Andrew Erickson
@andrewseerickson.bsky.social
Patriot in exile from Washington's descent into oligarchic kleptocracy. Consul General of the United States, retired. Former Fellow at National War College. Father of five. Living in Wellfleet & Europe.
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“Under Trump v. United States, Nixon’s statement would not amount to obstruction of justice.... Indeed, prosecutors may not have been allowed to examine the Watergate cover-up at all.” — @jeffreytoobin1.bsky.social
Cases Closed | Jeffrey Toobin
How would the Mueller investigation have unfolded if the Supreme Court’s recent, chilling Trump v. United States decision been in effect?
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March 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
“Under Trump v. United States, Nixon’s statement would not amount to obstruction of justice.... Indeed, prosecutors may not have been allowed to examine the Watergate cover-up at all.” — @jeffreytoobin1.bsky.social
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If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.
March 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.
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"They haven’t found a single dollar of fraud. And the waste and abuse they’ve been clamoring about has turned out just to be government agencies, programs, and spending that Trump, Musk, and Republicans simply don’t like."
Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy
The playbook Trump and Musk are following to dismantle government resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"They haven’t found a single dollar of fraud. And the waste and abuse they’ve been clamoring about has turned out just to be government agencies, programs, and spending that Trump, Musk, and Republicans simply don’t like."
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To sum it up, the worst of us won. We are confronted every day by their never ending villainous behavior.
March 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
To sum it up, the worst of us won. We are confronted every day by their never ending villainous behavior.
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Trump: “I think Russia has been acting very well.”
Russia:
Russia:
March 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Trump: “I think Russia has been acting very well.”
Russia:
Russia:
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This is spot on @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social 🎯
March 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is spot on @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social 🎯
Shame on America.
March 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Shame on America.
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Look on the bright side.
March 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Look on the bright side.
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NEW from @samsteindc.bsky.social: More than 700 U.S. foreign service officers and civil servants have signed a letter to Marco Rubio arguing that the hollowing out of USAID is both strategically and morally wrong: www.thebulwark.com/p/hundreds-s...
Hundreds of State Dept. Officials Sign Dissent Cable Urging Rubio to Stop Killing USAID
The letter, obtained by The Bulwark, is a remarkable eleventh-hour attempt to save the beleaguered agency.
www.thebulwark.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NEW from @samsteindc.bsky.social: More than 700 U.S. foreign service officers and civil servants have signed a letter to Marco Rubio arguing that the hollowing out of USAID is both strategically and morally wrong: www.thebulwark.com/p/hundreds-s...
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Missouri has been running the pilot for Project 2025 for a couple of decades.
With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.
With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.
March 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Missouri has been running the pilot for Project 2025 for a couple of decades.
With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.
With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.
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Just so we are clear - the reason why JD Vance has constantly refused to go to Ukraine is because he is a coward. He would NEVER go there and meet with their soldiers or talk with their leaders. Because their courage and integrity would show him for what he is - a sniveling jerk.
February 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Just so we are clear - the reason why JD Vance has constantly refused to go to Ukraine is because he is a coward. He would NEVER go there and meet with their soldiers or talk with their leaders. Because their courage and integrity would show him for what he is - a sniveling jerk.
Make no mistake. The agenda of the Musk/Bezos/Thiel gang is the total "withering away" of the state. It's no less radical than classical Marxism. The TechBro twist is that they don't seek Marx's utopia but rather a world they personally own and rule.
This should terrify everybody on Earth.
This should terrify everybody on Earth.
March 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Make no mistake. The agenda of the Musk/Bezos/Thiel gang is the total "withering away" of the state. It's no less radical than classical Marxism. The TechBro twist is that they don't seek Marx's utopia but rather a world they personally own and rule.
This should terrify everybody on Earth.
This should terrify everybody on Earth.
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Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago.
But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.
He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.
He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
February 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago.
But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.
He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.
He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
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Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening.
An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:
“The same will happen here”.
An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:
“The same will happen here”.
February 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening.
An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:
“The same will happen here”.
An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:
“The same will happen here”.
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Ukraine resolution at the UN called Russia an aggressor and demands the full withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders.
The United States, Israel, and Russia voted against it.
Every free democratic country around the globe voted in favour. #EndImpunity
The United States, Israel, and Russia voted against it.
Every free democratic country around the globe voted in favour. #EndImpunity
February 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ukraine resolution at the UN called Russia an aggressor and demands the full withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders.
The United States, Israel, and Russia voted against it.
Every free democratic country around the globe voted in favour. #EndImpunity
The United States, Israel, and Russia voted against it.
Every free democratic country around the globe voted in favour. #EndImpunity
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When the wreckage and dust of what these people are doing to our country has settled and the people have finally had enough to throw these jackals out of office, we will never forget the people who enabled it, despite their protestations they weren’t willing accomplices. Never.
February 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
When the wreckage and dust of what these people are doing to our country has settled and the people have finally had enough to throw these jackals out of office, we will never forget the people who enabled it, despite their protestations they weren’t willing accomplices. Never.
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Posted minutes after the Commander of the ISS said Musk lied about the stranded astronauts in his Fox interview with Trump.
February 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Posted minutes after the Commander of the ISS said Musk lied about the stranded astronauts in his Fox interview with Trump.
My mother, Janet Doub Erickson, was born into a pioneering western Maryland farming family in 1924. As a child she heard her grandmother tell of destruction the Confederates did to the family farm during the Civil War. This is one of her oldest drawings, of Reeder's Store in Boonsboro in 1940.
February 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My mother, Janet Doub Erickson, was born into a pioneering western Maryland farming family in 1924. As a child she heard her grandmother tell of destruction the Confederates did to the family farm during the Civil War. This is one of her oldest drawings, of Reeder's Store in Boonsboro in 1940.
It appears our Manchurian Candidate President is giving Putin exactly what he wants in exchange for the two terms in the White House Trump got through colluding with Russia. Eternal shame on America, if this is the deal. Eternal shame on all Trump supporters.
February 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It appears our Manchurian Candidate President is giving Putin exactly what he wants in exchange for the two terms in the White House Trump got through colluding with Russia. Eternal shame on America, if this is the deal. Eternal shame on all Trump supporters.
Mitchell Jamieson's memory should haunt us. After painting "An Incident of American Life," Jamieson became a celebrated U.S. combat artist, then NASA's official painter. Trusted by the Pentagon to record the Vietnam War, he drew the horrors he saw, returned his medals in protest, and killed himself.
February 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Mitchell Jamieson's memory should haunt us. After painting "An Incident of American Life," Jamieson became a celebrated U.S. combat artist, then NASA's official painter. Trusted by the Pentagon to record the Vietnam War, he drew the horrors he saw, returned his medals in protest, and killed himself.
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"This broad caricature is grotesquely hyperbolic even when it touches on real problems. But, perhaps most insidiously, Vance coupled it with a contemptuous dismissal of the threat from Russia." www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-f...
JD Vance’s Free Speech Hypocrisy in Munich
He berates Europe about the “threat from within” and questions liberal democracy.
www.thebulwark.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
"This broad caricature is grotesquely hyperbolic even when it touches on real problems. But, perhaps most insidiously, Vance coupled it with a contemptuous dismissal of the threat from Russia." www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-f...
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It certainly will be interesting to see what concessions Trump is able to get from Putin. So far, it sounds like the dictator who invaded our ally gets everything he wants and gives up nothing. We will see.
February 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It certainly will be interesting to see what concessions Trump is able to get from Putin. So far, it sounds like the dictator who invaded our ally gets everything he wants and gives up nothing. We will see.
Семестар који сам провео у Првој београдској гимназији 1979 - 1980. био је почетак мог политичког образовања. Ја сам лево на овој фотографији. Мој друг Боран је десно. Била је великодушна од школе што је младом калифорнијцу попут мене дозволила да се самостално упише и учи. #beograd #prvabeogradska
February 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Семестар који сам провео у Првој београдској гимназији 1979 - 1980. био је почетак мог политичког образовања. Ја сам лево на овој фотографији. Мој друг Боран је десно. Била је великодушна од школе што је младом калифорнијцу попут мене дозволила да се самостално упише и учи. #beograd #prvabeogradska
Well, this is the GOP strategy in a nutshell: don't record problems. If we finally get out of this Trump nightmare, in the future the GOP will use this selective approach to argue how great things were under Trump, "if you don't count Black women," for example.
Maternal death rate isn't as bad if you don't count Black women, GOP senator says
Louisiana's Bill Cassidy said the state's maternal death rate isn't so high if you "correct our population for race," Politico reported.
www.businessinsider.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Well, this is the GOP strategy in a nutshell: don't record problems. If we finally get out of this Trump nightmare, in the future the GOP will use this selective approach to argue how great things were under Trump, "if you don't count Black women," for example.