Cary Hall
@caryhall.bsky.social
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Congress used to have the power of the purse and the power to declare war.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Congress used to have the power of the purse and the power to declare war.
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"But the really harsh lesson of Ukraine isn’t just that America is an unreliable defender. It’s that America may take the side of the aggressor."
www.thebulwark.com/p/america-he...
www.thebulwark.com/p/america-he...
America’s Heel Turn
Whose side are we on?
www.thebulwark.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"But the really harsh lesson of Ukraine isn’t just that America is an unreliable defender. It’s that America may take the side of the aggressor."
www.thebulwark.com/p/america-he...
www.thebulwark.com/p/america-he...
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Unmasking isn’t a switch you flip. It’s not “now I know I’m autistic, so now I just get to be myself.” Most of us spend years—sometimes decades—learning how to hide the parts of ourselves that didn’t fit. That mask doesn’t just come off in one piece.
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Unmasking isn’t a switch you flip. It’s not “now I know I’m autistic, so now I just get to be myself.” Most of us spend years—sometimes decades—learning how to hide the parts of ourselves that didn’t fit. That mask doesn’t just come off in one piece.
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"Low-trust" is a funny term because most of them end up distrusting the people they should trust and extended enormous credulity to those they shouldn't
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Low-trust" is a funny term because most of them end up distrusting the people they should trust and extended enormous credulity to those they shouldn't
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Healthcare is really expensive, and many people are struggling to afford it. However, most people don’t know how it got this way. It boils down to the same problem the US has with literally everything else: it would have benefited Black people, so we allowed the states to discriminate.
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Healthcare is really expensive, and many people are struggling to afford it. However, most people don’t know how it got this way. It boils down to the same problem the US has with literally everything else: it would have benefited Black people, so we allowed the states to discriminate.
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Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.
Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.
Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
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Why are there so many undiagnosed adults who are only now discovering they're autistic or otherwise neurodivergent?
I have an explanation...
I have an explanation...
October 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Why are there so many undiagnosed adults who are only now discovering they're autistic or otherwise neurodivergent?
I have an explanation...
I have an explanation...
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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
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“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
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Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering.
October 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering.
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Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
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Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner.
They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.
They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.
October 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner.
They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.
They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.
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Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed
While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed
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It's bad enough if President Trump is demanding authoritarian powers in violation of the Constitution ...
But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.
But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.
This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.
The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.
October 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's bad enough if President Trump is demanding authoritarian powers in violation of the Constitution ...
But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.
But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.
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You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:
If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.
If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.
Oregon is set to lose an additional $400 million in federal grants awarded for climate action and is among more than a dozen Democratic states losing federal funding after the Trump administration terminated nearly $8 billion for those states this week.
Oregon to lose an additional $400 million in federal climate grants
Oregon and 15 other Democratic states are losing nearly $8 billion toward climate projects, after the Trump administration terminated multiple federal grants.
www.opb.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:
If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.
If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
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Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.
I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.
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I reference this early in The Originalism Trap's chapter on elections bc it perfectly illustrates the dynamic we're still dealing with today
as some white people thought no education was preferable to integrated schools, some white people think no democracy is preferable to an integrated electorate
as some white people thought no education was preferable to integrated schools, some white people think no democracy is preferable to an integrated electorate
Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.
I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years
September 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I reference this early in The Originalism Trap's chapter on elections bc it perfectly illustrates the dynamic we're still dealing with today
as some white people thought no education was preferable to integrated schools, some white people think no democracy is preferable to an integrated electorate
as some white people thought no education was preferable to integrated schools, some white people think no democracy is preferable to an integrated electorate
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I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
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Brett Kavanaugh: ICE agents can have a little racial profiling sometimes, as a treat
Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling.
Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.
Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
September 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Brett Kavanaugh: ICE agents can have a little racial profiling sometimes, as a treat
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I am really grateful that our homegrown fascists are incompetent morons.
September 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I am really grateful that our homegrown fascists are incompetent morons.
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Shorter JD Vance: You are not allowed to criticize ICE.
Goes along with shorter Pete Hegseth: You are not allowed to criticize the military's action at Wounded Knee.
And shorter Donald Trump: You are not allowed to criticize me.
It's full-on authoritarianism, all the way down.
Goes along with shorter Pete Hegseth: You are not allowed to criticize the military's action at Wounded Knee.
And shorter Donald Trump: You are not allowed to criticize me.
It's full-on authoritarianism, all the way down.
JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents."
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
September 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Shorter JD Vance: You are not allowed to criticize ICE.
Goes along with shorter Pete Hegseth: You are not allowed to criticize the military's action at Wounded Knee.
And shorter Donald Trump: You are not allowed to criticize me.
It's full-on authoritarianism, all the way down.
Goes along with shorter Pete Hegseth: You are not allowed to criticize the military's action at Wounded Knee.
And shorter Donald Trump: You are not allowed to criticize me.
It's full-on authoritarianism, all the way down.
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Always a joy to visit Abt Electronics’ antiques display and see things I paid full retail price for as a working adult.
September 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Always a joy to visit Abt Electronics’ antiques display and see things I paid full retail price for as a working adult.
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"Would you say the US is in a political crisis?"
Yes: 79%
No: 18%
Quinnipiac / Sept 21, 2025
Yes: 79%
No: 18%
Quinnipiac / Sept 21, 2025
September 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"Would you say the US is in a political crisis?"
Yes: 79%
No: 18%
Quinnipiac / Sept 21, 2025
Yes: 79%
No: 18%
Quinnipiac / Sept 21, 2025