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America was. Truth was. We are. “There is a deeper magic …”
1 Samuel 8:4-21. 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
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America was. Truth was. We are. “There is a deeper magic …”
"liberals struggle with the overwhelming volume of questions to be asked, answers to be offered... A fascist just has to be a storyteller. Because for fascists words do not attach to meanings, the stories don’t need... to accord with external reality."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
www.newyorker.com
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The DOGE guys didn’t just make one $8B mistake in their savings list — “they are getting it wrong with alarming consistency”

They don’t seem to understand how these things are calculated.

🧵: x.com/electricfutu...
February 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
February 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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February 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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“Count Dracula’s Team Now Has Access to Your Throat”

“Representatives of the Department of Circulatory Efficiency have been given a tool to monitor and potentially divert blood flow”
Seems like a weirdly chill way of describing this
February 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Trump and Musk are tanking the American economy -- so they can create chaos, and seize more control. THEY will be the only winners.

WE will be the ones paying more, suffering more, and losing our money, our jobs, and our freedoms.
February 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Even as we are all wading through a massive fire hose of news….and figuring out what matters and what doesn’t…the takeover of the treasury dept payment system by Musk posse is one we should pay attention to.
February 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This from Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking Dem on Senate Finance Committee. bsky.app/profile/wyde...
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Trump’s attempted impoundments are a claim to presidential control of legislation, and so if allowed would undo a very fundamental principle of the Constitution. Read this.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...
120. The Impoundment Crisis of 2025
The Trump administration's Monday spending freeze is likely to provoke a crisis over the constitutionality of "impoundment"—one that the justices could well have to resolve *very* soon.
www.stevevladeck.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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“Here’s a story that should be written this weekend:”

“Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices”
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Nothing could please America’s enemies more than the ongoing destruction of the federal government.
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
February 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Nothing could please America’s enemies more than the ongoing destruction of the federal government.
February 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
February 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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“Trump’s second-term message strategy seems to be throwing dictatorial spaghetti against a wall to see what sticks.”

@davidlitt.bsky.social, a former Obama speechwriter, weighs in on Trump’s week-one rhetorical strategy—and how to beat it.
How to Drink from a Firehose
A former Obama speechwriter on Trump’s week-one rhetorical strategy—and how you can help beat it
contrarian.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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America was. Truth was. We are. “There is a deeper magic …”
"liberals struggle with the overwhelming volume of questions to be asked, answers to be offered... A fascist just has to be a storyteller. Because for fascists words do not attach to meanings, the stories don’t need... to accord with external reality."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
www.newyorker.com
November 12, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Ukrainian national costumes😎
December 28, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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December 24, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Thanks for having me @jenpsaki.bsky.social!
@katiephang.bsky.social on Gaetz ethics report: "I think there was more than enough probable cause for a number of state felonies that were violated by Matt Gaetz, and I'm stunned that there wasn't more proactivity done by law enforcement.”
December 24, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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The most that can be said about the present moment is that there is disagreement within the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party about which faces to eat in what order.
December 21, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Russia and China have a model to cheaply install their candidates in elections worldwide and now they're applying everywhere.

Democracy is dying only because the West refuses to shut it down.
December 5, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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Jeff Bezos and I were both in the news today.

Bezos is making nice with Trump.
Kash Patel has said that I am an enemy of the GOP.

He owns the Washington Post.
I founded Democracy Docket.

Both rely on paid subscriptions. Which do you want to support? www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
December 5, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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Russian assets in movies

Russian assets in real life
December 4, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Sixty-six thousand fake accounts and ten million fake followers were removed, just on TikTok and just for Romania’s election. The scale is shocking: we’re not talking about hundreds or thousands of posts, but millions—every single day!
#romania
#russia
December 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM