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jhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 2h

True, but ... it's understandable that an established guy might feel threatened by the upstart, but it's an entirely different thing for the leadership of a political party to be horrified by the notion of holding the other party accountable for their lawlessness... if that's what you meant.

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jhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 2h

Well, strictly speaking, one is wearing a hat. The other is hatless.

Also too, the J6 peep is emblazoned with "Proud Boy", but maybe that's getting into the weeds. [humor]

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

The Trump administration wants us to believe that they are all-powerful forces who control everything and can be reined in by neither Congress nor the Supreme Court, but if anything goes wrong, it's Mastermind Chuck Schumer's fault.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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jhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 2h

Will be wearing my TRex uniform!

Be there or be square!

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 6h

I am going to wear my tiger costume from Halloween a few years back to the no kings rally in LA.

Everybody should dress like this if they can. Humiliate these fascist goons.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

“.. the self-proclaimed frog brigade — three adults in inflatable amphibian costumes — posed for photos ..

“.. A small group of counterprotesters nearby shouted, “We love you, ICE!”

@nbcnews.com
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 6h

I am going to wear my tiger costume from Halloween a few years back to the no kings rally in LA.

Everybody should dress like this if they can. Humiliate these fascist goons.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

“.. the self-proclaimed frog brigade — three adults in inflatable amphibian costumes — posed for photos ..

“.. A small group of counterprotesters nearby shouted, “We love you, ICE!”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Speaker Johnson couldn’t convince all the members of his own Republican caucus to cite for their own Republican budget so he’s out here pretending that Democrats should have done that work for Republicans, that *they* are to blame for *his* incompetence.

Yeah, good luck with that.

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 6h

Come on, be fair.

It's "his good friend, the child sex trafficker"

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Incidentally this is one of the factors I highlight when explaining why the economy in the 1920s was inherently weak and easily broken by the crash.

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jhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 2h

+1

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

jhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 2h

Not that I know, ofc... above my pay grade.

If you're right, and IIUC, then hooboy, is it ever time for a replacement party.

Thanks for the response.

jhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 2h

Ah. I was thinking a bit more generically.

IIUC, you think it's the call for accountability that has Senate "leadership" panicked?

I've been thinking more along the lines that Schumer et al see the Dem Party as their property, and are appalled that they might have to yield power to upstarts.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 5h

Yep. They heard "long march through the institutions" and thought: we're good at marching! Let's US march through the institutions!

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 6h

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 4h

The Dear Leader is a true mirror of His people and his brilliance is a beacon unto all the nations

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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T. J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 3h

“Just because we passed the Enabling Act, giving Herr Hitler supreme power, doesn’t mean we’ve finally resolved the issue. We’ll circle back and address the Chancellor’s authority at some point in the future.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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jhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 2h

Not doubting your claim, not even surprised ... but I'd be interested in pointers. TIA ...

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5h

I was furious at the "both sides" headline the Times ran about how there's a debate over whether Portland is a burning hellscape. The Times has reporters there, they know full well that it isn't. The story is that Trump is lying to justify military occupation.

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 6h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 3h

The thing about the little pig man is that the press doesn't have the bizarre instinctive deference to him that Trump gets.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 4h

We fired people we had no reason or budgetary need to fire and we actually screwed up and fired the wrong people and then rehired them the next day and all because of Chuck Schumer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h

The U.S. president shared a video from Putin: "There have been cases where the committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to people who have done nothing for peace,” Putin said, according to the AP’s translation. “[Trump’s] really doing a lot to resolve such complex crises." trib.al/Z5v8yOt

Trump’s Posting Spree Shows He’s Losing It Over Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump shared two posts that managed to make the prize all about him.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 5h

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG!

Bless The Frog Proving Kristi Noem Wrong

It's raining frogs! Hallelujah!

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 3h

No one ever said that the Dems were very sharp

MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve heard people call him “dumb” now for a decade. He’s enriched himself, gotten away with insurrection & is in the most powerful seat on the planet. NO ONE has stopped him. NO ONE was even prepared for ANYTHING he’s done. Who’s dumb??

You’re being PLAYED.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3h

this pedantic bullshit. if you let irreparable harm happen, you’ve decided the issue. the hint is in the word irreparable. let me break that down for you Amy. Imagine, if you will, a harm that is reparable. now,

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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