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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Nov 17

So what is (DVTL) Double Victory?

It is my world-building and alternative history project, intended to culminate in a series of full-length novels!

TLDR: The Final Countdown with zoomers, crank to 11, and mix in heaping doses of Matterhorn, Red Storm Rising, and the Death of Stalin.

What is Double Victory

Welcome to an Alternative Future and a Changed Past

www.victoryvignettes.com

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 31m

Begging military spouses to pay attention to partisan politics, evaluate their family’s articulable interests, and vote accordingly.

Yes, I know they’ll still mostly vote R because culture is everything, but some will abandon magical thinking.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 39m

“As a Republican, I’m very disappointed in my party and I’m very disappointed in you,” a Virginia woman named Samantha fumed at Johnson, who was taking calls from the public.

“Because you do have the power to call the House back. You did that -- or you refused to do that just for a show.”

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17m

She test the carpet

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2h

The long shadow over the progressive era is also the success of redemption

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2h

Like police commission insulating police agencies from local democratic control, making every single local position elected—a lot of whiffs

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2h

So many progressive era reforms were really fuckin dumb, but we're motivated by a mix anti-corruption (and also racism)

Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

Apropos of nothing the bit of American constitutional order that I frankly find the most morally reprehensible and fundamentally unacceptable for basic functionality is explicitly politicised judges.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

i think you mean quiet lol

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

dawg

Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson crashes Kelly and Gallego gaggle. Says he’ll swear in Grijalva when they reopen the government

Kelly asking why Fine and Petronis got sworn in on pro forma, Johnson says it has to do with being on recess.

Johnson: “this has nothing to do with Epstein”

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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 3h

So... all DOJ OIG reports issued prior to this month have been pulled off line:

oig.justice.gov/pages/report...

DOJ Office of the Inspector General

The full DOJ OIG website is not currently accessible. This website is a temporary solution that will allow us to restore our whistleblower hotline capability and to post a limited number of our most r...

oig.justice.gov

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

Oh damn

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 16h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10h

Still can't get over they're using straight up unencrypted chats for official communications, let alone the actual content or the mistake

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 16h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 16h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 17h

The advisor from SimCity hollers at the player, "YOU CAN'T LET A FROG DANCE EROTICALLY AT YOUR SWAT TEAM! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" The typeface is Chicago but the city is Portland.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

In some ways this is the government now

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17h

We should have actual jungle and arctic units that get those tabs tho

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 17h

He had an "annual physical" like five months ago, BTW

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 19h

Time for an oil change

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

america is just very weird is that we have two blocs who form their governing coalition *before* the general election instead of after it

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

woof

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

this is a program of national immiseration unlike any other in the history of advanced democracies

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

yeah the greens are probably the biggest left liberal party that scans with the democrats, there are a handful of other left liberal parties on the continent but they're very much Contintental Liberals first in ways neither the Greens nor Dems are

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly, one of the more fascinating quirks of history is that the Dems and Grits have remained center-left parties and haven't been supplanted by social democrats

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

you have a fair number of center right dems, particularly at the state level, but in congress the dems have basically become a new dem-prog coalition instead of new dem-blue dog (and New Dems and Progs have kinda converged towards a kind of generic party line liberalism)

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

yep!

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