Innocent🕷Abroad
@jjgass.bsky.social
US lawyer living in England. Previously lived in 日本, NL, France. Motorbikes, cricket, opera, etc. He/him. Jew.
Pinned
Grateful to the International Bar Association for helping keep my nationality on the DL at the Toronto annual conference
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I saw someone call her
Megyn R. Kelly
And I swear to god I am fighting for my goddamn life in right now 😂😂💀💀💀
Megyn R. Kelly
And I swear to god I am fighting for my goddamn life in right now 😂😂💀💀💀
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I saw someone call her
Megyn R. Kelly
And I swear to god I am fighting for my goddamn life in right now 😂😂💀💀💀
Megyn R. Kelly
And I swear to god I am fighting for my goddamn life in right now 😂😂💀💀💀
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do we think that with enough pressure we can get them to do a u-turn on the u-turn before the Budget, end up getting Reeves pirouetting at the despatch box like a haunted marionette
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
do we think that with enough pressure we can get them to do a u-turn on the u-turn before the Budget, end up getting Reeves pirouetting at the despatch box like a haunted marionette
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This swan doesn’t cross picket lines @sbworkersunited.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
This swan doesn’t cross picket lines @sbworkersunited.org
I’m pretty sure I pay the top marginal rate, & may I just say: bollocks to this.
I know they made a (dumb & unnecessary) manifesto promise not to raise taxes. Keeping the promise the only decent reason I can think of against raising the top rate. Is that enough? Not for me.
I know they made a (dumb & unnecessary) manifesto promise not to raise taxes. Keeping the promise the only decent reason I can think of against raising the top rate. Is that enough? Not for me.
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I’m pretty sure I pay the top marginal rate, & may I just say: bollocks to this.
I know they made a (dumb & unnecessary) manifesto promise not to raise taxes. Keeping the promise the only decent reason I can think of against raising the top rate. Is that enough? Not for me.
I know they made a (dumb & unnecessary) manifesto promise not to raise taxes. Keeping the promise the only decent reason I can think of against raising the top rate. Is that enough? Not for me.
I don’t see why we’re making a big deal about this.
It’s not like he was a trans woman.
It’s not like he was a trans woman.
Drunk border patrol agent was in a womens restroom with a loaded gun + one in the chamber
then wandering the parking lot of a restaurant with his gun out then resisted police and threw the fucking thing *loaded*
The police tried to deny giving any of this info but this indie newsroom prevailed!
then wandering the parking lot of a restaurant with his gun out then resisted police and threw the fucking thing *loaded*
The police tried to deny giving any of this info but this indie newsroom prevailed!
A Border Patrol agent accused of drunkenly fighting with Long Beach police overdosed weeks after his arrest, according to his lawyer. New body-camera footage shows what he told the cops who'd wrestled him into custody: lbpost.com/news/isaiah-hodgson-drunk-border-patrol-arrest-long-beach-overdose/
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I don’t see why we’re making a big deal about this.
It’s not like he was a trans woman.
It’s not like he was a trans woman.
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Je croyais que c’était seulement les impôts sur les riches qui pouvaient donner envie aux gens de quitter leur pays !
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Je croyais que c’était seulement les impôts sur les riches qui pouvaient donner envie aux gens de quitter leur pays !
TIL the best part 10% of all the human beings in the United States at any given moment are “illegal immigrants”
If there are that many, you’d think some of them would, just by chance, be involved in building houses, including houses that American citizens live in.
If there are that many, you’d think some of them would, just by chance, be involved in building houses, including houses that American citizens live in.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
TIL the best part 10% of all the human beings in the United States at any given moment are “illegal immigrants”
If there are that many, you’d think some of them would, just by chance, be involved in building houses, including houses that American citizens live in.
If there are that many, you’d think some of them would, just by chance, be involved in building houses, including houses that American citizens live in.
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Is this pedantry or ephebantry?
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Is this pedantry or ephebantry?
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Even “barely legal” is reprehensible. If we step back for a second, put Epstein & Trump out of our minds, & ask what we think about a man in his 30s, 40s, or 50s who targets 16- 18-year-olds or whatever the state’s age of consent is, EVERYBODY would agree such a man shouldn’t be president.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Even “barely legal” is reprehensible. If we step back for a second, put Epstein & Trump out of our minds, & ask what we think about a man in his 30s, 40s, or 50s who targets 16- 18-year-olds or whatever the state’s age of consent is, EVERYBODY would agree such a man shouldn’t be president.
THANK YOU!!!
![4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Some people like to be the big spoon. (2) PERSON 1: Some people like to be the little spoon. (3) [two sets of spoons that don’t lay flat against each other, one arranged with the little one on top of the big one, the other with the big spoon on top of the little spoon] PERSON 1: And some brave truth-tellers point out that the metaphor makes no sense because different-sized spoons don’t nest right *either* way. You nest *same*-sized spoons. (4) PERSON: ...And apparently *we* sleep on the couch. PERSON 2 off-screen: Why are you *still* going on about the spoon thing? PERSON 1: Because I’m *right!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicfq5lrhnknblf2ycalxk2vctpeqjzy566xxqjy2xsm67ys5of3j4@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
THANK YOU!!!
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Middle-aged men systematically having sex—even ostensibly consensual—with teenagers—even of “barely legal” age—is bad.
And being in the inner circle of a man infamous for that behavior—even if we assume against the evidence that Trump didn’t partake—would be disqualifying for any political office.
And being in the inner circle of a man infamous for that behavior—even if we assume against the evidence that Trump didn’t partake—would be disqualifying for any political office.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Middle-aged men systematically having sex—even ostensibly consensual—with teenagers—even of “barely legal” age—is bad.
And being in the inner circle of a man infamous for that behavior—even if we assume against the evidence that Trump didn’t partake—would be disqualifying for any political office.
And being in the inner circle of a man infamous for that behavior—even if we assume against the evidence that Trump didn’t partake—would be disqualifying for any political office.
Any reporter: “What passage in the Bible are you referring to?”
Please. Just ask the obvious questions. We’re not asking for brilliance.
Please. Just ask the obvious questions. We’re not asking for brilliance.
Trump: The bible tells us that one of the measures of any society is how it cares for vulnerable children and orphans—so important and so big in the bible.
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Any reporter: “What passage in the Bible are you referring to?”
Please. Just ask the obvious questions. We’re not asking for brilliance.
Please. Just ask the obvious questions. We’re not asking for brilliance.
Today isn’t, either.
As for tomorrow….
You know what? Lemme get back to you. Until you hear otherwise, just assume this applies every day.
As for tomorrow….
You know what? Lemme get back to you. Until you hear otherwise, just assume this applies every day.
Some days, I feel like resisting the oft-expressed sentiment that men suck.
Today is not one of those days.
Today is not one of those days.
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today isn’t, either.
As for tomorrow….
You know what? Lemme get back to you. Until you hear otherwise, just assume this applies every day.
As for tomorrow….
You know what? Lemme get back to you. Until you hear otherwise, just assume this applies every day.
Credit where due for a media outlet skeet/headline
Trump administration sues California over its redistricting plan, months after a similar GOP-led effort in Texas met no resistance from the DOJ
https://cnn.it/4hYuE9J
https://cnn.it/4hYuE9J
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Credit where due for a media outlet skeet/headline
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I know the take away is supposed to be, "man that man is racist" but my take away is "Man, that man hates diverse verdant self-sufficient ecosystems"
Elon Musk’s father on the prospect of the U.S. becoming a minority-white country:
“This will be very very bad. You want to see the U.S. go dark? You don’t like electric cars and technology? Do you want to go back to the jungle?”
“This will be very very bad. You want to see the U.S. go dark? You don’t like electric cars and technology? Do you want to go back to the jungle?”
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I know the take away is supposed to be, "man that man is racist" but my take away is "Man, that man hates diverse verdant self-sufficient ecosystems"
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when I've talked about the concept of "vice signaling," that's a key part. the idea that everyone is secretly racist/a rapist/evil, and pretending otherwise is just a mask.
Gonna be something to behold as we realize like 40% of the country thinks 50 year old men raping 15 year olds is actually nbd and “something most men want even if they don’t say it”
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
when I've talked about the concept of "vice signaling," that's a key part. the idea that everyone is secretly racist/a rapist/evil, and pretending otherwise is just a mask.
That the Civil Rights Division is intervening against California & is also supporting Louisiana’s Supreme Court bid to disenfranchise Black voters through redistricting is a moral outrage.
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
That the Civil Rights Division is intervening against California & is also supporting Louisiana’s Supreme Court bid to disenfranchise Black voters through redistricting is a moral outrage.
The English system of local government is quite arcane. Some of it, I think, is inspired by the opening scenes of “Monty Python’s Holy Grail,” while internal council politics are heavily influenced by “Life of Brian.”
I thought we were into 'Mayors for All' now, although I'd much rather have an owl tbh
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The English system of local government is quite arcane. Some of it, I think, is inspired by the opening scenes of “Monty Python’s Holy Grail,” while internal council politics are heavily influenced by “Life of Brian.”
The Dutch have noticed we’ve decided to erase the Black soldiers we buried in their country
De enige zwarte Amerikaanse soldaat die nog wordt vermeld in Margraten www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Willie James is de enige zwarte Amerikaanse WOII-soldaat die nog een vermelding krijgt op de begraafplaats in Margraten – wie was hij?
Tweede Wereldoorlog: Willie F. James Jr. (1920-1945) stak zijn hand op toen werd gevraagd wie in de voorste linie wilde vechten tijdens WOII. Zijn naam is nog te lezen op een scherm van de Limburgse o...
www.nrc.nl
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The Dutch have noticed we’ve decided to erase the Black soldiers we buried in their country
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"These emails are cherry-picked."
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"These emails are cherry-picked."
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
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The first impeachment trial of 2027 is gonna be lit
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The first impeachment trial of 2027 is gonna be lit
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I don’t want to create the impression that I’m having cognitive issues but I was skimming & misread that as the NYT needs an orangutan which would be an upgrade for the NYT but terribly unfair to the orangutan
It would be a good time for the NYT to have an ombudsman
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I don’t want to create the impression that I’m having cognitive issues but I was skimming & misread that as the NYT needs an orangutan which would be an upgrade for the NYT but terribly unfair to the orangutan
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In 1860, the party divided, with the Northern Democrats & the Southern Democrats each running a candidate for president.
In 2025, the party is dividing along different lines: the Senate Democrats, pusillanimous & incapable of unified action; & the House Democrats, going to war.
In 2025, the party is dividing along different lines: the Senate Democrats, pusillanimous & incapable of unified action; & the House Democrats, going to war.
Can we just take a moment and appreciate how House Democrats took a flame thrower to the NY Times too?
elmo says burn it all down in front of a fire
ALT: elmo says burn it all down in front of a fire
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
In 1860, the party divided, with the Northern Democrats & the Southern Democrats each running a candidate for president.
In 2025, the party is dividing along different lines: the Senate Democrats, pusillanimous & incapable of unified action; & the House Democrats, going to war.
In 2025, the party is dividing along different lines: the Senate Democrats, pusillanimous & incapable of unified action; & the House Democrats, going to war.
Unsuccessfully
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Unsuccessfully