Vern
@vmhutchbtv.bsky.social
Retired. Can't get me out of Vermont with a skyhook. Former state legislator and US Army veteran. Proudly a centrist. Gadfly.
"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one." Voltaire (maybe)
https://vernsmagicalmysterytour.com/
"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one." Voltaire (maybe)
https://vernsmagicalmysterytour.com/
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@vmhutchbtv.bsky.social
· Nov 29
The Avalon Project : Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
avalon.law.yale.edu
"We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger." #MAGA wake up. #Ukraine is a US problem
avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century...
avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century...
“He wants to unilaterally upend the idea that we are a nation where immigrants can ever become citizens with full and equal rights as native-born Americans.”
Steven Miller's next mission...resurrect the pseudoscience of phrenology and physiognomy...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Steven Miller's next mission...resurrect the pseudoscience of phrenology and physiognomy...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“He wants to unilaterally upend the idea that we are a nation where immigrants can ever become citizens with full and equal rights as native-born Americans.”
Steven Miller's next mission...resurrect the pseudoscience of phrenology and physiognomy...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Steven Miller's next mission...resurrect the pseudoscience of phrenology and physiognomy...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
"No purity tests," JD Vance, welcomes all the haters under his banner. And he's way more dangerous than the orange menace...
www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/jd-v...
www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/jd-v...
JD Vance Picks a Side | National Review
Vance will pretend as though he is disinterestedly arbitrating a political dispute on the right, but he’s not.
www.nationalreview.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"No purity tests," JD Vance, welcomes all the haters under his banner. And he's way more dangerous than the orange menace...
www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/jd-v...
www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/jd-v...
Beware of your friends. Dictator Trump gives love to our enemies, Russia and China; and shovels s*"t to our friends. A tribute to duplicity and betrayal. The reckoning will bite the USA in the buttocks...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/w...
Angering Denmark, Trump Appoints Special Envoy to Greenland
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Beware of your friends. Dictator Trump gives love to our enemies, Russia and China; and shovels s*"t to our friends. A tribute to duplicity and betrayal. The reckoning will bite the USA in the buttocks...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/w...
Of course it is. Hard to make this stuff up.
Next: the Dictator Trump renames the northbound lanes of Highway 95... Highway 45th; and the southbound lands...Highway 47th.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Next: the Dictator Trump renames the northbound lanes of Highway 95... Highway 45th; and the southbound lands...Highway 47th.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says
The board of the performing arts centre voted to name it after President Donald Trump, rebranding it the 'Trump-Kennedy Center', press secretary Karoline Leavitt says.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Of course it is. Hard to make this stuff up.
Next: the Dictator Trump renames the northbound lanes of Highway 95... Highway 45th; and the southbound lands...Highway 47th.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Next: the Dictator Trump renames the northbound lanes of Highway 95... Highway 45th; and the southbound lands...Highway 47th.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Perfect. Instead of using the nearly $4 billion dollars allocated for fixing decrepit on-base housing, the Dictator Trump decides to do what Roman emperors used to do: pay a bonus to the troops.
All hail Donald. Let the party begin.
thehill.com/policy/defen...
All hail Donald. Let the party begin.
thehill.com/policy/defen...
thehill.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Perfect. Instead of using the nearly $4 billion dollars allocated for fixing decrepit on-base housing, the Dictator Trump decides to do what Roman emperors used to do: pay a bonus to the troops.
All hail Donald. Let the party begin.
thehill.com/policy/defen...
All hail Donald. Let the party begin.
thehill.com/policy/defen...
In other, alternate realities, this would be considered an act of war. Seriously. Yet, this morning's lead is about Susie Wiles. WTF.
Trump announces ‘complete blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers to Venezuela
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Trump announces ‘complete blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers to Venezuela
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Trump announces ‘complete blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers to Venezuela
In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump also declared the government of President Nicolás Maduro a foreign terrorist organization.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In other, alternate realities, this would be considered an act of war. Seriously. Yet, this morning's lead is about Susie Wiles. WTF.
Trump announces ‘complete blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers to Venezuela
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Trump announces ‘complete blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers to Venezuela
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
“Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us,” Edmund Burke
"We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
"We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
Opinion | Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us,” Edmund Burke
"We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
"We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
This is but one of the things that makes America great. A nation of Howards and of Torres, serving side by side. The Dictator Trump would only have the Howards. He has no room in his heart for the Torres. RIP. Your deaths will be avenged.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
U.S. Soldiers Killed in Syria Identified as Iowa National Guard Sergeants
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is but one of the things that makes America great. A nation of Howards and of Torres, serving side by side. The Dictator Trump would only have the Howards. He has no room in his heart for the Torres. RIP. Your deaths will be avenged.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Only the Dictator Trump could rearm Germany.
What's next, Japan. Oh, yeah, Japan, too...
eadaily.com/en/news/2025...
What's next, Japan. Oh, yeah, Japan, too...
eadaily.com/en/news/2025...
This is a fact! Merz announced the end of the Pax Americana era for Europe: EADaily
EADaily, December 13th, 2025. The era of Pax Americana for Europe is over, Americans now have their own interests. This was stated at the congress of the Christian Social Union (CSU) in Munich by Germ...
eadaily.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Only the Dictator Trump could rearm Germany.
What's next, Japan. Oh, yeah, Japan, too...
eadaily.com/en/news/2025...
What's next, Japan. Oh, yeah, Japan, too...
eadaily.com/en/news/2025...
Very effective city government reaction to ICE outlaws. Every city, state and local government should be doing this on a daily basis.
youtube.com/watch?v=BDFf...
youtube.com/watch?v=BDFf...
Minneapolis leaders respond after U.S. citizen arrested by ICE in Minneapolis
YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Very effective city government reaction to ICE outlaws. Every city, state and local government should be doing this on a daily basis.
youtube.com/watch?v=BDFf...
youtube.com/watch?v=BDFf...
Is there nothing that the Dictator Trump doesn't covet? The avarice is stupifying.
Trump takes first step in possible bid to control D.C.’s public golf courses
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump takes first step in possible bid to control D.C.’s public golf courses
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump takes first step in possible bid to control D.C.’s public golf courses
The administration puts National Links Trust on the clock with notice that jeopardizes the lease.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Is there nothing that the Dictator Trump doesn't covet? The avarice is stupifying.
Trump takes first step in possible bid to control D.C.’s public golf courses
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump takes first step in possible bid to control D.C.’s public golf courses
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How many hits will the veteran vote take before they wake up and see that the Dictator Trump is buck naked on our issues?
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
How many hits will the veteran vote take before they wake up and see that the Dictator Trump is buck naked on our issues?
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Tourists, right? 👍 Five years of social media history! Who in their right mind is going to travel to the US now?
The guys that created the first Chambers of Commerce and boosters of business everywhere are rolling over in their graves....
www.foxnews.com/politics/hom...
The guys that created the first Chambers of Commerce and boosters of business everywhere are rolling over in their graves....
www.foxnews.com/politics/hom...
Homeland Security moves toward scrutinizing foreign tourists' social media accounts before entry
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a proposal in the Federal Register indicating it plans to review foreign tourists' social media accounts before entry.
www.foxnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Tourists, right? 👍 Five years of social media history! Who in their right mind is going to travel to the US now?
The guys that created the first Chambers of Commerce and boosters of business everywhere are rolling over in their graves....
www.foxnews.com/politics/hom...
The guys that created the first Chambers of Commerce and boosters of business everywhere are rolling over in their graves....
www.foxnews.com/politics/hom...
SCOTUS will create the Unitary Executive.
But it also previews the creation of the Unitary Legislature: Justice Neil Gorsuch asks,“Is the answer perhaps to...recognize that Congress cannot delegate its legislative authority?”
Now that's a sticky wicket.
www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/ther...
But it also previews the creation of the Unitary Legislature: Justice Neil Gorsuch asks,“Is the answer perhaps to...recognize that Congress cannot delegate its legislative authority?”
Now that's a sticky wicket.
www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/ther...
There Is No Such Thing as an Independent Agency | National Review
The Supreme Court should overrule a 1935 precedent and put presidents back in charge of executing the law.
www.nationalreview.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
SCOTUS will create the Unitary Executive.
But it also previews the creation of the Unitary Legislature: Justice Neil Gorsuch asks,“Is the answer perhaps to...recognize that Congress cannot delegate its legislative authority?”
Now that's a sticky wicket.
www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/ther...
But it also previews the creation of the Unitary Legislature: Justice Neil Gorsuch asks,“Is the answer perhaps to...recognize that Congress cannot delegate its legislative authority?”
Now that's a sticky wicket.
www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/ther...
Saudi interests first? Not America? Oh...and the Dictator Trump's son-in-law gets flush, too.
These guys aren't capitalists. Oligarchy plain and simple.
youtube.com/watch?v=qX6K...
These guys aren't capitalists. Oligarchy plain and simple.
youtube.com/watch?v=qX6K...
Trump SCRAMBLES to BLOCK MERGER as He LOSES CONTROL
YouTube video by Legal AF
youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Saudi interests first? Not America? Oh...and the Dictator Trump's son-in-law gets flush, too.
These guys aren't capitalists. Oligarchy plain and simple.
youtube.com/watch?v=qX6K...
These guys aren't capitalists. Oligarchy plain and simple.
youtube.com/watch?v=qX6K...
So his conclusion is....they fixed it. Harvard that is: fixed by the Dictator Trump. What hubris.
How about, Harvard was never broken?
"I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
How about, Harvard was never broken?
"I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So his conclusion is....they fixed it. Harvard that is: fixed by the Dictator Trump. What hubris.
How about, Harvard was never broken?
"I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
How about, Harvard was never broken?
"I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Hegseth Skirts Questions About Releasing Video of Sept. 2 Boat Attack
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Well it looks like we're back to Age of Empires. A world carved into spheres of influence... Bully boys on steroids.
Not a rules based order. Or so called: 'Utopian idealism.'
Back to robbing and conquering...How's that gonna work out for the world? For your kids?
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Not a rules based order. Or so called: 'Utopian idealism.'
Back to robbing and conquering...How's that gonna work out for the world? For your kids?
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Hegseth declares end of US 'utopian idealism' with new military strategy
The Defense secretary, speaking at the Reagan Defense Forum, outlined defense priorities that focus on the Western Hemisphere and reevaluate the U.S. relationship with Europe.
www.politico.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Well it looks like we're back to Age of Empires. A world carved into spheres of influence... Bully boys on steroids.
Not a rules based order. Or so called: 'Utopian idealism.'
Back to robbing and conquering...How's that gonna work out for the world? For your kids?
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Not a rules based order. Or so called: 'Utopian idealism.'
Back to robbing and conquering...How's that gonna work out for the world? For your kids?
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Just like the Dictator Trump told us...rapists, insane criminals, vicious gang members...
Lies and more lies. But we're not shocked. Just more resolved to oppose this right wing nonsense.
Lies and more lies. But we're not shocked. Just more resolved to oppose this right wing nonsense.
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Just like the Dictator Trump told us...rapists, insane criminals, vicious gang members...
Lies and more lies. But we're not shocked. Just more resolved to oppose this right wing nonsense.
Lies and more lies. But we're not shocked. Just more resolved to oppose this right wing nonsense.
The attack was, "highly lawful and lethal.” So says Senator Cotton (R).
Let the People decide.
Show us the video.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Let the People decide.
Show us the video.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Lawmakers Split After Viewing Video of Boat Strike Survivor Killings
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The attack was, "highly lawful and lethal.” So says Senator Cotton (R).
Let the People decide.
Show us the video.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Let the People decide.
Show us the video.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
"Stefanik is not alone among Republican women...feeling aggrieved by Mr. Johnson...the speaker..." who "...failed to listen...doing so was a cultural challenge for Mr. Johnson..." with "firm views about...roles men and women should play in society."
Anybody shocked?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Anybody shocked?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Republican Anger Erupts at Johnson as Party Frets About Future
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"Stefanik is not alone among Republican women...feeling aggrieved by Mr. Johnson...the speaker..." who "...failed to listen...doing so was a cultural challenge for Mr. Johnson..." with "firm views about...roles men and women should play in society."
Anybody shocked?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Anybody shocked?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Another dystopian announcement brought to you by Propaganda Central. Find five or six nasty folks, post their pictures, then go arrest 60 to 100 hard-working brown people (or more if the mood strikes you.) Rinse and repeat.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12...
DHS Launches Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans Targeting Criminal Illegal Aliens Released From Jail and Back into American Communities | Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a federal law enforcement operation with Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans, Louisiana, targeting criminal illegal aliens roaming free thanks ...
www.dhs.gov
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Another dystopian announcement brought to you by Propaganda Central. Find five or six nasty folks, post their pictures, then go arrest 60 to 100 hard-working brown people (or more if the mood strikes you.) Rinse and repeat.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12...
"....Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement."
"The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"....Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement."
"The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...