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Eliot Sumner

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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin

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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
What’s the struggle? You fucked up. Own it
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Forever wars are good now
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/02/2026
This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.
cbsnews.com
Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation
Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Tumbleweed tsunami
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
1. God is a silent, hostile void 2. Language is a speculative, fraudulent slide 3. Society is a paranoid allegorical warzone
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Damian Williams at SDNY was apparently working on it then the new admin moved it from NY to main justice
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18/02/2026
"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was the host of Fox & Friends Weekend from 2017 to 2024.(. . .)Former Deputy Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, spent the better part of the last decade as a podcaster. He has been a guest host of various Fox News shows and hosted the Dan Bongino Show"
liberalcurrents.com
Killing for Content
The Trump Administration cares more about clicks and content than human life.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/02/2026
and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This isn't about championing Massie. It’s about the Constitutional Firewall. We don't get to curate our rescuers in a crisis. We save the Republic by proving that regardless of the messenger the Law is still King. No Kings, No Secrets: bsky.app/profile/elio...
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
You want the documents without empowering the messenger. That is the ideal. But in a state of capture only a procedural disruptor has the leverage to break the stalemate. If we neutralize the only actor forcing the issue we don't get better transparency. We get silence.
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I agree with your comment @davetroy.com. We should welcome the transparency while denying the narrative. But we face a practical deadlock. The DOJ is actively defying Public Law. Massie is the only actor using the Speech & Debate Clause to force compliance. 🧵👇
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This is why the Massie/Khanna move matters. ♟️ They aren't just seeking data; they’re forcing a choice between a Law-based Republic and a Mafia State. 'Chaos' is a ghost story told by kings. When capture is complete, the only way forward is through. No Kings, No Secrets: write.as/eliot-sumner...
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No Kings, No Secrets: Thomas Massie and the Constitutional Firewall
The Speech and Debate Clause of Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution stands as the definitive legal proof that the United States was ...
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The DOJ is in open defiance of the law. By illegally withholding labels that separate suspects from bystanders, they’ve built a tactical Gag Rule. When an agency uses innocent people as human shields to protect the powerful, the capture is complete. The servant doesn't redact the Master.
theguardian.com
Four men in unredacted files named by Ro Khanna have no ties to Epstein
Men appeared in photo lineup assembled in New York and had no apparent connection to late sex offender
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We were designed to have #NoKings In the 1700s, Royal Prerogative was the tool used to shroud corruption in silence. Today, the DOJ uses Executive Secrecy as the modern shield for elite impunity. But the Founders left a kill switch: The Speech and Debate Clause. 🧵👇
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon. The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough. bsky.app/profile/alan...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Elon probably meant to say "Scots-Irish" and probably knows more of the history here than you might assume since white supremacists like him regard the Plantation of Ulster and displacement of the Catholic Irish as a prototype for later white supremacist settler colonialism (like South Africa)
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I think Osoff actually picked that up from Ro Khanna
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
If @npr.org has to have a Republican on for balance it should obviously be Massie. Hey @steveinskeep.bsky.social why do you keep handing the megaphone to QAnon-lite Nancy Mace?
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Nancy Mace demands the release of files she claims exonerate Trump, while attacking Trump’s AG for keeping them hidden. That’s illogical and indefensible. NPR’s constant normalization of Trump is why people change the station.
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br00t4c @br00t4c.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
“My party is taking up for pedophiles”: Massie explains split with MAGA, Trump The Kentucky representative explained his ongoing feud with President Donald Trump in an interview with CNN www.salon.com/2026/02/08/m...
salon.com
"My party is taking up for pedophiles": Massie explains split with MAGA, Trump - Salon.com
The Kentucky representative explained his ongoing feud with President Donald Trump in an interview with CNN.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
People are waking up.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
One thing the ICE masks do is hide that Stephen Miller's white supremacist project relies on brown labor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTSe...
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Behind the Masks
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE. Our conversation:
thehandbasket.co
"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS
The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Somebody tell Nancy Mace
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It will not surprise you that ICE is filled with pro-Russian goons. www.thedailybeast.com/laughing-ice...
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Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart
Dmytro Kulyk is facing deportation as refugees become the Trump administration’s latest target.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 13/02/2026
President Donald Trump is now embarking on a crusade to MAGAfy the American past, via a hostile takeover of the federal government’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. bit.ly/3Oex6xY
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The Antidemocratic Zealots Presiding Over Trump’s Makeover of US History
The administration’s sketchily funded Freedom 250 project, which will oversee the celebration of America’s semiquincentennial, is a pageant of right-wing extremism.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/02/2026
not putting Zohran in the center here is… a choice
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Is Tommy Robinson a paid agent of the Kremlin? Of course. That's been clear for years, and now new evidence of the payment stream has become public. In February 2020, Robinson travelled to Moscow and St Petersburg. But even before that trip,
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Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network
In February 2020, far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (‘Tommy Robinson’) travelled to Moscow and St Petersburg, giving interviews to Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT and meeting figures linked to Ru...
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Seems to be admitting that his own agenda is hate and stupidity?
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Ghislane was the senior partner, she brought him her fathers illicit money and extensive Rolodex
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Andy Ogles offers us a strong reminder that when many Republicans look at the Stars and Stripes today, what they see and understand is the battle flag of the Confederacy. The world accorded Blacks is harvesting cotton on the plantation, while he role accorded Hispanics is harvesting sugar.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Johnson keeps saying "trained activists" like he's saying "convicted murderers." This is essential to the right's project: if the left gets its shit together, that means its democratic participation is inherently illegitimate. I wrote about this here: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-rights...
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The Right's Greatest Fear Is an Organized Left
What's happening in Minneapolis is deep democratic participation, and the right says it can't be real.
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
SCOOP: Tensions at Palantir have grown in recent weeks over the company's work with ICE. On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE. www.wired.com/story/palant...
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Bonding over shared sadism, state terror, and sovereign immunity. Good lord
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Completely wrong headline from CNN. The report from a 2006 police interview with Trump ANSWERS questions. Specifically, it proves that (no surprise) Trump is lying when he says he had no idea what Epstein was up to. CNN should not perpetuate the lies.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“Democrats are trying to impose guardrails on how Trump’s fascist paramilitary force looks and operates, and how Trump can deploy his fascist paramilitary force, when the truth is that his fascist paramilitary force must be eliminated.” From First Draft: zeteo.com/p/reforming-...
zeteo.com
First Draft: Reforming Trump's Gestapo?
As Congress weighs guardrails for Trump’s fascist military police, lawmakers vote to allow themselves to overturn the president’s tariffs.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It goes on and on and on and on and on
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Rep. Krishnamoorthi and 38 other Democrats signed a letter addressed to DHS and Dept. of Labor leadership about their use of white nationalist imagery on social media. The letter cites the white nationalist anthem, "We'll Have Our Home Again," as an example. krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-...
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi Leads 38 House Democrats in Condemning White Nationalist and Extremist Rhetoric in Department of Homeland Security and Department of Labor Communications
WASHINGTON — Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) led 38 Democratic Members of Congress in sending a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Department of Labor Se...
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Can Thompson use the documented forensics of the entitlement fraud to substantiate a motion to dismiss for selective prosecution, and expose the government’s political and race-based generalizations as pretextual?
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
For @theredoubt.net, I wrote about Trump connecting the federal killings in Minneapolis to the Pentagon's killing spree in the Caribbean — and how, to him, it's all the same war. www.theredoubt.net/trumps-war-o...
theredoubt.net
Trump's war on the Americas
The U.S. president views the attacks in Minneapolis and South America as all part of the same conflict.
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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Hope he goes scorched earth with a selective/vindictive prosecution defense
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/02/2026
Epstein also appears to have connected Sulayem with Musk, who may have brokered Tesla's entry to Dubai (timeline lines up). Intriguingly, Kimbal seems to have been one of Epstein's routes into the Musk enterprise on behalf of his buddy from Dubai
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
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