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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 6h

If there is not a truth commission of some sort when this is all over, the U.S. is a morally bankrupt society.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View
October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View
October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 9h

Oh

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire
East Wing

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 10h

Ecuadorian prosecutors have no evidence to detain target of summary execution www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/ecua...

Ecuadorian prosecutors have no evidence to detain target of summary execution - Lawyers, Guns & Money

I am beginning to think that the subjects of Trump’s illegal drone strikes on “narcotics traffickers” and/or “gang members” are not being carefully vetted: We just killed his friends and sunk his boat...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 14h

Ok that one is scary.

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever you hear someone invoke the unitary executive, remember the image below.

This was an inevitable result of the unitary executive theory:
Empowering a president to tyrannically destroy institutions that ensured our government reflects the rule of law rather than his personal whim.

Photograph showing ruins of the East Wing of the White House, with nearly the entire building destroyed.

(Photo obtained by Law Dork.)

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 15h

Extremely ominous, once we realize that, by “what happened in the 2020 election”, he means “we lose an election”…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, is that what it’s going to look Iike? Dear gods.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 1d

At some point we just have to accept the right has already seceded from the rest of us right?

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

DOJ declined to bring charges against two people who threatened to kill @ericswalwell.bsky.social this year, @nbcnews.com reports: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 1d

The White House is going to have a Spanish tile roof and golf course on the south lawn before this is all over.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 1d

JFC 😡

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 2d

This is a really good piece, well worth reading.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies

The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 2d

Governor Walz was on to something, but I like this more: extremists, fraudsters and weirdos. Time to put this framing of MAGA front and center.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The chasm between the traditional Republican assertion of representing “normal” America and the assortment of extremists, fraudsters, and weirdos in positions of influence and power has become brutally stark. It is time to pounce.

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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 2d

Only took you to paragraph 15 to mention what this is really about.

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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so old I remember this.

Trump says he now thinks Ukraine can win back all territory taken by Russia

The president posted on Truth Social after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

www.nbcnews.com

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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 3d

Starbucks advertising pumpkin spice whatever is an even greater abomination during the southern hemisphere spring.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 3d

Need to run down the clock.

Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 3d

I seriously wonder if he’ll ever be able to leave the country after he’s out of office.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 3d

The next administration--which, God willing, will be sane--should try Trump for murder. The insane, politicized, wholly-made-up Supreme Court immunity decision should be overridden--Congress should legislate sensible immunity rules, and strip courts' jurisdiction to review.

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d

Colombia: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters”

“Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing.”

“The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.”

US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters
Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing.
The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.
We await explanations from the US government.
x.com/RTVCnoticias/s…..

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 3d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 4d

Paul Ryan is going to have a sad.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

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