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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

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The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

'Violence against Democrats is now justified.' The actual number of Republicans who agreed with the statement was 13 percent. Independents estimated that 38 percent of Republicans would endorse the statement." www.thebulwark.com/p/violence-h...

We Hate Each Other More than We Understand

A great deal more than we understand each other.

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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent. We should all be in the streets demonstrating against these fascists.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h

Chicagoans are furious that a convicted felon has sent his thugs here to commit violence against our community. Join us in fighting fascist Republican assholes.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 7h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 11h

The Emperor's new war. A complete fantasy presented in a room full of nodding sycophants who don't question a thing he says.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Chernynkaya @chernynkaya.bsky.social · 11h

"The phrase "democratic socialism" has been used in multiple senses, including a broad sense that refers to all forms of socialism which reject autocracy.[10] " Wikipedia

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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Chernynkaya @chernynkaya.bsky.social · 13h

We are witnessing a state vs state conflict. There’s a term for this…it’s on the tip of my tongue.
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Trump is Turning ICE and the National Guard Into His Militia

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 15h

MAGA Requirements:
1. Loud, pious, extremely public devotion to Jesus
2. Blinding hatred for everything Jesus actually taught.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h

ICE GOONS shot an unarmed priest in the eye with a pepper ball, despite him and those around him posing no threat at all.

Source: John Pfaff.

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Chernynkaya @chernynkaya.bsky.social · 14h

Well, YEAH.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 15h

OPINION: Masked, armed law enforcement agents who regularly violate the law and strip people of their constitutional rights is nothing new in America.

Are Trump's masked thugs the new Ku Klux Klan?

Masked, armed law enforcement agents who regularly violate the law and strip people of their constitutional rights is nothing new in America. They have, in fact, a long and well-documented history, including states — after years of abuse by masked men — passing laws specifically to prevent them from...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Chernynkaya @chernynkaya.bsky.social · 14h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Kavanaugh stop

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 17h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.
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Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

The indictment of James Comey is just the latest example of Trump weaponizing the Justice Department to go after his political enemies.

At the same time, he’s doling out favors to his supporters and allies – including white collar criminals. Watch: https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?si=QTTJev6Fml50pYgP

Trump’s Pay-to-Pardon Scheme

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

Portland “burning” is dimwitted MAGA propaganda—but Trump is now threatening the Insurrection Act if governors or the courts *lawfully* exercise their roles.

It’s no accident this comes after Miller denounced the Portland ruling—by a Trump appointee, no less—as “legal insurrection.” trib.al/nhFNpMZ

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14h

The nativist right keeps talking about “heritage Americans.” It's a buzzword engineered to move the goalposts on immigration even further, argues @alibreland.bsky.social. https://theatln.tc/bLRZoopN

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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 19h

The fact that more Americans see immigration as a positive thing than at any point in the last couple of decades definitely seems like a strong bit of evidence that people do, in fact, care.

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Chernynkaya @chernynkaya.bsky.social · 14h

It’s now a crime to be Democrat. Or to oppose Trump.

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Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment — Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"What is an illegal order? I want you to think about this question in the most technical sense. What makes the order illegal? A legal body tells you it’s illegal. Maybe it’s a more senior officer. Maybe it’s someone from the JAG corps." Well.