Trump's speech matters. But laughing at it isn't enough. The Right's media machine will turn today's claims into tomorrow's common sense while the press turns Democratic politics into spectacle. Ignore the drama. Campaign on solutions. Win the election. iten.pages.dev/3o

History’s warning is simple: when governments define a people as the problem, rights vanish. America’s greatness flows from its ideals: no unreasonable searches, and no person deprived of liberty without due process. Defend them. iten.pages.dev/t-

Silence - The Ad Associate them Unshakably With Their Response entoraliten.pages.dev/unshakably-a... @lincolnproject.us @sykescharlie.bsky.social @steveschmidt.skystack.xyz @therickwilson.bsky.social @murphymike.bsky.social @ronsteslow.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social

"ICE Sent to Man’s Home Over Email." More Standing Armies v. Free Speech BEFORE Free Speech: J. Milton, 1644 “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, & to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” to Eng. aristos during apex English Civil War entoraliten.netlify.app/swarms

Nothing short of A Standing Army, the story of an Ohio GOTV group & how 100 FBI descend on them. "...the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects." @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co @adamschiff.com Pillar of the world we lived in before '16. entoraliten.netlify.app/on-the-ohio-...

Talk about "Obeying in Advance" @timothysnyder.bsky.social - seems ABC is not only $16M in in obeying, but now 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘸 seems to be just as busily capitulating. VERY unsettling. Not News, but News-ish. entoraliten.netlify.app/chill

And! Here's a BIG "Thank You!" to @harrylitman.bsky.social - the last Talking Feds was OVER-the-TOP Good! :))))!!!! AND! To @dahlialithwick.bsky.social who REALLY crystallized some KEY things about Slaughter. entoraliten.netlify.app/how-about-th...

Here's some ideas about how to go forward after Platner: entoraliten.netlify.app/after-platner

Campaigns run on momentum—and lately Dems hesitate to seize it. I sent this ad twice to Mills, once to DSCC. Run on RESULTS. Governing isn’t on-the-job training. 2026 wins must deliver policy, not personality. That defines 2028. My take + ad: is.gd/k8zhuG

“Unprecedented display of executive power” = American dictatorship.

With @barbmcquade.bsky.social on her new book about mob justice and the dire threat of seashells on a North Carolina beach, and @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app on the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act.

On 8647. What if they are letters? I heard this was recently found in the sands near the beach Comey was walking on. Seems like a sort of confession?

is.gd/6RVomk @newyorker.com Hey, David Remnick. Why not start out the interview by asking the question "How is it that a self-certifying doctor who is really just a political nepo baby & a faux intellectual manages to carry enough weight to get into the pages of the New Yorker?"

And!! This, the first of two! Jody Avirgan and Dr. Nicole Hammer and Kellie Carter Jackson really knock these out of the park every time.

Great history podcast! Erudite host Jody Avirgan talks each week with historians Dr. Nicole Hemmer (Columbia University) - teaching at Vanderbilt & Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson (Columbia University) - teaching at Wellesley College. This episode was fantastic!!

On the WHCD shooting...

@sbg1.bsky.social In your Orange Jesus article is.gd/xFZvSi , is there another way to see it? Seems to me Trump was COUNTING on your believing he was actively doing what you accuse him of, and directing your reporting to that. Not the crippling effect of $4+ gas for a year. is.gd/7H26AO

@harrylitman.bsky.social Great article by Harry Litman on Todd Blanche. bit.ly/4sFHywX I guess we all need to start thinking about Blanche Subpoenas. Those and Kavanaugh Stops, too, right?

@weissmann.substack.com REALLY looking forward to your upcoming book Liar's Kingdom! www.amazon.com/dp/0316601306 It got me thinking of this episode in 2004. As one of the ur-events of this era of lies. Seems to me Suskind should flout the off-the-record promise here & say who this was.

@milestaylor.bsky.social Three Republicans may have the votes, but if defiance now means threats, swatting, primaries, and isolation, that helps explain the silence. Rome knew the method: publish the names, strip the protection. We should name it - PROSCRIPTION. bit.ly/4vnWMcs

@thewarningses.bsky.social Re: Noem's thinking you said, "...the level of corruption & the brazenness of the taking, there are a lot of people who have made a bet." You're right - Noem lost. I keep wondering why so many try. Had an idea about this. I call it the SICKTAX.

Not about "Justice." SELFCAST: journalism presents events as 1st-person witnessed billionaire drama, turning lines into veiled rhetorical questions: if I were that rich, would I do it or condemn it? The reader keeps answering, "I would," or "I never would." And always "I’m right." Policy vanishes.

Friends! I may have a frame here that makes events legible earlier. Authority in this office can move sums large enough…to end vulnerability permanently. >> Before the Iran Attack, Hegseth’s Circle Explored a Defense Bet - bit.ly/4troza8 My article offers solutions too. Please read & share!

@warren.senate.gov Hi, Senator Warren! FAN! <swoon> I had an idea. Tell me what you think. Instead of "Wealth Tax," why not call it an "Asset Tax." Seems like wealth, even in the most modest terms, is something EVERYONE hopes to have. How does that sound?

Online threats now silence most Republican opposition. New? Sadly, no. Rome knew it as the Republic came under threat. PROSCRIPTION. Cassius Dio described the proscription lists as, “…a new device, a whitened tablet, on which he inscribed the names. There was no safety at all for any one…”

For the love of God, could ANY Network take up this idea. Camera crew. You. Telephone. Seek to hire paid protesters. "Yeah, Hi. TempsRUS? I'm looking to hire 25,000 people. Go to Houston. A protest. Right. 25K. 1 day. Busses? Yes, them, too. What's that? 500 busses. Right. 3.7 miles long? Hmmm...

THROUGHPUT. In Minnesota, interposition becomes “insurrection” in a single memo. After that, it’s not debate—it’s flow. Warrants turn optional. Courts turn slow. Power moves faster than conscience. And everyone learns what the word inevitability means.

Dr. King warned how power exploits fatigue. Federal agents provoke scenes of suffering, wait for local response, then rename restraint as rebellion. Minnesota’s “Call 911” may slow the abuse—or hand bad faith the pretext it’s waiting for. Read ⬇️

The state doesn’t need to confront ICE or DHS directly. It can move fast by passing targeted laws that constrain the systems they rely on—cars, hotels, food, parking. Once enacted, the state becomes the cop, and everyday violations trigger state law. I outline this more at the link below...