C
@sinead0rebellion.bsky.social
Let me explain it to you. Mitchell's the man. I'm the idiot. You're the screw-up. And we're all losers. Welcome to Music Town.
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@sinead0rebellion.bsky.social
· Mar 29
Yes. I do not want to ever 'move on' again. Every time we turn the cheek, overlook the criminality, absolve the sins, they come back worse.
I want punishment. Deterrence. Retribution. Err on the side of excess, not lenity.
Anything less is asking them to come back worse yet again.
I want punishment. Deterrence. Retribution. Err on the side of excess, not lenity.
Anything less is asking them to come back worse yet again.
Democrats should be running on:
“I will specifically make life hell for these specific rich bigoted white man criminals with mouths that look like inflamed assholes.”
“I will specifically make life hell for these specific rich bigoted white man criminals with mouths that look like inflamed assholes.”
Finish Reconstruction.
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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
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New, from me:
Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...
Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...
Why the Supreme Court decision on firing independent agency heads is a big deal
The demise of Humphrey's Executor and the rise of unitary executive theory
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New, from me:
Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...
Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...
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"It was unthinkable that we would talk about selling off public lands to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy... And now we're talking about it... So even when it's just rhetoric, it really matters... and it requires people to push back."
— @wilderness.org President Tracy Stone-Manning on The Landscape
— @wilderness.org President Tracy Stone-Manning on The Landscape
Tracy Stone-Manning on the biggest threats to public lands right now - Center for Western Priorities
Kate and Aaron talk to Tracy Stone-Manning, former director of the Bureau of Land Management and current president of the Wilderness Society. Tracy tells us what it was like to inherit an agency that ...
westernpriorities.org
May 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"It was unthinkable that we would talk about selling off public lands to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy... And now we're talking about it... So even when it's just rhetoric, it really matters... and it requires people to push back."
— @wilderness.org President Tracy Stone-Manning on The Landscape
— @wilderness.org President Tracy Stone-Manning on The Landscape
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McGovern: We live in the richest country on Earth and not a single kid in this country should go to bed hungry, not a single damn one and especially when Republicans are giving millionaires and billionaires a big fat tax break.
May 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
McGovern: We live in the richest country on Earth and not a single kid in this country should go to bed hungry, not a single damn one and especially when Republicans are giving millionaires and billionaires a big fat tax break.
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Noem would fail the citizenship test.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Noem would fail the citizenship test.
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my column/essay this week is on the administration's war on the future, what that means, and the obligation anti-trump americans have to articulate a robust vision of an egalitarian future in response. read/share/etc.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on the Future
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
my column/essay this week is on the administration's war on the future, what that means, and the obligation anti-trump americans have to articulate a robust vision of an egalitarian future in response. read/share/etc.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
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This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.
Netanyahu says Israel won’t stop the war until Trump’s plan to remove all Palestinians from Gaza has been implemented, calling the idea ”so correct and so revolutionary.” www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Netanyahu: Implementation of Trump’s Gaza relocation plan is condition for ending war
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www.timesofisrael.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.
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This story has a dozen or so nice anecdotes on why institutional competence matters and exactly what we've lost by this administration's hackneyed "reforms."
wapo.st/43fc1aw
wapo.st/43fc1aw
Trump’s actions are pushing thousands of experts to flee government
The U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime staffers fear.
wapo.st
May 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This story has a dozen or so nice anecdotes on why institutional competence matters and exactly what we've lost by this administration's hackneyed "reforms."
wapo.st/43fc1aw
wapo.st/43fc1aw
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Indeed. When's the last time Trump spoke about a complicated subject in a way that would get a passing grade in a college class?
Heck, just this morning is this post, which presumably had the benefit of staff feedback and editing. This would get a "not fit for college" note to the dean.
Heck, just this morning is this post, which presumably had the benefit of staff feedback and editing. This would get a "not fit for college" note to the dean.
May 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Indeed. When's the last time Trump spoke about a complicated subject in a way that would get a passing grade in a college class?
Heck, just this morning is this post, which presumably had the benefit of staff feedback and editing. This would get a "not fit for college" note to the dean.
Heck, just this morning is this post, which presumably had the benefit of staff feedback and editing. This would get a "not fit for college" note to the dean.
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1/🧵 What if Democrats' best strategy to fight GOP corruption isn't matching Republican billionaire money but refusing it entirely? My empirical analysis shows why rejecting mega-donors and corporate PACs is both principled AND pragmatic. Let me explain…
May 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
1/🧵 What if Democrats' best strategy to fight GOP corruption isn't matching Republican billionaire money but refusing it entirely? My empirical analysis shows why rejecting mega-donors and corporate PACs is both principled AND pragmatic. Let me explain…
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Within a short period of time we have gotten to a political system where SCOTUS has given the President broad immunity, and Congress says clearly impeachable offenses are "not my lane."
Mike Johnson: "Look, I've been a little busy on reconciliation, so I'm not following all the twists and turns of the Qatar jet. My understanding is it's not a personal gift to the president ... other nations give us gifts all the time ... it's not my lane."
May 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Within a short period of time we have gotten to a political system where SCOTUS has given the President broad immunity, and Congress says clearly impeachable offenses are "not my lane."
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We have got to stop comparing Trump's targeting of enemies and attacks on speech as "McCarthyism" when it is so far beyond what Joe McCarthy ever tried.
Trumpism stands alone.
Trumpism stands alone.
May 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
We have got to stop comparing Trump's targeting of enemies and attacks on speech as "McCarthyism" when it is so far beyond what Joe McCarthy ever tried.
Trumpism stands alone.
Trumpism stands alone.
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Here's an entertaining cite at the bottom of the first page
May 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Here's an entertaining cite at the bottom of the first page
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I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.
May 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.
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BREAKING: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he has ordered the FDA to consider new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion — and that President Trump, not scientists or doctors, will make the final decision.
May 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
BREAKING: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he has ordered the FDA to consider new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion — and that President Trump, not scientists or doctors, will make the final decision.
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Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care.
BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
May 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care.
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As a scholar of corruption, I made this point 6 months ago & given Trump administration’s action, it might be worthwhile to repost👇
IMHO pundits seriously UNDERestimate crony capitalist Orbanseque turn in 🇺🇸 politics moving forward & OVERestimate voter punishment that corruption
IMHO pundits seriously UNDERestimate crony capitalist Orbanseque turn in 🇺🇸 politics moving forward & OVERestimate voter punishment that corruption
IMHO as a corruption researcher, pundits seriously UNDERestimate crony capitalist Orbanseque turn in 🇺🇸 politics moving forward
Similarly, pundits OVERestimate voter punishment of corruption
Here’s why ⤵️
Based on 2017 research overview with @hectorsolaz.bsky.social:
shorturl.at/HfNlU
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Similarly, pundits OVERestimate voter punishment of corruption
Here’s why ⤵️
Based on 2017 research overview with @hectorsolaz.bsky.social:
shorturl.at/HfNlU
A 🧵
1/n
The Electoral Consequences of Corruption | Annual Reviews
Democratic elections have been assumed to play a crucial role in curbing corruption among public officials. Voters, due to their general distaste for corruption, are expected to sanction politicians w...
shorturl.at
May 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a scholar of corruption, I made this point 6 months ago & given Trump administration’s action, it might be worthwhile to repost👇
IMHO pundits seriously UNDERestimate crony capitalist Orbanseque turn in 🇺🇸 politics moving forward & OVERestimate voter punishment that corruption
IMHO pundits seriously UNDERestimate crony capitalist Orbanseque turn in 🇺🇸 politics moving forward & OVERestimate voter punishment that corruption
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TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity (Gift Article)
When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.
nyti.ms
May 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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May 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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The president imprisoned a student for calling what is happening in Gaza "Credible accusations [of a] a plausible genocide" www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
REPORTER: Why are you creating an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners but not others?
TRUMP: Because they're being killed. And we don't want to see people be killed ... it's a genocide that's taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.
TRUMP: Because they're being killed. And we don't want to see people be killed ... it's a genocide that's taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.
May 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The president imprisoned a student for calling what is happening in Gaza "Credible accusations [of a] a plausible genocide" www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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People really tried to argue, for years, that this is about economic anxiety and not white supremacy.
Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?
TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
May 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
People really tried to argue, for years, that this is about economic anxiety and not white supremacy.
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Crafty Dutch plan to lure Trump to The Hague
Netherlands museum rethinks lending works to US amid Trump arts cuts 📜
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Netherlands museum rethinks lending works to US amid Trump arts cuts
Mauritshuis in The Hague says guarantees would be needed of artworks’ safety amid uncertainty caused by US funding cuts
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Crafty Dutch plan to lure Trump to The Hague
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🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
May 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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This is most of what the Founders of America were opposed to, what they set up a new government to avoid
*Open bribery
*Masked armed officials arresting residents without warrants, citizens who try to intervene
*Arrests for engaging in non-violent speech
*Destruction of government capacities
*Massive economic uncertainty and damage
*Unprecedented targeting of government power against political enemies
*Masked armed officials arresting residents without warrants, citizens who try to intervene
*Arrests for engaging in non-violent speech
*Destruction of government capacities
*Massive economic uncertainty and damage
*Unprecedented targeting of government power against political enemies
May 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is most of what the Founders of America were opposed to, what they set up a new government to avoid