Helen McConnell
@helenmcconnell.bsky.social
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Patrimonialism—the word that best describes Trump’s governance—well-described and set forth here in this excellent article.
March 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Patrimonialism—the word that best describes Trump’s governance—well-described and set forth here in this excellent article.
Schumer does not believe we are in a Constitutional crisis yet…and that is why he voted for the CR. Revealed last night on Chris Hayes’ show on MSNBC.
"Why isn’t he doing everything possible to fight back against this constitutional crisis that we’re facing? Your interview was the first time I’ve actually gotten a clear answer to that: And it’s because he doesn’t believe it’s yet a constitutional crisis." - @ezralevin.bsky.social on Sen. Schumer
March 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Schumer does not believe we are in a Constitutional crisis yet…and that is why he voted for the CR. Revealed last night on Chris Hayes’ show on MSNBC.
A mural of Anthony Fauci was meant to inspire staff. Then NIH took it down.
ERASURE! An effective fascist technique and one of the Trump regime’s approaches to annihilate the factual contributions of prominent figures in American history.
ERASURE! An effective fascist technique and one of the Trump regime’s approaches to annihilate the factual contributions of prominent figures in American history.
March 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A mural of Anthony Fauci was meant to inspire staff. Then NIH took it down.
ERASURE! An effective fascist technique and one of the Trump regime’s approaches to annihilate the factual contributions of prominent figures in American history.
ERASURE! An effective fascist technique and one of the Trump regime’s approaches to annihilate the factual contributions of prominent figures in American history.
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On Tuesday, Trump's GSA proposed selling hundreds of federal buildings, including key parts of the monumental core of Washington. Is there precedent for this massive invitation to corruption? Yes, the privatization of the post-Soviet economy.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Column | Trump’s plan to downsize government could put downtown D.C. up for sale
As we await a revised list of properties the GSA deems “noncore,” a critic ponders the fate of Washington’s historic landscape
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March 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
On Tuesday, Trump's GSA proposed selling hundreds of federal buildings, including key parts of the monumental core of Washington. Is there precedent for this massive invitation to corruption? Yes, the privatization of the post-Soviet economy.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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“Usually, when elected officials implement foolish policies,” Rogé Karma writes, “they believe the political upside outweighs the substantive downside. What makes Trump’s tariffs so unusual is that the politics of them also appear to be terrible.”
Trump’s Most Inexplicable Decision Yet
The tariffs are real, and they are spectacularly foolish
www.theatlantic.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Usually, when elected officials implement foolish policies,” Rogé Karma writes, “they believe the political upside outweighs the substantive downside. What makes Trump’s tariffs so unusual is that the politics of them also appear to be terrible.”
This is a sad decision by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. The BLM mural is a historic monument to a time when all of America was focused sharply upon the egregious racism that brutally cost the life of one man by choking before all of our eyes. The mural should remain.
The mayor of Washington, D.C., suggested that the giant Black Lives Matter mural that was painted in the summer of 2020 on a street within view of the White House would be painted over.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Suggests Black Lives Matter Plaza Will Be Painted Over
The announcement came just a day after a Republican congressman introduced legislation threatening to withhold millions in federal funds from the city unless the street mural was removed.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This is a sad decision by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. The BLM mural is a historic monument to a time when all of America was focused sharply upon the egregious racism that brutally cost the life of one man by choking before all of our eyes. The mural should remain.
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It’s surreal that I have to go to a foreign leader to hear someone describe the full derangement and malignancy of my own president in plain language, because our own “free press” and opposition leaders won’t do it. Bravo Trudeau
Trudeau: "He talked about banking again today in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because 16 banks are currently active in Canada holding about $113b worth of assets in this country... what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us."
March 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It’s surreal that I have to go to a foreign leader to hear someone describe the full derangement and malignancy of my own president in plain language, because our own “free press” and opposition leaders won’t do it. Bravo Trudeau
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President Trump says rates of pediatric cancer are way up, but his incompetent fanatics on DOGE fired my guest tonight, Dr. Lauren McGee, a remarkable pediatric cancer researcher who was sacked from NIH as part of Musk’s Valentine’s Day onslaught.
March 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
President Trump says rates of pediatric cancer are way up, but his incompetent fanatics on DOGE fired my guest tonight, Dr. Lauren McGee, a remarkable pediatric cancer researcher who was sacked from NIH as part of Musk’s Valentine’s Day onslaught.
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Trudeau: He has said repeatedly, what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy. Because that will make it easier to annex us. First of all, that's never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.
March 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Trudeau: He has said repeatedly, what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy. Because that will make it easier to annex us. First of all, that's never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.
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The great @eugenerobinson.bsky.social recounts how during Watergate, Mrs. Graham took Woodward and Bernstein's notes to her own home each night so that if the government tried to subpoena them, they would have to come through her. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
March 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The great @eugenerobinson.bsky.social recounts how during Watergate, Mrs. Graham took Woodward and Bernstein's notes to her own home each night so that if the government tried to subpoena them, they would have to come through her. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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A day after Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine "started" the war that Russia launched against it, Zelensky says the U.S. president is “living in a disinformation space” and in a “circle of disinformation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
Zelensky Urges ‘More Truth’ After Trump Suggests Ukraine Started the War
The remarks by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine were some of his most pointed yet about President Trump’s views on the war.
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February 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A day after Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine "started" the war that Russia launched against it, Zelensky says the U.S. president is “living in a disinformation space” and in a “circle of disinformation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
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For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war. But with Trump back in office, America is giving the impression that it could be switching sides. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy
As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war. But with Trump back in office, America is giving the impression that it could be switching sides. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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Nearly 1,000 former federal prosecutors ⬇️⚖️⬇️
JUST IN: 900+ former federal prosecutors sign open letter warning that Justice's Public Integrity Section could be eliminated and saluting DOJ lawyers for response to "ethical challenges." Among those signing on: former special counsel Jack Smith. Doc: www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...
www.thejusticeconnection.org
February 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Nearly 1,000 former federal prosecutors ⬇️⚖️⬇️
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Proud to join almost 1,000 other DOJ alumni supporting those who are standing up for the non-partisan administration of law. The oath we all took is to uphold the Constitution, not to advance a president’s political agenda.
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February 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Proud to join almost 1,000 other DOJ alumni supporting those who are standing up for the non-partisan administration of law. The oath we all took is to uphold the Constitution, not to advance a president’s political agenda.
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If you wonder how countries slip into dictatorship, it’s like this.
Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.”
What?!
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Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.”
What?!
👀
February 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If you wonder how countries slip into dictatorship, it’s like this.
Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.”
What?!
👀
Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.”
What?!
👀
Yes! Stand up for the First Amendment with the AP!
We stand with the @apnews.com which is resisting government pressure attempting to dictate how it writes about the news. This is exactly what the founders had in mind when they crafted the First Amendment.
February 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Yes! Stand up for the First Amendment with the AP!
Such a tragedy. Mehdi is right.
The deaths of innocent kids Kfir and Ariel Bibas in captivity is a war crime & a heartbreaking tragedy.
Whether they were killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas claims, is frankly irrelevant.
There was never any justification whatsoever for kidnapping kids in the first place.
Whether they were killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas claims, is frankly irrelevant.
There was never any justification whatsoever for kidnapping kids in the first place.
February 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Such a tragedy. Mehdi is right.
I agree with Conway. I saw this interview by Ali Velshi of Rep. Crockett and thought to myself that she was spot on!
Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party
thx in advance
thx in advance
Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
February 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I agree with Conway. I saw this interview by Ali Velshi of Rep. Crockett and thought to myself that she was spot on!
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We've gathered in solidarity wherever federal workers, federal programs and our Constitution are under attack.
The majority will defend representative democracy against the cyberbarons.
The majority will defend representative democracy against the cyberbarons.
February 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We've gathered in solidarity wherever federal workers, federal programs and our Constitution are under attack.
The majority will defend representative democracy against the cyberbarons.
The majority will defend representative democracy against the cyberbarons.
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Now is the time for our citizenry to fight for our federal workers and national programs. Let’s stand up to the power-mad autocrats, plutocrats and theocrats attacking democracy—at home and abroad.
I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.
I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.
February 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Now is the time for our citizenry to fight for our federal workers and national programs. Let’s stand up to the power-mad autocrats, plutocrats and theocrats attacking democracy—at home and abroad.
I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.
I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.
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This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people.
And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people.
And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...