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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · Jun 11

“Miller, April 28, 2015, 11:38 p.m. ET: Something tells me there is not a Calvin Coolidge exhibit.”

This is one quote from emails sent by Stephen Miller that show he is a racist hater.

It is not the most inflammatory one but the one I want to write about.
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Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails

In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories.

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 3h

It’s the same reason that Hitler became more popular in 1934

katefromnyc.bsky.social @katefromnyc.bsky.social · 4h

I will just never understand why people do not realize this, given the boatloads of evidence.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 3h

Me too. Haven’t read anything in that rag since Bezos stuck his tongue up Trump behind.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 5h

Fucking awful headline

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 5h

President Trump’s declaration that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be jailed is the latest clash between two feuding billionaires.

The Bad Blood Between Trump and Pritzker Goes Back Decades

President Trump’s declaration that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be jailed is the latest clash between two feuding billionaires.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I can create peace with tariffs. I'm using them for a lot of different reasons. If that power was taken away, it would be a terrible terrible day for our country. I would say many of the things I've done could be eradicated ... these are enemies of the country that are pursuing that lawsuit"

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 4h

BREAKING: I just forced a vote with Senator Kaine to block the unauthorized boat strikes in the Caribbean.

In an important step forward, the vote was bipartisan, even if it fell two votes short.

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate

A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a 48-51 vote.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 4h

This is exactly what I’ve been saying for sometime now.

They know they cannot win. They don’t seem to care. Why do you think that might be?

Trump said it’s himself before the last election. If you vote for me, you won’t ever have to vote again.

Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 4h

The list goes on and on. (I need to write a full article about it). The GOP is governing like a party that never expects to face a competitive election again, and when you look at all the options they have on the table, yeah, that's a reasonable assumption on their parts.

Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 4h

Exactly

Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 5h

This is probably the end of freedom of speech and expression in the US.

Burning a flag is inciting a riot. Insulting Trump or a Republican is inciting a riot. Ditto blasphemy or being trans in public. Every action becomes a federal felony if the DOJ doesn't like it.

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Trump says ‘we took the freedom of speech away’ as officials compare Antifa to Hamas in White House roundtable

Right-wing media figures demand forceful action against militant antifascist groups

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 4h

Once a regime unleashes hatred, the violence will follow. Once the violence is unleashed, there can be no telling how far it will go.

Just ask the Germans, the Cambodians, Ukrainians in 1930s, and so many others.

Maga unleashed the hatred years ago. Now comes the violence.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 5h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 5h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 4h

9 October 1906 | A Dutch Jew, Jacob Muijs, was born in Amsterdam.

In April 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
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Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

Black and white portrait of a man wearing a suit and a fedora hat.

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 4h

Either Johnson is not really a religious man or his God is a sociopath

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 4h

Mike Johnson gets another public dressing-down from Rep. Madeleine Dean

Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 6h

Baseball has been loosing popularity for decades.

So what does the MLB do?

They made it impossible to watch without paying for yet another subscription.

No kid surfing the channels will find it. No casualties watchers.

No new young fans.

Best way to ensure your future extinction

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 7h

Masterful takedown

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 8h

Deluded or lying?

Portland has plenty of stores. And boutiques. Lots of boutiques.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

This rift has caused significant damage in American Jewry. It has spurred family feuds, broken friendships, attempts to ostracize those who oppose Israel, and even cases of people being denied or fired from jobs in Jewish communal life. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 1d

Where are the howls???

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's tiresome to play the "imagine if the parties were reversed" game, but thinking about how Republicans (and right-wing media) would be reacting if a Democratic-controlled House was refusing to swear in a newly elected *Republican* member may be the apotheosis of this particular meme.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"“If the deputy director wants to do something and needs a legal opinion about whether or not he can do it, he can’t advise himself...”

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C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 2d

The people of Arizona should sue for being deprived of representation

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva won her election two weeks ago. Republicans refuse to seat her in Congress.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jeffries: "Republicans enacted permanent tax breaks for the wealthy, well-off, and well-connected. Permanent tax breaks. And now the nerve of these people to say to us that 'we do not have the time or inclination to address the ACA tax credits for working-class Americans'"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

For God’s Sake, Democrats: Don’t Cave!

They’re widely, and rightly, perceived as weak. The shutdown fight is their chance to shock us for a change.

For God’s Sake, Democrats: Don’t Cave

They’re widely, and rightly, perceived as weak. The shutdown fight is their chance to shock us for a change.

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