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Eric Blyler

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Liberally blocking people who use “liberal” as a slur. Not an automatic follow back. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · Jun 8

h/t @djinnandtonic.bsky.social

California protest flag with text “Don’t Tread On Us”

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

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Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 7h

Conservatives are ignoble autocratic liars for the most
part and the few who aren’t should be gettable in this environment.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t disagree that Reagan free market absolutism has wrought havoc but the whitewashing of Ollie North is how we got Trump.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 8h

A a deer a deer with antlers
N a Never Trumper now
T a name I call cuck med
I a name I call myself
F a golden f bomb dropped
A an office that’s for real

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 8h

I have no confidence in Hamas data, but the anecdata is irrefutable.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, Israeli views do matter too, but your point mostly stands. Israelis do need to sufficiently recognize the devastation that’s been brought to Gaza.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 8h

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Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 9h

I will be The Last Good Faith Man Standing

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 9h

My argument to serious conservatives would be that the civil rights act and voting rights act were necessary because reconstruction failed. Want to limit the government’s control then repair our social contract.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 9h

I think it will be a useful, if inadequate framing of the moment.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 9h

Enter The Second Reconstruction!

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 9h

Like, I think replacing him is a political question, not a legal one.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 9h

I think he has legal legitimacy. We do need a POTUS and legally there is no other option.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 9h

I think one could argue in the vein of “seriously but not literally” that Trump is technically legitimate but actually illegitimate.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 9h

still a very monarchist view.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 9h

The Spirit of Iran/Contra is alive and well in MAGA.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 10h

Shot/Chaser. Yea.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 10h

but even more clearly with National Review which pretends to be Trump skeptical but offers zero substantive resistance.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 10h

It really comes down to who still considers themselves a republican. The Bulwark crowd doesn’t. The Dispatch crowd mostly does, even though they deny it, you can still clearly see their partisan instincts.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 10h

Red Scare politics is alive and well in MAGA. What’s a “real” American. Reagan republicans did not see socialists, welfare queens, or gay men dying of AIDS as real Americans.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 10h

people forget for all Reagan’s victories, his ideology was forged in the fire of McCarthyism. The anti-Trump Reagan Republicans have more in common with Trump than they think.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 10h

How about Organic Textualist. You’re happy for change, just want it codified.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 10h

Robert is our lefty token textualist.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 11h

We need a second reconstruction the same way we needed a second continental congress.

Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 11h

Immigrant Test Audiences: They get the job done!

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...