@blacarrubba.bsky.social
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Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
New piece:
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
New piece:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist
steady.page
December 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
New piece:
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
New piece:
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“What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly.” — recently retired federal judge
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
A judge explains his reasons for resigning.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly.” — recently retired federal judge
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
My latest in @thenation
The Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial Profiling
The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate round-ups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing.
www.thenation.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
My latest in @thenation
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New in PN: Trump's brownshirts deploy in DC
"Why wouldn’t he keep going? He’s got his list of cities. He’s teeing up his strike force. He’s seen the courts sit on their hands, owns the Republican majorities in Congress, and has military leaders who won’t balk at his abuses of power."
"Why wouldn’t he keep going? He’s got his list of cities. He’s teeing up his strike force. He’s seen the courts sit on their hands, owns the Republican majorities in Congress, and has military leaders who won’t balk at his abuses of power."
Trump's brownshirts deploy in DC
It's happening here.
www.publicnotice.co
August 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
New in PN: Trump's brownshirts deploy in DC
"Why wouldn’t he keep going? He’s got his list of cities. He’s teeing up his strike force. He’s seen the courts sit on their hands, owns the Republican majorities in Congress, and has military leaders who won’t balk at his abuses of power."
"Why wouldn’t he keep going? He’s got his list of cities. He’s teeing up his strike force. He’s seen the courts sit on their hands, owns the Republican majorities in Congress, and has military leaders who won’t balk at his abuses of power."
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"Meh" is generous. They're pro-bribery.
If they supported the Constitution, they'd use their Constitutional authority to apply to designated Constitutional response to bribery and remove the bribed official from office. They're not, because they don't.
If they supported the Constitution, they'd use their Constitutional authority to apply to designated Constitutional response to bribery and remove the bribed official from office. They're not, because they don't.
August 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"Meh" is generous. They're pro-bribery.
If they supported the Constitution, they'd use their Constitutional authority to apply to designated Constitutional response to bribery and remove the bribed official from office. They're not, because they don't.
If they supported the Constitution, they'd use their Constitutional authority to apply to designated Constitutional response to bribery and remove the bribed official from office. They're not, because they don't.
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But I am arguing that a desire to abuse civilians in ways that leave no one accountable leads to the nasty locations in which so many camps have been sited across history. The Everglades camp location was embraced in part due to the punishment that mosquitoes will provide. [14/17]
July 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
But I am arguing that a desire to abuse civilians in ways that leave no one accountable leads to the nasty locations in which so many camps have been sited across history. The Everglades camp location was embraced in part due to the punishment that mosquitoes will provide. [14/17]
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For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
popular.info
July 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"
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The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
The Trump admin has freed Jose Hernandez Reyes because he can testify against Abrego Garcia.
Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:
—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.
Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt
Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:
—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.
Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
wapo.st
June 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
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New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
What DOGE gets wrong about tech and government
Lessons learned by civic tech, forgotten by DOGE
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
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Jamie Raskin on Trump's Qatar plane grift: "We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale."
This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other:
newrepublic.com/article/1951...
This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other:
newrepublic.com/article/1951...
May 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Jamie Raskin on Trump's Qatar plane grift: "We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale."
This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other:
newrepublic.com/article/1951...
This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other:
newrepublic.com/article/1951...
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April 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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The Trump admin is operating as if unconstrained by law or courts. As @anthonylfisher.bsky.social argues, that’s different from Trump’s 1st term, which broke some rules but were constrained by others.
We’ve never before seen a White House team act without concern of impeachment or criminal charges.
We’ve never before seen a White House team act without concern of impeachment or criminal charges.
Opinion | Trump's second administration acts as if there are no rules
This administration hasn't been constrained by the Constitution or the Supreme Court — and no one in America is immune from being targeted.
www.msnbc.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The Trump admin is operating as if unconstrained by law or courts. As @anthonylfisher.bsky.social argues, that’s different from Trump’s 1st term, which broke some rules but were constrained by others.
We’ve never before seen a White House team act without concern of impeachment or criminal charges.
We’ve never before seen a White House team act without concern of impeachment or criminal charges.
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“American government, American foreign policy, and American trade policy are slowly being transformed, not to benefit Americans but to benefit the president, his family, and his friends.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Kleptocracy, Inc.
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
www.theatlantic.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“American government, American foreign policy, and American trade policy are slowly being transformed, not to benefit Americans but to benefit the president, his family, and his friends.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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There's been a LOT going on, but the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case really deserves all of our attention. Some thoughts at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:
campaign-trails.ghost.io/homegrown-cr...
campaign-trails.ghost.io/homegrown-cr...
Homegrown Criminals
Whether it's been an intentional strategy of "shock and awe" or just the inevitable result of a bunch of ignorant assholes being empowered at the same time, the opening months of Trump's second admini...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
April 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
There's been a LOT going on, but the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case really deserves all of our attention. Some thoughts at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:
campaign-trails.ghost.io/homegrown-cr...
campaign-trails.ghost.io/homegrown-cr...
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I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
February 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
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RFK Jr and the “MAHA” movement are wrong about health and disease at the most fundamental level, and their “strategy” to achieve a healthier country won’t just abandon the most vulnerable; it will target them.
Read my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...
Read my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...
RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill.
Public health, modern medicine and disease mitigation will suffer under RFK Jr. because he sees sick people- not sickness- as the problem.
www.thegauntlet.news
April 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
RFK Jr and the “MAHA” movement are wrong about health and disease at the most fundamental level, and their “strategy” to achieve a healthier country won’t just abandon the most vulnerable; it will target them.
Read my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...
Read my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...
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A lot of "post-left" personalities like Brand claim they were pushed away from the left but were in fact drawn to the right as a means of escaping accountability for their own actions
Russell Brand has spent the past few years aligning himself with the American right as allegations of sexual violence were made public against him. He knew he would find defenders and protection among their ranks. That should tell you everything you need to know about what the party represents
April 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A lot of "post-left" personalities like Brand claim they were pushed away from the left but were in fact drawn to the right as a means of escaping accountability for their own actions
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Financial and business leaders have long believed in an imaginary version of Donald Trump, a version they can support—more strategic, less impulsive, someone who thinks like them.
With massive tariffs, they're finding out how wrong they were the hard way.
My latest, in Arc Digital:
With massive tariffs, they're finding out how wrong they were the hard way.
My latest, in Arc Digital:
Tariffs Expose Wall Street's Misplaced Faith in Trump
Bankers and business leaders imagine a more reliable, less protectionist version of the president than the one that actually exists. Now they're finding out the hard way.
www.arcdigital.media
April 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Financial and business leaders have long believed in an imaginary version of Donald Trump, a version they can support—more strategic, less impulsive, someone who thinks like them.
With massive tariffs, they're finding out how wrong they were the hard way.
My latest, in Arc Digital:
With massive tariffs, they're finding out how wrong they were the hard way.
My latest, in Arc Digital:
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New from me:
Come for the righteous anger, stay for the tortured metaphor involving an imaginary press conference with a beluga sturgeon.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-i...
Come for the righteous anger, stay for the tortured metaphor involving an imaginary press conference with a beluga sturgeon.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-i...
Profiles in poltroonery: Senator Bill Cassidy
The Louisiana senator and physician could have stopped the world's worst antivaxer from taking over the regulation of vaccines. He didn't. And now we're paying for it.
radleybalko.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New from me:
Come for the righteous anger, stay for the tortured metaphor involving an imaginary press conference with a beluga sturgeon.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-i...
Come for the righteous anger, stay for the tortured metaphor involving an imaginary press conference with a beluga sturgeon.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-i...
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Come for the title, stay for the exploration of why Trump's war on truth, knowledge, science, universities, the press and freedom of thought has an ugly, centuries old history among despots and others who believed the few should rule the many. My latest. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/putting-de...
Putting Descartes Before the Whores
We've Seen This Movie Before...Over and Over Again for Hundreds of Years
davidrothkopf.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Come for the title, stay for the exploration of why Trump's war on truth, knowledge, science, universities, the press and freedom of thought has an ugly, centuries old history among despots and others who believed the few should rule the many. My latest. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/putting-de...
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@juliusgoat.bsky.social's essay is the one that I feel in my bones:
Polarization And Strife
We’ve never been less polarized as a country than we are right now. I’ll explain.
armoxon.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
@juliusgoat.bsky.social's essay is the one that I feel in my bones:
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In Signalgate, Trumpworld is demonstrating exactly what's wrong with authoritarian populism: Refusal to admit error, walling out of constructive criticism, the cult-like defense of the leader at all costs.
Transcript of discussion w/ @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/article/1932...
Transcript of discussion w/ @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/article/1932...
March 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In Signalgate, Trumpworld is demonstrating exactly what's wrong with authoritarian populism: Refusal to admit error, walling out of constructive criticism, the cult-like defense of the leader at all costs.
Transcript of discussion w/ @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/article/1932...
Transcript of discussion w/ @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/article/1932...
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Donald Trump is at war with the rule of law. The center is not holding, and the flanks are collapsing. Congress is fleeing the field.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Judiciary’s Last Stand
Trump’s campaign against the rule of law has ratcheted up dramatically.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Donald Trump is at war with the rule of law. The center is not holding, and the flanks are collapsing. Congress is fleeing the field.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I am BEGGING people to frame this properly. The issue here is not one colossal blunder where a reporter got info. The issue is it’s clear these people are all routinely ignoring the most absolutely basic security protocols, and WE HAVE NO IDEA what breaches this has already enabled.
I am glad that Senators are grilling DNI Gabbard and CIA Director Ratcliffe today.
Today should be the start of a 4-year drum beat on Trump's team putting US troops in jeopardy by sharing operational war plans with a reporter before undertaking the operation.
Too much is not enough.
Today should be the start of a 4-year drum beat on Trump's team putting US troops in jeopardy by sharing operational war plans with a reporter before undertaking the operation.
Too much is not enough.
March 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I am BEGGING people to frame this properly. The issue here is not one colossal blunder where a reporter got info. The issue is it’s clear these people are all routinely ignoring the most absolutely basic security protocols, and WE HAVE NO IDEA what breaches this has already enabled.
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Trump's first term included some competent pros. "The second Trump administration has been purging those sorts of people and replacing them with loyalists (or no one), further transforming the federal government from a competent, professional civil service into a tool of corrupt authoritarianism."
The High Cost of Team Trump’s Sloppy OpSec
Anyone surprised by the news of this week’s bizarre leak has forgotten the long record of security failures in Trump’s first term.
www.thebulwark.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Trump's first term included some competent pros. "The second Trump administration has been purging those sorts of people and replacing them with loyalists (or no one), further transforming the federal government from a competent, professional civil service into a tool of corrupt authoritarianism."