Bear Wilner-Nugent
@saltlick.bsky.social
Lawyer (criminal defense, appeals, civil and administrative litigation), festival operations volunteer, musician, outdoorsbear, cook, lover, dad.
You can find my professional contact information at https://bwnlaw.com.
You can find my professional contact information at https://bwnlaw.com.
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On this important day of mobilization, don't be scared off by self-appointed experts giving you a bunch of rules for how to protest or what not to do. The most important thing we need is more people in the streets, period. Our safety comes from numbers. As a criminal defense lawyer for decades...
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
For decades, there have been so many reasons to not buy Nike. The most important reason is that Nike is an objectively pro-fascist company thanks to its founder.
Yeah not cool at all. Says a lot about him.
Oregon’s richest man again donating record $$ to Republican candidates for state offices www.opb.org/article/2025...
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
For decades, there have been so many reasons to not buy Nike. The most important reason is that Nike is an objectively pro-fascist company thanks to its founder.
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"cultural appropriation" discourse in the realm of linguistics is actually just a way for upper middle class people to police one anothers' speech
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
Entire languages are born from the "bastardisation" of lects of different prestiges. Something twigs me wrong about the way we weight morally things like e.g. people in regular contact with an ethnic lect adopting features of that lect into their own speech, when that's just how we language
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"cultural appropriation" discourse in the realm of linguistics is actually just a way for upper middle class people to police one anothers' speech
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
A lot of people post the way they do about AI because it gives them cool points. Wanting to be in the club is a great motivator to not analyze things critically and in detail. So we get zombie lies instead of more penetrating, weighty thought about what details are good & bad & what is to be done.
Using one’s perfectly organic human brain to recite cant and dogma about technology is as boring and offputting as any LLM crap you can imagine. I say this as a criminal defense lawyer who doesn’t work with AI in any way — not at my job, not for fun. I just can’t stand the groupthink. More nuance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A lot of people post the way they do about AI because it gives them cool points. Wanting to be in the club is a great motivator to not analyze things critically and in detail. So we get zombie lies instead of more penetrating, weighty thought about what details are good & bad & what is to be done.
Using one’s perfectly organic human brain to recite cant and dogma about technology is as boring and offputting as any LLM crap you can imagine. I say this as a criminal defense lawyer who doesn’t work with AI in any way — not at my job, not for fun. I just can’t stand the groupthink. More nuance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Using one’s perfectly organic human brain to recite cant and dogma about technology is as boring and offputting as any LLM crap you can imagine. I say this as a criminal defense lawyer who doesn’t work with AI in any way — not at my job, not for fun. I just can’t stand the groupthink. More nuance!
Jeeeez look at these numbers.
Another point about this is that this kind of performance would make neighboring TN-05, which is Trump+18 and has a much more scandal-plagued GOP congressman, especially vulnerable to flip.
Emerson poll | 11/22-11/24 LV
Tennessee’s 7th congressional special election (Trump +22)
(Leaners pushed)
🟥Matt Van Epps 49.4%
🟦Aftyn Behn 47.0%
Others 3.5%
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
Tennessee’s 7th congressional special election (Trump +22)
(Leaners pushed)
🟥Matt Van Epps 49.4%
🟦Aftyn Behn 47.0%
Others 3.5%
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Jeeeez look at these numbers.
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This is both bad and also basically guaranteed to backfire
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is both bad and also basically guaranteed to backfire
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this is obviously intended to chill dissent but i think it's going to backfire on them. what the lawmakers said was just directly true. and trying to get them for it is just going to raise their profile and the salience of what they said!
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
this is obviously intended to chill dissent but i think it's going to backfire on them. what the lawmakers said was just directly true. and trying to get them for it is just going to raise their profile and the salience of what they said!
More Perfect Union is just a news scraper/regurgitator like the Tennessee Holler. It has nothing to do with organized labor. The more you know!
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
More Perfect Union is just a news scraper/regurgitator like the Tennessee Holler. It has nothing to do with organized labor. The more you know!
I stan a thicc khan
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I stan a thicc khan
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the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
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i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
No, I do not “pick on” trans people, I have never done anything like this. And frankly, I think the willingness of some people to completely invent accusations of transphobia in the desperate search for a cudgel against ideological opponents suggests they don’t really care about transphobia
Listen dude, you can try and ride for this guy all you want, but the trans userbase of this platform fucking hates him because he picks on them. I'm going to listen to the trans people I know who are telling me he's bad. Plus I've been in these threads and seen it
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
I’m a lawyer, trained as a US historian, who did plenty of studying comparative revolutions in college, and I ardently cosign these observations.
The problem with this article is they asked too many lawyers and not enough historians.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
John Roberts has secured his place in history alongside Al Capone and Bernard Madoff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I’m a lawyer, trained as a US historian, who did plenty of studying comparative revolutions in college, and I ardently cosign these observations.
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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This guy has a lot of opinions for someone who hasn’t ever had a real job
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This guy has a lot of opinions for someone who hasn’t ever had a real job
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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look, they keep carville around because your boomer and silent generation parents and grandparents open up their wallets when they see him fart out some century-old talking points on cable news or in their email boxes, you can easily reply STOP or mark as spam to put an end to it
like, has carville even been hired to run a dem campaign *this century*?
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
look, they keep carville around because your boomer and silent generation parents and grandparents open up their wallets when they see him fart out some century-old talking points on cable news or in their email boxes, you can easily reply STOP or mark as spam to put an end to it
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referencing james carville as "the man they worship" with regards to the "democratic establishment" makes you even more out of touch with the party than carville is, lol
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
referencing james carville as "the man they worship" with regards to the "democratic establishment" makes you even more out of touch with the party than carville is, lol
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just a reminder that the last time the Trump admin tried to pre-sabotage a future presidential opponent it got him impeached
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
just a reminder that the last time the Trump admin tried to pre-sabotage a future presidential opponent it got him impeached
It’s nearly always strategically useful to be amplifying messages of our enemies’ demoralization and growing disorganization.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It’s nearly always strategically useful to be amplifying messages of our enemies’ demoralization and growing disorganization.
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This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.
Remind your relatives at Thanksgiving how much Republicans hate basic science like this.
Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the bowhead whale. n.pr/4ocq6xG
A bowhead whale's DNA offers clues to fight cancer
Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the bowhead whale.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Remind your relatives at Thanksgiving how much Republicans hate basic science like this.
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i cannot imagine being so addicted to failure that you will not allow your enemies to deliver an unconditional surrender
The more important thing is that Mamdani is not the type of politician that Liz Cheney would want to campaign for. It was bad that Harris campaigned with her, it is even worse that she was someone Liz Cheney wanted to campaign for
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
i cannot imagine being so addicted to failure that you will not allow your enemies to deliver an unconditional surrender
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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Every Republican accusation is a confession
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Every Republican accusation is a confession