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Per my Grateful Dead post yesterday, I’m excited to listen to this: www.npr.org/series/g-s1-...
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Colbert throwing orange dicktatortot in dumpster. x.com/PaulleyTicks...
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If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.
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It’s almost time for the One Million Rising kickoff call. Join the nationwide campaign to train one million Americans on the tools of strategic non-cooperation to lead a local resistance movement: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Trump Is Attempting “To AMASS Power’ The New York Times Breathlessly reported this morning. Well Let’s All Take A Deep Breath. This is a Trump fantasy, with a Machiavellian Twist and a hot pepper🌶️ substack.com/@thewestpoin...
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This week I left The Washington Post after 40 years, 6 months and 6 days. Today I have a piece in the New Yorker explaining my heart-breaking decision, and including the column that was spiked. I wish I never had to write it. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
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This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
More accurate, fewer words; "There are plenty of contractors going under". A friend furloughed 75% of staff (furlough w/paying for health insurance for three months), 50% exec pay cut, 25% rest of staff to keep as many people w/salary. PS: Wasn't 18F a government office, not a contractor.
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Krystal Ball's giving a better understanding on Elon's doing w/ the Govt x.com/krystalball/...
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We're seeing a level of executive overreach that is unprecedented in the US But other countries have defeated autocratic forces before—& Americans can learn from their successes We outlined a pro-democracy blueprint👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...
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Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."
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My take, essentially, is that we could be weeks or maybe even days away from the disintegration of the rule of federal law in this country. At some point this administration is going to stop obeying court orders. What then? Nothing good.
If I were the one who had made up the title of this episode, I would have added “—Or Not” to it. And with some emphasis on the “not.”
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But here’s the rub. The people whose job it is to execute the courts’ orders work for the USMS, which is part of DOJ, which reports to FFOTUS. @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and I discuss this here: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-sto...
Courts have the power to hold people who defy their orders in criminal contempt and send them to jail. FAFO.
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