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“The rule of law is not meant to win, nor to lose, but to exist.”

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Joint declaration following EU/Canada ministerial meeting www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
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Joint declaration following the fourth Canada – European Union joint ministerial committee meeting
Joint declaration following the fourth Canada – European Union joint ministerial committee meeting.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
By preemptively pardoning them, he tells the people who are now and in the future called upon to perform illegal acts for him that he has their back. This is not about Giuliani & Co, this is about the thousands of current and future ICE agents, the soldiers who execute people in the Caribbean, etc.
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Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 09/11/2025
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I'm late to this, but DAYUM.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Pure Niedertracht. Faschismus.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Almost universal across the west. Voters have never had it so good. But they feel more was promised. And isn't just the cost but the difficulties of life, and the sense of a class that doesn't face these. Difficult to sort in low-growth times. www.ft.com/content/7913...
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 07/11/2025
Now in detailed Black and White: The #Trump administration is blackmailing other countries to actively destroy the environment at the behest of the US oil industry. There is no sugarcoating it. Evil seems a fitting adjective. #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen
An ambassador from Asia was told that, if he voted in favor of the plan, his country’s sailors would no longer be allowed to disembark at American ports. Caribbean diplomats were told that they could be blacklisted from entering the United States. And Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties and other punishments if they continued to support the agreement to cut ship pollution.

These and other threats, including tariffs, sanctions and the revocation of diplomats’ U.S. visas, effectively killed the deal, according to the nine American, European and developing-nation diplomats directly involved in the negotiations. They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from the Trump administration
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Used to work fine before that, though.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This was, of course, completely predictable and logical, as EU politics simply follow national politics in this. Most EPP parties have normalized the far right in their own country.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
There are many ways to do clickbait and to generate liberal outrage in order to boost engagement and thus advertisements. The NYT does it by promoting reactionary and far-right content. That is a conscious choice!
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The tradition that governments tell contradictory stories to the court and to the public continues in the tariff case: the government argued before Scotus that the ieepa tariffs are regulatory, not revenue raising tariffs. To the public, Trump argues the opposite.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It's the exact same ideology embraced by the elite enslavers before the Civil War: some people are better than others, and have the right-- and maybe the duty-- to rule. It was the Mudsill Theory then, and it's the Mudsill Theory today, dress it up in whatever elegant language you may.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Starvation as a weapon of war is deeply troubling. Starvation as a policy of domestic politics is a dystopian nightmare.
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Why catch-and-kill the story when you can catch-and-kill the whole network? #CBS #Weiss
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
You couldn't come up with a better visualization if you tried to!
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
It reminds me of the cover of a fashion magazine.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 31/10/2025
"I have never seen a set of pretrial motions quite like this one in its power and breadth and its attempt comprehensively to dismember the legitimacy of, process behind, and substance of an indictment." @BenjaminWittes.lawfaremedia.org summarizes Comey's recent motions to dismiss the indictment.
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The Situation: James Comey Is Just Asking Questions
So many motions; so many options for dismissal.
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Mona Paulsen @monapaulsen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
One year? China and the US are locked in a stalemate. Each buys time. But it’s hardly a stable solution. What matters is what that time buys
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New from Free Movement: Two more immigration lawyers facing potential disciplinary proceedings for misuse of AI | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/two-more-imm...
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Two more immigration lawyers facing potential disciplinary proceedings for misuse of AI - Free Movement
Two more immigration lawyers, a barrister and a solicitor, are facing the possibility of a Hamid hearing and a referral to their professional regulator after
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This is the first installment of what will be a regular feature, tentatively called “For the Record”: A selective chronicle, a roundup of what I believe deserves our attention – an attempt to bear witness and perhaps create, over time, a record of our extraordinary moment.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Ominous - threats of retaliation deterring challenges against the government is a key mechanism of democratic downfall
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
For those who missed it this week, here is my latest piece for @blaetter.bsky.social - on how Maga is preparing to take over the UK as well and why we are (constitutionally) more vulnerable here than other European countries. Have a good weekend, everyone - in spite of everything ;-)..
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
When Trump acts like this, for me, and I hope for many others - it increases my tolerance for delays in sorting out a deal with the US, it increases my acceptance of pain while we work to find new trade partners.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I re-launched Democracy Americana exactly one month ago, as I started my new life as a full-time writer.   Time for a quick rebrand.   No worries, nothing else changes. New look, same focus: The ongoing conflict over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America.
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Democracy Americana
A newsletter on U.S. politics and history - and the ongoing struggle over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
10th boat blown up in the Caribbean. 6 people dead this time. Not a single arrest made. Not an ounce recovered. Not a shred of evidence provided.
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Florentine Dömges @fdoemges.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Warum ist die AfD erfolgreich? Viele sagen: Migration, ökonomische Sorgen, Protest. Doch das erklärt nur Symptome. Der Kern ihres Erfolgs liegt tiefer: Identität als Machttechnik.
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
In the UK there's no punishment for employers who refuse to pay their workers, but @mattcole.bsky.social argues that we should follow the example of New Zealand and make non-payment of wages a criminal matter. novaramedia.com/2025/10/16/employers-who-steal-wages-should-be-made-criminally-liable/
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Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable | Novara Media
A shocking investigation has revealed that employers who fail to pay wages simply get away with it. It’s time to make wage theft a criminal matter, argues Matthew Cole.
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The longer this goes on, the more Americans want to know why Republicans are protecting pedophiles.
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 19/10/2025
"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Latest instalment in ‘laws are for little people’.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 18/10/2025
The TV host, the web of influence and the trip booked to Moscow Ahead of a critical Welsh by-election for Reform next week, part two of @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation for the Nerve into disgraced former Ukip MEP and Reform UK politician Nathan Gill
Treated social media images of pictures of Nadia Sass with Nathan Gill and separately with Nigel Farage
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 16/10/2025
Today, a Maryland grand jury indicted John Bolton on 18 counts of unlawfully retaining and transmitting classified material. Bolton is the third prominent critic of President Trump to be indicted in the past month. Read the indictment, from @annahickey.bsky.social.
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John Bolton Indicted for Allegedly Mishandling Classified Information
Bolton is the third critic of President Trump to be indicted in the past month.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Reminder that the bottom 50% of households, representing over 160 million Americans, hold just over 5% of total wealth.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“What kind of moment are we living through? Nine months into the second Trump administration, Americans confront three very different answers to these questions.“ New from @jedpurdy.bsky.social and David Pozen on competing narratives of the second Trump administration:
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What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review
Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Postcard from Trumpland
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NPR @npr.org · 12/10/2025
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The recent trajectory, in broad strokes: - Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer - Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo - Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 12/10/2025
Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win. But at NIH we have seen this exact play before. It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture. A 🧵:
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"There’s just so much that has been lost. Beyond just the basic immediate subsistence, can Gaza survive? I don’t know" www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Trump can't deliver the lower costs he promised. All he has is cruelty and revenge. Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night. I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.
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Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 09/10/2025
Sam Woolley and I have a piece in the Guardian today summarizing our recent @jodemocracy.bsky.social article on AI and democracy: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Full article is here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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We research AI election threats. Here’s what we need to prepare for | Samuel Woolley and Dean Jackson
Artificial intelligence endangers democracy – but it’s less about specific deepfakes and more about a bigger transformation
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
It’s why they’re desperately grabbing at power while they can.
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