J. M. Redmann

@jmredmann.bsky.social

Author of the Micky Knight series. Set in New Orleans. One of the first to feature a lesbian PI. Retired from public health doing HIV/AIDS prevention. My wife is an immigrant. #queerwriter

My uncle, Greg, died on the beaches of Tarawa, in the South Pacific. I never knew him, only the reverberations of his life on our family. Freedom is won hard and what he fought for must be what we all fight for. Liberty and justice for all.

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · last yr.

‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

Whether it’s Republicans causing chaos with random arrests and deportations, Republicans causing chaos with mass layoffs, or Republicans causing chaos with whiplash tariffs, voters are exhausted by chaos from both parties.

Whether it’s Democrats pursuing traditional data-driven economic policies or Republicans having Big Balls create tariff guidelines using ChatGPT, the two parties have taken different approaches to managing the economy