Harriet Wright
@harrietwright.bsky.social
Loud, proud, angry liberal. FDR was a god. Spiritual, perhaps actual, descendant of Boudicca. No DMs unless I know you IRL.
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Anyone defending execution as a reasonable punishment for drug smuggling is a Nazi. Pass it on.
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Anyone defending execution as a reasonable punishment for drug smuggling is a Nazi. Pass it on.
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Hegseth is a liar with a lot of people trying to cover for him.
Hegseth's "fog of war" claim is nonsense, if this account of what video shows is correct: The two men obviously were visible.
Tom Cotton's claims also in doubt: Rep Smith says drugs not visible. The decision that the men were still in the fight looks very shaky:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Tom Cotton's claims also in doubt: Rep Smith says drugs not visible. The decision that the men were still in the fight looks very shaky:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Hegseth is a liar with a lot of people trying to cover for him.
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Every single news account about the video should clearly inform people who is calling for its public release and who is not. No bothsidesing BS here.
More: Lawmakers pressed officials on releasing the video, and the officials said it isn't their call. And they have no recording of radio traffic from the men, Rep Smith says.
Video and legal memo on broader strikes should be released. This should increase pressure:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Video and legal memo on broader strikes should be released. This should increase pressure:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Every single news account about the video should clearly inform people who is calling for its public release and who is not. No bothsidesing BS here.
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Rep. Eli Crane said I should be ashamed of myself and implied I was an idiot, which is consistent with how Republicans back the blue.
Also his official portrait makes him look like a moon-faced Toby Zeigler, a la The West Wing.
Also his official portrait makes him look like a moon-faced Toby Zeigler, a la The West Wing.
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Rep. Eli Crane said I should be ashamed of myself and implied I was an idiot, which is consistent with how Republicans back the blue.
Also his official portrait makes him look like a moon-faced Toby Zeigler, a la The West Wing.
Also his official portrait makes him look like a moon-faced Toby Zeigler, a la The West Wing.
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These people make me sick.
December 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
These people make me sick.
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Six US Navy P-8A Poseidons heading to the Caribbean. Several have now turned off their transponders.
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Six US Navy P-8A Poseidons heading to the Caribbean. Several have now turned off their transponders.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Aaron Ross Powell dot com - put it so well.
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Aaron Ross Powell dot com - put it so well.
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The DC shooting is a Reichstag Fire.
Trump granted the man asylum this spring. Trump agreed with the program that brought him here in 2021. There was full vetting. Trump’s DC op is why this happened.
Now it’s being used to end all immigration from nonwhite countries. And undo the Biden presidency.
Trump granted the man asylum this spring. Trump agreed with the program that brought him here in 2021. There was full vetting. Trump’s DC op is why this happened.
Now it’s being used to end all immigration from nonwhite countries. And undo the Biden presidency.
The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House this week underwent thorough vetting by counterterrorism authorities before entering the U.S., according to people with direct knowledge of the case.
Counterterrorism officials vetted Guard shooting suspect before he entered U.S.
Individuals with knowledge of the process that Rahmanullah Lakanwal went through contradicted senior Trump officials’ claim that he was not scrutinized.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The DC shooting is a Reichstag Fire.
Trump granted the man asylum this spring. Trump agreed with the program that brought him here in 2021. There was full vetting. Trump’s DC op is why this happened.
Now it’s being used to end all immigration from nonwhite countries. And undo the Biden presidency.
Trump granted the man asylum this spring. Trump agreed with the program that brought him here in 2021. There was full vetting. Trump’s DC op is why this happened.
Now it’s being used to end all immigration from nonwhite countries. And undo the Biden presidency.
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Trump orders Hegseth to go after Kelly, hoping to drag him before a military court. A president turning Defense into his personal revenge tool, counting on the circus to distract from his own mess. The move is as clumsy as it is predictable.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Trump orders Hegseth to go after Kelly, hoping to drag him before a military court. A president turning Defense into his personal revenge tool, counting on the circus to distract from his own mess. The move is as clumsy as it is predictable.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1
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Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that.
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that.
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
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"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
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@kaine.senate.gov Thanks to you, blue Virginians have been betrayed. You’ve lost us now.
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
@kaine.senate.gov Thanks to you, blue Virginians have been betrayed. You’ve lost us now.
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I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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The air traffic control slowdown? It is intended to bully the American public and the Dem "leadership" [cue the Neville Chamberlain theme song] into caving and giving the 47th diaper what he wants. This is a war. Fight like it is one #dumpchuckschumer and #dumphakeemjeffries GOP must surrender.
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The air traffic control slowdown? It is intended to bully the American public and the Dem "leadership" [cue the Neville Chamberlain theme song] into caving and giving the 47th diaper what he wants. This is a war. Fight like it is one #dumpchuckschumer and #dumphakeemjeffries GOP must surrender.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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The Sandwich Guy is found NOT GUILTY on all charges! If I were him I would definitely open a sandwich shop.
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Sandwich Guy is found NOT GUILTY on all charges! If I were him I would definitely open a sandwich shop.