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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 6h

touche

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 7h

Nicely done

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 16h

Rogan really NEEDS to be vocally condemning this. He’s partially responsible for it.

He endorsed Trump on Election Day to his millions of followers. And had just 1 OUT OF EVERY 50 people who voted for Trump in PA, MI and WI had voted for Harris instead, none of this would be happening.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Rogan on Trump’s cruel mass deportations, racially profiling non-criminals and ripping apart families: “This is crazy. That shows no heart. You’re not gonna get any reasonable people to go along with that. Any kind person would go ‘this can’t be the only way to do this’.”

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 18h

The importance of this question cannot be overstated: Trump has been communicating directly with Bondi through Truth Social about indicting his enemies. How this question is resolved is critical.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

www.documentcloud.org

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The 51st @51st.news · 23h

By the letter of the law, the D.C. Council shouldn't have been able to to discuss an issue behind closed doors that was on their public agenda that day.

But earlier this year, they created a loophole.

What happened this week, and why does it matter? @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

Wilson Building Bulletin: Curfews and closed doors

The D.C. Council rejected a bill extending the youth curfew. Until it didn't.

51st.news

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 1d

Much clearer and less sensationalist explanation of what’s going on with Courts in Portland than I’ve seen elsewhere.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

In the Oregon troops case, the Ninth Circuit panel granted an administrative stay of the Saturday OR NG TRO but *not* the Sunday deployment TRO.

"Thus, the effect of granting an administrative stay preserves the status quo in which National Guard members have been federalized but not deployed."

Case: 25-6268, 10/08/2025, DktEntry: 32.1, Page 1 of 4
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
STATE OF OREGON and CITY OF PORTLAND,
Plaintiffs - Appellees,
No. 25-6268
D.C. No.
3:25-cv-01756-IM
District of Oregon, Portland
ORDER
FILED
ОСТ 8 2025
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
DONALD J. TRUMP, In his official capacity as President of the United States; et al.,
Defendants - Appellants.
Before: GRABER, R. NELSON, and BADE, Circuit Judges.

In the circumstances here, granting an administrative stay will best preserve the status quo. Prior to the October 4 temporary restraining order, Oregon National
Guard members had been federalized but not deployed. The Memorandum
authorized federalization of the Oregon National Guard members. An
administrative stay of the October 4 temporary restraining order will maintain the federalization of Oregon National Guard members, because that order prohibits implementation of the Memorandum. Additionally, the second temporary restraining order has not been challenged or appealed, and it prohibits the deployment of National Guard members in Oregon. Thus, the effect of granting an administrative stay preserves the status quo in which National Guard members
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25-6268
Case: 25-6268, 10/08/2025, DktEntry: 32.1, Page 4 of 4
have been federalized but not deployed.
Administrative Stay GRANTED.

Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 1d

It was Trump's "I had a dream" speech.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, which Germany sustained better after WWII than the U.S. did after the Civil War.

Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

Moreover, critics of the administration's actions are often simultaneously defending themselves against criticisms leveled by those who (rightly, but often unhelpfully) point out that the police, immigration authorities, regulatory committees, courts, military etc. abused their powers in the past.

Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

This is an excellent observation on how the fact that people still go to school, work, and play in similar ways obscures the nefarious changes taking place and makes those who are highlighting the danger seem like they're catastrophizing.

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 2d

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

Will do

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

They’re wrong not to front that it’s the law, but it was a sensible longstanding policy until threats by Trump in 2019 made congress codify it into law (without a veto).

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

safeguards are hard, because SCOTUS won’t really enforce them, but they can use their other powers to check Trump: spend the money the way we say or nothing you want moves through congress.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

*1861

Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

It is, insofar as the application of 1863 precedent. No excuse now to move troops overground from one state to another via a 3rd state - they can fly!

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

My daughter (then grade 5) submitted a ~two page list of suggestions to the end of year survey that the school sent around.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

And even then a responsible president would go out of their way to (a) coordinate with the state needing aid; (b) bring guard members from nearby and politically aligned states; (c) try to have the governor’s office closely coordinate the work with the sending state; and (d) emphasize temporality

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t agree. Their jobs are only useless because they don’t meaningfully object. If they think what Trump is doing is wrong, convince their colleagues and put a stop to it.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

I was thinking of this earlier when someone mentioned the “ship tax” and how it presaged Trump’s approach to tariffs. (the fact that this came up in the “revolutions” podcast hints at how well it was received)

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

And the Appalachian mountains and state of the northern navy made acquiescing to the request not to come through Md impossible to accept

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

Lincoln’s much more problematic action is arresting without charge members of the MD state legislature to prevent them from voting to secede.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 2d

Lincoln‘s relationship with Maryland was bad, but the troops were specifically moving through Maryland, not into it. The only reason they were Marching in Baltimore was to change train lines. He was *not* using troops against Maryland or to occupy it (despite real danger of DC getting cut off)

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

But in hindsight and the thing I wished I understood when I was younger is college is this period of tremendous freedom (if you're lucky enough to be able to go to a traditional four-year college) with a safety net. And I wish I had used that safety net more.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2d

Not “conservatives”, not “originalists”, not honorable judges with a different ideology.

Bad faith actors.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

"In effect, these voters responded to the most comprehensive attempt to provide concrete benefits to them since the New Deal by loading an economic shotgun and pointing it directly at themselves." prospect.org/politics/202...

House Republicans Take Aim at Red-State Economies

President Biden bent over backwards to help left-behind communities get factories and jobs. Their congressional representatives don’t appreciate it.

prospect.org

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