Carolyn Herz
@cherzvt.bsky.social
jewish chaplain and psychotherapist (retired)/wife/mother/lover of dogs and gardens
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I feel like people aren't actually reading the piece.
consequences are not just about who goes to jail. revelations of wrongdoing in Iraq...got us out of Iraq, eventually. that was important! even if Cheney didn't go to the Hague (which he should have.)
consequences are not just about who goes to jail. revelations of wrongdoing in Iraq...got us out of Iraq, eventually. that was important! even if Cheney didn't go to the Hague (which he should have.)
Ehhhhhhhhhh.
Dick Cheney made it out just fine and he has a building named after him and more.
Let's be realistic here. Nothing will happen to this WHITE MAN.
Dick Cheney made it out just fine and he has a building named after him and more.
Let's be realistic here. Nothing will happen to this WHITE MAN.
wrote about the boat strikes, and people’s skepticism that Hegseth will face consequences.
the thing is…the bipartisan congressional pushback is already a consequence. it damages hegseth personally and politically and may restrain policy.
www.everythingishorrible.net/p/will-hegse...
the thing is…the bipartisan congressional pushback is already a consequence. it damages hegseth personally and politically and may restrain policy.
www.everythingishorrible.net/p/will-hegse...
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I feel like people aren't actually reading the piece.
consequences are not just about who goes to jail. revelations of wrongdoing in Iraq...got us out of Iraq, eventually. that was important! even if Cheney didn't go to the Hague (which he should have.)
consequences are not just about who goes to jail. revelations of wrongdoing in Iraq...got us out of Iraq, eventually. that was important! even if Cheney didn't go to the Hague (which he should have.)
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Exactly this. People are too fixated on whether bad actors go to jail or not and insufficiently fixated on getting them to be less bad actors. The former is primarily valuable as a means to the latter; everything else is just the desire for vengeance.
I feel like people aren't actually reading the piece.
consequences are not just about who goes to jail. revelations of wrongdoing in Iraq...got us out of Iraq, eventually. that was important! even if Cheney didn't go to the Hague (which he should have.)
consequences are not just about who goes to jail. revelations of wrongdoing in Iraq...got us out of Iraq, eventually. that was important! even if Cheney didn't go to the Hague (which he should have.)
Ehhhhhhhhhh.
Dick Cheney made it out just fine and he has a building named after him and more.
Let's be realistic here. Nothing will happen to this WHITE MAN.
Dick Cheney made it out just fine and he has a building named after him and more.
Let's be realistic here. Nothing will happen to this WHITE MAN.
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Exactly this. People are too fixated on whether bad actors go to jail or not and insufficiently fixated on getting them to be less bad actors. The former is primarily valuable as a means to the latter; everything else is just the desire for vengeance.
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Imma need everyone who threw a fit over Hunter Biden to keep that same energy about Jared Kushner - who has no government role or oversight - sitting in on this meeting www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Witkoff and Kushner to meet Putin to discuss ending war in Ukraine
A leaked set of 28 U.S. draft peace proposals emerged last week.
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Imma need everyone who threw a fit over Hunter Biden to keep that same energy about Jared Kushner - who has no government role or oversight - sitting in on this meeting www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Noem insisted Sunday that the suspected shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was vetted for asylum by the Biden administration—despite the fact that it was her department that granted the asylum request in April. trib.al/XBBvDsI
ICE Barbie Panics When Asked About Vetting Alleged Guard Shooter
The man who allegedly shot two National Guard members, one of whom has died, was granted asylum in April.
trib.al
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Noem insisted Sunday that the suspected shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was vetted for asylum by the Biden administration—despite the fact that it was her department that granted the asylum request in April. trib.al/XBBvDsI
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When a judge issues an order in any case, that is literally the law in that particular matter
Full stop
It can be appealed, reversed, stayed or amended-but until that happens (if it ever does), all parties MUST follow the ruling
So-Kristi Noem just admitted to contempt
There must be consequences
Full stop
It can be appealed, reversed, stayed or amended-but until that happens (if it ever does), all parties MUST follow the ruling
So-Kristi Noem just admitted to contempt
There must be consequences
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
When a judge issues an order in any case, that is literally the law in that particular matter
Full stop
It can be appealed, reversed, stayed or amended-but until that happens (if it ever does), all parties MUST follow the ruling
So-Kristi Noem just admitted to contempt
There must be consequences
Full stop
It can be appealed, reversed, stayed or amended-but until that happens (if it ever does), all parties MUST follow the ruling
So-Kristi Noem just admitted to contempt
There must be consequences
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"U.S. Steel-Nippon deal hinged on Trump having a say in future operations. How will he use that power?" www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
"They realize[d] they sold their souls to the government to get the transaction done and they can't do anything about it."
"They realize[d] they sold their souls to the government to get the transaction done and they can't do anything about it."
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"U.S. Steel-Nippon deal hinged on Trump having a say in future operations. How will he use that power?" www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
"They realize[d] they sold their souls to the government to get the transaction done and they can't do anything about it."
"They realize[d] they sold their souls to the government to get the transaction done and they can't do anything about it."
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The National Guard troops were going to free up DC police to have more capacity to fight crime, but now the police are going to patrol with the Guard to protect them? Maybe just remove the Guard - we are wasting resources and putting troops at risk for show.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
D.C. police to begin patrolling with National Guard after fatal attack
If enacted on a long-term basis, the change would significantly shift the way National Guard troops have worked with law enforcement in the District since their arrival.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The National Guard troops were going to free up DC police to have more capacity to fight crime, but now the police are going to patrol with the Guard to protect them? Maybe just remove the Guard - we are wasting resources and putting troops at risk for show.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Nobody outside this country is wondering, like the pundit class does, what was wrong with Kamala Harris.
Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.
Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.
November 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Nobody outside this country is wondering, like the pundit class does, what was wrong with Kamala Harris.
Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.
Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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Closing the airspace over a foreign country is a de facto declaration of war but we’ve pushed so far into “let’s conspicuously underreact so everyone knows we’re savvy people not overreacting to Trump” that his de facto declaration of war is literally not even being reported on the news
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Closing the airspace over a foreign country is a de facto declaration of war but we’ve pushed so far into “let’s conspicuously underreact so everyone knows we’re savvy people not overreacting to Trump” that his de facto declaration of war is literally not even being reported on the news
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The media and political class has been completely narcotized by their obsessive, solipsistic need to signal that they “get it” and aren’t going to say anything silly and over the top about Trump, and have maintained that pose as Trump has leveled the constitutional and international order
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The media and political class has been completely narcotized by their obsessive, solipsistic need to signal that they “get it” and aren’t going to say anything silly and over the top about Trump, and have maintained that pose as Trump has leveled the constitutional and international order
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I maintain that if Democrats could learn to talk with one-half of the plain spoken moral sense of Republicans who have turned on Trump, like this Indiana Republican who refuses to redistrict on the president’s command, they’d win 400 electoral votes dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I maintain that if Democrats could learn to talk with one-half of the plain spoken moral sense of Republicans who have turned on Trump, like this Indiana Republican who refuses to redistrict on the president’s command, they’d win 400 electoral votes dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
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Why is she even on this show and why is she being asked about this? She was a low-level DHS press flack in Trump 1.0 and reportedly worked with Elon Musk for a few months in 2.0 and now runs a podcast.
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Why is she even on this show and why is she being asked about this? She was a low-level DHS press flack in Trump 1.0 and reportedly worked with Elon Musk for a few months in 2.0 and now runs a podcast.
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This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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It's not often that "simple morality" and "effective politics" line up so perfectly, but we have to hope DC's Democrats are smart enough to seize the moment with both hands
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's not often that "simple morality" and "effective politics" line up so perfectly, but we have to hope DC's Democrats are smart enough to seize the moment with both hands
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
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"General, if you give me 30,000 names, I'll get you 30,000 packages. And she did."
@markhertling.bsky.social and @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social give thanks to Operation Gratitude for all they do and offer a suggestion for folks who want to give back during this time of year.
@markhertling.bsky.social and @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social give thanks to Operation Gratitude for all they do and offer a suggestion for folks who want to give back during this time of year.
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"General, if you give me 30,000 names, I'll get you 30,000 packages. And she did."
@markhertling.bsky.social and @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social give thanks to Operation Gratitude for all they do and offer a suggestion for folks who want to give back during this time of year.
@markhertling.bsky.social and @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social give thanks to Operation Gratitude for all they do and offer a suggestion for folks who want to give back during this time of year.
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
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It’s not a bias. It’s a transaction. Tens of millions of Ukrainian lives and the remnants of American respectability in exchange for an increase in the private fortunes of a few people.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday defended President Trump’s special envoy against accusations of pro-Kremlin bias.
Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias
The Russian leader called the U.S. special envoy “an intelligent man” who is properly representing his country in peace negotiations.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s not a bias. It’s a transaction. Tens of millions of Ukrainian lives and the remnants of American respectability in exchange for an increase in the private fortunes of a few people.
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💯. It's not these patriotic citizens' fault they're being used as performative props by a corrupt, mendacious, and deranged president. They deserve our kindness and respect, and now, devastatingly, our deepest concern and sympathy. 😢
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
💯. It's not these patriotic citizens' fault they're being used as performative props by a corrupt, mendacious, and deranged president. They deserve our kindness and respect, and now, devastatingly, our deepest concern and sympathy. 😢