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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1h

this is "I should do an interview with Chotiner" level quote post hubris from Stoller. lol, lmao even.

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
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i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

newrepublic.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 6h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 4h

For them, probably, in terms of what they (don't) pay next April, compared to what they paid this April. Remember who the One Big Beautiful Bill Act benefits.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

Pope Leo: “With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 4h

From the Apple App store listing for FB, and just part of FB's 'Privacy Policy:'

FB privacy policy, showing that they track you across apps about seven ways from Sunday.

WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 4h

With whom and when has USA done this before? (before I blow a fuse without good cause)

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 6h

George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 11h

"career criminal" My government says so.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 12h

That may be dissappointing for those who were hoping for an argument in favor of democratic military coups. Not here. I think CMR scholars got that right. To quote myself: "Democracy will not survive a military that turns against it, but it also cannot depend on the military to uphold it".
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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 12h

How about ordering the National Guard to train on suppressing civilians by Maximum Force, to act like the ICE goon squads, but with more warrior?
And the new JAGs saying "Go for it?
Against, say, the Mo Kings terrorists?

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 12h

Democratic backsliding in the mode that @kimlanelaw.bsky.social calls "autrocratic legalism" uses constitutional and legal rhetoric, process, and reasoning to dismantle competitive liberal-democratic institutions. 8/

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

Excellent paper!

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 13h

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 12h

Biden mishandled COVID too, you know. Those lockdowns were unbearable!

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12h

The lack of critical thinking among the audience for this never stops breaking my heart.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone saw Jan. 6 was Trump supporters trying to overthrow the Constitution, everyone saw him lie a lot, without which Jan. 6 never would’ve happened.

Ironically, Biden was the least powerful president-elect in modern US history, because all previous presidents did the transition rather than lie.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 12h

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 13h

That’s bad, but my 5yo grandson would think the defense is a genius idea. 😄🙄

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David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 13h

Ben Shapiro: “The basic suggestion is a conspiracy theory in which the United States is run by white supremacist Christian nationalists” um yeah, Ben, it kinda is.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 18h

I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 13h

There is a problem, though, that the Judge was a Biden administration nominee. He will be reluctant to grant the motion without the cup overflowing.

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 13h

No, it sounds like a good defense: duckduckgo.com?q=svengali+l...

svengali legal meaning at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

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