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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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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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.
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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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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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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."