Brett Lorenzen
@brettlorenzen.bsky.social
JD, LLM. Jack-of-all-trades. My posts are my own.
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” – Edward Abbey
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” – Edward Abbey
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Honestly. It’s time for Congress to stop this nonsense.
Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Honestly. It’s time for Congress to stop this nonsense.
Time for snow day music
Trip Shakespeare 03 - Snow Days
YouTube video by Louis Cyphre
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December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Time for snow day music
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
Book nerd thread
Can you spot the ISBN? 🤓
Let me tell you some useful secrets about International Standard Book Numbers:
1. The first number is based on the language of origin. It's not printed here, so that means it's 0 or 1, because English speakers sometimes decided to skip the I and just use SBN. Typical 🙄
Let me tell you some useful secrets about International Standard Book Numbers:
1. The first number is based on the language of origin. It's not printed here, so that means it's 0 or 1, because English speakers sometimes decided to skip the I and just use SBN. Typical 🙄
December 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Book nerd thread
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020.
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
Leavitt: "The people of Honduras have highlighted to him how the former President Hernandez was set up. This was a clear Biden over prosecution."
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020.
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
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DOJ says immigration judges, as "inferior officers," may be fired on the basis of sex, religion, race, or national origin. Leaving aside the law, it's *politically* remarkable they're taking this position.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
DOJ says immigration judges, as "inferior officers," may be fired on the basis of sex, religion, race, or national origin. Leaving aside the law, it's *politically* remarkable they're taking this position.
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/former-...
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Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley
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Instead of expecting older residents to make difficult trips, the grocery store now arrives right at their doorstep.
Each bus is redesigned with care. Non-slip ramps, supportive handrails, and warm interior heating ensure that stepping inside feels safe and comfortable, with staff to help
💗
Each bus is redesigned with care. Non-slip ramps, supportive handrails, and warm interior heating ensure that stepping inside feels safe and comfortable, with staff to help
💗
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Instead of expecting older residents to make difficult trips, the grocery store now arrives right at their doorstep.
Each bus is redesigned with care. Non-slip ramps, supportive handrails, and warm interior heating ensure that stepping inside feels safe and comfortable, with staff to help
💗
Each bus is redesigned with care. Non-slip ramps, supportive handrails, and warm interior heating ensure that stepping inside feels safe and comfortable, with staff to help
💗
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At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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Why are the war criminals always still running against Biden? If they thought what they were doing was moral and honorable than they wouldn't have to cast prior blame.
Maybe someone who knows better can say why he’s explicitly calling them “lethal, kinetic strikes”? Is there some specific legal doctrine here? Because otherwise, it just sounds like he’s saying they’re designed to kill people via something that’s moving, which is weird. Why does “kinetic” matter?
a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Why are the war criminals always still running against Biden? If they thought what they were doing was moral and honorable than they wouldn't have to cast prior blame.
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"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
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I think any mention of the ICC is box office poison. Dems who are veterans should lead the charge to say that there will be accountability in the courts of the greatest democracy in the world.
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I think any mention of the ICC is box office poison. Dems who are veterans should lead the charge to say that there will be accountability in the courts of the greatest democracy in the world.
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The Democrats need to use these photos like the GOP used the Willie Horton photos
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The Democrats need to use these photos like the GOP used the Willie Horton photos
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in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
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We're launching a portal to review federal immigration enforcement in New York after yesterday’s ICE raid on Canal Street.
New Yorkers who were present should submit videos or photos, and we will review and investigate any violations of the law.
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
New Yorkers who were present should submit videos or photos, and we will review and investigate any violations of the law.
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We're launching a portal to review federal immigration enforcement in New York after yesterday’s ICE raid on Canal Street.
New Yorkers who were present should submit videos or photos, and we will review and investigate any violations of the law.
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
New Yorkers who were present should submit videos or photos, and we will review and investigate any violations of the law.
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
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"I co-wrote Trump's first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-2018. He's not trying to stop "left wing" terrorism. He is staging it.
His troop deployments are a false flag – meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.
This is now very obvious."
Miles Taylor
His troop deployments are a false flag – meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.
This is now very obvious."
Miles Taylor
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"I co-wrote Trump's first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-2018. He's not trying to stop "left wing" terrorism. He is staging it.
His troop deployments are a false flag – meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.
This is now very obvious."
Miles Taylor
His troop deployments are a false flag – meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.
This is now very obvious."
Miles Taylor
Of course they were.
Administration officials were warned of potential risks posed by President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops for law enforcement purposes, but they downplayed those concerns.
www.rawstory.com/national-gua...
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Trump ignored warnings of risk to National Guard troops before shootings: report
Administration officials were warned of potential risks posed by President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops for law enforcement purposes, but they downplayed those concerns.The warni...
www.rawstory.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Of course they were.
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Reminder that all the "pardons" granted to Jan6ers whose convictions were still pending were auto-pen pardons.
Trump claims “any document” signed by Joe Biden is “hereby terminated.”
He calls out executive orders later but obviously “any document” would be much broader and include legislation.
(He can’t legally do that but, as always, we get to watch how far he can push this without repercussions)
He calls out executive orders later but obviously “any document” would be much broader and include legislation.
(He can’t legally do that but, as always, we get to watch how far he can push this without repercussions)
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Reminder that all the "pardons" granted to Jan6ers whose convictions were still pending were auto-pen pardons.
I wonder how much we could lower the cost of streaming football games if we just eliminated all the useless sideline reporters.
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I wonder how much we could lower the cost of streaming football games if we just eliminated all the useless sideline reporters.
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WOLFERS: “When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.” #MedicareForAllNOW
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
WOLFERS: “When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.” #MedicareForAllNOW