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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 13h

“This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power... The Trump Administration is unapologetically attacking the rule of law itself and putting into action their dangerous words — ignoring court orders and treating judges... as political opponents.”

Newsom joins Oregon’s suit after Trump sends California National Guard to Oregon

“This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power,” the governor said in a statement.

www.politico.com

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 14h

@washingtonpost.com on the possibility -- in fact, the likelihood -- of a new Israeli set of attacks on Iran (with, of course, possible U.S. involvement). www.washingtonpost.c...

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 15h

@commondreams.bsky.social on the judge who has stopped Trump from sending the Nation Guard into Portland, Oregon.

White House Responds With 'Authoritarian Propaganda' as Judge Blocks National Guard in Portland | Common Dreams

Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller accused Judge Immergut of "legal insurrection" for blocking National Guard deployment to Portland. Miller claimed left-wing terrorism and called for dismantling networks.

www.commondreams.org

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 19h

MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere: A Case for Nonviolent Resistance
by Andrea Mazzarino

MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere

One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 21h

Making Sense of a World with a Maniac in the Driver's Seat
by Andrea Mazzarino

MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere

One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 22h

Andrea Mazzarino at TomDispatch today: The eerie world of MAGA men explored in a deeply personal and moving fashion.

MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere

One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 1d

A Dying American Empire: "Rotten to the Heart"?
by Alfred McCoy

In the Autumn of America’s Empire

In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his uncountable years that

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 1d

Alfred McCoy at TomDispatch today: How Donald Trump is taking down the liberal international order in a big-time fashion.

In the Autumn of America’s Empire

In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his uncountable years that

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 1d

In the Autumn of America's Empire: How Trump Is Demolishing U.S. Global Power and Its World Order
by Alfred McCoy

In the Autumn of America’s Empire

In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his uncountable years that

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 2d

@nickturse.bsky.social with a look at how the sweeping authority asserted by the White House to use force against drug boats could open the door to lethal strikes on supposed enemies inside the US.

Trump Administration Conjures Up New “Terrorist” Designation to Justify Killing Civilians

The U.S. military justified the slaughter of alleged drug traffickers by claiming links to “designated terrorist organizations.”

theintercept.com

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 2d

This is simply the perfect world for @borowitzreport.bsky.social

Furious Kim Jong Un Claims Trump Stole His Idea of Gathering Generals

“That asshole totally ripped me off.”

www.borowitzreport.com

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d

A moving reminder of the era of segregation in the U.S. and one brave young man who helped to break it.

Bobby Cain, Barrier Breaker in School Desegregation, Dies at 85

In 1957, facing down white mobs, he became the first Black student to graduate from a public high school in the South under a court mandate.

www.nytimes.com

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 4d

Just what the world needs most! More coal, of course.

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.

www.nytimes.com

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 4d

@pkrugman.bsky.social on a country that is no longer a fully functioning democracy now being run by incompetent autocrats-in-the-making.

An Autocracy of Dunces

How stone-faced generals, Wall Street pushback, and a government shutdown may save America’s quickly declining democracy

paulkrugman.substack.com

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 4d

@antiwardotcom.bsky.social sums up the nightmare in Gaza City, where any Palestinian is now to be treated by Israeli forces as a "terrorist."

Israel's Katz Says Civilians in Gaza City Have 'Last Opportunity to Leave,' Will Be Treated as 'Terrorists' - News From Antiwar.com

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday issued a threat to Palestinian civilians in famine-stricken Gaza City, warning they have their "last opportunity" to leave the besieged city and that they will be treated as "terrorists" if they remain. Katz said in a post on X that the IDF has…

news.antiwar.com

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 6d

@jricole.bsky.social on just how Iran has been mistreated by the U.S. and what to make of it.

Do UN "Snapback" Sanctions really Matter to the Iranian Economy and its Nuclear Program?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The E3 -- France, Britain and Germany -- successfully led a bid at the UN …

www.juancole.com

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 6d

@commondreams.org on whether Venezuela is about to be targeted by the Trump administration. (It never ends, does it?).

‘No War Crimes Are Off Limits' as Trump Reportedly Mulling Bombing Targets in Venezuela | Common Dreams

NBC reported Friday that the US military is considering options including drone strikes against drug cartel members within the South American country, prompting fears of escalation.

www.commondreams.org

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 6d

A look at the strange and seemingly growing set of divisions between Donald Trump and --yes! -- Marjorie Taylor Greene!

Greene, Straying From Trump, Reflects an Emerging MAGA Split

The right-wing Republican congresswoman from Georgia has grown disillusioned with her own party and with President Trump, and increasingly willing to say so.

www.nytimes.com

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 7d

Antiwar Veterans in the Age of Trump
by William Hartung

Can Warriors Stop Endless Wars?

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the former "Fox and Friends" cohost, claims to be obsessed with making the Pentagon and the military services about “the warfighter.” His main approach to doing so is a deeply

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 7d

William Hartung at TomDispatch today: A veteran's eye view of the U.S. military in the disastrous age of Donald Trump.

Can Warriors Stop Endless Wars?

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the former "Fox and Friends" cohost, claims to be obsessed with making the Pentagon and the military services about “the warfighter.” His main approach to doing so is a deeply

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 8d

Nan Levinson at TomDispatch today: How a campaign of nonviolent noncompliance could at least put Donald Trump in context, if not, in the end, take him down.

Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

On July 17th, I joined a group of Vermonters for a Good Trouble Lives On action in a village near where we were staying that month. Over the past 161 straight days, a small but

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 8d

@nickturse.bsky.social on how Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is remaking the military. Women and anyone Donald Trump might not care for watch out!

Pete Hegseth Orders Top Military Leaders to Attend Mystery Meeting

“To say the military leadership is anxious would be an understatement,” one defense official told The Intercept.

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 8d

Check out the meeting tomorrow of Trump and Pete Hegseth with top U.S. generals who have rushed back from all over the planet. Firing may have a different meaning than guns when the president and secretary of war are through with them. www.washingtonpost.c...

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 8d

Making Trump Listen
by Nan Levinson

Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

On July 17th, I joined a group of Vermonters for a Good Trouble Lives On action in a village near where we were staying that month. Over the past 161 straight days, a small but

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 8d

A look at the latest news on the development of human beings. (We're older than we thought!).

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

www.theguardian.com

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