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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

I just DMed you. Drop em a line.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 4h

So many MAGA arguments seem to boil down to, “If you strip it of all context, then tilt your head and squint, you’ll see it’s all on the up-and-up.”

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t really care what they call the hearings, but I hope they run hearings 24/7. If they don’t, they’ve failed.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

And the fact that some of these ads originally ran AS CAMPAIGN ADS in 2024 kinds of seals the deal.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

If Trump keeps using public money to fund campaign ads, I might be able to persuade my Democratic friends that taxation really is, under some circumstances, theft.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

“Public service” advertisements are about flossing your teeth or looking both ways before crossing the street, not “communism is evil and by the way my opponents are all evil communists”.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

If you take his existing comments - that electing Democrats means communism - and combine them with the ads - which warn of the dangers of communism and the benefits of his own agenda - then it is clearly a partisan message.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

They exclusively feature the head of one party and trumpet the same political message that has defined his campaign message.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

That is not the legal criteria, and he knows it.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

This is the guy Trump pardoned.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

sadly the huge leaps forward in machine translation are likely to deprive us of such reliable gems as "dry" and "fuck" in Chinese using the same simplified character or my all-time favorite "Racist Park" (which was also an accurate description of the park, as it happened)

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

The first rule of Book Club is that no one talks about the club.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

The main concern over an Iranian nuclear weapon wasn't that they would immediately use it, but its existence would destabilize the region. So we went and did that ourselves. 🤔

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

One issue is that the F4F's gear had to be hand-cranked, both raising and lowering - a major distraction on takeoff and landing!

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

When Trump bombed Iran's nuclear sites last year, there was skepticism about its effects, but not much criticism over the intent. His much broader war aimed at overthrowing the regime, which started this spring, and which prompted the closing of the Strait, is a very different matter.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

I don't want to minimize concern about Iran's nuclear bomb-building program, but Iran does not currently possess an ICBM capable of delivering one to the United States. The immediate concern would be Israel or Saudi Arabia, not the US, which he implies.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

The F6F Hellcat was a dramatic improvement on the F4F Wildcat (which looks similar but was noticeably smaller), based on feedback from ace pilots, including Butch O'Hare (who Chicago's airport is named after).

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

“We’d all be speaking German” is shorthand and not the real argument, which is “We’d all be living in a nightmarish secret police state that murdered anyone it didn’t like, en masse.”

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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 8h

One teen told ICE officers he lived with his dad down the block, but that his dad was deaf. They didn’t try to contact the father before deeming the boy “unaccompanied” and detaining him. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

I spelled out "superpower suicide" in this essay from May 2026. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

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On Superpower Suicide

And the recovery of justice

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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 8h

This weekend, I went to Springfield, Ohio, for Pierre Damas Bel's funeral--and to next-door Vandalia for Trump's same-day rally, where the president took a victory lap on the policies that killed him. I hope you'll give it a read. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...

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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.

On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10h

This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...

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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.

ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19h

I often think about how the rise of the neo-fascist right corresponds to the declining numbers of WW2 vets around to slug them right in the face.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

There's a lot of that going around.

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CNN @cnn.com · 20h

The FBI arrested a 34-year-old California woman who has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent for China and allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's son and his family, federal officials said. cnn.it/3VMrwqg

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

Let it go. The Greenland of his imagination has penguins.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

Michael Tracey actually staking out a pro-Epstein position (and this is far from the only recent example) is a sign the screenwriters are getting lazy.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Brazil to US: "Anything you can do I can do better".

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We still don't know the full story with what happened at RAF Fairford last weekend, but it was enough of a deal that the US Air Force pulled its bombers from the base. taskandpurpose.com/news/air-for...

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Air Force pulls bombers from RAF Fairford

The decision to pull bombers from the British base comes a week after several people were arrested on suspicion of plotting terrorist action.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Uh, oh. Shouldn't have renamed their lake.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Pneumonic plague is nearly 100% fatal if left untreated, but it is completely curable with prompt antibiotic therapy."

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And per Cato here, we must acknowledge that Contra Musk is actually his latest child with a new mama. bsky.app/profile/youn...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As distinct from an "asperandrocracy" (rule by autistic manly-men), which he saw as the very worst form of government.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also known as an "idiogynecracy".

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Contra Musk, everyone knows that Aristotle believed the best government was one composed exclusively of autistic women.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“.. Whatever the reasons were for going in, from an economic point of view the war in the Middle East has been a disaster. .. It’s been disastrous from a cost-of-living point of view, for Australians and indeed for people right around the world.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The average price of diesel fuel in the US has risen to $6.38 per gallon, its highest price ever, up +70.0% from a year ago.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The average price of gasoline in the US is back up to $4.46 per gallon, up +43.2% from a year ago.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm guessing he thinks the "bad things" will happen to other people, not to him.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In 2019, Trump was forced to cancel plans to hold the G7 at his own golf club amid GOP objections to self dealing. In 2026, he will hold the G20 at his own golf club and the critics have gone silent. How Trump has moved the ethical line in his second term. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026

INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out

Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon.

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