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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The way Bukele was treated in the oval vs. Zelenskyy is all you need to know.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It is the height of historical irony that Donald Trump—who so skillfully availed himself of his own “due process” to delay and stall his 94 criminal charges long enough to return to the presidency and escape entirely—is now seeking to rob the rest of us of it. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/has-americ...
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Has America Reached the End of the Road?
Donald Trump has forced the one crisis that will tell us who we are.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
And RFK just laughs it off. Totally acceptable in their world.
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If only we had a semi-legit government department that focused on ending wasteful spending….
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This!
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Caroline Orr Bueno @rvawonk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Claiming that vaccination is an issue of “personal choice” — as HHS Secretary Kennedy often does — disregards the fact that choosing not to get vaccinated strips *other* people of their personal choice to stay healthy or live a normal life. My latest: weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/no-vaccina...
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No, vaccination is not a “personal choice”
The dangerous myth behind HHS Secretary Kennedy’s claim that the decision to get vaccinated is a personal one.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
chef’s kiss
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In all honesty, this man threw Strom Thurman’s legacy in the trash where it belongs. He dominated the news feeds & took power away from Trump. He fired up fellow Democrats. And he filled every minute with an empathetic, authentic voice speaking truth at a moment of crisis. Thank you @corybooker.com
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Here’s the end of the opening statement I gave yesterday morning before a hearing on recent rulings against the Trump administration - via @democrats-judiciary.house.gov & @raskin.house.gov
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025
Booker, just minutes away from the speaking record: "This is when the most precious ideas of our country are being tested, where the Constitution and the question is being called -- Where does the constitution live? On paper? Or in our hearts? This is the moment."
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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The record for the longest Senate speech in 🇺🇸 history no longer belongs to one supporting segregation but one advocating for a more inclusive America.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025
SCHUMER: Would the senator yield for a question? BOOKER: Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no SCHUMER: I just want to tell you, do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud America is of you?
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Peter Thiel ally Curtis Yarvin recently accused the Trump administration of failing to understand that “regime change”, requires that “Every existing institution of science” be “fully cremated” & replaced w/ a “new scientific establishment.” Soon after, RFK Jr guts HHS & announces a new division 1/
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The plan is destruction, not acquiescence. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...
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Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard
The administration has already canceled hundreds of millions in federal grants and contracts at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Abhorrent.
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If this is domestic terrorism, but Jan 6th isn’t, we are truly having a moment of crisis in our government - not that we needed another example.
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Obama famously said that “the presidency doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are.” In this case, it just took the presidency to highlight his true values and priorities on the world’s stage instead of in an infomercial: lie, con, cheat, grift, bully - at every citizen’s expense.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/03/2025
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
@chrislhayes.bsky.social out here calling it like it is. Fresh horrors. Every day. Every. Damn. Day.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/03/2025
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/03/2025
Jaw dropping ignorance. Witkoff knows nothing. Has no knowledge of the violence that Russians have used to suppress Ukrainians in Occupied Ukraine
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Good piece! I cover the fate of universities in Fascist Italy and Pinochet's Chile in #Strongmen. And here is my piece for Lucid: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
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How Authoritarians Target Universities
What happens on campus reflects and often anticipates democratic decline.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The full cooperation of the majority party. The full cooperation of the the majority party. The full cooperation of the... “Trump and Musk and Stephen Miller could not do this alone. They’re doing it with the full cooperation of the majority party in Congress.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook (Gift Article)
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
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Matt Cortez, Esq. @mattcortezlaw.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is a very serious problem. If you want the judiciary to continue being a check on the federal government, any policy targeting plaintiffs’ lawyers must be prohibited. Otherwise cases will be dropped before a judge has a chance to issue an order.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This has to be one of the most informative, important and revealing THREADS I’ve read this year (naturally also terrifying). Please READ the entire THREAD. Thank you @skiles.bsky.social.
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
History repeats.
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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 22/03/2025
Make no mistake, the people who were deported are political hostages of El Salvador. Just like any other hostage in a foreign country. Only, instead of the US working hard to secure their release, the US is paying a foreign country to keep hostages.
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Eric Holder @ericholder.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race has national implications
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Do not obey in advance. The message should be clear.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
By week’s end, the Musk-Trump partnership increasingly resembled less a functional constitutional democracy and more a mafia-style racketeering organization that blended private business profit with official government power. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-musk...
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Trump, Musk Shred Constitutional Protections as Country Lurches Toward Mafia State
This week's news roundup by our intrepid foreign correspondent William Boot, as it should be covered by the US media
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is akin to slave labor. Ava DuVernay highlighted this abhorrent practice in her outstanding film “13th” (and if you haven’t seen it, please watch.) Between these pay rates and the price that prisoners have to pay for phone calls…it’s just wrong on every level.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Judge REYES on a tear, telling DOJ she won't be "gaslit" by effort to say their ban on transgender people in the military isn't actually a "ban." She notes SecDef Hegseth literally called it a ban on X. "You're saying one thing in public. You're saying a different thing in court," Reyes said.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
That took 24 hours.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/03/2025
REPORTER: Russia continues to attack Ukraine. Are you planning to impose any sort of sanctions? TRUMP: Well, they're fighting against each other
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
So apparently violently storming the Capitol in an effort to overthrow an election = misguided high spirits, while firebombing a few Teslas = domestic terrorism.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
David: Thanks for sharing your story. So many people don’t understand or acknowledge the role of federally funded research in their lives and the lives of their loved ones. What is going on now is not some effing game. And one of the few silver linings in all this is getting to know folks like you
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Remember when people used to say the warnings about Trump were alarmist? He’s now explicitly saying US citizens who damage private property that’s linked to one of his oligarch cronies will be sent to prisons in El Salvador.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
NEW: Leaked chats obtained by WIRED detail a chaotic all-hands for General Services Administration employees held by a Trump appointee. "We don’t want an AI demo, we want answers," said one worker. “Literally who cares about this,” from another. read @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:
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'We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands
Leaked chats obtained by WIRED detail plans for the General Services Administration—and the staff's angry response.
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Experts worry that DEIA bans are part of a push to undo the 1964 Civil Rights Act. www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...
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Experts worry that DEIA bans are part of a push to undo the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Civil rights experts worry bans on DEIA in education and government are part of a larger, ongoing push to undo the country's 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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mercoast @mercoast.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Watched this earlier today and @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social is in top form. This should be mandatory (but not in a dictator type of way) viewing for Americans right now. Thank you to @wired.com and Ruth for this valuable, insightful, so desperately needed content.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
JUST IN: After years of litigation about Trump's civil liability for Jan. 6, the Justice Department is now moving to substitute itself for Trump in the lawsuit, saying Trump was acting in his official capacity on Jan. 6.
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 20/03/2025
They’re going to strip mine our fucking parks. We’re not going to let them. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In other words: Putin is the boss, since whatever he says is true for us.
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