TJ
@someblueskyacct.bsky.social
Seattle, Washington
I research things and write about them (as a hobby) and I volunteer a lot. Opinions are my own.
Trans rights are human rights.
AuDHD, antifascist, nonbinary, anti-tankie, atheist.
Not a spy or a fed or gov affiliated.
I research things and write about them (as a hobby) and I volunteer a lot. Opinions are my own.
Trans rights are human rights.
AuDHD, antifascist, nonbinary, anti-tankie, atheist.
Not a spy or a fed or gov affiliated.
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Last month it was the Young Republicans praising Hitler. Last week it was Fuentes & Carlson criticizing "Jewry". This week, they're saying swastikas and nooses aren't hate speech. The rot is party-wide. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.seattletimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Last month it was the Young Republicans praising Hitler. Last week it was Fuentes & Carlson criticizing "Jewry". This week, they're saying swastikas and nooses aren't hate speech. The rot is party-wide. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
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OTD 1945, an event with relevance to America today. One of them, Großadmiral Karl Dönitz, was charged, tried and convicted of using bombs and torpedoes to sink commercial ships—deemed by the US a grave war crime. It's exactly what Trump and Hegseth are doing in the Caribbean and E Pacific today.
Today in History: November 20, Nuremberg trials begin
22 former Nazi officials went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
www.denverpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
OTD 1945, an event with relevance to America today. One of them, Großadmiral Karl Dönitz, was charged, tried and convicted of using bombs and torpedoes to sink commercial ships—deemed by the US a grave war crime. It's exactly what Trump and Hegseth are doing in the Caribbean and E Pacific today.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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“It comes shortly after a secret memo from the Department of Justice green-lighting the strikes revealed that the justification for such force was based entirely on assertions made by the president.”
I hope we recognize the danger in this with the President calling on Congressmembers to be killed.
I hope we recognize the danger in this with the President calling on Congressmembers to be killed.
When the top JAG at Southern Command told the Pentagon that their plans to blow up fishing boats based on suspicions that they might have drugs in the cargo hold was certainly illegal, Hegseth simply ignored him, while others told him his career was over. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Top military lawyer concerned about Trump ‘drug boat’ strikes was ignored: report
The senior judge advocate general reportedly raised concerns that the airstrikes against the alleged ‘narco-terrorists’ could amount to extrajudicial killings
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“It comes shortly after a secret memo from the Department of Justice green-lighting the strikes revealed that the justification for such force was based entirely on assertions made by the president.”
I hope we recognize the danger in this with the President calling on Congressmembers to be killed.
I hope we recognize the danger in this with the President calling on Congressmembers to be killed.
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this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
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/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill
Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Tr...
www.pbs.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
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Completely normal and totally hinged thing for a president to post.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Completely normal and totally hinged thing for a president to post.
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You guys at what point do we realize it’s no longer about individual bad actors but an entire society set up to protect and reward abusers
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
You guys at what point do we realize it’s no longer about individual bad actors but an entire society set up to protect and reward abusers
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Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
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as somebody who writes and studies broadband access I'm constantly running into "free market" think tank nonprofits like this one who are usually covertly funded by big telecom monopolies to push misleading editorials in local papers about how community-owned broadband is the devil
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www.mackinac.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
as somebody who writes and studies broadband access I'm constantly running into "free market" think tank nonprofits like this one who are usually covertly funded by big telecom monopolies to push misleading editorials in local papers about how community-owned broadband is the devil
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Hegseth issues orders to take down a commemoration of Black soldiers who died in World War II at a US military cemetery in The Netherlands. The DOS lists anti-fascist groups that fought Hitler and Mussolini as terrorists. Hegseth scraps a Pentagon Holocaust memorial. Get the message?
Trump administration scraps Pentagon Holocaust remembrance events
Decision issued by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth comes amid Trump's wider battle against DEI initiatives across the nation; move outrages local Jewish community
www.ynetnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Hegseth issues orders to take down a commemoration of Black soldiers who died in World War II at a US military cemetery in The Netherlands. The DOS lists anti-fascist groups that fought Hitler and Mussolini as terrorists. Hegseth scraps a Pentagon Holocaust memorial. Get the message?
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Trump is using CBP to monitor the movements of pregnant women by car from states that ban abortion into states where it is legal. To what purpose? Well, that's obvious. And it's dystopian. It's the ultimate Big Brother.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trump is using CBP to monitor the movements of pregnant women by car from states that ban abortion into states where it is legal. To what purpose? Well, that's obvious. And it's dystopian. It's the ultimate Big Brother.
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New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
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Both of these fucking dumbfucks are responsible for all of this.
Joe Rogan and Theo Von slam DHS for using Von's image in a video promoting deportation:
"I was like, oh my God, what the fuck are they doing? That's not how you envision the government."
"They were making, like, deportation hype videos with trap beats and shit. What are we doing? It's idiocracy."
"I was like, oh my God, what the fuck are they doing? That's not how you envision the government."
"They were making, like, deportation hype videos with trap beats and shit. What are we doing? It's idiocracy."
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Both of these fucking dumbfucks are responsible for all of this.
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“If I thought for a split second Trump’s involvement with sex trafficker and child rapist Jeffrey Epstein—and his continuing indifferent denials—represented about as bad as it could get, his easy dismissal of murder is a reminder there is still worse to come.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
Snapshot: Trump Excuses Murder and Blames the Victim
Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, culpable for the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi, enjoyed a warm welcome to Trump's White House
www.americaamerica.news
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“If I thought for a split second Trump’s involvement with sex trafficker and child rapist Jeffrey Epstein—and his continuing indifferent denials—represented about as bad as it could get, his easy dismissal of murder is a reminder there is still worse to come.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
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Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.
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Is there some sort of pattern here? Help me, it's so hard to see.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Is there some sort of pattern here? Help me, it's so hard to see.
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The human condition has benefitted immensely from civilizations with diverse populations looking beyond religion, race, or creed. The condition of all sentient beings will be similarly transformed if we expand the circle beyond species.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-com...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-com...
The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The human condition has benefitted immensely from civilizations with diverse populations looking beyond religion, race, or creed. The condition of all sentient beings will be similarly transformed if we expand the circle beyond species.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-com...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-com...
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Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
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It’s pretty simple.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
November 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It’s pretty simple.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
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"[A] president could order the serial killing of civilians, publicly share videos of the crimes, and find that the response of all too many reporters, politicians ... and lawyers was little more than a shrug, if not, in some cases, encouragement."
Every president since Nixon has advanced the policies and institutions that Trump is using to take us to closer to war.
Trump’s Escalation Against Venezuela Is Built on the War on Drugs
Every president since Nixon has advanced the policies and institutions that Trump is using to take us to closer to war.
truthout.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"[A] president could order the serial killing of civilians, publicly share videos of the crimes, and find that the response of all too many reporters, politicians ... and lawyers was little more than a shrug, if not, in some cases, encouragement."
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That's funny since every Democrat that spoke up for Trans rights won their election most by over 10 points. Oh and ever bigoted moms for pedophiles lost ever school board they ran for. Seems pete hasn't learned his lesson just another white privilege male speaking over other.
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
That's funny since every Democrat that spoke up for Trans rights won their election most by over 10 points. Oh and ever bigoted moms for pedophiles lost ever school board they ran for. Seems pete hasn't learned his lesson just another white privilege male speaking over other.
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The reactionary centrists are not ready for what's coming at them with Katie Wilson. They have no natural defenses against a socialist bus-riding mom who's laser-focused on providing direct material gains for the working poor. Probably the most pragmatic left-politician I've ever met
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The reactionary centrists are not ready for what's coming at them with Katie Wilson. They have no natural defenses against a socialist bus-riding mom who's laser-focused on providing direct material gains for the working poor. Probably the most pragmatic left-politician I've ever met