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Historical researcher into Dublin Corporation and the Irish revolutionary generation 1898-1923. See ‘Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising’ (Four Courts Press, 2016) - Nothing here represents views of any employer or organisation, past or present -

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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · Apr 27

‘If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism.’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

I keep thinking about @michaelhobbes.bsky.social's reporting from Utah in 2019. Even then, the state was retreating from Housing First—after being hailed as a success story—and embracing criminalization.

In hindsight, Utah's involuntary "treatment center" is not a rupture but the next logical step.

Why America Can’t Solve Homelessness

As the face of homelessness changes, politicians cling to limited policy ideas and quick fixes.

www.huffpost.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

I posted this after Trump issued his executive order targeting homeless people.

This now appears to be happening. Utah is the test case.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's not at all alarmist to expect that the new network of detention centers will be used to confine unhoused people—and to extract free labor from them. Everything in this executive order points in that direction.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

www.nytimes.com

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 5h

Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

How to: Manage Your Digital Footprint

Search for your name in any search engine and you’ll likely encounter dozens of results, some of which might include personal information like addresses, email accounts, usernames, or family members. Each piece of information is often public and not typically seen as harmful. But together these parts of your identity...

ssd.eff.org

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

chat is it good when defense intellectuals are citing Adrian and putting arguments you'd hear before the Spanish Civil War

Sed Contra

This essay does not argue liberalism will collapse, only that military officers should be intellectually (and spiritually) prepared for alternatives. Some may argue that the answer is not post-liberalism but a recovery of “true” American classical liberalism along the lines of a Jeffersonian democracy with its suspicion of standing armies and preference for state militias. Such a vision promises fidelity to part of the Founders’ intent and added insulation against the dangers of a politicized federal military.

Three problems stand in the way. First, turning that clock back is impossible without first dismantling the post-Civil War constitutional order and possibly repealing the Fourteenth Amendment. Such upheaval is historically far more likely to result in Caesar than Cincinnatus. Second, the militia-based model of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson is not a professional military, and thus out of the scope of this essay. Thirdly, protecting a nation-state with nothing but a citizen militia is a pipe dream. Independence in the 21st century requires a permanent professional military, if only to sustain a nuclear deterrent. No polity can remain sovereign without one.

Others may object that abandoning liberalism means abandoning the rule of law — and with it, any recognizable professional military ethic. But as Adrian Vermeule notes, the rule of law is not a liberal achievement. Roman law, medieval jurists, and early modern legal traditions all operated independently of liberal individualism, yet they maintained robust systems of order, justice, and legality. Vermeule provocatively writes: “The real question is not whether the rule of law can be obtained in the absence of liberalism, for it obviously can. The real question is whether it can be obtained in the [continued] presence of liberalism.”

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 5h

It suuuucks like I thought I’d live out my peak earning years as a guy who helps direct solar panel construction in ports or something, not as a Gallic Roman citizen in a city that just got cut off from supply to Mediterranean goods a year ago and can’t get any dried fish or loofahs for sponges.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6h

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 6h

It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

Journalism tip: If someone says drop the story, that’s a sign to keep reporting.

Back reporters who won’t flinch. Support our independent journalism ➜ propub.li/43MugoG

Article excerpt: When ProPublica emailed questions to Newby’s daughter, the North Carolina Republican Party’s communications director, Matt Mercer, responded, writing that ProPublica was waging a “jihad” against “NC Republicans,” which would “not be met with dignifying any comments whatsoever.”

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,” Mercer said in his email. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 6h

“This is a political prosecution that tries to turn dissent and First Amendment opposition to the Trump administration’s cruel policies into a conspiracy,” says her lawyer. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests

Abughazaleh called the charges "yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up."

www.nbcnews.com

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 6h

The government alleges that Abughazaleh "physically hindered and impeded” an agent who was "forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed” because of protesters surrounding the car. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests

Abughazaleh called the charges "yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up."

www.nbcnews.com

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 6h

Here is DHS making false allegations about @katmabu.bsky.social.

Read the affidavit and show me where it alleges that she assaulted anyone.

Spoiler: it doesn't.

The conspiracy charge / title of the statute is throwing people off / leading to a lot of bad faith attacks.

“If you assault or obstruct law enforcement, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law--regardless of who you are. Abughazaleh assaulted law enforcement and obstructed officers by directly blocking the pathway of a federal law enforcement officer vehicle outside our ICE Broadview facility. She is now facing the consequences of her stunt to earn 15 minutes of fame. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

On or about September 26, 2025, at Broadview, in the Northern District
of Illinois, Eastern Division,
KATHERINE MARIE ABUGHAZALEH,
defendant herein, forcibly impeded, intimidated, and interfered with an officer of the
United States, namely, Agent A, while engaged in or on account of the performance
of his official duties;
In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 111(a)(1) and 2.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

The UAW made history last year by organizing a Southern auto plant for the first time since the 1940s.

They might do so again, after authorizing a strike at the VW plant.

It takes enormous courage to fight for your rights on the job in a hostile environment. Solidarity.

UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

The labor union representing workers in auto, aircraft and agricultural implement manufacturing and other industries in

uaw.org

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Truthout @truthout.org · 5h

This week, ACA marketplaces announced huge increases in monthly premium payments. For a typical plan in the 30 states where the marketplaces are managed by the federal government, consumers can expect a 30% uptick on average in costs, thanks to a rule change that was quietly implemented by Trump.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 5h

Trump told reporters that he wanted to work with Democrats on an alternative to Obamacare, omitting that many of it's problems stem from decisions his own administration have made. “We have to fix health care, because Obamacare is a disaster.”
Read more: bit.ly/4hEiD9l

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 7h

got some real monsters out there this halloween

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

FOX: Pritzker has asked you specifically to pause immigration enforcement operations in Chicago so kids can safety celebrate Halloween. Do you have any plans to alter activity tomorrow?

NOEM: No. We're gonna be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

it's the unitary executive, the tribune of the people, the all-powerful sovereign, the sun and the moon. it can bomb fishermen and deport citizens. but it cannot, it turns out, free up money to pay for SNAP—there are laws, after all.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 11h

“Peter Thiel “drew on a wide swath of religious thinkers, including… the **Nazi jurist** Carl Schmitt, whose work he said helped create the core of his own beliefs” … 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

A couple of weeks ago a journalist from a leading periodical suggested on here that the reason people disliked Bari Weiss was because of sexism. Bari showed them!

You think for ONE SEC that a man in her position who was named head of CBS News would be the subject of so much to-do? Come on.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 6h

It‘s still three years until the next national election, the Nazis are leading several polls, and you’ve got fascists in the middle of Berlin acting like this. Good luck, Germany, if you’re trying to attract a sufficient number of non-white migrants to boost your economy. Good luck: you’ll need it.

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 6h

The Nazis in Berlin are getting bolder: I saw one of them on the tram home this evening, a guy in his early twenties, who stared at me and smirked before looking away. it’s incredible how Germany has looked on as so many young people have drifted into this hate cult. It’s a betrayal, to be honest.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 9h

Final UC-Berkeley poll of Prop 50

Yes - 60%
No - 38%

Already voted: 67-33 Yes
Yet to vote: 57-43 Yes

Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 13h

California’s Prop 50 hugely important. Its approval by voters will not only combat Texas gerrymander but hopefully convince other Dem states to step up & counter Trump’s plan to rig midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

California fights Trump's attempt to steal the midterms

The state can strike the first blow against Trump's plan to subvert democracy.

www.motherjones.com

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 8h

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

New York Daily News @nydailynews.com · 8h

French bakery in Bed-Stuy offers free breakfast to SNAP card holders

Beginning Nov. 1, when SNAP benefits are expected to be suspended, Je T’aime Patisserie will offer free breakfast to anyone who presents their EBT card from 7:30-10 a.m.

buff.ly

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

On these centrist diagnoses, let's be blunt: Folks are obscuring what *they know to be true* about the thermostatic nature of politics (things fluctuate!) in order to overhype meaning of a narrow win driven largely by cost of living to fleece donors/push pet ideological projects. It's pretty gross.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 8h

Someone - if not the principal then presumably a professional advisor on law or PR - must have looked at the sentence "these censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations" and said "hang on, that makes it look like you don't believe him" And yet.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 8h

Catherine Connolly with retired Army officers outside Leinster House with a banner Irish soldiers support Neutrality. Keep the Triple Lock.

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