samratner.bsky.social
Policy director at Win Without War, working to enact a more just and progressive US foreign policy. Formerly @ACLEDINFO and @ZitamarNews. He/him. Views my own.
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Just one really big one, right here in New York.
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Unfortunately, the other thing is going to happen -- soccer is going to get way more fascist.
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I had “fun” plotting hellfire and damnation against the Trump White House in yesterday’s exercise. Thanks to @harrisonmann.bsky.social and @winwithoutwar.bsky.social for organizing an incredible event! As the Onion famously declared “Drugs win drug war.”
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I think Columbia SIPA is a dark horse here, but GW is a real contender
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On one hand, at least Dems are fighting on the thing they most need to fight on. On the other, it would be great if there was any sense that Dem leadership had a sense of how power works.
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That law is still on the books, and Trump is violating it just as flagrantly as Biden did, a fact Congress should take note of!
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FWIW, NSM-20 isn’t legislation (it isn’t even an EO), and the Biden admin already effectively rendered it moot when it chose to continue violating actually existing law by continuing to ship arms to the Israeli government despite Netanyahu’s aid obstruction and human rights abuses.
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I, for one, am thrilled for another round of JCET discourse
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And not only has no one punched him, but the person who's come closest is somehow Mark Zuckerberg.
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I am worried this is going to become the conventional wisdom over the next four years: If those pesky college students and activists and SJWs hadn't over-reached, Trump II never would have happened.
It is nonsense.
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I realize that this is a bit of a niche complaint in the context of US politics, but believe me when I say: that's really stupid.