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For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
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Yep. Don't give up the party apparatus, organization, etc to the Vichy Dems.
Kick THEM out.
They're the ones who suck, not us.
Kick THEM out.
They're the ones who suck, not us.
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Yep. Don't give up the party apparatus, organization, etc to the Vichy Dems.
Kick THEM out.
They're the ones who suck, not us.
Kick THEM out.
They're the ones who suck, not us.
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This is exactly correct.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is exactly correct.
This. This is why they will fight tooth and nail to stay in power.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This. This is why they will fight tooth and nail to stay in power.
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⬇️⬇️⬇️ (Russia recruits criminals to work on behalf of the state with the leverage of prosecution if they don't)
Helps explain why Tom Homan has been so aggressive pushing Trump's agenda.
Maybe he's a true believer, or maybe he knows his ability to keep walking around free depends on making the boss happy.
Maybe he's a true believer, or maybe he knows his ability to keep walking around free depends on making the boss happy.
September 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
⬇️⬇️⬇️ (Russia recruits criminals to work on behalf of the state with the leverage of prosecution if they don't)
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Wow, first time I've seen him underwater in this poll with white people. He has negative disapproval across every possible cohort.
September 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wow, first time I've seen him underwater in this poll with white people. He has negative disapproval across every possible cohort.
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They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale.
But they want us to think they do.
But they want us to think they do.
September 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale.
But they want us to think they do.
But they want us to think they do.
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Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder?
“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
August 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder?
“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
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What people expect fascism to look like versus what it often looks like in real life
August 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What people expect fascism to look like versus what it often looks like in real life
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SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
August 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
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They envisioned Trump. They never envisioned Republicans.
The Framers made arguably one major mistake: They believed the legislative branch would jealously guard its power. They could not have fathomed that the legislative branch (Out of laziness, raw partisanship and a desire to keep their sinecures) would willingly surrender its power.
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
August 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
They envisioned Trump. They never envisioned Republicans.
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The disabling of America continues.
The Pentagon has fired Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, the chief of the Navy Reserve, and former Navy SEAL officer Rear Admiral Milton Sands who oversaw Naval Special Warfare Command.
The Pentagon has fired Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, the chief of the Navy Reserve, and former Navy SEAL officer Rear Admiral Milton Sands who oversaw Naval Special Warfare Command.
August 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The disabling of America continues.
The Pentagon has fired Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, the chief of the Navy Reserve, and former Navy SEAL officer Rear Admiral Milton Sands who oversaw Naval Special Warfare Command.
The Pentagon has fired Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, the chief of the Navy Reserve, and former Navy SEAL officer Rear Admiral Milton Sands who oversaw Naval Special Warfare Command.
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Uncooperative Federalism is here!
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
open.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Uncooperative Federalism is here!
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
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“They put Trump’s name on the trucks.
This is the clearest possible signal that ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force that exists at the disposal of Trump.
This is not a choice someone makes if they intend to leave office in three years.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/fascist-se...
This is the clearest possible signal that ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force that exists at the disposal of Trump.
This is not a choice someone makes if they intend to leave office in three years.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/fascist-se...
Fascist Secret Police Cars
The next president should spend his first weekend feeding ICE into the wood chipper.
www.thebulwark.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“They put Trump’s name on the trucks.
This is the clearest possible signal that ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force that exists at the disposal of Trump.
This is not a choice someone makes if they intend to leave office in three years.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/fascist-se...
This is the clearest possible signal that ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force that exists at the disposal of Trump.
This is not a choice someone makes if they intend to leave office in three years.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/fascist-se...
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People are STILL minimizing b/c the worst hasn't happened.
Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?
Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?
Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?
Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?
Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?
Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?
US media is in the fetal position, living in a delirious haze, desperately trying to pretend everything is normal and this is all boring everyday politics, even as federal troops flood into DC and the entire western world mounts emergency missions to slow Trump down
Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage.
Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
August 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
People are STILL minimizing b/c the worst hasn't happened.
Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?
Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?
Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?
Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?
Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?
Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?
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Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
August 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
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Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy:
Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all?
I don't know of any.
Humiliating.
Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all?
I don't know of any.
Humiliating.
August 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy:
Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all?
I don't know of any.
Humiliating.
Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all?
I don't know of any.
Humiliating.
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Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
August 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
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"To enforce President Trump's immigration crackdown" my ass.
If you think this is about illegal immigration rather than a concerted effort to establish control over law enforcement and create a military presence in DC so as to hold on to power after losing an election, think again.
Gift link.
If you think this is about illegal immigration rather than a concerted effort to establish control over law enforcement and create a military presence in DC so as to hold on to power after losing an election, think again.
Gift link.
Bondi Tightens Trump Administration’s Grip on D.C. Police
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"To enforce President Trump's immigration crackdown" my ass.
If you think this is about illegal immigration rather than a concerted effort to establish control over law enforcement and create a military presence in DC so as to hold on to power after losing an election, think again.
Gift link.
If you think this is about illegal immigration rather than a concerted effort to establish control over law enforcement and create a military presence in DC so as to hold on to power after losing an election, think again.
Gift link.
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I am congenitally resistant to conspiracy thinking, but this really does feel like a eugenic plot. There is some dark, pseudo-Darwinian thinking on the right that equates illness with moral unfitness, and prefers that the weak die, indeed demands that they be culled. Truly a death cult.
NIH Director Battacharya on mRNA technology: "We should not be using as a platform for mass vaccination"
August 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I am congenitally resistant to conspiracy thinking, but this really does feel like a eugenic plot. There is some dark, pseudo-Darwinian thinking on the right that equates illness with moral unfitness, and prefers that the weak die, indeed demands that they be culled. Truly a death cult.
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Pragmatic progressives — armed with bread-and-butter proposals to improve the lives of ordinary Americans and an upbeat message of hope — are the future of the Democratic Party.
This is a good thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-butter-and-hope
This is a good thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-butter-and-hope
August 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Pragmatic progressives — armed with bread-and-butter proposals to improve the lives of ordinary Americans and an upbeat message of hope — are the future of the Democratic Party.
This is a good thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-butter-and-hope
This is a good thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-butter-and-hope
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This kind of response will do more than most constitutional litigation to make this stuff less harmful and indeed less likely to happen at all
Thinning out now. DC police the only ones left, and they're packing up too.
Locals mobilized quickly out here, with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid this block, lined up ready to protest what's happening. People shouting down from apartments too.
"You should be fucking ashamed!"
Locals mobilized quickly out here, with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid this block, lined up ready to protest what's happening. People shouting down from apartments too.
"You should be fucking ashamed!"
August 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This kind of response will do more than most constitutional litigation to make this stuff less harmful and indeed less likely to happen at all