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Tocqueville reader @chamizou.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Tuesday thought: we need a Colby of the left. We can’t concede national security to a right wing vs consensus debate

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Political violence is never acceptable. anyway I hope this guy gets the death penalty

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

oh come ON

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Tocqueville reader @chamizou.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Unrelated to the caption, but why does he look suddenly old and tired? He looks like Biden in his second year (a year early)

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Tocqueville reader @chamizou.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Only crime I can see in DC is a goatee with temu-Nazi art

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Tocqueville reader @chamizou.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I hope the next one doesn’t turn it back to what it was but turns it into a reflective pool

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saint-timonious.bsky.social @saint-timonious.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

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Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax'

Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/07/2025

conspiratorial thinking is all about being the smartest person in the room, seeing through the lies, refusing to be fooled buying Ghislaine at face value is for rubes, make it abundantly clear

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again. But inside our borders.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Just going to leave this right here.

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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Just a week ago, Grok spewed racist, Nazi rhetoric across this platform. Yesterday, it won a $200M contract from Trump's DOD. Show me your budget, and I'll show you what you value. www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-c...

newsweek.com

Elon Musk's controversial Grok AI lands contract with Pentagon

The Department of Defense is set to begin using Musk's controversial chatbot Grok, according to a Monday announcement.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The Biden administration had this case for four years and used what was in it to prosecute Maxwell. If they felt confident they had enough to prosecute other people, they would have. But they didn't. But there could be stuff that looks bad, even if it's not prosecutable.

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Tocqueville reader @chamizou.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Remember when hurricane Katrina moved the needle? As crazy as he sounds this will still change nothing in the current balance like everything else. And that’s gonna be like that for the next +3 years

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Tocqueville reader @chamizou.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Epstein case is deflected. SCOTUS says yes to unconstitutional layoffs. Nazi AI on Twitter. All of this on thee taco tuesday?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.

As set forth in the attached Report, the Government of El Salvador responded to the UN
inquiry opened by the four families asking about the disappearance of their family members:
1 The attached exhibit has redacted personal identifying information for the four men discussed in the WGEID report. Petitioners can file an unredacted version of the exhibit under seal at the Court's request, with the exception of one of the cases for particular privacy reasons related to that individual.
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Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 160
Filed 07/07/25
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The Salvadoran State emphatically states that its authorities have not arrested, detained, or transferred the persons referred to in the communications of the Working Group. The actions of the State of El Salvador have been limited to the implementation of a bilateral cooperation mechanism with another State, through which it has facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure for the custody of persons detained within the scope of the justice system and law enforcement of that other State. In this context, the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters. In this regard, the actions attributable to the Salvadoran State are limited to its sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction, and therefore it cannot be held responsible for the failure to observe the principle of non-refoulement with respect to the persons mentioned.
Ex. 1 at 6, 9 (emphasis added).

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

NEW How a recent US Supreme Court judgment is an immense blow to the Rule of Law - even more than the presidential immunity decision. Longer piece than usual. On the universal injunctions case, by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

There is a gap in the constitution of the United States where the rule of law used to be.

That there is a gap has been set out by the majority of the US Supreme Court in the recent judgment of Trump v Casa, where it was held that US federal district courts are not able to issue universal injunctions that apply more widely than to just the parties to the case before the court.

In the majority opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett stated that the judiciary does not have “unbridled authority” to ensure that the executive follows the law. Her view is that the executive can do unlawful things that the courts cannot then do anything to prevent. This is because, she says, there is no universal jurisdiction where the courts can issue orders to ensure that the federal government complies with the constitution or federal law generally.

The reason for this gap, Justice Barrett and the majority insist, is that the federal courts themselves only have powers allocated to them by the constitution and federal law. A court cannot thereby act outside of the powers provided by the empowering law. If a federal court purports to do so even when faced by government illegality, then the court is acting unlawfully. As Justice Barrett puts it, “When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too.”

This means that even where the federal government has acted unlawfully, there are now situations where a court can do nothing about it. This statement is not some liberal or progressive take or caricature. This is the considered, open position of the US Supreme Court. Just as last year the same court decided to widen presidential immunity from prosecution, it has now held that there are other ways in which the law cannot bind the federal government.

This is a subtle, almost artful move by the Supreme Court justices. While many onlookers were worried about the federal government ignoring court orders, the highest court has arranged it so that many of the most irksome court orders for the government cannot be made in the first place.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of “relocating” Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch an aid scheme for the shattered enclave, a Financial Times investigation has found. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

ft.com

BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza

Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave

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Tocqueville reader @chamizou.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

You know what’s weird? Her and everyone in the admin is making that cringe face in the official photo. What was the guidance internally on this lol

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Tocqueville reader @chamizou.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’m a social science kind of guy so I don’t understand why despite the signs the stock market keeps going up now when they went down for Biden over… nothing

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Tocqueville reader @chamizou.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I took this photo the other day. Here could be the right place to share it.

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Tocqueville reader @chamizou.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

An anonymous account because my employer is too focused on obeying in advance. About myself: researcher in Nat-sec, focused on euro politics and defense. Work in a FFRDC

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