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America was. Truth was. We are. “There is a deeper magic …”
1 Samuel 8:4-21. 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
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1 Samuel 8:4-21. 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
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"liberals struggle with the overwhelming volume of questions to be asked, answers to be offered... A fascist just has to be a storyteller. Because for fascists words do not attach to meanings, the stories don’t need... to accord with external reality."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
www.newyorker.com
America was. Truth was. We are. “There is a deeper magic …”
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The DOGE guys didn’t just make one $8B mistake in their savings list — “they are getting it wrong with alarming consistency”
They don’t seem to understand how these things are calculated.
🧵: x.com/electricfutu...
They don’t seem to understand how these things are calculated.
🧵: x.com/electricfutu...
February 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The DOGE guys didn’t just make one $8B mistake in their savings list — “they are getting it wrong with alarming consistency”
They don’t seem to understand how these things are calculated.
🧵: x.com/electricfutu...
They don’t seem to understand how these things are calculated.
🧵: x.com/electricfutu...
x.com
x.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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“Count Dracula’s Team Now Has Access to Your Throat”
“Representatives of the Department of Circulatory Efficiency have been given a tool to monitor and potentially divert blood flow”
“Representatives of the Department of Circulatory Efficiency have been given a tool to monitor and potentially divert blood flow”
February 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“Count Dracula’s Team Now Has Access to Your Throat”
“Representatives of the Department of Circulatory Efficiency have been given a tool to monitor and potentially divert blood flow”
“Representatives of the Department of Circulatory Efficiency have been given a tool to monitor and potentially divert blood flow”
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Trump and Musk are tanking the American economy -- so they can create chaos, and seize more control. THEY will be the only winners.
WE will be the ones paying more, suffering more, and losing our money, our jobs, and our freedoms.
WE will be the ones paying more, suffering more, and losing our money, our jobs, and our freedoms.
February 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trump and Musk are tanking the American economy -- so they can create chaos, and seize more control. THEY will be the only winners.
WE will be the ones paying more, suffering more, and losing our money, our jobs, and our freedoms.
WE will be the ones paying more, suffering more, and losing our money, our jobs, and our freedoms.
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Even as we are all wading through a massive fire hose of news….and figuring out what matters and what doesn’t…the takeover of the treasury dept payment system by Musk posse is one we should pay attention to.
February 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Even as we are all wading through a massive fire hose of news….and figuring out what matters and what doesn’t…the takeover of the treasury dept payment system by Musk posse is one we should pay attention to.
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This from Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking Dem on Senate Finance Committee. bsky.app/profile/wyde...
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This from Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking Dem on Senate Finance Committee. bsky.app/profile/wyde...
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Trump’s attempted impoundments are a claim to presidential control of legislation, and so if allowed would undo a very fundamental principle of the Constitution. Read this.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...
120. The Impoundment Crisis of 2025
The Trump administration's Monday spending freeze is likely to provoke a crisis over the constitutionality of "impoundment"—one that the justices could well have to resolve *very* soon.
www.stevevladeck.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Trump’s attempted impoundments are a claim to presidential control of legislation, and so if allowed would undo a very fundamental principle of the Constitution. Read this.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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“Here’s a story that should be written this weekend:”
“Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices”
“Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices”
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“Here’s a story that should be written this weekend:”
“Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices”
“Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices”
Nothing could please America’s enemies more than the ongoing destruction of the federal government.
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
February 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Nothing could please America’s enemies more than the ongoing destruction of the federal government.
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Nothing could please America’s enemies more than the ongoing destruction of the federal government.
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You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
February 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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“Trump’s second-term message strategy seems to be throwing dictatorial spaghetti against a wall to see what sticks.”
@davidlitt.bsky.social, a former Obama speechwriter, weighs in on Trump’s week-one rhetorical strategy—and how to beat it.
@davidlitt.bsky.social, a former Obama speechwriter, weighs in on Trump’s week-one rhetorical strategy—and how to beat it.
How to Drink from a Firehose
A former Obama speechwriter on Trump’s week-one rhetorical strategy—and how you can help beat it
contrarian.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“Trump’s second-term message strategy seems to be throwing dictatorial spaghetti against a wall to see what sticks.”
@davidlitt.bsky.social, a former Obama speechwriter, weighs in on Trump’s week-one rhetorical strategy—and how to beat it.
@davidlitt.bsky.social, a former Obama speechwriter, weighs in on Trump’s week-one rhetorical strategy—and how to beat it.
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America was. Truth was. We are. “There is a deeper magic …”
"liberals struggle with the overwhelming volume of questions to be asked, answers to be offered... A fascist just has to be a storyteller. Because for fascists words do not attach to meanings, the stories don’t need... to accord with external reality."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
www.newyorker.com
November 12, 2024 at 2:30 PM
America was. Truth was. We are. “There is a deeper magic …”
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Ukrainian national costumes😎
December 28, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Ukrainian national costumes😎
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December 24, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Thanks for having me @jenpsaki.bsky.social!
@katiephang.bsky.social on Gaetz ethics report: "I think there was more than enough probable cause for a number of state felonies that were violated by Matt Gaetz, and I'm stunned that there wasn't more proactivity done by law enforcement.”
December 24, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Thanks for having me @jenpsaki.bsky.social!
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The most that can be said about the present moment is that there is disagreement within the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party about which faces to eat in what order.
December 21, 2024 at 4:07 PM
The most that can be said about the present moment is that there is disagreement within the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party about which faces to eat in what order.
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Russia and China have a model to cheaply install their candidates in elections worldwide and now they're applying everywhere.
Democracy is dying only because the West refuses to shut it down.
Democracy is dying only because the West refuses to shut it down.
A massive, coordinated expensive Tik-Tok promotion campaign helped a pro- Russian candidate in Romanian presidential elections. He declared he spent no money on the campaign...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Romania hit by major election influence campaign, amid Russian cyber-attacks
Romania's intelligence service reveals details of what it says is an attempt from abroad to meddle in the country's presidential election.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Russia and China have a model to cheaply install their candidates in elections worldwide and now they're applying everywhere.
Democracy is dying only because the West refuses to shut it down.
Democracy is dying only because the West refuses to shut it down.
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Russian assets in movies
Russian assets in real life
Russian assets in real life
December 4, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Russian assets in movies
Russian assets in real life
Russian assets in real life
