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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Look, it's crazy for a president to talk this way to the armed forces of the United States, which are paid for by all Americans and are sworn to protect them all too

I won't stop saying it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "I was president in 2016. And then they rigged the election on me. And then we caught 'em, didn't we?"

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Fredrick Mortvedt @feskehau.bsky.social · 3d

Godt svar!

Jo, norgespris oppmuntrer til økt strømbruk

Svarer Nordeas investeringsdirektør Robert Næss.

www.aftenposten.no

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8d

After Donald Trump's address to military leaders today, "senior U.S. officers have to wonder who will shield them from the impulses of the person they just saw onstage," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay

Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

Finally, Judge Young lays out why this matters to him. He quotes a famous Reagan speech and ends with a plea to the American people to "stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values" and not be "lulled" into acquiescence to Trump's crackdown on speech.

Block quote: "Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people."

President Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as Governor of the State of California (January 5, 1967). I first heard these words of President Reagan’s back in 2007 when my son quoted them in the Law Day celebration speech at the Norfolk Superior Court. I was deeply moved and hold these words before me as a I discharge judicial duties. As I’ve read and re-read the record in this case, listened widely, and reflected extensively, I’ve come to believe that President Trump truly understands and appreciates the full import of President Reagan’s inspiring message –- yet I fear he has drawn from it a darker, more cynical message. I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected. Is he correct?

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 8d

It's like stupid Stalinism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "I'm gonna be meeting with generals and admirals and with leaders, and if I don't like somebody, I'm gonna fire them right on the spot."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8d

If George Washington himself had done this as President, he would have been impeached, removed, prosecuted, and imprisoned. This was one of the greatest fears of the Framers.

NPR @npr.org · 8d

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

Trump defends use of U.S. military against 'enemy within'

Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 8d

This precisely. 100%. 10/10. No notes.

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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 · 9d

This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 9d

So a Trumper with an assault rifle massacred people in a church and burned it down because he hated Mormons. But we're so used to seeing THAT, it'll be out of the news by the end of the week.

No flags at half staff for the slain worshippers I guess.

Jason Allen, a Burton resident, told CNN that even locals who didn't personally know Sanford recognized his truck.
With flags flying from the back as Sanford drove it through town, "you couldn't miss the truck," Allen said. Sometimes, he said, Sanford would
"switch one of his flags out for a 'F*** Biden' flag."
Sanford, who went by "Jake," was an Iraq War veteran and outdoorsman, according to military records and social media posts. He grew up in the Flint area and had lived for years in the suburb of Burton, public records show.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 9d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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Ole M. Bjørndal @olembjorndal.bsky.social · 11d

Chait er alltid bra:«It’s important to avoid hypocrisy about free speech. It’s important to avoid hypocrisy on anything, for that matter. But if your only way of engaging with the issue is to accuse opponents of lacking any principled beliefs, then you probably don’t have any principles of your own»

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11d

Trump’s apologists have defended his censorship efforts by attacking the left for once embracing cancel culture. But, “presuming that all opponents are hypocrites relieves people from having to make a case against liberal values,” Jonathan Chait argues.

The Emptiness of Attacking Critics for Their Hypocrisy

It’s hard to defend crackdowns on free speech. It’s easier to simply claim everyone’s doing it.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11d

The Comey indictment "is an indication of how thoroughly Trump has been able to corrupt" the Justice Department, Quinta Jurecic writes. "In any other political moment, this would be obviously impeachable conduct": https://theatln.tc/dlP4mhCt

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11d

The response to Charlie Kirk’s killing spotlights the power of a rising Christian movement. @mccrummen.bsky.social on how the New Apostolic Reformation has become a vanguard of the broader Christian right:

Charlie Kirk and the ‘Third Great Awakening’

MAGA is embracing the language of a rising Christian movement.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12d

Even if we took what the indictment claims at face value (and you shouldn't)... this would be complete fucking nonsense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Stephen Miller: "What James Comey did is truly one of the most severe assaults on our freedoms and liberties that has occurred in the whole history of this nation."

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Lars Svendsen @larssvendsen.bsky.social · 12d

Har vært i Verdibørsen denne uken, og snakket litt om MAGA-bevegelsens sadokonservatisme.

MAGAs "sado-konservatisme" - Verdibørsen - NRK Radio

Hvordan skal vi forstå den store politiske vekkelsen som har hjemsøkt USA?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13d

“The cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made him seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up”
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Lower Than Cowards

The surrender of America’s elites

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14d

The wannabe dictator is still openly threatening Jimmy Kimmel and ABC. We cannot give him an inch.

Kimmel said it best: “This show is not important. What’s important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”

We must fight to keep it that way.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14d

We have exported our greatest domestic product: stupidity

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

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Jan Arild Snoen @snoen.bsky.social · 14d

Nyttig gjennomgang av forskningen på autisme og paracetamol. www.vox.com/health/46231...

The flimsy evidence behind Trump’s big autism announcement, explained

Trump is blaming Tylenol for autism. Here’s the context he’s missing.

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Thomas Nilsen @thomasnilsen.bsky.social · 15d

Det er oppsiktsvekkende at Regjeringen ikke tidligere informerte offentligheten om disse russiske krenkelsene av 🇳🇴 suverenitet. 🇵🇱🇸🇪🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 forteller stort sett samme dag.
Støre bør forklare oss i Øst-Finnmark hvorfor han holdt tilbake info i månedsvis.
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/n...

Norge slutter seg til Natos fordømmelse av russisk krenkelse av alliert luftrom

Nato har i dag samlet seg om en tydelig fordømmelse av russisk krenkelse av alliert luftrom. Samtidig gjøres det kjent at flere land har opplevd krenkelser av eget luftrom fra Russland den siste tiden...

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