Andrew Hazlett
@andrewhazlett.bsky.social
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I just made a small donation to the Royal Canadian Legion for Remembrance Day. It is a token of this American's high regard for the Canadian armed forces, who have stood on guard for liberty and been our stalwart allies. I hope we will soon repair the damage we've done. Lest We Forget 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social How would you feel about like-minded people adopting the identifier "Kristolsheviks"?
We need a new political vocabulary all around. As a former "conservative" I've watched that term disappear into a vaporous cloud of contradictions. By some definitions I'd now be a "centrist," but I am more radical than some on "the left" when it comes to responding to the current crisis.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social How would you feel about like-minded people adopting the identifier "Kristolsheviks"?
Sorry, I didn't think there was any way for the Dems to "win the shutdown" in the sense of forcing concessions from a Republican Congress that answers only to Trump. But the Dems *have won*, I'd argue, because they have exposed the real agenda of the GOP re: affordability and health care. Dems win.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Sorry, I didn't think there was any way for the Dems to "win the shutdown" in the sense of forcing concessions from a Republican Congress that answers only to Trump. But the Dems *have won*, I'd argue, because they have exposed the real agenda of the GOP re: affordability and health care. Dems win.
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The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
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On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
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I just made a small donation to the Royal Canadian Legion for Remembrance Day. It is a token of this American's high regard for the Canadian armed forces, who have stood on guard for liberty and been our stalwart allies. I hope we will soon repair the damage we've done. Lest We Forget 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I just made a small donation to the Royal Canadian Legion for Remembrance Day. It is a token of this American's high regard for the Canadian armed forces, who have stood on guard for liberty and been our stalwart allies. I hope we will soon repair the damage we've done. Lest We Forget 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
From a couple years ago youtu.be/ITFiyQErTuQ?...
Jerusalem - Remembrance Festival at Royal Albert Hall
YouTube video by Karl Brookes
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November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
From a couple years ago youtu.be/ITFiyQErTuQ?...
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
Canadians have been among America's fiercest allies on battlefields from Europe, to the Cold War, to Afghanistan and Iraq. As we mark our Veterans Day, why not also honor Remembrance Day and our fallen Canadian brothers- and sisters-in-arms? Please donate and/or share.
I just made a small donation to the Royal Canadian Legion for Remembrance Day. It is a token of this American's high regard for the Canadian armed forces, who have stood on guard for liberty and been our stalwart allies. I hope we will soon repair the damage we've done. Lest We Forget 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Canadians have been among America's fiercest allies on battlefields from Europe, to the Cold War, to Afghanistan and Iraq. As we mark our Veterans Day, why not also honor Remembrance Day and our fallen Canadian brothers- and sisters-in-arms? Please donate and/or share.
This depraved-heart murder, in progress on an unthinkable scale, is the worst moral injury so far inflicted by this wicked regime.
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This depraved-heart murder, in progress on an unthinkable scale, is the worst moral injury so far inflicted by this wicked regime.
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
I hope that Mamdani understands that he'll stride into City Hall and find that the mechanisms and relationships of city governance are about as functional and up to date as the Chernobyl control room.
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I hope that Mamdani understands that he'll stride into City Hall and find that the mechanisms and relationships of city governance are about as functional and up to date as the Chernobyl control room.
I just made a small donation to the Royal Canadian Legion for Remembrance Day. It is a token of this American's high regard for the Canadian armed forces, who have stood on guard for liberty and been our stalwart allies. I hope we will soon repair the damage we've done. Lest We Forget 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I just made a small donation to the Royal Canadian Legion for Remembrance Day. It is a token of this American's high regard for the Canadian armed forces, who have stood on guard for liberty and been our stalwart allies. I hope we will soon repair the damage we've done. Lest We Forget 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
Disgraceful. Though they will be punished soon enough when the terms of the deal are changed after the fact. Cowards die a thousand deaths or something like that.
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Disgraceful. Though they will be punished soon enough when the terms of the deal are changed after the fact. Cowards die a thousand deaths or something like that.
This site needs a statue, or at least an historical marker
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This site needs a statue, or at least an historical marker
A mission-driven organization can't serve all causes equally and simultaneously. A mission to do everything is a mission to do nothing. The Sierra Club is not the only example of this kind of self-shattering implosion at a time when advocates are needed desperately. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A mission-driven organization can't serve all causes equally and simultaneously. A mission to do everything is a mission to do nothing. The Sierra Club is not the only example of this kind of self-shattering implosion at a time when advocates are needed desperately. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
The Onion, desperately trying to stay ahead of reality. "DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’ - Previous administrations have done nothing while these dangerous offenders indoctrinated our children with letters, shapes, and numbers." theonion.com/dhs-daycare-...
DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’
WASHINGTON—Reaffirming the Trump administration’s promise to crack down on individuals providing supervision and instruction to youngsters across the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...
theonion.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Onion, desperately trying to stay ahead of reality. "DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’ - Previous administrations have done nothing while these dangerous offenders indoctrinated our children with letters, shapes, and numbers." theonion.com/dhs-daycare-...
The gilded encrustations at the White House are spreading like an unchecked fungal infection.
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The gilded encrustations at the White House are spreading like an unchecked fungal infection.
I don't *endorse* impulsive sandwich hurling, BUT I do feel very happy about this news www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I don't *endorse* impulsive sandwich hurling, BUT I do feel very happy about this news www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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"Rioters tried to kill me on January 6. Trump pardoned them." Sgt. Aquilino Gonell writes a must-read piece on what it's like to risk your life to defend democracy, only to be called an un-American traitor. This is MAGA.
Rioters tried to kill me on January 6. Trump pardoned them.
What it’s like to defend democracy, only to be called an un-American traitor.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"Rioters tried to kill me on January 6. Trump pardoned them." Sgt. Aquilino Gonell writes a must-read piece on what it's like to risk your life to defend democracy, only to be called an un-American traitor. This is MAGA.
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Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, sex assaults in several states, FBI says
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, sex assaults in several states, FBI says
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
@jvl.bsky.social is this Catholic Integralism?
If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
@jvl.bsky.social is this Catholic Integralism?
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We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
This is the Dick Cheney I will remember www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Nq...
He Knows It
YouTube video by Liz Cheney
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is the Dick Cheney I will remember www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Nq...
I was just wondering about Memphis. There have not been as many outrageous stories circulating as from Chicago. Probably explained by the weaker news journalism there.
Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I was just wondering about Memphis. There have not been as many outrageous stories circulating as from Chicago. Probably explained by the weaker news journalism there.