Atticus West
@atticuswest.bsky.social
Attorney and Counselor at Law. Litigator. B.A. Philosophy. Phish. Padres. Me like words. Occasionally wry.
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Nice job, We the People.
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thank you for walking into that palo alto music store on new year’s eve in 64 💔
January 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
thank you for walking into that palo alto music store on new year’s eve in 64 💔
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*pours one out for Bobby* A true legend. Thanks for all the smiles. RIP.
January 11, 2026 at 12:20 AM
*pours one out for Bobby* A true legend. Thanks for all the smiles. RIP.
As a diversion from *gestures everywhere* all this, I found this piece in the Atlantic fascinating. It discusses the changing understanding about some fundamental notions in the field of Physics. (Note: It’s more of a “use your thinky bits” diversion, not a “basket of puppies” diversion.) 1/
The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore
The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.
www.theatlantic.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM
As a diversion from *gestures everywhere* all this, I found this piece in the Atlantic fascinating. It discusses the changing understanding about some fundamental notions in the field of Physics. (Note: It’s more of a “use your thinky bits” diversion, not a “basket of puppies” diversion.) 1/
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i so want to be a happy rhino playing with a dik dik
January 10, 2026 at 5:51 AM
i so want to be a happy rhino playing with a dik dik
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“Ah good, you’re awake. Please don’t bother trying to move. Now, I just have a couple of questions for you. If you answer truthfully, this can all be over quickly, but if I think you’re lying, I will introduce you to my friend Klaus over there, and trust me, you don’t want that.”
January 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
“Ah good, you’re awake. Please don’t bother trying to move. Now, I just have a couple of questions for you. If you answer truthfully, this can all be over quickly, but if I think you’re lying, I will introduce you to my friend Klaus over there, and trust me, you don’t want that.”
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we’ve taken to watching live jazz sessions on youtube to quell some of the cartoon-derived chaos in our living room on weekend mornings, and an unintended consequence of that decision is that my five year old now has Jazz Opinions
January 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
we’ve taken to watching live jazz sessions on youtube to quell some of the cartoon-derived chaos in our living room on weekend mornings, and an unintended consequence of that decision is that my five year old now has Jazz Opinions
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It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 4:23 PM
It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
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"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."
ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."
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This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
Rep. Fine, shown here stating “present” during this morning’s fascist roll-call.
Rep. Randy Fine: "It's time for Americans to say 'enough,' and if you get in the way of the government repelling a foreign invasion, you're gonna end up just like that lady did yesterday."
January 8, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Rep. Fine, shown here stating “present” during this morning’s fascist roll-call.
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We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
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Current mental state: “ice cold rage.”
And this is still just the beginning, it’s gonna get worse. 1/3
And this is still just the beginning, it’s gonna get worse. 1/3
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Current mental state: “ice cold rage.”
And this is still just the beginning, it’s gonna get worse. 1/3
And this is still just the beginning, it’s gonna get worse. 1/3
They’re hitting this hard because they’ve seen the video(s) and know exactly how obviously untrue their narrative is.
I dipped into Fox News for 10 minutes. What a mistake. They're going all-in on the Trump regime's lies about ICE's murder of Renee Nicole Good. But just because a lot of liars agree on a lie doesn't make it the truth.
January 7, 2026 at 11:54 PM
They’re hitting this hard because they’ve seen the video(s) and know exactly how obviously untrue their narrative is.
Nice job, We the People.
January 7, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Nice job, We the People.
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Dr Oz threatens to pull Medicaid support for Minnesota: "Sticking to the narrative that's cold in Minnesota -- this is the tip of the iceberg"
January 7, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Dr Oz threatens to pull Medicaid support for Minnesota: "Sticking to the narrative that's cold in Minnesota -- this is the tip of the iceberg"
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This is the agent Trump said it’s hard to believe is still alive. After he shot Renee Nicole Good. Walking away. Seems not at all hard to believe he’s still alive. Lies. Shameless lies.
According to witnesses, this is the masked ICE agent who shot the driver in Minneapolis. He shot from the side into the vehicle.
This is him walking away from the crashed vehicle.
This is him walking away from the crashed vehicle.
January 7, 2026 at 10:47 PM
This is the agent Trump said it’s hard to believe is still alive. After he shot Renee Nicole Good. Walking away. Seems not at all hard to believe he’s still alive. Lies. Shameless lies.
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Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
January 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
Too bad about the video evidence from multiple camera angles/phones that has spread across social media like wildfire, all of which flatly and directly contradicts every lying utterance from Jeffrey Epstein's BFF here.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Too bad about the video evidence from multiple camera angles/phones that has spread across social media like wildfire, all of which flatly and directly contradicts every lying utterance from Jeffrey Epstein's BFF here.
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Things are simultaneously appalling and utterly surreal.
You know it was an "act of terrorism" because the homeland security secretary has camouflaged and sandbagged her lectern.
January 7, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Things are simultaneously appalling and utterly surreal.
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Please spread the word and join us. Vigil scheduled for 5:00 today at E. 34th Street and Portland Ave S. in Minneapolis for woman murdered by ICE agents.
January 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Please spread the word and join us. Vigil scheduled for 5:00 today at E. 34th Street and Portland Ave S. in Minneapolis for woman murdered by ICE agents.
What is even happening?!
Abolish ICE. Really.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 9:03 PM
What is even happening?!
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”
January 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”