Tom Bigler
@tsbigler.bsky.social
Just a dude trying to survive this dystopian capitalist hellscape. Sports are fun.
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19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
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You know, apropos of nothing in particular, and although I haven't researched it yet, I strongly suspect that a president starting a foreign war to distract from his extensive ties with child sex traffickers is probably a high crime or misdemeanor under the Constitution's impeachment clauses.
November 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
You know, apropos of nothing in particular, and although I haven't researched it yet, I strongly suspect that a president starting a foreign war to distract from his extensive ties with child sex traffickers is probably a high crime or misdemeanor under the Constitution's impeachment clauses.
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How it started / How it’s going
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
How it started / How it’s going
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Trump: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Trump: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
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And the rest of them. E.g. bsky.app/profile/mark...
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
And the rest of them. E.g. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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WaPo and NYT happily report that COVID-19 vaccine kills children. They will have as many deaths on their hands as RFK Jr and his ilk.
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
WaPo and NYT happily report that COVID-19 vaccine kills children. They will have as many deaths on their hands as RFK Jr and his ilk.
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The MAGA cult is so far gone that they truly believe Dear Leader should be allowed to kill their own children.
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The MAGA cult is so far gone that they truly believe Dear Leader should be allowed to kill their own children.
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I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
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The South ultimately won the Civil War. I believe it will be nearly impossible to elect a Democrat in 2028 due to subversion of the democratic process.
November 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The South ultimately won the Civil War. I believe it will be nearly impossible to elect a Democrat in 2028 due to subversion of the democratic process.
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Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
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This is a fantastic longread on a community in Oregon that was wrestling with a groundwater contamination crisis...and then Amazon moved in and made it so much worse. It's also an interesting story on how a Republican rancher/elected officials got radicalized by that crisis.
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is a fantastic longread on a community in Oregon that was wrestling with a groundwater contamination crisis...and then Amazon moved in and made it so much worse. It's also an interesting story on how a Republican rancher/elected officials got radicalized by that crisis.
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Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
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So Pete Hegseth ordered war crimes and would be facing the death penalty of Pam Bondi did her fucking job.
#JustSaying.
#JustSaying.
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
So Pete Hegseth ordered war crimes and would be facing the death penalty of Pam Bondi did her fucking job.
#JustSaying.
#JustSaying.
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There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.
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Reminder that in high school, Tucker Carlson listed himself as a member of the "Dan White Society," named after the man who shot and killed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official.
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Reminder that in high school, Tucker Carlson listed himself as a member of the "Dan White Society," named after the man who shot and killed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official.
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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trump will pardon or assist any head of state who has been convicted for crimes. acting out of self preservation, basically
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
trump will pardon or assist any head of state who has been convicted for crimes. acting out of self preservation, basically
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.