jorkin
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making my way downtown walking fast faces pass and i’m homebound
he/him/mensch
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I think an overlooked factor in how 'defense of democracy' failed to resonate as a talking point is its association with War on Terror/Iraq.
January 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I think an overlooked factor in how 'defense of democracy' failed to resonate as a talking point is its association with War on Terror/Iraq.
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we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
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Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan isn't just anti-immigration - he shares conspiracies with the Christchurch and Buffalo mass shooters. He think's that the Democrats really do want to replace white people in America.
Read more in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social
progressive.org/latest/the-d...
Read more in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social
progressive.org/latest/the-d...
January 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan isn't just anti-immigration - he shares conspiracies with the Christchurch and Buffalo mass shooters. He think's that the Democrats really do want to replace white people in America.
Read more in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social
progressive.org/latest/the-d...
Read more in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social
progressive.org/latest/the-d...
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Pretty neat how Trump is promising to hit us with a $300 billion tax increase next week (his taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico). This will be the largest tax increase on working people ever! That's pretty MAGA.
January 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Pretty neat how Trump is promising to hit us with a $300 billion tax increase next week (his taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico). This will be the largest tax increase on working people ever! That's pretty MAGA.
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Baltimore's mayor, Brandon Scott, alluded to the possibility he might be jailed over the city "simply doing the right thing" on its immigration policies. "We are prepared for that," he said, via @emilyopilo.bsky.social @leeosanderlin.bsky.social
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
Baltimore will not change immigration policies, Scott says, despite arrest threat
A Justice Department official directed prosecutors across the nation to investigate and charge officials who don’t comply in carrying out the administration’s mass deportation agenda
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Baltimore's mayor, Brandon Scott, alluded to the possibility he might be jailed over the city "simply doing the right thing" on its immigration policies. "We are prepared for that," he said, via @emilyopilo.bsky.social @leeosanderlin.bsky.social
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
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The countless small choices made every day inside newsrooms to do things like describe clear violations of the black-letter text of the law as "legally murky" add up to a very meaningful part of what's happened since 2017 and will continue to happen for the next four years.
Trump fires at least 12 inspectors general overnight in legally murky move
A senior administration official said the move was an effort to let go of parts of the Biden administration that don’t “align” with the Trump administration.
www.nbcnews.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The countless small choices made every day inside newsrooms to do things like describe clear violations of the black-letter text of the law as "legally murky" add up to a very meaningful part of what's happened since 2017 and will continue to happen for the next four years.
Greenblatt has also just released a new 2025 edition of his book:
January 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Greenblatt has also just released a new 2025 edition of his book:
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Unsure how to go viral? Here’s a way: your opponents apparently sent rape threats or something similarly vile to a young Republican woman for testifying under oath about Jan 6. Demand the messages and, if they are as described, insist everyone who participated be expelled. bsky.app/profile/bria...
This is crazy making. It also speaks to a deeper fear I have. Dems will only get comfortable trying to garner attention if they can do it in corny, non-confrontational ways. They went viral calling Republicans weird. It was great! But they couldn’t stand the heat and pulled the plug within days.
i'm going to become the joker
January 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Unsure how to go viral? Here’s a way: your opponents apparently sent rape threats or something similarly vile to a young Republican woman for testifying under oath about Jan 6. Demand the messages and, if they are as described, insist everyone who participated be expelled. bsky.app/profile/bria...
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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
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NDP TikTok going for the throat
January 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
NDP TikTok going for the throat
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The anti-DEI tip line is a good example of how you try to implement a fascist agenda without state capacity. You rely on the enthusiastic participation of petty tyrants, backstabbers, abusers and malcontents.
January 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The anti-DEI tip line is a good example of how you try to implement a fascist agenda without state capacity. You rely on the enthusiastic participation of petty tyrants, backstabbers, abusers and malcontents.
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AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
January 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
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This is honestly what fucked us, I think: too many lawyers in the DoJ and DNC who wanted to Win The Argument with their perfect case, rather than realizing the political urgency and acting accordingly.
I’m going to assume you’re not a lawyer and you have no idea how long careful investigation and prosecution takes.
January 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is honestly what fucked us, I think: too many lawyers in the DoJ and DNC who wanted to Win The Argument with their perfect case, rather than realizing the political urgency and acting accordingly.
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The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
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rather than take 18 months to even appoint a special counsel to prosecute Trump, for instance, you could have clapped him in irons on January 21. action like that creates its own momentum
January 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
rather than take 18 months to even appoint a special counsel to prosecute Trump, for instance, you could have clapped him in irons on January 21. action like that creates its own momentum
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he comes off like one of those wannabe-pickup-artist guys. negative rizz. this is how you know those Ds don't have any normal-person friends
January 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
he comes off like one of those wannabe-pickup-artist guys. negative rizz. this is how you know those Ds don't have any normal-person friends
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the constitution is a public and political document as much as a legal one and constitutional meaning is a public and political process. trump can say X but other political institutions, and the nation’s various publics, have to agree for it to mean anything
January 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
the constitution is a public and political document as much as a legal one and constitutional meaning is a public and political process. trump can say X but other political institutions, and the nation’s various publics, have to agree for it to mean anything
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I’m suing DOGE
Elon Musk’s DOGE to be sued within minutes of Trump inauguration
A lawsuit will be filed against Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new nongovernmental entity as soon as Donald Trump is officially president.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I’m suing DOGE
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a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever
January 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever
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Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.
January 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.