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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 2h

Since Golden Dome came up with the Trump-Carney convo, let me de-myth here

saideman.blogspot.com/2025/10/gold...

Jeez, I have been blogging a lot lately. Feels like 2009!

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

For no reason, just remembered this explicitly antifascist version of Chicken Little that Disney made in 1943. It's about the danger of following leaders who tell big lies. youtu.be/p_GaYdae4j0?...

Chicken Little

YouTube video by Mousefiles

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 5h

"How can anyone in Congress — Democrats or Republicans — make a budget 'deal' with this administration if we now know the President is going to ignore implementing any part of the 'deal' he wants?" writes @vermontgmg.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 3h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

As I told @josephcox.bsky.social for this piece, if DHS is concerned that the actions of their own officers might inflame public opinion against the agency, they should work to increase oversight and accountability at the agency — rather than seek to have the evidence banned.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 3h

Please!

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 3h

The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny and Bill Belichick

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 3h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 3h

I guess after 13 years I am still a tourist

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 3h

I am college professor and students skipping class is their problem, not mine

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3h

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Slowly expanding the range of targets for extrajudicial strikes just on the other side of the border then suddenly using operational momentum to shift to lethal strikes on the American side of the line

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 3h

Good call.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 4h

because police unions are chock full of wannabe autocrats who don't want any accountability.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

Every big police union endorsed him, and he saved some of his most violent rhetoric for appearances in front of law enforcement.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 4h

within the field.... and by students

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4h

I know I know but good god imagine what the GOP would do with a Biden or Obama "we took the freedom of speech away" sound bite

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 4h

Is there an international relations concept more poorly understood than soft power?

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 6h

yeah, damn it

Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 6h

Let's not panic about the G&M story about Canada already being involved in Golden Dome. What Canada is involved is with NORAD and North American air defense for the past 70 plus years. Golden Dome is mostly Trump's demented branding effort.
The US-CA mil relationship continues. That's really it

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 9h

“I hope the Trump deal.. ends the active horrors. I fear that it could be another Camp David, a "last chance" based on deeply flawed assumptions and conceived in the absence of one of the ostensible negotiating partners which blows up in everyone's face.”

abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/gazas-tomorr...

Gaza's Tomorrow is Yesterday

Plus the latest from the MENA Academy Last week, the Trump White House announced a somewhat odd 20 point peace plan for Gaza; the language was so casual and the key points so vague that I at first as...

abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 9h

One thing everyone in the regime can agree on: contempt for Jared.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 9h

Analysis: Trust is low in Gaza peace talks, and arrival of Donald Trump’s son-in-law may not help

Jared Kushner is deeply mistrusted by Hamas, given links to controversial West Bank settlements

www.irishtimes.com

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 10h

She is so positive, so sharp, so courageous, so very deserving of the Award and other accolades. Sometimes, it is ok to meet you heroes.
In the first part of the podcast Thomas Hughes and I discuss the Hegseth/Trump GOFO mess and drones in NATO's airspace
2/2 #BattleRhythm

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 10h

Now a more positive skeet: today's #BattleRhytm contains my fave interview of the seven years of podcasting. Michelle Douglas, the new Vimy Award winner, speaks to me about her experiences fighting the purge of LBGTQ2S+ and her role since then cdsn.substack.com/p/episode-42... 1/2

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 10h

try again, I posted before I hit the publish....

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 11h

I take a slightly longer whack at this challenge of the right wing--which bad faith characterizations should they embrace? saideman.blogspot.com/2025/10/who-... and who is really captured by identity?

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 11h

The right expects the left to act accoridng to right wing stereotypes of the left. "The left only cares about identity, not merit." And when the left actually cares about merit (that Weiss is an awful person), the right claims the left is being untrue to themselves.
So, tis the right focused on id

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

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Leftists did the same thing to OJ Simpson. An entrepreneur, actor and sports icon of color and leftists wanted him in jail because of his relationship problems.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 19h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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