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wajali.bsky.social
It's good to be an aspiring authoritarian with his own Supreme Court. The institution is broken and corrupt.

Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...
Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing
The justice said that the call was a job reference for one of his former clerks and that the request to stay the president-elect’s sentencing did not come up.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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mattgrossmann.bsky.social
Discussing America’s biggest political divide: education

@davehopkins.bsky.social & I discussed Polarized by Degrees on @wxxirochester.bsky.social
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Discussing America’s biggest political divide: education
In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson on 1/6/25, the authors of the book, "Polarized by Degrees," discuss why education has generated America's biggest political divide.
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January 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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profjasonbostick.bsky.social
This makes perfect sense. Successful business owners who didn't need a college degree, i.e., what Patrick Wyman dubbed the "American Gentry" are the real core of Trump's base.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
American Gentry
The jet-setting cosmopolitans of popular imagination exist, but they are far outnumbered by a less exalted and less discussed elite group, one that sits at the pinnacle of America’s local hierarchies.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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sykescharlie.bsky.social
The Enduring Shame of January 6
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The Enduring Shame of January 6
A Day of Infamy that was just the beginning...
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January 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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atxshadowcat.bsky.social
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Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Butler
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
January 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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aralski.bsky.social
First book of the year finished: Autocracy, Inc. by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social A must read for anyone who values democracy and is appalled by the cowardly nature of autocrats and how, despite various ideologies, they work together in an effort to control their fellow citizens and to maintain power.
January 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Bleak.

“Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took,” Sergeant Livelsberger said in one of the notes, according to the police.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/u...
Soldier Who Blew Up Cybertruck in Las Vegas Wrote U.S. Is Headed for ‘Collapse,’ Police Say
The police shared notes recovered from one of the phones of Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger, who fatally shot himself inside the vehicle in Las Vegas.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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muellershewrote.com
Now that Jack Smith has handed off the 11th circuit appeal to the Southern District of Florida - provided he has no other cases to hand off to the DC USAO - he’s free to write and submit his confidential report to Garland.
January 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM