Author | Lightnews

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 11h

the Robert Moses method

Reposted by Some Guy

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 9d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

460 4.1K 14K

Reposted by Some Guy

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

130 790 4.3K

Reposted by Some Guy

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13d

7. Here are a list of Dems voting for and against the bill:

Democratic senators who voted against or did not vote on the NDAA included Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; Cory Booker and Andy Kim of New Jersey; Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray of Washington; Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin of Illinois; Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon; Chris Murphy of Connecticut; Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff of California; Brian Schatz of Hawaii; Tina Smith of Minnesota; Chris Van Hollen of Maryland; and Peter Welch of Vermont. Independent senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont also voted no. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada did not vote.

The bill now heads into conference negotiations with the House, where the version passed earlier this year is loaded with even more anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ riders. Many of those measures were championed by Rep. Nancy Mace, who infamously launched into anti-trans slurs on the House floor during debate. The House provisions go far beyond the Senate’s, including an all-ages ban on military health insurance coverage for gender-affirming care, restrictions on transgender athletes at military facilities, a bathroom ban on bases, a ban on pride flags, and a clause excluding gender identity from all military data collection. According to Roll Call, the Senate’s passage sets the stage for formal conference talks where negotiators could fold some—or all—of the House provisions into the final bill. The legislation will then return to both chambers for final approval and will likely reach the president’s desk before year’s end.

7 36 170

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 14d

In 2016 superdelegates put their thumbs on the scale of the Democratic primary. Trump won the general election.
In 2020 Dems had a competitive primary and won the presidency.
In 2024 Dems didn't have a real primary race, and again Trump won the general election.
Dems should be more democratic.

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 15d

It's kind of funny that the Trump admin failed to challenge the order restraining the NG's deployment

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 15d

Tactics for interacting with the NG definitely need to be different than for ICE et al

2 7

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 15d

The orders will be judged in court on Thursday. If the guard stay after the orders are deemed illegal, then we can call them fascists.

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 15d

What have these soldiers done so far that’s remotely comparable to the atrocities of Nazi Germany?

1

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 15d

The National Guard soldiers are not fascists. Fascists are deploying them using ambiguously legal means. Know who your enemy is.

2 1

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 15d

Have local news orgs been granted access to the facility yet, or is it still only verified right-wing media that’s allowed in?

Reposted by Some Guy

"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 15d

the age of societal domination by mediocre white men was drawing to a close. nature was healing. and thus the most mediocre of all staged a hostile takeover of our government by economic force so that they could institute counterrevolution and maintain their control in perpetuity.

1 38 140

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 15d

We have the technology for everyone to have an account with the central bank. Give everyone $X/month, then tax private wealth to manage the money supply.

2

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 15d

If Trump has a political ideology it’s monarchism

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 15d

If we’d had a real primary Harris wouldn’t have been the candidate

Reposted by Some Guy

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 17d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

270 4.4K 15K

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 16d

This US Congress has fully abdicated its power, the Supreme Court is actively eroding the structures of federal law, and the President is directing a mass kidnapping effort targeting immigrants

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 16d

From Ground News. 1: NBC is not “left” 2: This news article creates the phenomenon it reports on.

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 17d

At that point the National Guard commander is liable to be sued for following an illegal order, no?

1

Reposted by Some Guy

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 18d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 20d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

31 1.7K 2.3K

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 17d

For sure, he’s going to try everything he can. I appreciate your bringing up specific concerns about it. It’s just the vague doomerism of “elections will be cancelled” that feels unhelpful.

1 1

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 17d

This isn’t a matter of law, it’s a matter of what mechanisms he would use. He can bluster at red state governments to fuck with elections and try to send troops, but no election officials report to him or his underlings.

1 1

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 17d

Elections are run by the states. Trump is technically able to do a lot of things he’s not legally authorized to, but he doesn’t have a mechanism of straight up stopping elections. The suppression will have to be more subtle.

1

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 18d

“Trump claims” is the journalistic equivalent of “I asked ChatGPT.” Please don’t boost his hallucinations

2

Some Guy @gargladon.bsky.social · 18d

Why does the number keep increasing? First it was 200 OR National Guard troops, then 300 from CA, and now 400 from TX

1