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Very concerned American, North Carolina. Retired lawyer & public policy/management professor in a purple state (the state, not me). Married up. Public commercial airport board member, aviation enthusiast.
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The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

submitted 12 hours ago • 311 comments

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI. Those pesky lawyers insist on that rule of law, you know.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Preventing death will not be tolerated. These people are trying to cause even more preventable deaths than last time. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Professor Timothy Snyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Susan Glasser has seen this before. “This [Putin] playbook is the same one being followed now by Trump. It’s important to be clear-eyed about this. I don’t know where it will end, or how far Trump will take it.” www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Apparently this woman has a delusional belief that someone cares what she thinks. You had your chance to help stop this Nikki. Instead, you endorsed it—every damn bit of it. And you might want to stay away from high windows. Russians & their fool tools, you know. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Despicable. The Musk-Trump regime is going to deport these desperate people for being in the country lawfully while black. None of them ate any cats. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Why did the Musk-Trump regime fire the top JAG officers (military lawyers) from all of the branches? Do they want to put in their own lawyers who will never render an opinion that any order is unlawful and should not be carried out? Or is there more of a back story? Hope we find out.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1089 comments

Extortion, pure and simple.

submitted 1 day ago • 693 comments

A president who thinks he’s a king purging officers to shape “his” military. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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OK, good. They did not immediately default to the supine position. We’ll see. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

These authoritarians want no limits on their power, & no checks & balances. www.reuters.com/legal/us-dec...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Wow. www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-ne...

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David Rothkopf: “We must be willing to undertake risks—perhaps substantial ones—to articulate [truth] and share it and fight for it. Indeed, as the risk of repression grows, the urgency that we challenge it grows too.” open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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“Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo says the talks appear to be focused on new concessions for American companies in the Russian oil industry, including a deal for American companies to participate in Russian oil exploration in the Arctic.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1...

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Glad my senator frels strongly about continuing U.S. support for the Ukrainians in their fight against the Russian invaders. And he will continue to be passionate right up to when he caves. Again. youtu.be/JBEvqjQ6axE

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Back when our President was not a Putin fool tool.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah, well, Chris. You’re right. But you knew who Trump was. You knew he would do vast, lasting & perhaps irreparable damage to our representative democracy & the rule of law if he got back into power. Yet, I don’t remember you doing squat to stop it. www.thefp.com/p/chris-chri...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Michael McFaul, former Ambassador of the former United States of America to the Russian Federation, to Marco Rubio: “There are 2 kinds of people in Washington—you be things, & you do things. What good is it to be the Sec’y of State, if you don’t get to do what…is in the American national interest?”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Gov. Kathy Hochul: “Donald Trump tweeted ‘Long Live the King.’ I’m here to say New York hasn’t labored under a king in over 250 years, & we are not, we sure as hell are not going to start now.” More of this please.

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Robert Tracinski: “‘Many of us had worried that this negotiation would look like the Munich conference of 1938. It is looking more like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It’s not appeasement, it’s an alliance.” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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