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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 4h

Danny, I’d say that you and Harry, Aquilino and Fanone are all, figuratively, on the front lines of the fight to preserve democracy just as much as the Ukrainians are.

Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 5h

“One of Democracy’s greatest assets is how (when unsullied) it provides a mechanism for everyone to have their voice heard, and when people believe their government speaks for them in some manner they are less apt to seek violent means to accomplish their political agendas.”

Definitely Danny @semperwry.bsky.social · 18h

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My Statement to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution

For their hearing on Political Violence from 10/28/2025

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 15h

OMG, Danny. That’s disgusting. I’m sorry you had to experience that.

On J6, you and the others kept our Republic standing. It felt like a miracle to witness because it could have so easily turned into a bloodbath. I am forever grateful to you. This struggle to clawback our democracy is relentless.

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, I didn’t get that from your take.

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 15h

He makes good points. I’d say read it first, then comment.

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine if Tim Russet had done this interview. Comer would have been filleted, and the audiences’ understanding of the subject matter sharpened.

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 16h

I misunderstood. I thought you were saying that he was ranked the worst president in US history. I don’t put much stock in contemporary job approval ratings. Look what it’s taken to get trump’s ratings to drop.

Please don’t take this as an invitation to continue this conversation.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17h

Trump joking/not joking -- the rhetorical move by which he oozes new violations into the mainstream -- about a permanent presidency, 2019 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, from my book THE UNDERTOW. I hate "told ya so," but some of us have been publishing this a long time. It wasn't hard. We just listened.

“Time for a “joke,” again with numbers. “Five years,” Trump said. He paused, smirked, letting the crowd fill it in; it was their joke too. “Nine years, thirteen years, seventeen years, twenty-one years, twenty-five years, twenty-nine years.” Then the punch line: “When I leave office.”

The crowd roared. “Now,” Trump said, pointing to his cage full of reporters, “I’m only doing that to drive them totally crazy. That drives them crazy. Even joking about it!” Joking. “I don’t know, should we give it a shot? Maybe we’ll give it a shot.” Maybe. “I’m only kidding. Media, I’m only kidding.” Not joking. It worked: His “joke” would be the only part of the rally that made the evening news, none of the violent dream that followed. If Trump said it was a joke, reporters reported that claim. They wanted to believe that some norms still held. Some feared that if they acknowledged just how far beyond norms he’d gone, they’d be normalizing the new American spectrum, one in which dictatorship had become not just a hyperbolic charge thrown around by each party’s most heated partisans but an actual idea. A joke or maybe a possibility, sooner rather than later.”

— The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 17h

What we’re experiencing now is described as authoritarian capture. I said we’d still have a democracy if Biden ranked as the worst president in history, which he most certainly was not.

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 17h

Not being in the streets in massive numbers after Comey was fired helped make this possible.

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 17h

And we’d still have a democracy in that alternate reality where, unfortunately, no one lives.

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Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 1d

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

- John Roger

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 20h

Autumn shakes off
the last leaves from the trees.
My mood is slightly better.
This damn long war sits on my shoulders.
I wish it were like an autumn leaf.

Long wars wear people down.
But worn-out people keep going.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to U.S. troops: “I’d love to have your job.”

(He faked a bone spur to dodge the draft.)

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 1d

The time to be in the streets was after he fired Comey.

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 1d

Kamala lost to the guy who demolished the East Wing.

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 1d

children’s fantasy books — that’s brilliant !

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 1d

It’s gorgeous!

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2d

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 1d

It is. Sorry for the confusion.

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 1d

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Accusing Jordan Silverman

A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Khanna: "We should ban any elected official from having cryptocurrency and accepting foreign money, which the Trump family has done from UAE and from this foreign billionaire."

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 1d

“There isn't a proper word in English for this kind of lying. But there's a Russian word: vranyo. It means: "You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I tell the lie with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes.” - Tim Weiner

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Linda @wearekindtosnails.bsky.social · 1d

“There isn't a proper word in English for this kind of lying. But there's a Russian word: vranyo. It means: "You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I tell the lie with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes.” - Tim Weiner

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

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