Abe Kemmis
@abekemmis.bsky.social
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ICYMI: Part One of my thoughts on how the “free speech culture” movement contributed to the moment of historical censorship www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...
How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One
Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression
www.popehat.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
ICYMI: Part One of my thoughts on how the “free speech culture” movement contributed to the moment of historical censorship www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...
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“Pedocon theory does not involve secret networks of underground tunnels where adrenochrome is harvested for reptilian overlords. Pedocon theory is not hiding beneath twelve layers of misdirection. Pedocon theory is rooted in the basic politics of the reactionary right.”
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
The connection been Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“Pedocon theory does not involve secret networks of underground tunnels where adrenochrome is harvested for reptilian overlords. Pedocon theory is not hiding beneath twelve layers of misdirection. Pedocon theory is rooted in the basic politics of the reactionary right.”
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@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
Please fulfill your oath to the constitution. Name enemies of democracy and oppose them. Or make way for those who will.
@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
Please fulfill your oath to the constitution. Name enemies of democracy and oppose them. Or make way for those who will.
Congressional Town Hall with Tim Walz & Beto O'Rourke
YouTube video by Beto O'Rourke
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March 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
Please fulfill your oath to the constitution. Name enemies of democracy and oppose them. Or make way for those who will.
@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
Please fulfill your oath to the constitution. Name enemies of democracy and oppose them. Or make way for those who will.
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We’ve been through this so often that I really hesitate to write: This time could be different.
This is a story with legs — and the lies, excuses, word games, and whataboutism of the wretched hive are making a bad thing even worse.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
This is a story with legs — and the lies, excuses, word games, and whataboutism of the wretched hive are making a bad thing even worse.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Applebaum: Signalgate and the Authoritarian Playbook
And why this scandal may be different
open.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We’ve been through this so often that I really hesitate to write: This time could be different.
This is a story with legs — and the lies, excuses, word games, and whataboutism of the wretched hive are making a bad thing even worse.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
This is a story with legs — and the lies, excuses, word games, and whataboutism of the wretched hive are making a bad thing even worse.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
This is what supporting and defending the Constitution looks like.
Your oath requires you to identify enemies of the Constitution, and to oppose them, whether your consultants and donors like it, or not.
That’s why it’s an oath.
This is what supporting and defending the Constitution looks like.
Your oath requires you to identify enemies of the Constitution, and to oppose them, whether your consultants and donors like it, or not.
That’s why it’s an oath.
Chris Murphy: "There has to be criminal investigations as well here. If the criminal code doesn't apply to powerful people, if it only applies to people without power, then we don't have rule of law in this country."
March 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
This is what supporting and defending the Constitution looks like.
Your oath requires you to identify enemies of the Constitution, and to oppose them, whether your consultants and donors like it, or not.
That’s why it’s an oath.
This is what supporting and defending the Constitution looks like.
Your oath requires you to identify enemies of the Constitution, and to oppose them, whether your consultants and donors like it, or not.
That’s why it’s an oath.
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Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.
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To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
March 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
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This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
March 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
The moral and strategic emptiness of making the middle your destination.
I wrote about the practical strategic necessity of doing "impossible" things, the moral and strategic emptiness of making the middle your destination, and the way persuasion requires vision, and vision requires standing for something.
www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...
www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...
The Unmovable Sink
How do you make impossible things possible? Same way anyone ever did: By trying.
www.the-reframe.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The moral and strategic emptiness of making the middle your destination.
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there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of more moderate democrats being aggressive opponents of the white house and holding public events highlighting their opposition
@aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov's rallies have been so successful that it's "worrying some moderate Democrats who fear Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez could tug the party to the left."
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
What the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mega-rallies are really about
The two progressives are bringing energy to a party that has been exhausted and furious in the second Trump era.
www.politico.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of more moderate democrats being aggressive opponents of the white house and holding public events highlighting their opposition
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I served two combat tours in Iraq as an Army Intelligence Officer.
If I did what Hegseth did, I'd be in prison.
All eyes should now be on FBI Director Kash Patel.
Beyond pure corruption, I cannot think of a single reason for him not to launch an investigation ASAP.
If I did what Hegseth did, I'd be in prison.
All eyes should now be on FBI Director Kash Patel.
Beyond pure corruption, I cannot think of a single reason for him not to launch an investigation ASAP.
March 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I served two combat tours in Iraq as an Army Intelligence Officer.
If I did what Hegseth did, I'd be in prison.
All eyes should now be on FBI Director Kash Patel.
Beyond pure corruption, I cannot think of a single reason for him not to launch an investigation ASAP.
If I did what Hegseth did, I'd be in prison.
All eyes should now be on FBI Director Kash Patel.
Beyond pure corruption, I cannot think of a single reason for him not to launch an investigation ASAP.
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They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.
Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
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So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.
March 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.
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We need more Jon Ossoffs in the Democratic Party.
This is just fantastic.
This is just fantastic.
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
We need more Jon Ossoffs in the Democratic Party.
This is just fantastic.
This is just fantastic.
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my latest newsletter piece: on how the Democrats' posture toward trans rights signals a fundamental misunderstanding of how politics work
The Tyranny of Public Opinion
The battle over trans rights shows that Democrats have forgotten the fundamentals of politics
stringinamaze.net
March 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
my latest newsletter piece: on how the Democrats' posture toward trans rights signals a fundamental misunderstanding of how politics work
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Democrats who want to move away from small dollar donors are actually Republicans and no, you cannot change my mind:
March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Democrats who want to move away from small dollar donors are actually Republicans and no, you cannot change my mind:
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Put the Democratic bloodsucker class in the garbage compactor, be free of them forever, so that we can fight the real enemy without being scolded for having basic beliefs and principles
March 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Put the Democratic bloodsucker class in the garbage compactor, be free of them forever, so that we can fight the real enemy without being scolded for having basic beliefs and principles
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DEMOCRATS:
You are committing a historic error right now. The federal government is collapsing and you are paralyzed. You seem unable to even address half the stuff that's happening because it does fit into your pre-fab vision of what good political rhetoric sounds like. You are failing America.
You are committing a historic error right now. The federal government is collapsing and you are paralyzed. You seem unable to even address half the stuff that's happening because it does fit into your pre-fab vision of what good political rhetoric sounds like. You are failing America.
March 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
DEMOCRATS:
You are committing a historic error right now. The federal government is collapsing and you are paralyzed. You seem unable to even address half the stuff that's happening because it does fit into your pre-fab vision of what good political rhetoric sounds like. You are failing America.
You are committing a historic error right now. The federal government is collapsing and you are paralyzed. You seem unable to even address half the stuff that's happening because it does fit into your pre-fab vision of what good political rhetoric sounds like. You are failing America.
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
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I hope you realize that you and Pritzker just are the Democrat Party leaders now. I know that's not how it works for committees or other officialese, but nobody has picked up the keys and the car is full of gas. Just take over. Obama did this in an incredibly similar precarious moment. It's yours.
February 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I hope you realize that you and Pritzker just are the Democrat Party leaders now. I know that's not how it works for committees or other officialese, but nobody has picked up the keys and the car is full of gas. Just take over. Obama did this in an incredibly similar precarious moment. It's yours.
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This is how it’s done.
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is how it’s done.
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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.
February 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.