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Patrick De Klotz

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Dad, Husband, Lawyer (not yours), Catholic. Opposed to Trump’s cruelty and lawlessness. There and Back Again (Oregon -> Spokane -> DC -> Oregon).

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“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the very foreseeable consequences of my actions except I kicked anyone who wasn’t a sycophant out of the discussion who would have told me about this”

13.03.2026 01:06 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Thinking ahead and anticipating the consequences of your actions is woke and DEI.

13.03.2026 00:58 👍 84 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 1

Imagine thinking that “what makes America special” is our … lethality.

What an uninspiring vision for a once-great country.

12.03.2026 23:55 👍 235 🔁 36 💬 23 📌 2

Yeah yeah the apostrophe was in the wrong place deal with it

12.03.2026 23:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He literally just said earlier today that some players lives’ are in danger if they show up.

Why would anyone believe a word the man says?!

12.03.2026 23:17 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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The Israeli military on Thursday unleashed a wave of heavy strikes on Lebanon's capital, Beirut, and its southern outskirts, as Lebanese officials say 800,000 people have been driven from their homes. At least seven people were killed in the attack, Lebanon's health ministry said. trib.al/96KbkWh

12.03.2026 21:31 👍 69 🔁 43 💬 16 📌 15

People are dying

12.03.2026 21:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Markets down 1.5%ish

Markets down 1.5%ish

Bondi unavailable for comment

12.03.2026 20:09 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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In Case of Emergency: The Dubious Legality of Trump Allies' Draft EO Conservative activists say that declaring a national emergency would allow Trump to assert sweeping authority over elections. They're wrong.

NEW: Right-wing activists are circulating a draft executive order that purports to give Trump sweeping power over federal elections.

@mollyroberts.bsky.social and I got new details on the activists, lawyers, and conspiracy theorists behind the proposed order:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/in-c...

12.03.2026 19:53 👍 729 🔁 375 💬 30 📌 24

This is subbing in a false bad reason (make your friends rich) for the real bad reason (they have no effing clue what they are doing). No, I do not think Trump actually wants oil prices to skyrocket

12.03.2026 19:48 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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12.03.2026 18:33 👍 10986 🔁 3398 💬 1322 📌 392
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#BREAKING Iran threatens to 'set region's oil and gas on fire' if energy infrastructure attacked

12.03.2026 19:32 👍 24 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2

There was a real reason W’s approval skyrocketed that is now easy to forget, and it wasn’t *merely* rallying around the flag at a time of attack.

12.03.2026 19:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Six days after 9/11, a Republican President said:

“Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow [Muslim] citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.”

12.03.2026 19:24 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The remarks were part of a vocal push by Mr. Miller, long a powerful behind-the-scenes player in Trump administration policy, to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order in which the United States could freely overthrow national governments and take foreign territory and resources so long as it was in the national interest.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

The remarks were part of a vocal push by Mr. Miller, long a powerful behind-the-scenes player in Trump administration policy, to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order in which the United States could freely overthrow national governments and take foreign territory and resources so long as it was in the national interest. “We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

This is 1930s Germany foreign policy.

Gift Link:

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

06.01.2026 04:26 👍 768 🔁 296 💬 47 📌 46

bsky.app/profile/patd...

12.03.2026 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
12.03.2026 16:57 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Can't think of a clearer signal we desperately need statutory Bivens now.

In layman's terms: we currently cannot sue individual Federal officers who act violently during arrests. A SCOTUS case, Bivens, created a way to, but this (and past) SCOTUSes have gutted it. Congress needs to codify it.

12.03.2026 13:37 👍 60 🔁 28 💬 6 📌 0

Really feeling vindicated in my decision to drill an oil well in my DC backyard.

12.03.2026 15:48 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
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a man and a woman are sitting at a table and the man is pointing at the woman and saying `` maybe ? '' ALT: a man and a woman are sitting at a table and the man is pointing at the woman and saying `` maybe ? ''

We could airlift the oil

12.03.2026 15:29 👍 44 🔁 3 💬 9 📌 4
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White House: 'The U.S. Navy has not escorted a tanker or a vessel at this time' Oil prices fell after Energy Secretary Chris Wright falsely claimed in a tweet that the U.S. Navy escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/...

12.03.2026 15:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oil skyrocketing

Oil skyrocketing

Looks like it’s time for Wright to post another lie

12.03.2026 15:23 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1

“Unconstitutional, abhorrent.” And done in collaboration with universities, who sold their students out for exercising their free speech and got them sent to detention centers

12.03.2026 15:17 👍 51 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0
The Iran National Soccer Team is welcome to The World Cup, but I really don’t believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

The Iran National Soccer Team is welcome to The World Cup, but I really don’t believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

?

12.03.2026 15:16 👍 165 🔁 20 💬 16 📌 8

No more nerds with plans and thinking about consequences

12.03.2026 15:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We need more muscle and less brain power so we can successfully do law enforcement like we are successfully doing Iran

12.03.2026 15:15 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Their plan was Venezuela. Sub in some new leaders (we apparently killed who we wanted in the attacks), have them pay us some oil in tribute, and move on. There is no plan.

12.03.2026 14:36 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

His father, wife, son, and at least one grandchild were reportedly killed in the US-Israeli attack.

Honestly, I don’t think he’s going to be interested in ending this war anytime soon.

12.03.2026 14:23 👍 77 🔁 24 💬 5 📌 0

Hadn’t seen much of Chris Wright before, had no idea he was as smart as the other cabinet members (derogatory)

12.03.2026 14:23 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

“If things stay like this, we’re in a worse place now than before the war... A country destroyed; Khamenei replaced by another Khamenei, 30 years younger.”

#epicfury

11.03.2026 15:40 👍 180 🔁 50 💬 5 📌 3