Steve Potts
@otispott.bsky.social
Lawyer. Believer in democracy and the rule of law.
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For years, ICE has used the latest surveillance technology to target immigrants, now it’s using this technology to target anti-ICE protesters. This is a serious threat to Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
For years, ICE has used the latest surveillance technology to target immigrants, now it’s using this technology to target anti-ICE protesters. This is a serious threat to Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"We wants it. We needs it."
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"We wants it. We needs it."
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December 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The cognitive dissonance here is deafening
CURTIS: All of us need to wake up every morning & say, 'what am I doing to make immigrants feel welcome' regardless of an individual says
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The cognitive dissonance here is deafening
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Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be,
the last of life, for which the first was made.
the last of life, for which the first was made.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be,
the last of life, for which the first was made.
the last of life, for which the first was made.
read HCR's write-up of the Trump Admin's national security strategy released yesterday. It could have been written by Joseph Goebbels.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
read HCR's write-up of the Trump Admin's national security strategy released yesterday. It could have been written by Joseph Goebbels.
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4/ Even worse on these officials account, it seems if the third view is correct, that was a reason to kill the survivors.
You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️
A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.
You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️
A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
4/ Even worse on these officials account, it seems if the third view is correct, that was a reason to kill the survivors.
You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️
A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.
You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️
A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.
It would seem the idea of mounting a *rescue* never entered anyone's mind.
🚨🚨🚨This collapses the one 'argument' Hegseth had against it being a war crime:
"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."
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"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."
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Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It would seem the idea of mounting a *rescue* never entered anyone's mind.
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“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that:
- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship
What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.
- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship
What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.
american reporters, you've got to call bullshit on this. vance, purveyor of hate/propaganda, wants the public to believe rules on, for instance, transparency in advertising and forms of deception on X are censorship.
don't fall for it.
don't fall for it.
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that:
- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship
What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.
- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship
What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.
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As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
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They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
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Ms. Magazine captured so much of what I want to say w/ Man Up in the title of this essay, which is an adapted excerpt from the book & part of a pair of pieces out this week- stay tuned for #2 tomorrow, which is a q&a interview with me & the inimitable Jackson Katz
msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...
msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...
Making the Invisible Visible: How Misogyny Is Driving Rising Political Violence
excerpt from Cynthia Miller-Idriss' Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism, published in September, on men and mass shootings
msmagazine.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ms. Magazine captured so much of what I want to say w/ Man Up in the title of this essay, which is an adapted excerpt from the book & part of a pair of pieces out this week- stay tuned for #2 tomorrow, which is a q&a interview with me & the inimitable Jackson Katz
msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...
msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...
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The conservative grievance business is always hiring: defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was…
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The conservative grievance business is always hiring: defector.com/the-conserva...
my squirrel can beat up your dog
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
my squirrel can beat up your dog
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Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
24 seconds of Rubio speaking to a potted plant
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
24 seconds of Rubio speaking to a potted plant
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If you're just checking in sh*t is still upside down.
November 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you're just checking in sh*t is still upside down.
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It’s tiresome and repetitive but I think it may be imperative every time fascism tells this fundamentally antisemitic lie that every Jew who knows even a bit of what’s what—I know a bit—says explicitly “this isn’t for me. It’s against me & everyone human.”
Statement from U.S. AG Pam Bondi:
“Today’s settlement marks another victory in the Trump Administration’s fight to ensure that American educational institutions protect Jewish students and put merit first…
“Today’s settlement marks another victory in the Trump Administration’s fight to ensure that American educational institutions protect Jewish students and put merit first…
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It’s tiresome and repetitive but I think it may be imperative every time fascism tells this fundamentally antisemitic lie that every Jew who knows even a bit of what’s what—I know a bit—says explicitly “this isn’t for me. It’s against me & everyone human.”
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Trump is taking us into a war so he can steal Venezuela's oil. The U.S. doesn't have a presidency. It has a Mafia-style criminal gang occupying the White House.
Donald Trump says airspace above and around Venezuela is closed
President made declaration in a social media post, after FAA last week warned airlines of ‘worsening security situation’
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Trump is taking us into a war so he can steal Venezuela's oil. The U.S. doesn't have a presidency. It has a Mafia-style criminal gang occupying the White House.
It would be helpful if DHS cut to the chase and posted a list of who counts as a real American.
They're not even bothering to disguise their real aims any longer.
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It would be helpful if DHS cut to the chase and posted a list of who counts as a real American.
Where exactly does one unload half a ton of snail meat?
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
stzl.ink
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Where exactly does one unload half a ton of snail meat?
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If this can be a salad, you can be anything.
November 10, 2024 at 8:37 PM
If this can be a salad, you can be anything.