Inquisitive Ursa
@inquisitiveursa.bsky.social
Father. Recovering lawyer. Science works. Pro-choice. Democrat. Not in AOC's party.
This is as clear a violation of the First Amendment as has ever existed.
ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
“ICE Was Here”: Pope Leo-Inspired Nativity Scene Sparks MAGA Outrage
A Nativity scene missing Jesus — and marked with an “ICE was here” sign — has triggered cries of “politicizing Christmas.” The parish priest says he’s answering Pope Leo's call to welcome stranger.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is as clear a violation of the First Amendment as has ever existed.
Unfortunately, true. If we commit unlimited authority to the President and are willing to elect Presidents without regard to their willingness to keep America's commitments. American commitments won't be with much. Eight years at most.
And after yesterday's National Security Strategy, it should become absolutely clear that strong U.S. security guarantees are impossible because we will be even less inclined to keep our word in the future than we have been in the past. The only path to peace is Ukrainian victory/Russian collapse.
Today, on the 31st anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum with its useless security assurances, we are facing a repeat of history as EU leaders warn of the risk of a peace deal without strong US security guarantees.
Strength is the only true guarantor of peace for the EU.
Strength is the only true guarantor of peace for the EU.
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Unfortunately, true. If we commit unlimited authority to the President and are willing to elect Presidents without regard to their willingness to keep America's commitments. American commitments won't be with much. Eight years at most.
Shutting down the government was the wrong decision. But having decided to do this, the Democrats shouldn't have caved now.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Shutting down the government was the wrong decision. But having decided to do this, the Democrats shouldn't have caved now.
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Worth a friendly reminder that the next set of nation-wide No Kings protests are set for October 18th.
There's probably one in your area.
I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.
www.nokings.org
There's probably one in your area.
I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Worth a friendly reminder that the next set of nation-wide No Kings protests are set for October 18th.
There's probably one in your area.
I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.
www.nokings.org
There's probably one in your area.
I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.
www.nokings.org
Don't know if this is the best way, but it certainly seems like an excellent step to take
The best way to prevent a social network from tolerating death threats against the mods is to very publicly ban the highest-follower count death threat poster. The others will learn to behave.
Critical support to @jay.bsky.team.
Critical support to @jay.bsky.team.
October 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Don't know if this is the best way, but it certainly seems like an excellent step to take
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Safe seat members face strong incentives to endorse interest group laundry lists regardless of the politics, which then defines the national party brand in a way that is hard for frontline members to overcome in an era of nationalized politics.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups...
www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups...
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Safe seat members face strong incentives to endorse interest group laundry lists regardless of the politics, which then defines the national party brand in a way that is hard for frontline members to overcome in an era of nationalized politics.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups...
www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups...
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Trump is a fascist threat; I've said it many times. I merely refuse to join many of you in your fever-dream that the United States is now a fascist regime when it's not even a Hungarian or Turkish regime. I want people to be sober-minded and determined, not hysterical and ineffective.
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October 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Trump is a fascist threat; I've said it many times. I merely refuse to join many of you in your fever-dream that the United States is now a fascist regime when it's not even a Hungarian or Turkish regime. I want people to be sober-minded and determined, not hysterical and ineffective.
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Breaks the law and reeks of dictatorship
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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
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October 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Breaks the law and reeks of dictatorship
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Waffles. I like waffles. They are incredibly tasty.
October 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Waffles. I like waffles. They are incredibly tasty.
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Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?
I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.
So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.
I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.
So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?
I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.
So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.
I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.
So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.
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Read every word from @raskin.house.gov: "The core job of the president is plain: 'To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed.' That’s it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed."
This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
September 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Read every word from @raskin.house.gov: "The core job of the president is plain: 'To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed.' That’s it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed."
Important thread on one of the two most significant separation of powers issues currently being litigated.
Deeply disappointing order from the Supreme Court in the USAID impoundment case. The Court grants a stay for something under half of the impounded funds, letting the district court's order stand for the majority of the money. A short 🧵.
September 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Important thread on one of the two most significant separation of powers issues currently being litigated.
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I don't think it's extreme to say that NATO should knock Russian drones & planes out of the sky if they cross into NATO airspace. Defending NATO countries from a belligerent Russia is literally the point of NATO.
September 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I don't think it's extreme to say that NATO should knock Russian drones & planes out of the sky if they cross into NATO airspace. Defending NATO countries from a belligerent Russia is literally the point of NATO.
A pretty good guess. And as a side benefit done in a way that maximally damages America.
The H1-B fiasco that is about to unfold is almost certainly a Stephen Miller Special to continue “whiteifying” the country, packaged in a way that Trump will see as a “deal” that gives him further leverage over companies to do what he wants
September 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A pretty good guess. And as a side benefit done in a way that maximally damages America.
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That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑
After equipping this item, you may not remove it from your hand. You must gaze deeply into it with every action and be driven mad. Messages from the damned come to you in haunting whispers and chilling images. Every year, you must purchase the newest version.
𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑
After equipping this item, you may not remove it from your hand. You must gaze deeply into it with every action and be driven mad. Messages from the damned come to you in haunting whispers and chilling images. Every year, you must purchase the newest version.
September 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑
After equipping this item, you may not remove it from your hand. You must gaze deeply into it with every action and be driven mad. Messages from the damned come to you in haunting whispers and chilling images. Every year, you must purchase the newest version.
𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑
After equipping this item, you may not remove it from your hand. You must gaze deeply into it with every action and be driven mad. Messages from the damned come to you in haunting whispers and chilling images. Every year, you must purchase the newest version.
The Rubicon hasn't been crossed. This may be an unpopular take but through either unwillingness or inability Trump hasn't done it. (Jan 6 is closer than anything the current Trump administration has done.) I think average Americans also see this and the Dem political leadership is reacting to that.
And in so doing he leads people to believe we are not in crisis. Seriously, I know a lot of liberal folks who really don’t believe the Rubicon has been crossed yet.
September 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Rubicon hasn't been crossed. This may be an unpopular take but through either unwillingness or inability Trump hasn't done it. (Jan 6 is closer than anything the current Trump administration has done.) I think average Americans also see this and the Dem political leadership is reacting to that.
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Murder is wrong.
Pogroms are wrong.
Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong.
(If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
Pogroms are wrong.
Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong.
(If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
September 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Murder is wrong.
Pogroms are wrong.
Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong.
(If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
Pogroms are wrong.
Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong.
(If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
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I am deeply disturbed by the shooting in Utah. Doug and I send our prayers to Charlie Kirk and his family.
Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.
Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I am deeply disturbed by the shooting in Utah. Doug and I send our prayers to Charlie Kirk and his family.
Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.
Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.
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I'm horrified by the news coming out of Utah about the attack on Charlie Kirk.
Political violence has no place in our country. Not now, and not ever.
Praying for him and his family.
Political violence has no place in our country. Not now, and not ever.
Praying for him and his family.
September 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm horrified by the news coming out of Utah about the attack on Charlie Kirk.
Political violence has no place in our country. Not now, and not ever.
Praying for him and his family.
Political violence has no place in our country. Not now, and not ever.
Praying for him and his family.
When Dems are on the right side of an 80-20 issue where the 89 are right on the policy they should push it for all they are worth
I concur. RKF Jr. fights like hell for quackery. Democrats need to fight like hell for science, health, and rationality.
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans.
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
September 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
When Dems are on the right side of an 80-20 issue where the 89 are right on the policy they should push it for all they are worth
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
Congratulations to Jerry Nadler on recognizing when it is time to go without needing to be pushed.
September 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Congratulations to Jerry Nadler on recognizing when it is time to go without needing to be pushed.