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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

@nastyoldwomyn.bsky.social Did the Philadelphia crash impact you and your family in any way? I lost an old Boston friend who was on the Washington flight with his daughter.

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

if this is Kiefer's account, I would be interested in getting to know you. While I respect both your father's work and yours, I am not some fan who wants or needs to connect with a celebrity. I had a decade "Andy Warhol" moment in the 90's when I worked for ABC news as one of the very first legal

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

"THE MEDIA WILL NOT PROVIDE THE NARRATIVE. YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE THE NARRATIVE. IT'S THE ONLY WAY THEY'LL TALK ABOUT IT." how do we alert ordinary Americans who are paying no attention to the coup occurring? We clearly can't rely on our national media or Democratic leaders in Congress who

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

@rickpetree.bsky.social Rick, first of all, how are you adjusting to the hellscape Trump has already created in such a short time. For someone who denied ever reading Project 2025, he certainly seems to be heading quickly in that direction as he dismantles many of the federal agency regulations.

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

As my older followers know, for the past 3 yrs I had posted warnings[and explanations] about how much our national media had failed to warn us that Trump and his enablers would destroy our democracy if we were dumb enough to return "TRASH" to the White House to finish the job he started in his

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Some of my newer followers have asked me why I chose to follow them so here is my answer. My follow choices are somewhat idiosyncratic and are often guided by my intuition that a person's background suggests he/she could offer me new perspectives on issues I cover here including the grave and

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

ANOTHER EGREGIOUS MEDIA FAILURE: THe White House press corp missed a golden opportunity to respond to his cruel, stupid, and baseless claim that DEI hiring caused the crash. The best they could do was to ask Trash if he had any factual basis for his claim. I was praying for someone to grow a pair

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I have so many more followers on X [13.4k] from all over the world that I find myself posting most of my posts on that site. I will try to do a better job of repeating the best X posts here in the future Peter

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

JAN 6TH was one of the worst days in our history because Trump planned and then provoked a mob to engage in a violent insurrection designed to prevent Congress's certification of a fair election that Biden had clearly won. But, as terrible as that day was for our democracy, Trump's election

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I JOINED THIS APP WHEN X'S TOXIC ENVIRONMENT GOT WORSE AFTER THE ELECTION. I HAVE STAYED WITH X BECAUSE I HAVE FAR TOO MANY FRIENDS THERE WHO HAVE BRILLIANT MINDS AND WARM CHARACTERS. BUT, NO SOCIAL APP CAN POSSIBLY BE FREE OF GRATUITOUS ATTACKS ON ONE'S CHARACTER GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF ANGER IN OUR

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I am a big fan of Mark Twain's common sense and wisdom about human nature; character traits that are in short supply in today's polarized political culture. Thanks to one of my followers [@MLeeBaxter1], I was reminded of one of Twain's famous sayings that sadly applies all too well to our current

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

SAD NOTE FOR TODAY-Why aren't Americans appalled that Musk bought Trump's election so he could be Trump's puppeteer? Musk demands a govt shutdown if the debt ceiling is not lifted and Trump follows his marching orders. Why are our national media silent about how a private billionaire who can't even

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

MY QUESTION FOR THE DAY When I was in my early 20's, I was ashamed of my country for sending so many young men to their death in an unjustifable war in Vietnam. Many of my generation started a massive resistance to the war. We marched on the Pentagon as a symbolic protest against LBJ.

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My older followers know that I have tried to explain why our national media failed to reject its "on the one hand and on the other" coverage of both a political party and its leader Trump after it became clear they were in Putin's control. I have been angry and disgusted by how

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

@ann-t-social.bsky.social Ann has a great quote in her handle here ""I won't just gaze into the abyss, I'll maintain uncomfortable eye contact with it" states my attitude perfectly Peter

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

My older followers know how critical I have been about our national media normalizing Trump since 2016 by treating him like any legitimate Presidential candidate. Now, I watch very little US media and rely on THE GUARDIAN and other reliable Western European media. But, our media is now doubling down

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A BRIEF NOTE ABOUT MY CRITERIA FOR FOLLOWING PEOPLE HERE: 1] ANYONE FROM BOSTON OR WHO LIVES THERE BECAUSE OF MY THIRST FOR INTERESTING SPORTS TAKES ON MY BELOVED SOX AND PATS 2] EVERYONE WHOSE BACKGROUND AND POSTS SUGGESTS THEY CAN PROVIDE INSIGHTFUL POSTS AND/OR TEACH ME NEW PERSPECTIVES

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

THINGS I CAN NO LONGER TOLERATE PART 2 I am reading with horror how very astute and intelligent observers like Tom Nichols [@radiofreetom.bsky.social ] are arguing that the precedent Biden has just established by pardoning his son will give Trump full license to abuse the same pardoning power.

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

THINGS I CAN NO LONGER TOLERATE PART 2 I am reading with horror how very astute and intelligent observers like Tom Nichols [ @RadioFreeTom ] are arguing that the precedent Biden has just established by pardoning his son will give Trump full license to abuse the same pardoning power

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

cognitive processing problem as my brilliant friend CC explained it to me.

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you want to impress your friends with a reference to the trend I just posted about, call it an example of the The Dunning–Kruger effect. It describes a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. I take no credit for knowing this

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

where people treat their emotional reactions to an event as a reliable basis for their opinion. Example: Yesterday, both Blue and Red voters condemned Biden's pardon of his son. None of them understood the concept of selective prosecution or sentencing someone to a prison sentence when most people

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Things I can no longer tolerate: PART 1: The escalating pattern of lay people offering uninformed and frequently mistaken legal takes with great confidence they are right. Worse, they are unwilling to be educated about their mistake. This is part of a new and disturbing trend in our political

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

sadly, our national media will never identify the degree of ignorance and stupidity of Trump voters for a very simple reason that has nothing to do with any desire to help Trump[FOX news being the obvious exception] As I pointed out in my article,"The Perils of TV LEGAL PUNDITRY",which was based on

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Thanks to incredibly stupid and poorly informed Americans, rich oligarch money that owns FOX and funds/buys Republicans in Congress, and some Russian provision of false narrartives, we have a crime family running the country. What could go wrong? just the loss of our democracy.

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Susan, are you a relative of mine? I ask because my parents never wanted me to connect to any of my relatives for all the wrong reasons. I am curious because my last name, while used in SIClLY, is rare in the US

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The thread below went viral in 2022 as I offered an explanation for why so many of the current crop of TV LEGAL PUNDITS generated false narratives about why Trump and his senior accomplices were not indicted by that date.

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Unlike X, I find it far easier to add people to follow here because I have not seen any trolls or idiotic/dangerous Trump supporters

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I love this site because its user friendly; but more importantly I am finding many of my good friends from Musk site here which is a great relief for an old guy who relies on my friends here to keep me going

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Very happy to have found so many friends from that other awful app have migrated to this one. So far, impressed by both the ease of using this site and the wonderful people who post here. I wish I had opened an account here many moons ago Peter

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

WHY ARE SO MANY POWERFUL TRUMP SUPPORTERS INCLUDING 2 OF HIS CABINET NOMINATIONS GUILTY AND/OR ACCUSED OF ENGAGING IN SOME FORM OF SEXUAL PREDATORY CONDUCT? INTERESTED TO HEAR YOUR ANSWERS AND I WILL OFFER MY OWN RESPONSE LATER

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I am such a moron when it comes to computer use-I finally figured out that using a bookmark to get to this site isn't sufficient to sign in to my account-so, having signed in, posting is not a challenge, even to us computer morons

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PROF PETER ARENELLA @parenella-47.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

As I lose followers every day on X because of Elmo's post election revised algorithm-[down from 9000 to 7000], I ENCOURAGE ALL MY X FOLLOWS TO FOLLOW ME HERE

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