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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · 26d

This, one million times over.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26d

they think liberalism is a set of rules for a discourse game, and not a fighting faith and a vision of the good

Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · 27d

I wrote about it!

Notable that Patel literally fired the FBI special agent in charge of the Utah office in a political purge earlier this year.

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Is the Kirk killing the spark of a new civil war?

Loud voices are calling for a crackdown on "the left"

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jul 3

truly no-one could have foreseen it

Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 27

What's left now but naked presidentialism?

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 27

The universal injunction ruling is making me feel physically sick. Unless I'm missing something, basically there goes the constitution, the rule of law, everything.

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 26

Happy 12th Is The Supreme Court Going To End Birthright Citizenship Day to all those who celebrate by retching into a bucket.

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 26

Happy 12th Is The Supreme Court Going To End Birthright Citizenship Day to all those who celebrate by retching into a bucket.

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 23

Been noticing this in the classroom for years, and it is a big problem.

Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · Jun 22

One of the problems with having a profoundly anti-intergenerational elite is that it honestly does not occur to them that people below a certain age literally have no memory of what they think is the normalcy we can supposedly return to

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jun 22

it's so cool that there's an entire generation of republican men basically primed to be Trumpists because this is all the party has been for their entire childhood

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 13

What's interesting about this is that while the White House thinks that doing shocking things to increase the salience of immigration as an issue is good for it, this seems to show that the reverse is true.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Jun 13

Someone asked me for a Trump job approval chart just on immigration. I live to serve so here it is.

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 13

"After this week, I’m no longer calling it the Trump administration. I’m calling it the Trump regime. And that regime has a few characteristics which we need to take note of."

My weekly round up covers just two topics - the U.S. authoritarian descent and the Mid East war. Because isn't that enough?

Round-up: The Trump regime emerges. Iran-Israel war. And isn't that enough?

Your analysis of the week's descent into madness

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 12

California needs to arrest those DHS officers.

Kristi Noem needs to be impeached.

Dems need to grind Senate to a halt until she is convicted.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Jun 11

Wow. New Quinnipiac poll finds Trump's approval at 38-54. And note this:

Trump approval on immigration: 43-54
Approval on his deportations: 40-56

Can we say Trump isn't winning on this issue yet?

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Jun 11

Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/

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Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness

The media has it wrong. Trump is not coming across as fearsome and strong. Instead, his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV routine is self-evident overkill.

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 11

if you can't find Paramount or even Ventura County on a map can I at least ask you to read the LA Times before writing something about what is going on

Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 11

It is so notable how bad the east coast media is at covering the reality of what is happening in Southern California (not just LA).

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 11

We feed you.
They hunt us.

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 9

It's also a blank check to incite some violence every time the White House doesn't like the current news cycle.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Jun 8

The presidential memorandum never mentions Los Angeles or California. It’s a blank check for mobilizing National Guard and active duty troops to deploy anywhere to protect federal personnel or functions wherever protests “are occurring or are likely to occur.”

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Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Jun 9

One thing I love to not do is lecture people who may lack PhDs in politics but are seeing their families ripped apart right in front of their eyes on the exact modalities of protest they should use to respond to that.

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · Jun 8

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy".
~ Connor Simon,
Restaurant owner in PA

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · May 24

Thanks Sid, glad you found it useful!

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Apr 24

just gonna leave this here

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Apr 15

completely normal

Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Apr 14

I wrote about how Trump's arguments about being able to send whoever he wants to a jurisdiction beyond the reach of the law reminds me of "fugitive slave" laws before the Civil War.

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Trump's deportations have echoes of slavery

The constitution does not allow this, but it used to

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Apr 12

Trump continue to negotiate with himself and lose, I see.

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Apr 10

One thing I really liked about the Biden administration was that I spent very few nights awake at 11pm worrying about various possible forms of apocalypse.

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Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt.bsky.social · Apr 10

Trump is straight-up just signing executive orders telling DoJ to investigate specific critics of his.

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Trump orders investigation of two first-term administration aides who criticized him

The president signed executive orders targeting Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor, an escalation of his retribution campaign.

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