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David Noll

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Vigilante Nation: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235 Updates on the meritocracy: https://tinyurl.com/56u9n6zc

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David Noll @david.noll.org · Aug 12

How did we end up in a world where ICE agents are indistinguishable from the Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol on January 6?

VIGILANTE NATION tells the story of the insidious state laws behind MAGA's return to power, and it's out in paperback today.

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigila...

My left hand holding a paperback copy of Vigilante Nation in front of a bookcase.

The cover reads:

"The electrifying story of American democracy and its enemies" -- U.S. Congressman Jamie Raskin

Vigilante Nation

How State-Sponsor3ed Terror Threatens Our Democracy

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 6m

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 18m

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 18m

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 7m

You mean Morrison? UET is usually viewed as coming out of the Meese Justice Department, and that's where Scalia was taking his cues from.

David Noll @david.noll.org · 16m

Yeah the culture of quoting them with fire emojis is kindof lame but people should realize that, like, all of our current First Amendment law started with a handful of well-done dissents.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 19m

I think he sees himself as a debater in the sense that his only obligation is to have a comeback for anything seeking to hold his side to account. It's not even bullshit, in Frankfurt's sense, but a rhetorical style designed to produce soundbites and clippable moments, ala Charlie Kirk.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 36m

Won't the Court necessarily have to take notice of their race to grant them a remedy? Isn't that exactly the race-consciousness that, according to their theory of the case, courts are not permitted to engage in?

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 39m

Has anyone noted the absurdity of the "color-blind" plaintiffs in this case identifying themselves by race?

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 58m

11:28 AM ET: Edward Greim is now arguing on behalf of the "non-African American" plaintiffs in the case. He argued the Constitution is color-blind and the statutes enforcing it should be as well.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 42m

When you consider this alongside his efforts to boost far-right parties in Europe, his project seems to be reintergrating Nazism into the domain of respectable politics.

But to describe Nazis as Nazis is, according to Vance, an incitement to political violence.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 2h

lol it’s amazing how much No Kings has triggered every con in sight

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

"You will only get paid if you kiss His Majesty's ring" is an interesting hill to die on, but I say go for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2h

The current Supreme Court gets 👍🏼👍🏼 from former Sheriff Joe Arpaio "who oversaw a reign of racialized terror in the most populous county in Arizona for more than two decades."

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 4h

He already said he's cool with it www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 4h

Oh I missed that. A shame he wouldn't address the substance of the question.

David Noll @david.noll.org · 4h

I'd actually like to see someone ask the vice president whether calling these people Nazis is out of bounds.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 18h

I assume the U.S. wouldn't accede to a rule that allowed Venezuela to make that determination unilaterally.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 18h

"We can kill narco-terrorists in international waters" does not work as a principle of international law if it is available to only one state.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 19h

Again, the reason you can tell the legal theory underpinning these strikes is b.s. is that, if it were taken seriously, it would allow Venezuela to drone yachts off the coast of Florida.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 21h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 19h

How can the American people trust their government is working on their behalf when White supremacists have so thoroughly infested the Republican Party? We need transparency and we need accountability. Anyone with White supremacist ties must be identified and fired immediately.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 19h

Better Schumer: We know these views are common among many young people in the GOP and that many of young activists have gone on to work in Congress, the White House and federal agencies.

I'm launching an investigation to root out Nazis from our government and I hope my GOP colleagues join me.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 19h

Sickening. Revolting. Vile. This makes you want to throw up.

This is the kind of garbage that the worst kind of people say when they think nobody is watching.

And where are Republican leaders from Trump on down condemning these comments swiftly and unequivocally!?

I’m waiting to hear it.

A headline from POLITICO reads: "‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat"

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 19h

Jon Michaels and I talk in Vigilante Nation about "vigilante capture," or the process of vigilantes taking control of government institutions. The case study we focus on--Shasta County, California--seems almost quaint in light of what's happening with ICE.

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 23h

Members of the most extreme Proud Boys chapters are on encrypted appa sharing DHS recruiting materials and memes about joining ICE.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’

To hear him tell it, Gavin McInnes’ recent return to the site...

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 20h

Five months

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 20h

Trump said he'd focus on the “worst of the worst," but he's mostly focused on people like Melissa Tran — a MD business owner who's lived here 30 yrs and is a fixture of her community.

Cruel.

I salute all who fought for her release. After months in ICE detention, she's finally home.

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after 5 months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 20h

No one thinks that, if Congress passed a law providing that tariff rates be set by consulting a Magic 8-ball, that would withstand constitutional scrutiny. Yet we're supposed to pretend that, if the Magic 8-ball rulings are posted on Truth Social, they're legitimate government policy.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21h

sir you are driving a cybertruck

Back of a cybertruck with a bumper sticker that reads "Elon killed my resale value"

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