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Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Another reminder that billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.
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@colinwoodard.bsky.social hi Colin will you have books avaialble to purchase this evening in Newport?
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In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
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"'What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist,' Tracht said, running out of breath as the car turned the corner. 'If I’m not going to act and resist now, then I shouldn’t call myself a rabbi and I can’t be a proud Jew.'" religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
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@whitehouse.senate.gov @reed.senate.gov @amo.house.gov @sethmagaziner.bsky.social WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING ABOUT ICE!?!??
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Undoing the authoritarian project is not a “distraction.” It is the single most important job of the next Democratic administration. Yes, that includes tearing down Trump's wannabe palace. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
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Replying to @tilleckert.com
2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.
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It's not fascist to call fascists fascist. It's not "dehumanizing" to say that terrorizing entire groups of people - which ICE does - is evil. No executive order can change these facts. However, people *can* mess things up for fascists by standing up for community and truth. Like this.
"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!
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The new executive order.
I think a lot of Democrats and left-of-center folks believe he's talking about fringe "antifa" groups in the Pacific Northwest... as opposed to how broad the language really is. This could be liberal think tanks, ActBlue, Soros Foundation... or even the League of Women Voters or NAACP.
@govdanmckee.bsky.social shame on you for ordering flags at half mast. A truly shameful act of appeasement and debasement. A rage-baiting, propagandist podcaster gets the same tribute from our dear State as JFK and the victims of 9/11. Fuck you, you coward.
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Cellphone Video Shows Aid Workers Killed by Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On Satellite images show Israeli military bulldozers and an excavator burying the ambulances & fire trucks 15 aid workers killed at very close range, then buried in mass grave
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Hey DOGE, I've found some taxpayer-funded waste to eliminate:
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@whitehouse.senate.gov why didn’t you nor @reed.senate.gov nor @amo.house.gov put your names on the letter to DHS demanding release of Mahmoud Khalil? Please don’t say “we weren’t asked.” You should have originated the note. You’ve all been a shame to this state for too long.
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Back in November I drafted this memo warning about the specifics of the economic shock events that were likely to unfold in the first half of 2025. We are just getting started, and the worst is likely yet to come. docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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SCOOP w/ @telliotter.bsky.social: Several groups representing “startup nations” are writing legislation for the Trump admin to create brand new tech/manufacturing cities that are exempt from federal regulations. www.wired.com/story/startu...
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"Populists" tend to do things that are popular. Those in power now are don't actually care about public opinion. They're not populists.
New: People across the political spectrum really don't want Medicaid to be cut. And, it's personal: 53% of people say they or a family member has been covered by Medicaid at some point. www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...
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Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.