Mark Noel
@marknoel.bsky.social
Law + tech + AI + cognitive psych, physics, politics, social justice, Siberian huskies, and other randomness. Recovering litigator. Amateur musician. Still single. Read any good books lately? 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Colorado-based. (he/him)
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Pros And Cons Of War With Venezuela https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-war-with-venezuela/
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Pros And Cons Of War With Venezuela https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-war-with-venezuela/
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Pam Bondi's DOJ is saying they have the right to fire an immigration judge based on her sex and ethnicity if that's what they want to do. This is her boldest statement of official racism yet. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce
The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to challenge illegal discrimination.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Pam Bondi's DOJ is saying they have the right to fire an immigration judge based on her sex and ethnicity if that's what they want to do. This is her boldest statement of official racism yet. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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the sarah mcbride speech in front of the capitol about the anti-trans legislation is one of the more affecting moments i have ever seen in the fight over trans liberation in congress
literally walked thru her transition
the only news outlets sharing it are “lgbtq+ news” clickbait & erin reed
literally walked thru her transition
the only news outlets sharing it are “lgbtq+ news” clickbait & erin reed
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
the sarah mcbride speech in front of the capitol about the anti-trans legislation is one of the more affecting moments i have ever seen in the fight over trans liberation in congress
literally walked thru her transition
the only news outlets sharing it are “lgbtq+ news” clickbait & erin reed
literally walked thru her transition
the only news outlets sharing it are “lgbtq+ news” clickbait & erin reed
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If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
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the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
Rep Sarah McBride on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by David Steinglass
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December 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
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If this is the case, it would amount to an order to strip citizenship from 211,200 Americans next year.
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I wasn’t sure because the writing was unclear, but it’s possible he wants each office to come up with 200 denaturalization cases a month.
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
If this is the case, it would amount to an order to strip citizenship from 211,200 Americans next year.
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incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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In Trump's first year, he has developed a distinctive style of government — authoritarian, but so poorly thought out as to blunt its own effectiveness.
I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving
American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...
I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving
American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...
Trump’s war on democracy is failing
And it’s his own fault.
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In Trump's first year, he has developed a distinctive style of government — authoritarian, but so poorly thought out as to blunt its own effectiveness.
I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving
American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...
I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving
American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...
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It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression.
Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
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Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression.
Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
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Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
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Not for nothing, but this is thiiiiiiiiiiis close to an act of war
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Not for nothing, but this is thiiiiiiiiiiis close to an act of war
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This is prime facie illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and the 2022 NDAA
NEW: U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert.
theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...
“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert.
theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...
U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”
theintercept.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is prime facie illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and the 2022 NDAA
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We have (and need) Section 230 because in 1995, Stratton Oakmont successfully sued Prodigy as a publisher of libel because a user posted that Jordan Belfort's firm was "100% criminal fraud" and a "cult of brokers who either lie for a living or get fired." Sec 230 makes online forums possible.
December 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We have (and need) Section 230 because in 1995, Stratton Oakmont successfully sued Prodigy as a publisher of libel because a user posted that Jordan Belfort's firm was "100% criminal fraud" and a "cult of brokers who either lie for a living or get fired." Sec 230 makes online forums possible.
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Cheung is 10 years younger than me, looks 10 years _older_ somehow, and bears a strong semblance to a man-sized butt plug.
He’s another of this admin’s sterling examples of the “peasant-coded” belief, as Jamelle Bouie put it, that evil turns people ugly from the inside out.
He’s another of this admin’s sterling examples of the “peasant-coded” belief, as Jamelle Bouie put it, that evil turns people ugly from the inside out.
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Cheung is 10 years younger than me, looks 10 years _older_ somehow, and bears a strong semblance to a man-sized butt plug.
He’s another of this admin’s sterling examples of the “peasant-coded” belief, as Jamelle Bouie put it, that evil turns people ugly from the inside out.
He’s another of this admin’s sterling examples of the “peasant-coded” belief, as Jamelle Bouie put it, that evil turns people ugly from the inside out.
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The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
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GOOD.
BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Skate Canada to stop holding national, international events in Alberta | CBC News
Skate Canada says it will no longer host major events in Alberta following a review of the province's legislation on the participation of transgender athletes in women's sport.
www.cbc.ca
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
GOOD.
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let me suggest that the impulse that leads someone to run to compact magazine to complain about DEI — "they took my job!" — probably does more to explain professional failure than DEI
One problem with this take is the number of high profile white millennial men in the media...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
let me suggest that the impulse that leads someone to run to compact magazine to complain about DEI — "they took my job!" — probably does more to explain professional failure than DEI
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One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
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I’m sorry, but that’s not how this works.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’m sorry, but that’s not how this works.
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FUCKING HICKENLOOPER AGAIN!?????!?!??!!??!?!
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
December 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
FUCKING HICKENLOOPER AGAIN!?????!?!??!!??!?!
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Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
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I just want to once again congratulate every business and media outlet who tripped over their own dicks to take right-wing outrage in uncritical good faith and ruin peoples’ careers over extremely tame internet comments about Charlie Kirk 48 hours before immediately forgetting he ever existed.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I just want to once again congratulate every business and media outlet who tripped over their own dicks to take right-wing outrage in uncritical good faith and ruin peoples’ careers over extremely tame internet comments about Charlie Kirk 48 hours before immediately forgetting he ever existed.
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Yep. I don't doubt MPD juked their stats. Many do.
But also -- and I know this is going to come as a shock -- but a lot of white cops resent working for black chiefs. And a lot of male cops resent working for women chiefs. This is a black woman chief.
So this "investigation" is . . . not much.
But also -- and I know this is going to come as a shock -- but a lot of white cops resent working for black chiefs. And a lot of male cops resent working for women chiefs. This is a black woman chief.
So this "investigation" is . . . not much.
Buried under 12 paragraphs and 4 ads is this: that an investigation into the politicization of data was conducted not by … actually reviewing any data … but just by interviewing senior officials who disliked their chief.
So more politics.
So more politics.
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Yep. I don't doubt MPD juked their stats. Many do.
But also -- and I know this is going to come as a shock -- but a lot of white cops resent working for black chiefs. And a lot of male cops resent working for women chiefs. This is a black woman chief.
So this "investigation" is . . . not much.
But also -- and I know this is going to come as a shock -- but a lot of white cops resent working for black chiefs. And a lot of male cops resent working for women chiefs. This is a black woman chief.
So this "investigation" is . . . not much.
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Agreed. There was a point I felt vaguely okay with him but he has gone full mask off. Praising RFK. Vetoing state wide AI regulations. Flirting with white supremacy.
He can retire to his millions and we don’t need to hear from him again.
He can retire to his millions and we don’t need to hear from him again.
When Jared Polis hits the national scene, treat him like Andrew Cuomo. He is not fit for national service.
www.westword.com/news/colorad...
www.westword.com/news/colorad...
Jared Polis Promotes White Supremacist and Child Porn Defender as "Intellectuals"
The governor encouraged Coloradans to follow the controversial online personalities, saying they do "actual thinking."
www.westword.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Agreed. There was a point I felt vaguely okay with him but he has gone full mask off. Praising RFK. Vetoing state wide AI regulations. Flirting with white supremacy.
He can retire to his millions and we don’t need to hear from him again.
He can retire to his millions and we don’t need to hear from him again.
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Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Donald Trump says Ukraine peace deal ‘closer than ever’ after talks in Berlin
Germany says US to provide security guarantees as Kyiv and Washington admit differences on territorial issues
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December 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.