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Eric Chandler

@shmof16.bsky.social

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Husband/Father/XC Skier/Writer/Pilot/Veteran. Temporarily immortal. Author of Kekekabic: http://bit.ly/33jIP7r and Hugging This Rock: http://goo.gl/h7CfYh. Angry Shmo Substack: https://ericchandler.substack.com/p/angry-shmo

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 24d

I tried to pay tribute to my dog. ericchandler.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/p...

Pattern of Life

Leo. Somewhere along the Superior Hiking Trail. 2014. It’s empty where you were. Just a big gaping hole. -from “Bloodshot Eyes” by Trampled by Turtles The vet depressed the plunger on one syringe, …

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 4h

Unlawful killings in the Caribbean

illegal spending of government funds and claims to unconstitutional authorities

Illegally directing criminal tax investigators to target political enemies

There is no good faith or plausible argument that any of these acts are not unlawful

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 5h

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12h

tl;dr this is, as I've been screaming into the wind about for a week now, not just illegal as shit but fundamentally means the Constitution as written is no longer in effect

That said if you want an even deeper dive on the subject than I've done, this is a very good thread

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 13h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 1d

Murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 1d

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 1d

They are who everyone thought they were years ago. Deplorables.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kakistocalypse Now @donachaidh.bsky.social · 1d

But don't call them Nazis

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 1d

“The liberty of the press is essential to the security of the state.”
John Adams, Free-Press Clause, Massachusetts Constitution 1780

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

“Policy says reporters cannot obtain or solicit any information the Defense Department does not explicitly authorize. Any media who does not sign by 5 p.m. Tuesday has 24 hours to turn in their media credentials and clear out.”

Absolute fucking abomination.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 2d

If you're going to the No Kings protest in your area on Saturday, you need to know your rights.
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU

The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...

www.aclu.org

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 2d

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 2d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 2d

We have organized a virtual theocracy of land rape wherein all the steps of our iron feet are acceptable if not sacred. I am mindful moment by moment that this is the world I live in. I know the details. Nothing has changed since Mark Twain reminded us that Congress is our only truly criminal class of citizens. They have constructed their own game of canasta in which earth herself is scarcely a dominant factor. -Jim Harrison

Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 2d

“I have learned from Native Americans that we prove that we belong where we live upon the earth only by carefully using, but not destroying, our house.” - Jim Harrison.

www.mensjournal.com/travel/jim-h...

Jim Harrison on The End of Nature

Jim Harrison explores the dissolution of sacred land in America.

www.mensjournal.com

Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 2d

I thought administrative warrants could only be executed in public spaces. I ask because I thought the inside of a car was considered a private space. How are people getting dragged out of cars with administrative warrants and not judicial warrants?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 4d

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat

ARLINGTON, VA—Saying the Pentagon had acted swiftly on an insider tip about the vessel having a “big adventure” planned, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Tuesday that the U.S. military had car...

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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 2d

Fellow U.S. Army veteran @hogwashwriting.bsky.social's novel "Sly Fox Hollow" has bite and humor—just the way we like our cryptids! We were thrilled when he gave "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" an early review!

More info on the anthology: amzn.to/47buzvn

And find Brett Allen's books here! amzn.to/497e6cW

Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · 2d

“You’ll find no pumpkin-spice lattes here. It’s monster season!’””
—Brett Allen, author of the Midwest cryptids novel “Sly Fox Hollow”& the GWOT service comedy “Kilroy Was Here”

Info on the anthology:
- Print: amzn.to/47buzvn
- Kindle: amzn.to/3ZSvQn0

And find Brett's books here! amzn.to/497e6cW

Image: Book cover of "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" anthology features a giant, shambling creature towering over a lone humanoid figure walking through a flowery forest

Text: “[T]he perfect book for the cryptid-curious reader who doesn’t mind losing a little sleep! You’ll find no pumpkin-spice lattes here. It’s monster season!’””
—Brett Allen, author of the Midwest cryptids novel “Sly Fox Hollow”& the GWOT service comedy “Kilroy Was Here”

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

A majority of Chicago residents don’t believe deploying the National Guard is a solution to crime in the city, and oppose the military and National Guard being used to help in deportations, according to findings from a recent survey.

Most Chicagoans think using the National Guard for policing is 'unacceptable,' poll finds

A survey conducted in September reveals that a majority of Chicago residents oppose the National Guard intervening in local policing and deportation efforts.

trib.al

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 2d

This isn’t surprising but without proper ID, I can easily see how it is happening. How do we, as citizens, ensure that proper ID and warrants are required by all Federal employees? I know some states are now requiring it.

ICE impersonator incidents rise during Trump’s second term | CNN

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

www.cnn.com

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of discussion about death and how we lie to ourselves about it in this Pulitzer Prize winner.

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 5d

“There is no doubt that creative work is itself done under a compulsion often indistinguishable from a purely clinical obsession.” — Ernest Becker #sundaysentence

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sorry. Strange days.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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