Picked up the phone on a call from Alabama. Retired Army bird. He was angry as a nest of hornets. I reminded him of the oath we both took and chatted for a spell.

"Well this took an unexpected turn."

I don't expect a birthday card from him, but I did earn his respect.

I am taking a mountain of shit right now. I can't go home and I can't be with my partner. If nothing changes I will be satisfied in my decision, but Christ i hope I'm opening room for some folks to be brave.

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This is something that every qualified officer in the FBI and ATF is aware of.

But when we put podcasters in control and replace our career officials in departmental purges, we get underqualified idiots!

I’m going to get replaced in the workforce by a two-button soundboard that says “can you describe the mechanism” in two different tones of voice, one engaged and one extremely sarcastic

If you keep sacrificing your nominal allies to the meat grinder in hopes that you will eventually once again get to be in charge of the meat grinder's operation, you'll one day look around and realize you're alone with the folks demanding ever more ground human.

In reality, all of these safeguards are built into systems specifically to make sure that nobody, at the end of a long chain of failures, has to make an impossible choice of who lives or dies.

If it's up to me, a random person, to be the one with his hand on the lever?

We've failed repeatedly.

Newsom is Abbott on the "left" and as someone living under the rotting Abbott albatross, I don't care for That Guy in any clothing? So I hate freedom, obvs.

300 characters isn't much to fit in how, often, neglectful parents who keep an overtly abusive (to everyone) spouse may or may not also keep their kids hungry, or call the police to "discipline" (murder) their kids' classmates, but if you're *deadset* there's no discussion to have, let's skip it.

What’s happening now w/ the Trump regime—it’s not an administration—is the conversion of the latent racism of anti-urbanism into explicit and hysterical racism. Previous GOP—& plenty of Dems—were content to leave it unstated. Trumpism wants to foreground & escalate it. 12/

Sen. Mullins of OK claiming he doesn’t buckle up in DC because he’s afraid of carjacking is a variation on the prev 2 posts: a racist tall tale, a way of speaking anti-Blackness without naming it as one’s own. 5

Anti-urbanism is a way of speaking anti-Blackness without naming it as one’s own. It’s a sociological euphemism for racism. I didn’t know that as a white kid among white kids who liked to vow they’d *never* live in NYC, they always wanted to be in a small town. 6/