damienveatch.bsky.social
Former school teacher, current lawyer. I will read all your posts about American history, WW2 history, musical theater, or prestige tv.
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Wait till he dissolves FEMA and successive hurricanes hit the southeast. I wonder who Trump thinks FEMA primarily serves? It isn't people in Manhattan and San Francisco.
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Working toward the Führer.
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Here's the @jessifer.bsky.social post cited there:
www.jessestommel.com/why-i-dont-g...
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Has anyone told Tuberville that if he gets elected governor he’ll have to move to Alabama?
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Meanwhile, the D->R folks really believed in using state power for corruption and that Certain People (they and their rich friends) ought to be basically immune to the law. Now that the GOP is clearly the party of rape, fraud and lying, there they stand.
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A reliable system of blue checks should enable consumers of information on Bluesky to identify voices they can generally trust to be oriented toward truthfulness as a goal. These would include journalists subjected to fact checking and academics subjected to peer review and reputational harm.
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I'll say as a lawyer for tax exempt orgs (incl Higher Ed): Harvard is tax exempt as a school under Sec 170(b)(1)(A)(ii) which means the only requirements are (1) operate a school and (2) file annually with the IRS. Congress would need to amend the IRC before the IRS can legally revoke its status.
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This post should be in your bio.
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If it were happening in Germany, no one would hesitate to call it what it is. If it were happening in any country we don’t reflexively associate with “stable democracy,” no one would hesitate to call it what it is.
What’s happening here is exactly what it looks like. In America. Right now.
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It's the same guy who thinks eating soup and drinking from a straw are unmanly.
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Today we are being governed by people who are doing things that make no sense to anyone who knows anything about anything. And those people in power don't even seem to care enough to offer any rationales that make sense, even to them. Journalists who ask questions to help it make sense gets mocked.
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If the US “takes over” Greenland, there should be a worldwide embargo on American goods. It’s what we used to do to countries who invade their neighbors to steal their resources.
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If the US “takes over” Greenland, there should be a worldwide embargo on American goods. It’s what we used to do to countries who invade their neighbors to steal their resources.
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the american constitution does not deal in minutiae. it speaks in generalities with the aim of establishing a limited government of enumerated powers. it is an analytical mistake to treat textual ambiguities as license to ignore that intent or the stated intent of specific provisions. (3)
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I really, really miss the days when lying was considered out of bounds for politicians.
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One of the most astonishing aspects of the right-wing capitulation to Trump has been the silence of what were once called NatSec Conservatives. Not the neocons, who have mostly left the party, but the rest of the GOP--the "hawks" and "cold warriors." Trump has betrayed every value they espoused.
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Bluesky’s most fearless political reporter is finally getting the notice she deserves. Some day, when she is receiving her Pulitzer, we’ll say we knew her when.