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On the Polity web site, Marshall says, "The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a Presidental Coup."
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Unclear where this war profiteering plan came from or why it emerged right now, but clear that it is in every way disastrous
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Unclear where this war profiteering plan came from or why it emerged right now, but clear that it is in every way disastrous
Good. Throw away the key .
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Good. Throw away the key .
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The US-Russia deal for Ukraine, point by point with comments on each by me.
9. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland.
Gee, wow, Poland can station its own fighter jets on its own territory, and can allow international partners to station there as well. Thanks for the permission, Moscow.
9. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland.
Gee, wow, Poland can station its own fighter jets on its own territory, and can allow international partners to station there as well. Thanks for the permission, Moscow.
Trump and Witkoff Try to Get Russia a Win
The joint U.S.-Russia proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, taken point-by-point
www.arcdigital.media
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The US-Russia deal for Ukraine, point by point with comments on each by me.
9. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland.
Gee, wow, Poland can station its own fighter jets on its own territory, and can allow international partners to station there as well. Thanks for the permission, Moscow.
9. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland.
Gee, wow, Poland can station its own fighter jets on its own territory, and can allow international partners to station there as well. Thanks for the permission, Moscow.
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Good example of how an acronym can dehumanize consequences and mask what’s going on. Syntactically, “Diversity slayer,” “equity slayer,” or “inclusion slayer” sounds weird. They aren’t “slaying” these things; they’re promoting and supporting their opposites: segregation, unfairness, and exclusion.
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Good example of how an acronym can dehumanize consequences and mask what’s going on. Syntactically, “Diversity slayer,” “equity slayer,” or “inclusion slayer” sounds weird. They aren’t “slaying” these things; they’re promoting and supporting their opposites: segregation, unfairness, and exclusion.
Hopefully we don't have to wait 50 years for the next sane president to remove all Trumpist vestiges, including tearing down the Ballroom and the Wall and restoring the Rose Garden and renaming anything that is desecrated with the foul Trump name.
Spain approves a decree for the removal of 'Francoist vestiges'
Spain approves a decree for the removal of 'Francoist vestiges'
The Spanish government has approved a decree to create a state catalogue of "Francoist symbols and vestiges" for their removal or resignification. Minister Ángel Víctor Torres puts the number of items to be reviewed at 4,000.
l.euronews.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Hopefully we don't have to wait 50 years for the next sane president to remove all Trumpist vestiges, including tearing down the Ballroom and the Wall and restoring the Rose Garden and renaming anything that is desecrated with the foul Trump name.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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"Sabotage is when you damage property. When your intention is to kill people, that's no longer sabotage, that's state terrorism."
–Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, addressing Russia's latest terrorist attacks on Polish territory
–Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, addressing Russia's latest terrorist attacks on Polish territory
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Sabotage is when you damage property. When your intention is to kill people, that's no longer sabotage, that's state terrorism."
–Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, addressing Russia's latest terrorist attacks on Polish territory
–Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, addressing Russia's latest terrorist attacks on Polish territory
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Guest: Trump found a way to actually make MBS look better than him. It was an astounding moment. We had the American president defending the murder of an American journalist. It really made us look small. It made the United States look like a wingman to Saudi Arabia.
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Guest: Trump found a way to actually make MBS look better than him. It was an astounding moment. We had the American president defending the murder of an American journalist. It really made us look small. It made the United States look like a wingman to Saudi Arabia.
Why anybody wants to be part of Twitter or use Grok so they can have Elon Musk's personal narcissistic fantasies drilled into them by propaganda bots is beyond me.
*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Why anybody wants to be part of Twitter or use Grok so they can have Elon Musk's personal narcissistic fantasies drilled into them by propaganda bots is beyond me.
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Opinion | I believed Hillary Clinton was a sex trafficker because one of her donors owned a pizza restaurant and "cheese pizza" has the same initials as "child pornography." Here's why I don't think Donald Trump's multi-decade best friendship with a sex trafficker connects him to sex trafficking.
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Opinion | I believed Hillary Clinton was a sex trafficker because one of her donors owned a pizza restaurant and "cheese pizza" has the same initials as "child pornography." Here's why I don't think Donald Trump's multi-decade best friendship with a sex trafficker connects him to sex trafficking.
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This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
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So we know that Trump intervened to make Ghislaine Maxwell's life easier.
And that he intervened to make Andrew Tate's life easier.
I wonder how many sex traffickers Donald has gone out of his way to help that we don't know about.
And that he intervened to make Andrew Tate's life easier.
I wonder how many sex traffickers Donald has gone out of his way to help that we don't know about.
NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation.
“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
So we know that Trump intervened to make Ghislaine Maxwell's life easier.
And that he intervened to make Andrew Tate's life easier.
I wonder how many sex traffickers Donald has gone out of his way to help that we don't know about.
And that he intervened to make Andrew Tate's life easier.
I wonder how many sex traffickers Donald has gone out of his way to help that we don't know about.
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The grand jury’s report initially said they had rejected all 3 counts against Comey. It was later “fixed” to say they had rejected only count 1. Halligan prepared a new indictment for counts 2 & 3 only, but did not present it to the grand jury. The statute of limitations has expired. Oops. 1/
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The grand jury’s report initially said they had rejected all 3 counts against Comey. It was later “fixed” to say they had rejected only count 1. Halligan prepared a new indictment for counts 2 & 3 only, but did not present it to the grand jury. The statute of limitations has expired. Oops. 1/
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Members of congress releasing a video message to members of the United States military telling them "you must refuse illegal orders" might be the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen.
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Members of congress releasing a video message to members of the United States military telling them "you must refuse illegal orders" might be the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen.
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Routinely using unreasoned orders to make major policy baseline shifts and to overrule longstanding precedents sub silentio is an obviously indefensible form of judicial power in the abstract, and it's also predictable that the shadow docket is even more nakedly partisan than the merits docket
Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"
There’s one person squarely to blame for Trump’s corruption, authoritarianism & assault on democracy: John Roberts. He’s enabled so much of Trump’s lawlessness while somehow escaping accountability for it
New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Routinely using unreasoned orders to make major policy baseline shifts and to overrule longstanding precedents sub silentio is an obviously indefensible form of judicial power in the abstract, and it's also predictable that the shadow docket is even more nakedly partisan than the merits docket
Fuck Matthew Yglesias forever. He says environmentalism is bad. He can fuck all the way off, now. What a fucking contrarian piece of shit.
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Fuck Matthew Yglesias forever. He says environmentalism is bad. He can fuck all the way off, now. What a fucking contrarian piece of shit.
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Trump illegally fired Comey in May 2017 and told the Russian foreign minister he’d done it to stop investigations of Trumpworld’s ties to Russia.
Trump should have been impeached and removed from office for that, in 2017.
Trump should have been impeached and removed from office for that, in 2017.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Trump illegally fired Comey in May 2017 and told the Russian foreign minister he’d done it to stop investigations of Trumpworld’s ties to Russia.
Trump should have been impeached and removed from office for that, in 2017.
Trump should have been impeached and removed from office for that, in 2017.
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Comey isn’t even a political opponent. He’s a Republican law enforcement official who’s never run for office. Trump just hates him for refusing to be a co-conspirator.
At today's Comey hearing, Michael Dreeben argued: "This has to stop. ... A message needs to be sent to the Executive Branch. You cannot allow the president to take advantage of the authority of the EB to use as a cudgel to damage [and intimidate] political opponents."
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Comey isn’t even a political opponent. He’s a Republican law enforcement official who’s never run for office. Trump just hates him for refusing to be a co-conspirator.
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He just lights up when he gets to hang out with murderers and dictators. These are his people.
Trump not only dismissed MBS’ culpability in Khashoggi's brutal murder & blamed the victim for not being more likable. He also rebranded bin Salman, not long ago condemned in civilized countries as a pariah, as “one of the most respected people in the world.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
Snapshot: Trump Excuses Murder and Blames the Victim
Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, culpable for the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi, enjoyed a warm welcome to Trump's White House
www.americaamerica.news
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
He just lights up when he gets to hang out with murderers and dictators. These are his people.
Willful and blatant defiance of a court order is a RED LINE between democracy and authoritarianism. No court orders, no rule of law. No rule of law, no democracy.
Pro tip:
With Chief Judge Boasberg moving full steam ahead on finding which US officials were responsible for ordering defiance of his order...
And whistleblower most likely to testify...
Here's where this is heading in significant part:
www.justsecurity.org/116777/bove-...
With Chief Judge Boasberg moving full steam ahead on finding which US officials were responsible for ordering defiance of his order...
And whistleblower most likely to testify...
Here's where this is heading in significant part:
www.justsecurity.org/116777/bove-...
Whistleblower Documents Implicate Emil Bove in Criminal Contempt Order by Chief Judge Boasberg
Email released by whistleblower would presumably implicate Bove in the “contumacious conduct” identified by Chief Judge Boasberg.
www.justsecurity.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Willful and blatant defiance of a court order is a RED LINE between democracy and authoritarianism. No court orders, no rule of law. No rule of law, no democracy.
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they're not reporters, really, they're paparazzi. the most famous man who has ever lived is making a clown of himself, they're not going to interrupt him, it's great content
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
they're not reporters, really, they're paparazzi. the most famous man who has ever lived is making a clown of himself, they're not going to interrupt him, it's great content
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You know how you avoid a harmful back-and-forth?
When the forces of liberal democracy get back in power they use every possible civil and criminal tool to obliterate the autocrats until they can’t do a damn thing.
This isn’t hard. We PUNCH Nazis, and authoritarians, and fascists.
Not shake hands.
When the forces of liberal democracy get back in power they use every possible civil and criminal tool to obliterate the autocrats until they can’t do a damn thing.
This isn’t hard. We PUNCH Nazis, and authoritarians, and fascists.
Not shake hands.
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
You know how you avoid a harmful back-and-forth?
When the forces of liberal democracy get back in power they use every possible civil and criminal tool to obliterate the autocrats until they can’t do a damn thing.
This isn’t hard. We PUNCH Nazis, and authoritarians, and fascists.
Not shake hands.
When the forces of liberal democracy get back in power they use every possible civil and criminal tool to obliterate the autocrats until they can’t do a damn thing.
This isn’t hard. We PUNCH Nazis, and authoritarians, and fascists.
Not shake hands.
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(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: President of the United States Defends Business Partner's Brutal Murder of a Washington Post Journalist on National Television; Having Orchestrated the Public Humiliation of Global Hero Volodymyr Zelensky in the Same Room Months Ago, Trump Says Criticizing Vile Despots Off-Limits
Trump claims slain journalist Khashoggi was ‘extremely controversial,’ defends Saudi crown prince | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Tuesday angrily dismissed a question about the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, claiming the Saudi dissident journalist was “extremely controversial” and insisting the subject...
www.cnn.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: President of the United States Defends Business Partner's Brutal Murder of a Washington Post Journalist on National Television; Having Orchestrated the Public Humiliation of Global Hero Volodymyr Zelensky in the Same Room Months Ago, Trump Says Criticizing Vile Despots Off-Limits