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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 9h

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on President Donald Trump saying that him and Chicago Mayor Johnson should both be "jailed":

"He's a coward. He says a lot of things to the camera. He likes to pretend to be a tough guy. Come and get me. Come and get me."

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Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 1d

Ha no, I send many of these in my professional capacity and was just wondering if the tool would be available to streamline that. I appreciate it, though!

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Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 1d

Any chance or way you'd make it available for others to use?

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Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 1d

Is this a tool you're creating??

Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 3d

Lolololololololololol

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Dec 18

pathetic abcnews.go.com/Politics/dem...

Democrats' playbook to beat Republicans in 2 years: work with them now

Democrats have a plan to take back power in Washington back from Republicans in two years: work with them now.

abcnews.go.com

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

History repeats.

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Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 5d

Some of the finest bozos around.

taber @kvetch.gay · 5d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 5d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 5d

Well, sure, but that still doesn't mean they know exactly what you do hahaha

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Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 5d

That is, think of Marbury. Do we really think the Roberts Court is going to give Trump a chance to defy its orders on anything major? I have my doubts. So, yes, the admin cares about rule of law....but they're also hell-bent on pushing that as far as it can go.

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Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know that you should take it personally, even if they intend it personally. The way the public views this is far different than how we as lawyers do. Even then, I think there's room for nuance with your point, too.

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Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 5d

In other words, Schumer and the Dem establishment were hilariously wrong about this the first time a shutdown was a possibility. Just like many were screaming at them.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: A flash poll by The Washington Post finds that 47% of Americans blame Trump and Republicans in Congress for the partial government shutdown, compared with 30 percent who blame Democrats in Congress.

Despite having media on their side Trump losing bigly www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“The big news
Whom do Americans blame for the government shutdown that has crept into its second day?

A flash poll by The Washington Post finds that 47 percent of Americans blame President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress for the partial government shutdown, compared with 30 percent who blame Democrats in Congress. A significant 23 percent said they were not sure.

The poll is full of fascinating findings, including that political independents are more than twice as likely to blame Trump and Republicans than Democrats. Meanwhile, Democrats are more likely to blame Republicans (at 87 percent) than Republicans are to blame Democrats (67 percent).”

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7d

Carr is killing this program because AT&T does not like the precedent of government offering poor children free internet access they believe their families should be overpaying for.

But Carr can't just SAY this, so he had to make up a bunch of bullshit about what the program actually did.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 8d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 8d

I think I need to turn off the internet for today.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8d

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 9d

Just to take stock: the first claim was that there was an entire literature supporting the anti-birthright position. Then, *after* that claim, scholars emerged to post drafts on SSRN. And *now* the government points to a "growing body of modern scholarship" all drafted after the initial claim.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 9d

A LITERATURE IS BORN!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

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Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 8d

This is an extremely damning piece. Wow.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

www.theguardian.com

Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 8d

Bluesky is a wild place because my feed is like:

-BREAKING: Trump authorizes Department of War to attack US citizens on streets of Chicago

-BREAKING: Trump administration to claim Constitution has a secret clause that excludes all minorities

-BREAKING: JJ McCarthy not expected to play vs Browns

Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 9d

Ilan Wurman once again profoundly embarrassing the University of Minnesota Law School.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9d

Trump's petition asking the Supreme Court to let him officially redefine (read: rescind) birthright citizenship is now available and

I wish I did not have to worry about the Supreme Court taking seriously such obviously, egregiously unserious & racist bullshit

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

www.supremecourt.gov

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?

I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.

So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 9d

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House.

If the government shuts down, it's because Republicans chose to shut it down rather than work with Democrats to pass a responsible budget.

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