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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 6d

The Nobel prize has been awarded to a pro-democracy dissident and stalwart opposition figure to one of the most autocratic regimes on Earth. The committee did well, not just to award Machado, but to honor the struggle for democracy against tyranny she both represents and tirelessly advances.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 7d

“The era of small government — more precisely of people caring about the size of government — is over.”

The Era of Small Government is Over

“The era of big government is over.” Those words, delivered by President Bill Clinton in his 1996 State of the Union Address, spoke to the salient political divide of the time.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 9d

I care about only one question in the upcoming Virginia elections: When Trump tries to federalize the Virginia National Guard and turn them against our own citizens, who will fight like hell to live up to the commonwealth’s motto and who will knuckle under and truncate it to “semper tyrannis?”

Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 16d

Imagine looking out onto this crowd and telling them they aren’t uniform enough.

Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 16d

“Beards are icky and hurt my feelings. I’m creepy around women and I don’t like fat people. I demand the entire US military revolve around my failings and reflect my weaknesses.”

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 17d

I can’t name one, but law is not an area of particular expertise.

Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 17d

That’s the one!

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 17d

It doesn’t come up very often, but it feels important to go on record that I’m a third amendment absolutist.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 18d

One of these photos is a war-ravaged city. The other is Portland. Anyone who can’t tell the difference isn’t fit to lead.

Don’t be snowed, the deployment of troops against US citizens is a criminal act.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 19d

With his declaration of Antifa as a terrorist organization, Trump is preparing to wage, and very likely lose, a war against an organization that doesn’t exist.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 19d

The fight to censor Kimmel will be remembered as a total victory for defenders of free speech in the face of an openly authoritarian regime and cowardly corporate interests. Whether it is remembered as a last gasp or a turning of the tide yet rests with us.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 20d

Trump can dump as many classified files on the public as he likes. Every headline’s still going to read like this.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 21d

If truth is an incitement to violence, it’s not those speaking it who are at fault, but those making the world so.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 22d

Nothing that’s radicalized me is half as meaningful as the things that moderate me.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 24d

At least one or two MAGA supporters listening to Stephen Miller directly quoting Goebbels speaches, I’d hope…

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 24d

Democracy may imperfectly vouchsafe against corruption, but everywhere democratic institutions and norms recede corruption takes root and grows.

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Alan Scott @alanscottwrites.bsky.social · 25d

I guess when it’s your own poll, you kinda have to tell people the results.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28d

this is what courage looks like

Jaysun Silver @jaysunsilver.bsky.social · 28d

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 28d

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 28d

I “C” what you did there. It’s a nice touch.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 28d

I’ve already cancelled it, but if you coordinate a day, just let me know so I can sign up and cancel again.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 29d

Just speaking for myself, when I call someone a fascist, I’d like them to stop being a fascist.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29d

Vance: "What is it that you want people to do when you call them 'Nazis'? What is it that you want them to do when you call them 'fascist'?...This rhetoric is completely out of control and it's part of this entire network of violence that exists on the far-left."

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 29d

When you have deep pockets like Disney’s you can stand up and fight if you want me as a customer.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 29d

Joining the growing number of people cancelling Disney-related streaming services. I don’t need to make a monthly contribution to a company willing to aid through their compliance in the administration’s stifling of free speech.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 29d

If using Charlie Kirk’s own words can get you cancelled, then Kirk should have been cancelled when he said them.

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