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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

"you can't just call the people you disagree with nazis"

oh no?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · 2d

Tad Stoermer lays out some essential context to the most radical political changes in US history.

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The 14th and 15th Amendments — the most important constitutional changes in U.S. history — only happened because the resistance refused to play by the abuser's rules. #ResistanceHistory #constitution...

TikTok video by Tad Stoermer

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · 10d

An important discussion that happened during climate week. From Nature:

....As Raworth wrote in Doughnut Economics: “We have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive; what we need are economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can now help to devise better indicators.

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · 10d

“I am sad because this old-growth forest is no more,” wrote Hurteau, a biology professor at the University of New Mexico. “I am angry because this outcome was a choice.”
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‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out — San Francisco Chronicle

Roughly 500 years ago in California’s High Sierra, pine cones dropped to the ground and a cycle began. The Aztec Empire was falling. The printing press was new. The seedlings grew.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10d

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · 17d

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Cowardice and chickenshit - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Adam Serwer’s superb piece about widespread elite capitulation and collaboration during Trump 2.0 makes an important distinction: ABC and its parent company, Disney, had been menaced into suspending K...

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · 19d

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Cowardice and chickenshit - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Adam Serwer’s superb piece about widespread elite capitulation and collaboration during Trump 2.0 makes an important distinction: ABC and its parent company, Disney, had been menaced into suspending K...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · 25d

Saturday morning thoughts from Josh Marshall

The Age of Monsters talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-a...

The Age of Monsters

We live in an age of monsters: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the...

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · 27d

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Tell Costco: Don't Cave to Extremists—Dispense Mifepristone Now!

Costco has announced that its pharmacies will NOT dispense mifepristone—a safe, FDA-approved abortion pill used in the majority of abortions nationwide. This dangerous decision is a concession to anti...

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · 27d

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Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel and stop caving to authoritarian censorship!

Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they ...

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · Sep 13

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · Sep 10

On Wednesday, the agency declared its intent to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s 2024 Public Lands Rule, which placed conservation on equal footing with uses such as natural gas drilling, mining, ranching, grazing, timber production and recreation.
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Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle Conservation as an Official Use of Public Lands - Inside Climate News

The decision means nearly 245 million acres of federal public land would be ineligible for conservation or restoration use designations.

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · Sep 10

Josh Marshall - it’s very clear that that is the Schumer strategy. Avoid a confrontation, grab some short-term relief for Obamacare recipients and hope 2026 takes care of itself.

What’s Unmentioned in the Intra-Dem Shutdown Debate talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...

What’s Unmentioned in the Intra-Dem Shutdown Debate

As we’ve been discussing for a week there’s a big argument among...

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hard to argue with this

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TO: JOHN ROBERTS

FROM: ROOK T. WINCHESTER

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · Sep 7

So much winning

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Postal traffic into US plunges by more than 80% after Trump ends exemption

Dozens of operators have suspended service to the US until a solution is implemented on parcels worth $800 or less

www.theguardian.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 6

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.

Join us.

A hoard of people march in the streets with protest signs. Even in heels, I am too short to properly show the massive scale of the crowd.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Sep 7

The Democratic Party establishment has proven its loyalty not to Democrats, but to its own ironclad control.

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Centrist Democrats Are the Actual Traitors to Their Party

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Sep 7

This matters a lot more than his tweets.

Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers warn

Bay Area lawmakers and transit advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reneging on a critical $750 million loan will have devastating consequences for BART, Muni and other agencies in the region.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 7

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 5

Big Oil donates to his campaign...Trump hands out tax breaks and guts clean energy funding.

Fraudsters donate to his Super PAC...Trump hands out pardons.

Airlines donate to his inaugural fund...Trump cancels a rule requiring them to refund passengers.

Everything is for sale.

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · Sep 7

Long but worth reading in full

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A Bad Deal: By Adopting the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism, Universities are Sacrificing Academic Freedom

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · Sep 5

Josh Marshall is not impressed

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There’s a New Budget Showdown. Senate Dems’ Current Plan Is Bullshit

I agonized for a bit about the point I’m about to discuss....

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · Aug 25

Josh Marshall:

Personally, I’ve never been strongly in the fan or hater camp. But Newsom is doing exactly what we should be expecting of every Democratic politician today, especially those in executive office at the state level...

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Let the Race Begin!

California Governor Gavin Newsom is plowing ahead with plans to gerrymander California’s...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Aug 14

beta cucks are afraid of big cities
real alphas walk the streets

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · Aug 14

NY State does not need to be moving more fracked gas. We need to be letting go not building out more infrastructure. 2 days left to register a comment. Thanks

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No New Pipelines. Not Now. Not Ever.

I just spoke out against the proposed NESE fracked gas pipeline—again. This project threatens New York’s coastal waters, violates our climate laws, and puts fossil fuel profits ahead of public health...

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