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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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jarjarforspeaker.bsky.social @jarjarforspeaker.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Political scientists see non-violent resistance as much more effective--and it's not just from aggregate statistics. Rather, it's the way that peaceful resistance undermines the state's repressive capacities. This op-ed by Berkeley prof @owasow.bsky.social explains this logic 🎯. Give it a read!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/01/2026

Poland failed to win the Hitler team over

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/12/2025

"When it happens, Republicans will object (and you can only imagine the meltdown Trump himself will have on Truth Social). The response Dems give should be simple: *Too bad. We have the power now.* A strong message must be sent to the country and future generations that Trump will not be honored."

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Why every vestige of Trump must be torn down

He's trying to create a physical legacy. The moment he's out of power, it has to be smashed to bits.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 11/12/2025

Here's the thing: we don't need an amendment to do this in America. We don't even need a law passed by both chambers and signed by a president! It's a matter of internal Senate rules. A bare Democratic Senate majority could do it. www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...

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Impeach and Remove the Bastards

A scenario for 2027.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Bad that the president is turning the White House into a personal palace while keeping the government closed so that he can deny people healthcare and take away SNAP. He's doing this while his administration serves as a jobs program for goons and criminals, and the military kills civilians for him

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder. I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Do I believe this? Doesn't matter. What matters is that you have a fucking RIGHT to say it

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

August 1, 2025
AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the American Economic Association on the
Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner

Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today.
The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day.
Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias.
The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity.
Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions.
We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure.

Lawrence Katz
President, American Economic Association
Katharine Abraham
President-Elect, American Economic Association
Karen Dynan
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics
Kenneth Troske
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

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Cadaver Formosus is Already Spooky @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Trump's brain is cooked. braised. broasted. Check what he said at the 2020 West Point graduation and the way he rephrased it today.

2020: Every graduate on this field could have gone to virtually any top rank university that you wanted, you chose to devote your life to the defense of America.

2025: You could have gone anywhere. You could’ve gone to any school. This is one of the hardest schools to get into. Writing your own ticket to top jobs on Wall Street or Silicon Valley would not be bad. I think what you are doing is better. Instead of sports teams and spreadsheets and software, you chose a life of surface. Very important service. Instead of stock options. I do that stuff. It is so boring. Honestly, compared to what you are doing it is real boring.

2020: Our destiny will never be denied and the United States of America will never be defeated. With the grace of God and the heroes of West Point, America will always prevail. Nothing will stand in your way. Nothing will slow you down and nothing will stop the West Point Class of 2020 from achieving a true and lasting victory.

2025: Never give up. Through every challenge and every battle you will stand strong, you will work hard, you will stay tough, and you will fight fight fight, win win win. So I want to congratulate you all on going back down to deal with Russia, to deal with China—what’s that all about? And to get you lots of victories.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

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Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 02/04/2025

Time for the rest of the senate to step up

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New 🧵: A Brief History of Coups What do we mean when we talk about a coup? Is what Trump doing a coup? Has the coup already occurred? In this thread I'll provide some insight from research in comparative politics. (1/9)

shows the proportion of democracies classified as "eroding" over time by the Varieties of Democracy project. plot shows that the proportion of eroding democracies has increased noticeably since 2000.

plot shows the level of democracy as classified by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2023. Plot shows that European and North American countries tend to be the most democratic, although the United States is already classified as less democratic than Canada and Western Europe.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This is a list I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits. You would think it would grow out-of-date, but...

The list reads:

Defense of democracy seen as basic to the job.

Symmetrical accounts of asymmetrical realities seen as malpractice.

“Politics as strategic game” frame seen as low quality, downmarket, amateurish— and overmatched.

Bad actors with a history of misinforming the public seen as unsuitable sources and unwelcome guests.

Internalizing of the “liberal bias” critique seen as self-crippling, a historic mistake in need of correction.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/10/2024

Former BLS commissioner Erica Groshen on how the policy change to Schedule F that Trump & #Project2025 advocate would destroy the credibility of the federal statistical system. Her comment on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/erica-... ...

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