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Dude the Obscure @dude-the-obscure.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Pay attention people. We are speeding towards an authoritarian state.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In addition to the nutso stuff on Obama, worth flagging that it was just *yesterday* that WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt said "I have not heard the president talk about impeaching judges. I know you mentioned Mr. Musk’s tweet, but I have not heard the president of the United States ask that."

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Oh come the fuck on. Let’s definitely blame the people who have been right every step of the way.

I am not blaming Democrats for Republicans becoming fascists. I am blaming people who overused "fascist" for years for removing the power of that word and gutting it of meaning, and making it useless now that we need it.
Something I warned would happen.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2025

serious problem with democratic lawmakers (and supreme court justices) believing that they are absolutely indispensable

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2025

"senate minority leader"

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bklynskater @bklynskater.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Yup. For those of you not knee-deep in federal appellate procedure, the DOJ didn't even move for a stay of Judge Boasberg's order and instead are misusing a rule meant for raising subsequent case law. This isn't a close call; DC Circuit would benchslap any normal litigant trying this nonsense.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 18/03/2025

I can: I see the Biden industrial policy as in line with abundance, because it engaged in industrial policy that actually resulted in an increase in productive capacities. In housing, land use restrictions are the biggest obstacle, but when they're out of the way we SHOULD subsidize to catch up

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Tom Nichols whole thing is he was wrong about everything and everyone who he said was wrong about everything has been proved right about everything, and the lesson that Tom Nichols took from all this is that Tom Nichols was right about everything and now everyone should listen to Tom Nichols.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The U.S. Institute of Peace situation is not going great. The president is (rightfully) calling DC Metro PD collaborators.

CNN: DOGE gains access to US Institute of Peace after Trump administration overhauls board
By Jennifer Hansler and Harlan Schmidt, CNN
Published 10:49 PM EDT, Mon March 17, 2025

“We had not expected that the FBI would succeed in enlisting the support and collaboration of the District of Columbia police, with whom we have had a great relationship,” Moose said. “Somehow, FBI has managed to convince the DC police that this is a building that is owned by the US government and not by the US Institute of Peace.”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Something we lost without ever really talking about is the idea that an independent special counsel could ever be appointed again to investigate lawbreaking by the Trump administration. From day one, the Trump second term DOJ has just been corrupt through and through irredeemably.

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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 18/03/2025

Tom must think it’s quite a coincidence that the very same individuals liberals have been erroneously calling fascists for years happened to become fascists

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Nothing prevents you from calling fascists fascists. If the threat is real, then you can either congratulate or ignore the people who figured it out before you did, but it’s time to stop scolding them.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hmm starting to think that maybe the press was not being totally sincere when they covered Hillary's email server like they were genuinely concerned about information security practices.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

anyway something i was thinking about on st. patrick's day is how hopeless the cause of irish independence must have felt after easter 1916, even as they were less than a decade from victory. history can turn faster than you think

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

it rules that there were like 600 total generals in the civil war and, across both sides, like max 8 were competent

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

it might have been bad to create a massive stigmatized population with no voting rights.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

some stuff trump's doing has been unexpected, at least in how he implemented it. these massive human rights violations through deportations were exactly what he promised though. people voted for this. 1

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

and institutional resistance is a muscle that builds with use. malicious non compliance will become open defiance. this is the weakest the opposition to him will ever be

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

one of the defining properties of this administration's worst authoritarian excesses is that they're understaffed and half-assed -- they have not consolidated their rule; they have empowered a couple hundred people to commit crimes with impunity.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 18/03/2025

Bay Area Reporter @bayareareporter.bsky.social , our local LGBTQ newspaper, pulls no punches in its front page headline on how we feel about the Governor right now. The article also has quotes from state legislators condemning the Gav's hateful comments. issuu.com/bayarearepor...

Front page of Bay Area Reporter for March 13-18, 2025. Headline: Newsom to Trans Athletes: Drop Dead

by Matthew S. Bajko
LGBTQ leaders were swift to denounce California Governor Gavin Newsom for his remarks on the debut episode of his new podcast during which he said it was “deeply unfair” to allow transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports.
The affinity group for out lawmakers in the state Legislature called Newsom’s comments sickening and anti-trans, while gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) criticized the governor for having on the inaugural edition of his “This is Gavin Newsom” podcast as a guest Charlie Kirk, the conservative provocateur and founder of
Turning Point USA who is a vocal supporter of Republican President Donald Trump and routinely attacks the transgender community.
During their discussion, which was released online March 6, Newsom told Kirk that he “agreed” with him when it comes to the issue of requiring trans athletes to play on sports teams based on the sex they were assigned at birth.
Kirk told Newsom that, “You, as the governor, should step out and say ‘no, no.’” To which Newsom replied, “Right… I think it’s an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. It’s deeply unfair.”
Telling Kirk that he was “completely aligned” with him on the issue, Newsom blamed California’s policy requiring trans female student athletes to be allowed to play on women’s sports teams to a bill signed by his predecessor, former governor Jerry Brown, more than a decade ago.
“It turns out in 2014, years before I was governor, there was a law established that established the legal principles that allow trans athletes in women’s sports. The issue of fairness is completely legit. I completely align with you, we have to acknowledge it,” said Newsom.
California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus chair gay Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego), and vice chair lesbian state Senator Caroline Menjivar (D-San Fernando Valley) were qu…

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George Musser @georgemusser.com · 17/03/2025

God, that was hard to bear. Students told a physics town hall that grad schools have rescinded admission. NSF proposals are censored for words like “bias,” even when the meaning is technical. Physics curricula are being banned by school districts for encouraging girls. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Non-toxic dating advice for straight men: don’t take your date to a porno movie or attempt to assassinate the senator she works for

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Letting Musk this deep into the government of the richest country in human history is what people centuries from now will study, there will be chapters in Jared Diamond-esque books explaining a civilization’s collapse about 22-year-olds somehow gaining access to nuclear security systems

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Hal Gregory @halgregory.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Even if it was legal

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Read this piece, and imagine a stout German churchgoing lady explaining, in tones of genteel outrage, why voting for Hitler in the 1932 elections was a perfectly respectable thing to do, despite the dreadful smears being put about by those awful socialists.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The only way you’re going to get compliance is to start jailing fairly senior officials for contempt.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

And deputizing marshall to do it.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Actually, the White House explicitly admitted to violating the order. Their claim is they don’t have to comply with court orders.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/03/2025

These numbers suggest the media is failing to explain what's actually happening to the public.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It is just so super hard to categorize the politics of a person who would do this.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

to be clear, USIP staff spoke to MPD prior and then called them to report DOGE as trespassers and when the cops showed up they instead held the door open for Musk’s thugs.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Your choices, folks: woke, broke or joke.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but once we made IT securi- oh, nevermind 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

the invaders are salting the earth and poisoning the wells so we cannot rebuild again

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It's the only option: slow down expts, frantically write grants. But science funding is a 0-sum game. The damage being done to our fed agencies means less science gets done across the entire country, no matter how hard scientists work. Eventually, some of us will have to leave science all together

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex

Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 18/03/2025

Maybe the big story isn’t “Texas midwife charged with alleged illegal abortions” but “Texas attacks and closes three clinics providing prenatal care for low income Spanish speakers.”

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“An Israeli official… told The Washington Post that the ‘return to fighting in Gaza was fully coordinated with Washington.’”

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