Michael P. Scott
@empeescott.bsky.social
retired CA attorney, living in Olympia WA
Mundus Sine Caesaribus
Only "shithole countries" immunize their Presidents
I "cloud nine" when I want to
We still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
Let a hundred Luigis bloom
Mundus Sine Caesaribus
Only "shithole countries" immunize their Presidents
I "cloud nine" when I want to
We still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
Let a hundred Luigis bloom
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"So what you're saying is pharmacies are going to pay people to get drugs from them?" asked no journalist ever.
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"So what you're saying is pharmacies are going to pay people to get drugs from them?" asked no journalist ever.
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Trump: You’re going to have drug prices coming down 500,600,700% because of me
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Trump: You’re going to have drug prices coming down 500,600,700% because of me
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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth 100% committed war crimes. The only question is whether there is an international body that can hold them accountable? We know the US system won't thanks to the corrupt GOP Supreme "Court"
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth 100% committed war crimes. The only question is whether there is an international body that can hold them accountable? We know the US system won't thanks to the corrupt GOP Supreme "Court"
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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Strong Floor Because Otherwise The Guillotines Are Going To Break Through Into The Basement
November 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Strong Floor Because Otherwise The Guillotines Are Going To Break Through Into The Basement
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A perfect holiday story: a civil servant who quit and went to war against the Trump policy of separating children from their families. Now Jonathan White is running for Congress. wapo.st/3KdDBQ1
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress.
Jonathan White, a longtime civil servant who fought Trump officials’ efforts to separate migrant families, says Democrats must do more to combat the president.
wapo.st
November 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A perfect holiday story: a civil servant who quit and went to war against the Trump policy of separating children from their families. Now Jonathan White is running for Congress. wapo.st/3KdDBQ1
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Law prof Josh Braver notes the problem of 'manifestly unlawful' when the civilian legal authorities *say* it's lawful -- and thinks least bad outcome is the military maintains civilian supremacy even if acting illegally. Many (most?) civ-mil relatios scholars agree.
www.wsj.com/opinion/diso...
www.wsj.com/opinion/diso...
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Law prof Josh Braver notes the problem of 'manifestly unlawful' when the civilian legal authorities *say* it's lawful -- and thinks least bad outcome is the military maintains civilian supremacy even if acting illegally. Many (most?) civ-mil relatios scholars agree.
www.wsj.com/opinion/diso...
www.wsj.com/opinion/diso...
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Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
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"Strong floor, no ceiling"
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling"
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Some ppl have seemingly forgot that political news media spun up a "Biden secretly has parkinsons" story out of a doctor visiting the WH while the admin was working on Parkinsons policy or that Nuzzis big "Biden didnt remember me" piece was written when she was secretly working for RFK Jrs campaign
The actual "worse than watergate" scandal is how much news media collectively worked to ratfuck a Democratic presidency by largely inventing health/mental acuity concerns for hyperventilate about while largely ignoring the very real & worsening issues in front of their faces from Trump
Both taken this weekend:
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Some ppl have seemingly forgot that political news media spun up a "Biden secretly has parkinsons" story out of a doctor visiting the WH while the admin was working on Parkinsons policy or that Nuzzis big "Biden didnt remember me" piece was written when she was secretly working for RFK Jrs campaign
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The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
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I didn’t vote for war against Venezuela. How about you? 😡
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I didn’t vote for war against Venezuela. How about you? 😡
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Eventually, federal prosecutors are going to stop going after white-collar crime altogether, since Trump has decided that crimes are not crimes if you're wearing a necktie.
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Eventually, federal prosecutors are going to stop going after white-collar crime altogether, since Trump has decided that crimes are not crimes if you're wearing a necktie.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Both of these photos we're taken this weekend
They are not photoshopped
Joe in Nantucket fighting Cancer
The audacity of Dementia Low Energy Don in Mar-a-LARDO
Always saying Sleepy Joe
Houston
We have a problem
They are not photoshopped
Joe in Nantucket fighting Cancer
The audacity of Dementia Low Energy Don in Mar-a-LARDO
Always saying Sleepy Joe
Houston
We have a problem
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Both of these photos we're taken this weekend
They are not photoshopped
Joe in Nantucket fighting Cancer
The audacity of Dementia Low Energy Don in Mar-a-LARDO
Always saying Sleepy Joe
Houston
We have a problem
They are not photoshopped
Joe in Nantucket fighting Cancer
The audacity of Dementia Low Energy Don in Mar-a-LARDO
Always saying Sleepy Joe
Houston
We have a problem
Teaching Noem Object Permanence outside the TV screen
KARL: The Biden administration said the vetting was done before they came to the US
NOEM: You watched people load onto those planes
KARL: They didn't come from those planes directly to the US
NOEM: You watched people load onto those planes
KARL: They didn't come from those planes directly to the US
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Teaching Noem Object Permanence outside the TV screen
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Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
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2/ "The policy ... was changed because Hegseth knows he can’t justify killing boat operators who survive attacks."
‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense | National Review
The laws of war, incorporated in the federal war crimes statute, prohibit the killing of people who have been rendered hors de combat.
www.nationalreview.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
2/ "The policy ... was changed because Hegseth knows he can’t justify killing boat operators who survive attacks."
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Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy knocks down Hegseth's defense:
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense | National Review
The laws of war, incorporated in the federal war crimes statute, prohibit the killing of people who have been rendered hors de combat.
www.nationalreview.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy knocks down Hegseth's defense:
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
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Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
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Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936
Right: 1936 electoral map
Right: 1936 electoral map
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936
Right: 1936 electoral map
Right: 1936 electoral map