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Historian thinking about música del coronavirus, conjunto, bees, huapangos, cultural sustainability & submerged land. https://danmargolies.com/
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"You deserve less" is a great campaign slogan for Republicans. Keep it up

Crimea is Ukraine 🇺🇦.

As a historian of sovereignty, I approve these results. (And no, I am not conflicted despite being an employee of a School of Journalism and Media) www.espn.com/horse-racing...

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This charade is “a rejection of the American democratic project & part of a larger enterprise to dismantle our govt, end separation of powers, quash dissent, remove the unwanted and hasten rule by dictator. He and his regime need to be opposed at every turn.” www.americaamerica.news/p/did-you-ev...

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

“When the President disappears people without due process, or enacts extra-legal tariffs that threaten business, or targets law firms for retribution and calls into great danger to the rule of law, we’ll stick to our principles, speak out, and oppose it.” -Cato president and CEO Peter Goettler

Good accounting of Trump's dismantling and befouling of the US in a scant 100 days www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

102 pages of straight fire from Judge Beryl Howell storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

They literally did the Onion article. Agents posted up outside her hospital room.

“Current legal frameworks can't protect the oceans from deep-sea mining and the negative impacts on humankind” Excellent article on #oceanjustice and impact of the new #criticalminerals EO, written by friend and colleague Sue Reid theconversation.com/current-lega...

Chutzpah is lying to dodge the draft and then asking the Army to celebrate your damn birthday.

Just deranged. This was a *solved* problem.

Paying off the family of Ashli Babbitt for the simple act of preventing her from overthrowing the Republic is peak failed state

They're pushing this Bill Belichick stuff so heavily and in such a cringe-worthy fashion It just inevitably seems that it'll be a shitshow, girlfriend horror show and all.

I honestly think that increasingly, and despite all its problems, the "1000 True Fans" model is going to be the only way any creative people make money. Individuals paying subscriptions to individual creators, not aggregators like magazines or streaming services, and not publishers.

I love that there is peer reviewed research calling ChatGPT bullshit so much 😭

Just drove by a taco truck that had painted on the front "Un taco hoy es la clave de la felicidad"

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

we need to think of 'abolishing ICE' as like 'abolishing the Wehrmacht.' Germany still needed an army. Americans will still want some kind of immigration and border authorities. But abolishing the culture, structures, and power-holders of a utterly corrupted and brutal system is important.

Weird how the American right went from being outraged about government violence wielded against Randy Weaver and David Koresh in the 1990s, to supporting an administration that engages in multiple such acts of federal violence PER DAY in their name. youtu.be/DUMJqz53YW0?...

"Denied access to the Bluebonnet facility by ICE, Reuters flew a small plane over the center last week as well as a drone nearby on April 28 to gather aerial images of the detainees being held there." www.reuters.com/world/americ...

the new American dream of the future is lifelong servitude for you and the next two generations of you family: "This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here"

Word of the Day is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to turn your face to the sun and bask in its warmth.

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Yup, just came here to make the same point! Good to have eyes open about where most of the legacy Mellon money goes

"The most surprising thing is not that any of this happened, but that the American people have actually noticed." Trump rally-goers are getting just what they wanted. The surprised ones are voters fed targeted shite through social media who are suddenly seeing reality. tinyurl.com/yy5k8u8f

American betrayal. Accurate, and pretty brutal.

"Now, Marisa said they have, quite literally, nothing."

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

@shrithanedar.bsky.social has filed impeachment: Obstruction of Justice and Abuse of Executive Power Usurpation of Appropriations Power Abuse of Trade Powers and International Aggression Violation of First Amendment Rights Creation of an Unlawful Office Bribery and Corruption Tyrannical Overreach

Trump supporters surveying the wreckage caused by his malicious cuts are incapable of recognizing that Trump gives nary a shit about them or their problems. An utterly lost group of fools.

On this day 80 years ago, Benito Mussolini was executed by an Italian partisan in Giulino di Mezzegra, then hung from the Piazzale Loreto in Milan the following day. Happy Mussolini Execution Day to all who celebrate.

This is a proper impeachment resolution for offenses against the Constitutional order, rather than pretending that impeachment has to be limited to more-minor offenses against the criminal code.

No matter where you sit on the political spectrum, as Ilya Somin writes, "The scope and magnitude of Trump 2.0 illegality are too great for any plausible defense." reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Dennis Ludiker, "Golden Eagle Hornpipe" played in Bb, Texas State Fiddle Championship, Hattletsville

Dan Balz describes Trump as the "dominant actor in the world," despite being an utter and catastrophic failure. Pundits can't let go of this view of Trump as a man of "power" and "strength," even as they document his already failing authoritarian gambit. 1/

Exactly right, it's just unreliability and stupidity, not uncertainty

This thread asks a crucial question how about what is coming next. My prediction: we ain't going to like it

Real Americans support Ukraine, and oppose Russian imperialism, occupation, kidnapping, bombing, and murder. It really is that simple.

Schulenburg, Texas

At Hatlettsville, Texas, the finalists sit on stage and a domino is turned. Whatever the it is, that's the kind of tune you have to play. No time to prepare the tune, they just need to jump up and play it, one after the other. If a waltz is chosen after the first two tunes they choose another.

Through all his troubles, neither the DOJ/FBI nor any state authorities ever subjected Donald Trump to arrest, preferring in every case to proceed by indictment and voluntary surrender. It’s notable that a sitting judge and pillar of the Milwaukee community was not extended the same courtesy.

Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden said in a statement on Thursday that he was alerted to individuals who were not marked as ICE agents handcuffing a man and putting him in an unmarked vehicle.

More courthouse ICE abductions, this time in Charlotte. Plainclothes men in unmarked vehicles apprehended individuals at the courthouse. Van had a “US Marshall” sign in the window but Marshall’s service said they were NOT involved. 🤔🤨. www.wbtv.com/2025/04/24/i...

Navy Cancels 56-Year-Old International Seapower Symposium Due to ‘Unavailable Funding’ - USNI News news.usni.org/2025/04/24/n...