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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Feb 23

Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

The humanities grad school papers on this dynamic are gonna go on forever.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 20h

WHERE ARE THE MACHINE GUNS?!?

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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 20h

It’s “insurrection” when judges assume for themselves “powers that have been delegated by the Constitution to the president.” judges “have no conceivable authority” to restrict the commander in chief from “dispatching members of the U.S. military to defend federal lives and property.”

Might be
an image macro of Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝘽𝙧i𝙙𝙚 with the subtitle text “You keep using that word….”
underneath
an image macro of Stephen Miller as Vizzini in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝘽𝙧i𝙙𝙚 with the subtitle text “INSURRECTION!”

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DisappearedNews @disappearednews.bsky.social · 4d

New Republic:

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

"He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this."

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

The specter of Portland "burning" is
dimwitted MAGA propaganda. But
Trump is now nakedly threatening to
invoke the notorious nineteenth-century
act if Democratic governors or the courts
lawfully exercise their roles in our
constitutional schema, in a way that
displeases him. This would unshackle
vast and dangerously vague authorities to
domestically deploy the military. powers
nominally reserved for extraordinary
domestic unrest or civil breakdown.
Trump would invoke it based on sheer
fabrications, or possibly on old footage of
Portland he saw on Fox News.

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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 20h

It’s “insurrection” when judges assume for themselves “powers that have been delegated by the Constitution to the president.” judges “have no conceivable authority” to restrict the commander in chief from “dispatching members of the U.S. military to defend federal lives and property.”

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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 20h

‘Miller is also insisting that judges “have no conceivable authority” to restrict the commander in chief from “dispatching members of the U.S. military to defend federal lives and property,” meaning in Portland.‘

Read more at newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 20h

‘Miller is also insisting that judges “have no conceivable authority” to restrict the commander in chief from “dispatching members of the U.S. military to defend federal lives and property,” meaning in Portland.‘

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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 21h

’It’s no accident that this comes right after Miller loudly denounced the Portland ruling by that judge—a Trump appointee, no less—as “legal insurrection.” Miller declared its “insurrection” when judges assume for themselves “powers that have been delegated by the Constitution to the president.”’

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks to Mira for exposing me to it! youtu.be/4o6I1VhwsmA?...

DUAT MIXMAG MTN - Mira

YouTube video by DUAT RECORDS

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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 2d

OK, going to be obsessed with youtu.be/BQnRGqz4p58?... for a minute Or two….

Loco Hermoso (Original Mix)

YouTube video by Dave Seaman - Topic

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2d

For context claims that Digital ID's are for everyone were being debunked... claimed to just be for those of working age to prove right to work

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 4d

Fair enough, but if Digital IDs are rolled out as a 'right to work' check, it won't be long before they are used to access services... or even to be required for voting if the political pendulum swings. Those railing against migrants working have plenty of other grievances.

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 4d

On social media and their website, the Liberal Democrats have claimed “Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID”.

But this isn’t the case, and we can’t find any evidence the Prime Minister said it was.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 2d

Note the wording.. Ms. Machado receives the prize for:
- promoting democratic rights
- struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition
- At a time when democracy is under threat
- where democracy is in retreat
- more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norm
www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en

Nobel Peace Center | Museum of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway

The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo is the museum of the Nobel Peace Prize. Experience our exhibitions, events and guided tours inspired by the ideas and work of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates.

www.nobelpeacecenter.org

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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 2d

Counterprogramming.

Mira - Mayan Warrior x Robot Heart Link Up - Burning Man 2019

YouTube video by MayanWarrior

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 3d

I bestow upon you, Gentle Reader,A Gift of Franklins.

Why Did Benjamin Franklin’s Son Remain Loyal to the British?

One of the most influential and ardent Patriots couldn’t persuade his son to join the Revolution.

www.theatlantic.com

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s a good deal on the start of the Bridge Trilogy

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Lee Gilmore @leegilmore.bsky.social · 3d

This is the way.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · 3d

The positive thing I can say about Pravda is that the name still sounds better in the original Russian than the American reboot.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 5d

Russian authorities claimed that Pravda publisher Vyacheslav Leontyev had a “nervous breakdown” and stumbled out of a window.

Pravda Publisher Dies After Fall From a Window in Putin’s Moscow

Authorities claimed Vyacheslav Leontyev had a “nervous breakdown” and stumbled out of a window.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 3d

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

David Bowie — worldbuilder. Morph. Technologist.

No one like him. Cannot imagine him living in this current insane timeline.

Incredibly cool article on the David Bowie Archive in London

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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