The Questionable Authority
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Father, Army Husband (Ret.), lawyer. KUSK alum; public servant. Litigation disaster tour guide. Odd Fellow (and odd fellow). Proud member of the terminally online community since 1993. he/him
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Let me introduce you to a thing called "pen and paper"
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Let me introduce you to a thing called "pen and paper"
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There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.
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it is going to be a big weekend for Republicans being too busy to read Trump's posts
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
it is going to be a big weekend for Republicans being too busy to read Trump's posts
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My brother has agreed that Kegsbreath can't drink well enough to keep up with seebees, and suggested that his actual problem is that he has the cocaine levels of "the average Leonard Wood strip club manager."
I don't know who is winning.
I don't know who is winning.
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My brother has agreed that Kegsbreath can't drink well enough to keep up with seebees, and suggested that his actual problem is that he has the cocaine levels of "the average Leonard Wood strip club manager."
I don't know who is winning.
I don't know who is winning.
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Although, credit where due, my brother attempted to deploy the former service affiliation of the secretary of defense, and my wife responded by suggesting that he has maybe half the ethanol-related issues of the average seebee.
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Although, credit where due, my brother attempted to deploy the former service affiliation of the secretary of defense, and my wife responded by suggesting that he has maybe half the ethanol-related issues of the average seebee.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Hawaiian monk seal
humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa
Balinese long-tailed macque
black bear
Drosophila grimshawi
Hawaiian monk seal
humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa
Balinese long-tailed macque
black bear
Drosophila grimshawi
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
black bear
fox
groundhog
raccoon
opossum
bonus bird: some sort of gigantic, gold-colored raptor, seen in Central Park from about 15' away. I was catcher in a softball game, and it landed on the backstop. We all just gaped in awe.
black bear
fox
groundhog
raccoon
opossum
bonus bird: some sort of gigantic, gold-colored raptor, seen in Central Park from about 15' away. I was catcher in a softball game, and it landed on the backstop. We all just gaped in awe.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Moose
Black bears
Beluga whales
Lynx
Muskox
(Look, obviously I was going to lean into the Alaskan card here, guys...)
Moose
Black bears
Beluga whales
Lynx
Muskox
(Look, obviously I was going to lean into the Alaskan card here, guys...)
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Hawaiian monk seal
humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa
Balinese long-tailed macque
black bear
Drosophila grimshawi
Hawaiian monk seal
humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa
Balinese long-tailed macque
black bear
Drosophila grimshawi
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In similar vein:
Kill the [b]oys and the luggage!
'tis expressly
against the law of arms:'tis as arrant a piece of
knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't
Kill the [b]oys and the luggage!
'tis expressly
against the law of arms:'tis as arrant a piece of
knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't
Henry V's order to slaughter prisoners at Agincourt was plausibly legal, given the relative size of forces, lack of clear intelligence, and the assault on his camp.
But even at the time that was controversial, and has remained so since.
But even at the time that was controversial, and has remained so since.
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" wasn't "havoc" in just the modern sense of chaos, it was a particular order that was understood as heinous even in Shakespeare's day, authorization after battle was over to slaughter and pillage, both debilitated enemies and noncombatants, without restraint.
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
In similar vein:
Kill the [b]oys and the luggage!
'tis expressly
against the law of arms:'tis as arrant a piece of
knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't
Kill the [b]oys and the luggage!
'tis expressly
against the law of arms:'tis as arrant a piece of
knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't
My wife, who was in the Army, and my brother, who was in the Navy, have begun their annual two weeks of football shittalk. In a family group chat that I really can't block.
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
My wife, who was in the Army, and my brother, who was in the Navy, have begun their annual two weeks of football shittalk. In a family group chat that I really can't block.
Henry V's order to slaughter prisoners at Agincourt was plausibly legal, given the relative size of forces, lack of clear intelligence, and the assault on his camp.
But even at the time that was controversial, and has remained so since.
But even at the time that was controversial, and has remained so since.
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" wasn't "havoc" in just the modern sense of chaos, it was a particular order that was understood as heinous even in Shakespeare's day, authorization after battle was over to slaughter and pillage, both debilitated enemies and noncombatants, without restraint.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Henry V's order to slaughter prisoners at Agincourt was plausibly legal, given the relative size of forces, lack of clear intelligence, and the assault on his camp.
But even at the time that was controversial, and has remained so since.
But even at the time that was controversial, and has remained so since.
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Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
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Loving how @washingtonpost.com is using AI. Very innovative.
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Loving how @washingtonpost.com is using AI. Very innovative.
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Stephen Miller is trying to rebuild white supremacy in America, to make it the explicit law of the land that if you are not white, you are inferior and you should be persecuted by the government, your citizenship removed, and probably deported from the country.
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Stephen Miller is trying to rebuild white supremacy in America, to make it the explicit law of the land that if you are not white, you are inferior and you should be persecuted by the government, your citizenship removed, and probably deported from the country.
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"And their descendants"
The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"And their descendants"
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I reiterate something I said a while back:
You’ll often be hard pressed to find a better citizen of these United States than one who came from somewhere else.
You’ll often be hard pressed to find a better citizen of these United States than one who came from somewhere else.
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I reiterate something I said a while back:
You’ll often be hard pressed to find a better citizen of these United States than one who came from somewhere else.
You’ll often be hard pressed to find a better citizen of these United States than one who came from somewhere else.
And with tears in his eyes, Jonathan drove off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage...
And I have continued my annual tradition - trying to drop garbage off at the local dump on Thanksgiving - but it was closed again - who ever heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving?
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
And with tears in his eyes, Jonathan drove off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage...
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What a pointless tragedy.
BREAKING: President Donald Trump says West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from wounds in the Washington, D.C., attack.
Afghan national charged in Guard ambush shooting drove across US to carry out attack, officials say
An Afghan national has been accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
What a pointless tragedy.
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
"Taking a whole continent..."??
I'm sorry, do you have us confused with Australia?
I'm sorry, do you have us confused with Australia?
taking a whole continent as yours and yours only is the the central point of a whole ideological discourse about unitedstatesian exceptionalism and the supposed right of USA on putting your nose in every other american country
November 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"Taking a whole continent..."??
I'm sorry, do you have us confused with Australia?
I'm sorry, do you have us confused with Australia?
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Gabriel.
you’re missing the whole point
CALLING YOURSELVES AMERICANS IS THE MOST IMPERIALISTIC THING YOU CAN THINK OF
how can you people not see such an obvious thing?
CALLING YOURSELVES AMERICANS IS THE MOST IMPERIALISTIC THING YOU CAN THINK OF
how can you people not see such an obvious thing?
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Gabriel.
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So now we have happy American officers, field grade and up, behind trays of American Thanksgiving food, in their dress blues, ribbons and all, ready to dish out food to the British soldiers.
Who are now sitting at Officer's Mess tables that had been fully set with Officer's Mess stuff.
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Who are now sitting at Officer's Mess tables that had been fully set with Officer's Mess stuff.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
So now we have happy American officers, field grade and up, behind trays of American Thanksgiving food, in their dress blues, ribbons and all, ready to dish out food to the British soldiers.
Who are now sitting at Officer's Mess tables that had been fully set with Officer's Mess stuff.
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Who are now sitting at Officer's Mess tables that had been fully set with Officer's Mess stuff.
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Because, friends, say "American as apple pie" all you want, but if you are nearing the start of the traditional tryptophan coma, there are only two pies that are truly worthy of being served at Thanksgiving - and this has been proven by international experimentation.
Pecan and Pumpkin win.
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Pecan and Pumpkin win.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Because, friends, say "American as apple pie" all you want, but if you are nearing the start of the traditional tryptophan coma, there are only two pies that are truly worthy of being served at Thanksgiving - and this has been proven by international experimentation.
Pecan and Pumpkin win.
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Pecan and Pumpkin win.
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Hey, @questauthority.bsky.social it's time, innit?
Hit play, and sing along, would alla youse?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaKI...
It all started two thanksgivings ago...
Hit play, and sing along, would alla youse?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaKI...
It all started two thanksgivings ago...
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
YouTube video by Arlo Guthrie - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Hey, @questauthority.bsky.social it's time, innit?
Hit play, and sing along, would alla youse?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaKI...
It all started two thanksgivings ago...
Hit play, and sing along, would alla youse?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaKI...
It all started two thanksgivings ago...
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This is a wonderful story.
When I lived in the UK I was a thanksgiving consultant for Australian friends and I had a blast.
When I lived in the UK I was a thanksgiving consultant for Australian friends and I had a blast.
OK - pie discourse - best pie story:
In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This is a wonderful story.
When I lived in the UK I was a thanksgiving consultant for Australian friends and I had a blast.
When I lived in the UK I was a thanksgiving consultant for Australian friends and I had a blast.
About 1000 vets here for the meal, and 500 boxes for unhoused people and those unable to come.
Doing Thanksgiving dinner at scale this year - at the VA.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
About 1000 vets here for the meal, and 500 boxes for unhoused people and those unable to come.
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Also I've run into a bunch of people from my Odd Fellows lodge, one or two from the FLGS, and I think one of my law school classmates is wandering around somewhere.
I love this place.
I love this place.
November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Also I've run into a bunch of people from my Odd Fellows lodge, one or two from the FLGS, and I think one of my law school classmates is wandering around somewhere.
I love this place.
I love this place.