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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 4h

Six months, not five, almost to the day. Maybe a man of his age has twice yearly checkups? Doesn't necessarily indicate a medical issue. Possible, sure.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

NOTE: Leavitt says Trump will "stop by for his routine yearly check up."

But…Trump had his annual check up already. 5 months ago. On April 11.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

New — White House says Donald Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday.

"On Friday morning, President Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center for a planned meeting and remarks with the troops. While there, President Trump will stop by for his routine yearly check up. He will then return to the White House. President Trump is considering going to the Middle East shortly thereafter." - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 4h

I do the wry, detached commentator thing in my media persona, but it's 1:30am and I'm crying a little at the increasing hope that the 2-year-long nightmare is ending for Israelis and Gazans, that the last living hostages can be freed, and that this awful war might actually be over.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 4h

He has a wife you know.

You know what she's called?

She's called Posse.

Posse Comitatus.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 5h

Vewy Well. Wewease Habeus Corpus!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 5h

As we await genuinely momentous news, let's take a moment and remember how it's going to be announced on a social media company owned by Trump himself, and not via the White House or general media release.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 5h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 5h

Suspend Habeus Corpus? That hardworking Roman prison guard? He didn't do anything wrong except for that time he released Biggus Dickus instead of Brian.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 6h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 9h

Other signs that this may be real: reports that Trump may travel to Cairo for a signing ceremony; Israeli civil servants are drafting the official Cabinet decisions needed to implement a deal legally; Netanyahu has cancelled his planned vacation at a luxury hotel this weekend.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 9h

Subsequent talks would focus on a new govt for Gaza without Hamas, more Israeli withdrawals, disarmament of Hamas and reconstruction.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 9h

Phase 1 would see:

Hamas release all the hostages, alive and dead, within a few days
Israel releasing dozens of terrorists convicted of murder
Huge increase in aid to Gaza
Limited Israeli withdrawal from the cities of Gaza
Ceasefire while negotiations continue for a permanent end to the war.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 9h

Multiple reports from Israeli, Arab and US sources that a ceasefire deal in Gaza could be imminent, with the hope that Phase 1 is signed today or tomorrow and hostage releases would begin almost immediately.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

I managed to conceive of a reason Jack Smith might want call logs for GOP senators that isn't rooted in Joe Biden "weaponizing" the government.
www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 12h

me: we first met on here, so... *deep breath* will you marry me?
jovi: oh god you took me by surprise. of course, YES! :D

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12h

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 12h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

I've been taking this for near-granted, both military and ICE etc. goons. The question is if they'll do anything more than stand around relatively harmlessly, or actively interfere in some worse way. Also a question of how big a scale it'll be on. But they absolutely intend to do some form of it.

TomB @tdb011235.bsky.social · 1d

Given the trend, what do you guess are the odds of seeing military at polling places next year? At the moment I'm giving it 1:3 odds.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 1d

I was asking this for a reason that should be pretty clear now. Anyone know the answer?

Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 7d

Legality aside, what are the *mechanics* of appropriation? How does money collected by the IRS etc become money held by the Federal Government more generally? Who pushes the button? Are there any *mechanical* barriers to them just taking it?

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Tariff revenue is operating like ship money did for Charles I, when he tried to rule England without Parliament. Like the US, only the legislature could legitimately tax the people, but Charles used innovative abuses of his powers to raise & spend money as he wanted

(He later lost his crown & head)

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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