Bear Wilner-Nugent
@saltlick.bsky.social
Lawyer (criminal defense, appeals, civil and administrative litigation), festival operations volunteer, musician, outdoorsbear, cook, lover, dad.
You can find my professional contact information at https://bwnlaw.com.
You can find my professional contact information at https://bwnlaw.com.
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On this important day of mobilization, don't be scared off by self-appointed experts giving you a bunch of rules for how to protest or what not to do. The most important thing we need is more people in the streets, period. Our safety comes from numbers. As a criminal defense lawyer for decades...
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Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
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The Republican Party must be destroyed
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Republican Party must be destroyed
This turns out to completely be the shit.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This turns out to completely be the shit.
Earnest cosign. Four day weekends are deeply healing.
Thanksgiving has many lessons to teach us, perhaps the most important being that Thursday is the GOAT day of the week for a holiday and we should move every holiday on the calendar to Thursday
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Earnest cosign. Four day weekends are deeply healing.
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This is my yearly reminder that
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is my yearly reminder that
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
By the way, I’m a liberal, and this is the actual way American liberals think now. Slap down the lies about how hard we want to fight fascism, because it’s dramatically harder than you might ever believe. Liberalism is what won us WWII & this next year we’re going to demonstrate that all over again.
Remember, if someone works for CBP or ICE, they don’t deserve Thanksgiving, they don’t deserve Christmas, they don’t deserve family, they don’t deserve friends. Only unending punishment for the Trump regime’s thugs. Shut it all down.
Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
By the way, I’m a liberal, and this is the actual way American liberals think now. Slap down the lies about how hard we want to fight fascism, because it’s dramatically harder than you might ever believe. Liberalism is what won us WWII & this next year we’re going to demonstrate that all over again.
Remember, if someone works for CBP or ICE, they don’t deserve Thanksgiving, they don’t deserve Christmas, they don’t deserve family, they don’t deserve friends. Only unending punishment for the Trump regime’s thugs. Shut it all down.
Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Remember, if someone works for CBP or ICE, they don’t deserve Thanksgiving, they don’t deserve Christmas, they don’t deserve family, they don’t deserve friends. Only unending punishment for the Trump regime’s thugs. Shut it all down.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
For decades, there have been so many reasons to not buy Nike. The most important reason is that Nike is an objectively pro-fascist company thanks to its founder.
Yeah not cool at all. Says a lot about him.
Oregon’s richest man again donating record $$ to Republican candidates for state offices www.opb.org/article/2025...
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
For decades, there have been so many reasons to not buy Nike. The most important reason is that Nike is an objectively pro-fascist company thanks to its founder.
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"cultural appropriation" discourse in the realm of linguistics is actually just a way for upper middle class people to police one anothers' speech
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
Entire languages are born from the "bastardisation" of lects of different prestiges. Something twigs me wrong about the way we weight morally things like e.g. people in regular contact with an ethnic lect adopting features of that lect into their own speech, when that's just how we language
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"cultural appropriation" discourse in the realm of linguistics is actually just a way for upper middle class people to police one anothers' speech
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
A lot of people post the way they do about AI because it gives them cool points. Wanting to be in the club is a great motivator to not analyze things critically and in detail. So we get zombie lies instead of more penetrating, weighty thought about what details are good & bad & what is to be done.
Using one’s perfectly organic human brain to recite cant and dogma about technology is as boring and offputting as any LLM crap you can imagine. I say this as a criminal defense lawyer who doesn’t work with AI in any way — not at my job, not for fun. I just can’t stand the groupthink. More nuance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A lot of people post the way they do about AI because it gives them cool points. Wanting to be in the club is a great motivator to not analyze things critically and in detail. So we get zombie lies instead of more penetrating, weighty thought about what details are good & bad & what is to be done.
Using one’s perfectly organic human brain to recite cant and dogma about technology is as boring and offputting as any LLM crap you can imagine. I say this as a criminal defense lawyer who doesn’t work with AI in any way — not at my job, not for fun. I just can’t stand the groupthink. More nuance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Using one’s perfectly organic human brain to recite cant and dogma about technology is as boring and offputting as any LLM crap you can imagine. I say this as a criminal defense lawyer who doesn’t work with AI in any way — not at my job, not for fun. I just can’t stand the groupthink. More nuance!
Jeeeez look at these numbers.
Another point about this is that this kind of performance would make neighboring TN-05, which is Trump+18 and has a much more scandal-plagued GOP congressman, especially vulnerable to flip.
Emerson poll | 11/22-11/24 LV
Tennessee’s 7th congressional special election (Trump +22)
(Leaners pushed)
🟥Matt Van Epps 49.4%
🟦Aftyn Behn 47.0%
Others 3.5%
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
Tennessee’s 7th congressional special election (Trump +22)
(Leaners pushed)
🟥Matt Van Epps 49.4%
🟦Aftyn Behn 47.0%
Others 3.5%
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Jeeeez look at these numbers.
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This is both bad and also basically guaranteed to backfire
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is both bad and also basically guaranteed to backfire
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this is obviously intended to chill dissent but i think it's going to backfire on them. what the lawmakers said was just directly true. and trying to get them for it is just going to raise their profile and the salience of what they said!
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
this is obviously intended to chill dissent but i think it's going to backfire on them. what the lawmakers said was just directly true. and trying to get them for it is just going to raise their profile and the salience of what they said!
More Perfect Union is just a news scraper/regurgitator like the Tennessee Holler. It has nothing to do with organized labor. The more you know!
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
More Perfect Union is just a news scraper/regurgitator like the Tennessee Holler. It has nothing to do with organized labor. The more you know!
I stan a thicc khan
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I stan a thicc khan
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the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
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i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
No, I do not “pick on” trans people, I have never done anything like this. And frankly, I think the willingness of some people to completely invent accusations of transphobia in the desperate search for a cudgel against ideological opponents suggests they don’t really care about transphobia
Listen dude, you can try and ride for this guy all you want, but the trans userbase of this platform fucking hates him because he picks on them. I'm going to listen to the trans people I know who are telling me he's bad. Plus I've been in these threads and seen it
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
I’m a lawyer, trained as a US historian, who did plenty of studying comparative revolutions in college, and I ardently cosign these observations.
The problem with this article is they asked too many lawyers and not enough historians.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
John Roberts has secured his place in history alongside Al Capone and Bernard Madoff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I’m a lawyer, trained as a US historian, who did plenty of studying comparative revolutions in college, and I ardently cosign these observations.
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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This guy has a lot of opinions for someone who hasn’t ever had a real job
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This guy has a lot of opinions for someone who hasn’t ever had a real job
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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look, they keep carville around because your boomer and silent generation parents and grandparents open up their wallets when they see him fart out some century-old talking points on cable news or in their email boxes, you can easily reply STOP or mark as spam to put an end to it
like, has carville even been hired to run a dem campaign *this century*?
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
look, they keep carville around because your boomer and silent generation parents and grandparents open up their wallets when they see him fart out some century-old talking points on cable news or in their email boxes, you can easily reply STOP or mark as spam to put an end to it
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referencing james carville as "the man they worship" with regards to the "democratic establishment" makes you even more out of touch with the party than carville is, lol
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
referencing james carville as "the man they worship" with regards to the "democratic establishment" makes you even more out of touch with the party than carville is, lol