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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1h

The fight to dismantle ICE and the fight to impeach Trump are now the same fight. ICE did not start under Trump and Democratic leaders have also used it shamefully as a tool of repression. But it is now a true gestapo, and you can't abolish a gestapo without disempowering the fascist leader.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1h

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23h

Looks from here like the goal is to create confusion, and focus public attention on a subset of the most outrageous firings — to distract from the other firings.

We shouldn’t be fooled, and should demand that all the illegal shutdown RIFs are made null and void. /end

Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 2h

Any sane coverage of Trump's "Executive Orders" would point out again & again that he has no legal right to issue them—that his disqualification from office due to insurrection was never removed. Any other editorial choice accepts as a given that any random racist pig can overrule the Constitution.

Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 2h

Side note: it's an editorial, rhetorical, and moral choice to grant Trump's "Executive Orders" (the criminal whims of a tinpot dictator) far more legal weight than the 14A Insurrection Clause, which bars him from being an Executive at all. That choice is called "absolute brain-boiled racism"

Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 2h

Agree - would settle for their permanent expulsion from office per the Insurrection Clause, which basically every politician and pundit has decided is Too Woke to Count because it emerged from the Civil War and inconveniences white supremacists

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 2h

Agree - would settle for their permanent expulsion from office per the Insurrection Clause, which basically every politician and pundit has decided is Too Woke to Count because it emerged from the Civil War and inconveniences white supremacists

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 6h

Sure, it sounds like unhinged ranting, but have you considered the fact that Luffy the pirate really DOES wear a red straw hat, and therefore the Second Coming MIGHT be at hand?

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 6h

Bingo. Might actually be worth nudging AOC on this (here on Bsky). Thank her for being pro-impeachment, but remind her of her "get caught trying" philosophy & let her know we need to see much more effort/discipline from Dems on this issue. I don't have the reach to break through, but y'all could try

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h

At least one person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting at a university campus in Mississippi on Saturday night. A child was injured in a separate shooting outside a college football stadium in the state capital, the authorities said.

At Least 1 Dead and 3 Injured After Shootings at Mississippi Universities

The shootings at historically Black institutions occurred within about 24 hours of three other shootings across rural Mississippi that left at least eight people dead.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 19h

I did a search for "racist" in this piece and found nothing, so right away I knew it wasn't an "unsparing judgment."

Roberts has taken a torch to the legal victories of the Civil Rights Movement. Any assessment of his legacy has to start by calling him one of the worst racists in modern history.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

www.harvardmagazine.com

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 20h

Super duper ideally you'd annul his entire presidency by constitutional amendment. Void ab initio under Section Three would also be nice though.

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 21h

Thanks! We agree. There should be Articles introduced daily, if only for the sake of the Congressional record and posterity. Goodness knows there's no shortage of material.

The American people deserve to know the depth of his corruption, tyranny, and treason.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 21h

This is a climate in which *Supreme Court dissents* routinely go viral! Imagine what reps could do with Articles of Impeachment. And it would whet the public appetite for justice, give the sense of something in motion. @aoc.bsky.social says, "Get caught trying." Where's that approach on impeachment?

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 21h

CI's proposed Article of Impeachment for treason is great. Skeptics are badly underestimating how powerful it would be for Dems to keep introducing such articles. They could be angry, funny, provocative! Even in "failure," it would be a way of seizing the narrative through quality political theater.

Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 1d

Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social joined Jessica Denson @jessicadenson07.bsky.social on Lights On last night.

"What we need to do is get message discipline. That the remedy for tyranny and treason is impeachment. Period. Full Stop. That’s all you need. And we can take it from there."

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 23h

Pritzker hasn't even called for Trump's impeachment. He hasn't called the regime unconstitutional or illegitimate, or mobilized others in his party to take that stance.

Love your leaders less. Demand they do more.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

Love this - can you please include support for impeachment? That really seems to be the decisive factor - pushing for the regime to end now, not just promising justice in the future.

(AOC would retain her top marks, as she’s the only one on this list to have called for impeachment this year)

Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

Great point:

"It's an entire political ad, from a major Democratic politician, that is exclusively defending trans rights. Has this ever happened before? I haven't had my morning coffee yet, but none are coming to mind."

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

A damning and revealing statistic.

And another reason to saturate the discourse with demands for impeachment. Make this something reps cannot ignore.

Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of representatives talking about how bad and illegal the Trump administration actions are. @repcohen.bsky.social is the only one to use the word impeachment in the last two weeks.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Brian Cook @2ndadminstate.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve started watching the film “I’m Still Here” and its depiction of the Brazilian military dictatorship shows how much bleaker it might still get. We can’t wait another 16 months.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

I don't see the call for impeachment, which would follow logically from all he's saying

Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

3/ P.S. "The obstruction of powerful racists" is a fixed condition in American life. If we wait for it to disappear before we seek justice, we'll be waiting forever. There's ALWAYS some version of "the GOP-controlled Congress" or "the corrupt SCOTUS." If we use them as an excuse, we're full of shit.

Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

2/ So many appeals to past and future justice, so few pundits & outlets & leaders & orgs willing to say that Trump must go NOW, must be prosecuted NOW, his fascist movement broken NOW—that the obstruction of powerful racists is a reason to pursue justice NOW, not an excuse for delaying the pursuit.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The main dividing line in the anti-Trump coalition has always been between those willing & unwilling to demand he face justice NOW.

MLK knew moderates always want justice at a "more convenient season." No wonder we currently hear so much "If only Biden had—" and "When Dems are back in power—"

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

Yesss does this mean 50501 will regularly incorporate “Impeach, convict, remove“ into its messaging? I really hope so! Hope you can convince some other No Kings partners to do this too. Thanks for all your incredible work!

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 1d

Also why: The People want him out of office. We do not have kings in America.

Impeach, convict, remove. Be very clear with your demand.

We need message discipline.

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