Cool Rick JD
@coolrickjd.bsky.social
Attorney. Songwriter. Sad Dad. Crotchety Husband. Horrified American. Here are some no frills versions of my songs https://youtube.com/@rickmortensen2?si=8iy4866puIjsRQcp Stay tuned for more frilly versions.
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The deranged madman now threatens to blow up commercial airliners flying in and out of Venezuela.
November 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The deranged madman now threatens to blow up commercial airliners flying in and out of Venezuela.
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When it’s fishermen they’re pretending are low level drug runners, they’ll bomb and then circle back to finish off the survivors.
But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.
But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.
Breaking News: President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who was convicted in a sweeping drug case last year.
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
When it’s fishermen they’re pretending are low level drug runners, they’ll bomb and then circle back to finish off the survivors.
But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.
But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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look this may seem wildly contradictory, but donald trump simply believes that presidents should never face any consequences for anything
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
look this may seem wildly contradictory, but donald trump simply believes that presidents should never face any consequences for anything
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"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
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Critics have claimed the recipe requires half a dozen eggs, while others have noted that only six eggs are required
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Critics have claimed the recipe requires half a dozen eggs, while others have noted that only six eggs are required
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Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
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If anyone at FDA or elsewhere at HHS knows more about all this, Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous, see some of my recent relevant my work here if that's useful
www.gravityisgone.com
www.gravityisgone.com
Gravity Is Gone
Independent reporting and commentary on science, politics, and policy
www.gravityisgone.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If anyone at FDA or elsewhere at HHS knows more about all this, Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous, see some of my recent relevant my work here if that's useful
www.gravityisgone.com
www.gravityisgone.com
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November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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This is Alina and Vladyslav. Russia murdered them yesterday in their sick human safari in Kherson.
She was 34. He was only 6.
She was 34. He was only 6.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is Alina and Vladyslav. Russia murdered them yesterday in their sick human safari in Kherson.
She was 34. He was only 6.
She was 34. He was only 6.
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This is our president. THE ULTIMATE CYBERBULLY. What will be left of America after 4 years of Trump 2.0? Shame on us for letting this happen to our country and to the world. #TheTrumpNightmare continues...
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is our president. THE ULTIMATE CYBERBULLY. What will be left of America after 4 years of Trump 2.0? Shame on us for letting this happen to our country and to the world. #TheTrumpNightmare continues...
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"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
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NGL but I don’t expect anything less from the same department that now allows neo Nazi tattoos tbqh
November 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
NGL but I don’t expect anything less from the same department that now allows neo Nazi tattoos tbqh
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This is the most corrupt, lawless administration in the history of the United States and there’s no close second.
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This is the most corrupt, lawless administration in the history of the United States and there’s no close second.
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This is, among other things, a crime for which there is no statute of limitations
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This is, among other things, a crime for which there is no statute of limitations
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"She signed something that they told her was, 'If you are removed you can take your baby with you,' and she signed that document, but at the end she was removed without her baby," her lawyer said. ➡️
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Young mother deported from Minnesota to Honduras without her infant
After being deported from Minnesota last week, a young mother says she's back in Honduras without her 8-month-old child.
www.cbsnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
"She signed something that they told her was, 'If you are removed you can take your baby with you,' and she signed that document, but at the end she was removed without her baby," her lawyer said. ➡️
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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I know this is correct, but it’s also really hard to sit with when those of us who STUDIED FUCKING HISTORY WERE SOUNDING THE ALARM THE ENTIRE TIME SINCE GUANTANAMO OPENED UP AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I know this is correct, but it’s also really hard to sit with when those of us who STUDIED FUCKING HISTORY WERE SOUNDING THE ALARM THE ENTIRE TIME SINCE GUANTANAMO OPENED UP AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Lalo Alcaraz, Tribune Content Agency
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Lalo Alcaraz, Tribune Content Agency
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A reminder, too, that he ran on this. It wasn’t a secret. They had “mass deportation now” signs everywhere.
That voice telling you not to lift a finger to stop them? That wasn’t your conscience.
That voice telling you not to lift a finger to stop them? That wasn’t your conscience.
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A reminder, too, that he ran on this. It wasn’t a secret. They had “mass deportation now” signs everywhere.
That voice telling you not to lift a finger to stop them? That wasn’t your conscience.
That voice telling you not to lift a finger to stop them? That wasn’t your conscience.
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Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
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