Jeff
@jammaj.bsky.social
Lazy Astronaut
Holistic Reductionist
ILOF/DSTV Greek Chorus
Holistic Reductionist
ILOF/DSTV Greek Chorus
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Get familiar with the “color revolution” meme because the people IN POWER are trying as hard as they possibly can to make it a thing, and they have been for years now. Their base is bought in. The background on this deep lore from a Substack post I wrote in May…
open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Get familiar with the “color revolution” meme because the people IN POWER are trying as hard as they possibly can to make it a thing, and they have been for years now. Their base is bought in. The background on this deep lore from a Substack post I wrote in May…
open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
On today’s #DogShirtTV, someone in the #USmilitary ordered a strike on shipwreck survivors adrift at sea, and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org has @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social on the show to discuss. #VenezuelanBoatStrike #WarCrime
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-EB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-EB...
Yeah, That's a War Crime with Jack Goldsmith
YouTube video by #DogShirtTV
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
On today’s #DogShirtTV, someone in the #USmilitary ordered a strike on shipwreck survivors adrift at sea, and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org has @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social on the show to discuss. #VenezuelanBoatStrike #WarCrime
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-EB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-EB...
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Fearless speech/truth-telling:
Duty: They believe they have an obligation to speak the truth.
Frankness: They speak freely and directly.
Truthfulness: They speak all that they know.
Criticism: They speak truth to those in positions of power.
Danger: They tell the truth despite the consequences.
Duty: They believe they have an obligation to speak the truth.
Frankness: They speak freely and directly.
Truthfulness: They speak all that they know.
Criticism: They speak truth to those in positions of power.
Danger: They tell the truth despite the consequences.
Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Fearless speech/truth-telling:
Duty: They believe they have an obligation to speak the truth.
Frankness: They speak freely and directly.
Truthfulness: They speak all that they know.
Criticism: They speak truth to those in positions of power.
Danger: They tell the truth despite the consequences.
Duty: They believe they have an obligation to speak the truth.
Frankness: They speak freely and directly.
Truthfulness: They speak all that they know.
Criticism: They speak truth to those in positions of power.
Danger: They tell the truth despite the consequences.
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There's another dimension to this Rosa Parks story that you may not know. This is where the story most often gets mis-narrated.
The bus driver is often left out as a faceless entity and passive part of the story, but he is important to this story.
James F Blake adds some much needed context 🧵
The bus driver is often left out as a faceless entity and passive part of the story, but he is important to this story.
James F Blake adds some much needed context 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Read the entire thread
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Hard to imagine that the Pentagon spokesman uses the word “kinetic” because it’s a term of art (which it is), but, rather because he and SecDef thinks the world sounds real cool.
Last week: In response to WaPo’s story on the Sept. 2 boat strikes, the Pentagon says “This entire narrative is completely false.”
Today: The White House confirms that a 2nd strike happened and that “Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes”
Today: The White House confirms that a 2nd strike happened and that “Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes”
December 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hard to imagine that the Pentagon spokesman uses the word “kinetic” because it’s a term of art (which it is), but, rather because he and SecDef thinks the world sounds real cool.
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People are always mocking bag wine like Franzia as if ancient wineskins weren't basically the same thing. Jesus drank bag wine, you guys. 🍷👝 collections.mfa.org/objects/1867...
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
People are always mocking bag wine like Franzia as if ancient wineskins weren't basically the same thing. Jesus drank bag wine, you guys. 🍷👝 collections.mfa.org/objects/1867...
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Today’s Third Circuit ruling that Alina Habba was unlawfully appointed casts doubt on AG Bondi's back-up theory for Halligan—the notion that Bondi could appoint her a “special atty” (under 28 USC § 515) who could do everything a US atty could. ...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Today’s Third Circuit ruling that Alina Habba was unlawfully appointed casts doubt on AG Bondi's back-up theory for Halligan—the notion that Bondi could appoint her a “special atty” (under 28 USC § 515) who could do everything a US atty could. ...
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There's a lot going on, and immigration law is notoriously labyrinthine. But it's still wild both that (1) the Trump administration is trying to treat millions of non-citizens who have lived here for years/decades as "arriving aliens"; & (2) *hundreds* of courts have (almost unanimously!) said "no":
195. The Immigration Detention Flood
The Trump administration's attempt to quietly—but massively—expand who can be detained pending their removal has been met with overwhelming pushback from a remarkably large number of district courts.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
There's a lot going on, and immigration law is notoriously labyrinthine. But it's still wild both that (1) the Trump administration is trying to treat millions of non-citizens who have lived here for years/decades as "arriving aliens"; & (2) *hundreds* of courts have (almost unanimously!) said "no":
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The Trump administration has been pursuing third country removals for noncitizens in the United States since coming into office, sending migrants to unknown countries. @mboaz.bsky.social explores how these removals likely violate due process for these individuals.
Due Process in Third Country Removals
The administration’s use of ad hoc procedures to send migrants to countries with which they have no connection likely violates due process.
www.lawfaremedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Trump administration has been pursuing third country removals for noncitizens in the United States since coming into office, sending migrants to unknown countries. @mboaz.bsky.social explores how these removals likely violate due process for these individuals.
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Latest Open Access release in the Collected Writings on Jeremy Bentham issued by @uclpress.bsky.social
for the Bentham Project
@transcribe-bentham.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...
for the Bentham Project
@transcribe-bentham.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...
Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar
This new volume of Bentham’s philosophical writings deals with his most fundamental ideas concerning logic, language, ethics, and grammar. It includes four major essays written between 1814 and 1816, ...
uclpress.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Latest Open Access release in the Collected Writings on Jeremy Bentham issued by @uclpress.bsky.social
for the Bentham Project
@transcribe-bentham.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...
for the Bentham Project
@transcribe-bentham.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...
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I agree with your concern, @securitas.bsky.social, that civilian leaders are attempting to pervert good order and discipline to foster personal loyalty/complicity. As I think this through I agree with Josh Braver, but @queenofthinair.bsky.social's concept of the unprincipled principal is unresolved.
Do you have a take on that, @kschake.bsky.social?
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I agree with your concern, @securitas.bsky.social, that civilian leaders are attempting to pervert good order and discipline to foster personal loyalty/complicity. As I think this through I agree with Josh Braver, but @queenofthinair.bsky.social's concept of the unprincipled principal is unresolved.
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Look at this image (and thread - use the translate service).
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
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This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
3/4. En esta imagen se muestra el mismo campo estelar del Cometa C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) sin limpiar.
En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).
Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).
Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Look at this image (and thread - use the translate service).
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
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The next Dem president is going to need to sign on to the Rome statute and accept some international warrants
If Trump pardons him, the next Dem president should just Kavanaugh Stop him and drop him off in The Hague.
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The next Dem president is going to need to sign on to the Rome statute and accept some international warrants
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I am once again asking United States Senators to take a trial ad class to learn cross examination and witness control techniques plz
One thing to note about Bove’s response re: whistleblower report is that he didn’t explicitly deny making the “fuck you” comment.
Would be interesting to see his response if a senator directly asks him if he denies saying that
bsky.app/profile/anna...
Would be interesting to see his response if a senator directly asks him if he denies saying that
bsky.app/profile/anna...
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Part of why Trump won in 2016 was he was an "outsider" who promised to "end corruption." He did not end corruption, he is a big "to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy" guy. He's a spoiled and corrupt person, who has spoiled and corrupted his party and government. That story sells itself.
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Part of why Trump won in 2016 was he was an "outsider" who promised to "end corruption." He did not end corruption, he is a big "to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy" guy. He's a spoiled and corrupt person, who has spoiled and corrupted his party and government. That story sells itself.
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I’m late getting to @sodrock.bsky.social’s excellent thread on Missionary Ridge, but it’s a great one! Come for Grant’s toughness and Sheridan’s insouciance, and laugh at the imitator’s fate.
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I’m late getting to @sodrock.bsky.social’s excellent thread on Missionary Ridge, but it’s a great one! Come for Grant’s toughness and Sheridan’s insouciance, and laugh at the imitator’s fate.
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"the next DOJ," eh bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"the next DOJ," eh bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
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 6:38 PM
"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
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It’s finished.
It’s also not finished because, in the words of Paul Valéry, a piece of writing is never finished. Ultimately it is abandoned. That’s because writing is thinking, and we’re never finished with that.
Anyway, I figured out what to do with that long blog post . . .
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It’s also not finished because, in the words of Paul Valéry, a piece of writing is never finished. Ultimately it is abandoned. That’s because writing is thinking, and we’re never finished with that.
Anyway, I figured out what to do with that long blog post . . .
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November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It’s finished.
It’s also not finished because, in the words of Paul Valéry, a piece of writing is never finished. Ultimately it is abandoned. That’s because writing is thinking, and we’re never finished with that.
Anyway, I figured out what to do with that long blog post . . .
1/
It’s also not finished because, in the words of Paul Valéry, a piece of writing is never finished. Ultimately it is abandoned. That’s because writing is thinking, and we’re never finished with that.
Anyway, I figured out what to do with that long blog post . . .
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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As the US threatens Venezuela, top military commanders might note that Venezuela is a member of the International Criminal Court and it has refused to sign an "Article 98 waiver" with the US. That means that Americans could be brought before the ICC on war crimes charges.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
As the US threatens Venezuela, top military commanders might note that Venezuela is a member of the International Criminal Court and it has refused to sign an "Article 98 waiver" with the US. That means that Americans could be brought before the ICC on war crimes charges.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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Rule of thumb. If someone says:
"Look, that's just the way things are"
Chances are they are benefitting from an injustice they don't want to talk about.
"Look, that's just the way things are"
Chances are they are benefitting from an injustice they don't want to talk about.
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Rule of thumb. If someone says:
"Look, that's just the way things are"
Chances are they are benefitting from an injustice they don't want to talk about.
"Look, that's just the way things are"
Chances are they are benefitting from an injustice they don't want to talk about.