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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 12h

The cause, of course, is Donald Trump. President Trump is a fanatic about his every thought and desire. Nothing is more important, certainly not clarity or reality.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 13h

It’s clear now that President Trump is a fanatic, which I’ve never really considered among his many labels.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 13h

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. —George Santayana, “The Life of Reason”

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...

liberalcurrents.com

The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right

For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16h

This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 17h

SNL should jump on this for the cold open.

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Carmela 🌍🌹😎🍷🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦 @carmelacruz.bsky.social · 18h

Why is Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean? This guy sold all kinds of illegal drugs, including fentanyl. His drugs resulted in deaths. It took months of FBI sting operations to arrest him. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Trump pardoned him. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

Trump said he had called Ulbricht's mother to let her know he had granted her son a full pardon.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 18h

The legal intuition was not merely that masks were frightening. It was that the combination of coercive/intimidating conduct and concealed identity was particularly dangerous because it defeated accountability. Why should the government be less accountable than the Klan?

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 18h

American anti-mask laws overwhelmingly originated as responses to private masked violence, particularly the Ku Klux Klan. The stated governmental interests included preventing intimidation and violence and making it possible to identify perpetrators. www.splcenter.org/resources/re...

splcenter.org

Re-examining the 1960s, Part One

Episode 9 Don’t start—or stop—with Stonewall. To understand not just LGBTQ history but all post-war U.S. history, students must see the 1960s in context. In this episode, Amnesty International’s Ian L...

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 18h

Remove identification, and this is a profoundly different paradigm: Governmental power exercised anonymously. Particularity makes governmental power attributable. Government power → legal authority → identifiable exercise of that authority → accountability for its misuse.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 18h

The traditional bargain is that LEOs are empowered to arrest someone because they are identifiable agents of the state, acting pursuant to identifiable law, subject to identifiable review.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 18h

There is something deeply unsettling about the government exercising coercive power against a human being while simultaneously refusing to tell that person who is exercising that power. The problem isn't merely "masks." It is accountability.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 18h

Contrary to the Supremacy Clause? We'll never find out if we don't enforce the law Section 19.2-83.6:2 now expressly defines a federal LEO as a LEO for purposes of 18.2-422 which has no LEO exception. BL: Exercising police power in Virginia is not an excuse for concealing one's identity.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 18h

Old: Iran pulls an October Surprise on Trump by attacking before the midterms New: Trump pulls an October Surprise on himself by attacking before the midterms www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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Trump Might Order Another Iran Strike Before the Midterms

Pentagon planners are crafting options though no final decision has been made.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 20h

It's an inartful attempt at "no comment" when "no comment" is insufficient to convey that of course he's anti-MAGA because he's a human being with respect for other human beings but he really, really doesn't want to become a target of the MAGAverse.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 20h

‘Billionaires tied to the artificial intelligence industry were among the top insider sellers in the third quarter, a turbulent period for technology stocks that also brought increasingly stark warnings about the potential risks posed by AI.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Nvidia Director Tops AI Billionaires on Insider Stock Sales

AI billionaires led selling in the quarter amid a turbulent market

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 20h

The Trump-installed Board opposed the unsealing of the report.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 20h

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21h

The Trump administration wants to exclude millions of immigrants from the 2030 census. The proposal would do more than just violate the law — it would harm the American public. bit.ly/4y6x1yl

brennancenter.org

Excluding Immigrants from the Census Would Hurt the Country and Break the Law

The Constitution, federal law, and centuries of history make clear that the census is meant to count everyone, regardless of citizenship.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is my umpteenth plea to Virginia officials to start enforcing the law on the books that makes concealing one's identity with a face covering a felony You want to stop ICE ramming cars in the Commonwealth and causing all sorts of havoc? Enforce § 18.2-422 wapo.st/4drFbsY

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Man who was hospitalized following ICE arrest plans to sue the agency

The Virginia man, who is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, says he was hit by a car and that officers used a Taser on him during the encounter.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's really a feat when you outlive the AP reporter who wrote your obituary. apnews.com/article/eva-...

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Man who was hospitalized following ICE arrest plans to sue the agency

The Virginia man, who is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, says he was hit by a car and that officers used a Taser on him during the encounter.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I didn’t know Swiss was a language. Or are you talking about Romansh?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A naked, gold-covered Trump statue has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s called “Orange Plague,” also known as “King of Injustice,” and shows him sitting on another man’s shoulders holding an enormous golf club. Covered in reportedly 23-karat gold, of course.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“maximally irrational” A sign of the times

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Traders liked the possibility of a massive European diesel release. Then, they read what the G7 had actually committed to and realized that nothing much had happened. By the end of the day, the price was essentially unchanged." – @justinwolfers.bsky.social

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An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement

Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels turns out to be leftovers from March.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit ... claims that the Ste. Genevieve County Jail and ICE have violated the First Amendment rights of immigrant detainees by preventing Catholic priests from delivering communion, hearing confessions and celebrating Mass." fox2now.com/news/missour...

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Archdiocese of St. Louis sues ICE officials over blocked religious services

The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against Ste. Genevieve County officials and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leadership over alleged restrictions on Catholic religiou…

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Surrender Donald betrays Ukraine and our NATO allies.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

However good you think this is going to be, it’s better. Steve just has Alito dead to rights.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Read Keri. I don't think Americans realize how improvisational & sketchy these lethal injections are. Even for cocktails w/ some history of efficacy, the drugs are of uncertain compounding provenance or could be expired. & that's before we get to issues with effectively administering the drugs.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Republican candidate Brandon Herrera visiting a Confederate cemetery in 2019 with a Sons of Confederate Veterans group.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“.. the latest example of Trump advisers profiting from far-right politicians abroad who have sought favor from the U.S. president ..” @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Washington Sun reported last week that the White House has instructed the Justice Department to hold off on attacking abortion until after the midterms. After that, they’ve promised anti-abortion leaders, “the gloves will be off.” They are just getting started. But here’s the thing: so are we.

jessica.substack.com

The White House’s Promise to Attack Abortion After the Midterms

The White House has “instructed the Justice Department to move slowly on any abortion-related actions ahead of the midterm elections,” The Washington Sun reports.

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Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mike Lawler wants us to believe he’s fighting for us, but if you follow the money you’ll see who he’s really in it for. Mike votes with Trump 100% of the time — even when it harms all of us — because he’s helping his corporate and billionaire backers, who prop him up as their political puppet.

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Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ICE officers are now asking immigrants they arrest if they have ever voted illegally and whether they did so by mail or in person as part of a pre-election push to root out alleged voter fraud - which remains rare www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

washingtonpost.com

In run-up to election, ICE is asking detainees if they voted illegally

People who admit to voting illegally are then asked if it was by mail or in person.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cook Political Report just shifted the Kansas Senate race from Lean Republican to Toss Up. Trump won Kansas by 16 points, 57-41. Hard to know what to make of this, but it sure looks as if there are now many paths to a Dem majority.

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