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markremy.bsky.social
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Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is: 1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization 2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy 3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them 4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process 5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

There we go.

Three words I never thought I'd utter together in my lifetime: Fight fiercely, Harvard www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m9O...

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

Wouldn't it be nice if every news outlet that covered the Bukele Oval Office meeting noted: District court wrote: Abrego Garcia "has never been charged with or convicted of any crime."⤵️ Fourth Circuit: The government presented "NO EVIDENCE" of MS-13 affiliation. Abandoned argument before court. ⤵️

They violated a court order to keep the AP out of the event where they publicly violated a different court order

“Too many have abandoned the basic principles of integrity, decency and respect. Without these, society does not simply fray; it collapses.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...

#OnThisDay April 14, 1996, Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers, when “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired on Fox. @thatbilloakley.com #TheSimpsons #SteamedHams

Amazing really, how random individuals on the socials turn out to be WAY BETTER at explaining things than corporate media or political actors whose jobs supposedly involve explaining things to us.

Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

This is how you do it.

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

The anti-trans movement is welfare for losers.

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat

"Guns Save Lives"

this really took an unexpected turn after about the second paragraph

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

RFK Jr. Orders Removal Of Sinks From HHS Bathrooms

BREAKING: Judge McFadden has *granted * the AP’s injunction against the White House’s ban on access to the Oval Office and East Room.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfvt...

The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

Every one of these guys tries to act so tough but they all seem like they'd burst into tears at the sound of a slammed door.

Yep. Ten days after the election, commenting on Trump’s initial cabinet picks, I observed that those choices were exactly the ones you’d make “if you were actively trying to do harm to the country.” He hasn’t stopped since.

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

How it started // how it's going

Pentagon Cuts All Employees With Weak Jawlines

Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am very, very weak, but they are two different things.

Weird that the people unable to admit looping a reporter in on top secret planning chat held on a commercial platform was a mistake, also can’t admit they deported some innocent people.

DEVELOPING: A man was sent to El Salvador due to 'administrative error' despite protected legal status, filings show www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

They have been building this snitch culture - report on women getting an abortion, professors engaged in wrongthink, federal employees working on DEI - for years.

This keeps getting worse and worse.

Vance is such a strange breed of liar because it's precisely his appeal to facts and his desire to appear in command of them that trips him up and allows him to be caught.

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday

I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.

This is an utter disgrace. This man has debased our election system to new depths.