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Gradually migrating from the bird site. Semiretired editor specializing in development economics, social protection, and climate resilience. Former ink-stained wretch. #TeamPete. Big fan of cats and the Cubs. #NorthernVirginia #FallsChurch
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Part of the reason this struck me is that I've had my head in the 1960s DOJ for a while.

The DOJ press secretary back then was a Pulitzer Prize winner who'd been reporting for twenty years (except when he was winning medals in WWII).

Today, it's the dumbest meanest airhead in middle school.
Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.
Every time I see him, I want to smack the smirk off his face.
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The Trump administration, in one image.
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From a 2022 piece by Gledhill, Shay, & @allardduursma.bsky.social: "campaigns that are more creative, humorous, cathartic, and/or fun are also more likely to be large-scale" civil resistance campaigns bc of the "feelings of empowerment, solidarity, catharsis, or glee that accompany these events."
Glee and Grievance: Emotive Events and Campaign Size in Nonviolent Resistance
While scholars of nonviolent resistance recognize that large-scale campaigns are more likely to be successful campaigns, scholars and policymakers currently have little understanding of why some nonvi...
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Honestly, how did Lindsey Halligan make it through law school?
Wow. Bizarre stuff.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Good stuff here!
“Friends, I received more than 400 submissions for the Oct. 18th “No Kings” Protest Sign Contest, and I have rarely agonized this much when considering the creativity of others.”
WINNERS: Oct. 18th 'No Kings' Protest Sign Contest
Love some creativity.
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One thing I try to unpack in the piece: The Trumpists launched an unhinged demonization campaign against “No Kings” – and then did nothing.

So, they didn’t believe their own propaganda? Not the specifics, no. But they do believe that all protest is fundamentally illegitimate.
America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship
Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective
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“I’ll give you something to cry about” as government policy
Mike Johnson: "The irony was that they called it the No Kings Rally, but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open. If President Trump was a king, he would've closed the nationals parks and the National Mall so they couldn't of had the rally out here."
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Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
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Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9
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An even better version! (Apparently hand-drawn, rather than AI.)
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I have never seen such a perfect image
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“What makes Bishop Barron’s reticence on Trump’s ICE raids especially perplexing is that he has not been shy about weighing in on other pressing issues in public life. In fact, he has been remarkably vocal — even combative — on several recent controversies.”
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MAGA Is having another meltdown in the replies to this tweet.
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Tiny, rural, very red, Mountain Home, Arkansas showed up.and showed out. 400 strong, again! (And this was with more protests nearby for folks to attend.)