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countrylawer.bsky.social
@countrylawer.bsky.social
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“The rule of law is not meant to win, nor to lose, but to exist.”
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 9h
"There’s just so much that has been lost. Beyond just the basic immediate subsistence, can Gaza survive? I don’t know"

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h
Trump can't deliver the lower costs he promised. All he has is cruelty and revenge.

Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night.

I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 14h
This seems appropriate for the occasion.

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Islam and Nazi Germany’s War — Harvard University Press
Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust LibraryAn Open Letters Monthly Best History Book of the YearA New York Post “Must-Read”In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German tr...
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 14h
You would think that watching an hour of Fox News or a similar channel would equip someone with the cognitive ability to understand what is being said.
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Dean Jackson @dwj88.bsky.social · 1d
Sam Woolley and I have a piece in the Guardian today summarizing our recent @jodemocracy.bsky.social article on AI and democracy:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Full article is here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
We research AI election threats. Here’s what we need to prepare for | Samuel Woolley and Dean Jackson
Artificial intelligence endangers democracy – but it’s less about specific deepfakes and more about a bigger transformation
www.theguardian.com
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d
It’s why they’re desperately grabbing at power while they can.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d
They are going to lose control of the country. They have the debased billionaire class, they have a small army of violent bigots. But they don’t have most Americans. They absolutely don’t have enough guys and they know it
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
Apparently the $20 billion for Argentina was just the beginning of the US bailout according to Bessent today, since so many American oligarchs have big investments there that they can’t afford to lose.
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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 1d
media world vs. real world 😵‍💫
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d
Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d
Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.
BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC
President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday
www.mediaite.com
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 1d
Eines der Merkmale unserer Zeit: „Verbesserungen“ sind selten gute Nachrichten. Wenn die Mächtigen etwas verbessern wollen, wird’s teurer, schlechter und privatisiert. Im öffentlichen Bereich heißt „Verbesserung“ meist: Geld an Auftragnehmer, Ergebnis: schlechter als vorher.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 2d
For more info about Jack Posobiec's ugly history: www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...
SPLC Investigation: Far-right OANN Anchor Jack Posobiec’s Rise Tied to White Supremacist Movement
Far-right commentator Jack Posobiec is a current host on One America News Network (OANN), an information network widely known to distort facts and which has been embraced by President Trump. This inve...
www.splcenter.org
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 2d
“Democratic Socialists of America: ‘We will remove the mayor of New York City if he is elected and his name is not Andrew Cuomo.’”
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d
FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d
JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 2d
Technically, this constitutes election interference by a foreign government.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d
Donald Trump is calling for the jailing of his political opponents in Chicago. His DOJ lackeys have already indicted a NJ Congresswoman for conducting ICE facility oversight and James Comey. John Bolton's house was raided.

We must treat these latest threats seriously and all stand up against them.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d
Let's note that Christopher Caldwell, who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution.

So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.
Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4d
3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...
S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion
Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law
www.qasimrashid.com
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 3d
Merz unterschätzt vieles, vor allem aber überschätzt er seine Fähigkeiten.
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Campact e.V. @campact.de · 3d
🇪🇺 Bald könnten die Nachrichten auf deinem Handy automatisch gescannt werden: Die EU diskutiert über die „Chatkontrolle“.

Was das für Grundrechte und Datenschutz bedeutet, erfährst du auf unserem Blog.

👉 campact.org/U6rfI
EU-Chatkontrolle stoppen
Die EU will unsere Chats überwachen: Noch bevor Nachrichten verschlüsselt werden, sollen Algorithmen Inhalte scannen – auch in privaten Unterhaltungen.Kritiker*innen warnen: Das wäre ein gefährlicher ...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4d
Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 3d
But you have to admire the audacity and confidence required to produce entire segments about imaginary worlds populated by imaginary people. That's not journalism anymore — it's Scientology for the news media.
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 3d
3) who doesn’t want deals, despite writing a book about it. With Trump, there are no win-win situations—only one winner & one loser. And it doesn’t matter whether that loser is liberal or conservative. But the possibility of becoming the 51st state under a Conservative government? That’s very real.