Doug T
@dougtinva.bsky.social
Husband, father, grandfather, Burner, maker, CIO, writer.
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Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn
A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I know I could get into trouble for posting the Antifa battle flag, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
October 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I know I could get into trouble for posting the Antifa battle flag, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
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I can only think of one single use for this and it would be for small special forces teams who need to restrain certain people in the field (eg., al-qaeda) during initial capture when there is limited manpower. That's it. Once they're at a facility where there are human resources, it's not needed.
This simply blows my mind. Evil. The black-and-yellow device has been used on multiple detainees this year, according to the Associated Press. The Department of Homeland Security has previously raised concerns about its safety, warning that the restraints could lead to fatal outcomes.
AP
#pinks
AP
#pinks
October 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I can only think of one single use for this and it would be for small special forces teams who need to restrain certain people in the field (eg., al-qaeda) during initial capture when there is limited manpower. That's it. Once they're at a facility where there are human resources, it's not needed.
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It's just a stunning display of how the moral compass of the GOP party has long since been broken and is now hanging in a dusty closet behind a locked door. Maybe some future leader will find the key to dig it out and repair it, but I'm not optimistic.
Young GOP leaders referred to Black people as monkeys & “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies & driving them to suicide & lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It's just a stunning display of how the moral compass of the GOP party has long since been broken and is now hanging in a dusty closet behind a locked door. Maybe some future leader will find the key to dig it out and repair it, but I'm not optimistic.
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They (Leaders of Young Republican groups) referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
They (Leaders of Young Republican groups) referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
Very long. Worth your time. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | How Radical Is Hasan Piker? The Twitch Star’s Flirtation With Violence.
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Very long. Worth your time. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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Just learned that in Elizabethan England the punishment for "spreading false news" was the pillory - where you could be nailed to a stick by your ears for people to throw stuff at you. Just putting it out there...
October 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Just learned that in Elizabethan England the punishment for "spreading false news" was the pillory - where you could be nailed to a stick by your ears for people to throw stuff at you. Just putting it out there...
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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
September 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
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If you’re in Austin, there is a current call to show up at the Capitol building 1100 Congress Ave. - tonight 08/17 at 7:00pm.
The Texas GOP is holding Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier hostage.
She refused to sign a “permission slip” that would require a police escort!
If you’re in Austin, there is a current call to show up at the Capitol building 1100 Congress Ave. - tonight 08/17 at 7:00pm.
The Texas GOP is holding Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier hostage.
She refused to sign a “permission slip” that would require a police escort!
August 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
🚨 PLEASE SHARE 🚨
If you’re in Austin, there is a current call to show up at the Capitol building 1100 Congress Ave. - tonight 08/17 at 7:00pm.
The Texas GOP is holding Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier hostage.
She refused to sign a “permission slip” that would require a police escort!
If you’re in Austin, there is a current call to show up at the Capitol building 1100 Congress Ave. - tonight 08/17 at 7:00pm.
The Texas GOP is holding Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier hostage.
She refused to sign a “permission slip” that would require a police escort!
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Big picture: This has significant implications for US government attorneys who risk their bar licenses by engaging in clearly illegal and unethical conduct.
D.C. Bar Board of Professional Responsibility recommends DISBARMENT for Jeffrey Clark
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Read this line:
D.C. Bar Board of Professional Responsibility recommends DISBARMENT for Jeffrey Clark
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Read this line:
July 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Big picture: This has significant implications for US government attorneys who risk their bar licenses by engaging in clearly illegal and unethical conduct.
D.C. Bar Board of Professional Responsibility recommends DISBARMENT for Jeffrey Clark
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Read this line:
D.C. Bar Board of Professional Responsibility recommends DISBARMENT for Jeffrey Clark
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Read this line:
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Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...
Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented…
The entire past leadership of NASA’s science activities have released a joint statement condemning the proposed 47% cuts proposed to the agency’s science…
www.planetary.org
July 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...
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Our current Director of National Intelligence:
June 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Our current Director of National Intelligence:
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ICYMI: Georgetown Law students made a 853-row spreadsheet of Trump-caving firms. It drew national headlines. Recruiters noticed some talent looked elsewhere. Firms lobbied to change their designation.
An organizer tells @www.AllRiseNews.com the background www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
An organizer tells @www.AllRiseNews.com the background www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
April 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
ICYMI: Georgetown Law students made a 853-row spreadsheet of Trump-caving firms. It drew national headlines. Recruiters noticed some talent looked elsewhere. Firms lobbied to change their designation.
An organizer tells @www.AllRiseNews.com the background www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
An organizer tells @www.AllRiseNews.com the background www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
The name/slogan is SOOO offensive. We democrats are CONTINUING to get if completely F'ing wrong. "Hands off"???? Seriously? That's the MOST entitled and selfish and tone-deaf slogan they could've possibly come up with. 1/2
April 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The name/slogan is SOOO offensive. We democrats are CONTINUING to get if completely F'ing wrong. "Hands off"???? Seriously? That's the MOST entitled and selfish and tone-deaf slogan they could've possibly come up with. 1/2
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Text STOP to stop receiving national security updates.
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
March 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Text STOP to stop receiving national security updates.
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A really powerful WWII era "don't be a sucker" piece, that explains how authoritarians have to separate and destroy groups of people so they can take power. I don't usually watch anything this long (22 min) but couldn't stop watching once I started this.
Please watch and rewatch this movie, in the U.S. Archives from the @usarmy.bsky.social #DontBeASucker a reminder of how the Nazis conned their country into becoming the cause of mass murder and all the other horrors that Nazis unleash. The lessons are true for the USA🇺🇸 , in 2025 youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
Don't Be a Sucker
YouTube video by US National Archives
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March 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
A really powerful WWII era "don't be a sucker" piece, that explains how authoritarians have to separate and destroy groups of people so they can take power. I don't usually watch anything this long (22 min) but couldn't stop watching once I started this.
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:
March 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:
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NEW: A federal judge — Trump appointee Dabney Friedrich — became the first to reject efforts by DOJ to expand the reach of Trump’s Jan. 6 pardon to cover crimes that had nothing to do with the Capitol attack
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
NEW: A federal judge — Trump appointee Dabney Friedrich — became the first to reject efforts by DOJ to expand the reach of Trump’s Jan. 6 pardon to cover crimes that had nothing to do with the Capitol attack
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme. Neither is public service. Each involve intergenerational transfer, one forward, one backward. If we let either one languish and decay, they’ll falter and come up short of what we need them to be. That’s not a problem with them, it’s a problem with us.
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme. Neither is public service. Each involve intergenerational transfer, one forward, one backward. If we let either one languish and decay, they’ll falter and come up short of what we need them to be. That’s not a problem with them, it’s a problem with us.
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Raskin: "I say a rally a day keeps the fascists away."
March 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Raskin: "I say a rally a day keeps the fascists away."