@retiredpatriot.bsky.social
Once serving. Now retired.
Resistentia tyrannis est oboedientia Dei
Principiis obsta
Finem respice
(photo by Toby McGuire)
Resistentia tyrannis est oboedientia Dei
Principiis obsta
Finem respice
(photo by Toby McGuire)
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Yeah, look, I realize I just wrote something, but the NYT has managed to annoy me enough to get me to write something else.
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
Reforms of the Reckless
On The New York Times Losing Their Minds
othermeans.io
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Yeah, look, I realize I just wrote something, but the NYT has managed to annoy me enough to get me to write something else.
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
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The utter destruction the Roberts Court imposes on the Rule of Law & federal govt only makes it easier to build the next, post-revolutionary America its citizens keep demanding.
One with the true freedoms:
- to speak
- to worship
- from fear
- from want
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
One with the true freedoms:
- to speak
- to worship
- from fear
- from want
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The utter destruction the Roberts Court imposes on the Rule of Law & federal govt only makes it easier to build the next, post-revolutionary America its citizens keep demanding.
One with the true freedoms:
- to speak
- to worship
- from fear
- from want
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
One with the true freedoms:
- to speak
- to worship
- from fear
- from want
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Which is why the court must be packed FIRST so the reforms that come SECOND can survive their encounter with the court.
Pack the court and Republicans pack the court after. What is needed is reforms that disarm the Supreme Court as a partisan body. The suggestion to just make a ton of lower courts Supreme Court justices and have panels picked at random seems good.
Now you might have to pack the court to get there...
Now you might have to pack the court to get there...
December 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Which is why the court must be packed FIRST so the reforms that come SECOND can survive their encounter with the court.
Call Homicide.
There's a dead body here.
👊🔥🇺🇲
There's a dead body here.
👊🔥🇺🇲
Jonathan Turley is obsessed with me to the point that it's creepy. I suppose I can't expect more from a guy who is essentially just Mike Lindell with tenure.
December 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Call Homicide.
There's a dead body here.
👊🔥🇺🇲
There's a dead body here.
👊🔥🇺🇲
This is real, courageous and unapologetic #leadership.
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This is real, courageous and unapologetic #leadership.
Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation used unsealed documents showing that Trump-aligned political action committees (PACs) and the campaign's general fund paid millions to organizers of the Jan. 6 "Save America" rally, including funds for travel, hotels, and a busing program for attendees.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This is one helluva a piece of real journalism.
Read this to understand the "real America" that lives and breathes and dies.
Thank you @propublica.org .
Read this to understand the "real America" that lives and breathes and dies.
Thank you @propublica.org .
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape.
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
Sick in a Hospital Town: As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
projects.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is one helluva a piece of real journalism.
Read this to understand the "real America" that lives and breathes and dies.
Thank you @propublica.org .
Read this to understand the "real America" that lives and breathes and dies.
Thank you @propublica.org .
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Instead we have think tanks that cheer Golden Dome
Tech accelerators pumping the NSS
Industry associations pitching Golden Fleet
Academies hosting open fascists
Our national defense looks more like a MLM run out of a suburban megachurch than an institution capable of deterring or winning war.
Tech accelerators pumping the NSS
Industry associations pitching Golden Fleet
Academies hosting open fascists
Our national defense looks more like a MLM run out of a suburban megachurch than an institution capable of deterring or winning war.
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Instead we have think tanks that cheer Golden Dome
Tech accelerators pumping the NSS
Industry associations pitching Golden Fleet
Academies hosting open fascists
Our national defense looks more like a MLM run out of a suburban megachurch than an institution capable of deterring or winning war.
Tech accelerators pumping the NSS
Industry associations pitching Golden Fleet
Academies hosting open fascists
Our national defense looks more like a MLM run out of a suburban megachurch than an institution capable of deterring or winning war.
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
And start at the local county level first.
Have patience.
Left craft.
Then move on to state party level.
Have patience.
Left craft.
Then move on to state party level.
Gramps here, lecturing leftists who say the Dems can't change that in 56 it was aligned with Southern segregationists (who got the VP noms), but by 64 with MLK, because of successful social movement organizing. Take the party over, leftists. Else you're not actually involved in US politics.
December 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
And start at the local county level first.
Have patience.
Left craft.
Then move on to state party level.
Have patience.
Left craft.
Then move on to state party level.
Do. Not. Look. Away.
ICE Flight stop report.
ICE Air - Boeing Field - Avelo N801XT
Sat 06 December 2025 ~11:00 PDT
0 presumed males taken OFF.
0 presumed females taken OFF.
76 presumed males put ON.
7 presumed females put ON.
TOTAL: 0 OFF, 83 ON.
1/7
ICE Air - Boeing Field - Avelo N801XT
Sat 06 December 2025 ~11:00 PDT
0 presumed males taken OFF.
0 presumed females taken OFF.
76 presumed males put ON.
7 presumed females put ON.
TOTAL: 0 OFF, 83 ON.
1/7
December 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Do. Not. Look. Away.
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I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
December 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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“[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism...”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Apr 29 1938
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Apr 29 1938
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies. | The American Presidency Project
www.presidency.ucsb.edu
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism...”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Apr 29 1938
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Apr 29 1938
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
Please NY.
Please.
Please.
December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Please NY.
Please.
Please.
Never forget.
🇷🇺 paid for Bingino to say all those outlandish conspiracy laden lies.
🇷🇺 paid for Bingino to say all those outlandish conspiracy laden lies.
Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Never forget.
🇷🇺 paid for Bingino to say all those outlandish conspiracy laden lies.
🇷🇺 paid for Bingino to say all those outlandish conspiracy laden lies.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
I'm so old I rememver tgis is the same guy advocating for NG and military takeovers of US cities way back in 2020.
Plus, he is a military officer veteran.
He *knows* better. He just does not care.
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/o...
Plus, he is a military officer veteran.
He *knows* better. He just does not care.
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/o...
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'm so old I rememver tgis is the same guy advocating for NG and military takeovers of US cities way back in 2020.
Plus, he is a military officer veteran.
He *knows* better. He just does not care.
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/o...
Plus, he is a military officer veteran.
He *knows* better. He just does not care.
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/o...
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“When you make peaceful change impossible, you make violent change inevitable.”
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“When you make peaceful change impossible, you make violent change inevitable.”
Elect a 🇷🇺ian asset to the White House...
...expect a national strategic realignment towards 🇷🇺 and away from Europe & our decades long alliance.
Don't be surprised when Germany and at least one Nordic nation declares itself having an independent nuclear weapons capability.
...expect a national strategic realignment towards 🇷🇺 and away from Europe & our decades long alliance.
Don't be surprised when Germany and at least one Nordic nation declares itself having an independent nuclear weapons capability.
US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Elect a 🇷🇺ian asset to the White House...
...expect a national strategic realignment towards 🇷🇺 and away from Europe & our decades long alliance.
Don't be surprised when Germany and at least one Nordic nation declares itself having an independent nuclear weapons capability.
...expect a national strategic realignment towards 🇷🇺 and away from Europe & our decades long alliance.
Don't be surprised when Germany and at least one Nordic nation declares itself having an independent nuclear weapons capability.
From MilSky...
The first time most military people are really truly taught this important stuff is at the SNCO and O-4(Major) paygrades.
Expecting a butter bar LT or Corporal to defy orders - esp those with clear provenance back to POTUS/SECDEF is futile.
The GOFOs? *That* IS their job. And duty.
The first time most military people are really truly taught this important stuff is at the SNCO and O-4(Major) paygrades.
Expecting a butter bar LT or Corporal to defy orders - esp those with clear provenance back to POTUS/SECDEF is futile.
The GOFOs? *That* IS their job. And duty.
I've posted a couple times about authorities, and it sounds like boring dork shit but it actually is extremely important to understand this whole mess
Prior to the Goldwater-Nichols Act becoming law in 1986, command authorities in the US military were a messy smorgasbord of service and other chains
Prior to the Goldwater-Nichols Act becoming law in 1986, command authorities in the US military were a messy smorgasbord of service and other chains
Yes but also no...SOCOM (really JSOC) has been running unilateral ops in CENTCOM and AFRICOM since shortly after 9/11
I'll do a thread on it later
I'll do a thread on it later
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
From MilSky...
The first time most military people are really truly taught this important stuff is at the SNCO and O-4(Major) paygrades.
Expecting a butter bar LT or Corporal to defy orders - esp those with clear provenance back to POTUS/SECDEF is futile.
The GOFOs? *That* IS their job. And duty.
The first time most military people are really truly taught this important stuff is at the SNCO and O-4(Major) paygrades.
Expecting a butter bar LT or Corporal to defy orders - esp those with clear provenance back to POTUS/SECDEF is futile.
The GOFOs? *That* IS their job. And duty.
Simply the best podcast in America.
Please. Spend some time with #TheCornfielsResistance.
Lister. Learn. Understand.
Please. Spend some time with #TheCornfielsResistance.
Lister. Learn. Understand.
Just dropped: Ep 951 of The Professional Left Podcast!
The dangerous convergence of Trumpian immunity and media complicity creates for Trump an imaginary “kingdom” once reserved for anointed kings.
www.buzzsprout.com/229/episodes...
The dangerous convergence of Trumpian immunity and media complicity creates for Trump an imaginary “kingdom” once reserved for anointed kings.
www.buzzsprout.com/229/episodes...
December 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Simply the best podcast in America.
Please. Spend some time with #TheCornfielsResistance.
Lister. Learn. Understand.
Please. Spend some time with #TheCornfielsResistance.
Lister. Learn. Understand.