Leigh Avril
@aznewswatcher.bsky.social
Retired TV Production engineer/producer. Currently providing audio engineering for Cactus League/MLB Spring Training - and also assisting Alzheimer’s/memory care folks stay in their homes longer.
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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I knew Dan Drezner when his headings were like "Sanctions work somewhat better than you think."
I guess I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. Fuck decorum. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/american-f...
American Foreign Policy Is Being Run by the Dumbest Motherfuckers Alive
The fuckwittery on display right now by Trump's foreign policy team boggles the mind.
danieldrezner.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I knew Dan Drezner when his headings were like "Sanctions work somewhat better than you think."
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Just going to repost my essay "Decapitation Strike" essay from November. We are living through it now.
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
Decapitation Strike
Preserving America from Trump's Appointments
snyder.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Just going to repost my essay "Decapitation Strike" essay from November. We are living through it now.
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
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Yes, the Greenland visit looks like a setup. The vice-president goes into one of his rehearsed rages about Europeans not respecting his family or some such. Then Trump demands that the Danes apologize, show respect, etc. But no one buys it since it was all on a published Signal chat the day before…
The Usha Vance led delegation to Greenland was unsought by the Greenlanders and has been angrily rejected by them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...
March 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Yes, the Greenland visit looks like a setup. The vice-president goes into one of his rehearsed rages about Europeans not respecting his family or some such. Then Trump demands that the Danes apologize, show respect, etc. But no one buys it since it was all on a published Signal chat the day before…
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Remember that the people on the Signal chat include the US negotiators on Ukraine. It is no wonder that Putin is twisting them around like taffy at the county fair.
#signalgate
#signalgate
March 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Remember that the people on the Signal chat include the US negotiators on Ukraine. It is no wonder that Putin is twisting them around like taffy at the county fair.
#signalgate
#signalgate
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@timothysnyder.bsky.social: Trump making ‘ethical and strategic mistake’ with Putin www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
March 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
@timothysnyder.bsky.social: Trump making ‘ethical and strategic mistake’ with Putin www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
This morning’s sunrise in RVF
February 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This morning’s sunrise in RVF
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Did not realize this address from Trudeau was going to be aimed at us
February 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Did not realize this address from Trudeau was going to be aimed at us
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The vice-president a week ago.
“Obviously.”
“Obviously.”
January 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The vice-president a week ago.
“Obviously.”
“Obviously.”
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January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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In a nutshell...
"Biden pardoned January 6 police officers,
Trump pardoned January 6 criminals."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
"Biden pardoned January 6 police officers,
Trump pardoned January 6 criminals."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
After Biden pardoned Jan. 6 police officers, Trump pardoned Jan. 6 criminals
The new president agreed to let violent criminals back onto American streets, and then peddled discredited conspiracy theories and lies about the attack.
www.msnbc.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In a nutshell...
"Biden pardoned January 6 police officers,
Trump pardoned January 6 criminals."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
"Biden pardoned January 6 police officers,
Trump pardoned January 6 criminals."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde appeals to President Trump to have mercy upon immigrants and minorities
YouTube video by ONEST NETWORK
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
The global impact of Donald Trump’s insane choices of key government leadership positions to implode the U.S.’s Gold Standard of Health and Democracy.
#MadDictatorTrump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
#MadDictatorTrump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
RFK Jr key adviser petitioned regulators to revoke approval of polio vaccine
Aaron Siri is helping Trump’s health secretary pick to select top jobs despite long history of attacking vaccines
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:27 PM
The global impact of Donald Trump’s insane choices of key government leadership positions to implode the U.S.’s Gold Standard of Health and Democracy.
#MadDictatorTrump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
#MadDictatorTrump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Ok, this is just madness. It is sick beyond sick.
#RFKjrInsanity
#RFKjrInsanity
December 13, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Ok, this is just madness. It is sick beyond sick.
#RFKjrInsanity
#RFKjrInsanity
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We need as many healthcare professionals to be courageous and speak to truth, for our patient’s sake and for the sanctity and credibility of our profession.
That starts now. We cannot allow the highly abnormal to be normalized.
www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-...
That starts now. We cannot allow the highly abnormal to be normalized.
www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-...
'Just not qualified': Trump health leadership raises red flags
Alex Wagner reports on Donald Trump's picks of Marty Makary as FDA commissioner, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for surgeon general, and Dr. Dave Weldon for CDC director, who would work under the authority of ...
www.msnbc.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:31 PM
We need as many healthcare professionals to be courageous and speak to truth, for our patient’s sake and for the sanctity and credibility of our profession.
That starts now. We cannot allow the highly abnormal to be normalized.
www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-...
That starts now. We cannot allow the highly abnormal to be normalized.
www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-...
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Like the lawyers, doctors and other medical professionals are preparing to stand up and speak truth to power. Our fellow citizens deserve no less.
We need as many healthcare professionals to be courageous and speak to truth, for our patient’s sake and for the sanctity and credibility of our profession.
That starts now. We cannot allow the highly abnormal to be normalized.
www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-...
That starts now. We cannot allow the highly abnormal to be normalized.
www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-...
'Just not qualified': Trump health leadership raises red flags
Alex Wagner reports on Donald Trump's picks of Marty Makary as FDA commissioner, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for surgeon general, and Dr. Dave Weldon for CDC director, who would work under the authority of ...
www.msnbc.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Like the lawyers, doctors and other medical professionals are preparing to stand up and speak truth to power. Our fellow citizens deserve no less.
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“Yesterday I visited my son's school and I saw a bright colored bench in the yard. I asked if it was new.
He said to me, ′′no, that's the ‘friend’s bench.’ When someone is down, they'll sit there so others find them."
To me, that’s how finding Bluesky feels.
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He said to me, ′′no, that's the ‘friend’s bench.’ When someone is down, they'll sit there so others find them."
To me, that’s how finding Bluesky feels.
Follow us if you’d like a friend! 💙
November 15, 2024 at 1:10 AM
“Yesterday I visited my son's school and I saw a bright colored bench in the yard. I asked if it was new.
He said to me, ′′no, that's the ‘friend’s bench.’ When someone is down, they'll sit there so others find them."
To me, that’s how finding Bluesky feels.
Follow us if you’d like a friend! 💙
He said to me, ′′no, that's the ‘friend’s bench.’ When someone is down, they'll sit there so others find them."
To me, that’s how finding Bluesky feels.
Follow us if you’d like a friend! 💙
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Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
November 15, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.