Adam Bates
@abates.bsky.social
I'd like to suggest that the lesson is not "this is an admin like no other so we should have different rules."
The lesson is "the unique toxicity of this administration reveals how malignant this 'standard journalistic practice' of charitable deference to the regime has always been."
The lesson is "the unique toxicity of this administration reveals how malignant this 'standard journalistic practice' of charitable deference to the regime has always been."
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I'd like to suggest that the lesson is not "this is an admin like no other so we should have different rules."
The lesson is "the unique toxicity of this administration reveals how malignant this 'standard journalistic practice' of charitable deference to the regime has always been."
The lesson is "the unique toxicity of this administration reveals how malignant this 'standard journalistic practice' of charitable deference to the regime has always been."
Explain the stark difference between Obama's process free assassinations of civilians and Trump's please. Without it just being some version of "I blindly trust Democrats to murder people with impunity but not Republicans and therefore I only care about due process now and didn't then."
November 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Explain the stark difference between Obama's process free assassinations of civilians and Trump's please. Without it just being some version of "I blindly trust Democrats to murder people with impunity but not Republicans and therefore I only care about due process now and didn't then."
Remember when families of Obama's murder victims sued and the federal courts threw their cases out because whether the president can murder you with impunity is a "nonjusticiable political question?"
November 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Remember when families of Obama's murder victims sued and the federal courts threw their cases out because whether the president can murder you with impunity is a "nonjusticiable political question?"
Not that I would expect ICE jackboots to know or care, but given the number of undocumented Irish in the US, "ginger = legal" isn't even data driven, it's just racism.
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Not that I would expect ICE jackboots to know or care, but given the number of undocumented Irish in the US, "ginger = legal" isn't even data driven, it's just racism.
Once they rolled over for Obama assassinating al-Awlaki without charge or trial, it was game over for due process forever in the eyes of mainstream liberal America
September 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Once they rolled over for Obama assassinating al-Awlaki without charge or trial, it was game over for due process forever in the eyes of mainstream liberal America