Somewhere in Seattle
@charlie62.bsky.social
What happens to a country when “make believe” replaces the truth?
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"I can't remember the quotation exactly, but it's like 'when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and wearing the cross.' Mike Johnson's the real embodiment of that." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"I can't remember the quotation exactly, but it's like 'when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and wearing the cross.' Mike Johnson's the real embodiment of that." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
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On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
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"Pete Hegseth is so intent on creating a tough military that having a smart one appears secondary," David Ignatius writes. https://wapo.st/4gV2Y58
Opinion | Trump and Hegseth’s backward-facing message to the generals
A preoccupation with “woke” culture and “enemies” won’t prepare the military for the high-tech demands of 21st-century war.
wapo.st
September 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"Pete Hegseth is so intent on creating a tough military that having a smart one appears secondary," David Ignatius writes. https://wapo.st/4gV2Y58
@bencasselman.bsky.social important article on the real impact of Trump 2.0.
The damage he is doing to all of our institutions will take a generation or more to repair (legal, academic, economic, medical, statistical, military, research,…intelligence). We now live in a different America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b...
Trump’s Attacks on Institutions Threaten a Bulwark of Economic Strength
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
@bencasselman.bsky.social important article on the real impact of Trump 2.0.
The damage he is doing to all of our institutions will take a generation or more to repair (legal, academic, economic, medical, statistical, military, research,…intelligence). We now live in a different America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b...
Trump’s Attacks on Institutions Threaten a Bulwark of Economic Strength
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The damage he is doing to all of our institutions will take a generation or more to repair (legal, academic, economic, medical, statistical, military, research,…intelligence). We now live in a different America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b...
@markzandi.bsky.social
That’s OK Trump will just change the numbers. There are no experts anymore and no “credible” data.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
That’s OK Trump will just change the numbers. There are no experts anymore and no “credible” data.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | This number is bad news for the economy
Low unemployment is great, but only if it’s due to lots of new jobs, not an evaporating labor force.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@markzandi.bsky.social
That’s OK Trump will just change the numbers. There are no experts anymore and no “credible” data.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
That’s OK Trump will just change the numbers. There are no experts anymore and no “credible” data.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
That’s OK Trump will just change the numbers. There are no experts anymore and no more credible data.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | This number is bad news for the economy
Low unemployment is great, but only if it’s due to lots of new jobs, not an evaporating labor force.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
That’s OK Trump will just change the numbers. There are no experts anymore and no more credible data.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Thank you @rhodesben.bsky.social for your brilliant contextual outline of how we got here and how we might imagine our future way out.
How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Opinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Thank you @rhodesben.bsky.social for your brilliant contextual outline of how we got here and how we might imagine our future way out.
How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
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If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized.
If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
August 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized.
If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
This is setting us up for the next financial crash in the US. It will be the “crypto crash”. Working Americans will pay the price to bail out greedy speculating crypto.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The road map to making America a crypto superpower
The Trump administration is making America the “crypto capital of the world.”
www.washingtonpost.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is setting us up for the next financial crash in the US. It will be the “crypto crash”. Working Americans will pay the price to bail out greedy speculating crypto.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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It’s easy to scapegoat performing on a campaign. But once you are in control of governing, there’s nowhere to point the finger. Trump and his Maga cult need an enemy. But the dog caught the car.
MAGA’s New Target: Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
MAGA’s New Target: Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
Opinion | MAGA’s New Target: Trump
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It’s easy to scapegoat performing on a campaign. But once you are in control of governing, there’s nowhere to point the finger. Trump and his Maga cult need an enemy. But the dog caught the car.
MAGA’s New Target: Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
MAGA’s New Target: Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
If it’s not documented… it didn’t happen… you can’t prove anything… nothing is true…
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down
A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root – among career staffers and new political appointees alike.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If it’s not documented… it didn’t happen… you can’t prove anything… nothing is true…
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.
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When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court.
Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.
Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.
June 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court.
Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.
Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.
This is because we don’t have a Congress. The third branch of government is supposed to restrain a lawless president. All we have is the judicial system, which is slow by nature. It was never meant to handle the problem we are in.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
In Trump’s Washington, ‘You Don’t Leave Home Without Your Lawyer’
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is because we don’t have a Congress. The third branch of government is supposed to restrain a lawless president. All we have is the judicial system, which is slow by nature. It was never meant to handle the problem we are in.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
I think the American dream is over. Reading the comments I can relate. We all have our own version of this, some worse than others depending on our particular demographic. This is the new America we are all living through. It’s important to face the truth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
Opinion | No Home, No Retirement, No Kids: How Gen Z-ers See Their Future
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I think the American dream is over. Reading the comments I can relate. We all have our own version of this, some worse than others depending on our particular demographic. This is the new America we are all living through. It’s important to face the truth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
@mashagessen.bsky.social speaks to what each of us can do in the space that is shrinking!
June 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
@mashagessen.bsky.social speaks to what each of us can do in the space that is shrinking!
How do we prepare for this inevitability? @davidfrum.bsky.social
#2026midterms
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#2026midterms
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For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal
Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.
www.theatlantic.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
How do we prepare for this inevitability? @davidfrum.bsky.social
#2026midterms
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#2026midterms
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“Trumpism is a kind of authoritarian autoimmune disease, one that has been ravaging the American body politic for so long that there are fewer small-d democratic antibodies left to fight it off” @adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump Is Wearing America Down
Less than a decade ago, the Trump administration's travel ban sparked an outcry. Today, people seem far more willing to accept such a policy.
www.theatlantic.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“Trumpism is a kind of authoritarian autoimmune disease, one that has been ravaging the American body politic for so long that there are fewer small-d democratic antibodies left to fight it off” @adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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It's incredible how we've just totally normalized "A bunch of random dudes are bypassing every federal law to plunder the government" & no one seems to care.
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & well 🤷♂️
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & well 🤷♂️
June 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's incredible how we've just totally normalized "A bunch of random dudes are bypassing every federal law to plunder the government" & no one seems to care.
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & well 🤷♂️
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & well 🤷♂️
This is an uncomfortable truth that does not fit with the American myth we’ve all been taught. Saying “yes” to an “opportunity” that “time and chance” has brought to your door is most likely the real reason for success.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/03/...
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/03/...
'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too
Marvel star Anthony Mackie says success has as much to do with luck and connections as with talent. Highly successful people like Mark Cuban agree.
www.cnbc.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is an uncomfortable truth that does not fit with the American myth we’ve all been taught. Saying “yes” to an “opportunity” that “time and chance” has brought to your door is most likely the real reason for success.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/03/...
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/03/...
@dgraham.bsky.social explains how a failed con man finally succeeded.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Trump’s Most Successful Business Venture
His office is bringing in money—at the expense of the American people.
www.theatlantic.com
June 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
@dgraham.bsky.social explains how a failed con man finally succeeded.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Read this excellent piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The budding bromance between authoritarianism and tech
Before he was killed, Jamal Khashoggi described the dark side of Saudi Arabia’s push to modernize.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Read this excellent piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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the modern information environment
May 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
the modern information environment