Thankful Potato
@sentientpotato.bsky.social
• pronouns they/them
• spouse @zomduckie.bsky.social
• former poli sci prof (courts & methods)
• (now in med research)
• posts politics, theology, & bad jokes
• be nice & do what you can to help others
• older than you, shake my fist at clouds often
• spouse @zomduckie.bsky.social
• former poli sci prof (courts & methods)
• (now in med research)
• posts politics, theology, & bad jokes
• be nice & do what you can to help others
• older than you, shake my fist at clouds often
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very sorry to all my new academic followers, I mostly post Unhinged shit about politics, being bipolar, and also just general faggotry (well, and talking about how awesome my spouse @dedduckie.bsky.social is, but that's likely to be less objectionable to you)
you have been warned
you have been warned
something that's fun is seeing how different a movie is to what it was like when you watched it once, edited for television, decades ago
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
something that's fun is seeing how different a movie is to what it was like when you watched it once, edited for television, decades ago
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Hoo boy
Whole buncha folks about to have to face a choice between complying with a Congressional subpoena and getting fired because pete's mad at them
Also if anything is a "start the clock" moment on pete's tenure coming to an end, it's this
Whole buncha folks about to have to face a choice between complying with a Congressional subpoena and getting fired because pete's mad at them
Also if anything is a "start the clock" moment on pete's tenure coming to an end, it's this
There are now bipartisan investigations in both the House and Senate into the administration targeting and killing people in the Caribbean without due process.
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Hoo boy
Whole buncha folks about to have to face a choice between complying with a Congressional subpoena and getting fired because pete's mad at them
Also if anything is a "start the clock" moment on pete's tenure coming to an end, it's this
Whole buncha folks about to have to face a choice between complying with a Congressional subpoena and getting fired because pete's mad at them
Also if anything is a "start the clock" moment on pete's tenure coming to an end, it's this
sip, sip
yummy!
yummy!
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
sip, sip
yummy!
yummy!
whomst amongst us
star at 3 billion years old: i have so much light and warmth to share
star at 12 billion years old: when i finally get to die im taking all of you with me
star at 12 billion years old: when i finally get to die im taking all of you with me
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
whomst amongst us
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AI technologies would be meaningfully less controversial if this was the stuff they led with rather than the Plagiarism Machine, the Truth Destabilization Nexus, and the Revenge Porn Generator.
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
AI technologies would be meaningfully less controversial if this was the stuff they led with rather than the Plagiarism Machine, the Truth Destabilization Nexus, and the Revenge Porn Generator.
I feel like if someone made a search engine as good as Google used to be they could clean up
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I feel like if someone made a search engine as good as Google used to be they could clean up
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Any mayor could halt ICE/CBP operations in their city if they ordered their police to stand down (and crucially, the police obeyed.) The other side of that coin is that federal police would likely shoot into a crowd if they were overwhelmed.
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Any mayor could halt ICE/CBP operations in their city if they ordered their police to stand down (and crucially, the police obeyed.) The other side of that coin is that federal police would likely shoot into a crowd if they were overwhelmed.
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I'm really interested in seeing how Mamdani governs the NYPD's coordination with federal police. Without local law enforcement providing security, ICE and CBP can't operate.
Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm really interested in seeing how Mamdani governs the NYPD's coordination with federal police. Without local law enforcement providing security, ICE and CBP can't operate.
FUCK YES
FUCK YES
FUCK YES
FYCK YES
IF YOU DO NOT GIVE US THE GEL, THE CIGAR CUTTERS COME OUT
FUCK YES
FUCK YES
FYCK YES
IF YOU DO NOT GIVE US THE GEL, THE CIGAR CUTTERS COME OUT
this would like change my life and FUCK DENTISTS TOOTH COPS ACAB
GIMME SOME CHEAP AS HELL TOOTH REGEN GEL
GIMME SOME CHEAP AS HELL TOOTH REGEN GEL
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
FUCK YES
FUCK YES
FUCK YES
FYCK YES
IF YOU DO NOT GIVE US THE GEL, THE CIGAR CUTTERS COME OUT
FUCK YES
FUCK YES
FYCK YES
IF YOU DO NOT GIVE US THE GEL, THE CIGAR CUTTERS COME OUT
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we've seen plenty of violence, including gunfire, from this set during Trump II. where it has been conspicuously and I'd argue crucially absent has been whenever they are confronted with large crowds. compared to 2020 municipal cops, they're downright docile
not to belabor the point but any idea that the DHS goons make up a force as casually violent and numerous as the SA/Brownshirts really does have to contend with the fact that they are routinely stymied by a bunch of unarmed community members, even operating in force
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
we've seen plenty of violence, including gunfire, from this set during Trump II. where it has been conspicuously and I'd argue crucially absent has been whenever they are confronted with large crowds. compared to 2020 municipal cops, they're downright docile
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These are not people who make this kind of statement lightly.
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
These are not people who make this kind of statement lightly.
Nah Pritzker is an old blowhard who showed himself to be nothing but a bluffer, unless he really steps up his game between now and then we need to keep him on the bench
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Nah Pritzker is an old blowhard who showed himself to be nothing but a bluffer, unless he really steps up his game between now and then we need to keep him on the bench
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NYC’s density really working against ICE today, much easier for a ton of people to swarm and shut them down once they realized what was going on
great fucking work everyone
great fucking work everyone
Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NYC’s density really working against ICE today, much easier for a ton of people to swarm and shut them down once they realized what was going on
great fucking work everyone
great fucking work everyone
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The diehards are starting to decide after much prayerful consideration with their beautiful brides that being in the minority next year sounds like a shit sandwich.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The diehards are starting to decide after much prayerful consideration with their beautiful brides that being in the minority next year sounds like a shit sandwich.
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
MMLGA
part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
MMLGA
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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Ok this is a sign
Wow: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon seems to think that companies involved with Trump's ballroom project could be criminally prosecuted. thehill.com/business/559...
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Ok this is a sign
I'm not trying to bust his balls too hard here cause I'm a fan of his recent work, but if *Kristol* will call someone a war criminal, they are REALLY a war criminal
(For younguns playing at home, Kristol defended use of torture in GWOT and even IIRC argued G-Dub should pardon the torturers)
(For younguns playing at home, Kristol defended use of torture in GWOT and even IIRC argued G-Dub should pardon the torturers)
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm not trying to bust his balls too hard here cause I'm a fan of his recent work, but if *Kristol* will call someone a war criminal, they are REALLY a war criminal
(For younguns playing at home, Kristol defended use of torture in GWOT and even IIRC argued G-Dub should pardon the torturers)
(For younguns playing at home, Kristol defended use of torture in GWOT and even IIRC argued G-Dub should pardon the torturers)
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i want to underline how significant i think it is that people are starting to leak already. that’s a sign, imo, that people are shifting into ass-covering mode, hoping that if they’re among the first to blow the whistle, however belatedly, they’ll get more lenient treatment.
people are starting to leak. republicans who are either planning to retire or don’t have to face voters again until after trump’s term is over are starting to talk about trump in public the way they’ve spent the last decade talking about him in private. 2006 vibes increasing.
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
i want to underline how significant i think it is that people are starting to leak already. that’s a sign, imo, that people are shifting into ass-covering mode, hoping that if they’re among the first to blow the whistle, however belatedly, they’ll get more lenient treatment.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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Right. This is normally a prelude to imminent war. But no one knows if the us president is serious or had a bad breakfast or is making an insane joke or had a stroke or whatever.
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
Might be kicking off.
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Right. This is normally a prelude to imminent war. But no one knows if the us president is serious or had a bad breakfast or is making an insane joke or had a stroke or whatever.
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Someone tell him if he backs down from this threat he can count it as another war he ended
Trump, with no authority to do so, demands the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela be closed as he threatens to bomb and invade the country.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Someone tell him if he backs down from this threat he can count it as another war he ended