Reposted by Brandon ClaycombJ. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 24/04/2025🎶 Pizzaballa no, we will not make you pope (Make me pope!) Pizzaballa no, we will not make you pope (make me pope!) 2159591
Brandon Claycomb @bclaycomb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025We’re still behind the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 Covid shock, but we’re catching up fast 000
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombJean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 05/04/2025There are a lot of people who want you to despair and give up, either to soothe themselves by sucking someone else into their mire, or because they actively support what’s happening. Fuck em. Do what you can, no matter how small. 4888181
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombKrassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 04/04/2025If you are attending one, please post the details below. 2473221664927
Brandon Claycomb @bclaycomb.bsky.social · 28/03/2025This is what’s driving the administration’s tactics across the board. They cannot persuade or answer, only bully or lie 000
Brandon Claycomb @bclaycomb.bsky.social · 22/03/2025This is standing up in solidarity. Trump backs down from challenges. He’ll roll over boss who lie down and keep on rolling 000
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This needs to be posted and reposted everywhere. This isn't liberal activism by the courts. It's an assault on the judiciary by the executive. 010750
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Would like to report some gang tattoos. 89367237623
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared. 254218847488
Brandon Claycomb @bclaycomb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Precisely this. The inability of our leaders to solve this collective action problem has been profoundly disappointing. This is the essence of politics. Together you’re strong. Separate, you’ll get picked off. Hiding only means you get picked off later. Who’s building the coalitions? 000
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 18/03/2025UNREAL. ICE implies in a sworn declaration that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with ANY CRIME whatsoever, not even a trivial one, anywhere, ever! 21362672532
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombCathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This view resonates. For most of their actions it seems clear they acted first and spoke to lawyers later because you can see the legal arguments attempt to retroactively come up with some sort of rationale. It's just that for this one no even slightly plausible explanation is possible to concoct. 118147
Brandon Claycomb @bclaycomb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This is what is different. This unlocks every fascist door. If the President can do this with no due process, we are not a democracy. That is autocracy - rule by one man. 000
Brandon Claycomb @bclaycomb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025It’s not time to debate whether this is different. It’s time to do something about how this time is different. That or wait your turn to end up in a literal gulag, maybe the one we’re using in El Salvador. Zero sign Trump feels limited in who he can do this to 000
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The Handbasket is 100% independent and subscriber-funded. Get a paid subscription today to help me keep doing what I'm doing: www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade Or toss me a tip — Venmo: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/marisakabas 934896
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombPatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... 13314
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025From the end of this morning’s WP article on Trump’s economic plans everybody’s mad about. 1) Nobody — not even powerful rich CEOs — contradict Trump to his face because they’re afraid of being yelled at. 2) Their strategy is hoping they can survive this until he leaves. 3791883385
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/03/2025They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare. 712150115355
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge. 9916019817003
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombMarc Channick @marcchannick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025On top of everything else that's horrifying about the multiple Constitutional crises that we're speedrunning, it's hard to believe there aren't at least 2-3 SCOTUS votes for the doctrine of Actually Now That We Think About It We Aren't A Nation Of Laws After All 842660
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombChrista Blackmon @theodalisque.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I genuinely hope this happens at more federal agencies. 1777
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17/03/2025“I don’t care what the judges think”. This is what dictatorship looks like. 911625
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/03/2025Q: Are you going to comply with the judge's order regarding rehiring the federal workers? TRUMP: What are you talking about? Q: The judge that ruled the govt has to rehire the fired federal workers. Do you plan to comply? TRUMP: That's a very dangerous decision for our country 4642454729
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025That seems pretty close. Conservative conspiracies play a huge role - wokeness/DEI paranoia, fears of white replacement, science is tyranny, belief that US is victim of Bretton Woods institutions. All these fears are untethered from reality so the right just spirals further to extreme positions. 1174098
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombBrian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Stephanie McMurray’s “Masters of Small Worlds” — a brilliant study of why poor southern whites not only tolerated but embraced slaveholders who treated them with contempt — is important here. If the church and the press convince you that you and the oligarchs are one, you’ll happily shoot your foot. 321166254
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025It’s almost funny but actually shocking how MAGA spent all week trying to justify the detention of Mahmoud Khalil with BS ‘he’s Hamas’ accusations but then goes & deports Dr Rasha Alawieh, a Brown uni professor & doctor specializing in kidney transplant patients without any reasons given whatsoever!nytimes.comWith Deportations, Trump Steps Closer to Showdown With Judicial Branch“Oopsie … Too late,” El Salvador’s president said, mocking a court order that deportation flights to his country turn back to the United States. Top administration officials thanked him. 662955809
Brandon Claycomb @bclaycomb.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I would bet something like this will happen. This is literally Russian propaganda, that they’re still fighting Nazis, both in Ukraine and in NATO. Will Trump say something like this? Why wouldn’t he at this point. It fits with gis words and deeds 000
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombPuckFutin @bastardanglosaxon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Nothing outrageous here, just the vice president of the United States promoting Nazi white supremacist ideology. 891990448
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security. That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history. 407116334939
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025There are many Democrats who don’t agree with some or many of AOC’s policy ideas. But what she gets and more conventional Democrats do not is that political fight can be catalyzing and transformative. You can change the shape of the playing board in ways … www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...cnn.comOcasio-Cortez mobilizes Democrats against Schumer plan as colleagues privately urge her to consider primary challenge | CNN PoliticsRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that she plans to mobilize her massive base of followers to oppose what she described as an “acquiesce” by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to accept th... 14461091003
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason. 491313098824229
Reposted by Brandon Claycombósanwë 🦭 @isilanor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Bernie Bro Neera Tanden 361946255
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 13/03/2025I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it. When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him. Not without a fight. open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...open.substack.comMy Vote on the GOP Spending BillI'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it. When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him. Not without a fight. 2604189822726
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 14/03/2025Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture. 602164324342
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombMike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/03/2025This is completely fucked up. I know everything is fucked up, but THIS is why universities need to stand up and fight, not cave like Columbia did. NOTHING will satisfy them, and all the capitulation just leads to more demands and humiliation. 532678671
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombMaxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Authoritarians govern through fear, not legislation. The simple fear of what they would do in certain situations can push even the opposition to capitulate. That’s success for them. We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people. 20276031987
Brandon Claycomb @bclaycomb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Best calmly insistent interview of a federal official I’ve heard in a while. 000
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/03/2025My dudes, the US government is already shutting down. 311613
Reposted by Brandon Claycombmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/03/2025if you want to know why Musk/Trump's shit is instantly toxic abroad but popular at home, it's because abroad they don't have a cheerleading pro-Trump media and a backstop of corrupt judges to clean up after every stupid decision. Instead it just looks stupid and cruel. 412789645
Brandon Claycomb @bclaycomb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Do not underestimate the possibility that he is being completely genuine about his interest in Canada and Greenland as American territories, and much of it is how the USA would look on a map. 010
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Independent lawyers who were loyal first to their clients were among the first targets of both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping when they were consolidating their dictatorships. Because lawyers who do their job are a constant threat to the informational control dictators require to rule unopposed. 15511
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025If this doesn't feel like fascism to you because things are still mostly normal at work and school and the vacation is still planned, congratulations you've just learned what fascism is like. It is insidious. It will initially target only the most vulnerable — people who probably aren't like you. 231282345
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this. 8378532005
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025"Khalil was not imprisoned because Trump wanted to take away his freedom. He was imprisoned in order to take away freedom from all of us by causing us to question whether we should speak out."ryandenos.substack.comSpeak Up. Now.Donald Trump isn’t trying to silence Mahmoud Khalil. He’s trying to silence you. 71016260
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombMicah @rincewind.run · 11/03/2025you cannot do business in this environment you cannot make plans more than twelve hours in advance, lest the toddler in chief impose brand new arbitrary tariffs, then back down on them, then impose them again, repeat ad nauseam every door you open as a businessperson has a leopard behind it 672322424
Reposted by Brandon ClaycombNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared. 15863113235
