Dinos Gonatas
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If you truly worry we're headed for fascism, then watch the 1969 movie "Z", a barely-veiled retelling of the 1963 assassination of Greek politician Lambrakis, made two years after the junta took power. It was on TCM last night, but I saw it as a kid after being in Greece in that time. /1
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
If you truly worry we're headed for fascism, then watch the 1969 movie "Z", a barely-veiled retelling of the 1963 assassination of Greek politician Lambrakis, made two years after the junta took power. It was on TCM last night, but I saw it as a kid after being in Greece in that time. /1
In Phil last week, saw ad after ad against Mikie Sherrill- attacking her for hedging on tax increases.
Just because you're a dem doesn't mean you have to be for high taxes. NJ's taxes are steep, starting at 5.525%, going up to 10.75%. It's unacceptable. Figure out a way to improve the govt 1st
Just because you're a dem doesn't mean you have to be for high taxes. NJ's taxes are steep, starting at 5.525%, going up to 10.75%. It's unacceptable. Figure out a way to improve the govt 1st
November 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In Phil last week, saw ad after ad against Mikie Sherrill- attacking her for hedging on tax increases.
Just because you're a dem doesn't mean you have to be for high taxes. NJ's taxes are steep, starting at 5.525%, going up to 10.75%. It's unacceptable. Figure out a way to improve the govt 1st
Just because you're a dem doesn't mean you have to be for high taxes. NJ's taxes are steep, starting at 5.525%, going up to 10.75%. It's unacceptable. Figure out a way to improve the govt 1st
"You could talk about the planetary emergency and mitigation and adaptation, and you could throw in some environmental justice rhetoric, and by the time you’re done talking, people think you don’t care about them.”
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What Trump’s Victory Taught Democrats About Climate Change
Climate change is out. Energy affordability is in.
www.politico.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"You could talk about the planetary emergency and mitigation and adaptation, and you could throw in some environmental justice rhetoric, and by the time you’re done talking, people think you don’t care about them.”
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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These people are who we all thought they were.
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
These people are who we all thought they were.
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Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.
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"While the de-Dixiecratted Democratic Party broadly looks like a center-left European party, the GOP doesn’t look like the European center right. Instead it looks like Germany’s AfD or Hungary’s Fidesz, extremist parties with a clear authoritarian streak." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/declining-...
Declining American Democracy: Trump is a Symptom, Not the Cause
The modern GOP is inherently authoritarian
paulkrugman.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"While the de-Dixiecratted Democratic Party broadly looks like a center-left European party, the GOP doesn’t look like the European center right. Instead it looks like Germany’s AfD or Hungary’s Fidesz, extremist parties with a clear authoritarian streak." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/declining-...
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After the Trump regime’s invasion of an apartment building in Chicago earlier this week, all Americans should brush up on their 4th Amendment rights.
October 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
After the Trump regime’s invasion of an apartment building in Chicago earlier this week, all Americans should brush up on their 4th Amendment rights.
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BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
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It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it
September 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it
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He told his fellow pupils to deliberately drop rubbish for the cleaners to pick up.
“Am I the only one here who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?” he said in a speech at a school event.
He told his fellow pupils to deliberately drop rubbish for the cleaners to pick up.
“Am I the only one here who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?” he said in a speech at a school event.
Stephen Miller: Donald Trump’s ‘prime minister’ executes his plan to reshape America
Washington’s most powerful unelected bureaucrat slashes immigration and threatens his political enemies
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September 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
on.ft.com/42OPIcd
He told his fellow pupils to deliberately drop rubbish for the cleaners to pick up.
“Am I the only one here who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?” he said in a speech at a school event.
He told his fellow pupils to deliberately drop rubbish for the cleaners to pick up.
“Am I the only one here who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?” he said in a speech at a school event.
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Meal Team Six is on it
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Meal Team Six is on it
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OK I lol'd loudly at this.😂
September 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
OK I lol'd loudly at this.😂
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Frodo: “I wish it need not have happened in my time."
Gandalf: "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Gandalf: "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
September 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Frodo: “I wish it need not have happened in my time."
Gandalf: "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Gandalf: "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Yikes this is sobering
Just Security is a reputable and measured source of natsec legal analysis
if this FAQ weren't written by a military lawyer who teaches at Yale Law and published on JS I would write it off as the most paranoid possible take on next week's meeting but here we are
www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...
if this FAQ weren't written by a military lawyer who teaches at Yale Law and published on JS I would write it off as the most paranoid possible take on next week's meeting but here we are
www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...
FAQ for Senior Military Officers at Hegseth's Quantico Meeting
Military justice expert Eugene Fidell answers crucial questions ahead of next week's senior military meeting with Secretary Hegseth.
www.justsecurity.org
September 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Yikes this is sobering