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Michael Audette
@sojournermemoirs.bsky.social
Flaneur, Maker, Photographer, Sojourner

Mostly Digital and Analogue Monochrome Film.
Color when it's called for.

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
―Lao Tzu

ICE & Assoc:
Fuck off and develop bleeding hemorrhoids.
Hertling.
@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Krugman.

You should listen to this 20 minutes. (Well, 23.)

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Trump Is In FAR Deeper Trouble Than I Anticipated | Paul Krugman
YouTube video by ThinkAxis
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December 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Sadly relevant today.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This Republican healthcare “plan” that Lindsey Graham and his buddies are talking about is a scam and more people need to understand that.
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Recommended Read:
From The Atlantic, via an archive:

Lessons From 5,000 Years of Civilizational Collapse

A new book argues that societies built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.
By Linda Kinstler

archive.ph/8Bx3T#select...
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
There's something piquant about reading Lawrence Tribe and finding the phrase "Wait for it...").

Nicely played, Sir!

I've written to my Rep and Senators, urging Investigation with Testimony under oath, Impeachment and removal if indicated.

Failing such action, I requested detailed explanation.
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
An excellent legal analysis of why Hegseth's reported order to kill eveyone in the Sept. 2nd strike is unlawful and a war crime.

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SUPREME COURT SLAMS THE BREAKS — HEGSETH’S “KILL THEM ALL” COMMENT UNDER FIRE! Glenn Kirschner
YouTube video by The Judicial Brief
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December 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
2 minute clip.

Senator Kelly speaks with SARC expertise and personal experience in carrying out the >militarily legal< sinking of 2 ships in time of war. He did not kill survivors int he water, because >that would be an unlawful use of force< under the Law of Warfare.
Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"

Mark Kelly: "It seems to."

Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"

Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Now we know the likely backstory behind the resignation and retirement of Vice Admiral Holsey.

Who will surely be called as a witness.

www.navytimes.com/news/your-na...
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My Project bicycle on the left, as it arrived on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, versus a pristine example of the same model (with one difference--see Alt).

To my surprise, the wheel size looks to be the Big Bike Boom 27x1 1/4 inch American Standard, easily changed to current 700c.

See the ALT
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Elissa Slotkin, unbound at Brookings.

Do not miss this speech.

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Elissa Slotkin speech outlines dark future on how Donald Trump intends 'to hold onto power'
YouTube video by Detroit Free Press
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November 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Buckle up.
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The 3rd Impeachment.
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Call to Action:
Each of us must write our COngressional Reps demanding Impeachment of Hegseth (two other Cabinet Secretaries have been impeached and removed, the most recent is 2024), and write our Senators to demand removal from office.

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
@katiephangshow.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social , with another in-depth informative analysis.
ICE will provide huge financial incentives to bounty hunters who help Trump hunt down immigrants. My latest on how private contractors could earn up to $281 MILLION dollars serving as de facto law enforcement.

No $ for SNAP, but Trump has millions for bounty hunters.

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Trump’s ICE Offers MASSIVE REWARD in SHOCKING Scheme
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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November 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
5 minutes, no sound, but...

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President Nixon Bowling (no sound)
YouTube video by Richard Nixon Presidential Library
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November 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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When your douchebag cousin eats his first gummie on thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Here's @captmarkkelly.bsky.social
You should follow him.
It's going to get interesting.

(Run, Spaceman, Run!)
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.

But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I’m so jealous. Must be nice having a functional high court.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The OG Simon's Cat film!
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM