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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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Spot the American. Is it someone who speaks his mind and does the work to get citizenship? Or is it someone born into citizenship who covers his face while abducting people in a Черный ворон?

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Reposting my review of Nikolaus Wachsmann’s superb history of the German concentration camp system, "KL." It’s a good time to read this book. www.wsj.com/articles/mem...

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Trump has diverted media attention from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to his fake "peace" process. In fact, American weakness enables Russian aggression as a new offensive looms. Useful corrective here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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We’re proud to represent members of the public health and science community in suing NIH over its illegal, unscientific, and undemocratic cancellation of research on now-forbidden topics like gender identity and DEI. Here are 5 things you can do to #KilltheCuts & #SaveOurScience ⬇️ @apha.org

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Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”

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Denounce thy neighbor www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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It’s moments like these when we might consider it relevant that the current FBI director who might be charged with investigating this crime appeared eight times on the podcast of Stew Peters, a Christian Nationalist who recently called for a “final solution” to America’s “Jewish problem.”

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ATTN: Join members of the legal community for a virtual rally to speak out about attacks on judges, lawyers, and the rule of law on Tues, 4/15. An independent legal community is critical to protecting civil society against abuses of power. Register to speak up for justice: speakupforjustice.law

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Ever more ways to disempower citizens and empower oligarchs with citizens’ personal data www.wired.com/story/palant...

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Big numbers like this lead to local quotas and the desire to fill them which leads to haste and abuse and lawlessness and terror. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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At this point, Trump admin is just relaying Ru demands rather than behaving as a mediator or a leader. “The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown. apple.news/AfogjxQp3Sfm...

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Crucial point made here — we should learn from others rather than imagine that everything is new and therefore shocking and impossible to resist. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

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This is layers of sinister. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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World leaders have responded to russia's brutal attack on Sumy, condemning the aggressive act, expressing their condolences, and calling for increased pressure on the terrorist state. We thank them for their support. #StandWithUkraine

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Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortes, Jayapal, Khanna, and Frost rising to the occasion.

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Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortes, Jayapal, and Khanna rising to the occasion.

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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The great Volodymyr Yermolenko and his UkraineWorld project are very worthy of support. Here we are launching my freedom book, underground, in Kharkiv last September. @ukraineworld.bsky.social ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...

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The Trump people claim to be fighting antisemitism, and the media often accept that framing. I believe, on the contrary, that these actions are antisemitic in intention and in execution. I explain in a short video: snyder.substack.com/p/fomenting-...

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This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.

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Lawlessness and shamelessness.

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Hannah Arendt summed up Trump-style authoritarians and their lemmings perfectly with this quote: “The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that…one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day… 1/

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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.

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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

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German businesses heard a similar pitch in 1940. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"Trump has an obvious weakness that makes America weak. He places the American economy at risk for the sake of a personal foible, a visible vulnerability." snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-psy...

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"Trump has an obvious weakness that makes America weak. He places the American economy at risk for the sake of a personal foible, a visible vulnerability." snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-psy...

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Five Harvard students or recent graduates had their visas revoked, apparently for exercising their constitutionally-protected right to free expression. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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WATCH: Rep. Justin Jones honors Lynne McFarland— the 80yo woman who made national news when troopers carried her out of committee in protest of the cruel @SenBoWatson @WilliamLamberth bill to keep undocumented kids out of school.

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🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

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"'Shadow hearing' with ex-DOJ attorney after NYC mayor corruption charges dropped" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vw6...

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A week ago I visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, which everyone who can should, and which got me thinking again about the essential work of the Freedom Riders. Some music here arising from that history: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfCN...

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It’s like everything else with Trump. You transform politics from a field or prosperity to a field of pain, and then you decide who hurts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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The ideal of masculinity: destroying things other people built, whining about it, blaming someone else.

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Usefully clear reasoning here. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

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Take note law firms and universities.

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The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute has done extraordinary work, especially these last three years, in translating major works of Ukrainian literature. It is very worthy of support. kyivindependent.com/publishing-h...

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Because both ways it’s about breaking an alliance.

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Books by Heather McGhee, Jonathan Metzl, Carol Anderson that have been very helpful to me pulled from Naval Academy library. Please support these and other banned authors. media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/...

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Interesting that Trump apparently sees the Holocaust in terms of Germans loving their neighbors and helping them in times of distress or confinement.

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1/4. If the US were engaged in an attempt to bring peace to Ukraine, it would place more tariffs on Russia, rather than exempt Russia entirely.

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