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Kathryn Jones

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Kathryn Jones

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The evil at your door
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The evil at your door

The deportation action as regime change

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March 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Dahlia Lithwick

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call it what it is

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Feb 4

What is it called when an erratic billionaire, whom nobody elected, rampages through the federal government, purging civil servants, seizing functional control over trillions of dollars, and attempting to destroy entire agencies—all in violation of the law?

This is a coup. slate.com/news-and-pol...

An unelected emperor—who has now placed himself above the Congress and the courts—working with a cadre of coders with no knowledge of governance, has been installed by what seems to be a figurehead president to deconstruct the component pieces of government that he disfavors. As Garrett Graff ably illustrated over the weekend, if this were happening in any country other than the United States of America, it would be acknowledged as a coup. Just because the president is authorizing it doesn’t make it lawful. And just because Congress has done nothing to stop him doesn’t make it legal. The fact that it doesn’t quite look like a coup, because there are suits and ties and papers involved, is by design. This is the dismantling not just of entire federal agencies, but of an entire architecture of democratic self-governance, by a man who believes we will not be able to name it quickly enough to stop it.

February 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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Diana Teeter

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I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

February 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM