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just some dumb bitch with opinions
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I just wrote that same thing. Charlie Kirk lived (and profited) everyday from his own hateful rhetoric. Should anyone be surprised that it caught up with him? Perhaps he should have thought more about his wife and children.
September 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Concur.

- Holocaust Historian
TPM’s @hunterw.bsky.social makes a convincing case - citing experts - that we should be referring to CECOT as a “concentration camp,” “penal colony,” or “permanent prison camp.”

Based on its features (no due process, indefinite detention) he says: “President Trump is sending people to the camps.”
Trump Is Sending People To The Camps
“More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Please watch and share. It can be easy to get a little lost in the details, but the ENTIRE THING they're doing is absolutely built on a foundation of lies and flagrantly illegal.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)
April 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Were there even a hint of even rightwing sincerity about the goal of stopping gangs, we’d know the names of the alleged criminals. U.S. & its little Belarus, El Salvador, refuse to reveal to anyone the names. This is the UN definition of “forced disappearance,” a human rights crime.
April 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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EOs targeting 2 former Trump officials aren’t getting enough attention. In invoking treason, Trump puts death penalty on table for Miles Taylor. In revoking security clearances for Penn because Taylor taught there, he gives Penn a choice: suffer or join the punishment by banning Taylor.
April 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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“But are there not many Fascists in your country?"
"There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.”

- Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
March 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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At a more basic level, in a democratic society, due process before a neutral fact finder is how we evaluate a conditional statement that begins with “if you <allegation>.” It doesn’t turn on and off depending on the allegation.
Reminder: This is false (it’s not “invasion”), unconstitutional (even illegal immigrants are entitled to due process), and fascist (trying to demonize and lawlessly eradicate minority groups by kidnapping them off the street and sending them to foreign prison camps).
April 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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There will be nonstop subpoenas. And you’re getting the first one.
Musk: Losing this judge race has good chance of causing Republicans to lose control of the house. You lose control of the house, there will be nonstop impeachment hearings and subpoenas
April 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Gang members should not be disappeared to an unaccountable torture prison either.
April 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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We don't need vaccines because we don't see widespread disease

We don't need clean water regulations because we have clean water

We don't need bank regulation because we haven't had a financial crisis since 2008

We don't need NATO/US hegemony because Europeans haven't killed each other since WWII
1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.
March 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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For those who don't know, Jason Stanley is the author of the widely read and all-too-pertinent book How Fascism Works.
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
“We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”
Speaker Mike Johnson floats the possibility of Congress eliminating federal courts.

This comes as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration, along with Trump and his allies calling for the impeachment of certain district court judges.
Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
Republican lawmakers are setting their sights on the judiciary following court rulings that have halted Trump's agenda.
nbcnews.to
March 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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We don't have the full text yet but my understanding from a source is that it will effectively be used to ban vote by mail. Threats of withholding federal funds will be used to get states to comply.
March 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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“Steve Bannon on mass deportations to El Salvador: ‘If there's some innocent gardeners in there? Hey, tough break for a swell guy.’” 3/17/25 h/t @jvagle.me
www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...
Steve Bannon on mass deportations to El Salvador: "If there's some innocent gardeners in there? Hey, tough break for a swell guy."
www.mediamatters.org
March 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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And because these idiots aren't big on looking into something they don't understand, they'll trumpet on OANN how they found millions of dollars of contract payments from DOJ to private law firms and patriotically terminated those "contracts" for great justice.
March 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
“As of this writing, the federal government is considering requiring disclosure from certain foreign visitors of social media login credentials, allowing access to private postings and “friend” lists.”

fuck
If you’re planning to travel to or from the US, read this first: www.eff.org/wp/digital-p...
March 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Half of the time I spent detained in secondary inspection at YUL pre-clearance was clearly a case of understaffing relative to increased detention cases. My observation was that the issue was almost certainly that these CBP officials now have some kind of quota to satisfy.
March 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
March 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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On Hugh Hewitt’s show, Marco Rubio says El Salvador is “housing” people sent by the US. But he never says on what possible legal authority? These people haven’t committed any crime in El Salvador and by their own admission “many” have never committed a crime in the US. It all seems entirely lawless.
March 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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I understand people’s frustration over Judge Howell’s decision not to grant TRO today in USIP case. But her primary audience is the DC Court of Appeals, the court that end up reviewing her rulings if the govt appeals them. 1/
March 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Judge Howell confirms with USIP lawyer that DOGE showed up at the institute's security chief's HOUSE on saturday
March 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Drezner's World has never published anything not written by the hard-working staff. Until now. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond.
Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.
danieldrezner.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This is white supremacist, great replacement Nazi shit coming out of the mouth of the U.S. vice president.
"Europe is on the brink of civilizational suicide," US Vice President Vance told Fox News. "Countries don’t control borders, restrict free speech. If Germany takes in millions more incompatible migrants, it’ll destroy itself. America can’t save it."
March 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you
March 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM