BluesFish
@bluesfish.bsky.social
College classmate with Marc Elias, and high school classmate with Jack Smith.
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A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
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Capitulating to an ever more impotent and discredited leader. A terrible mistake.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Capitulating to an ever more impotent and discredited leader. A terrible mistake.
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"Dear Hatemongers, We Aren't Going Back"
Trump, Stephen Miller, & MAGA have already lost. No matter how hard they try to send people of color "back" to our "third world countries," there are just too many of us. We're here & we're winning.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/dear-hatem...
Trump, Stephen Miller, & MAGA have already lost. No matter how hard they try to send people of color "back" to our "third world countries," there are just too many of us. We're here & we're winning.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/dear-hatem...
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"Dear Hatemongers, We Aren't Going Back"
Trump, Stephen Miller, & MAGA have already lost. No matter how hard they try to send people of color "back" to our "third world countries," there are just too many of us. We're here & we're winning.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/dear-hatem...
Trump, Stephen Miller, & MAGA have already lost. No matter how hard they try to send people of color "back" to our "third world countries," there are just too many of us. We're here & we're winning.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/dear-hatem...
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Trump’s stated justification for every single one of his despicable pardons of multiple drug traffickers, wealthy fraudsters, people who beat up cops, cronies, violent criminals, and politically connected Republicans is always the same: “I heard they were treated very unfairly.”
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Trump’s stated justification for every single one of his despicable pardons of multiple drug traffickers, wealthy fraudsters, people who beat up cops, cronies, violent criminals, and politically connected Republicans is always the same: “I heard they were treated very unfairly.”
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You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
I follower a few defense experts.
Seeing them all straight-up declare this a war crime without any him-and-hawing is uhm
Disconcerting.
Pete Hegseth must resign, as does Stephen Miller. Donald Trump should be subpoenaed before Congress to answer for HIS policy.
Seeing them all straight-up declare this a war crime without any him-and-hawing is uhm
Disconcerting.
Pete Hegseth must resign, as does Stephen Miller. Donald Trump should be subpoenaed before Congress to answer for HIS policy.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
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The headline is not just that Pete Hegseth issued a plainly unlawful order to intentionally slaughter survivors after an initial strike. It is also that senior military officers improperly carried out those orders.
November 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The headline is not just that Pete Hegseth issued a plainly unlawful order to intentionally slaughter survivors after an initial strike. It is also that senior military officers improperly carried out those orders.
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HE IS ABOUT TO GO TO WAR WITH VENEZUELA FOR IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA AND NOW HE PARDONS A DRUG KINGPIN CONVICTED IN 2024 OF IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
Trump plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
www.npr.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
HE IS ABOUT TO GO TO WAR WITH VENEZUELA FOR IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA AND NOW HE PARDONS A DRUG KINGPIN CONVICTED IN 2024 OF IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
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I’ll be up late tonight…(nothing new, I guess) working on tomorrow’s article regarding the story of Pete Hegseth…and the order of “Kill them all” that was reported earlier today.
I’ve already got a lot that no one else is reporting…and very likely…won’t.
Look for it mid-late morning.
I’ve already got a lot that no one else is reporting…and very likely…won’t.
Look for it mid-late morning.
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I’ll be up late tonight…(nothing new, I guess) working on tomorrow’s article regarding the story of Pete Hegseth…and the order of “Kill them all” that was reported earlier today.
I’ve already got a lot that no one else is reporting…and very likely…won’t.
Look for it mid-late morning.
I’ve already got a lot that no one else is reporting…and very likely…won’t.
Look for it mid-late morning.
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To me, "Drumpf" and the other names are just the left-wing equivalent of "Killary" and "Demonrats." An instant signal not to take the person seriously.
When someone calls him Drumpf or tRump, my opinion of them is immediately lowered. It just looks and sounds so stupid and childish. I'm all for mocking these clowns, but have a little self-respect while doing so.
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
To me, "Drumpf" and the other names are just the left-wing equivalent of "Killary" and "Demonrats." An instant signal not to take the person seriously.
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EMERGENCY VIDEO: Pete Hegseth at the Center of Disturbing New Boat-Strike Controversy
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
EMERGENCY VIDEO: Pete Hegseth at the Center of Disturbing New Boat-Strike Controversy
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
EMERGENCY VIDEO: Pete Hegseth at the Center of Disturbing New Boat-Strike Controversy
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
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Most people accept it everyday.
The non-accountability is way stronger than any sense of national morals.
They elected a racist, a rapist, a felon, and vile insurrectionist. They knew this in advance and did it anyway.
The non-accountability is way stronger than any sense of national morals.
They elected a racist, a rapist, a felon, and vile insurrectionist. They knew this in advance and did it anyway.
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Most people accept it everyday.
The non-accountability is way stronger than any sense of national morals.
They elected a racist, a rapist, a felon, and vile insurrectionist. They knew this in advance and did it anyway.
The non-accountability is way stronger than any sense of national morals.
They elected a racist, a rapist, a felon, and vile insurrectionist. They knew this in advance and did it anyway.
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You offend me with this notion. That we must accept that these men who have stolen from us, committed murder, visited treason, sedition and other tyrannies upon this once proud republic be permitted amnesty in a corrupt use of the pardon power. I say to hell with that! 🇺🇸
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 AM
You offend me with this notion. That we must accept that these men who have stolen from us, committed murder, visited treason, sedition and other tyrannies upon this once proud republic be permitted amnesty in a corrupt use of the pardon power. I say to hell with that! 🇺🇸
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Yes. Of course. We shall submit ourselves to the further disfiguring corrupt proceduralism of a court that has been entirely captured by a clan of economic and political elites, whose entire summum bonum is the deconstruction of the independent public bureaucracy, such that oligarchs may rule.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Yes. Of course. We shall submit ourselves to the further disfiguring corrupt proceduralism of a court that has been entirely captured by a clan of economic and political elites, whose entire summum bonum is the deconstruction of the independent public bureaucracy, such that oligarchs may rule.
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I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
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Another Indiana Republican Senator makes it clear he’s still opposing the GOP push to re-gerrymander the state. dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Another Indiana Republican Senator makes it clear he’s still opposing the GOP push to re-gerrymander the state. dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
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Jesus fucking Christ.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Jesus fucking Christ.
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The way to understand it is to realize that the chain of command is built not only on discipline, but on trust. If you're a major in the army and your colonel says to do something, you assume - and legally, you are *required* to assume - that several officers senior to you already vetted it.
I’ll never understand the conflict that exists between “refuse manifestly illegal orders” and “but my superiors signed off on it”
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The way to understand it is to realize that the chain of command is built not only on discipline, but on trust. If you're a major in the army and your colonel says to do something, you assume - and legally, you are *required* to assume - that several officers senior to you already vetted it.
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There must be immediate Congressional investigations into Pete Hegseth’s ordering the killings of strike survivors and over 80 people in international waters. Where is my opponent Rep. Ann Wagner? Bible verses and banking regulations aren’t going to save you. Do your job or resign! @wellmanformo
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
There must be immediate Congressional investigations into Pete Hegseth’s ordering the killings of strike survivors and over 80 people in international waters. Where is my opponent Rep. Ann Wagner? Bible verses and banking regulations aren’t going to save you. Do your job or resign! @wellmanformo
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This is how you got Trump, twice
You don't win elections by running on what pollsters tell you. You sell a worldview, that makes sense of peoples problems, and gives them a vision of how to fix it. FDR didn't have pollsters workshop talking points for the New Deal.
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This is how you got Trump, twice
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(🚨) BREAKING: Trump Steals Another $75 Million From Higher Ed, Continuing One of the Most Shameful Heists in the History of Big Government in Any Nation Worldwide
Northwestern Agrees to Deal With Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
(🚨) BREAKING: Trump Steals Another $75 Million From Higher Ed, Continuing One of the Most Shameful Heists in the History of Big Government in Any Nation Worldwide
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A return to technocratic liberal centrism would be the death knell of democracy.
Revenge of the Technocrats Could Be the End of Democracy
A Response to Ruy Teixeira
www.notesfromthecircus.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
A return to technocratic liberal centrism would be the death knell of democracy.