Adam
qibyitwi.bsky.social
Adam
@qibyitwi.bsky.social
Question for my historian or philosopher or German friends:
Were German citizens who killed Nazis during WW2 justified in doing so?
October 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Inglorious Bastards is available for streaming on Netflix.
Might be a feel good watch for the times we are in.
October 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Remember when we tried to warn people about Project 2025, and they told us “it would never happen”? … but here we are, and now it’s almost halfway completed. 🫠
I really wish I could have been wrong about that.
October 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."

Justice Robert Jackson, 1943
126. The "Fixed Star in Our Constitutional Constellation"
It's worth spending time with Justice Robert Jackson's 1943 majority opinion holding that the First Amendment bars compulsory flag salutes and compelled recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance.
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September 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
September 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Pretty much happened to me. Same place I was politically as socially conservative-ish and economically moderate in the 1990s had me pegged as a libertarian in the late Aughts and a "radical leftist lunatic" in the mid 2020s. This guy had it backwards.
September 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Well, the company just canned my direct supervisor... to "trim the fat".
This is the outcome of #TrumpsEconomy
August 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
August 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
August 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Seems like a pattern...
August 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
August 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
August 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
VOTING DAY!
Go forth and do the thing!
This is one way we make America better.
August 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
August 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Epstein-Trump issue has the President scrambling so much to find a distraction that he has moved nuclear submarines into an operational position.
August 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Any decision that Emil Bove is involved in should be ignored.
When asked why, quote his "Fuck the Judges" argument as the legal reason.
July 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The Seldon Crisis ticks one step closer...
July 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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July 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
July 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Reposted by Adam
“He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”
July 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM