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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 4h

Postcard from Trumpland

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 7h

Der einzige politische Unterschied zwischen Merz und Trump ist, dass Merz Englisch spricht.

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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 2d

Shadow docket the ChatGPT for justices.

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The recent trajectory, in broad strokes:

- Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer
- Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo
- Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 3d

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 3d

You don’t join a regime with your eyes wide shut. Bondi knew exactly what she was signing up for, loyalty first, integrity optional, truth negotiable.

countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 3d

Isn’t that always the case.

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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 3d

Merz glaubt immer noch, dass er einen Posten im Kabinett Weidel bekommen wird.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 4d

For judges even to be talking to NYT, even anonymously, is a huge break in norms that signals a crisis in the judiciary.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 4d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 4d

"There’s just so much that has been lost. Beyond just the basic immediate subsistence, can Gaza survive? I don’t know"

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

Trump can't deliver the lower costs he promised. All he has is cruelty and revenge.

Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night.

I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.

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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 5d

This seems appropriate for the occasion.

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Islam and Nazi Germany’s War — Harvard University Press

Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust LibraryAn Open Letters Monthly Best History Book of the YearA New York Post “Must-Read”In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German tr...

www.hup.harvard.edu

countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 5d

You would think that watching an hour of Fox News or a similar channel would equip someone with the cognitive ability to understand what is being said.

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Dean Jackson @dwj88.bsky.social · 6d

Sam Woolley and I have a piece in the Guardian today summarizing our recent @jodemocracy.bsky.social article on AI and democracy:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Full article is here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

We research AI election threats. Here’s what we need to prepare for | Samuel Woolley and Dean Jackson

Artificial intelligence endangers democracy – but it’s less about specific deepfakes and more about a bigger transformation

www.theguardian.com

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 5d

It’s why they’re desperately grabbing at power while they can.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d

They are going to lose control of the country. They have the debased billionaire class, they have a small army of violent bigots. But they don’t have most Americans. They absolutely don’t have enough guys and they know it

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently the $20 billion for Argentina was just the beginning of the US bailout according to Bessent today, since so many American oligarchs have big investments there that they can’t afford to lose.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 5d

media world vs. real world 😵‍💫

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 6d

Eines der Merkmale unserer Zeit: „Verbesserungen“ sind selten gute Nachrichten. Wenn die Mächtigen etwas verbessern wollen, wird’s teurer, schlechter und privatisiert. Im öffentlichen Bereich heißt „Verbesserung“ meist: Geld an Auftragnehmer, Ergebnis: schlechter als vorher.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 6d

For more info about Jack Posobiec's ugly history: www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...

SPLC Investigation: Far-right OANN Anchor Jack Posobiec’s Rise Tied to White Supremacist Movement

Far-right commentator Jack Posobiec is a current host on One America News Network (OANN), an information network widely known to distort facts and which has been embraced by President Trump. This inve...

www.splcenter.org

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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 6d

“Democratic Socialists of America: ‘We will remove the mayor of New York City if he is elected and his name is not Andrew Cuomo.’”

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 6d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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