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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Villains in a science fiction movie.

New York Times ohoto of Mehmet Oz and RFK Jr.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

The months between signing and ratification were a busy period for the country. The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention had been kept secret, so each state needed to inform its voters of what exactly the proposed new government contained. Congress therefore directed the state legislatures to call ratification conventions in each state, with delegates specifically elected to approve or disapprove the new government.

However, this meant that each state from New Hampshire to Georgia had to receive a copy of the text, submit it to public debate, elect delegates, meet, vote, and return the results to Philadelphia. In an era where the speed of travel was limited by horseback, stagecoach, and boat, this was no quick feat. After the end of the Convention the news of the Constitution spread out in a wave, and thousands of copies were republished by local printers and distributed for debate. A flurry of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and public meetings followed, hotly debating whether the Constitution would be a good framework for a new national government.

Part of the debate and ratification process involved translation: non-negligible portions of the electorate spoke languages other than English. To reach them, the document was translated into Dutch in New York and German in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Getting awfully sick of people who don't think it's fascism unless it's certified to come from the Romagna region of Mussolini's Italy.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

When you consider the Republican Party to be an organized crime syndicate instead of a political organization, everything makes more sense.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Kristi Noem is flat-out lying when she claims no U.S. citizen has been arrested in her violent crackdown. Do a web search on “immigration citizen arrested” and you’ll see. Here’s one of the many documented reports we found.

propublica.org

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

Mar Awa III, in red cassock, smiles as he gives the jersey to Leo, who looks as though he's been given a bomb to hold

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🧵10 ways MAGA is NOT like the Nazis🧵 The right wing hates it when people compare MAGA to the Nazis, as I’ve done in the past, based on their fascist behavior. But to be fair, I’ve decided to provide the other side. So here’s a thread with my list of 10 ways the MAGA movement is NOT like the Nazis.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

so I guess for the foreseeable future I’m going to have to wake up every couple of hours in the middle of every night to refresh supremecourt.gov to see if anything new has happened in the ongoing case of 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙭 𝙧𝙚𝙡. 𝘽𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙨 𝙫. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙪𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙖𝙬

supremecourt.gov

Supreme Court of the United States Home

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A key difference between U.S. politics in past decades and now is that there is a better financed and more adept right-wing disinformation industry, reaching what political operatives call "low-information voters." Lies are a growth industry. So is shamelessness. And that's a lethal combination.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 05/12/2024

When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

There's a huge danger that government agencies will be ordered to spread health pseudo-science and conspiracy theories under Trump and RFK Jr. Jennifer Schulze (‪@newsjennifer.bsky.social‬) sounds the alarm.

heartlandsignal.com

OPINION: Kennedy and his quack bros will infect our health agencies with propaganda

Jennifer Schulze writes, "I fully expect credible health information to vanish when Donald Trump’s nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his band of anti-science, do-your-own-research, conspiracy-theory...

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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This coulda been our president-elect tonight America but you chose authoritarianism instead

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Word of the day: KAKISTOCRACY

kakistocracy noun
kakis-tocracy kaköstäkrosē
plural kakistocracies
: government by the worst people

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