Notices by JeffreySmith 🌻🍉 (jeffreysmith@mastdn.social)

@quinn Fortunately, our military has a tradition of non-involvement in civil affairs due to fealty to the Constitution. The failure of trump to secure even 50% of votes should help support officers who don't want to follow illegal orders if trump invokes the Insurrection Act.

@cstross @quinn

Fortunately, there will also be millions of bureaucrats in state government who can resist by doing nothing. I lost track of a deportation order once which resulted in a young working guy being able to stay in the states despite having a minor drug using offense. I worry most about militias being emboldoned to act in accordance with racist policies.

@glynmoody

I voted for V. P. Harris, but if I had lost multiple relatives due to Israel using bombs mostly supplied by the Biden - Harris administration, as many Palestinian Americans have? Would I have a super-human level of forgiveness? I doubt it.

@aral @FascistCentre @JoeGrowling

Even worse: immediately after kidnapping all but two male doctors at the hospital, Israel bombed a nearby apartment building, killing 90 people and injuring many. Israel indirectly murdered the injured by detaining 50 medical staff who could have saved them. #Palestine #Genocide

@inthehands

And if they don't crumple: that's why we fund emergency rooms. It's better to end up with a bit of an external injury, than deal with the regret of not having intervened when someone was being bullied.

@HistoPol @Free_Press

Wow! It's like a cross between Monty Python and Band of Brothers.

@randahl

I wonder if the Secret Weapon of Ukrainians might be that they have preserved their humanity, despite Bucha, and follow the Geneva Conventions in treating Russian POWs? These young conscripts seem to trust that they will be treated decently if they surrender. Better, to surrender & be forced to say Slava Ukraini - then to retreat and have some tik-tok chechen shoot them. May the steady stream of surrenders become a flood! #Ukraine

@WarnerCrocker

A nakedly partisan Judge such as Cannon breathed a sigh of relief when SCOTUS revealed it was also partisan by throwing out the Constitution and granting Trump immunity for official actions. She knows her fellow partisans on the Court have Trump's back, just as she does. The only thing able to rein them in will be a unified democratic Congress with President Biden having the votes to reform this biased Court.

@benroyce

Apartheid South Africa, like Trump's kkk active dad, should get some credit for helping form these racists.

@WarnerCrocker

This Judge has been the first to demand immediate obedience from TFG when he muttered and gestured at a potential juror. I suspect there's a good chance one of these witness attacks will result in more than fines if that is what it takes to protect a witness or juror.