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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

He's a good father — he's channeled huge government contracts to his failsons, and generously allowed them to participate in his crypto-grift. What says "Love" louder than cash?

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Anyone campaigning against TRUMP is guilty of TREASON

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Only people who hate America use the metric system. (That's a joke, for now!)

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Scales have a well-known liberal bias

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We're going to buy eggs in Malta for 7 cents each and sell them in Pianosa, where we can buy them at 5 cents each. But we're not losing 2 cents per egg: We still make a profit because the syndicate as a whole benefits, and everyone has a share. TRUMP is a high-IQ person.

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I guess I have elections on my mind. Instead of "Before we get to the actual medalling," I heard "Before we get to the actual meddling."

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is all a Big Flap over nothing

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They're eating the drugs, they're eating the nuclear

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looks like the Air Force needs more testosterone

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you think this is an error, you probably also believe in unicorns and the tooth fairy.

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stay tuned for the defenestration of Overton

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Good thing his Catholic faith forbids him from bearing false witness.

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look ... such men are dangerous."

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Once again, I felt compelled to "Submit" to Donald Trump:

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Once again, I felt compelled to submit to Donald Trump:

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Once again, I have submitted to Trump:

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

After years of futile resistance, I finally submitted to Trump:

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"The Father of Video Games" — Ralph Baer statue Arms Park, Manchester, NH (42.9925, -71.4690)

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

That must have been fascinating (and perhaps frustrating) work. I appreciate your diplomacy during this discussion!

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Looks like you're right! I had thought that it was the exchange of instruments that marked the ratification, but it is actually the presidential act that ratifies. Thank you!

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Neither the Senate nor the president ratifies a treaty. But you're absolutely right about the common description. www.senate.gov/about/powers...

senate.gov

U.S. Senate: About Treaties

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

*What the administration is actually considering is a treaty of cession with El Salvador that would make the subject land US soil; after that, nobody held there would have actually been deported. But do you think Trump understands the term "Treaty of Cession"?

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Good point. To quote Bob Dylan, "It's not dark yet, but we're getting there."

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The UK plans to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius via treaty; in 1951 India and France signed a Treaty of Cession. You're right that under such a treaty the US could no longer argue it couldn't produce the prisoner, but the prisoner could no longer argue that he/she had been deported.

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Who's going to make Congress do that? As for cost, this administration does not seem to actually worry about it apart from DOGE's performative lip service. In ordinary times, you'd be absolutely right!

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The Senate doesn't ratify treaties. But this Senate would certainly approve a resolution of ratification. The treaty of cession would make that part of the prison US soil.

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

True. But with a treaty of cession, which is what they're actually talking about, transferring a prisoner would be neither a deportation nor an extradition. That would leave a prisoner in El Salvador a lot less to challenge.

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

True. And with a treaty of cession, transferring a prisoner would be neither a deportation nor an extradition. Habeas? We have the body on US soil.

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Trump and Stephen Miller get to decide what process is due:

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

What is this ancient parchment scroll to which you refer?

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I left Amazon UK a pretty curt request to re-categorize your book. Someday you'll look back on this ridiculousness and laugh.

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Abdul_Bashur @abdulbashur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Trump (and Stalin): Arguably the biggest question that drives history is "who counts the bodies?"

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