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Humanist, Dogist, Lifelong Liberal. I’m really just here for the news.
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JFC did this hit home. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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UPDATE: Boasberg orders the parties to submit plans for the "inquiry regarding a potential contempt referral," by tomorrow, "including names of possible witnesses and dates for hearings." (ACLU's Lee Gelernt smartly suggested waiting on the mandate from the DC Circuit before issuing any orders.)
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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BREAKING: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin.

“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.

New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
www.lawdork.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Every US ally in Asia has to constantly worry about being thrown under the bus. Not good.
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Your move, Newton
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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3/ Pentagon’s investigation “absurd” and proposed charges “ridiculous.”

Senator Kelly was “reminding troops of their duty to follow the law and to not engage in illegal activities.”

- Kristine Huskey, Professor at University of Arizona law school and director of its Veterans’ Advocacy Law Clinic
Pentagon investigating Sen. Mark Kelly after ‘you can refuse illegal orders’ video
news.azpm.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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2/

“I have no idea what they’d court-martial him for.”
“It’s preposterous.”

-- Eliot A. Cohen, a military historian who worked for President George W. Bush

reporting by @gregjaffe.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Pentagon Opens Inquiry Into Senator Mark Kelly Over What Hegseth Calls ‘Seditious’ Video
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Senator Kelly’s remarks in the video are “a 100% accurate representation of what the law says."

“No American citizen should have to deal with this type of preposterous investigation.”

- Professor Eugene Fidell, leading military justice expert in Wall Street Journal

www.wsj.com/politics/mar...
Pentagon Investigates Misconduct Allegations Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly
The review comes after Kelly, a retired Navy captain, appeared in a video with other lawmakers telling military members not to obey unlawful orders.
www.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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"I think all of these people should be tried for treason and hung. I think Jared Polis should be hung. I think Jena Griswold should be hung. I think Phil Weiser should be hung. I think they should hang by their neck until dead," said MAGA activist and Tina Peters ally Joe Oltmann
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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NEW: As President Trump increases pressure on Colorado Governor Polis to free Tina Peters, a close ally of Peters is calling for Gov Polis and Attorney General Weiser to be executed.

MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann called for the execution of several Colorado Democrats by name.
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Russia has launched a massive combined missile and drone attack on Kyiv, striking multiple residential buildings.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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This is a real photo.

This explains a lot.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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“I’m too big to fail.”
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Meiselas: If Trump was just some crappy, scummy billionaire who lived in Florida, do you think I'd give a crap? My issue is this freaking loser, this con artist, this grifter, this scammer has brought his life of scamming, bankrupting and destroying to the American people, who are now suffering.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Saying the quiet part out loud
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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New from me in @theatlantic.com : Trump is learning that although it's easy to convict someone in a social media rant, when you get into the courtroom things are a bit more complicated.

The criminal justice system is standing up to Trump.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The One Place Trump’s Power Remains Constrained
In the criminal-justice system, when the president’s bluster collides with facts and evidence, he keeps losing.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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US pressed Ukraine to accept its 28-point plan to end the war with Russia during talks in Geneva, a senior official tells AFP, despite Kyiv's protests that the plan conceded too much to Moscow.

Russia has rejected Ukrainian, US and European amendments to the plan drafted in Geneva

u.afp.com/ShpA
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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And, that's how fascism works. Authoritarians take away our belief in the good. They thrive on cynicism and distrust. Trump is a super-spreader of polarization, cynicism, and distrust. He forces us all to choose either we love him or hate him. There's no neutral. And he eats our souls.
March 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Trump isn't just trying to take away our democracy, rights, & freedoms, he isn't just trying to take away our free will, he's trying to take away our values, our belief in the good, our optimism & our hope. His cynicism and corruption and lies are corrosive of the good in us all.
March 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The more we resist Trump and live our values, the more heroic we are. Resist Trump, save democracy. We got this.
March 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Trump tries to corrupt us all. He wants to wear us down. He wants to bring us into his silent circle of assent, into his loyalty. He's relentless and it's so much easier to just give in. He tries to corrupt us, but in so doing he gives each of us a hero narrative.
March 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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We don't get enough opportunities to live out our values--everyday things like returning a lost wallet/phone, helping someone in distress, letting someone go ahead of you in line--seem less than heroic (though they're amazing things!). Resisting Trump is heroic, Herculean, even.
March 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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You cannot give Trump an inch or else he will eat your soul. It's like how con men say "you can cheat an honest man"--Trump can't eat your soul if you don't give it to him to eat. But, it's impossible to be around him and not give him your soul--he'll try to take it repeatedly.
March 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Orwell taught us in 1984 that resistance is an act of free will: “When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him.”
March 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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"Of course, to stay, you must be seen as on his team, so you make further compromises. You use his language, praise his leadership, tout his commitment to values.

And then you are lost. He has eaten your soul."
March 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM