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alisonsk.bsky.social
@alisonsk.bsky.social
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LA to L.A., with stops up & down the East Coast in-between. Auntie, pet-lover, reader, walker, gardener, voter. Fiercely pro-Democratic USA, anti-orange bastard.
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alisonsk.bsky.social @alisonsk.bsky.social · Feb 5
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alisonsk.bsky.social @alisonsk.bsky.social · 1h
Sustained, active engagement. Like constant protest + general strikes.

"In terms of the specific strategies that are used, general strikes 'are probably one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, single method of nonviolent resistance', Chenoweth says."
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The one, the only ... geezer! @stephmel.bsky.social · 3h
It's not one and done. Sustained resistance of the 3.5% is key. If you're activated, stay activated.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h
Yesterday I wrote about how the South Shore apartment invasion looks like a hypothetical John Yoo used in one of his most problematic OLC opinions from 2001.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/21/j...
John Yoo's Old Trash and the South Shore Apartment Invasion - emptywheel
Imagine if Stephen Miller started applying atrocious John Yoo opinions from 2001 to his fabricated war with Tren de Aragua? It would look pretty similar to what we saw in the raid of a South Shore bui...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2h
The plot for Donald Trump and Putin to meet in Hungary to try to extort Zelenskyy has fallen through. The Russian government wasn’t able to secure safe passage for the Kremlin Gremlin through any European country. The meeting was officially cancelled, leaving Trump and Orban with egg on their face.
In red, Hungary
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h
Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
SEN. @schatz.bsky.social : "This is not about money. There is enough💰to bail out Argentina with ($40 BILLION). Enough to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173 MILLION for Noem. Enough to renovate the ballroom. What there isn't enough💰for under this Republican government is YOU."
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d
For the sake of posterity I thought I'd do a thread on all the epically stupid things Trump has done in recent days.

1) Let them eat ballroom

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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alisonsk.bsky.social
alisonsk.bsky.social @alisonsk.bsky.social · 1d
@thecoopscoop.bsky.social Marc Cooper's optimism plus a bracing prescriptive, including in the useful comments.

open.substack.com/pub/thecoops...
Somethin' is Happening Here, Mr. Jones
No Kings was fabulous. What's next is existential.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times

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alisonsk.bsky.social
alisonsk.bsky.social @alisonsk.bsky.social · 1d
I appreciate @wyden.senate.gov 's doggedness
wyden.senate.gov Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d
New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.
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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 1d
The metaphors write themselves
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alisonsk.bsky.social @alisonsk.bsky.social · 2d
Exactly! I was thinking, "Who smeared sh*t under Kushner's nose?"
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 2d
The irony of this whole thing is that “mad monarch defecates on his subjects” sounds like a sign from a No Kings rally
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 2d
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alisonsk.bsky.social @alisonsk.bsky.social · 2d
"The decision to fire live artillery shells from the oceanfront training area was described as unusual by an active-duty Marine artillery officer and a former Marine artillery noncommissioned officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared reprisal. "
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alisonsk.bsky.social @alisonsk.bsky.social · 2d
"The exercise — which the report said was expected to include the firing of approximately 60 155-millimeter shells — was terminated after the round prematurely exploded, the patrol said.
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John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 2d
An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
Yikes — WP reports Rubio turned over gang informants to El Salvador to get that deal to let Trump send immigrants to their hard labor prison without due process.

A lawless regime.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d
BREAKING: Live munitions from a Trump-Vance “military demo” flew over I-5 and struck a CHP vehicle. The White House wanted the highway open—but Gov. Newsom shut it down for safety. That decision likely prevented injuries or worse.

We have obtained these photos:
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3d
for the love of all that is holy WHY CAN YOU NOT DESCRIBE THE PLAIN REALITY OF THE VIDEO
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d
One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.

#NoKings #Manhattan
Hand drawn sign reads ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 3d
Great positive day
Loved the excitement of being part of a community
Bless you all and bless our beautiful country
#NoKings
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JimCaligiuri @jimcaligiuri.bsky.social · 3d
Austin Texas
Estimated 20,000 attendees
Twice the last time
No violence no arrests

#NoKings
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 4d
SCOOP: (gift) One of the top prosecutors who negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deal had dinners, meetings with the convicted sex offender after the prosecutor left DOJ. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show
Matthew Menchel, who spearheaded Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 criminal prosecution, left the DOJ in 2007 to take a job as a trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim. Epstein’s calendars show Menchel met with Epstein in ...
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