Raynell Castiel
@rayn3ll.bsky.social
Bird app refugee Rayn3ll. Crap. I have to get followers again?!
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Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
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Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
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Trump doesn’t appear to have any congressional approval for a declaration of war, and doesn’t seem to have notified the Gang of Eight about any of this.
Before we talk international law, there seems to be some *extreme* disregard for US law here, too.
Before we talk international law, there seems to be some *extreme* disregard for US law here, too.
Rules-based international order has had a rough couple of decades, but this pretty much ends it entirely. Both the strikes and the capture of Maduro are also blatant violations of US domestic law too, of course.
January 3, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Trump doesn’t appear to have any congressional approval for a declaration of war, and doesn’t seem to have notified the Gang of Eight about any of this.
Before we talk international law, there seems to be some *extreme* disregard for US law here, too.
Before we talk international law, there seems to be some *extreme* disregard for US law here, too.
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
December 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
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Something we can never forget. He inspired attacks on police officers, attacks on the Capitol. Then he pardoned the violent criminals.
Everyone who voted for him in ‘24 voted for more violence by excusing this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Everyone who voted for him in ‘24 voted for more violence by excusing this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Something we can never forget. He inspired attacks on police officers, attacks on the Capitol. Then he pardoned the violent criminals.
Everyone who voted for him in ‘24 voted for more violence by excusing this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Everyone who voted for him in ‘24 voted for more violence by excusing this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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It's official: Congress and Donald Trump have allowed the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire. Millions of Americans will either lose their health coverage or face dramatically higher premiums.
January 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
It's official: Congress and Donald Trump have allowed the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire. Millions of Americans will either lose their health coverage or face dramatically higher premiums.
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🔥 MAYOR MAMDANI: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy… I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.”
January 1, 2026 at 8:12 PM
🔥 MAYOR MAMDANI: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy… I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.”
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1/2: Cutting U.S. aid to Africa will unleash deadly chaos: exploding poverty, rampant HIV/malaria slaughtering thousands, health systems in ruins. Millions' lives on the line—hard-won progress erased, futures brutally snuffed out.
December 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
1/2: Cutting U.S. aid to Africa will unleash deadly chaos: exploding poverty, rampant HIV/malaria slaughtering thousands, health systems in ruins. Millions' lives on the line—hard-won progress erased, futures brutally snuffed out.
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I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
Context for Trump withdrawing dozens of ambassadors
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
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In multiple cases where ICE/CBP has shot people, they have claimed they were under attack. But their cases fall apart in court. It increasingly seems they use force, knowing they can claim they were attacked afterwards, and face no accountability. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
Who's Threatening Who?
The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a different story
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In multiple cases where ICE/CBP has shot people, they have claimed they were under attack. But their cases fall apart in court. It increasingly seems they use force, knowing they can claim they were attacked afterwards, and face no accountability. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
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In the one case where ICE has killed someone, they also claimed that the person tried to run them over. But that is not what the video shows, which is a person trying to escape, which, lets face it, make a lot more sense.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How an Attempted ICE Arrest Turned Deadly
The New York Times analyzed surveillance, police body-camera footage and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In the one case where ICE has killed someone, they also claimed that the person tried to run them over. But that is not what the video shows, which is a person trying to escape, which, lets face it, make a lot more sense.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In Massachusetts, if you keep a dog you are responsible for any harm that dog causes.
I want to apply that same standard to generative AI.
I want to apply that same standard to generative AI.
December 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In Massachusetts, if you keep a dog you are responsible for any harm that dog causes.
I want to apply that same standard to generative AI.
I want to apply that same standard to generative AI.
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Back in the old days, we used to call this a purge. Firing all your senior leaders at NIH? It's a purge. Just call it what it is.
More news (not good) from NIH
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
December 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Back in the old days, we used to call this a purge. Firing all your senior leaders at NIH? It's a purge. Just call it what it is.
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Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:
Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.
December 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:
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Putin’s “keeper of secrets” died on Christmas Day, less than two years after Putin fired him. Colonel-General Yuri Sadovenko, 56, died suddenly from “heart disease” 😉
www.thedailybeast.com/putins-keepe...
www.thedailybeast.com/putins-keepe...
Putin’s ‘Keeper of Secrets’ Dies Suddenly After Firing
Colonel-General Yuri Sadovenko’s sudden Christmas Day death is just the latest around Putin’s orbit.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Putin’s “keeper of secrets” died on Christmas Day, less than two years after Putin fired him. Colonel-General Yuri Sadovenko, 56, died suddenly from “heart disease” 😉
www.thedailybeast.com/putins-keepe...
www.thedailybeast.com/putins-keepe...
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Why did they call episode I the phantom menace instead of Ani Are You Ok
December 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Why did they call episode I the phantom menace instead of Ani Are You Ok
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Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.
December 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.
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I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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A fire in November at a Hong Kong apartment complex killed 161 people and displaced thousands. Records show how government departments played down residents’ warnings about corrupt practices and substandard materials that fueled the deadly blaze.
What Went Wrong Before Hong Kong’s Inferno
Records show how government departments played down residents’ warnings about corrupt practices and substandard materials that fueled the deadly blaze.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A fire in November at a Hong Kong apartment complex killed 161 people and displaced thousands. Records show how government departments played down residents’ warnings about corrupt practices and substandard materials that fueled the deadly blaze.
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Prosecute them all. Beyond the depravity of this, it's pure theft. The local prosecutor should open an investigation and charge them all.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Prosecute them all. Beyond the depravity of this, it's pure theft. The local prosecutor should open an investigation and charge them all.
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This Needs To Stop!🛑
Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?
There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.
Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?
There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.
December 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This Needs To Stop!🛑
Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?
There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.
Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?
There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.
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Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.
December 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.