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gpanko.bsky.social

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"The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political & cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" —Isaac Asimov

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@casten.house.gov, @aoc.bsky.social the ball is in your caucuses court—pressure @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, to subpoena and read aloud into the congressional record bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social

NEW: Judge Aileen Cannon permanently forbids the Department of Justice from releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's report on his prosecution of Trump. Also bars DOJ from sharing "any information or conclusions" from the volume. A sweeping, perpetual gag order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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@schumer.senate.gov, @durbin.senate.gov, @duckworth.senate.gov questions you need to be asking: how many current ICE & CBP agents are Proud Boys, 3%-ers or 1/6-ers? & why are the agents who killed yesterday on the streets today in violation of all law enforcement standards? bsky.app/profile/verm...

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social

Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

doomsdayscenario.co"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret policeICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
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@warren.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT THIS?! please halt work in the senate until we get some real answers and hold people account! bsky.app/profile/nkal...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

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@whitehouse.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @duckworth.senate.gov WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THIS!!!!! WE ARE IN A CRISIS!!!!! PLEASE HELP we are begging for leadership and fight in this moment. Show us you are up for the job! bsky.app/profile/wire...

WIRED@wired.com

BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

wired.comDOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseSocial Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

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Timothy Snyder
@timothysnyder.bsky.social

This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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