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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 13h

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 13h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 21h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 20h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Not joking, either

1968 - Vietnam (Chennault Affair)
1980 - Iran (hostage crisis resolved 20 minutes after Reagan inaugurated)
2016 - Russia (hacking)
2024 - Israel

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Regulars on my Street Without Joy @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 1d

Not to hand it to Mao but he was cooking with “Dare to struggle, dare to win. Women hold up half the sky.”

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

anecdotally, pretty much all the liberal Boomer ladies i know and am related to have already been fully radicalized against the regime and are now regularly attending protests

Emma @emmalabizarre.bsky.social · 1d

My mom’s college friend and his wife (all retired, all young Boomers? are visiting her this coming weekend and they asked “is there a local edition of No Kings we can go to together”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 4d

It’s actually pretty bad for your mental health to know stuff

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hploveswitchcraft @hplovescats.bsky.social · 4d

a picture of known knowledge hater HP Lovecraft with a speech bubble indicating that he might have said the quote below

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1d

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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A Posthumous Mumm-Ra 🎃⚡😼 @aposthumousmemoir.bsky.social · 1d

Used my meager ability to point and click on my Android phone using Polish to update this gem of a comic.

Four panel webcomic.

Panel 1: Pepe the Alt Right Frog mascot is secured in a guillotine. The Portland Frog is superimposed over the French Revolutionary headsman, and asks, "Any last words?"

Panel 2: Pepe, with a smug look, says, "So much for the tolerant left."

Panel 3: Pepe mugs for the crowd, as if awaiting cheers. The Portland Frog seems unmoved.

Panel 4: The Portland Frog impassionately releases the guillotine blade to a resounding *CHOP* as Pepe's head goes bouncing away with a dejected expression on its face.

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 1d

On the positive side of there being no fleet at Fleet Week, I got to learn more about my family’s military service at the Presidio’s new Military Intelligence Service History Learning Center.

The Military Intelligence Service History Learning Center of the National Japanese American Historical Society and National Park Service.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7yYTxTPLkiBTGLsSA?g_st=ipc

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Regulars on my Street Without Joy @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 1d

I recommend this interview: ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-de...

Densho has a video version too

Densho Digital Archive - Roy H. Matsumoto Interview

ddr.densho.org

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Regulars on my Street Without Joy @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 1d

Roy Matsumoto, an inductee in the Ranger Hall of Fame, was a member of the MIS where he taught white officers Japanese before he joined Merrill’s Marauders.

The Pacific War was won with the indispensable contributions of Japanese Americans

Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven’t heard of the Military Intelligence Service, they were Americans who used their language skills to support Allied operations at Guadalcanal, Bougainville, the Philippines, Burma, Okinawa, and elsewhere.

They eventually facilitated the transformation of Japanese government itself.

THE SECRET SCHOOL
An Experiment in the Presidio

As war between the United States and Japan seemed inevitable, a few members of the War Department foresaw the need for qualified Japanese interpreters.
Yet the United States had no formal foreign language or combat intelligence training programs.

The War Department grudgingly budgeted $2,000 to start the Fourth Army Intelligence School at the Presidio in San Francisco. School recruiters were dismayed to find that most of the 3,700 Nisei serving in the military were "more American than Japanese" and only about 10% qualified as candidates.
With limited means, the school opened on November 1,1941 in an abandoned airplane hangar, using scavenged furnishings and curriculum materials mimeographed from scarce textbooks.

"They told me to go down to... Crissy Field, and there is a building there with a galvanized roof. So I went there and see all these Japanese fellas like me...I said, .Why are they pulling all these Japanese together?""
—ISUENO GARY KADANI

The first class of sixty students (58 Nisei and
2 Caucasians) lived and attended school in one building, receiving ten hours of intense training a day. At first, coursework included translation, dictation, conversation, civil and military interpretation, geography, interrogation techniques, and specialized military vocabulary. After America entered the war, the school's curriculum accelerated and intensified. Military emphasis replaced general Japanese vocabulary and knowledge.

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Regulars on my Street Without Joy @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of the dragon that the witch from The Sword in the Stone turns herself into

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d

The whole thread’s a great education about how China is using permission structures the US pioneered.

Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 4d

4/China has learned from US playbook. It doesn’t just limit bilateral dependence but network dependence. any firm using Chinese machines (which is almost all) have to get licenses. It is a Chinese version of US foreign direct product rule in semiconductors.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Weaponized World Economy

When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagi...

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

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.

www.cbsnews.com

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 2d

“I know you’re hungry, Bradyn. But all daddy can afford to feed you right now is some wArRioR eThOS. Not sure if we’ll have much of a Christmas either, but I promise we will rehearse the 7 steps of engagement area development in the backyard.”
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 2d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2d

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

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