Danni
@celticwarrior46.bsky.social
Writer and retired newspaper reporter; artist; wife, mom, nana; progressive Democrat; dedicated Catholic; science fiction nerd; animal lover. Be kind but KICK ASS.
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Grain of salt I'm not a doctor, but I've never heard of a course of treatment where a geriatric patient gets weekly if not daily IVs for months on end and it's just... no big deal, nothing in particular going on, unremarkable routine care.
It is kinda wild how the president is evidently receiving some kind of regular medical care that requires IVs and we don't know what's up
Trump's bandaged and discolored hand was visible today during an event where he again at times struggled to keep his eyes open (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
December 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Grain of salt I'm not a doctor, but I've never heard of a course of treatment where a geriatric patient gets weekly if not daily IVs for months on end and it's just... no big deal, nothing in particular going on, unremarkable routine care.
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i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.
I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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"She’s always talking about the Constitution" is a hell of a complaint, on top of all the explicit racism.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"She’s always talking about the Constitution" is a hell of a complaint, on top of all the explicit racism.
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That do-nothing speaking gig or board seat or "consulting" job will command a higher price now than when you're one of three dozen interchangeable and newly unemployed ex-backbenchers in January 2027.
December 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
That do-nothing speaking gig or board seat or "consulting" job will command a higher price now than when you're one of three dozen interchangeable and newly unemployed ex-backbenchers in January 2027.
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clearly very happy and proud of themselves in this moment
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
clearly very happy and proud of themselves in this moment
🤢 It's shocking and horrifying that the president of the US is spewing these vile remarks in the Oval Office. As a country, how do we come back from this? Where do we go from here. trump is a national disaster. I can't imagine the horror that awaits us if he and his supporters aren't stopped.
"She’s always talking about the Constitution" is a hell of a complaint, on top of all the explicit racism.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
🤢 It's shocking and horrifying that the president of the US is spewing these vile remarks in the Oval Office. As a country, how do we come back from this? Where do we go from here. trump is a national disaster. I can't imagine the horror that awaits us if he and his supporters aren't stopped.
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That do-nothing speaking gig or board seat or "consulting" job will command a higher price now than when you're one of three dozen interchangeable and newly unemployed ex-backbenchers in January 2027.
December 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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If you're a Republican member of the House wanting to cash out either because you'll lose or be out of the majority anyway, it would be to your advantage to do so early rather than waiting until the market is flooded with Republican ex-congressmen, so to speak.
December 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
If you're a Republican member of the House wanting to cash out either because you'll lose or be out of the majority anyway, it would be to your advantage to do so early rather than waiting until the market is flooded with Republican ex-congressmen, so to speak.
💢 What the hell!
At long last, we have created the Morlocks from classic H. G. Wells sci-fi novel Don't Create The Morlocks.
I'm sorry, what?
December 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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"They view the United States' Government as mere appendages to their own affairs, and we know now that gov't by organised money is just as dangerous as gov't by organised mob"
Or the famous Madison Square Garden address he gave days before being reelected in a landslide
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November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"They view the United States' Government as mere appendages to their own affairs, and we know now that gov't by organised money is just as dangerous as gov't by organised mob"
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Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.
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Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
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There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
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Criminal liability attaches for following an order "which a man of ordinary sense and understanding would, under the circumstances, know to be unlawful, or if the order in question is actually known to the accused to be unlawful." U.S. v. Calley (1974)
So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Criminal liability attaches for following an order "which a man of ordinary sense and understanding would, under the circumstances, know to be unlawful, or if the order in question is actually known to the accused to be unlawful." U.S. v. Calley (1974)
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This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.
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."
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"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."
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.
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"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" wasn't "havoc" in just the modern sense of chaos, it was a particular order that was understood as heinous even in Shakespeare's day, authorization after battle was over to slaughter and pillage, both debilitated enemies and noncombatants, without restraint.
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" wasn't "havoc" in just the modern sense of chaos, it was a particular order that was understood as heinous even in Shakespeare's day, authorization after battle was over to slaughter and pillage, both debilitated enemies and noncombatants, without restraint.
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Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
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Aside from everything else wrong with it, the vanity and vandalism and illegality of it, it is a monument to bribery, funded by naked corruption, a cankerous tumor on the heart of the republic. Any future president who lets it stand would be endorsing and affirming the legitimacy of that symbolism.
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Aside from everything else wrong with it, the vanity and vandalism and illegality of it, it is a monument to bribery, funded by naked corruption, a cankerous tumor on the heart of the republic. Any future president who lets it stand would be endorsing and affirming the legitimacy of that symbolism.
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James Buchanan blew up the Union in defense of slavery and then let his own Secretary of War assist in the lame duck preparations for treason, and Andrew Johnson was a drunken white supremacist who effectively revolted against Congress, and still neither of them were ever so nakedly lawless.
This is the most corrupt, lawless administration in the history of the United States and there’s no close second.
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
James Buchanan blew up the Union in defense of slavery and then let his own Secretary of War assist in the lame duck preparations for treason, and Andrew Johnson was a drunken white supremacist who effectively revolted against Congress, and still neither of them were ever so nakedly lawless.
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The OLC memo from what we've heard of it, and the more careful statements, don't directly assert FTO = AUMF. That'd be too plainly wrong even as a least-bad argument. But they're intentionally misleading in the rhetoric as if that's what it means, that of course we can bomb "designated terrorists."
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The OLC memo from what we've heard of it, and the more careful statements, don't directly assert FTO = AUMF. That'd be too plainly wrong even as a least-bad argument. But they're intentionally misleading in the rhetoric as if that's what it means, that of course we can bomb "designated terrorists."
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I’m so happy to say that after being in our rescue for 11 months, both being adopted then returned when their first homes weren’t the right fit, then bonding strongly with each other here in Casa Crits, Satsuma and Chicory are being adopted together at last!! They’ll be going on a huge adventure!
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I’m so happy to say that after being in our rescue for 11 months, both being adopted then returned when their first homes weren’t the right fit, then bonding strongly with each other here in Casa Crits, Satsuma and Chicory are being adopted together at last!! They’ll be going on a huge adventure!
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They're utterly clueless.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
They're utterly clueless.
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