PJ McIlvaine
@pjmacwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Screenwriter. Author. Dragon Rider. My personal website is https://pjmacwriter.com/ I'm a writing beast. And I make good trouble. Looking for her champion for her books and screenplays.
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PJ McIlvaine
@pjmacwriter.bsky.social
· Oct 1
#booksky
Do you like a good murder?
So long as you're not the victim.
In my twisty, gritty, contemp adult psych thriller, bodies drop like flies. It's a heady mix of pop culture, elevated pulp fiction, & secrets galore.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CDB4SSQS/
Do you like a good murder?
So long as you're not the victim.
In my twisty, gritty, contemp adult psych thriller, bodies drop like flies. It's a heady mix of pop culture, elevated pulp fiction, & secrets galore.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CDB4SSQS/
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
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Keystone Kash Tantrum Exposed in Bombshell Dossier on His ‘F***ed Up’ FBI #KashPatel www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kas... via @thedailybeast
Keystone Kash Tantrum Exposed in Bombshell Dossier on His ‘F***ed Up’ FBI
President Trump’s FBI director is described as an “insecure” poser in a report compiled by both active-duty and retired agents.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Keystone Kash Tantrum Exposed in Bombshell Dossier on His ‘F***ed Up’ FBI #KashPatel www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kas... via @thedailybeast
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This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020.
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
Leavitt: "The people of Honduras have highlighted to him how the former President Hernandez was set up. This was a clear Biden over prosecution."
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020.
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
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🚨 On Sunday, November 23, U.S. Border Patrol illegally entered the No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid station and arrested three people who were receiving aid, without a warrant.
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🚨 On Sunday, November 23, U.S. Border Patrol illegally entered the No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid station and arrested three people who were receiving aid, without a warrant.
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one of the problems I have with Democrats (and other critics) labeling these "war crimes" is that it accepts the underlying claim that the people being murdered are enemy combatants. They're not! it's just murder!
Fox News' Joey Jones justifies the US military killing survivors after an initial boat strike: "An enemy combatant does not have to have a gun to be a danger or a threat... if you leave anybody alive, they can signal and let others know what’s happening and they can also retaliate through radio."
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
one of the problems I have with Democrats (and other critics) labeling these "war crimes" is that it accepts the underlying claim that the people being murdered are enemy combatants. They're not! it's just murder!
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Come for the description of Rahmanullah Lakanwa
feeling abandoned by the CIA.
Stay for the description of the entire group feeling abandoned by John Ratcliffe's attempt to disown the murder.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
feeling abandoned by the CIA.
Stay for the description of the entire group feeling abandoned by John Ratcliffe's attempt to disown the murder.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Come for the description of Rahmanullah Lakanwa
feeling abandoned by the CIA.
Stay for the description of the entire group feeling abandoned by John Ratcliffe's attempt to disown the murder.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
feeling abandoned by the CIA.
Stay for the description of the entire group feeling abandoned by John Ratcliffe's attempt to disown the murder.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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FYI: the EXAMPLE of what a war crime is in the DoD Law of War manual is EXACTLY what Hegseth did. bsky.app/profile/jjin...
⚖️ DoD Law of War Manual, page 1075:
"For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."
ogc.osd.mil/Portals/99/d...
"For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."
ogc.osd.mil/Portals/99/d...
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
FYI: the EXAMPLE of what a war crime is in the DoD Law of War manual is EXACTLY what Hegseth did. bsky.app/profile/jjin...
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Per a new report, Kash Patel refused to exit his plane without an FBI jacket, but the only one that would fit him was a woman’s jacket. Then he demanded SWAT patches for it. www.scribd.com/document/958...
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Per a new report, Kash Patel refused to exit his plane without an FBI jacket, but the only one that would fit him was a woman’s jacket. Then he demanded SWAT patches for it. www.scribd.com/document/958...
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News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
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Sadly relevant today.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sadly relevant today.
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“DOUBLE INDEMNITY” (1944) dir. Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall
🎬 #Noirvember
📽 Paramount Pictures
🎞 #FilmNoir
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall
🎬 #Noirvember
📽 Paramount Pictures
🎞 #FilmNoir
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“DOUBLE INDEMNITY” (1944) dir. Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall
🎬 #Noirvember
📽 Paramount Pictures
🎞 #FilmNoir
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall
🎬 #Noirvember
📽 Paramount Pictures
🎞 #FilmNoir
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"I could stand in the middle of 5th Ave and shoot somebody and not lose this guy's support." ~ Donald Trump
"And I could have a journalist dismembered in Turkey and not lose his support." ~ MBS
"And I could have a journalist dismembered in Turkey and not lose his support." ~ MBS
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Ave and shoot somebody and not lose this guy's support." ~ Donald Trump
"And I could have a journalist dismembered in Turkey and not lose his support." ~ MBS
"And I could have a journalist dismembered in Turkey and not lose his support." ~ MBS
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Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.
“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
By @keribla.bsky.social
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.
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No Habba job. Sad!
Breaking News: A federal court said that Alina Habba, a Trump-appointed lawyer, had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. She was neither confirmed by the Senate nor appointed by district trial court judges — the two traditional pathways.
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba, Former Trump Lawyer, Is Serving Unlawfully as U.S. Attorney
The judges wrote that the Trump Administration appeared to have become frustrated by legal and political barriers that have prevented its preferred U.S. attorneys from leading federal prosecutors’ offices.
nyti.ms
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
No Habba job. Sad!
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trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
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Note that Abbe Lowell argued this for the defendants.
He, of course, also represents Latitia James in EDVA. (He also just joined SEIU CA President David Huerta's case in CA, where he's being prosecuted by another of these dress-up US Attorneys.)
He, of course, also represents Latitia James in EDVA. (He also just joined SEIU CA President David Huerta's case in CA, where he's being prosecuted by another of these dress-up US Attorneys.)
BREAKING: 1st appeals court decision on controversial temporary US Attorney installations goes against Trump, 3-0. 3rd Circuit rejects bid to make Trump lawyer Alina Habba acting US attorney. Restrepo/ Smith/Fisher (Obama/GWB/GWB) Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
HabbaOpn120125
www.documentcloud.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Note that Abbe Lowell argued this for the defendants.
He, of course, also represents Latitia James in EDVA. (He also just joined SEIU CA President David Huerta's case in CA, where he's being prosecuted by another of these dress-up US Attorneys.)
He, of course, also represents Latitia James in EDVA. (He also just joined SEIU CA President David Huerta's case in CA, where he's being prosecuted by another of these dress-up US Attorneys.)
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My bad, 400 tons. Over the course of nearly 20 years!
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
My bad, 400 tons. Over the course of nearly 20 years!
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‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
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He was regular beaten with a plastic pipe and survived on a paltry diet of ground-up fish heads: The horrors of Ukraine's "civilian hostages" seized and held in Russia's modern gulag. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/w...
The Ukrainians Stuck in Russia’s New Gulag
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
He was regular beaten with a plastic pipe and survived on a paltry diet of ground-up fish heads: The horrors of Ukraine's "civilian hostages" seized and held in Russia's modern gulag. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/w...
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"Trump has been functioning as a dictator...but it’s a vulnerable dictatorship. Virtually none of these abuses are popular with the American people...and it’s coming home to roost for Trump."
On the pod, @davidrlurie.com is good on Trump as weak, failing autocrat:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
On the pod, @davidrlurie.com is good on Trump as weak, failing autocrat:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump’s Fury at NYT Explodes amid Fresh Concerns about Mental Decline
As Trump’s rage at the paper of record reveals too much, the author of piece on Trump as “lame duck dictator” explains how devastating it is for him that his carefully-cultivated illusion of strength ...
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"Trump has been functioning as a dictator...but it’s a vulnerable dictatorship. Virtually none of these abuses are popular with the American people...and it’s coming home to roost for Trump."
On the pod, @davidrlurie.com is good on Trump as weak, failing autocrat:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
On the pod, @davidrlurie.com is good on Trump as weak, failing autocrat:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
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This.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
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It is true that no one has grasped this scope.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
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 1:06 PM
It is true that no one has grasped this scope.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
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Starting //// going
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Starting //// going