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[Anti-Fascist Democracy Club] Brian Leong

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[Anti-Fascist Democracy Club] Brian Leong @sbkbrian.bsky.social · Jan 14

This was true in October 2016 when the Washington Post editorial board posted it, and it has been proven true every day since.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15m

At least Trump got a free jet and a $5.5 billion golf resort in Qatar, so there’s that.

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[Anti-Fascist Democracy Club] Brian Leong @sbkbrian.bsky.social · 19m

Posting for reference before the fascists perform an Animal Farm edit on the government site.

constitution.congress.gov/browse/artic...

Article VI Supreme Law
Clause 3 Oaths of Office

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-6/clause-3
Retrieved 10-Oct-2025 08:48 PDT

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 44m

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 55m

Drew Ensign alert 👀 👀

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 58m

All rise.
US District Judge Paula Xinis is on the bench.
Attys giving appearances.
Lead Abrego atty today: Andrew Rossman
Lead DOJ: Jonathan Guynn. The DOJ atty I couldn't ID is Drew Ensign.
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[Anti-Fascist Democracy Club] Brian Leong @sbkbrian.bsky.social · 22m

Pillard’s dissent seems indisputable, and that reasoning should have carried the day.

[Anti-Fascist Democracy Club] Brian Leong @sbkbrian.bsky.social · 28m

For anyone else who could use a refresher, Ensign was involved in the case when the administration continued illegal deportations despite Boasberg’s injunction.

Two Trump-appointed DC circuit judges ran interference on the resulting criminal contempt case.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

Boasberg Considers Contempt of Court – Why It’s A Big Deal For Any Administration
April 4, 2025

Judge Scrutinizes Trump Administration’s Deportation Actions

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg closely examined the Trump administration’s handling of deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. This scrutiny arose from the administration’s apparent disregard of a court order halting deportations of Venezuelan nationals. Boasberg focused on the March 15 events, where deportations proceeded despite his injunction.

https://www.usconstitution.net/boasberg-weighs-contempt-for-trump-admin/

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1h

They’re now publicly threatening a military crackdown of the No Kings protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1h

Excuse me, what?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1h

Fun facts: Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, has won an Emmy, two Grammys, and his production company won an Oscar.

Trump has won 34 felony convictions as well as civil adjudications for rape and financial fraud. He is currently protecting rich and powerful pedophiles in the GOP.

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[Anti-Fascist Democracy Club] Brian Leong @sbkbrian.bsky.social · 1h

A meme of the two consultants from Office Space, asking "What exactly do you do to glorify fascism?"

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

NOBEL rewards democracy over authoritarianism

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

You gotta understand, explained the comedian, the Saudis are good now. They paid Western comics to do a show for the royals and their friends because they’re working to reform the country. I was reforming Saudi Arabia. You should be praising me. Yes, I cashed the check, but that’s not what matters.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

I don't think for me it is so much "criticism" as "if you were a comic I still listened to before you went this thing, that's not what you are anymore, so long and thanks but no thanks."

There are plenty of other funny people out there to listen to.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 3h

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 7h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

Great point here. This is why Stephen Miller goes on Fox News to propagandize. He knows his host won't bother him with niggling facts like these.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

HA! How much is Stephen Miller a propagandist? He’s saying the building in Chicago raided by DHS, where children were zip-tied and citizens dragged out, was “full of Tren de Aragua terrorists.”

Even DHS’s own account claims just TWO gang members total — and even that is a highly suspect claim!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 2h

MAGA WORLD when they realize that orchestrating a ceasefire after letting Israel rampage for 10 months and launching aggressive strikes in Iran and the the Caribbean while also shredding the Constitution and brutalizing US citizens does not put u in the front running for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Julie Wash @jakwash.bsky.social · 6h

“Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence,”

—the Nobel Committee, 2025

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

RIGGED AND STOLEN!!!

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[Anti-Fascist Democracy Club] Brian Leong @sbkbrian.bsky.social · 11h

www.salon.com/2025/10/09/d...

But as nefariously creative as Project 2025 was, at least in the area of health care policy it is nothing more than the same warmed over calls for privatization and deregulation, both of which will make Americans’ lives worse.

The authors propose to force all Medicare patients into private Medicare Advantage plans by making it the default option, laying the groundwork to fully privatize Medicare. They want to remove consumer protections from all the private insurance plans that aren’t in the ACA marketplace. Those regulations are an underappreciated aspect of Obamacare, requiring all insurance companies to actually cover health care and not discriminate. They plan to open up the market to sell junk insurance plans which are worth virtually nothing.

https://www.salon.com/2025/10/09/democrats-are-winning-the-health-care-shutdown-war/

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12h

What? The former lawyer for Andrew Tate who also would tweet out glowing praise for Andrew Tate... is reported to have done an extremely creepy thing regarding a woman?

How surprising.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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POLITICO
By DANIEL LIPPMAN
10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12h

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

When referring to people who are anti-Trump, don't fall into the trap of calling them "Antifa."

That is a loaded, mangled word. Call them what they are, "anti-fascists."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

Koh: This is an AG who is taking orders via dm and is trying to save her job because Trump’s upset about what's happening with the Epstein files. That's what this is all about.

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