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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3h

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

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote legal editorials for the Post for a hot minute many years ago, and I was constantly anxious about making sure I got the details right. This editorial is just humiliating for everyone involved

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 12h

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4h

Toldya. He was seeing if he could get away with bombing Venezuelans, and now he's going to go after Americans.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 11h

We knew CNN was bought and paid for. Now they’re brazenly editing interviews, like stripping out the word ‘plenary’ said by little Stephen Miller.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump to Hannity: "The tariffs have brought peace to the world. I'm telling you they brought peace to the world."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

Pathetic. bsky.app/profile/step...

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Michael sisto @sistosterone.bsky.social · 4h

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8h

5 Alarm Fire, folks.

Everything we've been warning about on Democracy-Ish and The Left Hook for months.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2h

after going to El Salvador two weeks ago, and DC last week, I am now spending a few days in, of all places, Portland, because I have somehow accidentally committed myself to a Fascism World Tour

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry martial law was declared, but egg prices ticked up after a once-in-100-year pandemic and the President who dealt with it bored the shit out of the media who was desperate to get the guy who talked to them all the time back in office. 🙃

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Reminder: Never travel out of the country with your main cell phone (or without backing it up and then doing a factory reset) or laptop.

CBP agents are effectively Redcoats and they WILL delight in reminding you that they owe you no rights.

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back from a @RoyalCa ribbean cruise today in Florida.
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aFreeStateNH is a non-violent, peaceful libertarian movernent that
builds community, culture and political change.
We were invited to New Hampshire in the early 2000s bythe Govemor
of the state. We reject violence as a path to creating change.
In detail, I had to explain the nature of the Defend the Guard rnovernent
and assure them that I was not part of a violent extremist group seeking
to raise a militia for insurrection against the government.
At one point during my detention, I asked for clarification on what rights I
had here as a US. citizen and was told that they did not næd a warrant
for anything in my possession, including all my elæ•tronic devices.
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Truth be told, I am shaken up and in shock right now.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 22h

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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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · 13h

Let's focus on Steven Millers slip up on CNN.
Who the hell does he think he is?

Plenary?Plenary authority?

No Steven Miller, Wrong again!!

No! You do not plenary authority to harm the American Public. It is cruel and illegal. You do not have the executive power to overthrow our own government

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 12h

Catholics, get the message out to your parishes.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

“The law does not permit this kind of prolonged deprivation of an individual’s liberty without any allegations or charges of violating the law,” said Jean Elizabeth Reisz, an attorney representing Marin, who is also a USC law professor.

lataco.com/bayron-rovid...

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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 1d

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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