Bernadette Foley
@fivefingers.bsky.social
Retired lawyer - criminal defense, civil commitment in the US, overseas, teaching, Rule of Law work in Russia, Afghanistan and Kosovo. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
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Claesson,Sweden’s chief of defence staff,told that Russia was combining "sabotage,special operations,even attacks against individuals" with attacks on critical infrastructure& "exploiting vulnerabilities in the information environment" in order to "split us up"&"break up cohesion in our societies"
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Claesson,Sweden’s chief of defence staff,told that Russia was combining "sabotage,special operations,even attacks against individuals" with attacks on critical infrastructure& "exploiting vulnerabilities in the information environment" in order to "split us up"&"break up cohesion in our societies"
Green card holder, here for over 30 years, legally. Vacationed in Mexico w/2 kids & husband, all citizens. On return, she's seized by ICE. Disappeared in system. Got out weeks later left outside in rain, w/no phone, no $$, frantic. Others treated even worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | ‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
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November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Green card holder, here for over 30 years, legally. Vacationed in Mexico w/2 kids & husband, all citizens. On return, she's seized by ICE. Disappeared in system. Got out weeks later left outside in rain, w/no phone, no $$, frantic. Others treated even worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
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Rounds: Senator Shaheen mentioned that Secretary Rubio did make a phone call to us this afternoon. I think he made it very clear that we are the recipients of a proposal that was delivered to one of our representatives. It is not our recommendation. It is not our peace plan.
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Rounds: Senator Shaheen mentioned that Secretary Rubio did make a phone call to us this afternoon. I think he made it very clear that we are the recipients of a proposal that was delivered to one of our representatives. It is not our recommendation. It is not our peace plan.
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Justice Robert H. Jackson, a Supreme Court Justice and the chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, established the modern doctrine that individuals are legally accountable for unlawful acts even if committed under orders—a principle that underpins today’s U.S. military law and the Nuremberg Principle IV
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Justice Robert H. Jackson, a Supreme Court Justice and the chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, established the modern doctrine that individuals are legally accountable for unlawful acts even if committed under orders—a principle that underpins today’s U.S. military law and the Nuremberg Principle IV
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Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
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Pretty obvious what happened
Team Trump, high on their own supply and sympathetic to Russia, thought they could make Ukraine surrender and declare Trump a glorious peacemaker.
Then they got out of their bubble into reality, embarrassingly flopped, and are now scrambling to lie trying to save face.
Team Trump, high on their own supply and sympathetic to Russia, thought they could make Ukraine surrender and declare Trump a glorious peacemaker.
Then they got out of their bubble into reality, embarrassingly flopped, and are now scrambling to lie trying to save face.
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Pretty obvious what happened
Team Trump, high on their own supply and sympathetic to Russia, thought they could make Ukraine surrender and declare Trump a glorious peacemaker.
Then they got out of their bubble into reality, embarrassingly flopped, and are now scrambling to lie trying to save face.
Team Trump, high on their own supply and sympathetic to Russia, thought they could make Ukraine surrender and declare Trump a glorious peacemaker.
Then they got out of their bubble into reality, embarrassingly flopped, and are now scrambling to lie trying to save face.
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Miss Piggy responds
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Miss Piggy responds
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Ukraine is rejecting Trump’s plan right now at the UN Security Council.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Ukraine is rejecting Trump’s plan right now at the UN Security Council.
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Some other outlets are suggesting 20,000 layoffs by the time it is over. apnews.com/article/veri...
Verizon is cutting more than 13,000 jobs as it works to 'reorient' entire company
Verizon is laying off over 13,000 employees as part of a major company reorientation. The cuts began on Thursday, according to a memo from CEO Dan Schulman.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Some other outlets are suggesting 20,000 layoffs by the time it is over. apnews.com/article/veri...
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Will never forget that day 62 yrs ago. I was a sophomore in high school. Pandemonium broke out when it came over the public address, crying, fainting. My father later drove me and 3-4 siblings from NJ down to DC for the funeral. We walked past the casket. Somber, silent. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
MacNeil and Lehrer remember the shock, special sorrow of JFK's assassination
On Nov. 22, 1963, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer were young reporters both covering President John F. Kennedy's visit to Texas. The NewsHour's founders share with Judy Woodruff their indelible memories...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Will never forget that day 62 yrs ago. I was a sophomore in high school. Pandemonium broke out when it came over the public address, crying, fainting. My father later drove me and 3-4 siblings from NJ down to DC for the funeral. We walked past the casket. Somber, silent. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Incredibly Trump buys the Russian lie that Ukrainians are Nazis! Trump’s plan proclaims: “All Nazi ideology and activities must be rejected and prohibited.” Plan requires elections in 100 days in Ukraine..no comparable provisions for Russia. Sick betrayal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s Ukraine peace plan is a gift to Putin | Kenneth Roth
The plan would leave Ukraine’s democracy in jeopardy and its sovereignty compromised
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Incredibly Trump buys the Russian lie that Ukrainians are Nazis! Trump’s plan proclaims: “All Nazi ideology and activities must be rejected and prohibited.” Plan requires elections in 100 days in Ukraine..no comparable provisions for Russia. Sick betrayal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We can’t continue like this as a country.
We can disagree and argue, but these kinds of threats are simply unacceptable.
We can disagree and argue, but these kinds of threats are simply unacceptable.
From a spokesperson for U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin:
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
We can’t continue like this as a country.
We can disagree and argue, but these kinds of threats are simply unacceptable.
We can disagree and argue, but these kinds of threats are simply unacceptable.
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Btw, I do hope people understand what they have seen today. It was a well-planned and deliberate ambush of Ukraine by Trump, to force the Ukrainians to bend the knee to Putin's dictatorship. It was not slip-shod, rushed, impulsive or an accident. It was prepared malice.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Btw, I do hope people understand what they have seen today. It was a well-planned and deliberate ambush of Ukraine by Trump, to force the Ukrainians to bend the knee to Putin's dictatorship. It was not slip-shod, rushed, impulsive or an accident. It was prepared malice.
Wow, who saw this coming?
I think the most insidious explanation for this is quite plausible.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former Trump loyalist, says she is resigning from Congress
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, says she is resigning from Congress in January.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Wow, who saw this coming?
Plain for anyone to see. Richard Branson "in utter disbelief." www.virgin.com/branson-fami...
This is not a peace plan | Virgin
Ukraine: This is not really a peace plan at all
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November 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Plain for anyone to see. Richard Branson "in utter disbelief." www.virgin.com/branson-fami...
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The US is extorting Zelenskyy to sign away territory Russia doesn't even hold, as well as Ukraine's ability to defend itself, on the basis of Putin's word he'll honor a peace and Trump's word the US will make him.
Just so we're clear what's happening here.
Just so we're clear what's happening here.
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The US is extorting Zelenskyy to sign away territory Russia doesn't even hold, as well as Ukraine's ability to defend itself, on the basis of Putin's word he'll honor a peace and Trump's word the US will make him.
Just so we're clear what's happening here.
Just so we're clear what's happening here.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Jump on it! It's even paid.
Trump is FOS & mouthing Putin talking points. The great "Putin" couldn't take Ukraine in 3 days, 3 weeks or 3 years. Russia is going broke. It's people are finding out what Putin's done to them. And, and...Trump wants to come in, save his pal Putin and force Ukraine to surrender, everything. NO!!!
TRUMP: The will lose in a short period of time
KILMEADE: The whole of Donbass
TRUMP: They're losing land. They're losing land.
KILMEADE: The whole of Donbass
TRUMP: They're losing land. They're losing land.
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trump is FOS & mouthing Putin talking points. The great "Putin" couldn't take Ukraine in 3 days, 3 weeks or 3 years. Russia is going broke. It's people are finding out what Putin's done to them. And, and...Trump wants to come in, save his pal Putin and force Ukraine to surrender, everything. NO!!!
Epstein gave Vitaly Churkin, Russian Ambassador to UN, some insight on Trump. But then Churkin "died" - the cause of death was not revealed by New York medical examiner (diplomatic privilege, privacy) but Churkin was fine a day before he died at his desk in his office.
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Epstein gave Vitaly Churkin, Russian Ambassador to UN, some insight on Trump. But then Churkin "died" - the cause of death was not revealed by New York medical examiner (diplomatic privilege, privacy) but Churkin was fine a day before he died at his desk in his office.
Our president is a low-life. Expect more.
President Trump snapped at a reporter last week when she asked him about Jeffrey Epstein. “Quiet!” the president told Catherine Lucey, a reporter for Bloomberg News. “Quiet, piggy.”
The White House press secretary defended Trump's "frankness" during a briefing in the West Wing. nyti.ms/4a8jWvb
The White House press secretary defended Trump's "frankness" during a briefing in the West Wing. nyti.ms/4a8jWvb
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Our president is a low-life. Expect more.
194 countries are represented in Brazil at the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30. Sadly, embarrassingly, the US is not one of them. On this last day, there are furious negotiations re final conference statement. www.dw.com/en/cop30-sum...
COP30: Summit struggles to reach fossil fuel phase out deal – DW – 11/21/2025
As the UN climate summit nears its end, delegates are less than hopeful that a deal on phasing out fossil fuels can be reached. Over 30 nations have slammed a draft summit text which omitted the phase...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
194 countries are represented in Brazil at the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30. Sadly, embarrassingly, the US is not one of them. On this last day, there are furious negotiations re final conference statement. www.dw.com/en/cop30-sum...
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It’s not lying if it’s against an Enemy of the People. Then it’s just Sparkling Trumpism.
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It’s not lying if it’s against an Enemy of the People. Then it’s just Sparkling Trumpism.
The "insurrectionists" were the once who attacked the Capitol on January 6th and who injured and caused the deaths of Capitol and DC police. Stephen Miller is the traitor to democratic values of rule of law and respect for constitutional values.
@sbg1.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social look at the absurdity of Stephen Miller calling members of Congress “insurrectionists” for issuing a message reminding the military of its legal obligations—including the imperative not to follow an unlawful order.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The "insurrectionists" were the once who attacked the Capitol on January 6th and who injured and caused the deaths of Capitol and DC police. Stephen Miller is the traitor to democratic values of rule of law and respect for constitutional values.
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