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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

We’re going to have a lot of work to do identifying and punishing every single one of these criminal thugs with the full force of the law.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 1d

And when (not if!) things return to normal, we need to dedicate resources to finding and prosecuting every one of them.

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 1d

I’m no expert, but I feel like revolutions have started over less.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 2d

patrickwyman.substack.com/p/imperial-w...

Imperial Wars Always Come Home

There’s a person I think about from time to time.

patrickwyman.substack.com

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, I’m fully expecting this week’s pod to just be a deep dive into TLoaS Easter eggs.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 4d

They’re moving quickly because they get less popular every day.

They’ll never be more popular than they are now and they are extremely unpopular.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

you! are! a! lawyer!

I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?

DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker

Judge: You're a lawyer

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 7d

And the Secretary of “D”efense…

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 9d

(Putting aside that this focus on originalism has allowed originalists to create an entirely false narrative of what the constitution and 14th amendment meant to the framers. Once again showing how liberals get hoodwinked into playing a rigged game with dishonest opponents.) 4/3

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 9d

It’s like the bit in the Passover Seder where the wicked son asks “what does this holiday mean to *you*?”, and you have to lecture him that saying “you” and not “us” he has excluded himself from the project of freedom. (3/3)

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 9d

where the goal of constitutional interpretation is ascertaining what the constitution meant to *them* – those that wrote it. The real question is what the constitution means to *us* (2/3)

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 9d

@jamellebouie.net @sifill.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social I liked your explanation that we need to enunciate a clear view of what the constitution means to us on the left. I feel like democrats have been hoodwinked by Scalia et al. into adopting a form of originalism (1/3)

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 9d

It’s why he has all those crusader tattoos. Can you imagine how much that dude would have loved the crusades? Hanging out with bloodthirsty failson knights would have been his jam!

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 11d

In this thinking, if the GOP had run a “normal” candidate (if those exist anymore in the GOP), how big would the margin have been?

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 11d

I think what distresses liberals is that it was even close. On one side you had Trump, the Worst Person in the World, an insurrectionist who doesn’t believe in democracy or freedom. The fact that it was even close (let alone a loss) was a blow to a lot of psyches.

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 13d

In the DOJ’s defense, it’s not like anything outrageously unethical happened here, like, I dunno, Melania having an informal conversation with Pam Bondi.

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 20d

If Vance, Hegseth, Noem, Patel, and the rest of the gang have cable news shows in 10 years instead of being behind bars, we will have failed.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 22d

The gap between what the right thinks happens on college campuses and what actually happens is absurd. I had some great students and some awful ones; we talked about some difficult topics, from sexual violence to capitalism to exploitation; it was fine. Nobody lost their shit, because we're adults.

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 23d

Question is - can Bari keep up with her persecution complex when she's running CBS news? (Though Republicans being in control of all four parts of the federal government doesn't seem to prevent them from claiming persecution....)

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 24d

“Milo Was Practicing Politics the Right Way”

NYT | M. Tullius Cicero

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 24d

Tbf, I’m not sure the “Catiline is the devil incarnate and let’s execute him without trial” approach worked out much better (for either Rome or Cicero)

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 27d

My sister listens to Tides, and my nephew (age 9) apparently loved the prehistory seasons, even if he didn't follow all of the science. So you'd definitely have a listener there!

Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 27d

The paper was born from a frustration that scholarly discussions of democracy often appeared to be talking past each other, because it was clear that one person had a deontological worldview and the other a consequentialist worldview, and they somehow didn’t recognize the fundamental disagreement

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