Ted Nichols
@heisntcold.bsky.social
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I'm at the unchecked leviathan / I'm at the state of the exception / I'm at the ccccccccombination leviathan and the state of exception
June 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I'm at the unchecked leviathan / I'm at the state of the exception / I'm at the ccccccccombination leviathan and the state of exception
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The judge should be finding federal attorneys in contempt and sending them to prison. This is no time to fuck around.
Use the powers we have.
Use the powers we have.
She appears to have been taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana, against a judge’s orders
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
March 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The judge should be finding federal attorneys in contempt and sending them to prison. This is no time to fuck around.
Use the powers we have.
Use the powers we have.
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I compiled a list of relevant politicians (particularly for Massachusetts residents) to call about Remeysa Ozturk. Copyable phone numbers are in the alt text. Please share and call.
March 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I compiled a list of relevant politicians (particularly for Massachusetts residents) to call about Remeysa Ozturk. Copyable phone numbers are in the alt text. Please share and call.
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"we tried a coup, failed, but faced no consequences; we can do whatever we want and everyone else in political life will bend over backwards to make it legitimate after the fact" is their theory of the world and so far has not been wrong
March 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"we tried a coup, failed, but faced no consequences; we can do whatever we want and everyone else in political life will bend over backwards to make it legitimate after the fact" is their theory of the world and so far has not been wrong
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I have said time and again that the Republican Party died as a legitimate political party on January 20, 2009, when they met up to figure out not how to fix the calamitous condition their rule had left the country in, but how to prevent Democrats from fixing it so they couldn’t get credit for it.
This stubborn and unshakable belief in the inherent goodness of Republicans should’ve been thrown out when the Supreme Court handed Bush the Presidency, McConnell declared he wanted Obama to fail, Trump I, January 6th, and the Trump II campaign.
Schumer told Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater: “Here’s my hope … after this election, when the Republican party expels the turd of Donald Trump, it will go back to being the old Republican party.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
March 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I have said time and again that the Republican Party died as a legitimate political party on January 20, 2009, when they met up to figure out not how to fix the calamitous condition their rule had left the country in, but how to prevent Democrats from fixing it so they couldn’t get credit for it.
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It's interesting, isn't it, that the MM report just vanished into the media ether. No chin-scratchers about it in the NYT or Atlantic. No long Ezra Klein pod about it. No talking-head roundtables on CNN or MSNBC.
The political & media elites really, really don't want to talk about it. Why?
The political & media elites really, really don't want to talk about it. Why?
March 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It's interesting, isn't it, that the MM report just vanished into the media ether. No chin-scratchers about it in the NYT or Atlantic. No long Ezra Klein pod about it. No talking-head roundtables on CNN or MSNBC.
The political & media elites really, really don't want to talk about it. Why?
The political & media elites really, really don't want to talk about it. Why?
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Been thinking about this post for 19hrs. I have made no progress in any direction. I think the discomfort I am feeling is the dramatic and sudden divergence of how functionally deradicalized I have become and how ideologically radicalized I am feeling right now - because I’m worried about my kid.
Another thing I keep thinking about: by the numbers, millennials object to Trump more than any other age cohort. But we’re also the generation most heavily engaged in the raising of young kids right now, an activity that is functionally (if not ideologically) deradicalizing.
March 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Been thinking about this post for 19hrs. I have made no progress in any direction. I think the discomfort I am feeling is the dramatic and sudden divergence of how functionally deradicalized I have become and how ideologically radicalized I am feeling right now - because I’m worried about my kid.
There are enough announced NOs on the cloture to replace Schumer as minority leader
March 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
There are enough announced NOs on the cloture to replace Schumer as minority leader
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Warren tells me of the decision by Schumer/senate Dems to help pass the GOP CR: “I think that’s a mistake and I will be a no vote”
March 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Warren tells me of the decision by Schumer/senate Dems to help pass the GOP CR: “I think that’s a mistake and I will be a no vote”
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"I think when historians look back at this, they will view the crisis of 2025 as the natural and inevitable conclusion of decades of legislative gridlock, which has slowly but surely shifted power to the presidency and Supreme Court." nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/w...
What’s Wrong with the Democrats?
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images – (Source) The big story tonight, if you haven’t heard, is that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ba…
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March 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"I think when historians look back at this, they will view the crisis of 2025 as the natural and inevitable conclusion of decades of legislative gridlock, which has slowly but surely shifted power to the presidency and Supreme Court." nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/w...
Calling my senators from MA this week. Any advice on how we can get Warren to run for minority leader or support such an effort? Also good to get Markey on the record against Schumer if he wants to win his primary.
(posting into the void - I welcome discussion)
(posting into the void - I welcome discussion)
March 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Calling my senators from MA this week. Any advice on how we can get Warren to run for minority leader or support such an effort? Also good to get Markey on the record against Schumer if he wants to win his primary.
(posting into the void - I welcome discussion)
(posting into the void - I welcome discussion)
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September 24, 2023 at 3:37 PM
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