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I’m begging people to look up what Erdoğan tried to do to Boğaziçi university in Istanbul. And before he shut it down, Orban tried to crack control over the CEU in Budapest. It’s not about a single department or policy. It’s about exerting control over the whole institution.

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I haven’t cried all week, but her asking him “habibi how will i call you?” in Arabic has me sobbing. Fuck every human who did this. Fuck them all.

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This is flawed legal reasoning and based on a bad-faith misinterpretation of the statute. A shutdown does not mean they get to pick who’s essential. That’s a different part of the statute!!

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This is sort of why I oppose ethnonationalist states on principle.

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chuck schumer's capitulation makes much more sense when you remember that he's doing it to appeal to his imaginary friends, the Baileys

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Ok honestly, something is very up with the coordinated attack on Schumer. I hate the guy but everyone firing on all cylinders is genuinely strange. Because let's be real, he's really just doing what the caucus wants here.

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Republicans excising Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney within a few election cycles of when they were their standard bearers, and the periodic leadership fights in the House, demonstrate that Republicans are far more accountable to their base. They fear their base. Democrats hate theirs.

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Intentionally attacking an IVF clinic.

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It’s a start

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And 47 is extremely savvy. He's going to get on TV tomorrow and hail a bipartisan bill to cut the government and to cut waste, fraud and abuse.

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Schumer told the NYTimes what he would do before telling Dem voters. It also seems Schumer hasn't read the bill he's voting for, which authorizes the very thing he says he's avoiding "if a sequestration is ordered by the President." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o... www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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It feels like everyone on here is at least marginally unified on this, but wow, just expressed similar sentiments in a 2016-era boomer Indivisible FB group and got called a Russian bot.

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Yes you can, sorry. The leader, the whip, fucking Brian Schatz? Shaheen (who also possibly not coincidentally just announced she isn't running for reelection). When the the leader, the whip, and the chief deputy whip all sign off on something, that's the party conference.

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I don’t think this person has talked to a federal worker recently. They are one of the angriest groups of people right now.

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What logically happens when courts neuter themselves on national security/foreign affairs authority

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Alright @aaron.bsky.team, @safety.bsky.app and @jay.bsky.team I am baffled as to why you have labeled @monahijazi.bsky.social not as a spammer (which she isn’t but that’s the usual email they get) but as a fraud. Mona is one of the most documented people from Gaza on here- she will videochat you

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[speaking in my personal capacity only]: I am a federal employee. So is my husband. We are risking a lot. And I don’t know a single federal employee who feels differently than the people in this screenshot.

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cross-examination? no, your honor, we said we'd make mr ezell available for ross-examination, to investigate those great bargains on clothing and home decor

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It is a de facto international war crime to block aid. Netanyahu is committing war crimes. And the US Govt just sent him another $12B in arms. This violates our own Leahy Laws as well as international human rights law. This is fascism.

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i keep reading statements from democrats saying they find mahmoud khaleil's views to be abhorrent and despicable before going on to say that he should nonetheless be given due process. but no one has been able to demonstrate what khaleil's views are beyond the admin's assertions. except for cnn:

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Great thread.

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Been struggling to figure out what the plan is. This is a great explanation.

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It won Best Documentary. The mayor wants to evict a movie theater for screening it. "I am a staunch believer in free speech. But normalizing hate and then disseminating antisemitism in a facility owned by the taxpayers of Miami Beach . . . is unjust to the values of our city." bit.ly/41ZSaN0

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Really interesting. Trump admin had apparently nominated, and just pulled, Daniel Davis for a top intel post. Davis is a fellow at a Koch-aligned think tank, prominent critic of Israel’s Gaza assault, & intervention skeptic. He even speaks of Palestinians…as humans! Would Ds ever nominate him? No

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Everything about this screams “losers.” Obama line from 17 years ago, fake concern about CA fires, also the assumption that you’d want to hear from political leadership LESS in a crisis situation? The first real sentence also contemplates losing, and acknowledges Dems as current losers. Losers.

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Democrats deserve to lose every single election until this complete coward and loser is gone.

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