Kerry the Nik
@kerrythenik.bsky.social
Retired scientist. Avid cyclist. Mizzou alumnus 1986. STL Cardinals, Blues and Browns fan. Partaker of finely-crafted adult malt beverages. Be civil.
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ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.
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Unearthed 2016 video: Pete Hegseth straight up says US troops will not follow ‘unlawful orders’ from the commander-in-chief, and there have to be consequences for ‘abject war crimes’.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Unearthed 2016 video: Pete Hegseth straight up says US troops will not follow ‘unlawful orders’ from the commander-in-chief, and there have to be consequences for ‘abject war crimes’.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
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More than 225 judges rule Trump mass detention policy is in violation of law and right to due process. Those judges were appointed by all modern presidents — including 23 by Trump —
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges have now rejected the Trump admin’s mass detention policy
The number has skyrocketed in recent weeks and includes at least 20 judges appointed by Trump himself.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
More than 225 judges rule Trump mass detention policy is in violation of law and right to due process. Those judges were appointed by all modern presidents — including 23 by Trump —
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Trump underestimated lower federal courts, the single biggest obstacle to his autocratic ambition. He suffered humiliating court defeats on repealing birthright citizenship, deploying National Guard to Chicago,etc. The list of Trump defeats grows longer by the day
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Trump Faltering in Face of Lower Courts
The rule of law is proving to be stronger than he thought
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Trump underestimated lower federal courts, the single biggest obstacle to his autocratic ambition. He suffered humiliating court defeats on repealing birthright citizenship, deploying National Guard to Chicago,etc. The list of Trump defeats grows longer by the day
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Trump’s claim he can order strikes on foreign civilians is unconstitutional
Nowhere in the Constitution is he given this power, it's a violation of multiple US laws, and there is no precedent in American history
I laid it out on @newsnation.bsky.social w/ @chriscuomo.bsky.social👇
Nowhere in the Constitution is he given this power, it's a violation of multiple US laws, and there is no precedent in American history
I laid it out on @newsnation.bsky.social w/ @chriscuomo.bsky.social👇
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Trump’s claim he can order strikes on foreign civilians is unconstitutional
Nowhere in the Constitution is he given this power, it's a violation of multiple US laws, and there is no precedent in American history
I laid it out on @newsnation.bsky.social w/ @chriscuomo.bsky.social👇
Nowhere in the Constitution is he given this power, it's a violation of multiple US laws, and there is no precedent in American history
I laid it out on @newsnation.bsky.social w/ @chriscuomo.bsky.social👇
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The Trump admin has been quietly pressuring Europe to not seize the Russian billions for Ukraine. He fully intends to give it back to Russia and likely will find a way to profit himself.
Shame on America, and shame on Europe
Shame on America, and shame on Europe
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The Trump admin has been quietly pressuring Europe to not seize the Russian billions for Ukraine. He fully intends to give it back to Russia and likely will find a way to profit himself.
Shame on America, and shame on Europe
Shame on America, and shame on Europe
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Jacob Frey: "We are here to respond to credible reports relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community. To our Somali community -- we love you and we stand with you. That commitment is rock solid"
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Jacob Frey: "We are here to respond to credible reports relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community. To our Somali community -- we love you and we stand with you. That commitment is rock solid"
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Noem: You have saved hundreds of millions of lives with the Cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Noem: You have saved hundreds of millions of lives with the Cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean
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talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
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Klobuchar: "What the president has done is taken a horrific crime that occurred in DC and went 2,400 miles away to Somali & somehow indicted an entire group of people, 80k of them in my state, as well as all naturalized citizens. This is what he does. He tries to make people hate each other."
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Klobuchar: "What the president has done is taken a horrific crime that occurred in DC and went 2,400 miles away to Somali & somehow indicted an entire group of people, 80k of them in my state, as well as all naturalized citizens. This is what he does. He tries to make people hate each other."
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Atheist here. (Nope, that doesn't mean Satanist.)
It's an absolute fact that I treat other people the way Jesus preached and my experience with christians is they treat other people like a devil would.
It's an absolute fact that I treat other people the way Jesus preached and my experience with christians is they treat other people like a devil would.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Atheist here. (Nope, that doesn't mean Satanist.)
It's an absolute fact that I treat other people the way Jesus preached and my experience with christians is they treat other people like a devil would.
It's an absolute fact that I treat other people the way Jesus preached and my experience with christians is they treat other people like a devil would.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
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US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
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Apropos of this crap, a good friend who has been an immigration judge for years just got unceremoniously fired by email — another victim of the ongoing purges of those who believe in due process.
I am furious. Years of civil service ended by people who hate that an immigrant might win a case.
I am furious. Years of civil service ended by people who hate that an immigrant might win a case.
After renaming immigration judges as "deportation judges" (not what they're called by law), DHS, which acts as the prosecutor in immigration cases, is falsely claiming that people could do the job part-time "after hours"; except no, immigration courts are only open during the daytime.
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Apropos of this crap, a good friend who has been an immigration judge for years just got unceremoniously fired by email — another victim of the ongoing purges of those who believe in due process.
I am furious. Years of civil service ended by people who hate that an immigrant might win a case.
I am furious. Years of civil service ended by people who hate that an immigrant might win a case.
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Interesting. Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers says she will plead the fifth if forced to testify to Congress. But she willingly sat down with Todd Blanche? What a load of horseshit. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Ghislaine Maxwell will plead Fifth in House Epstein probe, Comer says
The late sex offender's convicted co-conspirator has been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.
www.politico.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Interesting. Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers says she will plead the fifth if forced to testify to Congress. But she willingly sat down with Todd Blanche? What a load of horseshit. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
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The Situation: The Inanities Continue in the Comey Case
It’s getting hard to keep up.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...