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“WITH FIRMNESS IN THE RIGHT, AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE THE RIGHT.”

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fondly do we hope 🇺🇸 @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · Oct 5

I am going to keep tapping this sign.

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · Oct 1

This, in passing, is why the Dem leaders’ insistence on only talking “kitchen table issues” is missing the moment. There’s an opportunity to cast the Dems as the /conservative/ party, in the sense of respecting the “ancient liberties” of America, against the authoritarian innovations of Trump.

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · Oct 1

The legislative branch refusing to vote supply does not “hand the keys of the kingdom” to the executive; this claim is so counter to our received ancient English liberties that it literally was the cause of the English Civil War.

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Tony Plunkett @tblankets.bsky.social · 3d

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

Sen. Slotkin: “I believe Trump is reshaping the country to hold on to power. Trump is following the same playbook as almost every authoritarian in history.”

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

Or—please hear me out, as I know this may come as a shock to everyone—J.D. Vance knows the truth and is a calculating, habitual liar who will say absolutely, positively anything he thinks is politically expedient?

Addie 💅 Rouge @addibaddie.bsky.social · 5d

That just makes pants sound even dumber then if he hasn't taken the time to learn about his wifes faith

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fondly do we hope 🇺🇸 @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 5d

Zhongnanhai on the Potomac.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Nichols, not a lefty firebrand

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Judge offers public praise for prosecutors DOJ suspended after they filed a sentencing memo calling #Jan6 crowd 'a mob of rioters.' Strange scene as the ousted lawyers look on from gallery during sentencing in case they shepherded. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Judge says prosecutors who were placed on leave ‘did a truly excellent job’

Two federal prosecutors were placed on leave hours after describing Jan. 6 as an attack by “a mob of rioters.”

www.politico.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

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fondly do we hope 🇺🇸 @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 5d

Things can change in unexpected ways.

I think people need to find a way of acknowledging that many influential people have malign intentions while also remembering that the future is not already determined by the fever dreams of the wicked and the lost.

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Anthony S @gapfeiffer.bsky.social · 6d

I have worked with Federal employees and government officials. They would not accept a cup of coffee or a taxi ride. This gets you fired from any federal job. Waste, corruption, abuse. BTW, no apologies if I am impolitic, the she here if not a victim, she is a volunteer and nearly as guilty

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12d

“This country was going to die without you.”

Dark, Unhinged, North Korea-level stuff from Stephen Miller

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8d

Whoa!

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop

Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8d

"Canada was at war with Nazi Germany two years before us—and declared war on Imperial Japan the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor. On June 6, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landed on Juno Beach in conjunction with U.S. and British forces."

Totally Brazen. Comically Corrupt. Painfully Dumb.

Trump’s mask-off economic doctrine is on full display: Riches for friends, pain for enemies. Is it any wonder business leaders are falling in line?

www.thebulwark.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

and because i can imagine the bad faith reading of this, what i am *not* saying is that everything about the extant democratic party is hunky dory other than its total absence of a communications/propaganda infrastructure. what i *am* saying is that this absence puts a hard limit on reaching voters

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8d

Do not normalize any headline or article that refuses to call out Trump's proposal to run again in 2028 and treats it like a political game.

Call out all these polls and hypotheticals.

This man cannot run again. Like we've said, he will try to stay in power until death.

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Slate @slate.com · 9d

“I don't understand why Democrats live in the world of, ‘Oh, well, that's just not realistic,’ while Republicans live in the world of ‘Yeah! Tear down the White House!’ Why is that?!” slate.trib.al/iGHD8bB

Shutting Down and Finding Out

In the “you can just do stuff” era of politics, Dems should swing for the fences.

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fondly do we hope 🇺🇸 @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 10d

I think it at least gives people a split-second’s pause, and Trump’s anger is one indication of that.

Can’t be the whole schtick, but a few wholesome seeds of doubt would be sown by this.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10d

I don't really think this will work? idk trumpism is so tied up with ahistoricity and the personality cult that reagan's personality cult doesn't have a shot

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d

Democrats should just start rolling out ad after ad of Reagan voiceovers.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10d

The Ronald Reagan speech that would really trigger the MAGA Christian Nationalists is the one where he wore a yarmulke and said the United States embraces no one religion, or religion at all, and that we must always keep a separation between church and state.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 15d

“A good Bronze Age Pervert tweet..”-Ross Douthat, NYT’s resident intellectual conservative

@DouthatNYT
A good Bronze Age Pervert tweet; with key rural exceptions (the Mennonites!) population collapse will herald the triumph of the city over the countryside and the megalopolis over the regional city.
- Bronze Age Pervert
Next decades: depopulation of countrysides worldwide conglomeration into cities and even few cities and capitals...already well advanced in Japan. Countryside everywhere increasingly desolate bleak, depleted of youth. Biggest

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14d

I suspect people have been too quick to move beyond No Kings and not to reflect on its political lessons. So I tried to tease out a couple here:

1. It's fine to be negative ('No Kings' is after all a negative slogan).

2. It's good to embrace big tent patriotism.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11d

You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?

THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10d

“The benefits of liberalism, though, are largely not separable from the philosophy of liberalism…Far from being a boring and stale political project, we should remind people of the bold claims of liberal ideas and the astonishing success they’ve already had.”

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Liberalism Is a Bold Force That Ends Corrupt, Oppressive, and Arbitrary Hierarchies

It doesn't defend the status quo, it upends it

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fondly do we hope 🇺🇸 @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 10d

This nation shall NOT be chained and dragged back into the unwholesome and unhappy HOUSE OF STUART.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 11d

"'I’m the speaker and the president,' Mr. Trump has joked, according to two people who heard the remark and relayed it on the condition of anonymity because of concern about sharing private conversations with him." [Gift link]

Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, this is what I wrestle with -- a college freshman today was only nine when Trump first ran for president. They've grown up with him as a baseline, not an aberration.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10d

It's odd for me to realize that my first-year undergraduates are at an age where they don't really remember that there was a form of US politics prior to Donald Trump. For them, Trump is not an aberration from the normal course of political discourse, but just how US politics is done.

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 10d

Trump is best buds with the thug who ordered this old lady killed. Disgraceful. "The most cynical part is that the Russians see the civilians and deliberately target them, Zabrisky said: "They kill them while seeing them. They see that it's a little old lady."" euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/23/r...

Russian drone kills 84-year-old goat herder who refused to abandon her animals - Euromaidan Press

Larysa Vakuliuk stayed in Kherson despite daily attacks. She had responsibility towards her goats, she told journalist last month

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10d

Unprecedented nepotistic corruption, every day

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 10d

NEW: Don Trump Jr.--after helping pick top Pentagon officials to join his dad's administration--has now become an investor and advisor to Pentagon drone builders. This as President Trump orders Pentagon to buy more drones. A NYT investigation of this latest conflict.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Trump’s Son Is Poised to Profit From Pentagon Drone Proposal

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11d

it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it

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