Mark von Wahlde
markvonwahlde.bsky.social
Mark von Wahlde
@markvonwahlde.bsky.social
Relatively inactive lawyer.
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USA today!
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Here is that Commander who was "just following orders."
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Today is a very bad day. We have learned that Hegseth ordered the killing of people clinging to the wreck of the boat he ordered destroyed. If a straightforward, open, and thorough investigation of this alleged crime is not immediately commenced, we know we have an atrocity on our hands.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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This statement is way outside of CIA’s lane and erosive of the ethical norm that intelligence should be non-partisan. If that norm vanishes, intelligence loses a very large portion of its value.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump for putting National Guard troops in harm's way domestically for no reason.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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I hope your Thanksgiving meal is as elegantly prepared and presented as Ghislaine Maxwell's. Glory!
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Private fundraising for presidential transitions and inaugural galas is an invitation to patronage and corruption.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Donors to Trump’s Transition Revealed a Year Later
A 46-person list includes billionaires and people he went on to appoint to positions of power.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Big news today: Chris Duncan, who spent decades on Louisiana's death row on 'junk science' until his conviction was overturned this spring, is being released today.

You'll remember this story from a few months ago, when his conviction was overturned: boltsmag.org/chris-duncan...
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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The FBI’s operations guidelines forbid initiating an investigation on the basis of First Amendment protected activity.
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
FBI probes Democratic lawmakers who warned against 'illegal' military orders, Slotkin says
President Trump is using "the FBI against us" for telling military members they can defy "illegal" orders, Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin said Tuesday.
www.detroitnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Yep. I've been waiting for EU spooks to start reminding Trump that they've got their own capabilities.
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:

1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.

2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.

3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Quiet, piggy
Trump on Pritzker: "The governor is a big fat slob"
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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"a high-ranking employee of the French Government"
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Periodic reminder that the original head of Hillsdale College divorced his first wife to marry his mistress, an employee.

While married to wife #2 he was alleged to have had an affair with his own son’s wife who committed suicide on campus.

They’d prefer you not know all that though.
This is the academic institution that is playing the most significant role in shaping the official celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding. dc.hillsdale.edu/News/Hillsda...
Hillsdale College Partners with the White House America 250 Task Force to Produce a New Educational
dc.hillsdale.edu
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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“The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office”

Excellent piece from @sophiegilbert.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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#ResistanceRoots

Pauli Murray was born on this day in 1910 in Baltimore, Md. She was a pioneering legal scholar and activist who helped shape the intellectual foundations of the civil rights and women’s rights movements and became the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. /1
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.

Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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People are asking ”well if the court dismisses the Comey indictment for various kinds of fuckmuppetry by the moronic and debased Trump Justice Department, the statute of limitations has run and so Comey is free, right?

It depends on the particular kind of fuckmuppetry.

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November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading.

This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I think Trump is going to change his name to "REDACTED".
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Turns out that the $16MM payoff ABC made to Trump bought them only a few months' reprieve. Weird how that happens.
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM