BA Porter
baporter.bsky.social
BA Porter
@baporter.bsky.social
Old fashioned civil libertarian yelling into the ether. Master of the double-post.

The BA stands for Bad Attitude.
There was probably enough evidence of that even the first time they brought, it, if we lived in a timeline where any judges in America had any appetite whatsoever for actually holding Trump prosecutors or officials to account, which they manifestly do not.
December 12, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Reposted by BA Porter
the return of shame would be the best thing to happen so far this decade, unambiguously
December 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
And this was, like, as recently as 2022.
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Good for them.
December 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I think about this a lot. Not just the digging up, but the layering and organizing of digital footprints. Imagine a figure like Benjamin Franklin, existing in the digital age. People with accounts, alts, varying degrees of activity on varying platforms ebbing and flowing over time.
December 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Fundamentally, if the ruling class is no longer bound by written law, that is not a situation you can remedy within the legal framework. By definition!
December 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Invariably, the only complaints I ever heard about them were never about anything they did, it was always about the IDEA of them, or how people "supposed" they must be. Which is kind of the definition of prejudice.
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
What do people think an NDA is?
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM