Ian Brickey

the constitution has many flaws but addressing our current circumstances is not among them; the framers were in fact quite concerned about this kind of thing and were clear that it should not happen here

what they did not and could not guard against is the people in charge ignoring their plain text

I did a whole series of stories for the Washington post late 2020/early 2021 about coup attempts, democratic backsliding and authoritarianism, and got a lot of grief from reactionary centrists about how that was "just the opinion of some elite academics"

the writer of this — emily oster — works with bari weiss and has a show with The Free Press, and that’s all you need to know

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

Dismantling the Meme Logic Behind Renee Good’s ICE Execution The Trump administration is once more invoking upside-down alibis of state to conjure the bogus specter of imminent threat.

Renee Good is dead because the system was created to harass, assault and intimidate Renee Goods, and because the people who do it enjoy it. Trump II's meme reign seems determined to persuade the last people unconvinced of this.

It should be more like a menstruation hut where they are barely tolerated at the very margins of society for being spiritually dirty. We could use the little fort they built in the Everglades

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

French-Fry Korps

Everything we’ve seen from Trump is the logical conclusion of things that were first done by the George W. Bush administration: expansive executive power, ignoring the judiciary, the trampling of international law, all of it. 2017 to now is just 2002-03 without the patina of respectability.

Truly embarrassing work by the @washingtonpost.com, holding any concerns about the legality of overthrowing a government until the second-to-last graf, and having THIS be the criticism — scrutiny indeed!

I'm being completely serious that you can draw a direct line between the introduction of instant replay to football and the widespread toleration of Donald Trump's bad-faith lawsuits and election overturning.

Sometimes a touchdown is a touchdown.

No.

1. Washington DC

#NoKings 👑

You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.

The Past, Present, and Contested Future of LNG Terminals Along the Gulf Coast SIERRA MAGAZINE | WRITING Delaney Nolan, with Julie Dermansky & Geoff McGhee

To illustrate what the rapid buildout of Gulf Coast LNG export terminals looks like, this beautifully written @sierramagazine.bsky.social story from @delaneynolan.bsky.social cleverly likens the development to an aggressive disease that advances in stages. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...

Big rally of multiple unions in DuPont Circle in DC right now. “They want us to be quiet, but we’re just gonna get louder.”

one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder

Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.

the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech

Map of DC showing federal troops mainly in tourist-heavy areas, not crime centers.

A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.

NEW: National Guard troops deployed to DC by President Trump are now preparing to carry weapons.

It's a significant shift—defense officials emphasized two days ago that troops would not be armed or have weapons in their vehicles.

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.

Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?

Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

Lmfao

Return of the Jedi ending in DC

There’s just alot of people looking directly into a camera and saying 2+2=7 and expecting you to passively take that because you now have no agency and are merely a vessel for that lie to be conveyed and that’s generally bad I think

US military preparing for National Guard activation in Washington D.C., officials say The U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.

On the potential DC guard deployment:

“One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.”

via @reuters.com

"So we're getting this information from multiple sources [...] within the mayor's office and within Metro Police Department, that President Trump, come tomorrow, will deploy the National Guard along the streets of DC."

www.wusa9.com/video/news/n...

the JD stands for Jeffrey Defender

and the things trump has done — mainly the administrative agenda for Project 2025 —  are things he denied he had anything to do with!