buster skeetin
@busterskeetin.bsky.social
Lawyer. Midwesterner. Cheapskate
replies ≠ engagement with you personally
he/him
replies ≠ engagement with you personally
he/him
Pinned
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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girl with the chinese character she thinks means “courage” but actually means “garlic” tattoo
November 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
girl with the chinese character she thinks means “courage” but actually means “garlic” tattoo
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Hencefifth
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Hencefifth
"you have ligma"
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"you have ligma"
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Here's the church,
Here's the steeple,
...
Here's the steeple,
...
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Here's the church,
Here's the steeple,
...
Here's the steeple,
...
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Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
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I am once again saying that in an era where the President of the United States engage in open cronyism, corruption and defense of pedophilia and sexual assault that having morals is a good thing and you're a weirdo if you say otherwise.
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I am once again saying that in an era where the President of the United States engage in open cronyism, corruption and defense of pedophilia and sexual assault that having morals is a good thing and you're a weirdo if you say otherwise.
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Most of the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Campus is planned to be demolished by March 2026, if not sooner.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
November 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Most of the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Campus is planned to be demolished by March 2026, if not sooner.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
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Link to full text of decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#213 in United States v. Comey (E.D. Va., 1:25-cr-00272) – CourtListener.com
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED as follows: (1) The appointment of Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney violated 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. (2) All actions flowing fro...
storage.courtlistener.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Link to full text of decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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It's well known that every successful bureaucracy must have such a leader. This is known in the literature as the "Principle Principal Principle"
The bureaucrat who is in charge of defining the most important values is the "Principle Principal".
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's well known that every successful bureaucracy must have such a leader. This is known in the literature as the "Principle Principal Principle"
professor "this pork"
Sunday in the library: lecture by prof. Thijs Porck on fragments of an 11th century Bible glossed in Old English.
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
professor "this pork"
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from now on, i'm replacing the word "joke" in my vocabulary with "jork"
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
from now on, i'm replacing the word "joke" in my vocabulary with "jork"
DO NOT REPEAT THESE INSIGHTS
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
DO NOT REPEAT THESE INSIGHTS
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droit du peigneur
It’s also 45 years since oil drillers accidentally hit a salt mine, and Lake Peigneur in Louisiana disappeared, taking oil platform and barges with it. Mind you, it did also cause a canal to reverse, refilling the lake with water from the Gulf of Mexico
Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom
Early in the morning on November 20, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse beneath
www.damninteresting.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
droit du peigneur
"Democrats need to use the nuclear option."
"You mean getting rid of the filibuster?"
"Yes, and..."
"You mean getting rid of the filibuster?"
"Yes, and..."
I don’t want to hear about norms, I don’t want to hear about looking forward not back, I don’t want to hear about “bipartisanship”
I want the filibuster gone, the court packed, new states, and a top to bottom cleaning of the federal government that ends with a lot of people in jail
I want the filibuster gone, the court packed, new states, and a top to bottom cleaning of the federal government that ends with a lot of people in jail
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"Democrats need to use the nuclear option."
"You mean getting rid of the filibuster?"
"Yes, and..."
"You mean getting rid of the filibuster?"
"Yes, and..."
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If you're cold, they're cold, bring them in!
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
If you're cold, they're cold, bring them in!
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Thirty to fifty feral dogs
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Thirty to fifty feral dogs
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A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
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Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...