expat53.bsky.social
Historian. Educator. Journalist.
Midwestern-raised.
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She was prescient.
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ONLY THE PRESIDENT OR ATTORNEY GENERAL CAN SAY WHAT IS LEGAL?
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE.
ONLY CONGRESS, which passes bills that may become law, AND THE JUDICIARY, which interprets that law, CAN SAY WHAT IS LEGAL AND WHAT IS NOT.
That's literally Article I and Article III of the CONSTITUTION.
IMPEACH!
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ONLY THE PRESIDENT OR ATTORNEY GENERAL CAN SAY WHAT IS LEGAL?
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.
ONLY THE CONGRESS, which passes bills that may become law, AND THE JUDICIARY, which is vested with the power to DETERMINE WHAT IS LEGAL AND WHAT IS NOT.
That's Article I and Article III of the CONSTITUTION.
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Some countries value justice. 49% of AMERICAN VOTERS DON'T.
Among those that value justice:
- Peru, which convicted a president for corruption
- S. Korea, which has indicted a president for declaring martial law
- France, which convicted a president
ALL PROVED BETTER THAN THE US AT THIS
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Brilliant satire!
In 1855, while writing about halting slavery's spread, Abraham Lincoln said he "...would prefer to move to a country that didn't pretend to value liberty, like Russia, where despotism could be 'taken pure.'"
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Is this the same ELON MUSK whose team of Gen-Z hackers fired all the nuclear engineers, and then realized that they were needed for safety?
DOGE did the same firings at the FAA tower at Washington National Airport, that resulted in the mid-air collision over the Potomac that resulted in 67 deaths.
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Note to Hakeem Jeffries: "The whole world is watching."
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Note to Hakeem Jeffries: "The whole world is watching."
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Note to Hakeem Jeffries: "The whole world is watching."
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Note to Hakeem Jeffries: "The whole world is watching."
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Note to Hakeem Jeffries: "The whole world is watching."
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Note to Hakeem Jeffries: "The whole world is watching."
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Note to Hakeem Jeffries: "The whole world is watching."
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Rule #1: CHOOSE THE BEST.
The ranking member IS OFTEN NOT BE THE BEST person for video media. They can be skilled at committee leadership BUT NOT THE BEST FOR VIDEO.
Rule #2: IGNORE SENIORITY.
Whether old or new media, VIDEO DEMANDS DYNAMIC SPEAKERS.
Rule #3: KEEP SPEECHES SHORT.
Clicks rule.
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Examples of eyeball-capturing people named as Shadow Cabinet secretaries (MEDIA SKILLS COUNT!)
- Tammy Duckworth as Shadow Sec. of Defense
- Sheldon Whitehouse OR Eric Swalwell as Shadow Atty. Gen.
- Ted Lieu as Sec. of State
- Chris Murphy as Sec. of HHS
- AOC as Shadow Cabinet Sec. At Large
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@sunfolk.bsky.social IS RIGHT. FEW IN THE ELECTORATE CARE ABOUT USAID.
WHY?
Because the elderly Dem leadership & Dem defeatists DON'T GET IT.
- YOU NEED TO SETUP A 24 X 7 WAR ROOM.
- YOU NEED A SHADOW CABINET (Sec of --, Sec of -- ) as HEADLINERS WHOSE AUTHORITY MAKES NEWS.
(I'm sick of caps)
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This will provide a needed megaphone to catch the attention of news editors who decide what to cover and what to air.
It would set a competitive agenda as a challenge to the
Project 2025 / Trump agenda.
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The criticisms of Trump's actions WOULD BE NEWSWORTHY if they come from an OFFICIAL SOURCE -- a Shadow Cabinet.
Its members can be named by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
If they are too cowardly, the progressive caucus members should name them.
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If only there were a state attorney general who could investigate the money trail to Tucker.
For example, Aaron Frey (Dem), the attorney general of Maine, where Tucker has his principal residence and broadcast / podcast studio.
I wonder if Tucker reports this income?
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The Society of Women Engineers answers:
alltogether.swe.org/2025/02/swe-...
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Chief Justice John Marshall (Marbury v. Madison) would like a word.
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...which has a long history in the news business.
They owned the Newhouse Newspaper chain. Today, they own numerous magazines, newspapers, websites, and TV properties. So Wired's ultimate corporate owners -- unlike those of ABC, for example -- have been saturated in the culture of journalism.
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...the business.
Wired is different. It is owned by Conde Nast, along with Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair -- and many other news publications. Conde's owner is Advance Publications, which
is owned by the Newhouse Family...
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...returns to investors; journalism be damned. Journalism's sole "purpose" (to these Dollar Dorks) is to attract clicks and eyeballs, in order to fill what we used to call "The News Hole" of the business.
Journalists were just the children who were allowed to "play" on the news side of...
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...Universal is owned by Comcast. The Los Angeles Times is owned by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shion, who is a surgeon and biotech investor. He has lots of pharma business dependent on a friendly FDA, controlled by Trump.
The point is, the execs at most multinational corporations want good...
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...Trump's ridiculous libel suit because execs at Disney (which owns ABC) wanted to show Trump their "good faith" with a $15 million "donation" (read: bribe) to a non-existent Trump Presidential Library.
CBS is owned by Paramount Global, which is owned by National Amusements. Also, NBC...
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"Legacy media" is a fuzzy term. Wired is NOT new media. It was launched in 1993.
The difference is probably that "Legacy" media like CBS, ABC, NBC, and the L.A. Times are NOT INDEPENDENT ENTITIES. They have HUGE corporate owners WHO DO NOT HAVE A JOURNALISM BACKGROUND.
ABC was told to settle...
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Pam Bondi will do WHATEVER PUTIN WANTS her to do.
He may act directly, or do it through the Office of the Presidency.
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Chuck Schumer would be resettled too? Huh?
Did Donald Trump just say he wants to resettle Liberal Jews?
Certain Nazi slogans sound familiar:
"THE AIR IS MUCH CLEANER IN THE FAMILY CAMP."
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Given the susceptibility of the MAGA base, House members, and Senators for A *MORAL PANIC*
THIS IS AN OPENING FOR DEMOCRATS.
Foreign intelligence agencies KNOW that Trump has buttons that can pushed.
MAGA has SIMILAR BUTTONS too:
e.g. Why does the SC flag have a crescent moon?
THAT'S MUSLIM!
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The old Woodward & Lothrop Department store in DC even had 2-storey elevators, to separate white customers from "colored" customers.
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Remember what the January 6th insurrectionists chanted:
"Oh, Nancy. NANCY!"
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Lots of bathrooms: Both Jim Crow racially segregated AND SEPARATE BATHROOMS FOR OFFICERS AND ENLISTED.
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In those 28 districts, get a primary opponent AND YOU'RE DEAD.
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Today's rank and file GOPers are ok with it, because the activist slice of their base terrifies them.
This is especially true in the gerrymandered House of Representatives, where only 28 GOP seats (6%) are considered "competitive" by the Cook Political Report.
www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/hous...
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Howard Baker would not be; Barry Goldwater would not be.
Today's GOP runs scared.
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Only at the NYT Copy Desk can AUDACIOUS MEAN PSYCHOTIC.
As a hallucination of a elderly demented man THIS IS BAD.
As a policy, this is BOTH SUICIDAL & HOMICIDAL. It is ethnic cleansing & a war crime.
Question: HOW MANY AMERICAN BOYS HAVE TO DIE TO SATISFY THIS ORANGE, IGNORANT MORON?
Wake up.
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Given the concentration of ownership among US agriculture companies (Cargill, Archer-Daniels-Midland, Bunge, and Tyson Foods), YOUR CHOICE OF THE WORD "CZARLIGARCHS" IS APPROPRIATE.
CARGILL IS EVEN PRIVATELY OWNED.
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I have never agreed with Premier Doug Ford or his crazy, drug-addicted dead brother (former mayor of Toronto)...
BUT THIS IS A GREAT MOVE TO PROTECT BOTH CANADIAN AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
THANK YOU, PREMIER FORD!
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Elon tweeted that you and other journalist should be arrested for publicizing their names.
He's a First Amendment Absolutist, doncha know?
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They don't care.
Trump voters were motivated by their HATRED OF WOMEN and by RACISM.
For the majority of them, egg prices were not the issue.
The "Prices Excuse" was a cover for their real motivation: resurrect Jim Crow and implement The Handmaid's Tale.
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Other than the state of Utah and adjoining portions of Idaho and Arizona that are heavily Mormon -- all with higher-than-national-average white marriage and birthrates -- most rural areas in the US have more-elderly-than-average and lower birth rates.
It's the
suburban areas with high birthrates.
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Not only that, dziewczyna.
He seems especially skilled at sexual assault, lying and marriage anti-fidelity.
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Just wait till this Dog Killer shows up at Guantanamo with Torture Electrodes and a Waterboard.
The key to fashion is to accessorize, you know!
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If he's Real MAGA, he'll blame Obama and Hilary.
Do you recall 1999, when Republicans said the great economy was due to Reagan, who was gone from office FOR A DECADE?
Same delusion, but exacerbated by today's acceptance of racism and misogyny AS VIRTUES.
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I predict that, just like with Nixon, who won 49 states in 1972, in 10 years you won't be able to find anyone who'll admit having voted for the Felon President.