Paul Bushmiller
@paulbusmiller.bsky.social
University Library Cataloging Clerk by Trade; Govt & Pol major UMCP, Navy photo-intell rating (in a past life), quasi-anarchistic free-form radio is my jam. Originally a New Englander
These news stories on Caribbean drug "interdictions" have left me a little flat The boats pictured open cigarette hulls chained 150(+) outboards wrapped bales were what would be used - shore to ship, shore to shore The trade would be fixed & set on a keenly economic basis
Trump's security strategy slams European allies and asserts U.S. power in the Americas
The Trump administration has set forth a national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America's dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
www.npr.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
These news stories on Caribbean drug "interdictions" have left me a little flat The boats pictured open cigarette hulls chained 150(+) outboards wrapped bales were what would be used - shore to ship, shore to shore The trade would be fixed & set on a keenly economic basis
Stopping by the woods on snowy morn
- (all apologies to Frost)
- (all apologies to Frost)
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Stopping by the woods on snowy morn
- (all apologies to Frost)
- (all apologies to Frost)
Turning to ICE/BP's Great Pogrom The Purge continues, but what is end point Immigration bureaucracy & normalization have been by both sides stymies seemingly into a deliberate grey realm w/o rules or recourse deliberately to create an underclass
Trump: Most foreigners eating alive Great American Citizens and Patriots
The Thanksgiving post departed from Trump's, and the MAGA movement's, insistence they oppose "open borders" and instead favor "legal" immigration.
www.usatoday.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Turning to ICE/BP's Great Pogrom The Purge continues, but what is end point Immigration bureaucracy & normalization have been by both sides stymies seemingly into a deliberate grey realm w/o rules or recourse deliberately to create an underclass
Sea-Story time. Occasionally we would hear talk on the Ranger of small containers of cocaine left behind in the cockpits of the jets Not casting aspersions, just pointing out the drugs are a (illegal) market transaction No sellers w/o buyers
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Sea-Story time. Occasionally we would hear talk on the Ranger of small containers of cocaine left behind in the cockpits of the jets Not casting aspersions, just pointing out the drugs are a (illegal) market transaction No sellers w/o buyers
Its December & time for my favorite holiday tradition: Pointing out that Polar Express (movie + book) is mostly just a rip of Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985 animie + 1932 children's novel)
Hey, far out, a giant Mikado 2-8-2 just pulled up out front
Hey, far out, a giant Mikado 2-8-2 just pulled up out front
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Its December & time for my favorite holiday tradition: Pointing out that Polar Express (movie + book) is mostly just a rip of Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985 animie + 1932 children's novel)
Hey, far out, a giant Mikado 2-8-2 just pulled up out front
Hey, far out, a giant Mikado 2-8-2 just pulled up out front
Once more for those in doubt. Men like Trump are essentially lawless beings, little l or big L On some level he is dimly aware there are boundaries They fundamentally don't believe law exists, within or without
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Once more for those in doubt. Men like Trump are essentially lawless beings, little l or big L On some level he is dimly aware there are boundaries They fundamentally don't believe law exists, within or without
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All of us in the US need to watch closely the mistakes that Labour is making - especially its refusal to truly tax the rich - and ensure Democrats do not make those same errors should they ever hold national power again
The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing | John Harris
Last week’s budget left middle-income families anxious and angry. The party is turning its back on voters it can little afford to lose, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
All of us in the US need to watch closely the mistakes that Labour is making - especially its refusal to truly tax the rich - and ensure Democrats do not make those same errors should they ever hold national power again
Unconfirmed news that Trump officials "coached" Putin officials on how to (artfully) deal with him are likely true the broad outlines known Corporat-Imperialts like wykoff & vance believe they belong to a realm beyond political government Trump has aged out. Gabba Gabba Hey One of Us
The Dim Philby Leaks - emptywheel
The release of transcripts showing that the Ukraine "piece" plan that Trump claimed to be his own was in fact simply the Russian plan could have the same effect the discovery of Mike Flynn's back chan...
www.emptywheel.net
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Unconfirmed news that Trump officials "coached" Putin officials on how to (artfully) deal with him are likely true the broad outlines known Corporat-Imperialts like wykoff & vance believe they belong to a realm beyond political government Trump has aged out. Gabba Gabba Hey One of Us
I might suggest that the President try "staffing" his departments as much as he "casts" them (for a remake of "Wall-beyond-the Valley of the Dolls"?) But I only take the field every other half inning
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I might suggest that the President try "staffing" his departments as much as he "casts" them (for a remake of "Wall-beyond-the Valley of the Dolls"?) But I only take the field every other half inning
Exact nature of Trump has often eluded me a chimaera charming [to some] when he wants He is a medieval Carney playing "Fast & Loose" (the coiled cord game)you spot a rube & take them You get older the Fairs get bigger you blow it sometimes & lose your cool He was always a con man, now aging
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Exact nature of Trump has often eluded me a chimaera charming [to some] when he wants He is a medieval Carney playing "Fast & Loose" (the coiled cord game)you spot a rube & take them You get older the Fairs get bigger you blow it sometimes & lose your cool He was always a con man, now aging
A lot like to make a lot of Ex-Pres. Bidens onset senility while tiptoeing around Trump's full blown insanity/dementias This is not a good honest or just look, and will never get better for him or any following this line
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning servicemembers against carrying out ille...
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A lot like to make a lot of Ex-Pres. Bidens onset senility while tiptoeing around Trump's full blown insanity/dementias This is not a good honest or just look, and will never get better for him or any following this line
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
When I was at "Lakes" we had a lecture on the UCMJ & "Unlawful" orders I didn't go - Company clerk 'other duties as assigned' but the gist was if you followed such an order & things went… sideways they'd string _you_ up like a weekend package from Barbieri's bodega
From the Department of Tragic Irony:
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
Nuremberg - Explore the Nuremberg Trials!
The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images and full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg Trials documents,…
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
When I was at "Lakes" we had a lecture on the UCMJ & "Unlawful" orders I didn't go - Company clerk 'other duties as assigned' but the gist was if you followed such an order & things went… sideways they'd string _you_ up like a weekend package from Barbieri's bodega
Love all these suit 'n tie types who seem so chuffed about Ai (how it'll eliminate the need or any 'underclass'. but leave room for them They'll sit back and that letter will arrive "employment opportunity at the Northern Virginia Soylent Processing centre, & abattoir. Enter around back & wait
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Love all these suit 'n tie types who seem so chuffed about Ai (how it'll eliminate the need or any 'underclass'. but leave room for them They'll sit back and that letter will arrive "employment opportunity at the Northern Virginia Soylent Processing centre, & abattoir. Enter around back & wait
Been watching that Ken Burns Doc on the American Revolution excellent so far But reflecting on it, for me perhaps, the documentary that captured the American Zeitgeist best was always the last 4 1/2 minutes of "Chinatown"
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Chinatown (1974) Ending - "Forget it Jake, It's Chinatown"
YouTube video by jannsse
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November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Been watching that Ken Burns Doc on the American Revolution excellent so far But reflecting on it, for me perhaps, the documentary that captured the American Zeitgeist best was always the last 4 1/2 minutes of "Chinatown"
< youtu.be/TjSshSvQWQA
< youtu.be/TjSshSvQWQA
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one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump mocks Biden's autopen because he knows he has got something even better, magical, an auto-eraser Removes your name from a document - any document
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Trump mocks Biden's autopen because he knows he has got something even better, magical, an auto-eraser Removes your name from a document - any document
1 thing that sits poorly is the discord between terms Native & Nativist a willful obscuring of origin of some in the American tribe Always reminds me of a Prof (who called me 'functionally illiterate") who was writing a book she wanted to title "Lay of the Land" - settlement as sexual assault
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
1 thing that sits poorly is the discord between terms Native & Nativist a willful obscuring of origin of some in the American tribe Always reminds me of a Prof (who called me 'functionally illiterate") who was writing a book she wanted to title "Lay of the Land" - settlement as sexual assault
Trump is deep in the weeds of his faux populism - he doesn't believe, but loves to pretend in His gauche glitter ballrooms brown shirts & sub-machine guns are more native to him Sensing certain democratic programs are popular he is desperate to rebrand them to his name
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trump is deep in the weeds of his faux populism - he doesn't believe, but loves to pretend in His gauche glitter ballrooms brown shirts & sub-machine guns are more native to him Sensing certain democratic programs are popular he is desperate to rebrand them to his name
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Donald Trump‘s true magic is that I’m never sure if he’s being clever or a complete moron. Does he say these horrifying things as part of a plan to normalize authoritarian dictatorships over time with his cult, or does he just have zero impulse control and can’t help showing his cartoonish evil?
Trump: "I stick up for Viktor Orban. Not a lot of people do because in many cases they're jealous. They wish they did what he did. They would have no problems if they did what he did."
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Donald Trump‘s true magic is that I’m never sure if he’s being clever or a complete moron. Does he say these horrifying things as part of a plan to normalize authoritarian dictatorships over time with his cult, or does he just have zero impulse control and can’t help showing his cartoonish evil?
In my day job (copy cataloger univ. library) I processed an Art book on the abstract expressionist Robert Pousette-Dart Not a common name I thought I wonder if he's any relation to the singer Jon Pousette-Dart? Yes, it was his father
Did I know that? Not sure but maybe its just Amnesia
Did I know that? Not sure but maybe its just Amnesia
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
In my day job (copy cataloger univ. library) I processed an Art book on the abstract expressionist Robert Pousette-Dart Not a common name I thought I wonder if he's any relation to the singer Jon Pousette-Dart? Yes, it was his father
Did I know that? Not sure but maybe its just Amnesia
Did I know that? Not sure but maybe its just Amnesia
Stumble or hic-cup? Trump/Maga/P2025 never intended to more than nativist base to steer the nation Project being to denigrate de legitimize majority as non "true" They likely will double down on this T sees the need to end the shutdown & filibuster Stockholm syndrome base will stick, for now
Opinion | Make No Mistake: Trump Is an Albatross
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Stumble or hic-cup? Trump/Maga/P2025 never intended to more than nativist base to steer the nation Project being to denigrate de legitimize majority as non "true" They likely will double down on this T sees the need to end the shutdown & filibuster Stockholm syndrome base will stick, for now
Off put by all the people who still say "Gosh if I didn't know better I'd almost say this country is heading towards Democratic word-service Authoritarianism" Will only add to this that history is replete w/ thousand year Reich's Many with final curtain Bunker Scenes
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Off put by all the people who still say "Gosh if I didn't know better I'd almost say this country is heading towards Democratic word-service Authoritarianism" Will only add to this that history is replete w/ thousand year Reich's Many with final curtain Bunker Scenes
The discrete charm of American trench coats
hey guys are we ever going to talk about what's happening with DHS on social media
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The discrete charm of American trench coats
Would believe that the noise D.T. is making about the 2028 election is just a head fake to keep from becoming a lame duck, but the longer he stays w/ an idea the more he incorporates it He'll backfill any rationale he needs Ride the whirlwind you get off where it puts you down
Trump says he would be allowed to run for third term as vice-president – video
Trump seems to flip flop on question of running for a third term in 2028
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Would believe that the noise D.T. is making about the 2028 election is just a head fake to keep from becoming a lame duck, but the longer he stays w/ an idea the more he incorporates it He'll backfill any rationale he needs Ride the whirlwind you get off where it puts you down