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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 3h

As a veteran, I feel very firmly that killing people should always be an absolute last resort. It cannot be taken back and has a lot of follow on damage.

It doesn’t mean I don’t think it should be preserved as a final option, but you had damn well try everything else first.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 4h

*chants* “Interdict, Interdict, Interdict!”

TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 4h

Not my circus, not my monkeys, but there is legit theological as well as pastoral reasons why Vance should be, at the very least, restricted from receiving communion for the time being

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 4h

I suspect that Vance’s statements in group texts would make this group look like a Sunday School picnic.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 4h

Story time!

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 14h

You can legitimately give the Founding Fathers shit for a ton of stuff about how the US government works, but they were also obsessed with preventing the exact scenario we're living through and put like five layers of defense into their design

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 13h

Brian Herbert teaches us that Butlerian Jihad is right and just. That’s it, I’ve shown folks following, no more need for anyone else to read the book now.

Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 13h

What is it, exactly, that you want 2A types to start doing *right this second*?

I’m a 2A type. I’m also a lawyer. Right now, I haven’t given up on the latter as a way to reclaim the country. Do you want me to just tear up my bar card and form a militia?

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 13h

JD Vance is about to be the first Catholic in history to get smacked down by not one but two Popes.

Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 14h

The reason she was transported across state lines, of course, is because Vancouver is more conservative than Portland, and they’re hoping for a more sympathetic grand jury.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 14h

I was working on a case while listening to this interview and I had to full stop close laptop because it short circuited my fucking brain.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 16h

This is exactly the kind of thing the Republicans used to tell me only happened under communism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 17h

My partner, dryly:

“Gee, I remember when they jumped me into antifa.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

HANNITY: Antifa is working against the American people. What would that be called?

BONDI: It would be called organized crime. And that's what they're doing ... they are no different than MS-13

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 17h

I want to say I feel like I’ve seen some ICE using either current uniforms, or uniforms that read to me as current, which probably means one uniform change behind, and which I would still be forbidden from wearing, say, to a protest.

I’ll have to keep my nitpick eye out.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2d

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 17h

And so in this case: if military veterans or members are losing discounts/bennies because people in uniform beating people is losing the goodwill of the populace, could those individuals have standing?

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 17h

Well, here’s where I wonder - would the individuals who are harmed from that branding damage have standing to sue?

So like: if someone wears knockoff Yankees uniforms and starts beating people, and Yankees players lose sponsorships, does the owner have to sue, or could Yankees players?

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 18h

I guarantee those soldiers have stolen more than 2$ worth of government food.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 18h

Alternately, are there any retirees in there, who are forbidden to wear the uniform improperly?

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 18h

I actually wonder…I haven’t done the research on this, and I’m not an IP lawyer, but I wonder if there is a valid trademark infringement case on police use of military uniforms, due to causing brand confusion, which harms military members through diminishing the value of the brand.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 18h

It’s really “everybody who wants to keep their bar card vs everybody that doesn’t understand that the bar is going to strip those bar cards so fucking fast when this is over”

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 18h

*stares in Iraq veteran*

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 19h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 1d

And Jesus, it just got worse. “if our guy loses, we won’t be generous with Argentina.”

Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to this entire press conference, it becomes clear that now that Trump has realized he isn’t getting the Nobel prize, he doesn’t give a fuck about literally anything, from Israel/Gaza peace to the Constitution.

“All the money comes through the White House.”

“We will disarm them by force”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump says he's being called "the greatest president of them all. Does that include Washington and Lincoln? Yes it does."

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect part of the issue is that USAA also covers veterans and veterans dependents and former dependents, and they can’t have a program that’s just for active duty.

Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 1d

I disagree, but also think that the extent to which the U.S. military pushed it as a soft landing for veterans made it less of a moral choice and more of a transition.

While I personally did not, I think you’d be surprised how many hard leftists once worked for Blackwater.