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This conservative law professor’s blistering critique of the Trump admin’s boat strikes has been re-posted by:

* conservative Princeton Law Professor Robert George

* conservative Harvard Law Professor Richard M. Re

* conservative UVA Professor Brad Wilcox &

* Ed Whelan of the conservative EPPC
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d
“A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder” By Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith (a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute & former head of the Office of Legal Counsel) 1/
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
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November 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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joewrote.bsky.social
This is why I write so critically and frequently about Ezra Klein (and Matt Yglesias). Democrats are led by the centrist blogosphere, yet for the last year they’ve claimed progressives control the DNC to excuse their failure. Klein, Yglesias, Chait, etc ushered in GOP fascism and refuse…
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axios.com Axios @axios.com · 14d
New York Times columnist Ezra Klein isn't content with opining about the Democratic Party — he's positioned himself as a powerbroker inside of it.
How Ezra Klein's power play is guiding Democrats
The New York Times columnist, podcaster and author has helped shape the party's strategies and policies in President Trump's second term.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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susanrinkunas.com
What would *actually* be different is if the Democratic party offered an unapologetic defense of bodily autonomy. That has never happened at the highest levels—"restore Roe" doesn't count.
www.jezebel.com/only-an-idio...
As for Klein saying that the Democratic Party “wants to do nothing differently,” it actually already has a long history of embracing anti-abortion politics and has never fully supported bodily autonomy. Former president Joe Biden could barely muster a defense of the right to choose, and when he did, he still infected it with anti-abortion stigma. Rather than rejecting any government interference—which would be a real difference—Democrats have always compromised by allowing states and the federal government to ban the procedure later in pregnancy under the Roe v. Wade framework.
September 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden

Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead
Neera Tanden @neeratanden This is something people really have to take seriously. We need to expand the tent. Leah Libresco Sarg... @LeahLibre... • 2h Ezra Klein says the more worried you are about authoritarianism, the more willing you've got to be to run pro-life Democrats in red states. nytimes.com/2025/09/18/opi... almost always incredibly high. I think they happen to be higher now. And I do think a lot of what is happening in terms of the structure of the system itself is dangerous. I think that the hour is late in many ways. My view is that a lot of
September 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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susanrinkunas.com
See: current Poland, Ceaușescu's Romania, etc etc etc
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susanrinkunas.com Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · May 1
For people who don’t believe that a real-life government could track pregnancies like Trump suggested, it already happened in Romania. And Justice Clarence Thomas’ sugar daddy has a statue of the guy.
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Screenshot: Authoritarian governments monitoring pregnancies is, unfortunately, not a new idea. Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu imposed a total abortion ban from 1966 to 1989, enforced by compulsory gynecological exams and pregnancy tests. Justice Clarence Thomas' sugar daddy Harlan Crow has a statute of Ceausescu in his garden of dictators. (Crow also allegedly has a Nazi memorabilia collection, including two paintings by Adolf Hitler and a signed copy of "Mein Kampf.") Romania's law, Decree 770, banned birth control as well, and Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe that he believed the justices should overturn Griswold v. Connecticut, the case that established the right to use contraception.
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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susanrinkunas.com
Abortion bans are in fact a hallmark of authoritarian governments, as I reminded one Ezra Klein
susanrinkunas.com Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · Sep 22
The Democratic Party should not embrace anti-abortion candidates in order to win elections and halt the country’s authoritarian drift—we have abortion bans BECAUSE of the authoritarian drift.
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Meanwhile, Klein’s claim that people alarmed at the direction of the country need to compromise on abortion access ignores the reams of evidence that prove how restricting abortion rights goes hand-in-hand with authoritarian governance. As his own employer reported in 2021, “Curbs on women’s rights tend to accelerate in backsliding democracies, a category that includes the United States, according to virtually every independent metric and watchdog.” We have state abortion bans in this country because our government is no longer responsive to the will of the people. Further capitulating now will only make things worse, you simpleton.
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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financialtimes.com
Trump flattery will get you nowhere on.ft.com/4pfIKps | opinion
Trump flattery will get you nowhere
Fawning after the US president is not only humiliating — it doesn’t work
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November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
I think this finding from our Oct. Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll was overlooked, and should shift some of the conventional wisdom about why Harris lost in 2024 and what the Dem. Party needs to do to win in 2026/2028. Anti-incumbent bias on the economy is underrated substack.com/@gelliottmor...
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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nytimes.com
Tiramisù doesn’t require baking, feeds a crowd and actually needs to be prepared in advance, making it a great contender for a Thanksgiving dessert. Cranberry, pumpkin and apple give this creamy no-bake classic a fall makeover with festive flavors.
These Tiramisù Are the Best Make-Ahead Thanksgiving Desserts
Cranberry, pumpkin and apple give the creamy no-bake classic a fall makeover with festive flavors.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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thebulwark.com
@timmiller.bsky.social: "People after the election last week and sort of smell lame duckedness on him in a way that they couldn't before, it does feel like it's at least possible this week could be a week we look back on and say, you know, the wheels did finally come off this fucking thing."
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
It’s official. The New York Times is now worse than Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal
beerlaimbill.bsky.social Beer Laimbill @beerlaimbill.bsky.social · 16d
NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory”

WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
noahshachtman.bsky.social Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 16d
Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics?

Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
kellerzoe.bsky.social
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution. From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty.
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‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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stef47.bsky.social
NASA put guys on the moon fifty years ago and brought them back. Then Reagan spat on all things governmental including NASA. Now we just have the mental part, where guys like Musk and Bezos build huge erectile, ejaculatory monuments to themselves.
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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thebulwark.com
For decades, California Republicans have been essential to the GOP’s ability to gain a majority in the House. But the handful of competitive districts and reliably red areas far from the coast won’t be around much longer. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-kick...
Trump Kicks California Republicans Into the Abyss
As their districts disappear and their careers in Congress end, few admit their own party is to blame.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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thebulwark.com
The groyper genie is out of the lamp now; no fresh-faced Gen-Z Heritage visiting fellow is going to stuff it back in. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-conser...
The Conservative Old Guard Wakes Up and Smells the Groypers
Older Republicans and professional right-wingers are suddenly recognizing the GOP’s young-Nazi problem.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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cherold.bsky.social
@gelliottmorris.com's wise words on Dem strategists:

'They can’t say “Kamala Harris lost because of inflation, there’s nothing we could have done about that,” or else people won’t give the money, right?'

After the Dem Sweep: Talking with G. Elliott Morris paulkrugman.substack.com/p/after-the-...
After the Dem Sweep: Talking with G. Elliott Morris
My polling guru on what just happened.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
this article will publish tomorrow at 7:30 am

One way the shutdown deal might actually help Dems

Dems have an opportunity to claim they saved SNAP and other government programs, which could help repair the party's image as one that fights for working people

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/one-way-th...
One way the shutdown deal might actually help Democrats
A plurality of voters approve of the deal to end the shutdown. Democrats have an opportunity to claim they saved SNAP and other government programs, key to repairing the party's image
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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patblanchfield.bsky.social
nobody is talking about this but what if Jeffrey Epstein was actually the only human being in the history of late capitalism to achieve work life balance
its ezra klein on jeffrey epstein this past july. he says "I think I should say, before I start this episode, where I am on the Epstein story. If you forced me to give you my best guess, I think this guy had a lot of powerful friends, and that he was a predator and a pedophile, and those sides of his life were mostly separate." (available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-will-sommer.html)
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Trump’s so-called “Justice Department” on Thursday sued to block new congressional district boundaries overwhelmingly approved by California voters last week, joining a court battle that could help determine which party wins control of the House in 2026.
Justice Department sues to block California US House map in clash that could tip control of Congress
The Justice Department on Thursday sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters last week, joining a court battle that could help determine which party wins contro...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
If Schumer thinks a no vote will absolve him of responsibility, he’s dead wrong. He’s the minority leader. It‘s his job to keep Senate Dems in line — or to hand over the job to someone who can.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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grahamformaine.bsky.social
Chuck Schumer is not built for this moment.
rokhanna.bsky.social Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 21d
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Here’s the list of the eight Democrats who caved:

⚫️ Catherine Cortez Masto
⚫️ Dick Durbin
⚫️ John Fetterman
⚫️ Maggie Hassan
⚫️ Tim Kaine
⚫️ Angus King
⚫️ Jackie Rosen
⚫️ Jeanne Shaheen

Their excuses don’t hold water. They betrayed all Americans who were counting on them to stand firm and keep fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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webvixen.bsky.social
Get Schumer out. Tick tock ⏳
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.

I’m terribly disappointed in him.
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM