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They can be stopped, if enough people have the courage to stand up to them.

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"Who purges militaries? Autocrats."

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The King and I: With @deepakguptalaw.bsky.social on challenging monarchic theories of power in federal court

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There is a legal path to autocracy. This is exactly what Hitler did. The Nazis called it "Führerprinzip".

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💚🇺🇦 Now is the time to stand with Ukraine and against the authoritarianism represented by the likes of Trump, Farage and Putin.

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"Alignment between Trump’s & Putin’s arguments has led some to claim that Trump is controlled by Putin...it’s far more likely that Trump and Putin simply share a pre-World War II view of international relations, envisioning the world as a dark jungle where great powers reign as its ruling predators.

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"The appointments clause is a critical safeguard of the role of Congress in our system of checks and balances...The appointments clause is, in other words, the constitutional enemy of the exact type of unchecked power Musk is trying to exert."

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"Democratic backsliding is moving quickly now in part because of the lack of resistance." This void is caused by: 😕Confusion & division amongst Democrats 👑Opportunism & submission among Congressional Republicans, & 💰Tactical decisions by business, media & the bureaucracy to comply in advance.

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Dear American cousins, If you want a King, all you have to do is revoke the Declaration of Independence & accept that making tea in the microwave violates the natural law.

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What's it gonna be, folks? Are you going to bend the knee or join the volunteer fire brigade? #Resist

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"A Republic, if you can keep it" Benjamin Franklin

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👇Also true of everyone trained in theological ethics. Everything is political when the shared values - that allowed us to disagree constructively over everything else - are being SET ON FIRE.

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Unpopular opinion: these are political theology questions. Luke Bretherton's "Christ & the Common Life" is a good place to start if you're looking for solutions.

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"Mutual obligation has been weighing on us all especially heavily these last five years. It's tiring. Fascism promises sweet release from those burdens: wouldn't it be simpler if we could... just stop caring, stop worrying about one another's wellbeing, stop treating one another as equals?" #Covid

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"The error is the latest in the Trump administration's efforts to rapidly shrink the size of the government by conducting mass firings of federal workers — an effort that is being carried out by tech billionaire Elon Musk & DOGE, which is heavily staffed by people with no experience in government."

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"You can't shoot values" according to Hegseth, but apparently you can set fire to them, starting with the one about caring for the most vulnerable.

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"Vance and Musk, and by extension their boss, President Donald Trump, like what AfD stands for, and they want the world to know they like it."

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#BirdFlu "may never escalate into a pandemic or become a major threat to humans" in much the same way that playing Russian Roulette for years may never be fatal.

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"There is no replacement for hard power" because y'all destroyed America's soft power by betraying our shared values, threatening & insulting your allies & demolishing USAID.

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They can be stopped, if enough people have the courage to stand up to them.

"Who purges militaries? Autocrats."

The King and I: With @deepakguptalaw.bsky.social on challenging monarchic theories of power in federal court

There is a legal path to autocracy. This is exactly what Hitler did. The Nazis called it "Führerprinzip".

💚🇺🇦 Now is the time to stand with Ukraine and against the authoritarianism represented by the likes of Trump, Farage and Putin.

"The appointments clause is a critical safeguard of the role of Congress in our system of checks and balances...The appointments clause is, in other words, the constitutional enemy of the exact type of unchecked power Musk is trying to exert."

Dear American cousins, If you want a King, all you have to do is revoke the Declaration of Independence & accept that making tea in the microwave violates the natural law.

What's it gonna be, folks? Are you going to bend the knee or join the volunteer fire brigade? #Resist

"A Republic, if you can keep it" Benjamin Franklin

👇Also true of everyone trained in theological ethics. Everything is political when the shared values - that allowed us to disagree constructively over everything else - are being SET ON FIRE.

Unpopular opinion: these are political theology questions. Luke Bretherton's "Christ & the Common Life" is a good place to start if you're looking for solutions.

"Mutual obligation has been weighing on us all especially heavily these last five years. It's tiring. Fascism promises sweet release from those burdens: wouldn't it be simpler if we could... just stop caring, stop worrying about one another's wellbeing, stop treating one another as equals?" #Covid

"You can't shoot values" according to Hegseth, but apparently you can set fire to them, starting with the one about caring for the most vulnerable.

"Vance and Musk, and by extension their boss, President Donald Trump, like what AfD stands for, and they want the world to know they like it."

#BirdFlu "may never escalate into a pandemic or become a major threat to humans" in much the same way that playing Russian Roulette for years may never be fatal.

"There is no replacement for hard power" because y'all destroyed America's soft power by betraying our shared values, threatening & insulting your allies & demolishing USAID.

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