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An excellent long read on the wrongheadedness of the administration's tariff chaos.
www.molsonhart.com/blog/america...
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back — Molson Hart
On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States ...
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April 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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dmwoodruff.bsky.social
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:

Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
timothysnyder.bsky.social Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 24
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
davidphorne.bsky.social
The evil at your door
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The evil at your door
The deportation action as regime change
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March 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
"The abuse of the word 'antisemitism' is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one."
timothysnyder.bsky.social Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 14
Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
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"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
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March 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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We are going to need a LOT of people to stand up this way. I’m glad people are doing it.
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Feb 14
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"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.
February 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
davidphorne.bsky.social
Of course it’s a coup, by @TimothyDSnyder
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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February 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...
We Are Not Who They Think We Are: How Human Nature Matters In This Emergency Rebecca Solnit 04 Feb 2025 — 10 min read Welcome to the emergency--or rather Meditations in an Emergency, this newsletter, not the national emergency, which is of course very unwelcome. What's striking to me about all the things our morally and imaginatively impoverished billionaires, notably Musk and Trump, right now is: they do not expect or imagine or understand consequences. Any of them– their theory of change seems to be that they are going to do stuff and then it will be done. Like they're moving furniture around, like you and I and the trans and immigrant communities and federal workers and Canada and Mexico are just so many sofas and chairs that are going to sit where they place us. Like we're inanimate objects. Maybe everything is dead in the sad lonely worldview inside their head. Which would also explain their recalcitrance about climate and nature: if you see it as a collection of inert objects rather than an intricate living system in which what you do to any one part may affect the whole, you grant yourself more license to meddle. But today I'm here to talk about the human--and human nature, and how they misunderstand that too.
February 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
davidphorne.bsky.social
The Logic of Destruction, by @TimothyDSnyder
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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February 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
davidphorne.bsky.social
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blabalino.com Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · Jan 28
As a citizen of the Pacific Northwest, let me be the first to say that California is most welcome to our water. Unfortunately it goes into the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River. California can take it back out of the ocean near Malibu or any other convenient location at no charge.
January 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
davidphorne.bsky.social
Excellent perspective
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jan 28
Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
January 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
davidphorne.bsky.social
This
gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social TheGratefulDeadpool @gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social · Nov 25
This needs to be said, loud, and often.
November 26, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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Customer service told Bezos he cannot return the Post because he bought it more than a hundred days ago and it is now in damaged condition
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Bezos Unable to Return Washington Post for Full Refund
The Amazon chief was reportedly kept on hold with customer service for 45 minutes before a human was finally available to speak to him.
www.borowitzreport.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:45 PM