JDoyle
@jdoyle.bsky.social
Indigent defender for 40 years, sometimes writer, thought follower, flãneur.
Fascinating to watch the "Admiral or Hegseth" drama fascinate the media when if this (the whole operation AND/OR the "double tap") is murder issuing AND following the order are both culpable.
December 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Fascinating to watch the "Admiral or Hegseth" drama fascinate the media when if this (the whole operation AND/OR the "double tap") is murder issuing AND following the order are both culpable.
My first girlfriend! And she speaks Russian!
Patel: Is it illegal to have a girlfriend now?
Kash Patel: "Yes, I'm entitled to a personal life just like my other agency counterparts with their partners. So do I support my girlfriend? Absolutely. And do I take trips with her? Absolutely."
December 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My first girlfriend! And she speaks Russian!
Watch this. The Trump/Hegseth strategy is to transform a self-respecting family of citizen-soldiers into a crowd of video game "warriors", i.e., cartoonish thugs.
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Watch this. The Trump/Hegseth strategy is to transform a self-respecting family of citizen-soldiers into a crowd of video game "warriors", i.e., cartoonish thugs.
The Trump position (here and elsewhere) comes down to "This not a real war, so it can't be a real war crime.
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Trump position (here and elsewhere) comes down to "This not a real war, so it can't be a real war crime.
Reposted by JDoyle
"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."
Here are US military lawyers stating clearly that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's "kill everybody" orders are either (1) war crimes or (2) murder.
Either way, expect prosecutions in the future.
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
Either way, expect prosecutions in the future.
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."
This horrific waste of a sacred life was generated by President's need to perform a colonialist gesture "White troops subordinate Black city." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This horrific waste of a sacred life was generated by President's need to perform a colonialist gesture "White troops subordinate Black city." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
John Adams saw how the oligarchs could defeat the new commercial republic. We can watch it happen.
John Adams has a Trump Nightmare
The Second President Would Say We're in the Fight of Our Lives
jamesdoyle.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
John Adams saw how the oligarchs could defeat the new commercial republic. We can watch it happen.
The whole point here---missed by NYT---is allow Trump to say, "I want to release these materials, but the prosecutors won't let me because it would compromise their ongoing investigation." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...
U.S. Attorney Under Pressure After Order to Investigate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The whole point here---missed by NYT---is allow Trump to say, "I want to release these materials, but the prosecutors won't let me because it would compromise their ongoing investigation." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...
With Patel and Bondi strong-arming Lauren Boebert in the Situation Room, we've surpassed "Death of Stalin" and challenge "Duck Soup". www.youtube.com/shorts/Af4QR...
Chicolini Is On Trial For His Crimes #DuckSoup (1933) | TCM
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November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
With Patel and Bondi strong-arming Lauren Boebert in the Situation Room, we've surpassed "Death of Stalin" and challenge "Duck Soup". www.youtube.com/shorts/Af4QR...
Warren Buffet says there's a class war, and his class is winning. The Dem. cave on shut-down is poignant evidence of group of Democrats unwilling to admit which side of that class war they've been consigned to---evidence of a pathetic sort of social-climbing aspiration......
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Warren Buffet says there's a class war, and his class is winning. The Dem. cave on shut-down is poignant evidence of group of Democrats unwilling to admit which side of that class war they've been consigned to---evidence of a pathetic sort of social-climbing aspiration......
The "Secretary of War" announces the killing of another boatload of anonymous people. Harry Lime has a question for us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMz8...
The Third Man - 'Dots'
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November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The "Secretary of War" announces the killing of another boatload of anonymous people. Harry Lime has a question for us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMz8...
jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/what-mamda...
Democrats Will Win By Listening
Democrats Will Win By Listening
What Mamdani and Spanberger Share Can Bring Victory
Model a Way to Practice Listening
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November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/what-mamda...
Democrats Will Win By Listening
Democrats Will Win By Listening
If the Democrats forfeit the God-sent coincidence of Medicare re-enrollment period and shut-down negotiations they are idiots.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If the Democrats forfeit the God-sent coincidence of Medicare re-enrollment period and shut-down negotiations they are idiots.
Nothing could be more predictable than the infantile "Dems must choose Spangenberger or Mamdani" wave + it hides a tremendous opportunity. If the two model working together on fighting on the vertical anti-extraction axis, while productively engaging each other on the "left/right", Dems win.
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Nothing could be more predictable than the infantile "Dems must choose Spangenberger or Mamdani" wave + it hides a tremendous opportunity. If the two model working together on fighting on the vertical anti-extraction axis, while productively engaging each other on the "left/right", Dems win.
Trump last night extolled the Golden Age he has ushered in to, e.g., the "steel mills of Pittsburgh", unaware that there are no steel mills in Pittsburgh and only one mill in the metropolitan area.
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Trump last night extolled the Golden Age he has ushered in to, e.g., the "steel mills of Pittsburgh", unaware that there are no steel mills in Pittsburgh and only one mill in the metropolitan area.
Not that you asked, but Trump is desperate to hold onto tariff control not because of good policy, or even revenue to offset tax cuts, but because autonomous control gives him an endless supply of lunatic announcements to dominate news cycles, distract, and give appearance of doing something.
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Not that you asked, but Trump is desperate to hold onto tariff control not because of good policy, or even revenue to offset tax cuts, but because autonomous control gives him an endless supply of lunatic announcements to dominate news cycles, distract, and give appearance of doing something.
Are you with Stevie Miller or Marquis de La Fayette? No Kings in Paris. Kind of moving when crowd sang the anthem.
October 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Are you with Stevie Miller or Marquis de La Fayette? No Kings in Paris. Kind of moving when crowd sang the anthem.
A useful footnote for the Banality of Evil chapter on John Roberts and various other furtive apparatchiks who lately mourned the arrival of "The Imperial
Presidency".https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/us/politics/originalism-trump-supreme-court-unitary-executive.html
Presidency".https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/us/politics/originalism-trump-supreme-court-unitary-executive.html
October 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A useful footnote for the Banality of Evil chapter on John Roberts and various other furtive apparatchiks who lately mourned the arrival of "The Imperial
Presidency".https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/us/politics/originalism-trump-supreme-court-unitary-executive.html
Presidency".https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/us/politics/originalism-trump-supreme-court-unitary-executive.html
Shouldn't everyone be asking, all the time, that Homan return the $50K ?
October 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Shouldn't everyone be asking, all the time, that Homan return the $50K ?
Here's a nice encapsulation of the GOP's attitude toward the will of the voter that the Democrats should make full use of. Why don't they?https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/speaker-johnson-has-yet-to-swear-in-newly-elected-arizona-lawmaker-adelita-grijalva
October 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Here's a nice encapsulation of the GOP's attitude toward the will of the voter that the Democrats should make full use of. Why don't they?https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/speaker-johnson-has-yet-to-swear-in-newly-elected-arizona-lawmaker-adelita-grijalva
This is not Boomer nostalgia; I'm a Boomer by birth, but completely free of nostalgia for my peers and the period.
But the students have to hit the streets. The possibility of living the next 50 years under the rule of Stephen Miller ought to be incentive enough.
But the students have to hit the streets. The possibility of living the next 50 years under the rule of Stephen Miller ought to be incentive enough.
October 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is not Boomer nostalgia; I'm a Boomer by birth, but completely free of nostalgia for my peers and the period.
But the students have to hit the streets. The possibility of living the next 50 years under the rule of Stephen Miller ought to be incentive enough.
But the students have to hit the streets. The possibility of living the next 50 years under the rule of Stephen Miller ought to be incentive enough.
Trump added Tony Blair to Gaza Peace Comm. When he learned Peter O’Toole unavailable.
September 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trump added Tony Blair to Gaza Peace Comm. When he learned Peter O’Toole unavailable.
Indicting Comey = bad. Indicting Comey + pardons list = the corrupt "rigged game" that MAGA detests. MAGA may see Comey as an enemy; they see rigged game as an existential threat.
September 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Indicting Comey = bad. Indicting Comey + pardons list = the corrupt "rigged game" that MAGA detests. MAGA may see Comey as an enemy; they see rigged game as an existential threat.
As "Comey is not above the law" is vomited up from DOJ, White House, etc., wouldn't this be an appropriate time to look at the Pardons and Commutations list? These are not independent issues.
September 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
As "Comey is not above the law" is vomited up from DOJ, White House, etc., wouldn't this be an appropriate time to look at the Pardons and Commutations list? These are not independent issues.