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The president announces a federal law enforcement assault on the several population centers of America to achieve an expressly partisan political end.

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Good quotes in this NYT piece from @hahrie.bsky.social, Omar, and ya boy. Here’s my quote, about media and social media incentives to make protest just another part of the campaign horserace rather than highlighting the underlying policy conflict

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Arts and crafts is my passion

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The San Francisco Giants are acquiring All-Star slugger Rafael Devers from the Boston Red Sox, sources confirm to ESPN. An out-of-nowhere blockbuster deal. Boston is getting RHP Jordan Hicks and more. First on the news was @ByRobertMurray.

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You look at protest activity vs military parade, you look at polling, you look at focus groups, you look at special elections—the US is libbing out hard, not loving Trump II You look at Twitter and it’s a bunch of viral posts that sound like radio rwanda Musk’s $44bn well spent

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At the Mamdani rally, AOC says that if Cuomo wins the mayor’s race, he’ll run for president. “With the world crying out to end our gerontocracy, that can’t happen,” she says. 👀👀👀👀👀

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The nazi site is full of propaganda from musk on down that the MN assassin is a leftist. At times it feels like radio rwanda, absolutely disturbing

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Don’t let em tell you differently—small town America is pretty into this

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Where were you when history was happening

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An underappreciated explanation for antitrump politicians’ behavior is that they fear assassination. The more they stand for something, the more death threats they receive. Sometimes they come true. Political systems can’t withstand a constant threat of violence.

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statement from the WestLos Rapid Response Network re: rumors of nannies kidnapped at the park: Please rely on updates from community groups on the ground. Sometimes things spread like wildfire & it’s tough to control the misinfo Always remember to ask- where did they hear this? & how do they know?

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One thing about masked plain clothed dudes is nobody knows what’s really happening (including me). Guess that’s part of the point

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A friend just texted me from LA that this was happening at the park she was at

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Where to even begin

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Protests are helpful for making people feel less isolated and nihilistic. Boomers libs seem to understand that in a way many young people don’t. (I say this as a guy who complains about gerontocracy all the time)

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Ok but incredible that it was a Chris hedges byline

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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

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Happening now, come through!

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In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

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Quite the image and caption

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"This is an all-time low for the Israelis and an all-time high for the Palestinians since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question." The figure is surely flipped for Dem electeds. No issue has a greater disconnect between the base and party in government in either party

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“Harsh crackdowns may generate sympathy for protesters, said Omar Wasow, a political scientist at UC Berkeley who studies protest movements. The “spectacle of violence and repression,” he said, can frame states as ‘bullies’ unjustly squashing expression.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...

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Honestly shocking to see this

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According to their immigration attorney, 5 of the 6 had their paperwork and work permits in order, nowhere close to expired. No criminal records. They got rounded up anyway.

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RIP Brian Wilson For an instrumental and vocal performance that matches Wilson's writing genius, peep this rare Betty Everett cover of "God Only Knows" www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Qa...

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Tomorrow! Lisa L. Miller @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social and Alex Gourevitch discuss how to respond to the crises we face, from constitutional reform to student protests and labor organizing. Moderated by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Register now: secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

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Alright that's pretty good, I chuckled

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"The normalization of routine and open-ended deployment of the military at home requires that the public become accustomed to this departure from historic practice." Today Trump went further down the path of nomralizing the politicization of the military. Awful. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-always...

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The Democratic Party is actually pretty effective under strict institutional norms and rules. They whip votes and submit to leaders despite a big tent and diverse base When the norms and rules don’t apply (like now), the Democratic Party is a deer in the headlights

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Add “zombie fires” to the list of things that sound like they should be concepts for late-night horror movies, but are in fact real-world consequences of climate change. on.ft.com/3FPpCO4

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They hate the First Amendment so bad

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extremely common 2020s bill kristol W

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I'm moderating this panel on implications for the US Constitution. June 12 at 3pm PT/6pm ET, come through!

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I posted that Miller and Trump were "invoking" (actually legally calling upon) the Insurrection Act but I messed up and the right word is "evoking" ("calling forth something, typically a feeling")

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In the modern era, even “riots” generate support, not backlash www.cambridge.org/core/service...

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The best scientific evidence is that the 2020 BLM protests helped defeat Trump in the election. These protests are likely doing the same. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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