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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

"The video invested the abortive pee break with such gravity that it seemed as though Johnson was trying to evoke cultural memories of civil rights pioneers being denied service at segregated lunch counters in the 1950." www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...

The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive

MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1h

If ANY other president had been caught DMing directives for the Attorney General to indict his political enemies it would have been game over.
Impeached. Removed.

But not Trump.
With Donald Trump, it’s just another fucking day ending in Y.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

Pritzker: “The federal government is not communicating with our state…It’s unconscionable…They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

It’s not enough to round up and detain those here illegally; video of it must be shot, edited, dramatized, and disseminated. ICE is now in the content creation business.

The latest edition of Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...

The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive

MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.

www.thebulwark.com

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 17h

"Cliff Notes Fascism" is a good one.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Hester Prynne @realhesterprynne.bsky.social · 1h

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: James Comey pleads not guilty to federal criminal charges, judge sets trial date for Jan. 5

More details TK

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from the line outside the courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former FBI director James Comey is set to be arraigned on federal charges.

I’m here for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along for updates ⬇️

Hester Prynne @realhesterprynne.bsky.social · 10h

I have a poodle who barks incessantly and I have a law degree. Can I be your AG? I can yap annoyingly, while throwing around legal terms and growling at anyone who calls out my relentless perfidy. You know, like Pam Bondi.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12h

Since we’re clearing the air, I might as well put out something I’ve been concealing for a very long time.

I’m the Vice President of Antifa (Western Continental Division)

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

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

I love Kyle Clark

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

VIEWER FEEDBACK: One viewer says I won't read negative feedback and another viewer says I'm a lying viper from hell

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 11h

Word. I spent a few years there as well. The amnesia of the country about one of the most important & righteous prosecutions in our history is remarkable.Of course you had to try to figure out about the communications b/t Mark Meadows and members of Congress. It remains a terrible gap in the record.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

"There's truth underneath all this fake outrage. Conservatives really are at a disadvantage in pop culture because most creative people are liberals, which has always been true & probably always will be. While MAGA has had some success building a culture machine, what it produces is mostly banal."

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show

Songs in Spanish? In America?

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 11h

Somebody please ask him what he’s doing to stop the war in Fredonia

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 10h

This is a disgrace. Bezos and his publisher have turned the editorial page over to a Trumpist.

Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 11h

Word. I spent a few years there as well. The amnesia of the country about one of the most important & righteous prosecutions in our history is remarkable.Of course you had to try to figure out about the communications b/t Mark Meadows and members of Congress. It remains a terrible gap in the record.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

I met Samantha after Trump’s agents took her mom off the street yesterday, which she confirmed by watching video we showed her.

“She looks ready to cry… she wanted to go to the store. She wanted to make some albondigas which is basically a meatball stew” youtu.be/9dx266qOOic?...

Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 16h

“Bondi seemed pleased with her performance, which is a further indication of her essential puerility. It doesn’t take much skill to throw insults at Senators, just a hypertrophic spleen.”

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A Ridiculous Attorney General

Bondi’s smug evasions revealed volumes about the Administration

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16h

Folks, the oath of enlisted people and officers are two different oaths. The officer's oath does not include the stuff about the president.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 16h

Again, the oath has mentioned obeying orders of the President since 1789. Here it is as established by Congress in 1962, in Public Law 87-751 (codified then in 10 USC 501, codified after 1968 in 10 USC 502):

Public Law 87-751
October 5, 1962
AN ACT
(H. R. 218]
To provide that individuals enlisted into the Armed Forces of the United States shall take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Armed Forces.
Enlistment oath.
70A Stat. 17.
National Guard.
70A Stat. 602.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 501 of title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows:
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"Each person enlisting in an armed force shall take the following oath:
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I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, accorang to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

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Hester Prynne @realhesterprynne.bsky.social · 15h

Utter fantasy.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16h

You have got to be joking hahaha

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

If you obey the administration’s demands to use its NewSpeak vocabulary, why would I ever trust you to describe its actions objectively?

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 16h

just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.

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