Wonk_arama
@wonkarama.bsky.social
I am not confused. I am deeply committed to a range of mutually exclusive positions on many topics. All my opinions are meh. Consternated in the extreme. Words putting into sentences making guy.
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· Nov 11
My brain is a committee; 3 are playing on their phones, one is arguing with a plastic plant & the rest have gone off in search of biscuits.
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
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I know it’s all about protecting the dear leader but clearly Ben didn’t think through at the implications of what he is saying.
I mean....if being a child rapist destroys a presidency, then maybe, JUST maybe the guy shouldn't be president. Also, FUCK Ben Shapiro. Fucking whiny ass pansy bitch.
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I know it’s all about protecting the dear leader but clearly Ben didn’t think through at the implications of what he is saying.
A plan language reading of the text of the 14th Amendment, the 1866 House debates, and a subsequent Supreme Court precedent which when taken together in normal times would settle the matter, but with the Roberts Court who knows.
The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional, offering the justices an opportunity to revisit w...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A plan language reading of the text of the 14th Amendment, the 1866 House debates, and a subsequent Supreme Court precedent which when taken together in normal times would settle the matter, but with the Roberts Court who knows.
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NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
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The Signalgate report showed that Hegseth risked American lives. Instead of taking responsibility, his sniveling responses were the worst kind of bureaucratic ass-covering.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses
His evasive responses to Signalgate are shameful nonsense.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The Signalgate report showed that Hegseth risked American lives. Instead of taking responsibility, his sniveling responses were the worst kind of bureaucratic ass-covering.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A fair response really.
HAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
NEW: The Trump Justice Department failed to secure an indictment today against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
December 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A fair response really.
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
I wish the media would push back to Trump on this story
1. There is no power in law or any case in historical precedent that allows for a President to cancel a predecessor’s pardons, and
2. Ask him about the Binance founder he pardoned, the guy he said *on camera* “I don’t know”.
1. There is no power in law or any case in historical precedent that allows for a President to cancel a predecessor’s pardons, and
2. Ask him about the Binance founder he pardoned, the guy he said *on camera* “I don’t know”.
Trump says he's terminating any Biden pardons signed with autopen reut.rs/3MB5hPn
Trump says he's terminating any Biden pardons signed with autopen
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden had signed using an autopen, a move that legal experts doubted would hold up in court.
reut.rs
December 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I wish the media would push back to Trump on this story
1. There is no power in law or any case in historical precedent that allows for a President to cancel a predecessor’s pardons, and
2. Ask him about the Binance founder he pardoned, the guy he said *on camera* “I don’t know”.
1. There is no power in law or any case in historical precedent that allows for a President to cancel a predecessor’s pardons, and
2. Ask him about the Binance founder he pardoned, the guy he said *on camera* “I don’t know”.
Delusional
Noem: You made it through the hurricane season without a hurricane—you kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that.
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Delusional
Dig up.
Hegseth: I watch that first strike live. At the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do so I did not stick around. Couple of hours later, I learned that commander had made -- which he had the complete authority to do, he made the correct decision to sink the boat and eliminated the threat.
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Dig up.
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The “kill them all” order by SecDef Hegseth would be a textbook war crime even if the original attack had been legal.
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The “kill them all” order by SecDef Hegseth would be a textbook war crime even if the original attack had been legal.
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Tom Nichols: “There is no scenario under which you can fire and kill, fire at people that are helpless in the water, and make it legal. There just isn’t.”
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Tom Nichols: “There is no scenario under which you can fire and kill, fire at people that are helpless in the water, and make it legal. There just isn’t.”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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It me. It soooo me.
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It me. It soooo me.
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NEW: With nine justices, every vote matters. In Monday's argument, the ground began shifting.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is bringing legislative history back to the Supreme Court.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is bringing legislative history back to the Supreme Court.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
With nine justices, every vote matters. In Monday's argument, the ground began shifting.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is bringing legislative history back to the Supreme Court. Also: It's World AIDS Day, regardless of what the Trump administration says.
www.lawdork.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
NEW: With nine justices, every vote matters. In Monday's argument, the ground began shifting.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is bringing legislative history back to the Supreme Court.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is bringing legislative history back to the Supreme Court.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
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She seems nice
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
She seems nice
For those officers in the chain of command for the unlawful orders already given and those likely still to come, if the dubious legal and moral nature of those orders isn’t enough to give you pause, then surely the Trump Admin’s willingness to throw you under the bus has to be worth worrying about.
Admiral ordered lawful second strike on alleged drug boat, White House says
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Admiral ordered lawful second strike on alleged drug boat, White House says
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December 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
For those officers in the chain of command for the unlawful orders already given and those likely still to come, if the dubious legal and moral nature of those orders isn’t enough to give you pause, then surely the Trump Admin’s willingness to throw you under the bus has to be worth worrying about.
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It is truly undersold how much Mike Johnson controls the country but he's like literally just some rando that ended up there through truly abstract reasons and just being some guy
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It is truly undersold how much Mike Johnson controls the country but he's like literally just some rando that ended up there through truly abstract reasons and just being some guy