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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 6h

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: In 1964, Nat King Cole put out an album of songs from 'My Fair Lady.' Most of the interpretations are forgettable or even regrettable, alas—but this rumba arrangement of "On the Street Where You Live" is just wonderful. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=996p...

On The Street Where You Live

YouTube video by Nat King Cole - Topic

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 6h

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: In 1964, Nat King Cole put out an album of songs from 'My Fair Lady.' Most of the interpretations are forgettable or even regrettable, alas—but this rumba arrangement of "On the Street Where You Live" is just wonderful. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=996p...

On The Street Where You Live

YouTube video by Nat King Cole - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 6h

It's been a rough year for critics—often the first to be axed when media outlets downsize. So I especially liked my colleague Joe Perticone's @cheetah.bsky.social tribute below.

Good criticism helps us better understand the art we encounter—and thereby better understand what it means to be human.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 9h

This guy is such a dumb dipshit. How do you have “plenary authority” when you are using authority under power delegated by a statute (which you just cited) that contains specific conditions and limitations?? I am guessing he realized how idiotic he sounded the minute it came out of his mouth

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 14h

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 11h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 7h

From July, our big essay on how and why this peculiar individual became influential:
www.thebulwark.com/p/curtis-yar...

Curtis Yarvin’s Cranky Yearnings

He didn’t give the tech right new ideas—not really. What he gave them was permission.

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 7h

A different kind of self-deporting. I love the caption under the header image here: "Curtis Yarvin fears American democracy will survive Donald Trump."

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Thinky Parts @thinkyparts.bsky.social · 7h

It’s so much worse when you see it laid out.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 8h

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 8h

“The man who attempted a violent coup—who fomented an actual insurrection—will invent a fantasy insurrection to justify overturning the rule of law and deploying the U.S. military against civilians.”

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 8h

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 8h

"We should be exceedingly clear: There is no crisis in Chicago that requires the National Guard. To the extent that there is civil instability in Chicago it has been caused by Trump’s surge of federal agents into the city and their lawless assault on the citizens of Chicago."

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 8h

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 8h

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 8h

The Republican strategy: lie about what Democrats want to do. The 2009 version of that were accusations that health care reform would lead to "death panels." Today’s analogue is the equally false claim that what Democrats really want out of the shutdown is to fund "free care for illegal aliens."

Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight

Turns out Republicans still haven’t figured out the politics of health care.

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10h

NEW: Almost despite themselves, the Democrats are winning the fight over the government shutdown.
www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight

Turns out Republicans still haven’t figured out the politics of health care.

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 11h

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12h

Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, is asking for people to pray for her sister’s health.

Verified Facebook post by Freida Parton. The caption reads:

“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you! ❤️”

Below the caption is a photo of Dolly Parton standing outdoors in front of lush green ivy, hands clasped in prayer, wearing a shiny silver outfit with lace-trimmed sleeves, her signature blonde hair styled in soft curls, looking upward serenely.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 14h

NEW: If you asked me when the last 'Tron' movie came out—the one with the amazing Daft Punk soundtrack—I would have told you it was six, maybe seven years ago. But no, it was fifteen years ago. And now they've made a new one, and, well... why?
www.thebulwark.com/p/tron-ares-...

‘Tron: Ares’ Review

A video game without rules is just boring chaos.

www.thebulwark.com

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John @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 14h

Clearly not a lot of grass being touched in the Rose Garden. So much energy devoted to edge-lord garbage 99% of voters never hear about, much less care about.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15h

Yesterday brought news that country star Zach Bryan is dropping a song critical of ICE.

Today, the official DHS account trolls him by using one of his songs (without permission, one strongly presumes) over the kind of cinematic footage Trump loves, of masked federal agents clashing with Americans.

Screenshot of a tweet from @DHSgov dated 7 October 2025. It shows a video of federal agents, under the text "We’re having an All Night Revival"

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15h

Screenshot of a tweet from @samstein dated 5 October 2025, showing federal agents dressed up like soldiers, and among them people with professional cameras. The text: "The clamp down is about producing content as much as anything else"

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15h

From August: Trump Wants Violence in Your Feed

He "senses that…the difference between a peaceable law-and-order society & a disaster zone of lawless anarchy is that, under law and order, citizens' streams of shortform videos of criminal content are punctuated by equally stimulating videos of cops."

Trump Wants Cop Violence in Your Feed

Plus: How much of the damage of the Alaska summit can Zelensky and the Europeans undo?

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15h

Yesterday brought news that country star Zach Bryan is dropping a song critical of ICE.

Today, the official DHS account trolls him by using one of his songs (without permission, one strongly presumes) over the kind of cinematic footage Trump loves, of masked federal agents clashing with Americans.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15h

"We sometimes imagine that when authoritarians take power they do so baldly. That they say, 'We shall break these laws and impose our will and not care what you think.' But that's not how it works. They always claim to be following some law..."
www.thebulwark.com/p/legal-orde...

“Legal Orders” and Trump’s Military

Authoritarians don’t take power by openly flouting the law. They look for pretexts and legal theories.

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15h

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 15h

His daughter says it's either mold or spiritual attack.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15h

NEW: Obamacare is back in the news. And Republicans are starting to fight among themselves over it.
www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

The Obamacare Repeal Movement Is Dead. Long Live Obamacare Repeal.

“It’s probably gonna happen after the midterms.”

www.thebulwark.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16h

It might also prove that many Americans are not engaged and do not realize the stakes. That would mean that the Democrats and the media need to do more and to do better.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 16h

If the Republicans' shutdown gambit succeeds, "it will prove that Americans care more about choking off aid to undocumented immigrants—even where the aid is *already prohibited*—than we do about helping fellow Americans."

Read @saletan.bsky.social:

www.thebulwark.com/p/when-in-do...

When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants

No. You’re not experiencing déjà vu. The current Republican government shutdown talking point is the same one they’ve trotted out before.

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 16h

If the Republicans' shutdown gambit succeeds, "it will prove that Americans care more about choking off aid to undocumented immigrants—even where the aid is *already prohibited*—than we do about helping fellow Americans."

Read @saletan.bsky.social:

www.thebulwark.com/p/when-in-do...

When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants

No. You’re not experiencing déjà vu. The current Republican government shutdown talking point is the same one they’ve trotted out before.

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 16h

NEW: Remember that when Trump spoke to the military leaders last week, he called his predecessor an illegal president. What happens if, in 2028, Trump tells the generals that an election has been stolen and that a dictatorship is about to be unlawfully imposed? What do you think happens?

“Legal Orders” and Trump’s Military

Authoritarians don’t take power by openly flouting the law. They look for pretexts and legal theories.

www.thebulwark.com

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