Gabrielle Feinholtz
@gfeinholtz85719.bsky.social
Many hats worn - many more yet to wear -----
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THE COMING CHRISTMAS WAR: I have seen this game before. In 1985 we exercised Freedom on Navigation & challenged Qaddafi’s power in the Gulf of Sidra called OPERATION ATTAIN DOCUMENT I-IV. That had legitimacy bc of Libya terror attacks. It led to PRAIRIE FIRE. A decapitation strike to kill Qaddafi.
December 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
THE COMING CHRISTMAS WAR: I have seen this game before. In 1985 we exercised Freedom on Navigation & challenged Qaddafi’s power in the Gulf of Sidra called OPERATION ATTAIN DOCUMENT I-IV. That had legitimacy bc of Libya terror attacks. It led to PRAIRIE FIRE. A decapitation strike to kill Qaddafi.
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This Tom Clancy driven march to war has none of the legitimacy of 1985. Except Trump wants Maduro dead & his oil lining his pocket.
Not Freedom. Not Democracy. Not drug interdiction or even a coherent Strategy.
Just a war for oil.
Not Freedom. Not Democracy. Not drug interdiction or even a coherent Strategy.
Just a war for oil.
December 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This Tom Clancy driven march to war has none of the legitimacy of 1985. Except Trump wants Maduro dead & his oil lining his pocket.
Not Freedom. Not Democracy. Not drug interdiction or even a coherent Strategy.
Just a war for oil.
Not Freedom. Not Democracy. Not drug interdiction or even a coherent Strategy.
Just a war for oil.
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Brendan Loper, The New Yorker
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Brendan Loper, The New Yorker
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I feel like Indiana abandoning Trump is a tipping point. And it’s not because they didn’t want a new map. It’s because he shook them down.
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I feel like Indiana abandoning Trump is a tipping point. And it’s not because they didn’t want a new map. It’s because he shook them down.
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DOGE never happened, apparently
December 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
DOGE never happened, apparently
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Going to steal the constitution and rub it with lemon juice to find the secret pardon power
December 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Going to steal the constitution and rub it with lemon juice to find the secret pardon power
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“National Treasure: the Dual Pardon Clause.”
December 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“National Treasure: the Dual Pardon Clause.”
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The Lt. Gov. of Indiana has now deleted this post which confirmed that the Trump admin threatened to withhold federal funding from Indiana if they didn’t gerrymander.
December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Lt. Gov. of Indiana has now deleted this post which confirmed that the Trump admin threatened to withhold federal funding from Indiana if they didn’t gerrymander.
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The scholarly ammunition factories filling emergency rush orders from the authoritarian regime
Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The scholarly ammunition factories filling emergency rush orders from the authoritarian regime
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Reflects some dynamics of legal scholarship. The right wing has built an ideological fortress in this space whose job is to produce arguments to serve their administrations. Not what we normally think of as scholarship. If they succeed it is because the most powerful people in the US want them to.
December 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Reflects some dynamics of legal scholarship. The right wing has built an ideological fortress in this space whose job is to produce arguments to serve their administrations. Not what we normally think of as scholarship. If they succeed it is because the most powerful people in the US want them to.
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Outside funding by conservatives in higher ed has mostly targeted law and economics because they view these two fields as the most influential on policy. And its worked pretty well. Half of federal judges went through programs with a conservative law and economic training, changing their views.
December 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Outside funding by conservatives in higher ed has mostly targeted law and economics because they view these two fields as the most influential on policy. And its worked pretty well. Half of federal judges went through programs with a conservative law and economic training, changing their views.
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A lot of right wing critiques of academia present it as an ideological conspiracy, w some story of the Frankfurt School, as opposed to banal processes of selection *and the research itself.* But their actual top-down, funded-by-capital efforts to up-end academia is treated as a natural rebalancing.
December 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A lot of right wing critiques of academia present it as an ideological conspiracy, w some story of the Frankfurt School, as opposed to banal processes of selection *and the research itself.* But their actual top-down, funded-by-capital efforts to up-end academia is treated as a natural rebalancing.
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Yes. They're propaganda factories, not legal scholarship.
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Yes. They're propaganda factories, not legal scholarship.
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Beckwith’s now deleted post was a reply to this post from Heritage.
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Beckwith’s now deleted post was a reply to this post from Heritage.
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Did you know they make rapid tests for the flu now? Innovation!
Although I do wish I didn't have occasion to find this out today
Although I do wish I didn't have occasion to find this out today
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Did you know they make rapid tests for the flu now? Innovation!
Although I do wish I didn't have occasion to find this out today
Although I do wish I didn't have occasion to find this out today
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We just cancelled <all> federal area studies/foreign language funding at universities nationwide to ostensibly “save” $86M. How much of that did we waste on this one authoritarian farce alone?
Extraordinary to think how much time, effort, and taxpayer money has been spent pursuing this one guy (who has a US citizen as a wife and a US citizen as a child).
And for basically no reason. Capricious, personalistic, unjust, wasteful.
And for basically no reason. Capricious, personalistic, unjust, wasteful.
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We just cancelled <all> federal area studies/foreign language funding at universities nationwide to ostensibly “save” $86M. How much of that did we waste on this one authoritarian farce alone?
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"Secretary Hegseth’s zeal to have the military punish Senator Kelly is a worst-case scenario of this problem."
National Institute of Military Justice Statement Against Secretary Hegseth’s Threats to Punish a Senator
(disclaimer: I'm a NIMJ Distinguished Fellow)
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
National Institute of Military Justice Statement Against Secretary Hegseth’s Threats to Punish a Senator
(disclaimer: I'm a NIMJ Distinguished Fellow)
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Secretary Hegseth’s zeal to have the military punish Senator Kelly is a worst-case scenario of this problem."
National Institute of Military Justice Statement Against Secretary Hegseth’s Threats to Punish a Senator
(disclaimer: I'm a NIMJ Distinguished Fellow)
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
National Institute of Military Justice Statement Against Secretary Hegseth’s Threats to Punish a Senator
(disclaimer: I'm a NIMJ Distinguished Fellow)
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
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Once again, one very easy way for the 🇺🇸 political media to escape the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years would be for it to stop acting in ways that <completely justify> all of the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years
AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Once again, one very easy way for the 🇺🇸 political media to escape the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years would be for it to stop acting in ways that <completely justify> all of the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years
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"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/199e371f-8...
Big tech’s ‘elite victim complex’
[FREE TO READ] Acolytes of the broligarchs have a grip on key nodes of Washington’s power ministries
as.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/199e371f-8...
Big tech’s ‘elite victim complex’
[FREE TO READ] Acolytes of the broligarchs have a grip on key nodes of Washington’s power ministries
as.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/199e371f-8...
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While American families are expected to pay more for goods this holiday season due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, small-business owners are facing an existential crisis, Annie Lowrey reports: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Donald Trump’s War on Christmas
It’s a bad year for shoppers. It’s a terrible year for small-business owners.
www.theatlantic.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
While American families are expected to pay more for goods this holiday season due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, small-business owners are facing an existential crisis, Annie Lowrey reports: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Trump's racist tirades toward Somalis are a test of how much fascist ethnic persecution the American people will tolerate, says @saletan.bsky.social. So public backlash and sinking polls (Trump at 38% on immigration!) are heartening.
On the pod Will is so good today:
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
On the pod Will is so good today:
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Trump Rages at Cratering Polls as GOP Losses Reveal Surprise Weakness
As this week’s brutal GOP election losses show Latinos shifting hard against Trump and the GOP, the author of a piece on Trump’s agenda of ethnic persecution explains why naked bigotry is also backfir...
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Trump's racist tirades toward Somalis are a test of how much fascist ethnic persecution the American people will tolerate, says @saletan.bsky.social. So public backlash and sinking polls (Trump at 38% on immigration!) are heartening.
On the pod Will is so good today:
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
On the pod Will is so good today:
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
"... to inspire public trust — rests with the bipartisan House Ethics Committee, which has an open inquiry into the allegations against him. Both parties should insist that the committee resolve the allegations swiftly and impartially. "
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Gift link to great piece by former federal prosecutors on the damage caused by Trump’s pardon of Rep. Cuellar and demand that he switch parties in exchange.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Degrading the Justice System. Democrats Are Helping.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"... to inspire public trust — rests with the bipartisan House Ethics Committee, which has an open inquiry into the allegations against him. Both parties should insist that the committee resolve the allegations swiftly and impartially. "
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