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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 4h

I'd say more Ernst Röhm, head of the Sturmabteilung (SA, aka “Brownshirts”).

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 2h

69 here. It's both culture and times. Not you. I have the sentiment you share often enough.

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 4h

Think "Night of The Long Knives" (June 30 - July 2, 1934), when the SA (Sturmabteilung, aka "Brownshirts") was purged.

The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 16h

“This isn’t about deportations. It’s about obedience...and once proven effective, it won’t stay in immigration long….The internal message Is discipline over discretion…”

www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-most-d...

The Most Dangerous Quiet Night in Federal History

How the New ICE Chain-of-Command Model Will Be Used Everywhere Else.” This isn’t about deportations. It’s about obedience...and once proven effective, it won’t stay in immigration long.

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 4h

I'd say more Ernst Röhm, head of the Sturmabteilung (SA, aka “Brownshirts”).

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Wow!

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

More than 100 former top Justice Dept officials, including dozens of former prosecutors, file court brief opposing James Comey's prosecution:

"not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President"

washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 1d

And of course Didion's "Miami" (1987): "In many ways the Bay of Pigs continued to offer Miami an ideal narrative, one in which the men of the 2506 were forever the valiant and betrayed and the United States was forever the seducer and betrayer and the blood of los martires remained forever fresh,''

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 1d

Alma Guillermoprieto, "Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America"(2002): From Vargas Llosa to Che, to Vicente Fox, Subcommander Marco and, again, Eva Peron.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 1d

V.S. Naipaul, "The Return of Eva Peron, with the Killings in Trinidad" (1980). The intersections of grandiose delusion, economic decline, and breakdown/authoritarianism, in Argentina and Uruguay

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 2d

Can you say "Hitlerjugend"? Sure you can. Use your words.

Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 3d

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 3d

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peacegardener.bsky.social @peacegardener.bsky.social · 4d

There are so many ways the trump administration is very busy preparing to screw with our midterms…
The resistance needs to be familiar with Heather Honey and follow what she is doing so this can be exposed NOW!
www.propublica.org/article/heat...

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.

Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

www.propublica.org

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aneke60.bsky.social @aneke60.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you ProPublica! The mainstream media has failed us, making your work especially important!

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 6d

...awaiting law enforcement that has not, is not, and will not enforce.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, *that* #Skokie. #KKK-made-famous-by-the-#ACLU Skokie. Got it.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 6d

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 6d

Agreed, and he is definitely part of the Deep Bench of up-and-coming Dem talent.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 6d

I think about the Roman Empire at least once a week. At least. And I am an Obama/Biden/Harris Democrat.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 6d

Bad move. Today, the sad fact is private wealth -- e.g. Goldman, Pritzger -- is a requisite for the kind of political power that can contend with MAGA threats and slime. Goldman is perfectly competent, even good.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 26d

SCOOP: DSA-backed City Council Member @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social is exploring a primary challenge to Rep. Dan Goldman in NY-10.

Avilés is meeting with @socialists.nyc's Electoral Working Group next week to discuss her potential congressional run.

Read more at @cityandstateny.bsky.social:

Alexa Avilés exploring challenge to Rep. Dan Goldman in NY-10

The DSA-backed City Council member has been talking to allies about potentially challenging the incumbent representative.

www.cityandstateny.com

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 6d

Well, yes -- they are MAGA's Brownshirts. In Weimar Germany, the Sturmabteilung (SA, aka Brownshirts) rose from amateur street thugs in 1919 to a 2 million strong paramilitary army by early 1933, when Hitler assumed the Chancellorship.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 14d

No one can be surprised. Exposure of any local LEO chatboard would reveal exactly the same stuff.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 14d

Could a theatre production of Aristophanes' "Frogs" (first produced 405 BC) -- about the role of art in civic life -- be a fit for Portland right now? Asking for a friend...

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 15d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 16d

Trump put a hit on Epstein.

His prison cell was never dusted for prints or examined for DNA evidence after his death.

Is there anybody on the planet who thinks this was an oversight?

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 17d

good one!

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20d

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 18

i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 21

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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