Craig Carl 👨🦳 👩🦳👨🐕
@craigrcarl.bsky.social
Photographer and lifelong Democrat (well, I did wear an "I Like Ike" button in 1952)
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"The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash has come from foreign sources" ~Reuters
We're bringing in trillions in foreign investments....
All to ourselves.
All to ourselves.
December 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash has come from foreign sources" ~Reuters
"A start-up funded by a Donald Trump Jr.-backed venture capital firm has been awarded a $620 million contract from the Pentagon, reports the Financial Times."
newrepublic.com/post/203954/...
newrepublic.com/post/203954/...
Trump Jr.-Backed Company Cashes In on Massive Pentagon Contract
What a coincidence!
newrepublic.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"A start-up funded by a Donald Trump Jr.-backed venture capital firm has been awarded a $620 million contract from the Pentagon, reports the Financial Times."
newrepublic.com/post/203954/...
newrepublic.com/post/203954/...
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Some say it is illegal to arrest a sitting president. It is not. The president is subject to the law like everyone. That none have been arrested in the U.S. is only a policy internal to the DOJ based on the need for continuity of government operations--a policy that never imagined a criminal POTUS.
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Some say it is illegal to arrest a sitting president. It is not. The president is subject to the law like everyone. That none have been arrested in the U.S. is only a policy internal to the DOJ based on the need for continuity of government operations--a policy that never imagined a criminal POTUS.
The autocratic game plan:
~ Replace civil servants with loyalists
~ Pressure & regulate the free press to destroy it
~ Rob universities of their independence
~ Politicize the courts
~ Obtain electoral advantages
~ Declare emergency powers
~ Ally with Russia.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
~ Replace civil servants with loyalists
~ Pressure & regulate the free press to destroy it
~ Rob universities of their independence
~ Politicize the courts
~ Obtain electoral advantages
~ Declare emergency powers
~ Ally with Russia.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The autocratic game plan:
~ Replace civil servants with loyalists
~ Pressure & regulate the free press to destroy it
~ Rob universities of their independence
~ Politicize the courts
~ Obtain electoral advantages
~ Declare emergency powers
~ Ally with Russia.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
~ Replace civil servants with loyalists
~ Pressure & regulate the free press to destroy it
~ Rob universities of their independence
~ Politicize the courts
~ Obtain electoral advantages
~ Declare emergency powers
~ Ally with Russia.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
84 years ago two of my uncles were at Pearl Harbor. One, a shipyard worker, drove there when he heard about the attack, to see if he could help. One was strafed while driving around an airfield to rescue his civilian employees (he died 20 years later of burns, rescuing a stranger from a car fire).
December 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
84 years ago two of my uncles were at Pearl Harbor. One, a shipyard worker, drove there when he heard about the attack, to see if he could help. One was strafed while driving around an airfield to rescue his civilian employees (he died 20 years later of burns, rescuing a stranger from a car fire).
We are now living in a Russian-style surveillance state.
December 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We are now living in a Russian-style surveillance state.
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We're in a global war for AI dominance. China doesn't have the edge in chips, but - as a ruthless dictatorship that doesn't care about the environment - it can build lots and lots of coal-fired powerplants (blue) to make electricity as cheap as possible...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-ele...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-ele...
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We're in a global war for AI dominance. China doesn't have the edge in chips, but - as a ruthless dictatorship that doesn't care about the environment - it can build lots and lots of coal-fired powerplants (blue) to make electricity as cheap as possible...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-ele...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-ele...
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... What did you expect would happen ???
December 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
... What did you expect would happen ???
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These people are vile.
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
These people are vile.
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Mr. Feldman Said This At Chump's
1st Impeachment Trial.......
1st Impeachment Trial.......
December 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Mr. Feldman Said This At Chump's
1st Impeachment Trial.......
1st Impeachment Trial.......
We need an "Oops, My Bad!" Amendment, so voters can reverse an election one year later when it becomes obvious they f'd up.
December 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We need an "Oops, My Bad!" Amendment, so voters can reverse an election one year later when it becomes obvious they f'd up.
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Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
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"Elon bankrolls the Euro extreme right in order to dodge the DSA penalty on Twitter" is the future of politics, isn't it
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"Elon bankrolls the Euro extreme right in order to dodge the DSA penalty on Twitter" is the future of politics, isn't it
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This is an abomination.
U.S. Flips History by Casting Europe—Not Russia—as Villain in New Security Policy
An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.
www.wsj.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This is an abomination.
Smart man...
We must stand now or we will never be allowed to stand again!
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Smart man...
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It you aren't straight and white and Christian, or wealthy, but you don't vote a straight Dem ticket in every election: then you truly are a fool. That's been true for eight decades, but the modern GOP has made it so obvious.
"Open your eyes" & all that, or you & yours may pay the price of folly.
"Open your eyes" & all that, or you & yours may pay the price of folly.
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It you aren't straight and white and Christian, or wealthy, but you don't vote a straight Dem ticket in every election: then you truly are a fool. That's been true for eight decades, but the modern GOP has made it so obvious.
"Open your eyes" & all that, or you & yours may pay the price of folly.
"Open your eyes" & all that, or you & yours may pay the price of folly.
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By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23
October 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23
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“It’s a familiar saying that power corrupts. But in my experience, its corrosive effects are more wide-ranging. Power inevitably magnifies the weaknesses in a personality.” (Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow) Just seemed like an applicable quote to much of what we see today in politics.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“It’s a familiar saying that power corrupts. But in my experience, its corrosive effects are more wide-ranging. Power inevitably magnifies the weaknesses in a personality.” (Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow) Just seemed like an applicable quote to much of what we see today in politics.
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ICE and the Trump administration have created a culture of fear.
The fact that they are targeting US citizens shows that they are profiling based on ethnicity.
Yes. They have created a Gestapo.
Please don’t compare Trump to Putin.
Compare him to Hitler or Stalin.
The fact that they are targeting US citizens shows that they are profiling based on ethnicity.
Yes. They have created a Gestapo.
Please don’t compare Trump to Putin.
Compare him to Hitler or Stalin.
December 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
ICE and the Trump administration have created a culture of fear.
The fact that they are targeting US citizens shows that they are profiling based on ethnicity.
Yes. They have created a Gestapo.
Please don’t compare Trump to Putin.
Compare him to Hitler or Stalin.
The fact that they are targeting US citizens shows that they are profiling based on ethnicity.
Yes. They have created a Gestapo.
Please don’t compare Trump to Putin.
Compare him to Hitler or Stalin.
"The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal... For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."
~ DOD Law of War Manual, quoted by Rachel Maddow on MSNOW
~ DOD Law of War Manual, quoted by Rachel Maddow on MSNOW
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal... For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."
~ DOD Law of War Manual, quoted by Rachel Maddow on MSNOW
~ DOD Law of War Manual, quoted by Rachel Maddow on MSNOW
"The main lesson would be: don't cancel each other. Talk to different groups of people within the opposition and try to build a broader coalition, because I think that was one of our biggest mistakes."
~ Nadya Tolokonnikova, founder of Pussy Riot, on MSNOW
~ Nadya Tolokonnikova, founder of Pussy Riot, on MSNOW
December 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"The main lesson would be: don't cancel each other. Talk to different groups of people within the opposition and try to build a broader coalition, because I think that was one of our biggest mistakes."
~ Nadya Tolokonnikova, founder of Pussy Riot, on MSNOW
~ Nadya Tolokonnikova, founder of Pussy Riot, on MSNOW
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There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really.
Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.
Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.
Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
December 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really.
Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.
Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.