AlBright
@al-b.bsky.social
"Whatever you do, don't touch the water."
~Caste
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Welcome to Murica!
Land of the bamboozled.
Home of the hoodwinked!
Sic semper tyrannis!
~Caste
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Welcome to Murica!
Land of the bamboozled.
Home of the hoodwinked!
Sic semper tyrannis!
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Pete Hegseth barely squeaked through a grueling Senate confirmation process to become secretary of defense earlier this year, facing lawmakers wary of the Fox News Channel host and skeptical of his capacity, temperament and fitness for the job.
Pete Hegseth faces deepening scrutiny from Congress over boat strikes
The scrutiny over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership at the Pentagon has been a long time coming on Capitol Hill.
apnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Pete Hegseth barely squeaked through a grueling Senate confirmation process to become secretary of defense earlier this year, facing lawmakers wary of the Fox News Channel host and skeptical of his capacity, temperament and fitness for the job.
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Liberty forum of silicon valley 2016, Pete Hegseth
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Liberty forum of silicon valley 2016, Pete Hegseth
They should sue and use it as a teachable moment to encourage kids to reject being groomed for violence.
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
They should sue and use it as a teachable moment to encourage kids to reject being groomed for violence.
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🚨Not a suicide, a lynching. Case not closed, it has to be opened. 1/2
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
🚨Not a suicide, a lynching. Case not closed, it has to be opened. 1/2
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Trump is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which ruling elites use institutions of government to steal public assets. It permits unlimited theft while the head of state provides cover for his cronies through pardons and the uneven application of the law.
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Trump is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which ruling elites use institutions of government to steal public assets. It permits unlimited theft while the head of state provides cover for his cronies through pardons and the uneven application of the law.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A 39yo Black man Torrence Medley was found hanging from a tree at Brookfield Hills Golf Course on Nov 13. Police ruled it a suicide. His family is demanding proof and transparency. Police have provided neither.
Given this country’s history of lynching Black Americans, transparency is the minimum
Given this country’s history of lynching Black Americans, transparency is the minimum
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A 39yo Black man Torrence Medley was found hanging from a tree at Brookfield Hills Golf Course on Nov 13. Police ruled it a suicide. His family is demanding proof and transparency. Police have provided neither.
Given this country’s history of lynching Black Americans, transparency is the minimum
Given this country’s history of lynching Black Americans, transparency is the minimum
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This Rosa Parks Day, let us remember her and learn from her example--challenging powerful forces with courage and determination and working with others to change the world for better.
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I approve this message. It's going to be a threshold issue for me. That and completely dismantling ICE, fully implementing the Voting Rights Act, creating a national living wage (with subsidies for businesses that need it,) expanding the Supreme Court, and admitting DC and Puerto Rico as states.
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I approve this message. It's going to be a threshold issue for me. That and completely dismantling ICE, fully implementing the Voting Rights Act, creating a national living wage (with subsidies for businesses that need it,) expanding the Supreme Court, and admitting DC and Puerto Rico as states.
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it is impossible to imagine any Pentagon lawyer blessing this action. The concept of hors de combat—literally, out of combat—is a fundamental aspect of the law of war that prevents harming those disabled from combat.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
War Crime...or Murder?
Killing shipwreck survivors is patently illegal and morally abhorrent
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
it is impossible to imagine any Pentagon lawyer blessing this action. The concept of hors de combat—literally, out of combat—is a fundamental aspect of the law of war that prevents harming those disabled from combat.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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There’s a lot to unpack here…
Bombing vessels in the Caribbean without congressional authorization is already an unconstitutional use of military force.
Hegseth’s double tap on survivors looks like a war crime, and both Armed Services Committees want him in the chair to answer for it.
1/2
Bombing vessels in the Caribbean without congressional authorization is already an unconstitutional use of military force.
Hegseth’s double tap on survivors looks like a war crime, and both Armed Services Committees want him in the chair to answer for it.
1/2
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
There’s a lot to unpack here…
Bombing vessels in the Caribbean without congressional authorization is already an unconstitutional use of military force.
Hegseth’s double tap on survivors looks like a war crime, and both Armed Services Committees want him in the chair to answer for it.
1/2
Bombing vessels in the Caribbean without congressional authorization is already an unconstitutional use of military force.
Hegseth’s double tap on survivors looks like a war crime, and both Armed Services Committees want him in the chair to answer for it.
1/2
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BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has said the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed "in its entirety," as tensions between the countries escalate aje.io/cw5jnm
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has said the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed "in its entirety," as tensions between the countries escalate aje.io/cw5jnm
Happy Black Friday! Who's out there loading up Trump's bank account via the tariff revenue he's siphoning off the top!?!
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November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Happy Black Friday! Who's out there loading up Trump's bank account via the tariff revenue he's siphoning off the top!?!
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Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
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Translation: even in his insanity, as the stupor of his incapacity begins to consume him, Trump realizes this is all his own fault
Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Translation: even in his insanity, as the stupor of his incapacity begins to consume him, Trump realizes this is all his own fault
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This Thanksgiving—observe the National Day of Mourning.
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
Thanksgiving and the National Day of Mourning
As injustices upon Indigenous Americans perpetuate, we must act to counter that systemic oppression
www.qasimrashid.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This Thanksgiving—observe the National Day of Mourning.
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
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Let me tell you what the upshot is from the now-dropped Georgia January 6 case:
A rich white man can with impunity plot to overthrow our government with 18 co-defendants—in a plot with a death toll—if a Black woman involved in the investigation had inadvisable sex.
*That* is how racist America is.
A rich white man can with impunity plot to overthrow our government with 18 co-defendants—in a plot with a death toll—if a Black woman involved in the investigation had inadvisable sex.
*That* is how racist America is.
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Let me tell you what the upshot is from the now-dropped Georgia January 6 case:
A rich white man can with impunity plot to overthrow our government with 18 co-defendants—in a plot with a death toll—if a Black woman involved in the investigation had inadvisable sex.
*That* is how racist America is.
A rich white man can with impunity plot to overthrow our government with 18 co-defendants—in a plot with a death toll—if a Black woman involved in the investigation had inadvisable sex.
*That* is how racist America is.
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Normally I don't go much for the "this is humiliating" framework for what's happening in this country—I didn't do it, and my self-worth is not tied up in America in any way. Watching Bolsonaro get sent up for decades for committing the exact same crime of treason that Trump did? That's humiliating.
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Normally I don't go much for the "this is humiliating" framework for what's happening in this country—I didn't do it, and my self-worth is not tied up in America in any way. Watching Bolsonaro get sent up for decades for committing the exact same crime of treason that Trump did? That's humiliating.
apnews.com/article/camp...
Campbell's IT chief on leave after lawsuit claims he said company's food is for 'poor people'
I guess it's something to ponder while your hypertension hits record highs due to eating this salt water.
Campbell's IT chief on leave after lawsuit claims he said company's food is for 'poor people'
I guess it's something to ponder while your hypertension hits record highs due to eating this salt water.
Campbell's IT chief on leave after lawsuit claims he said company's food is for 'poor people'
The Campbell’s Co. said Tuesday it has placed one of its executives on leave while it investigates claims that he made racist comments and mocked the company’s products and customers in an audio recor...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
apnews.com/article/camp...
Campbell's IT chief on leave after lawsuit claims he said company's food is for 'poor people'
I guess it's something to ponder while your hypertension hits record highs due to eating this salt water.
Campbell's IT chief on leave after lawsuit claims he said company's food is for 'poor people'
I guess it's something to ponder while your hypertension hits record highs due to eating this salt water.
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Yep. National strike NOW!
Yet... fellow libs are prolly eyeing some black friday deals as we speak.
Yet... fellow libs are prolly eyeing some black friday deals as we speak.
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yep. National strike NOW!
Yet... fellow libs are prolly eyeing some black friday deals as we speak.
Yet... fellow libs are prolly eyeing some black friday deals as we speak.
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Scott Bessent on the administration's affordability plan: "We'll see. He's the president of solutions, and I'm sure that we will have a solution to this."
(Note the complete lack of pushback to this by Rebecca Quick and contrast with her recent attempted ambush of Hakeem Jeffries)
(Note the complete lack of pushback to this by Rebecca Quick and contrast with her recent attempted ambush of Hakeem Jeffries)
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Scott Bessent on the administration's affordability plan: "We'll see. He's the president of solutions, and I'm sure that we will have a solution to this."
(Note the complete lack of pushback to this by Rebecca Quick and contrast with her recent attempted ambush of Hakeem Jeffries)
(Note the complete lack of pushback to this by Rebecca Quick and contrast with her recent attempted ambush of Hakeem Jeffries)