BA Porter
@baporter.bsky.social
Old fashioned civil libertarian yelling into the ether. Master of the double-post.
The BA stands for Bad Attitude.
The BA stands for Bad Attitude.
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Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
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the return of shame would be the best thing to happen so far this decade, unambiguously
December 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
the return of shame would be the best thing to happen so far this decade, unambiguously
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Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
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December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
What I keep going back to is it is not technically illegal to be Somalian.
Mpls Mayor Jacob Frey: "What we are seeing again & again is discrimination only to the extent that it applies to certain groups. So they're discriminating only as it applies to Latinos and Somalis ... you can't do that. You can't do that in Minneapolis. You can't do there anywhere in this country."
December 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
What I keep going back to is it is not technically illegal to be Somalian.
Sometimes when I read through a ton of Resistance Dem type posts on here I'm reminded that I used to regularly get in arguments online with people who swore up and down that Donald Trump was sure to go to actual prison soon, and would get mad at me for not trusting the process and calling them naive
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Sometimes when I read through a ton of Resistance Dem type posts on here I'm reminded that I used to regularly get in arguments online with people who swore up and down that Donald Trump was sure to go to actual prison soon, and would get mad at me for not trusting the process and calling them naive
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
The Pentagon awarding Don Jr. with a $620 million dollar "loan" for his latest startup and it doesn't even rate as a news story most places.
I never want to hear the words "Hunter Biden" out of any of these people's mouths as long as I live.
newrepublic.com/post/203954/...
I never want to hear the words "Hunter Biden" out of any of these people's mouths as long as I live.
newrepublic.com/post/203954/...
Trump Jr.-Backed Company Cashes In on Massive Pentagon Contract
What a coincidence!
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December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Pentagon awarding Don Jr. with a $620 million dollar "loan" for his latest startup and it doesn't even rate as a news story most places.
I never want to hear the words "Hunter Biden" out of any of these people's mouths as long as I live.
newrepublic.com/post/203954/...
I never want to hear the words "Hunter Biden" out of any of these people's mouths as long as I live.
newrepublic.com/post/203954/...
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I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?
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it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
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A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.
I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.
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A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
The words in the constitution literally read "all persons born in the United States are citizens." There's nothing to even litigate about that, that's just what it says.
Any ruling to the contrary you have to start talking seriously about taking action outside the legal framework, open revolt.
Any ruling to the contrary you have to start talking seriously about taking action outside the legal framework, open revolt.
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Supreme Court to Hear Trump's Bid To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The words in the constitution literally read "all persons born in the United States are citizens." There's nothing to even litigate about that, that's just what it says.
Any ruling to the contrary you have to start talking seriously about taking action outside the legal framework, open revolt.
Any ruling to the contrary you have to start talking seriously about taking action outside the legal framework, open revolt.
The law has failed us as it pertains to Trump. The sooner people realize this and stop waiting for some hypothetical future judicial hammer to fall, the better. Courts will not save us. How many more cases that go nowhere and decisions that lay down in prostration do you need to see?
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The law has failed us as it pertains to Trump. The sooner people realize this and stop waiting for some hypothetical future judicial hammer to fall, the better. Courts will not save us. How many more cases that go nowhere and decisions that lay down in prostration do you need to see?
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Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists).
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists).
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
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I'm going to sound like a broken record by the way I keep mentioning how 95% of Somalis in the Twin Cities metro area are US citizens, but very few mainstream outlets are pointing this out.
This should be very basic stuff for any news organization.
This should be very basic stuff for any news organization.
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I'm going to sound like a broken record by the way I keep mentioning how 95% of Somalis in the Twin Cities metro area are US citizens, but very few mainstream outlets are pointing this out.
This should be very basic stuff for any news organization.
This should be very basic stuff for any news organization.
Not for nothing, but when I lived in Maine I'd bump into members of the Somali refugee community there now and again. Lovely people—earnest, family and faith oriented, would give anybody the shirts off their backs. Better Americans than most of us.
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Not for nothing, but when I lived in Maine I'd bump into members of the Somali refugee community there now and again. Lovely people—earnest, family and faith oriented, would give anybody the shirts off their backs. Better Americans than most of us.
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An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.
Just fucking pathetic.
Just fucking pathetic.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.
Just fucking pathetic.
Just fucking pathetic.
Ready or Not is one of my favorite horror movies of the last ten years. A sequel is totally unnecessary, they already basically went back to the well with Abigal, and the trailer gives everything away, which means OF COURSE I'm going to see it, it looks like great fun.
youtu.be/7K3sNRm8J0w?...
youtu.be/7K3sNRm8J0w?...
READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures
YouTube video by SearchlightPictures
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December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ready or Not is one of my favorite horror movies of the last ten years. A sequel is totally unnecessary, they already basically went back to the well with Abigal, and the trailer gives everything away, which means OF COURSE I'm going to see it, it looks like great fun.
youtu.be/7K3sNRm8J0w?...
youtu.be/7K3sNRm8J0w?...
Beyond that, I am still constantly amazed at how pundits and the press and society at large bends over backwards to excuse Trump voters, like they were tricked or innocently swept up or didn't mean it or didn't know what they were doing, rather than face "Trump voters are all just racist."
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Beyond that, I am still constantly amazed at how pundits and the press and society at large bends over backwards to excuse Trump voters, like they were tricked or innocently swept up or didn't mean it or didn't know what they were doing, rather than face "Trump voters are all just racist."
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What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
I cannot even begin to express how fundamentally lame and uninteresting I find all "masculinity in crisis" discourse. Since the 80s when we had endure "real men don't eat quiche" and Dave Barry columns and standup routines wistful for John Wayne. Jesus God get a fucking life already.
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I cannot even begin to express how fundamentally lame and uninteresting I find all "masculinity in crisis" discourse. Since the 80s when we had endure "real men don't eat quiche" and Dave Barry columns and standup routines wistful for John Wayne. Jesus God get a fucking life already.
Honestly, this is probably doing more to underscore the "don't execute illegal orders because your ass will be on the line" message than anything the dems or Senator Kelly have been saying.
White House confirms admiral approved second deadly boat strike
White House confirms admiral approved second deadly boat strike
Karoline Leavitt defended the decision to kill civilians who had fallen off the boat after a first strike.
dlvr.it
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Honestly, this is probably doing more to underscore the "don't execute illegal orders because your ass will be on the line" message than anything the dems or Senator Kelly have been saying.
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
One thing that constantly strikes me about the right is their staggering sense of ENTITLEMENT. They've always been using that word to disparage the left, but man there is nobody who squawks louder about their "rights" that are actually just demands their beliefs be given Seat of Special Privilege.
December 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
One thing that constantly strikes me about the right is their staggering sense of ENTITLEMENT. They've always been using that word to disparage the left, but man there is nobody who squawks louder about their "rights" that are actually just demands their beliefs be given Seat of Special Privilege.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥