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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 22h

A year from now the US will be consumed with election tension. It is already building: Will midterms be free and fair? Will MAGA Republicans accept the results? Give @brianklaas.bsky.social and I 56 minutes to talk it through
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WHAT CONDITION WILL AMERICA'S SOUL BE IN AT THE MIDTERMS?

A Conversation with Professor Brian Klaas

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 2d

Silicon Valley est perdita. Reclaim it for the one true church! In hoc signo vinces!

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, dear, a Nobel Prize thumb in the eye to Trump. He and his Secretary of War and Good Grooming Hegseth are trying to violently overthrow Maduro and the Committee is honouring a woman working for a "peaceful transition" to democracy.

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 3d

How many of you are shitting there worrying today's peace in our time announcement by the Don means he might get the Nobel Peace Prize after all?

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 3d

No, it's naked corruption and there are laws against it @chrismurphyct.bsky.social Use the correct language Senator!!!

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

it’s all just a grift

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 3d

Seems obvious to me (but then my kid is at uni and I know her social habits)

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Steve Weddle @steveweddle.bsky.social · 4d

Making theft illegal would kill the burgling industry.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 4d

Ditka would've had the guy with the tache doing extra windsprints for hours after practice

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 4d

He's ordered Secretary of War and good grooming Hegseth to draw up plans to invade Norway in case he doesn't win

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 5d

Hegseth to generals @ Quantico says he wouldn't want his 15yr old son "serving with fat or unfit or under trained troops or alongside people who can't meet basic standards."
Pic of troops deployed to a US city (Chicago, I think) Guess he wouldn't want his kid to join them

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 5d

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 5d

I said bravo over at twitter, might as well say it again here

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 7d

It started with National Guard troops being deployed to Los Angeles. It ended with 800 senior military officers summoned to Quantico Virginia so the newly titled Secretary of War could play at being George S. Patton.
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QUARTERLY REPORT: 90 DAYS THAT MAY WELL HAVE ENDED THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT

A Summary Rough Draft of History of the Summer Quarter of 2025

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 11d

I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

There is a certain kind of Army officer who, after the excitement of company command, finds his career stalled, and who perhaps leaves the service as a major in the National Guard filled with bitterness and resentment. He may then dream of one day being in a position to make all the superior officers who failed to appreciate his leadership qualities, his insight, his sheer fitness stand to attention and hear him lay down the law about what it is to be an officer, and threaten to fire those who do not meet his standards. In this respect, and this respect only, on that stage Pete Hegseth was living the dream.

In all other respects, however, he was ridiculous...

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 11d

Yom Kippur begins at sunset today. I wonder if Stephen Miller is fasting. I wonder if he will think when he asks forgiveness: "for the sin which we have committed before You by hard-heartedness."
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 11d

picky. ... but I appreciate that

MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 11d

ok

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 11d

Can I come for dinner too?

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 11d

You guys need to get Fangio on the pod and have him go into greater detail on the juiced up ball

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 12d

Those who follow the Gadsen flag, like Hegseth who has this tattooed on his body, tend to be Christian nationalists. Yet they seem to have forgotten Genesis Chap 3: the serpent and the fall of man. In this case it is the Serpent and the fall of American democracy.

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 12d

They're all in the room right now. Why not stage a coup? Because: chain of command. Well, that chain is now attached to an anchor and it is dragging the military and the rest of us down to a watery grave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Hegseth: "For too long we've promoted too many uniformed leaders for the wrong reasons -- based on their race, gender quotas, historic so-called 'firsts'...we've weeded out so-called 'toxic leaders' under guise of double blind psychology assessments. We became the 'woke department.' But not anymore"

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 12d

Also, fuck Axios' owners and all who write for it sideways
(That's my dialled down way of saying what I think)

Dorian D @drdorianoz.bsky.social · 14d

Fuck. This. Guy. Sideways.

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 14d

A report from the Front in Amerika: "I live a few feet from Portland. I’m in Vancouver, Washington and the only thing that separates me from the Red Capital of Terrorist Antifa is about a half mile stretch of the Columbia River"
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Report From Portland

Trump is deliberately igniting not quelling civil disorder

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 13d

you really should read this. I don't usually post people who compete with me for paid substack subscriptions in the same limited over 50 anti-MAGA pool. But it's very fucking good journalism

MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 14d

A report from the Front in Amerika: "I live a few feet from Portland. I’m in Vancouver, Washington and the only thing that separates me from the Red Capital of Terrorist Antifa is about a half mile stretch of the Columbia River"
thecoopscoop.substack.com/p/report-fro...

Report From Portland

Trump is deliberately igniting not quelling civil disorder

thecoopscoop.substack.com

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 14d

A report from the Front in Amerika: "I live a few feet from Portland. I’m in Vancouver, Washington and the only thing that separates me from the Red Capital of Terrorist Antifa is about a half mile stretch of the Columbia River"
thecoopscoop.substack.com/p/report-fro...

Report From Portland

Trump is deliberately igniting not quelling civil disorder

thecoopscoop.substack.com

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