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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 43m

The comments on this post are … something. The lack of empathy, political imagination, and strategic thinking is troubling. C’mon folks. Ben points out a vulnerability and lever (the NG troops who could become allies against these deployments) and the replies are like, “Nope. Eff that. Eff them.”

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 10h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 37m

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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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1h

“Miller is working overtime to polarize the public debate about Trump's increasingly dictatorial abuses of power…He relentlessly depicts Democrats as allied with a vast, inchoate class of violent criminals and insurrectionists…” sharp read of what Stephen Miller wants from @gregsargent.bsky.social

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

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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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 14h

Was very fun talking democracy clubs, the current vibes in Arkansas and the South, and more with @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @hollybfletcher.bsky.social

Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 18h

On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & @hollybfletcher.bsky.social welcome Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social to discuss deployment of the #NationalGuard in US cities, the difference between grassroots & elite political participation, & the importance of just showing up.

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 7m

Crossover?!!!

a baby yoda and a gremlin are hugging each other in a room .

Alt: a baby yoda and a gremlin are hugging each other in a room .

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 1h

Gaze upon this magnificent queen.

A ginormous yellow mum in full bloom. Each yellow flower has an orange center.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 58m

Sens Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt are holding their hearing on the Biden Censorship Regime of 2018. Watch live here as they try to figure out: who was president in 2020?

Witnesses: Alex Berenson, Sean Davis of the Federalist,
Eugene Volokh, Gene Kimmelman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRu...

LIVE: Ted Cruz Leads Senate Hearing About 'How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans'

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 24m

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/a-new-book

A new book!

My first collaboration with Patrick Chappatte

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 20m

In the best of all possible worlds, there WOULD have been a Comey perp walk & he would have shown up dressed like this:

Portland protest cartoon critters dancing

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 20m

Walk The Line

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 22m

Did they have bleach and ivermectin on the Pequod?

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 47m

All this talk about how to use the Insurrection Act seems to gloss over the fact that there is no insurrection. Not even close. It’s another Trump scam.

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Trump keeps talking about the Insurrection Act. What is it?

President Donald Trump floated the possibility of using the Insurrection Act after Oregon and Illinois objected to his National Guard deployments. Here’s what the law says.

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 32m

It’s become a norm and tradition for Trump cabinet officials to prepare attack oppo on congressional oversight committee members.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 44m

The people running our major media institutions are not human beings—they're paid mercenaries.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: James Comey pleads not guilty to federal criminal charges, judge sets trial date for Jan. 5

More details TK

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

Good morning from the line outside the courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former FBI director James Comey is set to be arraigned on federal charges.

I’m here for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along for updates ⬇️

Federal courthouse in EDVA, with line of people out front and a guy holding a “show trial” sign

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 46m

The hottest club right now is the AI bubble, it’s got everything!

a man says " this place has everything " while holding something in his hand

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 49m

Add in the tech bros are literally trying to build an AI messiah.

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 1h

Or worse… “Let’s go
Brandon”

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

When a law enforcement officer aims a weapon at someone wielding a camera, it is procedurally unsound and unprofessional in two fundamental ways:
1) It is disproportional to any actual threat and is instead an unprovoked threat against a citizen.
2) The officer is a crazed, untrained asshole.

Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 15h

Call me a libtard but this doesn't seem like something that should be happening in the United States of America.

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 1h

Ridicule and mockery pops the the autocrat balloon. 🗡️🎈

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 2h

This is the way

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 2h

He’s on the QVC set shilling 14ct gold plate home decor.

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 2h

The Midlands is fried bologna territory.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

Let's note that Christopher Caldwell, who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution.

So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 3h

If Donald Trump is concerned about inciting violence he should muzzle his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller.
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Stephen Miller is the Poster Boy for the Rabid MAGA Movement

The more voters see of him, the more repulsed they’ll be

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