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Julia Azari on Cheney's legacy: "The Iraq War offered a foil for Trump in the 2016 primaries ... But the war on terror also created the tools that Trump now uses against Americans ..." goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/dick-chene...

Bokprat på Nesodden bibliotek i dag, kanskje vi sees :) nesoddenbibliotek.no/arrangement#...

Har vært gjest i "Kriseklubben" og snakket om "USA: En nekrolog?" www.human.no/podkast/kris...

When the NeverTrumpers are more pro-Democrat than the Democrats #shutdown

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

But, did women ruin the workplace? #shutdown

Fant den! Her er videostraumen. www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...

The federal government’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty and tell President Jim Davis and the Regents to protect UT Austin’s independence by rejecting the Compact. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...

Look the only way to stop a bad guy with a sandwich is an even badder guy with a sandwich 😎

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."

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Every new post tonight is like Dems have flipped the Mehaden town sewer authority, long dominated by conservatives, by a +38 margin

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Nothing says “Democratic Leader” quite like “I will not tell you who I voted for in a general election.”

Hilde gave a great interview about her new book tonight at Litteraturhuset. If you missed it, you can tune in tomorrow Nov 5th at 16:00 on www.drammenunlimitedradio.com to hear her talk about her book and more on US Politics, In Plain English.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

On Lawfare Daily, @klonick.bsky.social spoke to @rickpildes.bsky.social about his article, “Political Fragmentation in Democracies in the West,” the link between social media and threats to democracy, and the unique way this technology is now impacting the United States political system.

it's Election Day! this is my roadmap for the day and night, below! (be sure to follow me and @boltsmag.org if you want updates and results during election day & election night, and/or bookmark the form below as we'll update it with results.)

I dag er det nøyaktig ett år siden Donald Trump ble valgt som president for andre gang. Etter å ha forsøkt seg på et statskupp den 6. januar, 2021, er altså Trump tilbake i Det hvite hus. Denne gangen med flere velgere enn sin motkandidat. Er det på tide og skrive den amerikanske nekrologen?

"The Meanings of a Second Nakba": On how "the globalization of the Nakba that has been spurred by the genocide in Gaza and its growing recognition as such." Please read this great article in this highly significant journal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

After tomorrow, both the "national security moms" of the centrist wing of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Socialist-wing of the party, will have cause for celebration. 2026 is coming right up.

How to Make Art Out of Confederate Monuments www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/m...

Today at 16:00 catch our Chair and Vice-Chair on the 2nd edition of their Dems for Democracy radio program on Drammen Unlimited Radio with special guest @herestad.bsky.social where they talk about the current happenings in US politics and Hilde’s new book “USA. En Nekrolog?”

Florida man in fifth year of presidency reads Constitution

‘You Love It or You Hate It’: Pumpkin Spice Lattes Divide Europe: 'His version, he said, “is sweet, but not American sweet — because that’s really sweet.”' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/w...

Our new health insurance premium feels more like a shakedown‼️ Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you. Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No. 1/2

Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.

WELKER: Coffee prices are up 19%, beef is up almost 15%, and bacon up almost 6% just to name a few. So when are all grocery prices going to come down as President Trump promised? BESSENT: Kristen, it's unfortunate. As much as I like you, you like to cherrypick.

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down newrepublic.com/article/2013... via @newrepublic.com Excellent piece that all who love freedom should read.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Yet another shocking scandal from The White House. h/t @brizzyc.bsky.social

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Now out in Party Politics 🎉 Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing. 👉 A legitimisation effect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"Tilfeldighetens lunefulle spill, der altså. Hvem har vel ikke slumpet til å høres ut akkurat som barnemorderen fra 22. juli i ny og ne?" www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/danby-...

The Resistance has the momentum:

Other than an excellent opinion piece by @shteyngart.bsky.social, the @nytimes.com apparently has no follow-up stories on the "No Kings" demonstrations, one of the largest days of political protest in U.S. history. They don't even get a mention in the U.S. News and Politics homepage roundups.

There is a bias among pundits to eye-roll and dismiss Dem opposition to Trump (such as the No Kings protests) as predictable. But in terms of raw numbers (both events and participants), what we're seeing is much bigger than e.g. the Tea Party movement was. Dems are a high entropy system right now

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

“The ousting comes amid a critical dispute within academia about how to rebuild confidence in higher education in a politically polarized moment.” This is such a tortured story frame it is functionally a lie. Greg Abbott is not trying to rebuild confidence, he is proudly conducting a purge.

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