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Erik of Portland, Governmental Lawlessness Disliker
@erikgunderson.bsky.social
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Bluesky user number 125,860. That and $6.00 can buy me a latte.

Special interests include the Green Bay Packers, Oregon affairs, good wine and bad science fiction movies.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Maybe it's beside the point, but it isn't sedition. It MIGHT be mutiny, or fomenting mutiny, were it not for the explicit disclaimer that the military authority must be "lawful." It'd more likely be a charge under UCMJ Art. 92, failing to obey orders, defensible if the order is manifestly unlawful.
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. 10 U.S. Code § 894 - Art. 94. Mutiny or sedition (a)Any person subject to this chapter who— (1)with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny; (2)with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition; (3)fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Will this be the thing that makes major news outlets finally start to say "Oh wait this guy is actually dangerous? Because one day some malign state actor might murder me and mutilate my corpse beyond recognition if I do journalism he doesn't like. And Trump will blow it off."

No. No, it won't.
The New York Times Nov. 18, 2025, 1:51 p.m. ET BREAKING NEWS [Photograph of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in kayiffeh and dress gold-and-black robe sitting next to Donald Trump before a strangely baroque-looking fireplace in the White House. Photo by Kenny Holston/The New York Times] Headline: Trump Praises Saudi Prince and Dismisses Question About Killing of Journalist Lede: Hosting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Trump brushed off a reporter’s question about the brutal 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents and said, “Things happen.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy (which way should I go?)
The phrase "I voted for Kodos" in Zohran Mamdani campaign sign script Chris Hansen saying " why don't you have a seat right there?" Maslow's pyramid only the various layers are titled from top to bottom : clay, silt, sand, loam, wait wrong triangle. Kent brockman on the simpsons, captioned to say, "Dumb words. Dumb words from a dumb cunt."
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

AYFKM ai could do more but I can only post four images
Metallica master of puppets Madonna true blue Peter gabriel so Paul simon graceland
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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I could write something but it is haram to practice law after consuming intoxicants
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The democrats do not need to attempt to do that. It is Trump's second term after all. The definition of a lame duck officeholder is one who is not eligible to serve again when the current term expires.
An interview between kristen welker and senator john barrasso, an excerpt from senator barrasso's quote is highlighted that describes the.Release of the epstein files as "...an attempt by the democrats to make president trump a lame duck president."
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Oh my this is super fun. Thanks for the tip, @clairewillett.bsky.social
Erik, 55, lives in a townhouse in the heart of Southeast Portland where once stood a nunnery under the watch of the Jesuits, and Amanda Knox's memoir "Free" and the archeological history "Tyrannosaurus Sue" - two books he was reading while practicing law - sit on his coffee table made to host an oversized map of the United States. Erik uses a gold-inked Sharpie marker to identify the ideal year of consumption of every bottle of red wine in one of his two wine racks, like an Aimee Mann song come to life.
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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You know, it's time that we actually see the damn bingo card.
A bingo card. Top row reads "TRUMP TRICKS TO GET OUT OF POLITICAL TROUBLE" superimposed over the letters B-I-N-G-O. Five squares in each column. Column B has: BUT NANCY PELOSI, AMIRITE? CANCEL CHRISTMAS EVIL GUEST AT MAR-A-LAGO FILE A DUMB LAWSUIT THERE'S NO INFLATION ANYMORE Column I has: CANCEL THANKSGIVING SEX SCANDAL INVOLVING A DIFFERENT GUY ATTACK THE MEDIA ILLEGAL ALIENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF US THEY RUINED COLLEGE FOOTBALL Column N has: SUCK UP TO A MURDEROUS DICTATOR SHUT DOWN THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT SAY STUPID SHIT (FREE SPACE) START AN ILLEGAL WAR MUSLIMS WILL BE THE DEATH OF US Column G has: THEY'RE EATING CATS AND DOGS CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS ANTISEMITIC EWW YUCK IT'S A TRANSSEXUAL! DRIVE THE ECONOMY TO THE CELLAR (BLAME BIDEN) RUIN THE KENNEDY CENTER Column O has: BUT HER E-MAILS HANDWAVE AT RELIGION ACTUALLY SHOOT A GUY ON 5TH AVE. LIBERALS ARE THE REAL FASCISTS THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR GUNS
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I'd have swapped out the lede for the headline, myself.
An e-mail from the New York Times. Nov. 12, 2025, 8:38 a.m. ET BREAKING NEWS [Photograph of Donald Trump, wearing his standard navy suit, white shirt, and broad red tie, carrying a folder in his left hand, walking through what appears to be a portion of the White House not yet plastered with tacky gold filigree ornaments over all the walls, at the end of a red carpet in a hallway that appears to approach the press room. Trump appears to be alone and is looking downward as he walks, scowling.] BYLINE (right-justified, below the photograph): Doug Mills/The New York Times HEADLINE: Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct LEDE: In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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You know, it's sort of comforting to know that there are still some limits, some things that the folks on the other side of the aisle simply cannot stomach no matter what. This feels quite far down the barrel, but hey, maybe there actually IS a floor.

Here's a picture of Roy Moore, just for S&G's.
Roy Moore in a cowboy hat and leather vest over a dress shirt and red tie, standing in front of a large American flag, holding a microphone as he ran for U.S. Senate in 2017.
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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But, my cousin lives in an exurb of Seattle, not that much further forth at ~47.2°. This is looking southwest. I do not think he changed any camera settings and told me in conversation he could see the red glow of the aurora with his naked eye.
A red patch of aurora in the night sky above central western Washington state, closer to Mt. Rainier National Park than Seattle, above a single family home. A simple snapshot on a cell phone's default settings.
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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FWIW this is all I got to see in Portland, seven degrees further north than you. This is a 15-second exposure at ISO 800.
A long exposure photograph of a building at night and what might be a luminous cloud above it. Was it a cloud reflecting moonlight and city lights? Was it the aurora? Hard to say.
November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band

(Or in this case, performer, she had a band but it was really just her.)
Sheena Easton as Caitlin Davies in Miami Vice
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I've said it before, I'll say it again now.

Regé-Jean Page is your man.
British actor Regé-Jean Page, absolutely SLAYING a traditional black-tie tuxedo at an awards ceremony.
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Lucy van Pelt from Peanuts, yanking a football out of place from where it had been held up for kicking, with a mischevous smile on her face.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Within a few hours of Margaret Thatcher's statue being put up on a plinth in Grantham, England, a local merchant had set up a stand nearby offering eggs for £10, saying it is what the purported champion of the British free market would have wanted. He had customers.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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We're there any cheers? I would think NFL attendees split right down the political middle.
Trump 1st sitting president to attend regular-season NFL game since Carter ESPN News Services Nov 9, 2025, 07:08 PM ET LANDOVER, Md. -- Donald Trump became the first sitting president in nearly a half-century to attend a regular-season NFL game, making an appearance at the Washington Commanders' contest against the Detroit Lions on Sunday. There were loud boos from some spectators in the stands when Trump was shown on the videoboard late in the first half -- standing in a suite with House Speaker Mike Johnson -- and again when the president was introduced by the stadium announcer at halftime.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Here's the wisdom.

Cut your bread like this, and then a sandwich is a taco.
A hoagie roll, cut most but not all the way through, on a rotating toasting platform.
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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You need to not use AI, ESPN.
History of NFL international efforts When and where was the NFL's first international game? The NFL has held games in other countries for almost 100 years. The first international regular-season game took place in Mexico City in 2005 between the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers. The American Bowl and NFL Europe helped drive international interest through overseas preseason games and developmental training, respectively.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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You probably saw these too!
The view of Pompeii from what used to be the harbor. Ruins of buildings on a hilltop above shrubs and cypress trees, agaibst a painfully blue sky Complex black and white mosaic floor tiles and an inset fountain in a Pompeii villa. A shallow square pool inset into the stone floor of a Pompeii villa's interior. Maroon red paint survives in many places and others have plaster eroded to expose strong and concrete structure. Not nearly enough electrical outlets. The exterior of the amphitheater at Pompeii, with graceful arches of brick supporting the concrete and stone sculpture and a lovely blue sky
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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If you're of a certain age, the phrase "carnivorous dearh ball" conjures up a particular image:
The Beholder, a classic Dungeons & Dragons monster. It is depicted as a living floating orb. With an improbable joker, mouth covered in reptilian, looking scales. It has a large single eye directly above the joker mouth. And what appears to be hair made up of dozens of smaller eyes, on top of fleshy tendrils on the top of its round head/body.
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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$2 a gallon gasoline, you say? If only there was some way to verify that...

gasprices.aaa.com
The map and national averages from https://gasprices.aaa.com/. Oregon is highlighted at $3.858/gallon. National average is $3.084/gallon and rising. State-by-state average prices are listed in five blocs, as follows: 4.691 to 3.249 -- Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington 3.248 to 3.019 -- Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New York, Ohio, Utah, Vermont 3.018 to 2.888 -- Delaware, D.C., Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, West Virginia, Wyoming 2.887 to 2.813 -- Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Virginia, Wisconsin 2.812 to 2.605 -- Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Prices are for 87-octane regular unleaded gas.
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I don't think y'all are ready to talk about this. To me, it suggests a weakness in Democratic GOTV. Even in these amazingly favorable conditions.
Pie chart, titled: NYC Voter Registration, by Party DEM: 3,081,389, 65% REP: 523,178, 11% CON: 19,681, <1% WOR: 19,850, <1% OTH: 72,852, 2% BLANK: 1,024,076, 22% A pie chart, titled "Vote by Candidate" Mamdani: 1,036,051, 50% Sliwa: 146,137, 7% Cuomo: 854,995, 42% Others: 18,738, 1%
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM