

Of course if the teen thought he was being carjacked and ran him over it would be a federal crime... wtf

www.joemygod.com/2025/11/ice-...
ICE Agent Arrested After Pointing Gun At Teen Boy - Joe.My.God.
Los Angeles’s CW affiliate reports: A 45-year-old Riverside County man, who reportedly works as an ICE agent, is accused of illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week. The Nov. 1...
www.joemygod.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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4/ Of the 11(!) findings Judge Fitzpatrick made, this one seems the most ominous - that the "grand jury transcript and recording likely do not reflect the full proceedings" before it.

Unless the gov't can show that failure was "unintentional," Fed R. Crim P. 6(e) requires dismissal.
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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3/ In particular, the first-term Trump FBI "never engaged Mr. Comey in the process," despite the fact that it knew Richman was his lawyer.

That's indefensible.
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy.

Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
193. The "War" on Judges
Deputy Attorney General Blanche's attack on lower courts is an impressive combination of light on substance; shamelessly hypocritical; and profoundly dangerous. More people should be condemning it.
www.stevevladeck.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American.

Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.

Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.

www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Native American woman nearly deported after Polk County Jail issues ICE detainer by mistake
A Native American woman from Arizona was nearly deported by federal immigration officials after a clerical error at the Polk County Jail. The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous...
www.iowapublicradio.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM