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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · Jun 13

We are a small, independent publication that is quite dependent on social media shares at the moment.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

If you remember the Iraq war, you will remember The Surge: massing troops into key cities to establish control.

Trump is describing American cities as if they are Baghdad in 2007.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The merging of the omniforce is happening via different mechanisms.
First, ICE has become a black hole consuming resources from other agencies. Those agencies are being told to send their people to support ICE. For example, nearly half of FBI field agents work on immigration enforcement.

According to an analysis by the Cato Institute, more than 28,000 law enforcement officials have been sucked into performing ICE’s mission. ICE has trained or is training more than 10,500 state and local police who are part of a task force that allows them to make arrests. In addition, “one in five US marshals (650 of 3,892), one in five FBI agents (2,840 of 13,700), half of DEA agents (2,181 of 4,620), over two-thirds of the ATF (1,778 of 2,572), and nearly 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations (6,198 of 7,100).”

More recent data suggests that these numbers are increasing, with nearly half of FBI agents in major field offices, and about one-quarter of all FBI agents, now working on immigration enforcement.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Military/Paramilitary forces vary in their professionalism. Some, like the FBI and DOD have high professionalism and high commitment to rule of law. Some, like ICE, don't. So Trump is purging DOD/FBI in the hope that leaders will become more like ICE.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
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Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 12h

She’s not the worst of them but she may be the most tedious in her rationalizations

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 19h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 1d

Encourage reading the whole post, which is admirably measured.

TL;DR: We don’t fully understand what’s behind the jump in US pedestrian deaths, but car bloat seems to be an important factor.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 1d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

What are your feelings on the show

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 19h

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Correction. Taking down prior posts.

eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 1d

The DoD is allowed to transfer this money per statute apparently (though this is outside of my area). The CR in March upped it to 8 billion.

Of course it has. It always does. Sec 8005 of DOD Appropriations, for starters…

That one provision now allows for $8b in transfers, per March’s full year CR:

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

If AI spending is 40 percent of GDP, it’s not that the economy will collapse without it, it’s that somehow the economy has already collapsed and we failed to notice

Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

It just doesn’t pass the laugh test. IIRC there’s a number about how much of GDP *growth* was data centers but that’s very different from how much of overall GDP it is

Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

lol that is the most fake statistic I’ve ever seen

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

Half the Answer #40: Caitlin and Trent are joined by Layla al-Sheikh to discuss that Israel deal and the history of past proposals and solutions. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #40: Palestine in Context: The New Israel-Palestine Deal

Trent and Caitlin are joined by Layla al-Sheikh to discuss that Israel deal and the history of past proposals and solutions. Half the Answer can be heard on Spotify, on Apple, on YouTube, on Amazon, ...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

Neon Liberalism #47: If you remember anything from high school civics, it's the phrases "separation of powers" and "checks and balances." That separation and those checks are under the greatest attack we've seen in our lifetimes. But why does that matter? How does it affect the character of society?

Neon Liberalism #47: Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Limited Government

If you remember anything from high school civics, it's the phrases "separation of powers" and "checks and balances." That separation and those checks are under the greatest attack we've seen in our li...

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

Tax the shit out of these assholes and maniacs www.liberalcurrents.com/billionaires...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

All these oped writers think we should give the Nobel Peace Prize to the guy who’s gutting our medical infrastructure

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Suzanne LaBounty @suzanne137.bsky.social · 2d

“A core plank of Republican politics is that women exist to bear children for men. “

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We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory

The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

i think "TACO" now is actually totally wrong. it's not that Trump chickens out. it's that maintaining a tariff regime requires object permanence

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

The frog riots of 2025

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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