Eugene Akers
@eugeneakers.bsky.social
Social Engineer. Lawyer. Father. Alaskan. Liberal. DC resident. Husband. Alpha. Aggie. HUSLer. Peloton enthusiast. Political junkie. Critical thinker. Not necessarily in that order
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What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯
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What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
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Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social
The @washingtonpost.com, after 11 years, fired me for just doing my job — speaking the truth about political violence in America.
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The @washingtonpost.com, after 11 years, fired me for just doing my job — speaking the truth about political violence in America.
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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September 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social
The @washingtonpost.com, after 11 years, fired me for just doing my job — speaking the truth about political violence in America.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
The @washingtonpost.com, after 11 years, fired me for just doing my job — speaking the truth about political violence in America.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
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Well, well, well, how about that:
“Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as ‘vacation home,’ documents show”
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
“Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as ‘vacation home,’ documents show”
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Well, well, well, how about that:
“Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as ‘vacation home,’ documents show”
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
“Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as ‘vacation home,’ documents show”
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
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Someone says "I think tax cuts for billionaires drives innovation and growth" and I'm gonna think they're stupid, but that's a "differing opinion"
Saying Black women don't have the "brain processing power" for certain jobs, Palestinians don't exist, gay ppl should be stoned...that's not "opinions"
Saying Black women don't have the "brain processing power" for certain jobs, Palestinians don't exist, gay ppl should be stoned...that's not "opinions"
September 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Someone says "I think tax cuts for billionaires drives innovation and growth" and I'm gonna think they're stupid, but that's a "differing opinion"
Saying Black women don't have the "brain processing power" for certain jobs, Palestinians don't exist, gay ppl should be stoned...that's not "opinions"
Saying Black women don't have the "brain processing power" for certain jobs, Palestinians don't exist, gay ppl should be stoned...that's not "opinions"
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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A 3-judge panel of the 5th Circuit held late Tuesday that the Alien Enemies Act did not apply to Venezuelan migrants the Trump administration says are members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which they claim is invading the US.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A 3-judge panel of the 5th Circuit held late Tuesday that the Alien Enemies Act did not apply to Venezuelan migrants the Trump administration says are members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which they claim is invading the US.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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This is a terrifying but unfortunately realistic description of how well coordinated and effective the demolition of law-based democratic institutions and norms has been — and how far from an effective counterforce the fragmented and disjointed resistance has mounted
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Most Fateful Teardown Is Happening Now
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This is a terrifying but unfortunately realistic description of how well coordinated and effective the demolition of law-based democratic institutions and norms has been — and how far from an effective counterforce the fragmented and disjointed resistance has mounted
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
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Judge orders administration to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children
A federal judge rushed an emergency hearing after learning that the Trump administration was moving to deport children to Guatemala despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday.
wapo.st/47SlsjY
A federal judge rushed an emergency hearing after learning that the Trump administration was moving to deport children to Guatemala despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday.
wapo.st/47SlsjY
Judge orders administration to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children
A federal judge rushed an emergency hearing after learning that the Trump administration was moving to deport children to Guatemala despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday.
wapo.st
August 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Judge orders administration to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children
A federal judge rushed an emergency hearing after learning that the Trump administration was moving to deport children to Guatemala despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday.
wapo.st/47SlsjY
A federal judge rushed an emergency hearing after learning that the Trump administration was moving to deport children to Guatemala despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday.
wapo.st/47SlsjY
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Explain the Big Ugly budget bill to me like I’m five…
Seriously, this demo is a must see—anyone can understand it.
Share it with family and friends.
#VoteNo
Seriously, this demo is a must see—anyone can understand it.
Share it with family and friends.
#VoteNo
July 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Explain the Big Ugly budget bill to me like I’m five…
Seriously, this demo is a must see—anyone can understand it.
Share it with family and friends.
#VoteNo
Seriously, this demo is a must see—anyone can understand it.
Share it with family and friends.
#VoteNo
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissenting in 6-3 SCOTUS birthright citizenship case: "It is not difficult to predict how this all ends. Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more."
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissenting in 6-3 SCOTUS birthright citizenship case: "It is not difficult to predict how this all ends. Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more."
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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5 months in:
Less than 2 months after “Taco,”
2 weeks after the world’s richest man called him a pedophile…
1 week after his failed military birthday parade & the No Kings protests…
24 hrs after he was finally ordered to free Mahmoud Khalil…
…he’s bombing Iran.
That’s how scared they are.
Less than 2 months after “Taco,”
2 weeks after the world’s richest man called him a pedophile…
1 week after his failed military birthday parade & the No Kings protests…
24 hrs after he was finally ordered to free Mahmoud Khalil…
…he’s bombing Iran.
That’s how scared they are.
June 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
5 months in:
Less than 2 months after “Taco,”
2 weeks after the world’s richest man called him a pedophile…
1 week after his failed military birthday parade & the No Kings protests…
24 hrs after he was finally ordered to free Mahmoud Khalil…
…he’s bombing Iran.
That’s how scared they are.
Less than 2 months after “Taco,”
2 weeks after the world’s richest man called him a pedophile…
1 week after his failed military birthday parade & the No Kings protests…
24 hrs after he was finally ordered to free Mahmoud Khalil…
…he’s bombing Iran.
That’s how scared they are.
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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
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Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this
June 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this
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Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."
June 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."
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Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.
June 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.
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I know everyone's been breathlessly waiting for what I was going to write about LA.
here you go - gifted
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
here you go - gifted
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Trump Means to Provoke, Not Pacify
Don’t give him the pretext he wants.
www.theatlantic.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I know everyone's been breathlessly waiting for what I was going to write about LA.
here you go - gifted
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
here you go - gifted
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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We keep hearing the Trump-Musk saga reveals the split between tech oligarchs and MAGA. But they're largely in sync on crucial matters involving egalitarianism and the state. Trump/Musk mainly differ over how badly to screw the poor.
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
June 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We keep hearing the Trump-Musk saga reveals the split between tech oligarchs and MAGA. But they're largely in sync on crucial matters involving egalitarianism and the state. Trump/Musk mainly differ over how badly to screw the poor.
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...