Hoppy Croaklightly
@hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social
Amphibian. I have the Great Frog on speed dial. Frogs are the best result of the Big Bang by a mile. If you can manage it, please donate to PBS. Tax/Spend. "Brekekekex koax koax!" Whatever it takes.
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Nehls just announced he’s not seeking reelection
Nehls to Kash Patel: "I would say if Charlie Kirk lived in Biblical times, he'd have been the 13th disciple."
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Nehls just announced he’s not seeking reelection
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Because all of media has bent the knee.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Because all of media has bent the knee.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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Catherine Rampell: The Trump administration has been going after hundreds of thousands of people who have documents and is de-documenting them, effectively declaring them illegal.
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Catherine Rampell: The Trump administration has been going after hundreds of thousands of people who have documents and is de-documenting them, effectively declaring them illegal.
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If anyone at FDA or elsewhere at HHS knows more about all this, Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous, see some of my recent relevant my work here if that's useful
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November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If anyone at FDA or elsewhere at HHS knows more about all this, Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous, see some of my recent relevant my work here if that's useful
www.gravityisgone.com
www.gravityisgone.com
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So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
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Because they are not friend. They are foe.
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Because they are not friend. They are foe.
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Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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Simple. Boycott any company responsible for putting these on streets. Pavements are for people, not delivery robots.
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Simple. Boycott any company responsible for putting these on streets. Pavements are for people, not delivery robots.
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My favorite thing about people like Hegseth is that they're so far up their own asses they think they're smarter/better than everyone else. A Defense Secretary could just decline to comment, not say anything, ignore it all.
But Hegseth is so smart, smarter than us, and he's gonna post through it.
But Hegseth is so smart, smarter than us, and he's gonna post through it.
a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
My favorite thing about people like Hegseth is that they're so far up their own asses they think they're smarter/better than everyone else. A Defense Secretary could just decline to comment, not say anything, ignore it all.
But Hegseth is so smart, smarter than us, and he's gonna post through it.
But Hegseth is so smart, smarter than us, and he's gonna post through it.
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The 2029 loser of Dancing with the Stars says
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The 2029 loser of Dancing with the Stars says
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Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
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In a just world I would not have to understand what literally any of this means
This is actually a relevant factor here: it's been pretty clear SOUTHCOM, whose commander resigned, has been pushing back, at least somewhat. They're putting it under the operational command of SOCOM specifically because that's the most already rotten place you'll find people happy to do crimes.
Why do you need Seal Team 6 to blow up a fucking boat?
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM
In a just world I would not have to understand what literally any of this means
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Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller: “We are removing every single illegal alien… a majority of those removed have had serious violent crimes.” 🤥
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”
Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”
Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller: “We are removing every single illegal alien… a majority of those removed have had serious violent crimes.” 🤥
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”
Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”
Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
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Right out of the textbooks. Literally "Them."
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Right out of the textbooks. Literally "Them."
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One way or another we need to entirely break the connection of votes to land mass.
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
One way or another we need to entirely break the connection of votes to land mass.
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Meanwhile Harvard sued and got most of its funding restored and this has served as a model for precisely nobody www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
www.insidehighered.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Meanwhile Harvard sued and got most of its funding restored and this has served as a model for precisely nobody www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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5/ Administration explanation to Congress seems to be a bold-face falsehood: claiming double-tap strike was to clear debris, not to kill survivors.
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
5/ Administration explanation to Congress seems to be a bold-face falsehood: claiming double-tap strike was to clear debris, not to kill survivors.
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
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Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
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No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
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Just set up a special tribunal akin to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and prosecute under the law of war
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Just set up a special tribunal akin to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and prosecute under the law of war
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If the political branches want to have fast, effective accountability, they should also pass laws establishing a special tribunal, with streamlined process, and a set of laws criminalizing specific conduct and applying retroactively. And then strip judicial review of those too.
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
If the political branches want to have fast, effective accountability, they should also pass laws establishing a special tribunal, with streamlined process, and a set of laws criminalizing specific conduct and applying retroactively. And then strip judicial review of those too.
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It took a while in Chile but eventually a lot of military were eventually tried for human rights violations despite amnesty laws. It took some creative lawyering and eventually political will. A long road ahead for the U.S., but I’m heartened that these ideas are being mapped out at least.
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It took a while in Chile but eventually a lot of military were eventually tried for human rights violations despite amnesty laws. It took some creative lawyering and eventually political will. A long road ahead for the U.S., but I’m heartened that these ideas are being mapped out at least.
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump: