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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 6m

with Trump trying to drag us to that absolutist place where monarchical despots start and have to be cut down from

Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 6m

I mean that is kind of the thing though, ain’t it

Those limits were imposed on the executive through popular agitation (or foreign military occupation re:Japan) to the point that monarchical power has been whittled down to a ceremonial nub in most of the world

It’s the same struggle now in the USA

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

anyways attend NO KINGS this weekend!

bsky.app/profile/plas...

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 4h

This weekend folks

www.nokings.org#map

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

they have been trying to do meme authoritarianism, and that means generating the right kinds of content--the forces of Order vs the forces of Chaos, riots and violence and burning shit and ""antifa supersoldiers""

the kind of imagery to justify the kind of powers they aspire to

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"

they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 1h

holy father please interdict this country

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 1h

There is a concept of an “anti-canon” in legal academia that I’m partial to. Like “wooo boy these opinions really shit the bed” (Dred Scott, Plessy, Korematsu, etc)

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 17h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 1h

God doesn't need saving

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1h

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Mel, AnarcHochulist 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 1h

a god that needs saving is not the god of abraham and sarah.

Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 2h

"We're saving God" - tell me you're not a Christian without telling me

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 2h

"We're saving God" - tell me you're not a Christian without telling me

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

No more trying to emulate YUROP HELTHKERR while permitting or facilitating slavery, segregation, and deportation

Attack both or attack the latter alone

Let herrenvolkism die the whimpering death it deserves

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

If we get another wave of Democrats primarily worried about some bullshit like healthcare reform or infrastructure to the end of ignoring the enforcement of laws against the nation’s enemies and the annihilation of the 24-year state of exception that let them usurp then there is no point to victory

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

The resurrection of the Republic fundamentally rests on denying any more Healthcare Democrats access to power

Immigration Democrats need to run this shit for a while so they can tear DHS down to scrap without having to give a shit about how the Forgotten Man Of The Midwest feels about it

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

The ones motivated by immigrants who are repulsed by such conduct include your mom who is angrily sharing memes from Occupy Democrats on Facebook, probably still has a Pussy Hat in her drawer, and has not been appealed to as a serious source of political power at basically any point this decade

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

The ones who model their outlooks around healthcare reform look to Europe as a shining example of progressive utopia and and either overlook or sympathize with its sadistic xenophobia (Obama, Sanders, Biden) and are the main source of dumb shit like “ACTUALLY DEMOCRATS ARE CENTER-RIGHT IN YUROP”

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

The thing coverage of Molenbeek taught me as a 16-year-old back then was that there are basically two issues around which liberals model their outlooks, those being healthcare and immigration

These two outlooks fundamentally do not understand each other and do not intersect often enough to do so

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

In 2015, 2016 the chorus from across the European online spectrum to burn Molenbeek to the ground was ubiquitous everywhere to the point that even American NPR was airing segments about what a wretched hive of scum and villainy it was

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

Americans like myself on here like to talk about now mentioning Jews or Roma to an otherwise liberal European is a good way to send them into a rage

And that’s mostly true

But if you really wanna see them lose their fukken minds ask them about Molenbeek

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 10h

SOME HAVE BEEN SAYING

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 10h

Fun fact: in chapter nineteen of the Second Treatise, John Locke writes that when the legislative power is usurped from that body in which the People have placed it, and exercised instead by a person or body not authorized to do so by the People, government is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h

the thing that annoys me about the 'elections won't save us' shit is that it's just a permission structure to wait for a powerful national social movement, and in their want a violent one, that *will never fucking exist*.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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grimely.bsky.social @grimely.bsky.social · 14h

"The executive has usurped the power of the purse to pay for a standing army" is something that the Founders very explicitly wanted to prevent from ever happening but, ah, well, nevertheless

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