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Ethan Wilson

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International affairs type by inclination becoming domestic affairs type by exigency

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a complete betrayal of Ukraine and of Europe to violate sanctions on Russia. And Congress has passed laws to block Russia oil sales So Trump is violating international sanctions and federal law This should be his second impeachment related to Ukraine
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New: A private equity executive took a top Pentagon role. Then a firm he has close ties to landed a $281 Million no-bid contract from the unit he runs. www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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Ethan Wilson @ethan-w.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good re: Hegseth. A clown -- but also the most dangerous member of the admin. The term "fascist" gets thrown around a lot regarding Trump and co., but Hegseth is the real thing. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/30/p...
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Everyone Got Pete Hegseth Wrong
The secretary of defense is now the most influential senior official in the Trump administration.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The main lesson of the last 25 years of the GOP holding power is that they are totally incompetent at governing & everything breaks & many people die as a result (Katrina, wars, Covid, ICE, etc). Ask yourself if that ever appears as the central frame in media coverage of politics & the two parties.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Come for the imperial vanity projects. Stay for the armed occupation.
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Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I became very angsty about the great dying of vegan restaurants after my neighborhood spot announced its closure this month. I wanted to know whether this is a real trend (& found that it's indeed probably real) & to what degree it actually matters for the animal movement, beyond 1/
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Where did all the vegan restaurants go?
And what does it mean for the plant-based movement?
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Ethan Wilson @ethan-w.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What makes Hegseth's schtick so unintentionally funny is that he thinks he's the Special Operations American Ghenghis Khan Warrior Cowboy but he actually comes across as Guy Who Does Your Taxes Getting Belligerent After Second Drink
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 16/09/2026
"FDR very much did not think in those terms, seeing the whole project of the New Deal as one of building capacity, with no real division between domestic industrial capacity and the military industrial base." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
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Editor's Notes: Getting a Grip on Geopolitics
Is a stable and liberal geopolitics possible?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This, absolutely sincerely. Most of these guys are doing high crimes and misdemeanors. A bunch of them are involved in waging an illegal, unauthorized war. Congress' investigatory powers are at their *peak* in an impeachment context. So impeach, impeach, impeach.
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026
tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
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What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/08/2026
Dealing with Trump and his administration in 2026 is NOT like engaging in diplomacy with another global power: it is a LOT like figuring out how to protect your country from frequent attacks by hordes of wild pigs, because wild pigs are both highly destructive and cannot be reasoned with.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Confederates always think it's a war of northern agression
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Ethan Wilson @ethan-w.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Worthwhile thread.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So much discourse is trying to parse some hidden (and more rational) meaning when these are people who very openly say what they mean. In part because it feels unsophisticated for professional take-havers to just say, for example, "Elon Musk is a white supremacist." But it is actually that simple.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
people will look back on this era and recognize the destruction of USAID among the most profound stains on America's conscience, and the architects of its destruction as white supremacist perpetrators of mass infant death
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
for the record: Atlanticism was and is good. So is multilateralism. and no, we liberals are not "hankering" for war of any kind, although we do strongly support Ukraine's defensive war for its own survival.
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Ethan Wilson @ethan-w.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is just an absolutely insane waste. And DC rental prices are already high enough without dumping another $290 mn onto the market to perpetuate this ridiculous, highly partisan deployment.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.” Fleeing. The vehicle was driving away. That’s murder. A legal resident of the United States is now dead. The threat to public safety is ICE. It must be eliminated.
Homeland Security: On July 13, 2026, at approximately 7:00 AM ET, ICE was conducting targeted surveillance on the last known address of an illegal alien with a final order of removal. An illegal alien departed the residence in a vehicle. ICE law enforcement attempted to conduct a vehicle stop. The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.

The driver of the vehicle was struck, and emergency services were immediately contacted. He passed away from his injuries. 
 
The Biddeford Police Department and FBI responded to the scene. DHS OIG has been notified and like all discharge of firearms this will be investigated. This is a developing situation, and we will update the public when more information is available.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
20-year-old me will forever be shocked that Bill Kristol is now to the left of like 80% of the Democratic leadership on ICE.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If what Israel is doing was happening in say, former Yugolslavian states, we’d be considering air strikes and possibly ground efforts to stop them
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Speaking honestly about the dead is not the same thing as speaking ill of them. If it's hard to distinguish the difference, that's on them, not whoever is speaking. Where I draw the line personally (and this speaks only for me) is in not speaking gleefully or celebratorily about anyone's death.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/07/2026
really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
big win for DC and for @freedcproject.bsky.social if this pans out
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/07/2026
DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
@governorwalz.mn.gov needs to withdraw his National Guard. They were supposed to help with the “massive crowds” on the Mall, but they’re being used as an occupying force in other parts of the city. They have nothing to do except pose as an armed occupation for Trump’s jollies.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Large chunks of the Mall are now effectively an armed encampment surrounded by tall fencing. In some areas, crowds are herded through security lines to get to features that used to be easily accessible in previous years.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Absurd that Tim Walz sent the Minnesota National Guard to DC to harass locals on the president's orders. It's a weird bad thing to do! And from a state that keeps a captured Confederate flag as a Union trophy, genuinely embarrassing. Statehood for DC now and always www.dvidshub.net/image/976823...
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JTF-DC welcomes Minnesota National Guard
Minnesota National Guardsmen newly assigned to Joint Task Force-District of Columbia in support of the DC Safe and Beautiful mission arrive at Joint Base Andrews, Md., June 23, 2026. About 4,500 Natio...
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19/06/2026
“Enemies of slavery referred to the institution as "the slave power." They recognized that the institution was not merely evil, but actively strengthened evil men, gave them social power beyond their unchecked dominion over the human beings they treated like property.”
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Editor's Note: Destroy the Slave Power
Get The Reconstruction Papers in Print! Pre-Order Now! Today we celebrate the end of chattel slavery in America, the darkest stain in a history that is not otherwise unblemished. To celeb...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/06/2026
i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans
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Milan Asanović @milanasanovic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Instead of taking down his name from a building, we could have just done this
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 09/06/2026
"The Revolution did not birth the forces behind Napoleon’s victories, but rather introduced institutions that could exploit forces that had developed organically. These institutions(. . .) had to be inclusive, or liberal, extending recognition and power to a wider portion of the population."
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Liberalism as a Military Technology
To exclude individuals on the basis of sex, color, class, or creed now means to hobble the strength of the state.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Today in yet another episode of "in any normal, functioning parliamentary system, the no confidence vote would already have taken place/been threatened & we'd have a new prime minister within the week"
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Going to just pick one part here to take up which is the Rousseauian notion that agriculture leads to land ownership which leads to warfare. If that were true, we'd expect non-agricultural societies (hunter gatherers especially) to be relatively peaceful. Instead, they're hyper-militarized. 1/
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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It should be taught in school the degree to which most of the states of the future Confederacy became police states in the 1840s & 50s. Postal & press censorship, pass laws, residency limits, travel controls, one-party rule, pretty much the full range of totalitarianism without 20th Century tech.
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 03/06/2026
Krugman says that Trump has given up on governance. This is true in terms of how governance is practiced in a functional, constitutional republic. Unfortunately, the “new normal” for the U.S. is governance in the style of personalist, kleptocratic fascism.
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The End of Governance? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Trump administration has finally decided on an authority for reimposing tariffs. It has decided that every major trade partner is failing to follow U.S. standards for landing goods made by forced ...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/05/2026
Everyone who ever spread the lie that Assad didn’t use chemical weapons on his own people is a lying Putin-humping ghoul.
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Ethan Wilson @ethan-w.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is one of the best, most nuanced, most comprehensive explorations of contemporary military affairs I’ve ever read.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
we now have a scientific name for maga
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Dems need to provide several object lessons as to why this is not in fact the case, pour encourager les autres Restoring norms is going to require a further breaking of them, esp with pete/caine (not hanging portraits, explicitly namechecking them in official documents repudiating trump II, etc)
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Ethan Wilson @ethan-w.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Not to bang this drum too much but what this highlights to me is the striking similarity in ideology and rhetoric of our tech overlords to that of the antebellum planters
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Insane framing. It is not "blood libel" to write about the numerous NGO reports alleging sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
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The New Blood Libel
This is what globalizing the intifada looks like.
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Ethan Wilson @ethan-w.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Reading this I can't shake the suspicion that the whole inspiration for the ballroom-bunker was that Trump must've watched the climax of Civil War and been like "nope" Which should make us very concerned where his head's at www.twz.com/news-feature...
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The White House Ballroom Is A Deep Fortress In Disguise
We now know the building goes six floors underground and will have "the greatest drone empire you've ever seen that's going to protect Washington" on its roof.
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Ethan Wilson @ethan-w.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Despite the political body blows he’s taken in the last six months, an earnest Trump attempt to stay in office past 2028 remains a real possibility
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