@abernethy.bsky.social
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The argument goes that America approved his agenda is false. America empowered him to push his agenda through legal Congressional means and that’s it. If he won’t do that, it’s on him not the courts.
November 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The argument goes that America approved his agenda is false. America empowered him to push his agenda through legal Congressional means and that’s it. If he won’t do that, it’s on him not the courts.
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Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.
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we are literally besieged in all aspects of american life by unrestrained plutocrats who themselves are surrounded by toadies and sycophants, not one person there to tell them that their hair looks idiotic, their plan to invade portland is insane, that their AI does not work. bring back hard truths
October 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
we are literally besieged in all aspects of american life by unrestrained plutocrats who themselves are surrounded by toadies and sycophants, not one person there to tell them that their hair looks idiotic, their plan to invade portland is insane, that their AI does not work. bring back hard truths
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Hegseth: The military is for killing people and breaking things. No more rules of engagement.
Trump: I’ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.
Trump: I’ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
September 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Hegseth: The military is for killing people and breaking things. No more rules of engagement.
Trump: I’ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.
Trump: I’ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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To go along with that, we live in an era of low trust voters, and they're just going to keep voting out incumbents over and over because they're mad at "The System" and aren't traditional ideological actors. You can't heal America without making people trust the government more.
September 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
To go along with that, we live in an era of low trust voters, and they're just going to keep voting out incumbents over and over because they're mad at "The System" and aren't traditional ideological actors. You can't heal America without making people trust the government more.
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I honestly think the ongoing effort to whitewash Kirk and treat MAGAism like normal conservative politics is disrespectful to those principled conservatives who have publicly broken with MAGA.
look, it is comforting to think that your political opponents are, at the end of the day, just people like you who really want us all to live together as Americans.
it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.
it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.
September 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I honestly think the ongoing effort to whitewash Kirk and treat MAGAism like normal conservative politics is disrespectful to those principled conservatives who have publicly broken with MAGA.
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Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.
September 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.
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Trump II never even tried to build the mass consent necessary for authoritarian consolidation, they just assumed it was there because they won the popular vote
again we’re seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
September 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Trump II never even tried to build the mass consent necessary for authoritarian consolidation, they just assumed it was there because they won the popular vote
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He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
August 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
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As a convicted felon, the President can't legally possess a firearm under federal law.
Todd Starnes- “Does the President have a gun?”
“Are they gonna let him tase somebody?”
“I want to see my President tase somebody tonight. That’s what I want to see”
“Are they gonna let him tase somebody?”
“I want to see my President tase somebody tonight. That’s what I want to see”
August 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As a convicted felon, the President can't legally possess a firearm under federal law.
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I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
August 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
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The success of interventions against real problems seems disproportionately to lead people to believe the problem wasn’t a problem in the first place. Vaccines, Y2K, the voting rights act, many such examples.
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
August 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The success of interventions against real problems seems disproportionately to lead people to believe the problem wasn’t a problem in the first place. Vaccines, Y2K, the voting rights act, many such examples.
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This is a good development, but we need better incentives to avoid bad faith actions by sore-loser candidates that disrupt election results—including by denying the victor the right to assume office on time
BREAKING: U.S. District Court Judge Richard Myers orders the NC State Board of Elections to certify a 734-vote win for Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and rejects all of Griffin's election protests. Judge stays order for one week so Griffin may appeal. #ncpol
May 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This is a good development, but we need better incentives to avoid bad faith actions by sore-loser candidates that disrupt election results—including by denying the victor the right to assume office on time
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It’s like a degrowth that also increases C02 emissions. “We need to shrink the economy so we can consume more gasoline and spend less on children”
Trump: "When you say strollers are going up -- what kind of a thing? I'm saying that gasoline is going down. Gasoline is thousands of times more important than a stroller someplace ... you don't need to have 35 dolls. You can have 2, 3, 4, and save a lot of money. We don't need to feed the beast."
May 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It’s like a degrowth that also increases C02 emissions. “We need to shrink the economy so we can consume more gasoline and spend less on children”
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So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
That would be Secretary of Education Linda McMahon who's being sued for aiding and abetting systemic child molestation, just to be clear
Amended complaint has been filed in the ring boys sexual abuse lawsuit against WWE, TKO, Vince McMahon, and Linda McMahon. Three new plaintiffs have joined the original five, one of which accuses Pat Patterson of also participating in the abuse.
PDF link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
PDF link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
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More public evidence that JD Vance murdered the Pope, than there is public evidence any of the people we have put into concentration camps are guilty of anything.
April 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
More public evidence that JD Vance murdered the Pope, than there is public evidence any of the people we have put into concentration camps are guilty of anything.
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Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
April 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
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Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges.
Good luck! 🫡
Good luck! 🫡
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The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter
A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said
www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/p...
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter
A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said
www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/p...
IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...
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April 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges.
Good luck! 🫡
Good luck! 🫡
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speaking as a dog owner here - y’all, keep your dogs on leash when you’re out in public, my god. This isn’t hard
April 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
speaking as a dog owner here - y’all, keep your dogs on leash when you’re out in public, my god. This isn’t hard
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Chief Justice Cheri Beasley lost her seat by 401 votes in 2020: “After we made sure the process worked like it was supposed to, I called my opponent and conceded.” That’s how it worked back then. #InOurCourt #ncpol
April 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Chief Justice Cheri Beasley lost her seat by 401 votes in 2020: “After we made sure the process worked like it was supposed to, I called my opponent and conceded.” That’s how it worked back then. #InOurCourt #ncpol
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Speaking of ideas, ICE is an utterly poisonous agency, hostile to the whole idea of America.
April 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Speaking of ideas, ICE is an utterly poisonous agency, hostile to the whole idea of America.
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we live in an extraordinarily wealthier society than our parents and grandparents. our problem is that we have not invested enough of that wealth in social goods, but i don’t think anyone actually wants to return to a time when even a “good” factory job was backbreaking labor
April 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
we live in an extraordinarily wealthier society than our parents and grandparents. our problem is that we have not invested enough of that wealth in social goods, but i don’t think anyone actually wants to return to a time when even a “good” factory job was backbreaking labor
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The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.
April 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.