Eric Owens
@ericowens.bsky.social
Law. Once a foreign service officer and an attorney. Sect. 230 is my passion. ericowensdc@gmail.com
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Today in my most recent search history. *Very* proud of this particular set.
October 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Today in my most recent search history. *Very* proud of this particular set.
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Gift article. Now this is serious.
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Tom Nichols says Trump is leading America into a full blown civil-military crisis. Senior military leaders must band together to object and refuse to obey Trump’s illegal orders. @ericowens.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Tom Nichols says Trump is leading America into a full blown civil-military crisis. Senior military leaders must band together to object and refuse to obey Trump’s illegal orders. @ericowens.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.
www.theatlantic.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Gift article. Now this is serious.
@radifreetom.bsky.social
Tom Nichols says Trump is leading America into a full blown civil-military crisis. Senior military leaders must band together to object and refuse to obey Trump’s illegal orders. @ericowens.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
@radifreetom.bsky.social
Tom Nichols says Trump is leading America into a full blown civil-military crisis. Senior military leaders must band together to object and refuse to obey Trump’s illegal orders. @ericowens.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
You know what's a great word? Smuggler.
Like, it just sounds really cool and it's pretty funny that somebody made that sound the meaning for people who move illicit goods.
Like, it just sounds really cool and it's pretty funny that somebody made that sound the meaning for people who move illicit goods.
October 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
You know what's a great word? Smuggler.
Like, it just sounds really cool and it's pretty funny that somebody made that sound the meaning for people who move illicit goods.
Like, it just sounds really cool and it's pretty funny that somebody made that sound the meaning for people who move illicit goods.
So I saw "One Battle After Another" this weekend. It's great. Go see it.
Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't really deal in plots. He deals in stories. And I think most directors could never pull off this feat. But he creates absolutely amazing, thoughtful, entertaining stories.
Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't really deal in plots. He deals in stories. And I think most directors could never pull off this feat. But he creates absolutely amazing, thoughtful, entertaining stories.
September 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
So I saw "One Battle After Another" this weekend. It's great. Go see it.
Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't really deal in plots. He deals in stories. And I think most directors could never pull off this feat. But he creates absolutely amazing, thoughtful, entertaining stories.
Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't really deal in plots. He deals in stories. And I think most directors could never pull off this feat. But he creates absolutely amazing, thoughtful, entertaining stories.
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People are attached to the word Fascism because we're a country - both right and left - addicted to high drama. We're struggling right now with a man who I've said "has the soul of a fascist and mind of a disordered child." But fascism? Sober up. Put your Big Kid Democracy Pants on.
September 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
People are attached to the word Fascism because we're a country - both right and left - addicted to high drama. We're struggling right now with a man who I've said "has the soul of a fascist and mind of a disordered child." But fascism? Sober up. Put your Big Kid Democracy Pants on.
Bluesky remains hilarious. I want to love it. But mostly it's just hilarious.
There are great people here. To those I have found and follow, and most of you who follow me: I love you all.
There are great people here. To those I have found and follow, and most of you who follow me: I love you all.
September 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Bluesky remains hilarious. I want to love it. But mostly it's just hilarious.
There are great people here. To those I have found and follow, and most of you who follow me: I love you all.
There are great people here. To those I have found and follow, and most of you who follow me: I love you all.
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Uh oh. Poland has urged its citizens to leave Belarus immediately and avoid traveling there.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urges Polish citizens remaining in the Republic of Belarus to leave its territory immediately, using available commercial and private means.”
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urges Polish citizens remaining in the Republic of Belarus to leave its territory immediately, using available commercial and private means.”
September 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Uh oh. Poland has urged its citizens to leave Belarus immediately and avoid traveling there.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urges Polish citizens remaining in the Republic of Belarus to leave its territory immediately, using available commercial and private means.”
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urges Polish citizens remaining in the Republic of Belarus to leave its territory immediately, using available commercial and private means.”
I'm arguing about the need for style rules in writing over on Twitter. It's heaven.
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm arguing about the need for style rules in writing over on Twitter. It's heaven.
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Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.
September 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.
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Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
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"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday
variety.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
I know what it's like to live in the South because I watched Smokey and the Bandit many times. I know what it's like to live on a huge, partially completed spaceship because I watched Star Wars.
September 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I know what it's like to live in the South because I watched Smokey and the Bandit many times. I know what it's like to live on a huge, partially completed spaceship because I watched Star Wars.
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Eric's Assignment Desk: Your new video podcast is a gameshow in which you find ordinary people and ask them to guess the percentage of Americans who, based on legitimate polls, think certain things.
Family Feud of American Idiocracy
Family Feud of American Idiocracy
September 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Eric's Assignment Desk: Your new video podcast is a gameshow in which you find ordinary people and ask them to guess the percentage of Americans who, based on legitimate polls, think certain things.
Family Feud of American Idiocracy
Family Feud of American Idiocracy
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you @shoutingboy.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you @shoutingboy.bsky.social
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Trump's vengeful tone shows he genuinely doesn't support First Amendment rights. He's an instinctive tyrant waging war against America's Constitution & founding principles.
As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Trump's vengeful tone shows he genuinely doesn't support First Amendment rights. He's an instinctive tyrant waging war against America's Constitution & founding principles.
As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
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Government officials do not get to decide that your rights have become inconvenient or problematic. They are your rights. They are not privileges provided by the government and revocable at will.
GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...
Kimmel’s suspension prompts free-speech Republicans to reconsider their boundaries
One Republican said she no longer considers the First Amendment to “be sort of the ultimate right,” as she would “in normal circumstances.”
www.semafor.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Government officials do not get to decide that your rights have become inconvenient or problematic. They are your rights. They are not privileges provided by the government and revocable at will.
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There was a HUGE contingent of very hacky comics who went anti-Biden/pro-Trump claiming that "woke scolds" were "canceling comedy."
Feels like maybe they should be speaking up?
Feels like maybe they should be speaking up?
“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
September 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There was a HUGE contingent of very hacky comics who went anti-Biden/pro-Trump claiming that "woke scolds" were "canceling comedy."
Feels like maybe they should be speaking up?
Feels like maybe they should be speaking up?
I'm gonna be brutally honest with you: I had to read this post twice to detect the obvious sarcasm, and I am usually a very good reader.
That's where we are.
That's where we are.
the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
September 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I'm gonna be brutally honest with you: I had to read this post twice to detect the obvious sarcasm, and I am usually a very good reader.
That's where we are.
That's where we are.
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Biden's campaign's slogan should have embraced 'Sleepy Joe' whole-heartedly as his campaign promise.
"So boring you'll sleep easy at night and never worry about what I tweet"
"So boring you'll sleep easy at night and never worry about what I tweet"
September 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Biden's campaign's slogan should have embraced 'Sleepy Joe' whole-heartedly as his campaign promise.
"So boring you'll sleep easy at night and never worry about what I tweet"
"So boring you'll sleep easy at night and never worry about what I tweet"
The government is now using legitimate threats to get comedians fired for telling tasteless jokes on talk shows.
The U.S. government. Not the Iranian government or the Russian government.
It's terrifying and infuriating.
The U.S. government. Not the Iranian government or the Russian government.
It's terrifying and infuriating.
September 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The government is now using legitimate threats to get comedians fired for telling tasteless jokes on talk shows.
The U.S. government. Not the Iranian government or the Russian government.
It's terrifying and infuriating.
The U.S. government. Not the Iranian government or the Russian government.
It's terrifying and infuriating.
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