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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

In my experience people like this guy create persecution narratives for themselves where white Christian people are being endangered by liberals (and this woman isn’t even liberal) and are dying for the opportunity to harm those people

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 8h

Ah, that's actually a super-helpful answer!

Thanks!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, it increasingly looks like they are jockeying to position themselves advantageously in a post-Trump world.

This seems to be true even for Republican members of Congress.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

“The House speaker is losing control of his party”

Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown - The New Republic

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Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown — The New Republic

The House speaker is losing control of his party.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 11h

Important to understand that MTG kickstarted this rebellion.

For important (and super fun) context, check out my half-hour video on this.

It helps you reconcile two competing emotions: Yes, MTG did a good thing. No, she is not a good person.

Watch for more!

youtu.be/ZktofrLJNvY?...

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 11h

It’s now routine for pundits to ask Mamdani, Pritzker etc. if they are afraid Trump will arrest them, kill them, etc.

And somehow it doesn’t disrupt the horse race bit—they ask it like it’s a government shutdown or poll numbers.

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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD @carolynownbey.bsky.social · 18h

If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.

The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

What is the difference between being nihilistic and being extremely jaded?

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Katie Cannon @katiecannon.bsky.social · 2d

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

This seems plausible.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

"using it to pay ICE"????

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 11d

Unless healthcare and health insurance CEOs are in the US on work visas, it's not immigrants who are denying you access to healthcare

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 10d

Our own federal government attacked a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night, indiscriminately pulling people from their beds, including US citizens. Some people were dragged naked into the street. This is political violence. These are Nazi tactics.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 2d

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Blair Hodges @blairhodges.bsky.social · 4d

If I could get all the egghead Democrat politico pundit advisory class to understand one thing, it would be this thing.

James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 4d

Right, and @anatosaurus.bsky.social, whom everyone should follow, has a great essay recently that covers that topic.

Democratic Party strategists treat public opinion as if it is calcified, whereas Republican Party strategists understand that it is SHAPED.

www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

www.weekendreading.net

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, and I think that it's best to treat them as if they already do understand it but are, for whatever reason, feigning ignorance.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

Yes. Democrats don't realize that parties should use polls to change how to get what they want. This is what Republicans do.

Democrats, by contrast, modify their policies to match the public. It's dead wrong. And our country is being smothered because of this bad approach.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it's so, so, SO damn infuriating watching the Democratic Party, year after year after year, allow Republicans to set the terms of the debate, almost never bothering to try to persuade people of something else.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

Yes. Democrats don't realize that parties should use polls to change how to get what they want. This is what Republicans do.

Democrats, by contrast, modify their policies to match the public. It's dead wrong. And our country is being smothered because of this bad approach.

James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

No, it's not a glaring comparison of priorities.

"Priorities" framing works only when all of the things being compared are either good or bad.

It's not that Republicans want X thing more than they want Y thing. It's that they are *against* Y thing, and the "priorities" framing occludes that.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 5d

Listen, please.

We will make zero progress on emancipatory social-welfare movements and, thus, against fascism until a critical mass of already-progressive people come to realize how disgusting and alienating the notion that public goods and services would be net funded by rich people is.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 4d

This is a great essay by Dustin Granger!

Thanks for writing this.

Everyone else, please share this important information about what is at stake in this shutdown fight.

grangerforla.substack.com/p/wait-mike-...

Wait… Mike Johnson and the GOP Want a Shutdown to Raise Our Insurance??

Part of my ongoing Letters to Louisiana series — personal notes and stories written to my fellow Louisianans about the challenges we face and the future we can build together.

grangerforla.substack.com

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

No wonder they've been trying to keep Anne Frank out of schools recently

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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I have been a good Bling 😊🇨🇦 @blingdomepiece.bsky.social · 2d

We‘ve gotten to the Anne Frank stage of the presidency.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

"taxpayer funding"??? 🙄

Nobody is giving "taxpayer funding" or "taxpayer" anything at all to anyone, and you're only reinforcing the logic of fascism by employing and, thus, legitimizing that disgusting and dishonest "taxpayer" trope.