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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 18h

No past administration has launched military operations at the same time it is conducting a vigorous, sustained, and broad based attack on the rule of law, the constitutional order, and the professional military like President Trump is.

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How Little We Really Know About What Trump Is Up To in Latin America

US Strikes Extend To Pacific By its own admission, the Trump administration...

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 18h

The clique of DC insiders are as insufferable a group of people as its possible to collect. They've become more insular and more horrible over the last two decades.

They are a cause of many of the problems we're experiencing.

Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 1d

In the last few weeks my streams for Instagram and YouTube have been flooded with 1.) lots of gay content I'd never seen previously (Insta) and 2.) lots of AI and related slop that I'd been able to avoid (YT). Both are at the margins of my tolerance for things people want me to see but I don't.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 1d

Ouch. But yes, with some exceptions (in my personal circles.)

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. He is the perfect challenger to primary Fetterman in PA. If not that, then a House seat.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 1d

and the other unable and unwilling to acknowledge the change and repeatedly failing to meet the moment which required (IMO) confrontation, accountability, and bloody-minded focus on calling out and prosecuting bad actors. That didn't happen. And here we are.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 1d

All true. But Obama and his inner circle (and I'm looking at Rahm Emmanuel in particular) made choices that locked everyone to their left out of the decision process. Which left us with a radicalized right wing party and captured center-right party, one constantly acting in bad faith ..

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 1d

2010 did me in as well. The rise of the Tea Party in all its astroturf glory was a warning. Some of us were wailing that all hell was about to break loose. Too many people said "no, we're really smarter and more knowledgable than you" and fucked the pooch in ways from which we haven't recovered.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

Bloomberg News has sleuthed out a federal grand jury in Florida that could be another thread of President Trump’s wide-ranging investigate the investigators retribution scheme.
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How Does Mike Davis Know Who A New Federal Grand Jury Will Target?

The Retribution: Mar-a-Lago Edition? This gets a little convoluted, but it’s potentially...

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 1d

Cross-posting. Great reporting from @hunterw.bsky.social and @talkingpointsmemo.com on the escalating Federal engagement and detention of suspected immigrants and protestors.

Federal Agents Detain Mix of Protesters and Migrants in Massive Manhattan Sweep

NEW YORK – At least five federal agencies were involved in a...

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

Nah, that was Scott Brown. Fetterman rode Anthony Bourdain's episode on Western Pennsylvania for all it was worth.

Scott Brown (politician) - Wikipedia

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

Trump and his claque are acting to build a cadre of violent, lawless men pledging fealty to Trump and willing to act on his behalf to destabilize the country and protect their misrule.

It's working.

Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

It's not over for us in DC.

Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 2d

A new court filing from @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social asserts that 2,500 National Guard troops in DC are "operating as a federal military police force in the District."

The AG's suit, which argues the Guard is violating the Posse Comitatus Act, has a hearing Friday.
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National Guard appears to remain in D.C. "indefinitely," says city's AG

Brian Schwalb argues in a new court filing that it appears the troops plan to stay through at least next summer.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

How Spy Magazine's 1980's coverage of Trump didn't percolate up first with his role in "The Apprentice" and again as he clawed his way into being a public political figure is beyond me, let alone the Epstein information.

"PFAS Don" seems like an appropriate sobriquet.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

Also: free speech! /snark

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has just proved definitively that zoning and historic preservation laws with enforcement are worth the burden they create.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

There's a huge amount of work that's needed to be done to help improve the accountability and transparency of the federal government for the 21st century. But Congress is too busy playing "gotcha" and avoiding doing the work needed to clean up the house.

/rant.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, exactly this. So did Hilary with the email server. And Sandy Berger and the documents in the socks.

All of those actions were illegal, even if the law was broken.

This is repeated thousands of times a day in *every* administration by politicals who think the law doesn't apply to them.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

For folks whining about a certain white man who chose to run for Senate and is being confronted with a string of bad decisions he made, consider this.

Black men in America can't make any of those mistakes and expect a fair hearing or forgiveness.

Enough said.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

No, intent is *not* part of the law. It should be, IMO, as it's used frequently for defense of people prosecuted under the statutes. (Sandy Berger comes to mind.)

It gets trickier for folks like Chelsea Manning, which was clearly meant as a whistleblower activity (good) but likely did cause harm.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

People can do whatever they want. However, there should be consequences for doing those things that are illegal or show bad judgement.

He's having to deal with those consequences, and doesn't like it.

Too fucking bad.

There are a lot of people deserving of similar FAFO outcomes.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

The lack of self-awareness and self-control is stunning.

Also: the world is not an investment portfolio, and risks have far greater impact than consideration of "will I make or lose money from this?"

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

The question that needs to be asked and answered in an investigation is: did the alleged perpetrator intend to do harm with the classified information, understood as compromising the security of the United States Government and the nation as a whole?

99.999% confident for Bolton, the answer is no.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

This was in my wheelhouse when I was a CIO for a federal agency.

The laws around the misuse of classified information were written a long time ago when a document was most often a piece of paper.

The efforts to update the law and practice haven't been very successful.

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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 2d

What's equally amazing and disturbing is how easily people who should be able to see through his lies -- the voters in his district -- and with how little they benefit from his service continue to re-elect him.