Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately
@mefcorv.bsky.social
Catholic; lefty Iraq veteran; attorney-at-caw. Anti-fascist for life, come at me Bondi. Giant geek. Butlerian Jihad Now.
Opinions do not reflect the official positions of the DoD. You can tell because they are spelled right and reflect the rule of law.
Opinions do not reflect the official positions of the DoD. You can tell because they are spelled right and reflect the rule of law.
This is not in response to the National Guard shooting. As of Monday, USCIS had this prepared.
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This is not in response to the National Guard shooting. As of Monday, USCIS had this prepared.
Yup. Had this Monday night.
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Yup. Had this Monday night.
I don’t have words that aren’t a lot of profanity. So I’m going to let Shawn speak for me.
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I don’t have words that aren’t a lot of profanity. So I’m going to let Shawn speak for me.
It occurs to me that what we needed was not more education on the Holocaust itself, but we needed more complex education - some might even say critical race theory - on the role of America.
We needed to be more aware of the opposition to fighting Hitler, so we knew it could rise again.
We needed to be more aware of the opposition to fighting Hitler, so we knew it could rise again.
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It occurs to me that what we needed was not more education on the Holocaust itself, but we needed more complex education - some might even say critical race theory - on the role of America.
We needed to be more aware of the opposition to fighting Hitler, so we knew it could rise again.
We needed to be more aware of the opposition to fighting Hitler, so we knew it could rise again.
Now that it’s undone, I add the new elastic. And remember: I am teaching easy, lazy, simple fixes, that require little skill.
So the advantage of black stitches on black elastic is that they’re nearly invisible no matter how crappy they are. I deliberately didn’t bother trying, to show this. 10/
So the advantage of black stitches on black elastic is that they’re nearly invisible no matter how crappy they are. I deliberately didn’t bother trying, to show this. 10/
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Now that it’s undone, I add the new elastic. And remember: I am teaching easy, lazy, simple fixes, that require little skill.
So the advantage of black stitches on black elastic is that they’re nearly invisible no matter how crappy they are. I deliberately didn’t bother trying, to show this. 10/
So the advantage of black stitches on black elastic is that they’re nearly invisible no matter how crappy they are. I deliberately didn’t bother trying, to show this. 10/
Now we are going to be separating busted elastic from the skirt. Don’t mess with the already finished fabric. Why? Because we’re lazy! It’s already done, why mess with it?
The stitches keeping the fabric finished are usually going to be on the outside. I have circled the “undo” ones. 9/
The stitches keeping the fabric finished are usually going to be on the outside. I have circled the “undo” ones. 9/
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Now we are going to be separating busted elastic from the skirt. Don’t mess with the already finished fabric. Why? Because we’re lazy! It’s already done, why mess with it?
The stitches keeping the fabric finished are usually going to be on the outside. I have circled the “undo” ones. 9/
The stitches keeping the fabric finished are usually going to be on the outside. I have circled the “undo” ones. 9/
Once you have it, you basically want to measure out elastic to be taut on the inside of the clothing, and then pin it in place. You want the pokey part of the pin to be on the outside part of the skirt. This is because you are ultimately going to try this on to check it, and pins hurt. 6/
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Once you have it, you basically want to measure out elastic to be taut on the inside of the clothing, and then pin it in place. You want the pokey part of the pin to be on the outside part of the skirt. This is because you are ultimately going to try this on to check it, and pins hurt. 6/
This is because the elastic is busted: a really common thing that happens to clothing, especially to bigger bodied people as your clothing attempts and fails to constrain your might.
Shown here is the underside:
2/
Shown here is the underside:
2/
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is because the elastic is busted: a really common thing that happens to clothing, especially to bigger bodied people as your clothing attempts and fails to constrain your might.
Shown here is the underside:
2/
Shown here is the underside:
2/
Soon; good governance.
Tonight is for memes.
Tonight is for memes.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Soon; good governance.
Tonight is for memes.
Tonight is for memes.
ICE actually cannot be de-Trumpified, and must be ended. If the next government wants to have an immigration enforcement arm, it must build it from new foundations.
At this point, de-Trumpifying ICE would be like having attempted to de-Nazify the SS.
At this point, de-Trumpifying ICE would be like having attempted to de-Nazify the SS.
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
ICE actually cannot be de-Trumpified, and must be ended. If the next government wants to have an immigration enforcement arm, it must build it from new foundations.
At this point, de-Trumpifying ICE would be like having attempted to de-Nazify the SS.
At this point, de-Trumpifying ICE would be like having attempted to de-Nazify the SS.
Many Dems who grew up with wealth sincerely do not know how to talk in a casual register. People assume they do it at home, but my ex husband’s aunt married into WASP upper class, and let me assure you - they don’t, not even with family. This is also why many of them have to script jokes.
October 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Many Dems who grew up with wealth sincerely do not know how to talk in a casual register. People assume they do it at home, but my ex husband’s aunt married into WASP upper class, and let me assure you - they don’t, not even with family. This is also why many of them have to script jokes.
Reading Churchill’s “The Gathering Storm” and I’m not sure if it makes me feel better or worse that we always do this to ourselves with full knowledge it could happen.
October 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Reading Churchill’s “The Gathering Storm” and I’m not sure if it makes me feel better or worse that we always do this to ourselves with full knowledge it could happen.
I enjoyed Spotify. I used it to listen to music I liked and friend’s playlists. But fuck companies that collaborate with fascism. I may not be able to cut them all out, but I can definitely cut this one.
October 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I enjoyed Spotify. I used it to listen to music I liked and friend’s playlists. But fuck companies that collaborate with fascism. I may not be able to cut them all out, but I can definitely cut this one.
I think a lot of Edna St. Vincent Millay here.
October 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I think a lot of Edna St. Vincent Millay here.
To the honorable Lance Gooden:
There is one association who can pull my bar card, and it is not, in fact, the Department of Justice.
Also: the fact that they’re saying that the NLG providing legal services makes it harder to jail them shows the real point.
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There is one association who can pull my bar card, and it is not, in fact, the Department of Justice.
Also: the fact that they’re saying that the NLG providing legal services makes it harder to jail them shows the real point.
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October 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
To the honorable Lance Gooden:
There is one association who can pull my bar card, and it is not, in fact, the Department of Justice.
Also: the fact that they’re saying that the NLG providing legal services makes it harder to jail them shows the real point.
gooden.house.gov/_cache/files...
There is one association who can pull my bar card, and it is not, in fact, the Department of Justice.
Also: the fact that they’re saying that the NLG providing legal services makes it harder to jail them shows the real point.
gooden.house.gov/_cache/files...
This is what happens when you live with an infantryman and leave your phone behind when you go to the No Kings protest.
There were more clues. One of them involved a plastic bag and the toilet tank.
There were more clues. One of them involved a plastic bag and the toilet tank.
October 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is what happens when you live with an infantryman and leave your phone behind when you go to the No Kings protest.
There were more clues. One of them involved a plastic bag and the toilet tank.
There were more clues. One of them involved a plastic bag and the toilet tank.
In case you’re wondering what veterans are passing around, this is what I just got sent from a guy I know.
October 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In case you’re wondering what veterans are passing around, this is what I just got sent from a guy I know.
Honestly, if *only* the Times were as pugnacious as this lawsuit would make it appear.
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Honestly, if *only* the Times were as pugnacious as this lawsuit would make it appear.
Here are some visual examples of this absolute insanity.
A volley gun was used by a mad genius: the “infernal machine” 25 barrel gun, 20+ bullets per, for an assassination in 1835, which killed 18 people when fired, and had it been designed just a *little* bit better, would have killed 200.
A volley gun was used by a mad genius: the “infernal machine” 25 barrel gun, 20+ bullets per, for an assassination in 1835, which killed 18 people when fired, and had it been designed just a *little* bit better, would have killed 200.
October 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Here are some visual examples of this absolute insanity.
A volley gun was used by a mad genius: the “infernal machine” 25 barrel gun, 20+ bullets per, for an assassination in 1835, which killed 18 people when fired, and had it been designed just a *little* bit better, would have killed 200.
A volley gun was used by a mad genius: the “infernal machine” 25 barrel gun, 20+ bullets per, for an assassination in 1835, which killed 18 people when fired, and had it been designed just a *little* bit better, would have killed 200.
My infantry Iraq veteran friends are passing this around right now. I think it helps explain both ICE, and also why there’s a broad difference in veteran support of what’s going on right now.
October 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My infantry Iraq veteran friends are passing this around right now. I think it helps explain both ICE, and also why there’s a broad difference in veteran support of what’s going on right now.
Judge Young had a really wonderful footnote about this.
The money quote is,
“We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.”
The money quote is,
“We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.”
![The footnote of a legal document reads, “It is to persuade them that they are wrong. “To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence” [cite] And, precisely because it is our flag that is involved, one’s response to the flag burner may exploit the uniquely persuasive power of the flag itself. We can imagine no more appropriate response to burning a flag than waving one’s own, no better way to counter a flag burner’s message than by saluting the flag that burns , no surer way of preserving the dignity even of the flag that burned than by - as one witness here did - according its remains a respectful burial.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4yniyii7dmwsxb3fap345ptv/bafkreie7onb5ohn34ikpf3qjgwpzrdlpgzwlxh5znmui3bubwygz7flli4@jpeg)
October 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Judge Young had a really wonderful footnote about this.
The money quote is,
“We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.”
The money quote is,
“We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.”
“UCMJ article 128 says I can’t assault this guy. But wouldn’t it be a violation of article 134, bringing discredit on the armed forces, NOT to assault this guy?”
October 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
“UCMJ article 128 says I can’t assault this guy. But wouldn’t it be a violation of article 134, bringing discredit on the armed forces, NOT to assault this guy?”
However, fascinatingly, I tried something else, which *did* give results:
October 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
However, fascinatingly, I tried something else, which *did* give results:
“It is a matter of honor- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperadoes and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
Judge Young, Reagan appointee, CPT, US Army.
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Judge Young, Reagan appointee, CPT, US Army.
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![And there’s the issue of masks. This court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Ozturks captors for masking up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. ICE goes masked for a single reason - to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor - and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperadoes and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We cannot escape history,” Lincoln rightly said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4yniyii7dmwsxb3fap345ptv/bafkreigb4x6datc44ye77vouw4lwm3qfimzskeiokrkv5yhejowfcnqple@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“It is a matter of honor- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperadoes and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
Judge Young, Reagan appointee, CPT, US Army.
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Judge Young, Reagan appointee, CPT, US Army.
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