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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021."

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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coridauber.bsky.social @coridauber.bsky.social · 2d

If you’d made the hat Carolina blue it’d be perfect

Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social · 3d

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coridauber.bsky.social @coridauber.bsky.social · 2d

If you’d made the hat Carolina blue it would’ve been perfect… I’m still gonna forward this to everyone I know

Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social · 3d

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"Ketamine is a powerful drug, best used in moderate quantities under the care of a doctor....Elon Musk is like a random number generator for opinions."

@caseynewton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

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coridauber.bsky.social @coridauber.bsky.social · 3d

Cannot recommend Cory Doctorow’s ENSHITTIFICATION strongly enough.

2 caveats: you won’t get much of anything else done, and, seriously, mind your blood pressure.

But I follow this stuff fairly closely & still found this a must read.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"'The folks at the White House were very disappointed that the entrance into L.A. in June didn’t provoke more violence,' Miles Taylor said. 'I genuinely think that was their intent.'" www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...

The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive

MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.

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Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow 9 October @vox-pol.bsky.social launches this excellent new report by @antoniavaughan.bsky.social Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia.

I'm chairing, @audreygagnon.bsky.social is discussing. Do come along!

Sign up below. Webinar - 9 October - 6pm BST 🕸️

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New VOX-Pol Report Online Launch - VOX - Pol

09/10/2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - VOX-Pol is publishing a new report titled Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints by Dr Antonia Vaughan on Thursday 9 October 2...

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 3d

You know who else documented their crimes extensively and eventually had that documentation used against them

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Sickening.

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coridauber.bsky.social @coridauber.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure what to tell you, I went through the process to gift it. I think that’s only working intermittently

coridauber.bsky.social @coridauber.bsky.social · 4d

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The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 6d

Aye there's the rub

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 6d

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE is] just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. I don't know about you, but I don't carry around papers that say I'm a U.S. citizen. So U.S. citizens are getting detained and arrested."

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has credited the military’s strong recruiting numbers this year to a rise in patriotism and a “Trump bump.” But the Army’s recruiting surge wouldn’t have been possible without a program that started three years ago at Fort Jackson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Soldiers lined up in formation while wearing uniforms. A headline reads: "The Program That Rescued Army Recruiting." Photo by Kenny Holston/The New York Times

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coridauber.bsky.social @coridauber.bsky.social · 7d

Tom Nichols: All The Circuit Breakers Are Gone
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Tom Nichols: All The Circuit Breakers Are Gone

President Trump’s loyalty purges continue.

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coridauber.bsky.social @coridauber.bsky.social · 8d

Trump & Hegseth Preach Insanity to The General Officers
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Trump & Hegseth Preach Insanity to The General Officers

On a special edition of Shield of the Republic, Eric and Eliot break down Secretary of Defense Hegseth and President Donald Trump’s speeches to the General Officer Corps at Quantico this week.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 8d

FYI this is going around seeming to be from me and Liz.

This is not from us.

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coridauber.bsky.social @coridauber.bsky.social · 8d

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Trump’s Purge of Terrorism Prosecutors

The politicization of the Justice Department is making Americans less safe.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 9d

1. Whip up moral panic claiming immigrants are drug-dealing cartel members

2. Stop enforcing laws against cartels

3. Blame immigrants for increased drug-dealing

Reuters @reuters.com · 9d

The Justice Department eliminated 275 positions and shuttered its Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. The restructuring affects 140 federal employees through elimination or reassignment, marking the largest DOJ reorganization in two decades reut.rs/4nxYuUg

Exclusive: US scraps Justice Department task force that took on cartels, documents show

The U.S. Justice Department is closing a task force that took on drug cartels and an office that aimed to ease racial tensions, in a reorganization that drops a plan to merge the nation's top drug and gun law enforcement agencies, documents seen by Reuters show.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10d

“America should probably be looking to leapfrog the Chinese using drone advances. Instead, we are coming late to the party with a design named for Trump, while talking about battleships and PT routines for senior officers. Decline is a choice. And we have made it.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-depart...

The “Department of War” Is Designed to Fight American Citizens

How to resolve the tension between "lethal war-fighting warriors" and "no more wars" isolationism.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10d

The lead U.S. agency for protecting the electric grid, water supply and other critical services from hacking has furloughed most of its already trimmed-down staff in the government shutdown.

Shutdown guts U.S. cybersecurity agency at perilous time

The lead U.S. agency for protecting the electric grid, water supply and other critical services from hacking has furloughed most of its staff.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10d

At least two people were killed Thursday morning after a vehicle ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. A suspect is believed to be dead, the authorities said. Here is what we know.

Synagogue Attack on Yom Kippur in Manchester, UK: What We Know

Two people were killed and at least three others were in serious condition after the vehicle ramming and stabbing attack on Yom Kippur. Police said the suspect was dead.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10d

Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest

Keir Starmer to chair Cobra meeting as he condemns ‘appalling’ attack on synagogue during Yom Kippur

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coridauber.bsky.social @coridauber.bsky.social · 11d

getting the physical plant back online. But if you therefore concluded you could let all the faculty go and save a ton of $ all you’d of done was succeeded in destroying the institution.