Arthur_Again
@arthuragain.bsky.social
White / male / cis / Episcopalian / born citizen; about as privileged as they get; lawyer. He/him.
I think that to some extent, we in the US are not used to looking at the world through the lenses of uncontrolled greed and corruption unmitigated by any virtue. It seems like there's a lot of analysis about the administration's game plan, re: Venezuela.
January 4, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I think that to some extent, we in the US are not used to looking at the world through the lenses of uncontrolled greed and corruption unmitigated by any virtue. It seems like there's a lot of analysis about the administration's game plan, re: Venezuela.
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Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
Trump says he's going to run Venezuela, people are talking about him running Venezuela, and unless they're not reporting it (did I miss it? Could be, I guess)
WE HAVE NO PERSONNEL IN VENEZUELA.
We might just as well be talking about running New Zealand, Japan... how about Russia?
WE HAVE NO PERSONNEL IN VENEZUELA.
We might just as well be talking about running New Zealand, Japan... how about Russia?
January 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Trump says he's going to run Venezuela, people are talking about him running Venezuela, and unless they're not reporting it (did I miss it? Could be, I guess)
WE HAVE NO PERSONNEL IN VENEZUELA.
We might just as well be talking about running New Zealand, Japan... how about Russia?
WE HAVE NO PERSONNEL IN VENEZUELA.
We might just as well be talking about running New Zealand, Japan... how about Russia?
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The Trump admin is what happens when you run the Bush admin through AI.
January 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The Trump admin is what happens when you run the Bush admin through AI.
America can.
But there's a price to pay for everything.
And we'll pay eventually.
Hopefully sooner.
Before the interest accumulates too much.
But there's a price to pay for everything.
And we'll pay eventually.
Hopefully sooner.
Before the interest accumulates too much.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
America can.
But there's a price to pay for everything.
And we'll pay eventually.
Hopefully sooner.
Before the interest accumulates too much.
But there's a price to pay for everything.
And we'll pay eventually.
Hopefully sooner.
Before the interest accumulates too much.
Congress is pretty much irrelevant now.
News: Gang of Eight in Congress were only notified about Trump's Venezuela operation after it began, source familiar tells me. That means the heads of the Intelligence Committees in Senate and House were *not* consulted. Just crazy.
January 3, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Congress is pretty much irrelevant now.
Politicians tell us by their actions what their values are and what they intend to do if empowered.
Republicans voted to do away with the ACA dozens of times. They knew they were impotent.
Democrats are telling us what they intend to do if empowered.
Nothing.
We need new Democrats.
Republicans voted to do away with the ACA dozens of times. They knew they were impotent.
Democrats are telling us what they intend to do if empowered.
Nothing.
We need new Democrats.
Even there is a impeachment . Republicans Senate control won't remove him. It fail first impeachment and second impeachment Republicans Senate control did not remove him office
January 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Politicians tell us by their actions what their values are and what they intend to do if empowered.
Republicans voted to do away with the ACA dozens of times. They knew they were impotent.
Democrats are telling us what they intend to do if empowered.
Nothing.
We need new Democrats.
Republicans voted to do away with the ACA dozens of times. They knew they were impotent.
Democrats are telling us what they intend to do if empowered.
Nothing.
We need new Democrats.
"Awareness and conviction and repair and inclusion hurt abuse, even if the abuser doesn't participate. This means we don't need the permission of abusers to get started at dismantling abuse."
Ok, then - let's do it.
Ok, then - let's do it.
Today I wrote about our white supremacist political movement's perverse insistence that "we don't have to apologize for being white anymore."
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Apologies For Being White
How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.
www.the-reframe.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 PM
"Awareness and conviction and repair and inclusion hurt abuse, even if the abuser doesn't participate. This means we don't need the permission of abusers to get started at dismantling abuse."
Ok, then - let's do it.
Ok, then - let's do it.
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
Wonder what's next?
Will they actually bring charges and attempt to prosecute with DOJ's stellar recent record and brilliant leadership (sarcastic, in case you missed it)?
Will they just disappear them to Guantanamo, or send them to somewhere in Africa?
Or will they murder them?
Will they actually bring charges and attempt to prosecute with DOJ's stellar recent record and brilliant leadership (sarcastic, in case you missed it)?
Will they just disappear them to Guantanamo, or send them to somewhere in Africa?
Or will they murder them?
So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago
January 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Wonder what's next?
Will they actually bring charges and attempt to prosecute with DOJ's stellar recent record and brilliant leadership (sarcastic, in case you missed it)?
Will they just disappear them to Guantanamo, or send them to somewhere in Africa?
Or will they murder them?
Will they actually bring charges and attempt to prosecute with DOJ's stellar recent record and brilliant leadership (sarcastic, in case you missed it)?
Will they just disappear them to Guantanamo, or send them to somewhere in Africa?
Or will they murder them?
I'd forgotten that.
HW Bush invaded Panama and, uh, arrested Manuel Noreiga for narcotics trafficking.
HW Bush invaded Panama and, uh, arrested Manuel Noreiga for narcotics trafficking.
A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.
Is there any modern precedent for abducting a head of state?
Plenty of examples of coups, assassinations and domestic trials, including show trials, but this is like a Crusader Kings plot.
Plenty of examples of coups, assassinations and domestic trials, including show trials, but this is like a Crusader Kings plot.
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I'd forgotten that.
HW Bush invaded Panama and, uh, arrested Manuel Noreiga for narcotics trafficking.
HW Bush invaded Panama and, uh, arrested Manuel Noreiga for narcotics trafficking.
Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising
he rode singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
Hope he rekindled, and in hope he ended;
over death, over dread, over doom lifted
out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
~ JRR Tolkien
he rode singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
Hope he rekindled, and in hope he ended;
over death, over dread, over doom lifted
out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
~ JRR Tolkien
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising
he rode singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
Hope he rekindled, and in hope he ended;
over death, over dread, over doom lifted
out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
~ JRR Tolkien
he rode singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
Hope he rekindled, and in hope he ended;
over death, over dread, over doom lifted
out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
~ JRR Tolkien
Is he legit delusional?
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Is he legit delusional?
They've elected Trump to the presidency - their problem is with reality itself. Trump is a liar to the point that he only tells the truth incidentally. He lies so much that it's hard to keep track.
But perhaps his biggest lie is the implicit promise that he will make America white again.
But perhaps his biggest lie is the implicit promise that he will make America white again.
It’s quite telling that so many right-wing dealers in nostalgia are embracing the aesthetics of modern AI-generated art. Can’t actually find real images of the imagined past to which you want us to return? No problem; just generate it with AI.
January 2, 2026 at 6:18 PM
They've elected Trump to the presidency - their problem is with reality itself. Trump is a liar to the point that he only tells the truth incidentally. He lies so much that it's hard to keep track.
But perhaps his biggest lie is the implicit promise that he will make America white again.
But perhaps his biggest lie is the implicit promise that he will make America white again.
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Sak passe! Happy Independence Day to the Haitian homies & thank you for lighting the way to Black liberation! 🇭🇹
January 1, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Sak passe! Happy Independence Day to the Haitian homies & thank you for lighting the way to Black liberation! 🇭🇹
Chief Justice Roberts and the other 5 radicals on the SC are demonstrating the weakness of the Constitution and the law.
If we empower people to be above the law, they won't follow it.
The People are going to have to find someone to impose the law on everyone.
Including Supreme Court justices.
If we empower people to be above the law, they won't follow it.
The People are going to have to find someone to impose the law on everyone.
Including Supreme Court justices.
Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution. https://cnn.it/3LsloyF
January 1, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Chief Justice Roberts and the other 5 radicals on the SC are demonstrating the weakness of the Constitution and the law.
If we empower people to be above the law, they won't follow it.
The People are going to have to find someone to impose the law on everyone.
Including Supreme Court justices.
If we empower people to be above the law, they won't follow it.
The People are going to have to find someone to impose the law on everyone.
Including Supreme Court justices.
I don't even want to know the context - I'm just going to sit here and be happy that bluesky exists.
anyway, kudos to Bluesky for consistently being 100000000000000 times more normal in how most of you express your opinions about Gay Hockey Sex Twunks: The Series than Threads
January 1, 2026 at 5:56 PM
I don't even want to know the context - I'm just going to sit here and be happy that bluesky exists.
According to legend, the first thing you eat during the new year is a portent for the next 365 days.
I had two apples, a King and an unknown (very tasty apple, but I could not identify it).
I had two apples, a King and an unknown (very tasty apple, but I could not identify it).
According to legend, the first thing you eat during the new year is a portent for the next 365 days.
I'm having a Pop-Tart with a bit of triple cream brie on it, portending a year of very fancy things supported by the mundane.
I'm having a Pop-Tart with a bit of triple cream brie on it, portending a year of very fancy things supported by the mundane.
January 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
According to legend, the first thing you eat during the new year is a portent for the next 365 days.
I had two apples, a King and an unknown (very tasty apple, but I could not identify it).
I had two apples, a King and an unknown (very tasty apple, but I could not identify it).
Happy New Year, All!
May this be the year when we make decisive steps toward destroying authoritarianism and restoring the republic.
And may we do so for the liberty and common good of ALL the People.
May this be the year when we make decisive steps toward destroying authoritarianism and restoring the republic.
And may we do so for the liberty and common good of ALL the People.
January 1, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Happy New Year, All!
May this be the year when we make decisive steps toward destroying authoritarianism and restoring the republic.
And may we do so for the liberty and common good of ALL the People.
May this be the year when we make decisive steps toward destroying authoritarianism and restoring the republic.
And may we do so for the liberty and common good of ALL the People.
This will eventually be the epitaph of the Trump administration: They've done a lot of damage, but have also profoundly failed.
Miller exemplifies the Trump Dictatorship one year in: They've done a lot of damage, but have also profoundly failed.
Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
December 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This will eventually be the epitaph of the Trump administration: They've done a lot of damage, but have also profoundly failed.
The idea that authorities would accept false statements in police reports is horrifying. Police already don't investigate crimes - they make a judgment call about what happened, then gather evidence to justify their judgment. With AI involved, they will incarcerate a lot more innocent people.
December 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The idea that authorities would accept false statements in police reports is horrifying. Police already don't investigate crimes - they make a judgment call about what happened, then gather evidence to justify their judgment. With AI involved, they will incarcerate a lot more innocent people.
Dating? I won't break bread with MAGAs. Only way I ever want to form a relationship beyond aggravating acquaintance with a MAGA Republican is if it's attorney/client and I'm defending them for the new republic.
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Dating? I won't break bread with MAGAs. Only way I ever want to form a relationship beyond aggravating acquaintance with a MAGA Republican is if it's attorney/client and I'm defending them for the new republic.
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This Brazilian woman hates AI
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This Brazilian woman hates AI
Feel like I'm going bonkers here.
You do not have to hand it to marjorie greene.
Not at all.
She's still a vile bigot who wants to destroy all that is best about the nation.
You do not have to hand it to marjorie greene.
Not at all.
She's still a vile bigot who wants to destroy all that is best about the nation.
December 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Feel like I'm going bonkers here.
You do not have to hand it to marjorie greene.
Not at all.
She's still a vile bigot who wants to destroy all that is best about the nation.
You do not have to hand it to marjorie greene.
Not at all.
She's still a vile bigot who wants to destroy all that is best about the nation.