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really important to emphasize that roberts' view of the executive branch as comprising a single individual is literally contradicted by the text of the constitution itself
“What America is witnessing is a remaking of the American presidency into something closer to a dictatorship,” Peter M. Shane argues. That project is the work of Chief Justice John Roberts:
How John Roberts Built the New American Presidency
The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible.
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July 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
really important to emphasize that roberts' view of the executive branch as comprising a single individual is literally contradicted by the text of the constitution itself
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He’s trying to get the story killed because of how innocent he is.
Scoop: The Wall Street Journal is working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—but is said to be facing pressure from the White House, with Trump himself calling Editor-In-Chief Emma Tucker to object.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...
Trump's WSJ Epstein Fury
The Wall Street Journal is said to be working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, prompting protest from the White House.
www.status.news
July 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
He’s trying to get the story killed because of how innocent he is.
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.
July 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.
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An unelected, unconfirmed neo-Nazi is running the government.
Steven Miller is the one ordering the arrest of innocent people. Steven Miller is the one ordering the creation of concentration camps. Steven Miller is the one sending armed paramilitaries into the streets of our nation's cities.
Steven Miller is the one ordering the arrest of innocent people. Steven Miller is the one ordering the creation of concentration camps. Steven Miller is the one sending armed paramilitaries into the streets of our nation's cities.
July 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
An unelected, unconfirmed neo-Nazi is running the government.
Steven Miller is the one ordering the arrest of innocent people. Steven Miller is the one ordering the creation of concentration camps. Steven Miller is the one sending armed paramilitaries into the streets of our nation's cities.
Steven Miller is the one ordering the arrest of innocent people. Steven Miller is the one ordering the creation of concentration camps. Steven Miller is the one sending armed paramilitaries into the streets of our nation's cities.
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Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
Historic disgrace.
and there it is. Trump's big bill is through Congress and ready to be signed into law tomorrow.
July 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Historic disgrace.
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He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses.
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
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I will very, very surprised if by the end of his term, ICE has not morphed into Trump’s personal all-purpose goon squas.
July 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I will very, very surprised if by the end of his term, ICE has not morphed into Trump’s personal all-purpose goon squas.
Their accusations are always confessions.
Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did
July 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Their accusations are always confessions.
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Imagine loving freedom so much you buy fan merch for a prison
I guess the Republican Party got sick of other people getting rich off their rubes, so they're just going to make their *own* Camp Auschwitz merchandise and cut out the middleman.
July 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Imagine loving freedom so much you buy fan merch for a prison
This. I think we’re well past comparisons to what Orbán has done to Hungary, for example. We’re more along the lines of Germany in the 1930s.
Where we are is really dark. Really dark.
July 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This. I think we’re well past comparisons to what Orbán has done to Hungary, for example. We’re more along the lines of Germany in the 1930s.
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You live in a country that is establishing concentration camps & soon will be stripping citizens of their papers.
Trump on DeSantis's new detention camp for migrants: "We'd like to see them in many states. And at some point they might morph into a system."
July 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You live in a country that is establishing concentration camps & soon will be stripping citizens of their papers.
This is the totalitarianism Arendt warned about.
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is the totalitarianism Arendt warned about.
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Highly recommend @pbs.org's new documentary, Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny - About the documentary | American Masters | PBS
Discover Hannah Arendt, who transformed her time as a political prisoner during World War II into daring insights about totalitarianism.
www.pbs.org
June 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Highly recommend @pbs.org's new documentary, Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
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There is no bottom to this barrel.
June 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
There is no bottom to this barrel.
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Thom Tillis is reminding us that every Republican despises Trump, but they are all so beholden to his base that they will spend their political lives falling prostrate before him, even knowing the irreparable harm they are doing.
They are all traitorous cowards.
They are all traitorous cowards.
June 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thom Tillis is reminding us that every Republican despises Trump, but they are all so beholden to his base that they will spend their political lives falling prostrate before him, even knowing the irreparable harm they are doing.
They are all traitorous cowards.
They are all traitorous cowards.
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Let's be clear that this will be deployed not just against immigrants, but against anyone seen as providing support to immigrants.
Illegal support at first, but the definition will inevitably expand to include indirect support, mutual aid, and eventually even rhetorical support.
Illegal support at first, but the definition will inevitably expand to include indirect support, mutual aid, and eventually even rhetorical support.
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Let's be clear that this will be deployed not just against immigrants, but against anyone seen as providing support to immigrants.
Illegal support at first, but the definition will inevitably expand to include indirect support, mutual aid, and eventually even rhetorical support.
Illegal support at first, but the definition will inevitably expand to include indirect support, mutual aid, and eventually even rhetorical support.
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In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that only it could decide issues on a national level. And then, with thousands and thousands of people waiting in limbo for resolution of many legally disputed Trump orders, the justices went on summer vacation, not to return until October.
June 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that only it could decide issues on a national level. And then, with thousands and thousands of people waiting in limbo for resolution of many legally disputed Trump orders, the justices went on summer vacation, not to return until October.
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This is exactly how a strongman government aspires to function—instead of rules, everything is a favor to be requested from the boss.
June 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is exactly how a strongman government aspires to function—instead of rules, everything is a favor to be requested from the boss.
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We are decades into an ever-intensifying domestic right-wing terrorism campaign, supported rhetorically by all major right wing institutions and ignored as a structural issue by everyone else.
It’s getting worse but the conversation never changes.
It’s getting worse but the conversation never changes.
June 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We are decades into an ever-intensifying domestic right-wing terrorism campaign, supported rhetorically by all major right wing institutions and ignored as a structural issue by everyone else.
It’s getting worse but the conversation never changes.
It’s getting worse but the conversation never changes.
The impossible irony of an escapist “inner emigration,” given this administration’s policy toward migrants.
June 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The impossible irony of an escapist “inner emigration,” given this administration’s policy toward migrants.
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Fintan O’Toole (@fotoole.bsky.social) on the Trump regime’s drive to war www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
June 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Fintan O’Toole (@fotoole.bsky.social) on the Trump regime’s drive to war www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.
June 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.
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there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
June 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.