BeagleDad2
@beagledad2.bsky.social
A beagle dad trying to be good in a small city in flyover country.
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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I currently have a newsletter in which I write regularly about how societies devolve into authoritarianism & what that means right now in the US & around the world. It also features essays about my unsettled childhood in West Virginia. Soon, it will also include art, surprises, & links to resources.
Degenerate Art
Andrea Pitzer on politics and history, the Arctic, and Appalachian exile.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 10, 2024 at 5:22 PM
I currently have a newsletter in which I write regularly about how societies devolve into authoritarianism & what that means right now in the US & around the world. It also features essays about my unsettled childhood in West Virginia. Soon, it will also include art, surprises, & links to resources.
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‘Chilling and dangerous’: Grassroots groups sue over Louisiana law that censors air quality data.
A new state law threatens massive fines for releasing air quality data, inviting a First Amendment showdown with community organizations.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Louisiana #Climate #Air #Pollution
A new state law threatens massive fines for releasing air quality data, inviting a First Amendment showdown with community organizations.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Louisiana #Climate #Air #Pollution
‘Chilling and dangerous’: Grassroots groups sue over Louisiana law that censors air quality data
A new state law threatens massive fines for releasing air quality data, inviting a First Amendment showdown with community organizations.
grist.org
May 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
‘Chilling and dangerous’: Grassroots groups sue over Louisiana law that censors air quality data.
A new state law threatens massive fines for releasing air quality data, inviting a First Amendment showdown with community organizations.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Louisiana #Climate #Air #Pollution
A new state law threatens massive fines for releasing air quality data, inviting a First Amendment showdown with community organizations.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Louisiana #Climate #Air #Pollution
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5/30/25
18 days remain until the Va. candidacy filing deadline. (D)s are filed in 100/100 HDs, with only 1 HD left to officially nominate their (D) candidate. There are no (R) candidates filed in 30/100 HDs. Can Va. (R)s win statewide while conceding 30% of the HD contests ?🤷🏽♀️
18 days remain until the Va. candidacy filing deadline. (D)s are filed in 100/100 HDs, with only 1 HD left to officially nominate their (D) candidate. There are no (R) candidates filed in 30/100 HDs. Can Va. (R)s win statewide while conceding 30% of the HD contests ?🤷🏽♀️
May 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
5/30/25
18 days remain until the Va. candidacy filing deadline. (D)s are filed in 100/100 HDs, with only 1 HD left to officially nominate their (D) candidate. There are no (R) candidates filed in 30/100 HDs. Can Va. (R)s win statewide while conceding 30% of the HD contests ?🤷🏽♀️
18 days remain until the Va. candidacy filing deadline. (D)s are filed in 100/100 HDs, with only 1 HD left to officially nominate their (D) candidate. There are no (R) candidates filed in 30/100 HDs. Can Va. (R)s win statewide while conceding 30% of the HD contests ?🤷🏽♀️
Hands Off! Roanoke (Virginia)
April 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Hands Off! Roanoke (Virginia)
What a dumbass.
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
During HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted city leadership for failing the city on safety and educational standards.
www.foxnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
What a dumbass.
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I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
February 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
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Four ways the Trump admin increases risk of war:
1. Openly desires territorial expansion (Canada, etc), weakening norm vs. conquest (hello, China)
2. Turn away from Europe weakens NATO, emboldens Russia
3. Abandoning Ukraine shows that conquest pays
4. Politicized/purged US military = ⬇️ deterrent
1. Openly desires territorial expansion (Canada, etc), weakening norm vs. conquest (hello, China)
2. Turn away from Europe weakens NATO, emboldens Russia
3. Abandoning Ukraine shows that conquest pays
4. Politicized/purged US military = ⬇️ deterrent
February 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Four ways the Trump admin increases risk of war:
1. Openly desires territorial expansion (Canada, etc), weakening norm vs. conquest (hello, China)
2. Turn away from Europe weakens NATO, emboldens Russia
3. Abandoning Ukraine shows that conquest pays
4. Politicized/purged US military = ⬇️ deterrent
1. Openly desires territorial expansion (Canada, etc), weakening norm vs. conquest (hello, China)
2. Turn away from Europe weakens NATO, emboldens Russia
3. Abandoning Ukraine shows that conquest pays
4. Politicized/purged US military = ⬇️ deterrent
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REP. SPANBERGER: “I'm all for improving the way our federal government runs. But that's not what Trump and Musk are doing… They're taking a sledgehammer approach — impacting the VA, seniors, law enforcement…”
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGIxpbp...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGIxpbp...
February 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
REP. SPANBERGER: “I'm all for improving the way our federal government runs. But that's not what Trump and Musk are doing… They're taking a sledgehammer approach — impacting the VA, seniors, law enforcement…”
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGIxpbp...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGIxpbp...
youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Tom Homan says he sent an email to the Deputy AG asking if AOC is crossing the line by providing webinars to undocumented immigrants: I’m not an attorney… maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now
February 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
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Always fighting ghosts. And so long as they inject race into it, they can get millions to accept it in the place of actually making their lives better.
BLM, CRT, DEI, “woke,” antifa
And this has the added benefit of targeting any nascent effort of organizing in which Black ppl are involved.
BLM, CRT, DEI, “woke,” antifa
And this has the added benefit of targeting any nascent effort of organizing in which Black ppl are involved.
Trump’s FBI poised to focus counterterrorism strategy on “Things like BLM and Antifa”
Trump’s FBI Poised to Focus Counterterror Strategy on “Things Like BLM and Antifa”
According to current and former officials in the bureau and other national security offices, the shift will jeopardize years of progress combating violent white nationalism.
www.vanityfair.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Always fighting ghosts. And so long as they inject race into it, they can get millions to accept it in the place of actually making their lives better.
BLM, CRT, DEI, “woke,” antifa
And this has the added benefit of targeting any nascent effort of organizing in which Black ppl are involved.
BLM, CRT, DEI, “woke,” antifa
And this has the added benefit of targeting any nascent effort of organizing in which Black ppl are involved.
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I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.
February 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.
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Read the letter from Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, accepting the resignation of Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, over her refusal to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.
Read the document (Gift Article)
A letter from Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, accepting the resignation of Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, over her refusal to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Read the letter from Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, accepting the resignation of Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, over her refusal to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.
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If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.
February 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.
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Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges.
This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
February 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges.
This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
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A general rule that one should follow during the times in which we live: Read Bednar.
Over at @lawfare.bsky.social, I argue that the Trump's use of administrative leave violates the plain text and the spirit of the Administrative Leave Act. I conclude with some musings about the relationship between "faithful execution" and capacity.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Use and Abuse of Administrative Leave
Understanding a central tool in DOGE’s war against the federal workforce.
www.lawfaremedia.org
February 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A general rule that one should follow during the times in which we live: Read Bednar.
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Trump’s strategy of allowing predatory capitalists to destroy state capacity and extract wealth, attacking higher Ed, and disappearing people into black sites (Gitmo) feels like what the US backed in Latin American Cold War dictatorships coming back home.
February 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Trump’s strategy of allowing predatory capitalists to destroy state capacity and extract wealth, attacking higher Ed, and disappearing people into black sites (Gitmo) feels like what the US backed in Latin American Cold War dictatorships coming back home.
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The State Department's procurement forecast just came out. Guess what the single biggest expenditure is?
$400 million on Teslas.
Is it possible to launder money more obviously?
www.state.gov/procurement-...
$400 million on Teslas.
Is it possible to launder money more obviously?
www.state.gov/procurement-...
Procurement Forecast - United States Department of State
Public Law 100-656, the Business Opportunity Development Reform Act of 1988, amended the Small Business Act to place new emphasis on acquisition planning. The law requires agencies to compile and make...
www.state.gov
February 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The State Department's procurement forecast just came out. Guess what the single biggest expenditure is?
$400 million on Teslas.
Is it possible to launder money more obviously?
www.state.gov/procurement-...
$400 million on Teslas.
Is it possible to launder money more obviously?
www.state.gov/procurement-...
