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Montanan now home. Philosopher Queen. Diva. Foodie. Shoes. Not my first rodeo. Act III
Learning, charitable discussion, exploring ideas. No BS. Every day is Ethics Day! Military Ethicist. Books #OnObedience #Achilles
I say what I want.
Learning, charitable discussion, exploring ideas. No BS. Every day is Ethics Day! Military Ethicist. Books #OnObedience #Achilles
I say what I want.
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Numerous MAGA media figures are urging Trump to *escalate* his paramilitary warfare on American cities. Let's be clear: What they really want is race war, with their side backed by state violence and terror.
Me and @jenrubin.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Me and @jenrubin.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
January 30, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Numerous MAGA media figures are urging Trump to *escalate* his paramilitary warfare on American cities. Let's be clear: What they really want is race war, with their side backed by state violence and terror.
Me and @jenrubin.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Me and @jenrubin.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
An incredible journey. Thank you for sharing. Goodness.
Today, my wife is three years sober. Three years ago today, I told her we were getting a divorce. She'd spent the previous December in rehab for her alcoholism. When she came home, she relapsed constantly. She'd started driving drunk with the kids in the car. She had run out of last chances. 1/x
January 30, 2026 at 3:53 PM
An incredible journey. Thank you for sharing. Goodness.
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Anyone want to bet that they again did not relate the appropriate law to the jury?
Source familiar with Don Lemon's arrest tells me DOJ went to a grand jury to secure an indictment (DOJ's effort to get a criminal complaint had already been rejected in court twice).
This is ugly. More soon.
This is ugly. More soon.
January 30, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Anyone want to bet that they again did not relate the appropriate law to the jury?
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The Kirk shooting was proof that they're eager to treat any high-profile violence as the Reichstag Fire and over-reach to pursue vendettas & cruelty.
And yet with just a little pushback on our part...they end up massively diminished and headed to lame duck purgatory.
Kimmel was the turning point.
And yet with just a little pushback on our part...they end up massively diminished and headed to lame duck purgatory.
Kimmel was the turning point.
Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Kirk shooting was proof that they're eager to treat any high-profile violence as the Reichstag Fire and over-reach to pursue vendettas & cruelty.
And yet with just a little pushback on our part...they end up massively diminished and headed to lame duck purgatory.
Kimmel was the turning point.
And yet with just a little pushback on our part...they end up massively diminished and headed to lame duck purgatory.
Kimmel was the turning point.
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We underestimate revenge as an animating factor in our politics, I think.
Maybe the Dems will consider it moving forward
Maybe the Dems will consider it moving forward
January 30, 2026 at 2:28 PM
We underestimate revenge as an animating factor in our politics, I think.
Maybe the Dems will consider it moving forward
Maybe the Dems will consider it moving forward
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Consistent with everything we know about the Trump administration. Their response to becoming less popular is simply to keep escalating.
The US government has tried and failed to get a magistrate judge to sign off on an arrest warrant for Lemon. And then to get a more senior judge to grant it.
Seems like they’ve now found a way to get it done – arresting a hugely high profile journalist for reporting is a real threshold.
Seems like they’ve now found a way to get it done – arresting a hugely high profile journalist for reporting is a real threshold.
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
January 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Consistent with everything we know about the Trump administration. Their response to becoming less popular is simply to keep escalating.
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ICE agents gathered in parking lot of another church, serving 400 mainly Liberian immigrants. ICE gathered license plate numbers & followed a church member home. Citizen & legal resident parishioners fear ICE because of racial-profiling stops & detentions, per same declaration.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:26 PM
ICE agents gathered in parking lot of another church, serving 400 mainly Liberian immigrants. ICE gathered license plate numbers & followed a church member home. Citizen & legal resident parishioners fear ICE because of racial-profiling stops & detentions, per same declaration.
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Other church services—a healthcare clinic and preschool—have had to shut down or go online, per declaration of MN AG investigator, based on interview with the pastor).
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January 30, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Other church services—a healthcare clinic and preschool—have had to shut down or go online, per declaration of MN AG investigator, based on interview with the pastor).
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The Trump Adm is arresting Don Lemon and overcharging disruptive protesters at Cities Church to posture as if it’s protecting Christians. It’s not. DHS is staging disruptive ops at other churches, at least one of which has had to go online. ...
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January 30, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The Trump Adm is arresting Don Lemon and overcharging disruptive protesters at Cities Church to posture as if it’s protecting Christians. It’s not. DHS is staging disruptive ops at other churches, at least one of which has had to go online. ...
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Sorry but the casualness of civil war posting instantly boils my blood.
January 30, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Sorry but the casualness of civil war posting instantly boils my blood.
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Exactly this. Some of us paid our debt to war machine and would like to continue the promise of future exemption.
Y'all want a war? Go to Ukraine or any of the conflicts around the world. Come back after a tour watching your friends die before you very eyes, & then tell me how eager ya are for more
Y'all want a war? Go to Ukraine or any of the conflicts around the world. Come back after a tour watching your friends die before you very eyes, & then tell me how eager ya are for more
Yeah no fuck all that shit I like planting trees and eating weird new foods and going on dates with interesting women to live music shows. I aint trading that for another round of shoveling dead bodies into a flatbed following a BDA, or having to wear the same blood-soaked clothes for a week. F that
January 30, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Exactly this. Some of us paid our debt to war machine and would like to continue the promise of future exemption.
Y'all want a war? Go to Ukraine or any of the conflicts around the world. Come back after a tour watching your friends die before you very eyes, & then tell me how eager ya are for more
Y'all want a war? Go to Ukraine or any of the conflicts around the world. Come back after a tour watching your friends die before you very eyes, & then tell me how eager ya are for more
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Note: Given that Abbe Lowell (who is writing selective prosecution challenges in bulk these days) represents Don Lemon and given that two judges said there was no probable cause here, yeah, it is likely Lowell will ask for and get the grand jury transcripts.
January 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Note: Given that Abbe Lowell (who is writing selective prosecution challenges in bulk these days) represents Don Lemon and given that two judges said there was no probable cause here, yeah, it is likely Lowell will ask for and get the grand jury transcripts.
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We were fucking right. About everything.
And the folks who said we were insane are using their privilege to ignore it. That’s one of the most infuriating parts of this.
And the folks who said we were insane are using their privilege to ignore it. That’s one of the most infuriating parts of this.
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM
We were fucking right. About everything.
And the folks who said we were insane are using their privilege to ignore it. That’s one of the most infuriating parts of this.
And the folks who said we were insane are using their privilege to ignore it. That’s one of the most infuriating parts of this.
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-when the district judge (appointed by W Bush) said he wanted a few days to decide how to handle, DOJ tried to get the appeals court to FORCE him to reevaluate the magistrate's ruling
-in filings before the appeals court, the district judge said there was no probable cause re lemon
-in filings before the appeals court, the district judge said there was no probable cause re lemon
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM
-when the district judge (appointed by W Bush) said he wanted a few days to decide how to handle, DOJ tried to get the appeals court to FORCE him to reevaluate the magistrate's ruling
-in filings before the appeals court, the district judge said there was no probable cause re lemon
-in filings before the appeals court, the district judge said there was no probable cause re lemon
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previously:
-DOJ sought Lemon's arrest along with a group of others
-Magistrate judge rejected the charges against Lemon on the grounds that there was no probable cause
-DOJ tried to appeal the magistrate judge's ruling to the district judge (extremely unusual)
...
-DOJ sought Lemon's arrest along with a group of others
-Magistrate judge rejected the charges against Lemon on the grounds that there was no probable cause
-DOJ tried to appeal the magistrate judge's ruling to the district judge (extremely unusual)
...
here is the abbreviated backstory on lemon www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 30, 2026 at 1:53 PM
previously:
-DOJ sought Lemon's arrest along with a group of others
-Magistrate judge rejected the charges against Lemon on the grounds that there was no probable cause
-DOJ tried to appeal the magistrate judge's ruling to the district judge (extremely unusual)
...
-DOJ sought Lemon's arrest along with a group of others
-Magistrate judge rejected the charges against Lemon on the grounds that there was no probable cause
-DOJ tried to appeal the magistrate judge's ruling to the district judge (extremely unusual)
...
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Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids
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Let’s be clear: there may have been “charges” but he was arrested for one reason only, which is that he’s a prominent Black man who used a mainstream media platform to express criticism of Trump.
Breaking:
The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late last night on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul — a case rejected last week by a magistrate judge.
Lemon has said he was simply reporting as a journalist. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late last night on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul — a case rejected last week by a magistrate judge.
Lemon has said he was simply reporting as a journalist. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Let’s be clear: there may have been “charges” but he was arrested for one reason only, which is that he’s a prominent Black man who used a mainstream media platform to express criticism of Trump.
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1. Iron journalist rule: some people are authentic and some people aren’t. Farmers? Authentic. College profs? Not. There are around 1.9 million farms in America, and 1.5 million college teachers. Farmers aren’t authentic because there’s more of them. It's because journalists love cliches.
January 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
1. Iron journalist rule: some people are authentic and some people aren’t. Farmers? Authentic. College profs? Not. There are around 1.9 million farms in America, and 1.5 million college teachers. Farmers aren’t authentic because there’s more of them. It's because journalists love cliches.
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Having a key piece of negotiations be "please do things you are already legally obligated to do" doesn't convey any leverage or urgency. It does, however, tacitly convey that ignoring the law gets you leverage. An opposition party operating from learned helplessness like this cannot meet the moment.
January 30, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Having a key piece of negotiations be "please do things you are already legally obligated to do" doesn't convey any leverage or urgency. It does, however, tacitly convey that ignoring the law gets you leverage. An opposition party operating from learned helplessness like this cannot meet the moment.
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Multiple people have been charged in connection with an anti-ICE protest at St. Paul's Cities Church in Minnesota.
Former News Anchor Don Lemon Taken Into Federal Custody
Multiple people have been charged in connection with an anti-ICE protest at St. Paul's Cities Church in Minnesota.
www.forbes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Multiple people have been charged in connection with an anti-ICE protest at St. Paul's Cities Church in Minnesota.
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In the mood for a passionate, confident defence of liberalism? Via an alley way beating of Rawls?
Then this superb podcast from @polphilpod.bsky.social is for you. I'd listen to all of it.
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mill-vs-rawls
Then this superb podcast from @polphilpod.bsky.social is for you. I'd listen to all of it.
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mill-vs-rawls
MILL VS RAWLS
Should we justify liberalism from appeals to political precepts or normative understandings of human nature? I consider two ways of thinking about liberalism's philosophical foundations.
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:33 AM
In the mood for a passionate, confident defence of liberalism? Via an alley way beating of Rawls?
Then this superb podcast from @polphilpod.bsky.social is for you. I'd listen to all of it.
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mill-vs-rawls
Then this superb podcast from @polphilpod.bsky.social is for you. I'd listen to all of it.
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mill-vs-rawls
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One of the most interesting and rarely mentioned points is that General Zhang was the only senior Chinese military leader with actual combat experience (in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979). Nobody else at the top of the PLA has actually fought in a war.
The meaning of Xi’s military purge ft.trib.al/wKvJfjT | opinion
The meaning of Xi’s military purge
Relations between Chinese Communist leaders and the army have always been fraught
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January 30, 2026 at 5:10 AM
One of the most interesting and rarely mentioned points is that General Zhang was the only senior Chinese military leader with actual combat experience (in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979). Nobody else at the top of the PLA has actually fought in a war.