saradeirdre.bsky.social
Sailor, knitter, servant of cats.
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What tipped you off?
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In a Democratic administration the press would be haranguing Dem leaders about how they would respond to the unconstitutional proposal, and would put out lists of those who failed to disavow it, making it the top news every day.
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Had to zoom in just to see if they’ve started affirmatively calling themselves “the failing New York Times” — but apparently they’re still showing, not telling.
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It’s not proof, merely implication that the fraud has taken place. The spin machine will do the rest. There are plenty of people, for example, who KNOW that DOGE uncovered and saved trillions in “waste, fraud, and abuse” because they heard it from a trusted source.
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🤞🤞🤞
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Looks like Leif Erickson from The Vikings.
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The other key point being, of course, that Republicans can reverse the tariffs in a matter of hours anytime they choose.
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I mean, I am certain these people are competent at *something*. Maybe that something is being a charlatan?
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It’s literally the Peter Principle at work.
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If this were any other administration, we’d be discussing the merits of using the Alien Enemies Act by now because the first planes would have turned around immediately. I’m guessing after all is said and done that contempt order in JGG will be brutal.
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My local 4/5 demo was organized by several chapters of Indivisible. They had an army of volunteers and many electeds and nonprofit and community leaders speaking, and 30,000 people showed up. Answer had zero involvement I’m aware of.
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Andy Ngo is such a troll. Good luck provoking a fistfight with this idiotic take.
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This is how they shape public opinion, because of course right wing media will run this ad nauseum. Meanwhile the regular media will report what they say in court under oath, causing MAGA to call them liars. Two completely different realities.
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This has been a mystery to me: why do people keep saying the men were “deported” when we paid El Salvador to hold them in prison? Deportation is removal or expulsion, not imprisonment.
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Back in the late ’90s I worked for a small neighborhood newspaper. Well before the economy “officially” slowed down and before 9/11, we could tell things were getting bad because our small-biz advertisers were pulling back, buying fewer and smaller ads.
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!!!
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But, those people were never in the US. The whole point of Guantanamo was to prevent them acquiring constitutional rights which would attach if they were brought to US prisons. (I personally don’t believe the legalities should be different for any prisoners under US control but that was the logic.)
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AI is like if Clippy merged with the bad Arnie from the future.
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The gaslighting is real.
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This is my thought. If we essentially put people in prison in El Salvador rather than, say, a US based private prison, it should be no different.
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It’s him. He’s talking about himself.
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What the what?!
I remember when we thought it was bad that DeJoy destroyed the mail sorting machines. This is just… I can’t even.
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Grover Norquist and Newt Gingrich could only dream of what is being done today. This has been the plan since Reagan.
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Saw three stellar City Attorney candidates just last night at my local Dem meeting. Davison doesn’t have a prayer of reelection.
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At least the smart, ethical up-and-coming law students will know which firm to avoid like the plague
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Don’t these people know that only the president has immunity?
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Short term thinking by Inter Con. This is only a good move if the coup is successful.
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The cruelty is the point
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Yeah, the planes can be anywhere in the world and still be subject to the court’s order. And the order came into effect as soon as the judge made his oral ruling saying so.
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Trump said he was going to the Capitol on Jan 6 with the MAGA protesters to try and stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election. This was Pelosi’s response.
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Background checks? How quaint.
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The better to privatize essential government functions. Wonder who will end up with those contracts?
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I understand there’s another rally at Cal Anderson Park, I think that one is going later but I’m not sure.
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Today, now. Officially ends at 2pm, but who knows?
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I mean, the last “normal” Republican presidency gave us the Iraq invasion, the Afghanistan war, massive tax giveaways to the wealthy, and financial deregulation was unaddressed and eventually led to the 2008-09 recession.
But you’re not wrong that this is going to be worse.
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It’s only a matter of time before WWE is the pinnacle of American art and culture.
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I’m gonna have that song in my head all day now.