@branor2.bsky.social
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Not really much point in having a door then, is there?
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Not really much point in having a door then, is there?
What happens if the brewery goes out of business?
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What happens if the brewery goes out of business?
George Blanda played QB for the Raiders in 1972 at age 45.
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
George Blanda played QB for the Raiders in 1972 at age 45.
The Nor'Easter uniforms look great!
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Nor'Easter uniforms look great!
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when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
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Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
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I missed this dispatch earlier. Details on the companies that should live in shame for their role in rushed destruction of White House East Wing.
Remember them, and their "leaders."
Main point: read the @birddroneone.bsky.social thread.
Remember them, and their "leaders."
Main point: read the @birddroneone.bsky.social thread.
The East Wing Desecrators
Given the extraordinary and unprecedented destruction of the entire East Wing, built in 1942 for the Office of the First Lady, it’s important to note who enabled this.
In this thread, I run through the companies and organizations involved and provide contact info.
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Given the extraordinary and unprecedented destruction of the entire East Wing, built in 1942 for the Office of the First Lady, it’s important to note who enabled this.
In this thread, I run through the companies and organizations involved and provide contact info.
🧵
October 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I missed this dispatch earlier. Details on the companies that should live in shame for their role in rushed destruction of White House East Wing.
Remember them, and their "leaders."
Main point: read the @birddroneone.bsky.social thread.
Remember them, and their "leaders."
Main point: read the @birddroneone.bsky.social thread.
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The East Wing Desecrators
Given the extraordinary and unprecedented destruction of the entire East Wing, built in 1942 for the Office of the First Lady, it’s important to note who enabled this.
In this thread, I run through the companies and organizations involved and provide contact info.
🧵
Given the extraordinary and unprecedented destruction of the entire East Wing, built in 1942 for the Office of the First Lady, it’s important to note who enabled this.
In this thread, I run through the companies and organizations involved and provide contact info.
🧵
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The East Wing Desecrators
Given the extraordinary and unprecedented destruction of the entire East Wing, built in 1942 for the Office of the First Lady, it’s important to note who enabled this.
In this thread, I run through the companies and organizations involved and provide contact info.
🧵
Given the extraordinary and unprecedented destruction of the entire East Wing, built in 1942 for the Office of the First Lady, it’s important to note who enabled this.
In this thread, I run through the companies and organizations involved and provide contact info.
🧵
Cybertrucks are a pretty common sight here in Austin, Texas.
October 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Cybertrucks are a pretty common sight here in Austin, Texas.
Our POS Supreme Court will find a way to say it's all fine.
September 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Our POS Supreme Court will find a way to say it's all fine.
Modify the offside rule to allow one defender to get past the rearmost (non-goalie) defender before the ball is kicked.
September 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Modify the offside rule to allow one defender to get past the rearmost (non-goalie) defender before the ball is kicked.
Any thoughts about where Roger Staubach would have fit in here? He seems like more of an assassin to me.
I don't hear much discussion about Staubach these days. But I started watching football in the 1970's and Staubach seemed like one of the better QBs of that era.
I don't hear much discussion about Staubach these days. But I started watching football in the 1970's and Staubach seemed like one of the better QBs of that era.
September 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Any thoughts about where Roger Staubach would have fit in here? He seems like more of an assassin to me.
I don't hear much discussion about Staubach these days. But I started watching football in the 1970's and Staubach seemed like one of the better QBs of that era.
I don't hear much discussion about Staubach these days. But I started watching football in the 1970's and Staubach seemed like one of the better QBs of that era.
You're an ignorant (person) if you use "a" rather than "an" before a word that begins with a,e,i,o, or u.
September 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
You're an ignorant (person) if you use "a" rather than "an" before a word that begins with a,e,i,o, or u.
I just read a mention of Pilatus in H.D.S. Greenways's book Foreign Correspondent: "The CIA used the Pilatus Porter in Laos, a Swiss-designed plane that was good at short takeoffs and landings and intended for use on the glaciers of Switzerland."
August 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I just read a mention of Pilatus in H.D.S. Greenways's book Foreign Correspondent: "The CIA used the Pilatus Porter in Laos, a Swiss-designed plane that was good at short takeoffs and landings and intended for use on the glaciers of Switzerland."
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Twenty-five years ago, and before, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and I would not have agreed on much.
He is entirely on the right side here.
These governors of SC and OH, whose urban crime problems are *worse* than DC's, should mind their own business.
He is entirely on the right side here.
These governors of SC and OH, whose urban crime problems are *worse* than DC's, should mind their own business.
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
August 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Twenty-five years ago, and before, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and I would not have agreed on much.
He is entirely on the right side here.
These governors of SC and OH, whose urban crime problems are *worse* than DC's, should mind their own business.
He is entirely on the right side here.
These governors of SC and OH, whose urban crime problems are *worse* than DC's, should mind their own business.
William L. Shirer made a very similar point about Germans in the 1930s in the years after Hitler took power and the Nazi propaganda machine revved up to full speed
June 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
William L. Shirer made a very similar point about Germans in the 1930s in the years after Hitler took power and the Nazi propaganda machine revved up to full speed
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This is excellent and exactly matches what we've seen in reporting w construction teams, farm managers, food service, bldg maintenance. Let's not even talk about packing houses
Everyone knows this, except Miller, Noem, Homan, Trump, Congressional GOP. (Actually, they know.)
100% worth watching
Everyone knows this, except Miller, Noem, Homan, Trump, Congressional GOP. (Actually, they know.)
100% worth watching
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
June 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is excellent and exactly matches what we've seen in reporting w construction teams, farm managers, food service, bldg maintenance. Let's not even talk about packing houses
Everyone knows this, except Miller, Noem, Homan, Trump, Congressional GOP. (Actually, they know.)
100% worth watching
Everyone knows this, except Miller, Noem, Homan, Trump, Congressional GOP. (Actually, they know.)
100% worth watching
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Boom.
Whoa. Spicy footnote from Justice Jackson, dissenting in the ADA case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insuf
ficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A method
ology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own pref
erences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insuffi
ciently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexi
ble enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3/bafkreicg7mx5lddzyvnoguvadwnojtm7xcu2sf34hhizuapfesk46w7kli@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Boom.
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Robert E. Lee and his men killed over 110,000 US Army soldiers. Here's why that same Army must rename its military bases after him.
by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth
by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth
June 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Robert E. Lee and his men killed over 110,000 US Army soldiers. Here's why that same Army must rename its military bases after him.
by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth
by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth
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Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
June 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
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Real world:
- Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment.
- Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals"
- Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up
PUNDIT world:
- Is it smart politics?
- Is Gavin running?
- Doesn't Trump look strong!
- Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment.
- Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals"
- Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up
PUNDIT world:
- Is it smart politics?
- Is Gavin running?
- Doesn't Trump look strong!
June 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Real world:
- Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment.
- Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals"
- Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up
PUNDIT world:
- Is it smart politics?
- Is Gavin running?
- Doesn't Trump look strong!
- Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment.
- Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals"
- Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up
PUNDIT world:
- Is it smart politics?
- Is Gavin running?
- Doesn't Trump look strong!
I don't understand why so many people echo Trump's marketing for the bill ("big, beautiful"). It seems more accurate to describe it as "damaging, debt-exploding" or something similar.
June 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I don't understand why so many people echo Trump's marketing for the bill ("big, beautiful"). It seems more accurate to describe it as "damaging, debt-exploding" or something similar.
Only if they have good natural light like the Vikings' stadium or SoFi in Los Angeles.
May 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Only if they have good natural light like the Vikings' stadium or SoFi in Los Angeles.