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The Captain
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A fool who believes in the triumph of Good over Evil.

#WeThePeople are the Teeth of the Constitution.
🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🇺🇸

Former journo, Software Dev. Recovering Republican.

https://youtube.com/@emporiumofthearcane
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Dear Senator Cassidy,

“We” didn’t. WE didn’t pardon anyone. HE did. The President of the United States pardoned him. Come on Bill, say his name. Who’s our president? Say his name.

Best,

Your Former Congressional Colleague
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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BREAKING: We won! 3rd Circuit affirms illegality of Habba appointment

We @democracydefendersfund.org are honored to work on this case with the wonderful folks at Lowell & Associates, Gerald Krovatin & many others 👇
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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🇩🇰 Danish Armed Forces have 122 photos of six Russian ships in the area of ​​the blown up Nord Stream gas pipeline four days before the explosion. One of the ships, the SS-750, had a mini-submarine on board, - FAS
November 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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As former Bush OLC leader Jack Goldsmith writes, the DOD manual prohibits killing shipwrecked enemies. If reporting is correct, killing helpless men clinging to boats was a war crime.
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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“….WAR CRIME…”
As former Bush OLC leader Jack Goldsmith writes, the DOD manual prohibits killing shipwrecked enemies. If reporting is correct, killing helpless men clinging to boats was a war crime.
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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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.
November 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I have so much vacation time at work my boss just video called me to tell me I really need to take the whole month off to use my time lol.

Guess I’ll be on holiday the whole month!
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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For months, Steve Witkoff and Kirill Dimitriev have been cooking up how extract as much as possible for 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇸 through a deal about 🇺🇦 without 🇺🇦!

Watch my analysis right here👇
open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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JD Vance inspires agreement on one thing: he’d be the worst road-trip companion in American politics. George Packer even puts Ted Cruz above him.
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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"We have an utterly lawless administration at home and abroad. Do we just have to live with it for at least three more years?" Well, *someone* could do something. A few hundred folks in the Capitol.

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
Sex Crimes. State Crimes. War Crimes.
We’re detecting a pattern with this administration.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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These issues aren’t partisan. They strike at the rule-of-law foundation the intelligence community relies on. Gutting career counsel, eroding oversight, and politicizing intelligence are classic authoritarian markers with serious national-security implications

theiceman.substack.com/p/the-cia-is...
Weekend Read: How the CIA Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Partisanship
A politically charged shooting, a public attack on a senator, and an internal revolt over a new covert war reveal an agency crossing lines it once swore to avoid.
theiceman.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Issues the GOP has broken with Trump on in the last month:

Epstein
Healthcare
Redistricting
Hegseth’s war crimes

He’s losing every ounce of support he had.

It’s a matter of time.
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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It’s not a stretch to say that my former political party is now firmly pro-Russia/pro-Putin. Not a stretch at all. It’s traitorous, but it’s true. Look, the leader of my former political party works for Putin. He’s on Putin’s side. Always has been. And the party has followed him.
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Londoners ‘take back’ bridge following white nationalist rally in same spot #London #Ontario

Roughly 30 men stood on the Wortley Road overpass holding a “remigration now” sign on Nov. 23

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Londoners ‘take back’ bridge following white nationalist rally in same spot | CBC News
Dozens of Londoners gathered on the Wortley Road overpass Sunday afternoon to spread a message of "community." Their party is in response to a demonstration on Nov. 23, where roughly 30 masked men sto...
www.cbc.ca
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Everyone saw this coming.

Trump stiffed his contractors, then fell out w/his architect because he refused to back his demand for a ballroom bigger than the WH.

And those corporate donations he keeps bragging about are pledges, not real money. Taxpayers will end up on the hook one way or another.
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Never forget:

The Oct 18 No Kings Rally pissed Trump off so much he demolished the White House’s east wing that weekend, in a critical and utterly miscalculated PR disaster.

Don’t tell me the protests didn’t matter.

After that, Dems swept the elections.
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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You know, the real kitchen table issues like Christianity and country music…
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
We’re in the denouement.
December 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Early Data Shows U.S. Black Friday In-Store Traffic Down 3.6% YoY, as Shoppers Delay Big Purchases and Prioritize Essentials, According to RetailNext-bw
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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This post is illegal as it violates the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of Venezuela. Meddlong in the internal affairs of a foreign nation is illegal and an act of war.
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Here we go… 🥂
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM