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Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙🌊
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This he will do, presumably, without legal justification. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Well duh www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

This is the cycle: raid, escalate, criminalize the response, send in troops. ICE raids are not neutral, they’re psychological warfare on communities, and now they’re using military backup. This isn’t enforcement. It’s state-sponsored intimidation.

But state’s rights But state’s rights But state’s rights But state’s rights But state’s rights

Can Tr*mp seize control of the National Guard and deploy it against the citizenry? If no one stops him, sure! So: who will stop him? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Can it be that Tr*mp has already alienated the crown-and-altar integrations?

Die Fahne hoch, die Reihen sind geschlossen.

Also worth noting: Gor would appear the person in charge of sacking presidential appointees, including a considerable number of agency heads who are not in fact presidential appointees, most notably among them the Librarian of Congress.

Barharhar newrepublic.com/post/196256/...

In other words: this a battle over the power to replace professionals with hacks. My hunch is that the Russ Vought / Heritage Foundation wing of the movement will prevail over the broligarchs. With what consequences is anyone's guess. #muskvtrump

It appears the peace treaty hasn’t been negotiated yet.

So Musk got played by the hyperloyalist director of the Presidential Personnel Office, Sergio Gor. Smells like a power struggle over who will re-populate the federal bureaucracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.

🇺🇦😎 Russia thought it could just shell us, kill us, and demand something in the language of ultimatums. But we are capable of eliminating the threat where it is needed, — Yermak

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Read it and weep www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This checks and balances / separation of powers thing really doesn’t work when the majority in congress doesn’t agree with it.

This right here..🎯💯👇🏼

He knows that he is sending them to certain death and he could not care less. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The orange felon’s vendetta against Harvard in just one photo.

I cannot fathom why some folks are unable or unwilling to see these killings as antisemitic. If there is a categorical difference between antisemitism and opposition to Zionism in its current form, wouldn't that distinction apply here? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ordinarily, a government would not propound such blatant absurdities and wield them as threats against another country unless that government were seeking a pretext for some kind of aggression the other country so threatened. #Ramaphosa bbc.com/news/article...

Ramaphosa took the atrocious insult in good humor

Just in case you are not pissed off about the ASHELY BABITT bogus award, U DO REALIZE AND KNOW that not a SINGLE officer who got hurt on that day has received a CENT from the govt. NOT A PENNY. Pissed now?

The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country." Jesus.

So if you suddenly try to break into Congress to murder the VP you've supported for 4 years because he won't break the law and the police shoot you, your family gets 5 million dollars? Do I have that right, humans?

Nouveaux liaisons dangereuses? #Corruption #ReverseNepotism www.wapt.com/article/sena...

Excellent news! The attempted Anschluss of the United States Institute of Peace has failed! #DOGE #StopTheCoup www.wired.com/story/usip-d...

If DHS and ICE were to honor due process of law, even for criminals, instead of whisking legal immigrants off the street for nothing more than expressing their opinions openly, such comparisons would seem inappropriate. Until that day comes, well, if the shoe fits... #DHS #Tyranny