Carl S. Ergo Sum
@carlsergosum.bsky.social
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
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This is not normal
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is not normal
I know how to whistle.
December 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I know how to whistle.
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Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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“This is one of the most shameful episodes in American foreign policy, and the entire Republican Party is complicit in its perpetuation.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
“This is one of the most shameful episodes in American foreign policy, and the entire Republican Party is complicit in its perpetuation.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
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When I was a teenager, back in days of the Solid South, white Southern politicians would routinely use the term "Nigra." They acted as if it was just a regional pronunciation of "Negro," then acceptable. But it signaled what they really wanted to say.
Trump remembers those days. He's headed there.
Trump remembers those days. He's headed there.
An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.
Just fucking pathetic.
Just fucking pathetic.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
When I was a teenager, back in days of the Solid South, white Southern politicians would routinely use the term "Nigra." They acted as if it was just a regional pronunciation of "Negro," then acceptable. But it signaled what they really wanted to say.
Trump remembers those days. He's headed there.
Trump remembers those days. He's headed there.
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Tim is a rebel.
October 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Tim is a rebel.
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This helps y'all 😊
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Situation: You Get To Play Lindsey Halligan’s Hand
She made her bed. Now you get to lie in it.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This helps y'all 😊
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The great @timothysnyder.bsky.social explains why this new Trump-backed Ukraine plan sells out Ukraine, Europe, and democracies across the world. Take a few minutes and watch.
It is hard to put into words how much damage Trump is doing to our own country, how unfit and malevolent he is.
It is hard to put into words how much damage Trump is doing to our own country, how unfit and malevolent he is.
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
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The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The great @timothysnyder.bsky.social explains why this new Trump-backed Ukraine plan sells out Ukraine, Europe, and democracies across the world. Take a few minutes and watch.
It is hard to put into words how much damage Trump is doing to our own country, how unfit and malevolent he is.
It is hard to put into words how much damage Trump is doing to our own country, how unfit and malevolent he is.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
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The news, again, from student journalists at an independent college paper. (This came out last night.)
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The news, again, from student journalists at an independent college paper. (This came out last night.)
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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That WaPo would publish a piece about MBS without mentioning that he was responsible for murdering one of the paper’s contributors and having his corpse dismembered with a bone saw speaks volumes.
Democracy doesn’t need darkness to perish if its institutions willingly wear blinders.
Democracy doesn’t need darkness to perish if its institutions willingly wear blinders.
Opinion | As Trump and MBS meet, a longtime partnership faces new realities
Mideast and global energy issues are steadier when Washington and Riyadh act in concert.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
That WaPo would publish a piece about MBS without mentioning that he was responsible for murdering one of the paper’s contributors and having his corpse dismembered with a bone saw speaks volumes.
Democracy doesn’t need darkness to perish if its institutions willingly wear blinders.
Democracy doesn’t need darkness to perish if its institutions willingly wear blinders.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Rev. Woolf is the faith leader in this viral photograph:
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Rev. Woolf is the faith leader in this viral photograph:
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I'm convinced now that whatever we imagined Trump's involvement was, it was 10 times worse
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm convinced now that whatever we imagined Trump's involvement was, it was 10 times worse
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Remarkable that these pardons were announced the same day that a federal judge published this piece.
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Remarkable that these pardons were announced the same day that a federal judge published this piece.
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Neither government nor defense requests anything at this time…not even an afternoon snack. So that—and I know you’ve been waiting for it—is a wrap.
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Neither government nor defense requests anything at this time…not even an afternoon snack. So that—and I know you’ve been waiting for it—is a wrap.
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It is wild the degree to which the formerly capitalist free market anti-socialism cohort in American politics has been absolutely silent about Trump behaving like the CCP and having the government essentially force giant companies to make the state a co-owner and give Trump a management say. Wild.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It is wild the degree to which the formerly capitalist free market anti-socialism cohort in American politics has been absolutely silent about Trump behaving like the CCP and having the government essentially force giant companies to make the state a co-owner and give Trump a management say. Wild.
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I’m heartened that so many citizens are attempting to draw attention to it, but the silence of former law enforcement officials in the face of nakedly authoritarian roundups makes me question a lot of my previous assumptions about old colleagues.
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I’m heartened that so many citizens are attempting to draw attention to it, but the silence of former law enforcement officials in the face of nakedly authoritarian roundups makes me question a lot of my previous assumptions about old colleagues.
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Hi from me and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, Ed!!
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Hi from me and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, Ed!!
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“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
DOJ submits new, air-brushed sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, scrubbing references to his role in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege and Trump's social media post that led him to go to Obama's neighborhood with weapons. Here's the first scrubbing
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October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
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"We are awash in bullshit. And while Bannon famously advocated a 'flood the zone with shit' strategy, it was supposed to be a way to overwhelm the opposition, not a prelude to diving in headfirst. The shit was supposed to be a weapon … but today it’s the stream that carries the GOP forward."
The triumph of bullshit
Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.
www.publicnotice.co
October 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"We are awash in bullshit. And while Bannon famously advocated a 'flood the zone with shit' strategy, it was supposed to be a way to overwhelm the opposition, not a prelude to diving in headfirst. The shit was supposed to be a weapon … but today it’s the stream that carries the GOP forward."