@cmmott.bsky.social
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Hope from @nberlat.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's PN:
"That may mean that we will, in fact, after much suffering, perhaps be able to end this fascist nightmare, and start building a country that stands for something other than hate and cruelty for all."
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
"That may mean that we will, in fact, after much suffering, perhaps be able to end this fascist nightmare, and start building a country that stands for something other than hate and cruelty for all."
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
Republicans in Congress show signs of life
Trump's grip on his party is weakening.
open.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Hope from @nberlat.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's PN:
"That may mean that we will, in fact, after much suffering, perhaps be able to end this fascist nightmare, and start building a country that stands for something other than hate and cruelty for all."
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
"That may mean that we will, in fact, after much suffering, perhaps be able to end this fascist nightmare, and start building a country that stands for something other than hate and cruelty for all."
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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"An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from—not toward—a federal officer when he opened fire."
Great video analysis of Minneapolis shooting from NYT. These frames show drawing of gun and exact moment of first shot.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Great video analysis of Minneapolis shooting from NYT. These frames show drawing of gun and exact moment of first shot.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
January 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM
"An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from—not toward—a federal officer when he opened fire."
Great video analysis of Minneapolis shooting from NYT. These frames show drawing of gun and exact moment of first shot.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Great video analysis of Minneapolis shooting from NYT. These frames show drawing of gun and exact moment of first shot.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 AM
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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NEW: The ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, the Venezuela attack, the new White House Jan. 6 website—these each convey a powerful & unsettling message from Trump, Miller, and their crew: Violence is ours to use, at home and abroad, to get what we want. Beware.
Please read and share.
Please read and share.
The Trump doctrine: Violence is us
The message is clear—be afraid.
www.motherjones.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:43 PM
NEW: The ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, the Venezuela attack, the new White House Jan. 6 website—these each convey a powerful & unsettling message from Trump, Miller, and their crew: Violence is ours to use, at home and abroad, to get what we want. Beware.
Please read and share.
Please read and share.
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Trump's plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations. It's a scheme worthy of a mob boss. www.economist.com/the-americas...
Donald Trump wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere
Snatching Nicolás Maduro and attempting to take control of Venezuela and its oil is an extraordinary display of the new “Donroe doctrine”
www.economist.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Trump's plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations. It's a scheme worthy of a mob boss. www.economist.com/the-americas...
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"The dangerous thing here is the idea that a President can just decide that a leader is not legitimate and then invade the country and presumably put someone in power who is favored by the Administration. If that were the case, that’s the end of international law"
You can read my take on Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela here: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation
A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.
www.newyorker.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:41 AM
"The dangerous thing here is the idea that a President can just decide that a leader is not legitimate and then invade the country and presumably put someone in power who is favored by the Administration. If that were the case, that’s the end of international law"
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More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”
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TRUMP JUST ATTACKED VENEZUELA, MURDERED INNOCENT CIVILIANS & ABDUCTED A WORLD LEADER & HIS WIFE FROM THEIR BEDROOM. Presidents do not get to bomb a country, abduct a world leader, and decide who lives or dies without a vote. If Congress doesn’t act now it isn’t checking power — it’s surrendering it.
ABDUCTED FROM THEIR BEDROOM — TRUMP BOMBS, MURDERS AND KIDNAPS WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL
Convicted Felon Donald Trump Just Crossed a MASSIVE Constitutional Red Line
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:26 PM
TRUMP JUST ATTACKED VENEZUELA, MURDERED INNOCENT CIVILIANS & ABDUCTED A WORLD LEADER & HIS WIFE FROM THEIR BEDROOM. Presidents do not get to bomb a country, abduct a world leader, and decide who lives or dies without a vote. If Congress doesn’t act now it isn’t checking power — it’s surrendering it.
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Corporate journalism isn’t being censored per se. It’s learning to obey silence.
Bari Weiss is Not on the Level
When Fairness Becomes Permission for Lawlessness
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Corporate journalism isn’t being censored per se. It’s learning to obey silence.
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Terrorist were coming to the U.S.
We killed ‘em.
OK, boat wasn’t coming here.
There was no 2nd strike.
OK, there was. But we didn’t know.
Didn’t see or order it.
That guy did.
Fog of war.
Self-defense.
Just wanted to sink the boat.
JK. We meant to kill ‘em.
And we’d do it again.
We killed ‘em.
OK, boat wasn’t coming here.
There was no 2nd strike.
OK, there was. But we didn’t know.
Didn’t see or order it.
That guy did.
Fog of war.
Self-defense.
Just wanted to sink the boat.
JK. We meant to kill ‘em.
And we’d do it again.
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Terrorist were coming to the U.S.
We killed ‘em.
OK, boat wasn’t coming here.
There was no 2nd strike.
OK, there was. But we didn’t know.
Didn’t see or order it.
That guy did.
Fog of war.
Self-defense.
Just wanted to sink the boat.
JK. We meant to kill ‘em.
And we’d do it again.
We killed ‘em.
OK, boat wasn’t coming here.
There was no 2nd strike.
OK, there was. But we didn’t know.
Didn’t see or order it.
That guy did.
Fog of war.
Self-defense.
Just wanted to sink the boat.
JK. We meant to kill ‘em.
And we’d do it again.
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ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year [via @popular.info]
ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year
The $71.5 million spent so far has paid for guns and armor, chemical munitions, “guided missile warheads," and "explosive components.”
www.motherjones.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year [via @popular.info]
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The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.
A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.
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A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl
A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNN
Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio...
cnn.it
September 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl
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So dangerous.
September 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
So dangerous.
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I really appreciate the work that
@heyjohnrussell.bsky.social and
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social are doing to reach poor white voters in red states.
I’ve always thought that getting Bernie Sanders in front of Trump voters would be fruitful and it was.
👏👏👏
(Longer mini-doc is on YouTube.)
@heyjohnrussell.bsky.social and
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social are doing to reach poor white voters in red states.
I’ve always thought that getting Bernie Sanders in front of Trump voters would be fruitful and it was.
👏👏👏
(Longer mini-doc is on YouTube.)
September 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I really appreciate the work that
@heyjohnrussell.bsky.social and
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social are doing to reach poor white voters in red states.
I’ve always thought that getting Bernie Sanders in front of Trump voters would be fruitful and it was.
👏👏👏
(Longer mini-doc is on YouTube.)
@heyjohnrussell.bsky.social and
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social are doing to reach poor white voters in red states.
I’ve always thought that getting Bernie Sanders in front of Trump voters would be fruitful and it was.
👏👏👏
(Longer mini-doc is on YouTube.)
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25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump signs proclamation imposing annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visas
Move deals potentially major blow to US tech industry, which relies heavily on workers from India and China
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.
An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.
newrepublic.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
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There goes the First Amendment.
September 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
There goes the First Amendment.
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"In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors." - Benjamin Franklin
#1stAmendment
#1stAmendment
September 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
"In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors." - Benjamin Franklin
#1stAmendment
#1stAmendment
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It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...