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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 51m

Maybe, just maybe, they are going too far and the pendulum will swing back toward decency and sanity, so that peaceful, hardworking undocumented people will finally get a chance to win legal status and we do not have to feel such shame at the conduct of our country.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1h

The viciousness, cruelty, lies, and stupidity of this deportation regime are staggering.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1h

“Deportations like Sergio’s — to fixtures of the community — are making people think, ‘This could be me next, or my favorite place next, or somebody who I talk to every day’"

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13h

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 Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 10h

Seems worrisome.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 10h

Nor does this, from @radiofreetom.bsky.social

"The greatest crisis of American civil-military relations in modern history is now under way."

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 11h

Each one is a masterpiece.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 5d

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 11h

This is one of the best accounts on here. I love it.

ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 18h

The Musicians' Brawl (flipped), by Georges de La Tour, 1625-30, 📸 by @MauleIan

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 21h

Correct.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

For example:
bsky.app/profile/elis...

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

He has always taken a keen interest in minors.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

That cow has left the barn!

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know, but I expect some would be willing and others not, which creates additional problems!

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

This discussion on NPR's 1A with experts on military affairs and civil-military relations did not reassure me at all!
the1a.org/segments/if-...

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

I take no pleasure in being right. Actually, that's a lie. I do take a great deal of pleasure in being right. You have to find joy somewhere!

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

Here is my tweet from October 2019. And they say historians shouldn't make predictions.

Tweet from @arothmanhistory:
My expert analysis, as a historian, is that things are going to get worse before they get even more worse.
5:26 PM 10 Oct 19

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

Here is my tweet from October 2019. And they say historians shouldn't make predictions.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d

In 1787, Hamilton dismissed fears that the national government would establish a military despotism. I do not think he would be as sanguine today.
(Federalist 28)
avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

For a long time to come, it will not be possible to maintain a large army; and as the means of doing this increase, the population and natural strength of the community will proportionably increase. When will the time arrive that the federal government can raise and maintain an army capable of erecting a despotism over the great body of the people of an immense empire, who are in a situation, through the medium of their State governments, to take measures for their own defense, with all the celerity, regularity, and system of independent nations? The apprehension may be considered as a disease, for which there can be found no cure in the resources of argument and reasoning.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d

Bill of Rights Bingo

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 6d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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