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Bobak K. Persis

@bobpersis.bsky.social
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Attorney | Washington, D.C. “A republic if you can keep it.” —Benjamin Franklin

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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
4. I don’t think someone who feared for his life would continue to shoot two more live rounds point blank through the window after the driver attempted to drive away.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I am the Lawless King; I do as I please Night Stalkers strike, and your king is seized. —Lawless King
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
John Bolton: “What I have to say, the most stunning part about the press conference was probably saying the U.S. was going to run the country. But the second most stunning was the assault on Mrs. Machado, the leader of the Democratic forces.” via @kaitlancollins.bsky.social
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book re-written, every picture re-painted, every statue and street building renamed. —George Orwell, “1984”
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book re-written, every picture re-painted, every statue and street building renamed. —George Orwell, “1984”
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Christopher Anderson, the “Vanity Fair” Photographer, says after he took the pictures, Stephen Miller was the most concerned about the pictures and said to Anderson, “You know you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” To which Anderson said, “You know you do, too.”
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Christopher Anderson, the “Vanity Fair” Photographer, says after he took the pictures, Stephen Miller was the most concerned about the pictures and said to Anderson, “You know you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” To which Anderson said, “You know you do, too.”
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Trump watches Putin invade Ukraine and Xi posture over Taiwan, and the comparison exposes his insecurity. So he reaches for Greenland and Venezuela not as strategy but as salve for his ego. It’s playground politics.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Trump watches Putin invade Ukraine and Xi posture over Taiwan, and the comparison exposes his insecurity. So he reaches for Greenland and Venezuela not as strategy but as salve for his ego. It’s playground politics.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
And Stephen Miller is the real “President.” 💩
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner stood for fairness, decency, & accountability. Reiner’s “A Few Good Men” draws a sharp line between authority rooted in responsibility and authority enforced by intimidation. Reiner embodied authority grounded in responsibility, whereas Trump embodies authority grounded in intimidation.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Power is like a magnifying glass: It makes the bad worse. The problem is Trump was already the worst when he was elected.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner stood for fairness, decency, & accountability. Reiner’s “A Few Good Men” draws a sharp line between authority rooted in responsibility and authority enforced by intimidation. Reiner embodied authority grounded in responsibility, whereas Trump embodies authority grounded in intimidation.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner stood for fairness, decency, & accountability. Reiner’s “A Few Good Men” draws a sharp line between authority rooted in responsibility and authority enforced by intimidation. Reiner embodied authority grounded in responsibility, whereas Trump embodies authority grounded in intimidation.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Senators Jeff Merkley and Cathrine Cortez Masto have introduced a bill (Change Corruption Act) that would block Trump and any other sitting or living former POTUS from appearing on U.S. currency. Narcissism? Legacy Anxiety? Self-Mythologizing? Insecurity Masked as Grandeur? All of the Above. ☑️
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Senators Jeff Merkley and Cathrine Cortez Masto have introduced a bill (Change Corruption Act) that would block Trump and any other sitting or living former POTUS from appearing on U.S. currency. Narcissism? Legacy Anxiety? Self-Mythologizing? Insecurity Masked as Grandeur? All of the Above. ☑️
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Those who pay court to corrupt politicians do so at the cost of liberty.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. —James Madison
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. —James Madison, Federalist No. 47
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Preservation Groups sued Trump yesterday to stop construction of White House ballroom. They say project lacks architectural reviews, environmental assessments, public input & approval from Congress. Trump violated Administrative Procedures Act, National Environmental Policy Act, & Constitution.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files
The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The partisan gerrymander has become a tool for locking in power and stifling competition. —Sandra Day O’Connor Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The partisan gerrymander has become a tool for locking in power and stifling competition. —Sandra Day O’Connor Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Judicial independence is not a perk for judges. It is the foundation of the rule of law and the bedrock of democracy.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. —Aesop
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/07/2025
This is perfect.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
He gets away with this because MAGA is incapable of critical thinking. This is similar to scammers who claim someone in Africa wants to give you millions of money, and there are enough fools who believe the scammers. That’s why the scammers don’t use a more convincing scam. There are enough fools.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
They say power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Trump is so corrupt he corrupts power.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump gets pissed, doesn’t know what he’s doing, and gives the paper to Tim Scott. 😂
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump got Zelenskyed again.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump supporters do not care at all if Trump is on the Epstein List. They just wanna know who else is on the list. They’re looking for validation of their ideology. #ConfirmationBias
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is hard for Trump. He loves to publish all names and throw them all under the bus. But he can’t do that since his name is also on the list. Trump cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds on Epstein.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Epstein will remain an albatross around Trump’s neck.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Epstein clings like a shadow that Trump cannot outrun.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Trump is a kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, mount the stump, and make a speech for conservation.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Trump is a kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, mount the stump, and make a speech for conservation.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power—pure power. —George Orwell, 1984
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
When a clown enters the White House, the clown does not become the President. The White House becomes a circus.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trump’s appeasement toward Vladimir Putin is not a policy of peace but a prelude to war.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trump’s appeasement toward Vladimir Putin is not a policy of peace but a prelude to war.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
In the Trump Administration, the more competent you are, the worse you get.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Appeasement is not a policy of peace but a prelude to war.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE
The Times identified 50 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The Times has identified 50 people within DOGE. Few DOGE members have Washington experience. Many are software engineers. All have a mandate to shrink and disrupt the Federal Government. And they are all unelected.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
According to the CBS NEWS Poll, 52% of Americans support Ukraine. 4% support Russia. What do you call a politician who imposes policies the vast majority of Americans reject? In an authoritarian government, power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader with few (if any) checks on power.
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Bobak K. Persis @bobpersis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. —John F. Kennedy This is what Zelensky courageously did.
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