@ocstomias.bsky.social
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They are very worried.
Crow: They’re doing things that are deeply unpopular. Their approval ratings continue to go down—that is, Republican members of Congress and this administration—and yet they don’t seem worried about it.

Which raises the obvious question: what are they going to do?
September 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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"The Trump administration’s problem isn’t so much the scourge of political violence but who gets to commit it."
New: For @msnbc.com I wrote abt Trump’s absurd EO declaring antifa a “domestic terror org”

I trace history of MAGA manufacturing antifa bogeyman to both distract from v real far right violence, & to create a pretext for vigilantes & police to target the wider left www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump‘s new anti-antifa panic is the start of something much more dangerous
The president signed an executive order Monday declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.”
www.msnbc.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Sometimes I think I’m just having a weird nightmare and I’ll wake up and everything will be back to normal
Opinion | I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

All those people getting fired for comments about Kirk - turns out they were hunted down.
Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio: MAGA Has Figured Out How to ‘Play Dirty’
Inside the far-right network that is working to get people fired for what they say about Charlie Kirk
www.theatlantic.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"I saw the message on her son’s t-shirt: Always be kind. ...that word 'always,' on a boy’s chest in the middle of a city that has been pounded for three years, has to be there, as a reminder that ideals are ideals, and that they are part of reality."
snyder.substack.com/p/always-be-...
Always be kind
An unexpected wartime slogan
snyder.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Crisis fatigue is real. I'm taking the weekend off for some self care.

But don't worry, my buddy @alt-doge.bsky.social is ready to fill in. Fresh off some close encounters of the DOGE kind, they got you!

And don't forget the #altgov #altfam too!
April 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Longmont, CO
April 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
There have been lots of talk about how bizarre these tariffs are. Tariffs on uninhabited islands, tariffs on Diego Garcia (basically just a military base). But looks like they may have used AI to come up with their tariff scheme.
April 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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“How many times have we been told, by Republicans and Democrats alike, that no matter who else wound up vaporized in any given strike, what matters is that we took out one notorious enemy?” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Last Taboo | Patrick Blanchfield
“Nobody knows who the Houthis are,” Hegseth says in the group chat—another way of saying that, when we’re dealing with the Houthis, or the Houthi-adjacent, or anybody adjacent to anything or anyone el...
www.nplusonemag.com
March 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I've been seeing headlines about the government investigating companies over "DEI." Today it was "Disney faces US investigation DEI." While that sounds chilling, it also implies that Disney (in this case) did something wrong. 1/2
March 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Look who I ran into today in Greeley!
4000 folks inside, 7000 outside, they talked to both.
March 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Why Musk was cosplaying with a chainsaw and what happened in Argentina' the past year shows what is in store for the USA:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sla...
Slashing the State | Pablo Pryluka
Argentina under Milei
www.phenomenalworld.org
February 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
February 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
February 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).
February 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM