TK
@tkeck44.bsky.social
West Point grad. Retired FBI special agent. Sick of politics. I mostly talk about sports. Hockey, lacrosse & football fanatic--especially all the Colorado teams. Go Army! Beat Navy!
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This is actually a relevant factor here: it's been pretty clear SOUTHCOM, whose commander resigned, has been pushing back, at least somewhat. They're putting it under the operational command of SOCOM specifically because that's the most already rotten place you'll find people happy to do crimes.
Why do you need Seal Team 6 to blow up a fucking boat?
This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is actually a relevant factor here: it's been pretty clear SOUTHCOM, whose commander resigned, has been pushing back, at least somewhat. They're putting it under the operational command of SOCOM specifically because that's the most already rotten place you'll find people happy to do crimes.
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Jack Goldsmith who, at times, has been known to have written OLC legal memos that appear to suggest Presidents can do things that most people think are illegal. And even he's saying "yo, this is murder."
(see: www.aclu.org/news/nationa...)
(see: www.aclu.org/news/nationa...)
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Jack Goldsmith who, at times, has been known to have written OLC legal memos that appear to suggest Presidents can do things that most people think are illegal. And even he's saying "yo, this is murder."
(see: www.aclu.org/news/nationa...)
(see: www.aclu.org/news/nationa...)
Admiral Holsey announced his retirement at the same time we found out there were two survivors in another strike. I've always suspected there may have been an order to eliminate them and Holsey wasn't going to have any part of it.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Admiral Holsey announced his retirement at the same time we found out there were two survivors in another strike. I've always suspected there may have been an order to eliminate them and Holsey wasn't going to have any part of it.
There are two outstanding restaurants we frequent on a regular basis. One is owned by a Peruvian family. They are some of the best people we know. The other is owned by a Colombian man who not only runs the restaurant, but also works full time as an RN.
Give me them over people like Miller any day.
Give me them over people like Miller any day.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
There are two outstanding restaurants we frequent on a regular basis. One is owned by a Peruvian family. They are some of the best people we know. The other is owned by a Colombian man who not only runs the restaurant, but also works full time as an RN.
Give me them over people like Miller any day.
Give me them over people like Miller any day.
Does Romo have a cold?
He's kind of hard to listen to right now.
He's kind of hard to listen to right now.
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Does Romo have a cold?
He's kind of hard to listen to right now.
He's kind of hard to listen to right now.
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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NEW: The Colorado Department of Corrections says it won’t grant the Trump administration’s request to transfer Tina Peters to the federal prison system, characterizing it as not fitting with the “standard practice” for moving inmates.
Colorado officials reject Tina Peters prison transfer request by Trump administration
The Colorado Department of Corrections says it won’t grant the Trump administration’s request to transfer Tina Peters to the federal prison system.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
NEW: The Colorado Department of Corrections says it won’t grant the Trump administration’s request to transfer Tina Peters to the federal prison system, characterizing it as not fitting with the “standard practice” for moving inmates.
I thought Fanni Willis was doing a poor job handling the Georgia cases before Trump was ever indicted there, or the allegations against her emerged.
I also believed it should have been a federal case from the start, but Milquetoast Merrick blew that one, too.
I also believed it should have been a federal case from the start, but Milquetoast Merrick blew that one, too.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I thought Fanni Willis was doing a poor job handling the Georgia cases before Trump was ever indicted there, or the allegations against her emerged.
I also believed it should have been a federal case from the start, but Milquetoast Merrick blew that one, too.
I also believed it should have been a federal case from the start, but Milquetoast Merrick blew that one, too.
I wonder how business owners in places like Estes Park and Grand Lake feel about this.
NEW: International tourists will have to pay a $100 surcharge to visit Rocky Mountain National Park starting Jan. 1 under a new Trump administration policy. The “America-first” fee comes as the federal government has ramped up mass deportations and as data has shows tourism in Colorado has flattened
Foreign visitors will have to pay more to get into Rocky Mountain National Park, Trump administration says
International tourists will have to pay a $100 surcharge to visit Rocky Mountain National Park starting on Jan. 1 under a new policy announced by the Trump administration on Tuesday.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I wonder how business owners in places like Estes Park and Grand Lake feel about this.
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Much in this document is totally divorced from reality
Skandalakis sets out his reasons for seeking dismissal of the case here:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
request-for-dead-docketnolle-prosequi
www.documentcloud.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Much in this document is totally divorced from reality
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
I'll bet a chunk of money this is circular reporting:
1. Blaze writes story
2. Gabbard: "OMG! Draft a memo!"
3. The Blaze: "OMG! It's confirmed"
1. Blaze writes story
2. Gabbard: "OMG! Draft a memo!"
3. The Blaze: "OMG! It's confirmed"
This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies.
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'll bet a chunk of money this is circular reporting:
1. Blaze writes story
2. Gabbard: "OMG! Draft a memo!"
3. The Blaze: "OMG! It's confirmed"
1. Blaze writes story
2. Gabbard: "OMG! Draft a memo!"
3. The Blaze: "OMG! It's confirmed"
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This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies.
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies.
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
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"If you’re going to challenge a scientific consensus, you better know the material. Most of us, most of the time, don’t—so deferring to expert consensus is usually the rational strategy..."
-AlexTabarrok
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
-AlexTabarrok
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Confidently Wrong - Marginal REVOLUTION
If you’re going to challenge a scientific consensus, you better know the material. Most of us, most of the time, don’t—so deferring to expert consensus is usually the rational strategy. Pushing agains...
marginalrevolution.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"If you’re going to challenge a scientific consensus, you better know the material. Most of us, most of the time, don’t—so deferring to expert consensus is usually the rational strategy..."
-AlexTabarrok
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
-AlexTabarrok
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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"...Pushing against the consensus is fine; it’s often how progress happens. But doing it responsibly requires expertise. Yet in my experience the loudest anti-consensus voices—on vaccines, climate, macroeconomics, whatever—tend to be the least informed."
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"...Pushing against the consensus is fine; it’s often how progress happens. But doing it responsibly requires expertise. Yet in my experience the loudest anti-consensus voices—on vaccines, climate, macroeconomics, whatever—tend to be the least informed."
Maybe the FBI should be interviewing Witkoff instead of senators who encouraged people not to commit crimes?
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Maybe the FBI should be interviewing Witkoff instead of senators who encouraged people not to commit crimes?
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Just want to remind everyone that Mike Flynn told a crowd of rabid QAnon troglodytes in no uncertain terms that the military should conduct a coup in order to reinstall Trump as an unelected dictator, and he never once was subject to the penalties that the UCMJ demands for that sort of thing
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just want to remind everyone that Mike Flynn told a crowd of rabid QAnon troglodytes in no uncertain terms that the military should conduct a coup in order to reinstall Trump as an unelected dictator, and he never once was subject to the penalties that the UCMJ demands for that sort of thing
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So Trump calls for six serving members of Congress to be hung. The Sec Def calls for a serving Senator to be recalled to active duty to be Courtmartialed. All for saying military personnel can refuse ILLEGAL ORDERS. Absurd. Separation of powers. Statement inherent in the UCMJ.
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
So Trump calls for six serving members of Congress to be hung. The Sec Def calls for a serving Senator to be recalled to active duty to be Courtmartialed. All for saying military personnel can refuse ILLEGAL ORDERS. Absurd. Separation of powers. Statement inherent in the UCMJ.
This right here. Watching people I thought were reasonably intelligent sharing videos of a giraffe "rescuing" a tiger cub was the end for me.
I've deleted most of my FB info, just kept my account alive to use site for work. So depressing watching people I friended, for whatever reason over the years, share idiotic AI slop. A big neon sign screaming "DO NOT INTERACT WITH THIS PERSON."
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This right here. Watching people I thought were reasonably intelligent sharing videos of a giraffe "rescuing" a tiger cub was the end for me.
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The Trump administration is abusing the military justice system to target its political opponents. A despicable new low for a group that strives everyday to find the moral bottom.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Trump administration is abusing the military justice system to target its political opponents. A despicable new low for a group that strives everyday to find the moral bottom.
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“.. His abusive and excessive use of the GV Jet for his personal adventures and the assignment of SWAT-qualified special agents to guard his girlfriend are indicative of his lack of leadership experience, judgment and humility.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
“.. His abusive and excessive use of the GV Jet for his personal adventures and the assignment of SWAT-qualified special agents to guard his girlfriend are indicative of his lack of leadership experience, judgment and humility.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...