Nate Schaffran
@nate-s.bsky.social
Community development guy. I’m from the progressive wing of the supply side progressives.
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.”
Damn. Just … damn.
Damn. Just … damn.
Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.
He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:
He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:
October 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.”
Damn. Just … damn.
Damn. Just … damn.
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Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings
Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?
lol. lmao.
lol. lmao.
October 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings
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Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
October 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.
It's growing in seriousness by the hour.
It's growing in seriousness by the hour.
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.
It's growing in seriousness by the hour.
It's growing in seriousness by the hour.
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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
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This is from Steve Womack, Republican appropriator, on whether Democrats should help negotiate a budget solution:
"Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?"
The *Republicans* have figured this out!
"Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?"
The *Republicans* have figured this out!
Vought’s crusade upends the shutdown fight
It was only a matter of time before Russ Vought shook up the shutdown fight.
www.politico.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is from Steve Womack, Republican appropriator, on whether Democrats should help negotiate a budget solution:
"Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?"
The *Republicans* have figured this out!
"Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?"
The *Republicans* have figured this out!
To me this thread points at an answer to both “how should we respond to the right on trans issues,” and “how do we counter MAGA’s appeal to young men?” The solution isn’t to act contrary to our values: it’s to defend them clearly and forthrightly, and show the other path.
Let’s talk about what real strength looks like—and how Trump’s MAGA “alpha male” act is the opposite of it. 🧵
September 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
To me this thread points at an answer to both “how should we respond to the right on trans issues,” and “how do we counter MAGA’s appeal to young men?” The solution isn’t to act contrary to our values: it’s to defend them clearly and forthrightly, and show the other path.
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Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.
There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.
There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.
September 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.
There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.
There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.
The people who made these decisions were warned what would happen. They knew what would happen. And they chose this anyhow.
A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl
A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNN
Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio...
cnn.it
September 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The people who made these decisions were warned what would happen. They knew what would happen. And they chose this anyhow.
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Charlie Kirk’s murder is horrific. Every American must condemn political violence.
After such a tragedy, past presidents have worked to heal and bring the nation together.
Trump is using this moment to seize power & silence his political opponents.
We cannot be silent.
After such a tragedy, past presidents have worked to heal and bring the nation together.
Trump is using this moment to seize power & silence his political opponents.
We cannot be silent.
September 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Charlie Kirk’s murder is horrific. Every American must condemn political violence.
After such a tragedy, past presidents have worked to heal and bring the nation together.
Trump is using this moment to seize power & silence his political opponents.
We cannot be silent.
After such a tragedy, past presidents have worked to heal and bring the nation together.
Trump is using this moment to seize power & silence his political opponents.
We cannot be silent.
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You need to know what might be coming.
Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.
Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.
September 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
You need to know what might be coming.
Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.
Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.
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Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
September 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
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In 2024 Sen. Merkley & I visited the Rafah gate on the Egypt-Gaza border. On the other side was Gaza’s thriving city of Rafah—home to 270K. Today we saw it reduced to rubble.
The Netanyahu govt has gone beyond targeting Hamas to waging a war of destruction against all Palestinians. It must end.
The Netanyahu govt has gone beyond targeting Hamas to waging a war of destruction against all Palestinians. It must end.
Rafah has been reduced to rubble
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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August 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In 2024 Sen. Merkley & I visited the Rafah gate on the Egypt-Gaza border. On the other side was Gaza’s thriving city of Rafah—home to 270K. Today we saw it reduced to rubble.
The Netanyahu govt has gone beyond targeting Hamas to waging a war of destruction against all Palestinians. It must end.
The Netanyahu govt has gone beyond targeting Hamas to waging a war of destruction against all Palestinians. It must end.
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if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you
Toxic feedback loop has kicked in: Trump's propagandists tell credulous reporters that occupying cities is good politics for him. Media echoes this as self-evidently true. That reinforces Dem instincts not to engage.
My exchange w/ @monicapotts.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1993...
My exchange w/ @monicapotts.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1993...
August 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you
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Trump is just handing the future to China, on science and medicine, on clean energy, on soft power. It's truly just insane.
We have lots of people saying that RFK Jr.s cuts at NIH will devastate prospects for a vaccine against cancer and other diseases. Looks like China is prepared to pick up the baton www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/o...
Opinion | China’s Biotech Is Cheaper and Faster
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Trump is just handing the future to China, on science and medicine, on clean energy, on soft power. It's truly just insane.
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In the not shocking category, ICE raids suppress employment, including by US citizens:
“Persons reporting private sector work in CA decreased by 4.9%, with citizens forming a greater share of the decrease. The state’s downturn in work is comparable with the Great Recession & the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Persons reporting private sector work in CA decreased by 4.9%, with citizens forming a greater share of the decrease. The state’s downturn in work is comparable with the Great Recession & the COVID-19 pandemic.”
August 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In the not shocking category, ICE raids suppress employment, including by US citizens:
“Persons reporting private sector work in CA decreased by 4.9%, with citizens forming a greater share of the decrease. The state’s downturn in work is comparable with the Great Recession & the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Persons reporting private sector work in CA decreased by 4.9%, with citizens forming a greater share of the decrease. The state’s downturn in work is comparable with the Great Recession & the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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If you believe all human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim, in God’s image, then you must speak up now against the daily atrocities in Gaza.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
In the not-so-distant future, Israel will have to reckon with its war crimes in Gaza | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If you believe all human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim, in God’s image, then you must speak up now against the daily atrocities in Gaza.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...