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Steve Saidemonster @smsaideman.bsky.social · 6m

The problem with this application to Shaprio is that he was not just an enable, he was/is a face eater. More like Ernst Röhm.

Is it too early for a Night of the Long Knives 2: Electric Boogaloo?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 45m

Traditionally that’s the trade off — the cop proves their authority and then expects people to respect it.

ICE refuses to give us proof but demands we respect them as if they had.

That’s not how this works

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 47m

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

ALT: a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 1h

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 2h

"Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, born #OTD 1890

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Donald Trump: 'What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening'

In a wide-ranging, free-flowing speech to a veterans association, the US president, Donald Trump, criticised the media for its reaction to his trade tariffs policy.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1h

Shocked to learn Pete Hegseth is demanding an NDA from the press even before he tries to rape them.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 20d

Critics including Elon Musk have assailed my @cato.org colleague Alex Nowrasteh's study finding that most politically motivated terrorist killings in the U.S. since 1975 have been done by persons on the right. Alex responds to the critics here and explains his methods and classifications.

Alex Responds to the Critics: Politically Motivated Terrorist Killings in the United States

The critics are mistaken

www.alexnowrasteh.com

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 2h

The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 1h

New College Curriculum is about to get gender studies... lol

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Spencer A. Klavan
@SpencerKlavan
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Aug 19, 2024
Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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Steve Saidemonster @smsaideman.bsky.social · 16h

Not Jenny's? 867-5309!

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Steve Saidemonster @smsaideman.bsky.social · 19h

Um, who's president of Canada? Right now, I'd say it is the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 20h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 20h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Steve Saidemonster @smsaideman.bsky.social · 20h

Damn, I am screwed.

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Steve Saidemonster @smsaideman.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks, I had actually MI'ed

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Ross O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social · 20h

U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.

www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says

The findings suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.

www.nbcnews.com

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Steve Saidemonster @smsaideman.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, I agree that Canadians are far madder this time because of the 51st state bullshit.

BUT the trade war with the planet is far worse this time than last--higher tariffs started by the US and then with strong responses. Just about killing the US soybean export biz, for example

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Alexandra 🇨🇦 @alexandra-gee.bsky.social · 23h

Here’s another great quote. “The good news is that trade threats between Ottawa and Washington have eased a bit in recent months.” The U.S. started the threats and the trade war. Also, I don’t see any easing.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23h

Good Place:

Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's insistence that Joe Biden was president on January 6 raises new questions about Joe Biden's memory.

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Steve Saidemonster @smsaideman.bsky.social · 23h

The idea that a party or candidate would prefer for the US to do worse if it means that their competitor is denied a win goes way back and has been a GOP strategy my entire lifetime.

What do we call this but betrayal and maybe even treason?

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Steve Saidemonster @smsaideman.bsky.social · 23h

Someone pointed out that this is at least the third time a Republican presidential candidate has messed with an international negotation to deny his competitor a win:
Nixon (and Kissinger!) in 1968 re Vietnam
Reagan and Iran Hostage Crisis in 1980 and now Trump.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h

One of Trump’s few consistent positions is pro-corruption.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?"

Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 23h

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that one reason the war lasted two years is so Bibi can stay out of jail for corruption

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump to Israeli Knesset: "I have an idea -- Mr President, why don't give him a pardon? Give him a pardon. Whether we like it or not, this has been one of the greatest wartime presidents. And cigars and champagne -- who the hell cares about that?"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

obviously john roberts and the trump majority aren't going a little thing like "history" or "the written text of the constitution" get in the way of their ideological drive to remake the (republican) presidency as an elected dictatorship.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

www.nytimes.com

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