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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 8d

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 7d

"The ambiguity is calculated. They never said, “We are declaring a dictatorship.” Instead, they spoke in terms elastic enough to give cover." poignant point, Dr. Greenberg

James B. Greenberg, Professor Emeritus @zavaletas.bsky.social · 8d

I am in mourning for America. At Quantico, Trump and Hegseth didn’t announce a dictatorship — they performed it. Words reclassified dissent as insurgency, turning citizens into enemies. #MourningAmerica #Quantico #Authoritarianism #Democracy

Mourning America: Quantico and the Drift Toward Military Rule

How Trump and Hegseth’s Quantico speeches blurred the line between politics and war, recasting dissent as insurgency and democracy as a battlefield

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

Remember that this is what the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill was all about. It's Robin Hood in reverse.

Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 9d

🙏 💚

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Freethinker @69eerrr.bsky.social · 15d

Einsteins theory has been proven.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22d

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.

At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.

By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 16d

An excellent piece for deeper understanding of autism and the danger of false theories

danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you, Richard Grinker, for setting the record straight.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 28d

Viewing political violence as infrastructural: "Kirk’s death cannot be dismissed as the act of a lone individual. It is the culmination of a political ecosystem that cultivates hostility long before blood is spilled."

James B. Greenberg, Professor Emeritus @zavaletas.bsky.social · 29d

The murder of Charlie Kirk is more than rupture—it’s a warning. Violence doesn’t erupt from nowhere; it’s cultivated through division, intimidation, and speed. Can democracy survive when hostility becomes infrastructure?
#Democracy #PoliticalViolence #Authoritarianism #CivicLife

Against the Murder of Charlie Kirk: Political Violence and the Architecture of Division

How assassination, intimidation, and division threaten the fragile practice of civic life in America.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 11

And non-violence works, from @chenoweth.bsky.social: "between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts." "Violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds." 5/ www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw

Why Civil Resistance Works

Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, August 2011). ~Winner of the 2013 Grawemeyer A…

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Nell Scovell @nellscovell.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader'

Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.

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duvalbill.bsky.social @duvalbill.bsky.social · Aug 20

Jack White is a badass.

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · Jul 23

Greenberg: "America belongs to all of us—not just the powerful, the wealthy, or the loudest voice in the room. For too long, the rules have been rigged by those who want you to believe government is the problem—so they can sell it off, piece by piece, to their donors and cronies." #PoliticalEcology

James B. Greenberg, Professor Emeritus @zavaletas.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Right didn’t win with better policy. It won with story. To rebuild democracy, we need more than outrage—we need narrative, solidarity, and repair.
#Democracy #NarrativePower #Neoliberalism #PoliticalEcology #CivicRepair

The Story That Replaced Democracy

How the Far-right filled the vacuum left by neoliberalism with a narrative of grievance—and what it will take to rebuild the cultural foundations of public life.:

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · Jun 20

"MAGA leaders aren’t revolutionaries. They are opportunists in patriotic drag. They rage against elites while cashing donor checks, dodge taxes while preaching sacrifice, and stoke chaos to consolidate control."

James B. Greenberg, Professor Emeritus @zavaletas.bsky.social · Jun 19

The MAGA movement isn’t fueled by misinformation—it’s built on meaning. To confront it, we must stop fact-checking and start offering a better story: one that restores trust, renews civic life, and reclaims the moral imagination of democracy.

Understanding MAGA: A Worldview, Not a Wedge Issue

How Trumpism offers a sense of belonging, purpose, and revenge—by rewriting who counts, what’s true, and what power is for.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · Jun 12

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

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Kaitrin Snodgrass @kaitsnod.bsky.social · Jun 12

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 10

Yeah, stick to football, bro. 🤣🤣

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · Jun 9

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Mark Lloyd Greenberg @marklloydgreenberg.bsky.social · Jun 4

The effective Boston University's Medicaid Policy Lab's analysis of Medicaid and PEPFAR cuts www.impactcounter.com

Impact Counter - Measuring What Matters

We turn complex data into simple stories that show how organizations help people. Measure and share your impact in real-time.

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · Jun 3

"state power doesn’t only reside in laws or institutions. It lives in classification systems—in who gets counted, how they’re labeled, and what those labels allow or deny. ... It anticipates risk, assigns suspicion, and creates a framework in which dissent becomes deviance."

James B. Greenberg, Professor Emeritus @zavaletas.bsky.social · Jun 3

Trump’s surveillance state isn’t some futuristic fear—it’s already being built. Not just to watch, but to punish. And the machine will outlast him unless we stop it.

The Eyes of Power: Trump’s Surveillance State and the Weaponization of Data

AI Isn’t Coming. It’s Here—and It’s Already Rewriting the Rules of Power.

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · May 15

Bondi was a registered lobbyist for Qatar, earning $115,000 a month. #corruption

Oz @ozofreason.bsky.social · May 13

Trump loyalist Attorney General Pam Bondi and Trump’s top White House lawyer, David Warrington, signed off on Trump’s acceptance of the Qatari jet. In 2019, Bondi was a registered lobbyist for Qatar, earning $115,000 a month. - Heather Cox Richardson, 12 May 2025.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · May 11

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 11

*Open bribery
*Masked armed officials arresting residents without warrants, citizens who try to intervene
*Arrests for engaging in non-violent speech
*Destruction of government capacities
*Massive economic uncertainty and damage
*Unprecedented targeting of government power against political enemies

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · May 5

Proposed cuts to #NIDILRR would take the US backwards and reverse hard earned gains on #disability rights

Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · Apr 17

Listed in eliminated programs: NIDILRR, UCEDDs, P&As, state DD councils, projects of national significance, and more. Critical disability infrastructure and pretty much all disability research. Add what you're concerned about in the comments!

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Apr 17

I just looked at this. If I'm understanding it correctly, the government is not suggesting that federal funding for home and community based services will go down (for now). insidemedicine.substack.com/p/new-a-64-p...

Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · Apr 21

This means that *anyone* can be an enemy of the state.

Bishop Talbert Swan @talbertswan2.bsky.social · Apr 19

The Trump administration just argued before the Supreme Court that they have the right to arrest ANY person, US citizen or not, for ANY reason, and send them to a foreign prison ANYWHERE, without due process, and America’s courts have no jurisdiction to stop them.

Let that sink in.