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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · Mar 18

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

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:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 30m

If you’re bothsides-ing this, you’re actually taking Abbott’s side.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 51m

Pain is a good teacher.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 51m

You can't come to terms with liars is the story.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 52m

FL Congressman Randy Fine said Democratic demands for healthcare measures are like terrorism.

"I don't negotiate with terrorists and what we've learned in whether it's dealing with Muslim terrorists or Democrats, you've gotta stand."

How do you make deals with people like this? You don't.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1h

Heheh,

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1h

I have been called a lot of things but never a millionaire.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1h

All right. Show me.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1h

Someone just told me that because I have a net worth of approximately $23 million, I’m fine with the government shutting down.

I have been called a lot of things but never an amoral multimillionaire.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1h

You think I have a net worth of about 23 million American dollars?

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1h

I’m with Candidly Tiff on this one: I’ll believe it when I see it.

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'Epstein bomb about to drop': Dem lawmaker claims House Republicans ready to abandon Trump

Republican lawmakers in the House are ready to abandon Donald Trump because of the fallout over files related to convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, according to one Dem in Congress.Rep. Eric Swal...

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1h

Honest question: does anyone here believe this?

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3h

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3h

Newly elected Congressmember Adelita Grijalva says she will provide the final vote needed for a petition that could force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Is that why Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in for the last two weeks?

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h

He greased the skids toward the dominance faction of the Democratic Party, the one with most of the money and influence, stabbing Biden in the back.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h

There's a new book coming out called Crime and No Punishment by Penn's Marie Gottschalk. I got a promotional email with talking points. They are an accurate description.

New Talking Points

The United States is an exceptionally militarized, lethal, and violent country.
Rising corporate impunity, the financialization of the economy, militarized policing, the burgeoning carceral state, the opioid crisis, the Great Recession, and blowback from the forever wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere have fostered violence in America.
This includes not just interpersonal violence but also state, economic, structural, and political violence.
The growing concentration of military, economic, and political power has contributed to declines in life expectancy and quality of life as more people in the United States are at risk of losing their homes, health care, livelihoods, and savings.
This concentration of power has also siphoned off vital resources, preventing the country from mitigating the root causes of violent interpersonal crime.
Over the last five decades, the United States retreated from policing, prosecuting, and punishing elite-level corporate misconduct.
Meanwhile it doubled down on militarizing its police forces and punishing street crimes, drug crimes, and immigration offenses as the country became a world leader in incarcerating its people.
Donald Trump's electoral success is incomprehensible without a deeper understanding of how these developments have fostered violence in America and delegitimized and destabilized the political and economic systems.
The US failure to protect its people from all these harms has increased the brittleness of democracy in America, raising the prospect of a bleak, undemocratic future as violence begets more violence, and the country morphs into a dysfunctional state.

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m474474474 @m474.bsky.social · 2h

“Bargaining with evil obscures evil outcomes.”

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3h

The difference between Klein and Coates.

On the one hand is a liberal who is willing to say nice things about a hateful dead man, even though those nice things are not grounded in reality, for the purpose of easing tensions with hateful living people. Tell them some sweet little lies and just maybe things will get better.

On the other hand is a liberal who is unwilling to say nice things about a hateful dead man, because those nice things are false, and because he knows that no amount of nice is going to stop hateful living people from hating him. Bargaining with evil obscures evil outcomes. While those sweet little lies might feel good, the devil always gets his due.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h

You are a good person, my friend, who wants to give people the benefit of the doubt. I don't want to give that to him. He did so much harm but will never pay a price for it. Indeed, he'll be praised. That's an injustice I can't stomach.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h

Excellent point. Thank you.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks for this.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h

Housing is too expensive to build and too expensive to afford.

Donald Trump's solution? Make it even MORE expensive with his chaotic tariffs.

Americans can't afford Donald Trump's housing market.

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