T. Greg Doucette
@gregdoucette.bsky.social
In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
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November 2025
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The pumpkins are put away and the Christmas decorations are already out, but first we have to survive mid-autumn and Thanksgiving 🦃
Only 39 months left in Donald Trump's presidency.
AMA! Q&A will be added to the thread as quote-skeets
ASK ME ANYTHING
MEGATHREAD
November 2025
***
The pumpkins are put away and the Christmas decorations are already out, but first we have to survive mid-autumn and Thanksgiving 🦃
Only 39 months left in Donald Trump's presidency.
AMA! Q&A will be added to the thread as quote-skeets
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It's very deadly with something like a 30% mortality rate. Started in Texas and has gone global
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
It's very deadly with something like a 30% mortality rate. Started in Texas and has gone global
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There is apparently a COVID-like epidemic hitting horses in the US. EHV-1.
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
There is apparently a COVID-like epidemic hitting horses in the US. EHV-1.
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every fucking year man
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
every fucking year man
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It’s not like there aren’t elderly liberals to scam! Just not by foreigners stoking the culture war, I guess
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors
One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It’s not like there aren’t elderly liberals to scam! Just not by foreigners stoking the culture war, I guess
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
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One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
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My hot take: it seems imprudent to date either Olivia Nuzzi or Ryan Lizza, but dating either does seem less imprudent than dating Mark Sanford or Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My hot take: it seems imprudent to date either Olivia Nuzzi or Ryan Lizza, but dating either does seem less imprudent than dating Mark Sanford or Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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The thing to understand about "papers please" fascism is that they don't actually care if you have your papers. They abduct whoever they please and do whatever they want with them.
April 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The thing to understand about "papers please" fascism is that they don't actually care if you have your papers. They abduct whoever they please and do whatever they want with them.
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bluesky should implement non-user modifiable country detection
hilarious and good feature from X that they stole from 4chan
hilarious and good feature from X that they stole from 4chan
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
bluesky should implement non-user modifiable country detection
hilarious and good feature from X that they stole from 4chan
hilarious and good feature from X that they stole from 4chan
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Perfect demonstration of why nobody has due process rights unless everyone has due process rights.
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Perfect demonstration of why nobody has due process rights unless everyone has due process rights.
Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
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/2 I was less kind than I might have been. I lost my temper. I told him that only fools were looking for explanations based in normality, and that it was obvious to everyone who wasn’t deluded that we were in a completely abnormal situation.
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
/2 I was less kind than I might have been. I lost my temper. I told him that only fools were looking for explanations based in normality, and that it was obvious to everyone who wasn’t deluded that we were in a completely abnormal situation.
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Yesteady a colleague I hadn’t spoken to in a while, once a Reagan Republican, called me asking to explain why the Comey indictment had gone the way it did. He’s an ex-AUSA too. Why would they do it this way and not the right way, he was asking. There must be a strategic explanation.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Yesteady a colleague I hadn’t spoken to in a while, once a Reagan Republican, called me asking to explain why the Comey indictment had gone the way it did. He’s an ex-AUSA too. Why would they do it this way and not the right way, he was asking. There must be a strategic explanation.
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Canadian Greg Doucette had a DoorDash DashPass membership, but outdated billing info
So for weeks I've been getting emails meant for him
So for weeks I've been getting emails meant for him
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Canadian Greg Doucette had a DoorDash DashPass membership, but outdated billing info
So for weeks I've been getting emails meant for him
So for weeks I've been getting emails meant for him
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There's something grotesquely ironic about foreign influences trying to move American views about white supremacy being outsourced to nonwhite countries with poor residents, laboring to normalize racist messaging.
"Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency — and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors."
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
There's something grotesquely ironic about foreign influences trying to move American views about white supremacy being outsourced to nonwhite countries with poor residents, laboring to normalize racist messaging.
"Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency — and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors."
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency — and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors."
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
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Since they said disobey unlawful orders I guess this is an admission?
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Since they said disobey unlawful orders I guess this is an admission?
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President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
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can't believe rfk jr wants to stop me from eating red M&Ms but he'll eat *** out of an ****
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
can't believe rfk jr wants to stop me from eating red M&Ms but he'll eat *** out of an ****
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It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
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Take I half believe: it wasn’t really fair for Return of the King to win Best Picture not because it didn’t deserve it but because it was a wrap up award for the whole trilogy, which was something no other nominees in 2004 could even come close to competing with.
My most alienating Oscar opinion of the year is that Wicked pt deux is not a sequel but the simultaneously shot second half of one movie and that therefore it'd be weird to renominate the two stars. This isn't the Emmys; you don't get rewarded for the same role year after year. Will delete shortly.
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Take I half believe: it wasn’t really fair for Return of the King to win Best Picture not because it didn’t deserve it but because it was a wrap up award for the whole trilogy, which was something no other nominees in 2004 could even come close to competing with.
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There’s a million debates over what kind of regime this is, but it’s impossible to ignore how it really has a genuine facet that is Hitlerian in its personalism. A basic matter of foreign policy now involves 20 scheming viziers because Trump has competing factions as the basis of his control.
The American delegation is: Secretary Rubio, Special envoy Witkoff, Jared Kushner, SecArmy Driscoll, State Dept counselor Michael Needham, US Amb Julie Davis, Deputy NSA Andy Baker, and EUCOM commander Gen. Grynkewich.
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There’s a million debates over what kind of regime this is, but it’s impossible to ignore how it really has a genuine facet that is Hitlerian in its personalism. A basic matter of foreign policy now involves 20 scheming viziers because Trump has competing factions as the basis of his control.
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I wonder how this feature got made. I don’t think the product team was so dumb as to not realize what we’d all find out (and what they already knew). I presume that at some point someone had a good idea and somehow got Musk aboard
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I wonder how this feature got made. I don’t think the product team was so dumb as to not realize what we’d all find out (and what they already knew). I presume that at some point someone had a good idea and somehow got Musk aboard