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Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪

@winstonsmith2024.bsky.social

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Instructor of psychology and law. Advocate for mental health, anti-death penalty, pro Ukraine, pro democracy--if we can keep it. Rescue cat owner. Tired, but not quite retired. No DM's, please.

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Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · Jun 16

Good morning! I'm going to go a bit out on a limb today and argue that Donald J. Trump is not the CAUSE of most of our current political problems, but is instead, the RESULT of the abdication of powers granted by our Constitution to both the Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States. 🧵
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Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 8h

Weiss is just another narcissist whose only interest is self-aggrandizement, so, yes, she is an asshole.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 8h

When I write "The Founding Fathers," I am more specifically referring to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

Obviously, most, if not all, of the Founding Fathers were deeply flawed individuals. But, part of their genius was in recognizing that all of us are!

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 8h

Instead of a tech elite ruling society, why don't we foster an elite versed in the principles of democracy, the Enlightenment, and the Founding Fathers? We have instead replaced civics education with a "self-educated" group of billionaires educated by Ayn Rand and "The Turner Diaries."

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 9h

Vance has always been like this. He only thinks of himself, and he will say or do anything that advances his career. Re-read Hillbilly Eulogy. Except for his Gram, his book drips with disdain for his neighbors in Appalachia.

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 9h

This is indeed, odd. Not a good look for Zelensky, because it smacks of authoritarianism. True, Ukraine is under martial law, but there needs to be at least a semblance of due process, here.

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 9h

Rutte: Hey, Russia! We are strong, not weak!

(Dear Russia, was that okay for me to say? I wouldn't want to upset you)!

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 18h

Those with me last night will have witnessed the shocking scenes from Kharkiv, where a hospital in the city was bombed.

Here's what it looks like this morning. One building was destroyed, the wards were badly damaged. All 57 patients needed counselling while 6 were wounded.

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Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 9h

Nothing is sacred to Russians.

Every day, I thank God I wasn't born in the Russian Federation.

Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 19h

Russia has today attacked humanitarian aid vehicles in Kherson region.

Tons of food was destroyed in Bilozerka when four large lorries, clearly marked with the UN WFP (World Food Programme) were bombarded by drones and artillery.

Two lorries were hit, drivers managed to escape.

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 9h

The loss of USAID and assistance to Ukraine may turn out to be critical this winter. Will Europe be able to step up?

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 9h

Terrible. Isn't it odd that even though Russia now rejects the economic theory behind communism, that it still accepts the idea of an authoritarian and totalitarian state, where individual lives (both Russian and foreign) simply do not matter?

Then again, Russia has always been this way, I think.

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 9h

God doesn't need saving, thank you very much.

Your time would be better served, saving your own soul, instead.

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you for your coverage of this--there is no other way to say it--threat to democracy.

Yarvin's statement that these communities will be run by an elite class with no regard for the wishes of the residents of these communities, is chilling.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10h

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jan 31

15/ Yarvin wrote that “as the crappy govts we inherited from history are smashed, they should be replaced by a global spiderweb of tens, even hundreds, of thousands of sovereign & independent mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents’ opinions.“

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Mar 4

If u want to know what the Tech Bros envision for the future, here is the kind of material they read: (1) The Sovereign Individual (preface by Peter Thiel); (2) The Network State: How to Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan blurbed by Marc Andreessen); (3) Patchwork by Curtis Yarvin/ Moldbug 1/

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10h

Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/

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Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 10h

The libertarian movement was always destined to become fascistic. Thiel and his fellow tech-bros are simply saying the quiet part out loud.

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 10h

Is this what it looks like?

Or, is that what it would look like if you were playing with Putin?

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 10h

Both sides!

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Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone is familiar with the saying that the power to tax is the power to destroy. We should also remember that the power to prosecute also contains the power to destroy. This is why the DoJ must be independent and free of partisan pressure or control.

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 11h

Other than Leonard Leo, John Roberts, and his conservative friends on the Supreme Court, does anyone else truly believe that the destruction of the administrative state will help the average American?

Roberts's vision is the legal equivalent of trickle down economics.

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One of the Worst Cases of This Supreme Court Term Has Been Years in the Making

It is key to the longtime objectives supported by and benefiting the billionaires who funded the court-capture machine.

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Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 22h

Always comply with the lawful orders of the police, even if you disagree. Tape everything, but do not resist. Trump WANTS violence in the streets, even if instigated by rogue police officers. Don't give Trump what he wants.

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 23h

Other ideas:
Power to the People
Democracy Not Autocracy
Just Go Bronzer
I Support Voter Frog!
Fix Democracy Not Elections
Etc.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 23h

This is for you, Donnie Trumpo!

It would be a shame if this were to go viral!

Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

THIS 👇 is how it's done!

The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 1d

🚨BEST TROLL EVER!!

Our guts still hurt!! 🤣

Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 23h

Just watch the blow hole!

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...