Andrew Bridges
@andrewbridges.bsky.social
Retired lawyer, Philhellene, wannabe philosopher but still just a philotheamon. SF Bay Area, Greece (Μεσσηνία), Michigan. Interested in the Rule of Justice, FoE, disestablishment, Mediterranean cultures & history, and defeating fascism and the Confederacy.
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I don't do much looking back at my own writing, but I've been thinking about this piece a lot today. From tenderly protecting Trump from criminal consequences to enthusiastically helping him dismantle the administrative state, Roberts owns it all.
The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I don't do much looking back at my own writing, but I've been thinking about this piece a lot today. From tenderly protecting Trump from criminal consequences to enthusiastically helping him dismantle the administrative state, Roberts owns it all.
Cigarettes kill over 480,000 Americans year while Fentanyl kills about 72,000. We are in a fentanyl panic. Should we also ban cigarettes now? Unlike fentanyl, cigarettes have no medicinal use. “Oh, but many people want their cigarettes, you can’t take them away!” Many persons want fentanyl too.
December 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Cigarettes kill over 480,000 Americans year while Fentanyl kills about 72,000. We are in a fentanyl panic. Should we also ban cigarettes now? Unlike fentanyl, cigarettes have no medicinal use. “Oh, but many people want their cigarettes, you can’t take them away!” Many persons want fentanyl too.
Nah. Those teenage girls are slapping him on the hands when he gets handsy.
Everyone knows that a common result of repeatedly shaking hands is a decaying limb. That is why so many politicians have hooks instead of hands.
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Nah. Those teenage girls are slapping him on the hands when he gets handsy.
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Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
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Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol
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The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.
Ro Khanna used a phrase on O’Donnell: “the Epstein class.” We should use it for all who think they are masters of the universe such as Larry Summers, Henry Rosovsky, & Alan Dershowitz of Harvard; Ken Starr of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Baylor ; the Clintons; an Israeli prime minister & many others.
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Ro Khanna used a phrase on O’Donnell: “the Epstein class.” We should use it for all who think they are masters of the universe such as Larry Summers, Henry Rosovsky, & Alan Dershowitz of Harvard; Ken Starr of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Baylor ; the Clintons; an Israeli prime minister & many others.
But his emails!
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
But his emails!
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Appalling. I noticed this immediately. And the NYT page website buried it low in the front page. I will wait to see how the print version looks.
Seriously, cancel your NYT subscription if you haven’t already. It’s garbage. The crossword and games aren’t worth supporting this.
The NYT app the morning after the biggest wave of protest rallies in America in a generation
They buried the story between other headlines, opting not to use a photo too.
They buried the story between other headlines, opting not to use a photo too.
October 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Appalling. I noticed this immediately. And the NYT page website buried it low in the front page. I will wait to see how the print version looks.
Are Democrats working on a Project 2026 and Project 2028? They had better be doing those. Failure would be dereliction of duty.
September 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Are Democrats working on a Project 2026 and Project 2028? They had better be doing those. Failure would be dereliction of duty.
I offer this teaching video to Ron De Santis and his Florida teachers for their “classical” curriculum gender lessons. Watch to the end. This is a second century CE Roman copy of a second century BCE Greek original.
September 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I offer this teaching video to Ron De Santis and his Florida teachers for their “classical” curriculum gender lessons. Watch to the end. This is a second century CE Roman copy of a second century BCE Greek original.
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Interesting idea actually
Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.
This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.
September 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Interesting idea actually
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I have never heard of anyone getting offended because someone shared MLK’s or Lincoln’s or FDR’s words online. Weird to be offended when your hero is simply being quoted.
September 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I have never heard of anyone getting offended because someone shared MLK’s or Lincoln’s or FDR’s words online. Weird to be offended when your hero is simply being quoted.
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I've followed the F-35 story for almost two decades.
This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.
This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.
And Portugal announces they are buying French jets rather than F-35s. Great idea to send Vance and Don Jr on a scouting mission as a precursor to a Greenland takeover.
September 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I've followed the F-35 story for almost two decades.
This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.
This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.
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This video is 100% worth watching.
Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution.
"What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President."
Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?
Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution.
"What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President."
Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?
Things are all just worse now, but this does remind me of the time parents of a kid in my eighth grade world history course tried to get the teacher fired for teaching us that Jesus was Jewish.
Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
September 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This video is 100% worth watching.
Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution.
"What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President."
Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?
Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution.
"What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President."
Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?
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It’s almost cartoonish how villainy Mamdani’s opposition turns out to be—and how much they seem set on helping him win.
“Joker, Penguin, and Riddler Weigh In Against Mamdani as Gotham Leader, Say ‘We Will Have To Abandon Life of Evil Criming If He’s Elected’”
“Joker, Penguin, and Riddler Weigh In Against Mamdani as Gotham Leader, Say ‘We Will Have To Abandon Life of Evil Criming If He’s Elected’”
(NYT) - Some of New York City’s richest landlords are done sitting on the sidelines of the city’s mayor’s race.
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September 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It’s almost cartoonish how villainy Mamdani’s opposition turns out to be—and how much they seem set on helping him win.
“Joker, Penguin, and Riddler Weigh In Against Mamdani as Gotham Leader, Say ‘We Will Have To Abandon Life of Evil Criming If He’s Elected’”
“Joker, Penguin, and Riddler Weigh In Against Mamdani as Gotham Leader, Say ‘We Will Have To Abandon Life of Evil Criming If He’s Elected’”
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If only his two former bosses had not been totally invisible in fall 2024, when loudly & publicly telling people that reluctantly voting for the Democrat was the only democratic option left for lifelong, pro-democracy Republican voters might have made a difference.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
August 31, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If only his two former bosses had not been totally invisible in fall 2024, when loudly & publicly telling people that reluctantly voting for the Democrat was the only democratic option left for lifelong, pro-democracy Republican voters might have made a difference.
I pray that Trump gets the best health care that RFK can provide.
August 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I pray that Trump gets the best health care that RFK can provide.
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Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
August 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
I am inclined to believe that the all-black-and-white versions of the American flag are the fascist flag. Why would I be wrong?
August 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I am inclined to believe that the all-black-and-white versions of the American flag are the fascist flag. Why would I be wrong?
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A major obstacle for folks attempting to defend democracy is that a perfectly accurate description of what Trump is attempting sounds like hysterical conspiracy theorizing to a lot of people. We default to “c’mon, that can’t happen here”—which is exactly why it can.
August 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A major obstacle for folks attempting to defend democracy is that a perfectly accurate description of what Trump is attempting sounds like hysterical conspiracy theorizing to a lot of people. We default to “c’mon, that can’t happen here”—which is exactly why it can.