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You're gonna need all of our prayers
And the whole damn congregation to save your soul
he / him
And the whole damn congregation to save your soul
he / him
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The problem with this article is they asked too many lawyers and not enough historians.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
John Roberts has secured his place in history alongside Al Capone and Bernard Madoff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Opinion | Why Trump Won’t Face Prosecution This Time Around
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November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The problem with this article is they asked too many lawyers and not enough historians.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
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Come 2029, the leaders of Northwestern and Columbia will be at the forefront of a PR speaking circuit to talk up how ethical and brave their actions were, and they’ll be invited by the other groups going by the same PR—round and round.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Come 2029, the leaders of Northwestern and Columbia will be at the forefront of a PR speaking circuit to talk up how ethical and brave their actions were, and they’ll be invited by the other groups going by the same PR—round and round.
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joint resolution of the House and Senate finding that President Trump is ineligible under 14A. that would be interesting Cool Zone stuff
i don’t care if you can convict. As soon as we have the House, the sole business of the House should be impeaching the President. and when the impeachment fails in the Senate, the next thing the House should do is impeach him again
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 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
joint resolution of the House and Senate finding that President Trump is ineligible under 14A. that would be interesting Cool Zone stuff
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The next Democratic president cannot fail like Biden did by appointing Garland.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
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"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The next Democratic president cannot fail like Biden did by appointing Garland.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
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i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
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If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
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Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
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Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.For Popular Information, Rebecca...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.
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Let's be totally clear here. The OLC has been garbage for decades. In the Trump regime the whole department of justice has become a cesspool of corruption and abuse of power. OLC opinions have no more authority than any other legal advice. Claiming otherwise is rank monarchism.
November 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Let's be totally clear here. The OLC has been garbage for decades. In the Trump regime the whole department of justice has become a cesspool of corruption and abuse of power. OLC opinions have no more authority than any other legal advice. Claiming otherwise is rank monarchism.
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And if you do that, as we must, it's not just pardons that are null. It's everything. No appointments are valid. No orders were real. No laws were validly signed. It all falls into a constitutional interregnum in which nothing he's done counts as legitimate, akin to the South under the Confederacy.
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
And if you do that, as we must, it's not just pardons that are null. It's everything. No appointments are valid. No orders were real. No laws were validly signed. It all falls into a constitutional interregnum in which nothing he's done counts as legitimate, akin to the South under the Confederacy.
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Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
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Would vote for anyone who proposes doing something even half as good as this. Desperate for some backbone.
“In 2029 we will rebuild the White House and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, his family, and all of his companies and organizations. We publicize the name of every contractor involved with this project and permanently ban them as corporate entities and individuals from public contracts.”
Trump fighting with his architect about wanting to build a ballroom bigger than the actual White House feels very on brand
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November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Would vote for anyone who proposes doing something even half as good as this. Desperate for some backbone.
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If this is your reaction — sure, feel free to ask Republicans to demand accountability from Trump but I’m going to focus on the politicians who represent me and are, in theory, in the opposition party.
November 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
If this is your reaction — sure, feel free to ask Republicans to demand accountability from Trump but I’m going to focus on the politicians who represent me and are, in theory, in the opposition party.
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It's not often that "simple morality" and "effective politics" line up so perfectly, but we have to hope DC's Democrats are smart enough to seize the moment with both hands
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's not often that "simple morality" and "effective politics" line up so perfectly, but we have to hope DC's Democrats are smart enough to seize the moment with both hands
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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"Two Palestinians were seen leaving a building, with their hands raised in the air.
"After the officers took control, they are seen ordering them to lie on the ground at the entrance to the building, before one officer shoots them to death at close range."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"After the officers took control, they are seen ordering them to lie on the ground at the entrance to the building, before one officer shoots them to death at close range."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Officers involved in killing of surrendered Palestinians released after investigation
After Officers Were Filmed Shooting Palestinians Who They Had Already Detained at Close Range in Jenin, the IDF Declared That the Incident Was 'Under Review', While National Security Minister Ben-Gvir...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"Two Palestinians were seen leaving a building, with their hands raised in the air.
"After the officers took control, they are seen ordering them to lie on the ground at the entrance to the building, before one officer shoots them to death at close range."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"After the officers took control, they are seen ordering them to lie on the ground at the entrance to the building, before one officer shoots them to death at close range."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Criminal liability attaches for following an order "which a man of ordinary sense and understanding would, under the circumstances, know to be unlawful, or if the order in question is actually known to the accused to be unlawful." U.S. v. Calley (1974)
So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Criminal liability attaches for following an order "which a man of ordinary sense and understanding would, under the circumstances, know to be unlawful, or if the order in question is actually known to the accused to be unlawful." U.S. v. Calley (1974)
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Preferably with guillotines. For finality.
Trumpism and Trumpists are incompatible with American culture and traditions and should be purged.
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Preferably with guillotines. For finality.
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Hegseth should fry for this
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hegseth should fry for this
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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What’s left of this man’s brain is just a Rube Goldberg machine of racism
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 AM
What’s left of this man’s brain is just a Rube Goldberg machine of racism
and this is how you smoke an 18lb bird on a weber grill
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
and this is how you smoke an 18lb bird on a weber grill
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
The only major faction which does not believe it is the far right, which understands itself to be in a cultural battle for hearts and minds which is only glancingly correlated with economic anything. It’s worked out wonderfully for them
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job