Kenneth Manusama

Zo gaat de maatschappij ten onder. Juist een liberale partij zou breed onderwijs voor goed burgerschap moeten ondersteunen.

Als je het over betutteling hebt, dan is dat dit wel.

Waar bemoeit het EP zich mee? Onnodige politieke interventie vind ik dit.

VN trekt kwart blauwhelmen terug door geldgebrek na bezuinigingen VS De Verenigde Naties trekken de komende maanden ongeveer een kwart van hun blauwhelmen terug door geldgebrek. Dat komt door zware bezuinigingen van de Verenigde Staten. Het gaat om 13.000 tot 14.000 vredeshandhavers, politieagenten en civiele medewerkers van negen wereldwijde vredesmissies.

VN trekt kwart blauwhelmen terug door geldgebrek na bezuinigingen VS #buitenland

“This is a manifestation of what I call effigy politics. It’s eschews the work of democracy in favor of highly visible moments of symbolic dominance. It builds nothing. It only burns down.”

-Cassie Pritchard, NYT 9/30/25

Nu Amerika, de belangrijkste stichter van de wereldorde van na 1945, uit die orde wegloopt, luidt de vraag: hoe gaat de rest van de wereld verder? ‘De wereld functioneert ook zonder de VS.’
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"Tennessee Three" member Justin Pearson runs to oust Rep. Steve Cohen Pearson is one of the most high-profile primary challengers to an older House Democrat.

NEW: Justin Pearson of the "Tennessee 3" is challenging Rep. Steve Cohen.

There's an age dynamic: Cohen is 76, Pearson is 30.

And an ideological one: Cohen left CPC last year + is pro-Israel. Pearson says war in Gaza is a "genocide."

@axios.com www.axios.com/2025/10/08/j...

Obviously there is minority support for Trump here...but this is also shockingly low opposition for the idea that the President can turn the military on American cities on a whim.

70% of Republicans think the President should be able to send troops into a city even if the Governor objects!

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Kavanaugh stop

Bondi to Congress: 🖕 The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

"This is clearly the mask-off phase of Trump 2.0.

Trump is past triangulation. He’s past argumentation and persuasion. He’s in the raw-power business now. Pam Bondi went to Congress yesterday to let them know."

www.thebulwark.com/p/bondi-host...

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

Comey’s lawyer Pat Fitzgerald tells the court they will be filing a selective prosecution motion and I’m sure others as well. That’s the right move even though Comey had seemed rarin’ to go to trial.
Trial set forJanuary 5. EDVA moves fast, but not that fast given the motions practice. It will slip.

Het liberalisme waarin zowel conservatieven als progresieven zich begeven in het Westen. Het liberalisme waar individuele vrijheden voorop staan. Het liberalisme van John Locke en John Stuart Mill.

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Nee, dit is echt geen pro-fascisme boek of zo. Gewoon politieke theorie met interessante inzichten.

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

Belangrijk boek om te lezen, inclusief blurb van Obama op de achterkant.

Texas heeft vrijwillig troepen ingebracht. Juist onder bepaalde juridische omstandigheden kan een staat als Illinois niet weigeren troepen te leveren. De troepen staan dan onder federaal gezag.

my desktop which has copies of the recent dogshit books of Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, and Amy coney Barrett

Hey Siri show me the desktop of someone who despises himself

The entire administration is "new legal analysis."

Is the President a King? Yes, according to new legal analysis. Can we fire civil servants, impound funds and eliminate agencies? *Touches earpiece* Yes, according to new legal analysis.

The shame is that SCOTUS has gone along with much of this.

Nou, spannend straks..

don't think this is how it works.

A small problem with Bluesky is that there is a critical mass of users who miss Twitter because they want to yell at those who disagree with them and be combative with people in power, but absent that, they decide to nitpick with their allies and making annoyingly obvious comments to feel something.

"Go to where the people are, and just talk straight." @janefonda.com talks her antiwar activism and bypassing the deeply polarized, siloed media with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION STATE OF ILLINOIS, a sovereign state; CITY OF CHICAGO, an Illinois municipal corporation,

just noticed this little detail in Illinois's complaint

Sean 'Diddy' Combs asked Trump for a pardon, the president says Sean 'Diddy' Combs has asked for a pardon after his conviction for sex crimes, President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday, Oct. 6.

BREAKING: Sean 'Diddy' Combs asked Trump for a pardon, president says

he president told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Oct. 6, that the embattled rapper has requested a pardon after his conviction in his federal sex-crimes case.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow