RenewEd
@sandmanesq.bsky.social
Actually a lawyer. When not litigating, is a dad, amateur oenologist, bad at golf, scotch snob and occasional writer. Long suffering NYR and NYM fan. Most importantly, an ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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RenewEd
@sandmanesq.bsky.social
· Jul 28
Nothing will come of it.
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There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
Gift link: wapo.st/43FXQfO
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
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what a terrible time to be literate
i can't believe the capstone to this fucking week in american politics is ryan lizza dishing/implying that RFK jr ate his own cum out of olivia nuzzi
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
what a terrible time to be literate
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
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For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
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It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
Read the fucking bill. It allows for any mention of this fucker to be redacted or withheld. Fucking report accurately, fucking hell.
President Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, there's a 30-day countdown for the DOJ to produce those records. n.pr/3LTpu2E
What's next now that Trump has signed a bill releasing the Epstein files
President Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, there's a 30-day countdown for the DOJ to produce those records.
n.pr
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Read the fucking bill. It allows for any mention of this fucker to be redacted or withheld. Fucking report accurately, fucking hell.
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Trump's administration is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior federal employees, per Reuters.
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Trump's administration is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior federal employees, per Reuters.
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When you’re fine and not at all concerned about the Epstein files:
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
When you’re fine and not at all concerned about the Epstein files:
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It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
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Curb Your Authoritarianism
staring Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche and Kash Patel
staring Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche and Kash Patel
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Curb Your Authoritarianism
staring Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche and Kash Patel
staring Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche and Kash Patel
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damn -- Jason Crow demolished Martha MacCallum to the point where she had to get extremely defensive before wrapping up the interview
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
damn -- Jason Crow demolished Martha MacCallum to the point where she had to get extremely defensive before wrapping up the interview
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Let me get this straight: The Trump admin. is taking in billions of dollars from tariffs—which are paid for by Americans in the form of higher prices—and are now talking about giving the money back, but people shouldn’t spend it?
What is the point of all this?
What is the point of all this?
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Let me get this straight: The Trump admin. is taking in billions of dollars from tariffs—which are paid for by Americans in the form of higher prices—and are now talking about giving the money back, but people shouldn’t spend it?
What is the point of all this?
What is the point of all this?
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Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.
The more local police see ICE assholes as criminals, the better it will be for us.
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.
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Turns out, when you run on lowering prices and releasing Epstein files, but then do *the exact opposite*, people get a bit miffed.
Fox Biz: "A new Reuters poll shows President Trump's approval rating falling to its lowest level. This is because, apparently, of prices and the Epstein files."
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Turns out, when you run on lowering prices and releasing Epstein files, but then do *the exact opposite*, people get a bit miffed.
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Breaking: House accidentally votes to give tax cuts to Jeffrey Epstein and take away benefits from the poor.
One Representative voted against plan, noting Jeffrey Epstein is dead. He was rebuked with a loud and unanimous "Is he? Is he?"
#Satire
One Representative voted against plan, noting Jeffrey Epstein is dead. He was rebuked with a loud and unanimous "Is he? Is he?"
#Satire
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Breaking: House accidentally votes to give tax cuts to Jeffrey Epstein and take away benefits from the poor.
One Representative voted against plan, noting Jeffrey Epstein is dead. He was rebuked with a loud and unanimous "Is he? Is he?"
#Satire
One Representative voted against plan, noting Jeffrey Epstein is dead. He was rebuked with a loud and unanimous "Is he? Is he?"
#Satire
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had her like this when the worst looking man on earth called
fellas, ladies, and theydies it is your year, we're gonna get you over
fellas, ladies, and theydies it is your year, we're gonna get you over
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
had her like this when the worst looking man on earth called
fellas, ladies, and theydies it is your year, we're gonna get you over
fellas, ladies, and theydies it is your year, we're gonna get you over
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
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“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows”
Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.
Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows”
Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.
Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.
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Meanwhile, MAGA is still pretending that trans women are the real bathroom threat.
Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be DOXXED after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date from the woman inside, and then punching the arresting officers.
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Meanwhile, MAGA is still pretending that trans women are the real bathroom threat.
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I hope that a day will come where the seriousness and vileness of child SA will supersede the need to make jokes about the perpetrators and their sexual deviancy. Every giggle and cackle happening right now is at the expense of those children.
It makes me want to vomit.
It makes me want to vomit.
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I hope that a day will come where the seriousness and vileness of child SA will supersede the need to make jokes about the perpetrators and their sexual deviancy. Every giggle and cackle happening right now is at the expense of those children.
It makes me want to vomit.
It makes me want to vomit.
Clinton has the opportunity to up end the Republican party just by admitting the rumor, whether it's true.
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Clinton has the opportunity to up end the Republican party just by admitting the rumor, whether it's true.
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Always do what the internet tells you to do.
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
@redsoxredshoes.bsky.social *cough*