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Dan Holtmeyer

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Editor, writer, photographer and native plant grower in northwest Arkansas. The native plants biz is @ozarkroots.bsky.social. I have a newsletter: localeyesnwa.beehiiv.com. And I’m running for office: danholtmeyerforar.com

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Dan Holtmeyer @danholtmeyer.bsky.social · Feb 19

At the end of it all, no matter what side we’re on, what lies are the most comforting or what we believe, deep down we all actually want the facts and the truth. Since our species first walked, we’ve needed to know if there are lions in the grass. Reality matters. The bill for lies always comes due.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

We are hundreds of miles on the interstate past Nixon's crimes that look like harmless school pranks by comparison. Presidency-ending for anyone else since WWII. At a minimum, an immediate SecState resignation. But we've decided nothing matters for this One Special Boy & his authoritarian playmates.

Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 19h

Probably late to this story, but holy hell!

This is an administration ending story.

For the Secy-o-State to promise something like this is damning.

“He [Rubio] assured Bukele that Bondi would complete that process & Washington would hand over the [informants who are under US protection]

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 22h

We're going to win.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 22h

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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hpanzironi @hpanzironi.bsky.social · 1d

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world

what a fucking thing, man

that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

"I hear very few people are gonna be there" -- Donald Trump, 10/15/25

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2d

This isn't a normative statement. Such a thing is literally not a court of law as anyone has understood it for a thousand years. If it does not decide particular cases based on preexisting rules known to the public and explain those decisions to the public, it isn't a court of law.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

There's a reason why we don't want a king to dictate the provision of funds in the country, and it dates back to the English Civil War. @ryanlcooper.com with the expert explanation here (I just added some frippery, this is his piece):
prospect.org/politics/202...

Mad King Trump Seizes Your Money

The president is doing almost exactly what Charles I did to touch off the English Civil War.

prospect.org

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Dan Holtmeyer @danholtmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

All of my favorite accounts on here are reposting my article and I’m freaking out

Dan Holtmeyer @danholtmeyer.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote this, about how this administration is trying to undo history on multiple fronts. And I must credit @jamellebouie.net, @adamserwer.bsky.social and many others for their work that inspired my own small contribution.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3d

“This administration has upgraded the earlier model, showing through word and action that it believes the shameful sides of America’s past were, in fact, good—even examples to follow today.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pro-mass...

The Pro-Massacre, Pro-Segregation, Pro-Eugenics Administration

The Trump administration is seeking to rewind the clock on an entire century of legal—and moral—progress.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 7d

"The Danes used empathy politically—an action abhorred by right-wing leaders, who have gone so far as to brand it as an enemy and a weakness. But what they are leaving unsaid is that fascism cannot prosper where empathy exists."

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

www.thenation.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6d

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 6d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6d

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down

they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

n.pr

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 7d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 8d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 8d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8d

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 9d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 9d

I just want to be clear, they are personally calling you, the reader, a terrorist

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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