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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you. That's very kind.

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 6h

Found out the hotel we spent that night is being demolished, which led me to search for more info, which led to a story (and these photos) about an unhoused couple who got married in the same church in 2009; a parishioner paid for their stay in the same hotel. ❤️ www.gettyimages.com/search/2/ima...

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 6h

Wait, opportunistic, finger-in-the-air David Frum? Say it ain't so!

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7h

I wonder how, if at all, Nelson v City of Davis (2012)—about the use of pepperballs against people who posed no threat to officers—will affect this case, in terms of qualified immunity, unreasonable force, and the Fourth Amendment.

Excerpts from an article by a California public-entity law firm https://jones-mayer.com/vol-27-no-15-qualified-immunity-denied-when-force-is-used-against-non-threatening-persons/

On July 11, 2012, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the denial of qualified immunity for police officers who fired pepperballs into a crowd of partygoers who posed no threat to them. In the case of Nelson v. City of Davis, 2012 DAR 9528, the court ruled that the use of force was unreasonable and violated "clearly established" constitutional rights.

The court concluded that qualified immunity from civil liability was not appropriate in this case since, as a result of many court decisions, "any reasonable officer ... would have been on notice prior to April 2004 that the application of pepper spray to individuals such as Nelson and his associates, whose only transgression was the failure to disperse as quickly as the officers desired, would violate the Fourth Amendment."

"Thus, just as our prior cases provided notice to all reasonable officers that targeting Nelson and his group with a projectile weapon with concussive force that could cause serious physical injury or targeting them with pepper spray was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment, our precedents make it equally clear that utilizing a weapon against Nelson's group that combined both of these forms of force amounted to a constitutional violation."

The court concluded that "a reasonable officer would have known that firing projectiles, including pepperballs, in the direction of individuals suspected of, at most, minor crimes, who posed no threat to the officers or others, and who engaged in only passive resistance, was unreasonable."

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7h

Alternate universe

Mike Walter Gus

Andy Reid, Travis Kelsey, and Patrick Mahomes

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7h

An overlooked effect of climate change: state parks that turn off water and close restrooms in campgrounds on the same day each year (Oct. 1, Oct. 15, Nov. 1, etc., depending on latitude) despite the fact that these are now nowhere near as cold as they were when states began this policy decades ago.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8h

Not for nothing, but his followers have been screaming that he has "plenary power" since at least his indictment in the records case.

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 15h

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8h

I could hear him blush over the phone. 😀

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8h

Hell, Chuck, even Joe and Eileen Bailey are begging you to retire.

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

For the love of all that is holy, Chuck Schumer, retire.

Go spend time with your family. Let people who understand what’s going on, who have even a modicum of fight in them, do what needs to be done.

Every time you speak you make it clearer that you cannot do this.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schumer: I want to say to Donald Trump, to Johnson, and to Thune: come to the Capitol, sit down in public, and debate us on the health care crisis that’s afflicting Americans.

The public needs to see this.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you. It truly was.

A happier PS: the next morning, the Key Bridge Marriott messed up our room service order three times; a manager invited us down for a free breakfast.

Linda said, "Leave our suite? Remind him which one we're in."

I did; he got it, apologized, then comped our entire stay. 😊

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8h

Next, the Trump administration will order Department of Agriculture employees across the country to immediately search their workstations, digital media, paper files, closets, storerooms, attics, and basements for any records that can definitively determine where, in fact, the beef is.

Three women in the classic Wendy's commercial try to figure out where's the beef

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8h

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8h

PS: my parents refused not only to attend our wedding, but to meet Linda's parents.

They didn't before her father died four months after the wedding; they didn't before my father died 17 years later; and my mother didn't meet Linda's mother before Linda died 15 years after that.

And still hasn't.

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 15h

In addition to oversight of government officials, agencies, and programs, on another part of my Substack—written matters—I share more personal articles.

Here's what I wrote 14 years ago about one of the most important days of my life: October 7, 1990. ❤️

writtenmatters.substack.com/p/october-7-...

October 7, 1990

A day—even now, even after... everything—to celebrate love, shared and shown

writtenmatters.substack.com

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8h

That's very kind of you. Thank you.

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 9h

To de-escalate the situation, officers agreed to read a nine-page letter from Geri's notebook, titled "Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives" 👀

More than 200 'grenades' found in tent outside DC cathedral after man's arrest

At least 200 destructive devices were found inside the tent of a New Jersey man arrested after he set up a tent on the steps of the St. Matthew's Cathedral in N

wjla.com

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9h

"Whurrs thuh chow lahn?"

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9h

I just realized that I am the same age now as was my Aunt Mary—who played a major role in this event, as well as throughout my life, and is my last surviving aunt (or uncle)—on that day. Wild.

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 15h

In addition to oversight of government officials, agencies, and programs, on another part of my Substack—written matters—I share more personal articles.

Here's what I wrote 14 years ago about one of the most important days of my life: October 7, 1990. ❤️

writtenmatters.substack.com/p/october-7-...

October 7, 1990

A day—even now, even after... everything—to celebrate love, shared and shown

writtenmatters.substack.com

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9h

🤦🏼‍♂️

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 10h

The only name on this that's a real surprise is Adams, who has been less than full-throated in his criticism.

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23h

More are united around a simple message: RFK Jr should not be HHS Sec. His decisions undermine our public health capacity and put lives and health at risk.

As 6 former Surgeon Generals argue:

"He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

🎁
wapo.st/3VTALll

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

wapo.st

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 10h

a man with a beard is holding a flashlight in his hand .

Alt: Kurt Russell, in The Thing

media.tenor.com

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 10h

"You will be arrested."

"I don't mind. I'll take care of it."

What impunity from those arrogant dirtbags.

The warning can't just be, "You will be arrested." Cops must add, "And you will be prosecuted, convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned."

You can't take care of all of that, you lawless goons.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 10h

Yes.

And Congress twice examined the idea of a central presidential library but got big pushback, including from historians, who oddly claim that they "learn from" the libraries being where each POTUS came from, even though hasn't happened in many decades (and was never really true anyway).

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 10h

Even when FPOTUS decides not to build a presidential library, and NARA preserves those records in its own facilities, FPOTUS still builds something, such as what Obama is doing in Chicago. It's not a presidential library, his official records will not be there, but it's still a close-to-$1B shrine.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 11h

Note: Cao is the dude who is scared of Wiccans, and who claimed he was 100% disabled "just from being blown up in combat many times"—despite never having received a Purple Heart nor having been awarded the Navy Combat Action Ribbon, discrepancies he has declined to resolve.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17h

“Hegseth has fired the Navy chief of staff in a sudden shakeup following the confirmation of Hung Cao as the new Navy Under Secretary.” 10/4/25 … 1/ www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Hegseth fires Navy chief of staff

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Navy chief of staff in a sudden shakeup following the confirmation this week of a new Navy Under Secretary.

www.militarytimes.com

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 11h

Just before they leave, though, they will be dumbfounded to learn that there are places in the United States where the electricity continues to work even during the winter and other climatological challenges.

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