Graham K
@gkelly1193.bsky.social
Spent a decade electing Democrats. Now this and that. Tweets about foreign policy, college football and soccer.
VFL, YNWA
VFL, YNWA
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rick steves bought a hygiene center www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
December 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
rick steves bought a hygiene center www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Today in 1968, astronaut and lunar module pilot Bill Anders took this photograph as Apollo 8 orbited the Moon. “Oh my God. Look at that picture over there! There’s the Earth comin’ up. Wow, is that pretty!”
(Anders’ original photograph was in black-and-white. NASA later remastered it into color.)
(Anders’ original photograph was in black-and-white. NASA later remastered it into color.)
December 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Today in 1968, astronaut and lunar module pilot Bill Anders took this photograph as Apollo 8 orbited the Moon. “Oh my God. Look at that picture over there! There’s the Earth comin’ up. Wow, is that pretty!”
(Anders’ original photograph was in black-and-white. NASA later remastered it into color.)
(Anders’ original photograph was in black-and-white. NASA later remastered it into color.)
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
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this made me so happy
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
this made me so happy
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The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.
I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled
Dear friends, family, and Austrian nobility, Captain Von Trapp and I are very sorry to inform you that we no longer plan to wed. We offer our deepe...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.
JMU could not have acquitted themselves any better, fuck the haters
December 21, 2025 at 4:31 AM
JMU could not have acquitted themselves any better, fuck the haters
When the Vols went to Autzen we got curb stomped, when the Vols were the primetime playoff game we got curb stomped. So it happens to the best of us JMU.
December 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
When the Vols went to Autzen we got curb stomped, when the Vols were the primetime playoff game we got curb stomped. So it happens to the best of us JMU.
Running clock second half?
December 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Running clock second half?
DoJ is in open defiance of the law manipulating the Epstein files, ICE is holding American citizens in custody and the President is sticking his name on whatever building he likes in DC.
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.
December 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
DoJ is in open defiance of the law manipulating the Epstein files, ICE is holding American citizens in custody and the President is sticking his name on whatever building he likes in DC.
The good guys just won in College Station
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The good guys just won in College Station
The team that has adopted “hard to kill” as its slogan brings out 50 Cent to perform while down 10 before the fourth quarter and immediately scores a touchdown capping a 75 yard drive.
College football is the greatest theater in human history.
College football is the greatest theater in human history.
December 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The team that has adopted “hard to kill” as its slogan brings out 50 Cent to perform while down 10 before the fourth quarter and immediately scores a touchdown capping a 75 yard drive.
College football is the greatest theater in human history.
College football is the greatest theater in human history.
Don’t worry Oklahoma, as John McCain would say it’s always darkest before it turns pitch black.
December 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Don’t worry Oklahoma, as John McCain would say it’s always darkest before it turns pitch black.
I was thinking what the hell is with people around Epstein taking a zillion candid photos and then I remember the late 2000s were just kinda like that, when everyone you knew uploaded 60 new photos to facebook on Sunday
December 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I was thinking what the hell is with people around Epstein taking a zillion candid photos and then I remember the late 2000s were just kinda like that, when everyone you knew uploaded 60 new photos to facebook on Sunday
Between eliminating USAID, gutting NASA and sticking his name on the cultural center does DJT have a JFK obsession that hasn’t been reported on?
December 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Between eliminating USAID, gutting NASA and sticking his name on the cultural center does DJT have a JFK obsession that hasn’t been reported on?
Ah
Exclusive: Top lawyer for military joint chiefs told chairman that officers should retire if faced with an unlawful order. That advice is raising serious concerns among current and former officials. Latest: www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/p...
Exclusive: Top lawyer for military joint chiefs told chairman that officers should retire if faced with an unlawful order | CNN Politics
How should a military commander respond if they determine they have received an unlawful order?
www.cnn.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Ah
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They should allow* rushing the field in the NFL and the goalposts should end up in Puget Sound
*Punish it with a doable fine
*Punish it with a doable fine
December 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
They should allow* rushing the field in the NFL and the goalposts should end up in Puget Sound
*Punish it with a doable fine
*Punish it with a doable fine
So how does anyone get to ensure DoJ is abiding by the law tomorrow?
December 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
So how does anyone get to ensure DoJ is abiding by the law tomorrow?
A Rookie QB led the Commanders to their best season in a generation last year
Wild to me that people are freaking out about THE QB DEVELOPMENT CRISIS in a season when three of the teams with the NFL’s best records—New England, Denver and Chicago—have quarterbacks drafted *last year.*
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A Rookie QB led the Commanders to their best season in a generation last year
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a friend just noted that the total cost of giving each Warfighter (tm) a $1,176 check is roughly equivalent to the cost of a flight iii burke
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
a friend just noted that the total cost of giving each Warfighter (tm) a $1,176 check is roughly equivalent to the cost of a flight iii burke
A move 30 years in the making. Many folks cite Clinton sailing a pair of carriers through the strait as the moment the CCP decided to modernize its military and build a blue water navy.
China’s newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, steamed through the Taiwan Strait this week for the first time since being commissioned, a move closely monitored by Taiwan amid ongoing tensions with Beijing.
Taiwan tracks Chinese aircraft carrier on first strait transit since commissioning
The Fujian steamed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time since being commissioned, a move closely monitored by Taiwan amid ongoing tensions with China.
www.stripes.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A move 30 years in the making. Many folks cite Clinton sailing a pair of carriers through the strait as the moment the CCP decided to modernize its military and build a blue water navy.
Lmao at the Dem party being run by the health insurance companies
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Lmao at the Dem party being run by the health insurance companies
Wasn’t that long ago the networks refused to give Biden air time for a primetime address they considered “too political”
Trump unleashes a blistering campaign speech against his general election opponent, President Joe Biden.
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Wasn’t that long ago the networks refused to give Biden air time for a primetime address they considered “too political”
Long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a young boy was raised by his aunt and uncle on a “moisture farm.”
I selfishly asked @alexckaufman.bsky.social to write this because I wanted to know what's been going on with atmospheric water generation. And then mid-reporting, Omar Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Which was...um...totally our plan all along. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/17/1...
This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.
www.technologyreview.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a young boy was raised by his aunt and uncle on a “moisture farm.”