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Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Nu, News I'm joining The Bulwark as Economics Editor.

Some news: Psyched to announce that I'm joining @thebulwark.com as economics editor next month.
I'm currently still on mat leave, but will return to co-hosting @theweekendprime.bsky.social as well soon.

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With five people in the house, sometimes we have a situation where everyone assumes someone else fed the cats breakfast. The trouble is, the only way we can discover no one did is if the cats alert us—but they have a comprehensive history of dishonesty regarding whether they've gotten breakfast.

Doing massive damage across the economy and then individually "saving" those who kiss up to the leader, doesn't seem like the best way to build a strong economy.

Thanks for posting. Fan of the work. (Obligatory positive post so you dont think all of bluesky is calling you a a fascist 24/7)

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

That photo made me think of the Arditi and the sort of cult of the warrior in Italian fascism. But that's ancient history from another country....

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

The deeper concern here is why it gets laughs. They are laughing because they see the U.S. declining to their level, and they see it as evidence that we never had anything meaningful to offer in the first place.

Twitter benefits from network effects. Does tik tok do that as much?

I am not sure what transit wonks think about his desire to drive the bus.

Mo Willems is pretty good and more recent.

A Popular Front of Memory As the right begins to revise their view of Hitler, we must revive the example Churchill set in that era.

“As explicitly post-liberal thought gains ground in the intellectual circles on the right, we are also seeing a quiet attempt to recast the history of the Second World War.” www.liberalcurrents.com/a-popular-fr...

We must pay billions to farmers

Because we cut off their customers with tariffs

And pay billions to Argentina

Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited

Because that is America First

Im really curious as to the specifics of Oil City PA. Ive driven through there a few times and never had such a visceral reaction.

🚨 New Case Alert 🚨
Leo Garcia Venegas is an American citizen and construction worker in south Alabama.

Even though he has done nothing suspicious and is working on private property, Leo has been repeatedly detained (once violently) by federal officers enforcing immigration laws.
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The Long Dark does this for the Canadian wilderness. And i think the suprise success of Clair Obscur is not any technical or gameplay innovation but that the story and score can make people feel feels.

What the United States is actually doing is using its massive military capabilities to airstrike random boats full of Latino people because Stephen Miller is all-but-open fascist who gets a weird semi-sexual thrill out of killing people of color. It's absolutely rogue state behavior

Just thinking about CBP rolling around the fucking loop on a Sunday.

Bears out of town
Protests downtown were yesterday
No one who is working was there today

Everyone downtown today was there for family time or shopping

Just masked thugs ruining people's lives.

One wonders what the right is saying to keep up such impressive numbers despite the left deploying "nazi"

79. American citizen.

Huh? Like I've seen people weigh the conversation and be critical of Klein's perspective but this seems a little hysterical.

Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

I'm old enough to remember (way back in 2016) when an armed militia actually occupied a federal government facility in the state of Oregon (for over a month!) and engaged in a shootout with the FBI. And, that wasn't deemed sufficient to justify deploying the military.

“What about—“

“I will stipulate to the evil of any President you can possibly think of and you will still have to defend sending troops into major cities for no good reason”

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty.

Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities.

"What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

Troops. In an American city. Using full force.

Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

Being scared of Greenwich Village is basically impossible.