Woodnick
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Give me yarn, paints, dogs, music and the rule of law.
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An influential group of GOP hawks has launched a behind-the-scenes lobbying offensive pressing President Trump to greenlight an attack on Tehran by Israel.
Inside their campaign 👇
Inside their campaign 👇
Inside the MAGA vs. hawk battle to sway Trump on bombing Iran
Trump allies are trying to counter a private pressure campaign to ditch Steve Witkoff’s diplomatic effort and join Israel in attacking Tehran.
www.politico.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
An influential group of GOP hawks has launched a behind-the-scenes lobbying offensive pressing President Trump to greenlight an attack on Tehran by Israel.
Inside their campaign 👇
Inside their campaign 👇
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In the Trump cinematic universe, Musk is the goofball money bags rocket nerd, Steve Bannon is the guy radicalizing normies to build a geographically dispersed army of diehards, and Miller is his Roy Cohn…the utterly soulless killer you brandish as a threat, but don’t advertise too openly.
May 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In the Trump cinematic universe, Musk is the goofball money bags rocket nerd, Steve Bannon is the guy radicalizing normies to build a geographically dispersed army of diehards, and Miller is his Roy Cohn…the utterly soulless killer you brandish as a threat, but don’t advertise too openly.
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Genocide.
May 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Genocide.
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This is a plaque that Congress made to honor officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6.
It's been sitting in a storage room -- because Republicans haven't let it be installed.
"Republican members of Congress did not reply to emails requesting comment."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
It's been sitting in a storage room -- because Republicans haven't let it be installed.
"Republican members of Congress did not reply to emails requesting comment."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
May 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is a plaque that Congress made to honor officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6.
It's been sitting in a storage room -- because Republicans haven't let it be installed.
"Republican members of Congress did not reply to emails requesting comment."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
It's been sitting in a storage room -- because Republicans haven't let it be installed.
"Republican members of Congress did not reply to emails requesting comment."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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The shameless chutzpah of this wheezing gasbag, a selfish, superficial draft dodger lecturing those who will serve on the duties of someone serving in the military.
May 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The shameless chutzpah of this wheezing gasbag, a selfish, superficial draft dodger lecturing those who will serve on the duties of someone serving in the military.
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A new Louisiana law makes it illegal to use air pollution data to push for stricter controls or enforcement unless it's collected with expensive monitors that meet strict EPA standards. Community groups are suing, saying it violates their right to free speech.
In ‘Cancer Alley,’ a Battle Over Who Gets to Measure Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A new Louisiana law makes it illegal to use air pollution data to push for stricter controls or enforcement unless it's collected with expensive monitors that meet strict EPA standards. Community groups are suing, saying it violates their right to free speech.
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I'm far less confident than @dhnexon.bsky.social on the possibility of constitutional amendments. But there's lots we can do to become an actual democracy/republic simply through normal legislation. Yes, we should abolish the Senate, get rid of presidentialism, & more, but that's not gonna happen.
- Enlarge the House
- Add DC/PR/USVI as states
- Multi-member districts
- Automatic universal voter registration
- A new VRA
- Adding seats to SCOTUS + term limits
Presidentialism was a mistake & amending our Constitution is ~impossible, but there are ways to make 🇺🇸 an actual multiparty democracy
- Add DC/PR/USVI as states
- Multi-member districts
- Automatic universal voter registration
- A new VRA
- Adding seats to SCOTUS + term limits
Presidentialism was a mistake & amending our Constitution is ~impossible, but there are ways to make 🇺🇸 an actual multiparty democracy
The number of seats in Canada’s House of Commons is very close to the cube root of the country’s population, a tendency that is common in other democracies.
If the U.S. did that, the House would have nearly 700 members today instead of just 435, which is the same number it had in 1913
If the U.S. did that, the House would have nearly 700 members today instead of just 435, which is the same number it had in 1913
May 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I'm far less confident than @dhnexon.bsky.social on the possibility of constitutional amendments. But there's lots we can do to become an actual democracy/republic simply through normal legislation. Yes, we should abolish the Senate, get rid of presidentialism, & more, but that's not gonna happen.
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🧵 The platform needs to be
All of this, plus we must fix our electoral & legislative institutions so that we are not subject to permanent extreme minoritarian rule:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
All of this, plus we must fix our electoral & legislative institutions so that we are not subject to permanent extreme minoritarian rule:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
There is *no* Democratic politician and no "democratic trifecta" that will be able to, for example, rebuild the rule of law in two or four years. At least on its own. We need a sustained, long-term, campaign to change public views about (to name two things): [2]
May 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🧵 The platform needs to be
All of this, plus we must fix our electoral & legislative institutions so that we are not subject to permanent extreme minoritarian rule:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
All of this, plus we must fix our electoral & legislative institutions so that we are not subject to permanent extreme minoritarian rule:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Microsoft employees have discovered that any emails they send with the terms “Palestine” or “Gaza” are getting temporarily blocked from being sent. Microsoft confirmed to The Verge that it has implemented some form of email changes. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/tech/672312/...
Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests
Microsoft has made some changes to its email systems
www.theverge.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Microsoft employees have discovered that any emails they send with the terms “Palestine” or “Gaza” are getting temporarily blocked from being sent. Microsoft confirmed to The Verge that it has implemented some form of email changes. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/tech/672312/...
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THIS IS NOT NORMAL
Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation
#immigration
Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation
#immigration
‘Harrowing': Video shows Worcester police hold girl's face on ground during ICE operation
Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl’s face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation
www.nbcboston.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
THIS IS NOT NORMAL
Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation
#immigration
Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation
#immigration
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I plan to protest Saturday
April 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I plan to protest Saturday
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Let's have a Resister Follow Party tomorrow!
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April 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Let's have a Resister Follow Party tomorrow!
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The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
April 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
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"Mulino said the U.S. statement 'really surprises me because they’re making an important, institutional statement from the entity that governs [US] foreign policy under the president of the [US] based on a falsity. And that’s intolerable.'"
Lying about bilats is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.
Lying about bilats is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.
Panama's president denies making a deal that US warships can transit the canal for free
Panama President José Raúl Mulino has rejected the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a deal allowing U.S. warships to transit the Panama Canal for free.
apnews.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Mulino said the U.S. statement 'really surprises me because they’re making an important, institutional statement from the entity that governs [US] foreign policy under the president of the [US] based on a falsity. And that’s intolerable.'"
Lying about bilats is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.
Lying about bilats is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.
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"When the richest man in the world can so easily undermine our place on the global stage, it is, quite simply, a harbinger of decline: a sign of a corrupted superpower so brittle that its sources of influence can be taken apart from within." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...
Opinion | This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected
He is making us a corrupted, brittle superpower.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"When the richest man in the world can so easily undermine our place on the global stage, it is, quite simply, a harbinger of decline: a sign of a corrupted superpower so brittle that its sources of influence can be taken apart from within." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...
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Fired: Five Years Ago, I Was Forced Out of the National Security Council
open.substack.com/pub/alexande...
open.substack.com/pub/alexande...
Fired: Five Years Ago, I Was Forced Out of the National Security Council
I Fear It's a Prelude of What's Coming for Many Career Officials Under Trump 2.0.
open.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Fired: Five Years Ago, I Was Forced Out of the National Security Council
open.substack.com/pub/alexande...
open.substack.com/pub/alexande...
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Elected officials need to be deciding now what they're going to do if that happens. So do the rest of us.
They are working themselves up to ignoring court rulings.
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Hard to know how close we are to the precipice
February 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Elected officials need to be deciding now what they're going to do if that happens. So do the rest of us.
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The Musk/Trump junta is exploiting an utterly deadly loophole in the American system:
Courts may rule against evil white men, but evil white men have figured out that no one is, thus far, willing to *lay hands* on them to enforce those orders.
We must end this loophole now.
Courts may rule against evil white men, but evil white men have figured out that no one is, thus far, willing to *lay hands* on them to enforce those orders.
We must end this loophole now.
Someone must enforce the court orders against these baby-soft-handed terrorists.
what we’re seeing is that the courts are willing to rule against the government on certain things but there’s no one to actually enforce it.
February 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The Musk/Trump junta is exploiting an utterly deadly loophole in the American system:
Courts may rule against evil white men, but evil white men have figured out that no one is, thus far, willing to *lay hands* on them to enforce those orders.
We must end this loophole now.
Courts may rule against evil white men, but evil white men have figured out that no one is, thus far, willing to *lay hands* on them to enforce those orders.
We must end this loophole now.
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February 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...