George Snorewell
@georgesnorewell.bsky.social
Writer.
(Classics; Anthropology; History; former Librarian)
Spanish Civil War George attitude. I remain fuckable.
History tells us that if you don't beat Nazis at the ballot box, the time will come when you must beat them with a rifle butt.
(Classics; Anthropology; History; former Librarian)
Spanish Civil War George attitude. I remain fuckable.
History tells us that if you don't beat Nazis at the ballot box, the time will come when you must beat them with a rifle butt.
Even Wales cannot trust Trump.
FBI most wanted Daniel San Diego found in Wales cannot get fair US trial, court told - BBC News share.google/n398WPm9dp5Z...
FBI most wanted Daniel San Diego found in Wales cannot get fair US trial, court told - BBC News share.google/n398WPm9dp5Z...
FBI most wanted Daniel San Diego found in Wales cannot get fair US trial, court told
After 21 years on the run, Daniel San Diego was found in a remote part of the Conwy Valley in 2024.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Even Wales cannot trust Trump.
FBI most wanted Daniel San Diego found in Wales cannot get fair US trial, court told - BBC News share.google/n398WPm9dp5Z...
FBI most wanted Daniel San Diego found in Wales cannot get fair US trial, court told - BBC News share.google/n398WPm9dp5Z...
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When people say they want an “American Franco,” we need to be crystal clear about what that means: grinding poverty, widespread misery, & unmarked graves of summarily-executed opponents in every town & village.
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
www.nybooks.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
When people say they want an “American Franco,” we need to be crystal clear about what that means: grinding poverty, widespread misery, & unmarked graves of summarily-executed opponents in every town & village.
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I'm going to be real with everyone, Olivia being a fixer for RFK Jr, killing negative stories about him, coordinating with the Trump campaign to get RFK connected, etc, while covering all of them, is worse than Trump calling a reporter piggy.
oh my fucking god she writes like Olivia. Are these people all in the same book club or something
December 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm going to be real with everyone, Olivia being a fixer for RFK Jr, killing negative stories about him, coordinating with the Trump campaign to get RFK connected, etc, while covering all of them, is worse than Trump calling a reporter piggy.
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If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.
Reporter: “Are you committed to releasing the full video?”
Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”
Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”
Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”
Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”
Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”
Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.
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Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
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“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States”
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States”
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
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I too announce my resignation as New Jersey's top prosecutor. I will not be taking questions.
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I too announce my resignation as New Jersey's top prosecutor. I will not be taking questions.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.
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36 MINUTES AGO: the Trump administration submitted arguments to the Supreme Court claiming that no court — including the Supreme Court — can question Trump's decision to deploy military troops against US cities.
We are watching what the six fascist Republican SCOTUS members do.
We are watching what the six fascist Republican SCOTUS members do.
Edmond Bertrand (@vilniusschoolmaster)
36 MINUTES AGO: the Trump administration submitted arguments to the Supreme Court claiming that no court — including the Supreme Court — can question Trump's decision to deploy military troops against...
substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
36 MINUTES AGO: the Trump administration submitted arguments to the Supreme Court claiming that no court — including the Supreme Court — can question Trump's decision to deploy military troops against US cities.
We are watching what the six fascist Republican SCOTUS members do.
We are watching what the six fascist Republican SCOTUS members do.
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Re-reading Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman's Yale Law Journal article on how to reform SCOTUS for no particular reason.
yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Re-reading Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman's Yale Law Journal article on how to reform SCOTUS for no particular reason.
yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
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The Supreme Court is working hard to turn this country into a despot's dreamscape—while making it nigh impossible for good people to make lasting change for the better.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Supreme Court is working hard to turn this country into a despot's dreamscape—while making it nigh impossible for good people to make lasting change for the better.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
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People need to look at what happened in the first place to make these agencies necessary. FDA is a good one:
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
People need to look at what happened in the first place to make these agencies necessary. FDA is a good one:
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The Supreme Court: "Actually, according to the constitution, our government is a one person dictatorship."
Our country has lost the plot, abolish this ridiculous farce of a court. Nine people can't hold us hostage by telling us up is down.
Our country has lost the plot, abolish this ridiculous farce of a court. Nine people can't hold us hostage by telling us up is down.
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The Supreme Court: "Actually, according to the constitution, our government is a one person dictatorship."
Our country has lost the plot, abolish this ridiculous farce of a court. Nine people can't hold us hostage by telling us up is down.
Our country has lost the plot, abolish this ridiculous farce of a court. Nine people can't hold us hostage by telling us up is down.
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Every new order, argument, and decision drives the point home: any future Democratic administration will be unable to make policy if nothing is done about SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Every new order, argument, and decision drives the point home: any future Democratic administration will be unable to make policy if nothing is done about SCOTUS
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Sitting in SCOTUS courtroom tapping my sign that says The President Has Very Few Enumerated Powers in the US Constitution Because The Office Is Supposed to Be A Peacetime Do-Nothing Position Subordinate to the Legislature, The True Source of the Consent of the Governed. Everyone groans at my shit
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Sitting in SCOTUS courtroom tapping my sign that says The President Has Very Few Enumerated Powers in the US Constitution Because The Office Is Supposed to Be A Peacetime Do-Nothing Position Subordinate to the Legislature, The True Source of the Consent of the Governed. Everyone groans at my shit
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Feeling alarmed isn’t hysteria, it’s civic literacy.
Every democracy that slid into authoritarianism reached this stage: when partisan leaders in SCOTUS, Congress, and the Cabinet stop acting as checks and start acting as shields for the regime.
We’re there.
Every democracy that slid into authoritarianism reached this stage: when partisan leaders in SCOTUS, Congress, and the Cabinet stop acting as checks and start acting as shields for the regime.
We’re there.
December 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Feeling alarmed isn’t hysteria, it’s civic literacy.
Every democracy that slid into authoritarianism reached this stage: when partisan leaders in SCOTUS, Congress, and the Cabinet stop acting as checks and start acting as shields for the regime.
We’re there.
Every democracy that slid into authoritarianism reached this stage: when partisan leaders in SCOTUS, Congress, and the Cabinet stop acting as checks and start acting as shields for the regime.
We’re there.
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I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
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You are welcome to come to Canada anytime to study how a modern Supreme Court should manage things
December 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
You are welcome to come to Canada anytime to study how a modern Supreme Court should manage things
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the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
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One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.*
* So long as they're a Republican.
* So long as they're a Republican.
the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.*
* So long as they're a Republican.
* So long as they're a Republican.
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SCOTUS' LGBTQ books decision destabilized secular, public education by effectively giving religious parents a veto over curricula they dislike.
I agree with @mtsw.bsky.social that this case could further harm public schools by making them unsafe for many children. The goal here is pretty clear.
I agree with @mtsw.bsky.social that this case could further harm public schools by making them unsafe for many children. The goal here is pretty clear.
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
SCOTUS' LGBTQ books decision destabilized secular, public education by effectively giving religious parents a veto over curricula they dislike.
I agree with @mtsw.bsky.social that this case could further harm public schools by making them unsafe for many children. The goal here is pretty clear.
I agree with @mtsw.bsky.social that this case could further harm public schools by making them unsafe for many children. The goal here is pretty clear.
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this dynamic is why Hegseth is trying to get high-ranking officers into situations where they would die in prison if republicans ever lost control of the executive branch
motivating your enemies to all fight to the death seems like a bad strategy idk
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
this dynamic is why Hegseth is trying to get high-ranking officers into situations where they would die in prison if republicans ever lost control of the executive branch
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As opposed to Pete Hegseth, I believe in due process. That means I believe Hegseth should get a full trial. Then after he’s convicted of murder we put him in a fishing boat in international waters where we have the US military fire missiles at him. Due process at its finest.
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
As opposed to Pete Hegseth, I believe in due process. That means I believe Hegseth should get a full trial. Then after he’s convicted of murder we put him in a fishing boat in international waters where we have the US military fire missiles at him. Due process at its finest.