Caleb Lagerwey
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As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
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I am deeply disturbed by the shooting in Utah. Doug and I send our prayers to Charlie Kirk and his family.
Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.
Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I am deeply disturbed by the shooting in Utah. Doug and I send our prayers to Charlie Kirk and his family.
Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.
Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.
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The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
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July 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
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We need much less Mamdani national implications discourse (implications that are very likely minimal to nonexistent, & I’d say the sane thing if Lander had won) & much more discourse about the vastly more important Republican reconciliation bill.
June 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We need much less Mamdani national implications discourse (implications that are very likely minimal to nonexistent, & I’d say the sane thing if Lander had won) & much more discourse about the vastly more important Republican reconciliation bill.
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Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
May 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
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A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference.
But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.
www.motherjones.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference.
But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
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The JCPOA was very good, actually.
June 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The JCPOA was very good, actually.
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In our latest It Can Happen Here video, I note how the case of the mistakenly deported Maryland man has become a constitutional flashpoint, with Trump defying the courts and assuming dictator-like power—while being damn cruel. This is what authoritarianism looks like.
April 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
In our latest It Can Happen Here video, I note how the case of the mistakenly deported Maryland man has become a constitutional flashpoint, with Trump defying the courts and assuming dictator-like power—while being damn cruel. This is what authoritarianism looks like.
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A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.”
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
March 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.”
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
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📸 No one follows more etiquette rules than the Royal Family—but notice how King Charles didn’t make any smart-ass or demeaning comments about Zelensky’s attire today.
Why? Because respect isn’t about clothes—it’s about character. And that’s something money can’t buy.
Why? Because respect isn’t about clothes—it’s about character. And that’s something money can’t buy.
March 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
📸 No one follows more etiquette rules than the Royal Family—but notice how King Charles didn’t make any smart-ass or demeaning comments about Zelensky’s attire today.
Why? Because respect isn’t about clothes—it’s about character. And that’s something money can’t buy.
Why? Because respect isn’t about clothes—it’s about character. And that’s something money can’t buy.
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Since January 24, 14,482 adults and 1,541 infants have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program. USAID implements the PEPFAR program.
February 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Since January 24, 14,482 adults and 1,541 infants have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program. USAID implements the PEPFAR program.
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Not holding townhalls because constituents are pissed off is the civic equivalent and stopping testing because that way the COVID numbers can't go up.
February 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Not holding townhalls because constituents are pissed off is the civic equivalent and stopping testing because that way the COVID numbers can't go up.
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Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."
February 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."
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This essay from Trevor Morrison and Rick Pildes prompted me to run down the answer to a question that’s been bugging me ever since J.D. Vance began posting about defying court orders: Are federal courts completely dependent on the U.S. Marshall’s service to enforce civil contempt orders?
Opinion | This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them (Gift Article)
How the escalating measures available to courts would work.
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This essay from Trevor Morrison and Rick Pildes prompted me to run down the answer to a question that’s been bugging me ever since J.D. Vance began posting about defying court orders: Are federal courts completely dependent on the U.S. Marshall’s service to enforce civil contempt orders?
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Here is a quick guide by our outstanding graphics team. Malika Khurana; Andrew Wilson and Lily Boyce.
February 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Here is a quick guide by our outstanding graphics team. Malika Khurana; Andrew Wilson and Lily Boyce.
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How about this: "TRUMP VIOLATES CONSTITUTIONAL OATH AS HE SEIZES DICTATORIAL POWERS"
Fixed it for you.
Fixed it for you.
President Trump has opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how their actions could be consistent with the rule of law. Here are some examples of the administration’s defiance of statutes. nyti.ms/4aKnKRP
February 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
How about this: "TRUMP VIOLATES CONSTITUTIONAL OATH AS HE SEIZES DICTATORIAL POWERS"
Fixed it for you.
Fixed it for you.
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These people are so crazy. Most Marxists just assume that USAID is a CIA cutout.
The unelected South African oligarch tearing apart American civil service is calling the international aid-and-soft-power apparatus started at the height of the Cold War to counter the influence of the Soviets a “viper’s nest of radical-left marxists.”
Wont anyone read a book?
Wont anyone read a book?
February 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
These people are so crazy. Most Marxists just assume that USAID is a CIA cutout.
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The US constitution was built to avoid centralized power and tyranny.
It is not the constitution that is failing us.
It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.
It is not the constitution that is failing us.
It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.
February 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The US constitution was built to avoid centralized power and tyranny.
It is not the constitution that is failing us.
It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.
It is not the constitution that is failing us.
It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.
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To comply with Trump's executive order on DEI, workers at NOAA have been instructed to deactivate specific agency materials containing the following keywords, per memos I obtained:
January 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
To comply with Trump's executive order on DEI, workers at NOAA have been instructed to deactivate specific agency materials containing the following keywords, per memos I obtained:
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I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!
February 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!
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I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
January 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
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This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x
January 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x