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Retired lawyer, dad, baseball fan. From Colorado. I don't argue online.
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· Dec 14
"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” - Whitney v. California, 274 U. S. 357 (1927) (Brandeis, J.) #freedomofspeech #freespeech #civilliberties
Donald Trump cannot unilaterally end the effectiveness of every document Joe Biden signed while president. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Donald Trump cannot unilaterally end the effectiveness of every document Joe Biden signed while president. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...
Members of Congress should be demanding, publicly and loudly, Pete Hegseth's resignation and also should be insisting that he be charged with the crimes that match his alleged behavior. If they do not do this, then the illegal conduct will get worse. And more dangerous. And more deadly.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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 8:22 PM
Members of Congress should be demanding, publicly and loudly, Pete Hegseth's resignation and also should be insisting that he be charged with the crimes that match his alleged behavior. If they do not do this, then the illegal conduct will get worse. And more dangerous. And more deadly.
Pete Hegseth, if he gave such an order, commanded murder. And is therefore a murderer. Noncombatants, even suspected or actual drug smugglers, cannot be summarily executed under American or international law.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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 7:57 PM
Pete Hegseth, if he gave such an order, commanded murder. And is therefore a murderer. Noncombatants, even suspected or actual drug smugglers, cannot be summarily executed under American or international law.
Colorado Sen. Faith Winter, who demonstrated courage by publicly admitting her battle with alcoholism, was killed tonight in a car crash on I-25 in Centennial. Winter, 45, was a veteran legislator and, more important, the mother of two children. She was engaged to be married, too. Big loss for CO.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Colorado Sen. Faith Winter, who demonstrated courage by publicly admitting her battle with alcoholism, was killed tonight in a car crash on I-25 in Centennial. Winter, 45, was a veteran legislator and, more important, the mother of two children. She was engaged to be married, too. Big loss for CO.
I wrote for Law of the West about the multi-state lawsuit filed today that aims to preserve SNAP benefits for immigrants. #SNAP #OBBBA #litigation #USDA #foodbenefits #hunger open.substack.com/pub/lawofthe...
States sue Trump administration over SNAP cuts affecting immigrants
USDA’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act guidance on immigrant SNAP eligibility at issue
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I wrote for Law of the West about the multi-state lawsuit filed today that aims to preserve SNAP benefits for immigrants. #SNAP #OBBBA #litigation #USDA #foodbenefits #hunger open.substack.com/pub/lawofthe...
Remember that, two days from now, the right thing to do is go outside and be in nature and to avoid spending money in stores or online for any reason. "Black Friday" should be called that because it advances damage to nature by encouraging over-consumption. Boycott it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Remember that, two days from now, the right thing to do is go outside and be in nature and to avoid spending money in stores or online for any reason. "Black Friday" should be called that because it advances damage to nature by encouraging over-consumption. Boycott it.
I bet Leavitt was involved in deliberately and purposefully arranging the deportation of her former sister-in-law.
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who was brought to the U.S. as a child and is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, was arrested near Boston earlier this month and taken into ICE custody.
Woman With Ties To Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s Family In ICE Custody
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who was brought to the U.S. as a child and is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, was arrested near Boston earlier this month and taken into ICE custody.
www.forbes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I bet Leavitt was involved in deliberately and purposefully arranging the deportation of her former sister-in-law.
If my alma mater signs Trump's extortion document or cooperates with the fascist regime in DC, then it will prove only that its president and other leaders lack any commitment to actual education and free inquiry.
ASU is positioning itself as the anti-Harvard in Trump’s campaign to remake higher education.
Arizona State’s President Is Pulling Out All the Stops to Get on Trump’s Good Side
ASU is positioning itself as the anti-Harvard in Trump’s campaign to remake higher education.
on.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If my alma mater signs Trump's extortion document or cooperates with the fascist regime in DC, then it will prove only that its president and other leaders lack any commitment to actual education and free inquiry.
Smartphones, motor vehicles, TVs, computers, HVAC units, plumbing systems, electrical infrastructure, and other products involve technologies that have an adverse environmental impact. We should not boycott a technology. Better to lessen its environmental impact as much as we can via regulation.
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Smartphones, motor vehicles, TVs, computers, HVAC units, plumbing systems, electrical infrastructure, and other products involve technologies that have an adverse environmental impact. We should not boycott a technology. Better to lessen its environmental impact as much as we can via regulation.
Accurately stating the law cannot possibly be considered an example of "contemptuous words" and, even if they could, that provision of the UCMJ cannot constitutionally be understood to prevent an elected member of Congress from criticizing the president. That is, after all, part of their job.
I should have said UCMJ article. Art. 88 Contempt toward Officials (10 USC §888) prohibits commissioned officers from using contemptuous words against the Prez, Veep, MOC, SecDef, DHS Sec. gov. etc. (Uh oh).
They’re probably looking at Art. 94 (10 USC §894) Mutiny or sedition, which seems a stretch
They’re probably looking at Art. 94 (10 USC §894) Mutiny or sedition, which seems a stretch
894. ARTICLE 94. Mutiny or Sedition
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who– (1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or create...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Accurately stating the law cannot possibly be considered an example of "contemptuous words" and, even if they could, that provision of the UCMJ cannot constitutionally be understood to prevent an elected member of Congress from criticizing the president. That is, after all, part of their job.
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Went looking for COVID19 death statistics recently:
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21
The full impact of the pandemic has been much greater than what is indicated by reported
deaths due to COVID-19 alone. Strengthening death registration systems around the
world, long understood to be ...
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Went looking for COVID19 death statistics recently:
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
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Gramma the Galápagos tortoise, an original San Diego Zoo resident, dies at 141
Gramma the Galápagos tortoise, an original San Diego Zoo resident, dies at 141
Gramma the tortoise, believed to be 141 years old and the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, was euthanized after suffering from progressive bone deterioration because of her age.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Gramma the Galápagos tortoise, an original San Diego Zoo resident, dies at 141
And, by the way: cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
And, by the way: cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...
This is the correct way to talk about Pete Hegseth. Except I would leave out the "sir" part.
Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is the correct way to talk about Pete Hegseth. Except I would leave out the "sir" part.
Mark Kelly for President. That's all.
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Mark Kelly for President. That's all.
The dismissal of the Comey indictment is without prejudice. That means the government can try again. But "good luck." I doubt the grand jury will indict again and, even if it does, the same flaws in the case will persist. Why bother?
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The dismissal of the Comey indictment is without prejudice. That means the government can try again. But "good luck." I doubt the grand jury will indict again and, even if it does, the same flaws in the case will persist. Why bother?
This may finally be, for me, the end of using any Meta platforms. I am a reluctant and generally occasional user anyway, but this is so damn appalling that it's getting to the point where one might need to put Meta in the same category as X.
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This may finally be, for me, the end of using any Meta platforms. I am a reluctant and generally occasional user anyway, but this is so damn appalling that it's getting to the point where one might need to put Meta in the same category as X.
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Delete all your Meta/Facebook accounts.
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Delete all your Meta/Facebook accounts.
More of this, Democrats.
#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
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David Clayton is running for congress in NC's District 5 against #FuckMAGA Republican Virginia Foxx — and this is how he introduced himself.👇
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David Clayton is running for congress in NC's District 5 against #FuckMAGA Republican Virginia Foxx — and this is how he introduced himself.👇
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
More of this, Democrats.
The Democratic candidate who promises that everyone - yes, everyone - who breaks the law will be held accountable to the law is the winning candidate.
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The Democratic candidate who promises that everyone - yes, everyone - who breaks the law will be held accountable to the law is the winning candidate.
The moment just before this nation changed forever. . . We are still living with the consequences of Oswald's evil deed. May John F. Kennedy's soul rest in peace forever.
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The moment just before this nation changed forever. . . We are still living with the consequences of Oswald's evil deed. May John F. Kennedy's soul rest in peace forever.
And Hakeem Jeffries and the rest of the idiots in the House Democratic leadership called these things "horrors" today.
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
And Hakeem Jeffries and the rest of the idiots in the House Democratic leadership called these things "horrors" today.
And here is Colorado's awful, horrible, terrible, no-good, really bad governor, Jared Polis, not saying "no" to Trump's plan to get election law violator Tina Peters out of state prison and into a club fed where can be given white glove treatment like Maxwell.
NEW: A written statement from Gov Jared Polis (D) says he is reviewing the Trump administration's request to release Tina Peters to federal custody.
Polis praised Colorado's bipartisan election clerks who are asking him not to release Peters from state custody but didn't commit.
Polis praised Colorado's bipartisan election clerks who are asking him not to release Peters from state custody but didn't commit.
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
And here is Colorado's awful, horrible, terrible, no-good, really bad governor, Jared Polis, not saying "no" to Trump's plan to get election law violator Tina Peters out of state prison and into a club fed where can be given white glove treatment like Maxwell.
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We fucking warned Doug Burgum this would happen if he left national parks open during the shutdown.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Hundreds of Joshua trees were scorched during the shutdown
A firefighter with the National Park Service says a fire wiped out more than a thousand Joshua trees amid the government shutdown. Restoration could be limited by a depleted staff, they said.
www.latimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
We fucking warned Doug Burgum this would happen if he left national parks open during the shutdown.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
The corporate consultants have to be paid and the soulless politicians and their idiotic campaign staff cannot resist BS like this.
Dear Dem Leadership,
Stop trying to fundraise off this shit.
Do something about it. Grandstand, make a scene, stall, object to Unanimous Consent. Take this shit seriously and make a goddamn big deal about it because its a goddamn big deal.
Stop trying to fundraise off this shit.
Do something about it. Grandstand, make a scene, stall, object to Unanimous Consent. Take this shit seriously and make a goddamn big deal about it because its a goddamn big deal.
Holy living fuck. How is this real life?
“Someone called for my execution! I will do nothing about this but please donate to my campaign!”
“Someone called for my execution! I will do nothing about this but please donate to my campaign!”
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The corporate consultants have to be paid and the soulless politicians and their idiotic campaign staff cannot resist BS like this.