Michael Marks
@mmarksbd.bsky.social
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We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.
April 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.
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I agree. Slo-mo, ongoing, with an administration engaged in frog-boiling
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Judge Luttig and Andrew Weissmann have both declared today that we are indeed in a constitutional crisis. (MSNBC, Deadline Whitehouse)
Judge Luttig and Andrew Weissmann have both declared today that we are indeed in a constitutional crisis. (MSNBC, Deadline Whitehouse)
April 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I agree. Slo-mo, ongoing, with an administration engaged in frog-boiling
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If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury.
This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.
This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury.
This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.
This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.
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on the Kleptocracy Presidency: The number and nature of conflicts of interest is astonishing
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Kleptocracy Presidency
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
www.theatlantic.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
on the Kleptocracy Presidency: The number and nature of conflicts of interest is astonishing
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
In a paucity of ideas, it takes no skill to tear down in days what others have built over decades.
He's manufacturing chaos because he has nothing to offer. No vision. No ideas. No interest in building anything. Just tearing down what others have built.
April 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In a paucity of ideas, it takes no skill to tear down in days what others have built over decades.
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"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Kleptocracy Presidency
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
www.theatlantic.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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He still doesn't know who started the war. Or pretends not to know
Trump has fully turned on Zelenskyy: "He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know you can win a war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles."
April 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
He still doesn't know who started the war. Or pretends not to know
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If the president can spend a quarter of his days in office golfing, corporations can give workers a four-day work week.
April 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If the president can spend a quarter of his days in office golfing, corporations can give workers a four-day work week.
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An innocent man was “mistakenly” taken and sent to a foreign prison. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 he must be brought home — yet he’s still there.
Every day this administration shows just how vile and lawless it remains.
Bring him home!
Every day this administration shows just how vile and lawless it remains.
Bring him home!
April 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
An innocent man was “mistakenly” taken and sent to a foreign prison. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 he must be brought home — yet he’s still there.
Every day this administration shows just how vile and lawless it remains.
Bring him home!
Every day this administration shows just how vile and lawless it remains.
Bring him home!
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Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
April 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
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Maybe it's me but a president having the power to call trade emergencies and fuck up the global economy on a whim seems like it shouldn't be a thing, and we should probably campaign on that not being a thing any longer.
April 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Maybe it's me but a president having the power to call trade emergencies and fuck up the global economy on a whim seems like it shouldn't be a thing, and we should probably campaign on that not being a thing any longer.
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Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
April 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation
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I am also the author of a history of concentration camps in the Soviet Union, and I concur
As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I am also the author of a history of concentration camps in the Soviet Union, and I concur
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If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?
April 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?
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Thanks, Fox “News.”
April 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Thanks, Fox “News.”
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In any other administration, the president would already be huddled with advisors trying to stave off collapse
April 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
In any other administration, the president would already be huddled with advisors trying to stave off collapse
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“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
— Karl Marx
— Karl Marx
April 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
— Karl Marx
— Karl Marx
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"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
April 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
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Fascinating that under Biden the Dow went from 29,348.10 to 43,487.83 due to legislation like the Chips and Science Act and the Infrastructure law
While it’s plunged to about 37,750 in the past week because of the Trump tariffs
Yet MAGA claims it’s the Biden policies that are disastrous
While it’s plunged to about 37,750 in the past week because of the Trump tariffs
Yet MAGA claims it’s the Biden policies that are disastrous
Neguse demolishes Arrington's hypocrisy: "When the stock market dropped 1k points years ago, you rushed to bemoan Biden's actions. You condemned it. Now the market drops 1k points every day for the last week and you claim it's the economy running well. Do you understand why that's a tough argument?"
April 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Fascinating that under Biden the Dow went from 29,348.10 to 43,487.83 due to legislation like the Chips and Science Act and the Infrastructure law
While it’s plunged to about 37,750 in the past week because of the Trump tariffs
Yet MAGA claims it’s the Biden policies that are disastrous
While it’s plunged to about 37,750 in the past week because of the Trump tariffs
Yet MAGA claims it’s the Biden policies that are disastrous
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Elections have consequences
April 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Elections have consequences