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"However essential it may be to ensure no impermissibly large bottles of shampoo make it onto a flight from Little Rock to Omaha, it is not 'safeguard[ing] the borders.'" My latest on the Cavalier presidency @theunpopulist.net :

If you're interested in seeing how framing contests are taking shape after the ICE killing of another person in Minneapolis, here's a window into the conversation on X this morning. Link to interactive graph: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot... * I put this together quickly. Sorry for any errors

📌 www.mediaite.com/opinion/rene...

Per governing WWE precedent, if Machado attempts to hand the Nobel Peace Prize to Trump it's actually deemed vacant, and will be contested at the next WrestleMania. (Said precedent being Andre->DiBiase 1987, and since Trump is a WWE Hall of Famer he's bound by this. ht: @stephensilver.bsky.social)

Starting to think that as society we didn’t consider how slippery the legalized gambling slope would be

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov, head of RT Margarita Simonyan and their fellow propagandists did their best to cope with Ukraine's daring operation and used Tucker Carlson's clip to boost their morale, but their nerves still got the best of them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzYm...

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦 Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024)

happy bday Polish nurse Irene Gut Opdyke, b.1918, "gained international recognition for aiding Polish Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II."

Will just leave this clip here of Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings talking about what’s wrong with America from a 1991 interview and it’s still all very true today

Let me check the latest market news on CNBC...

The formula used by the Trump administration to levy reciprocal tariffs contains a serious math error that over-inflates the impact by about a factor of four, per economists at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute.

This is what happens when you ask me to indulge your false equivalencies about the Trump tariffs.

youtu.be/ohBCoDG4LQ8?... Watch @justinwolfers.bsky.social interview through to the end. Masterful.

"who is a huge jerk" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 "what an evil thing to do" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Another view of “it’s not just a messaging problem — it’s an infrastructure problem”

Extraordinary filing released tonight in a case about access to Social Security data from Tiffany Flick, fmr chief of staff to Acting Commissioner Michelle King. It details the unusual urgency the DOGE boys had in getting to SSA data & what they were looking for: democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

thehill.com/homenews/ap/... Not sure I could imagine a better illustration of right-wing social media's capacity for brainwashing and destroying empathy

I think it’s important to draw attention to small acts of courage and dissent (like this NYT ad and the message from the VT ski resort social media manager) that remind people of the range of possibilities for standing up, speaking out, and fighting back.

Albert was a smart guy.

The order to email Elon Musk five things you did last week or else you’re fired appears to be illegal. More here.

Be clear about what you are seeing. The firing of these senior officers has nothing to do with competence. This is creating an oath of loyal by the Armed Forces to the Leader. We face an uncertain future.

Gov. Hochul: "Think about this next time you're stuck in traffic." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFl...

Meanwhile MAGA influencers & pols do a consistently good job reading the online crowd, pulling interesting things up, and making them the issue or Main Character of at least the day… connecting whatever’s happening to some base-winning theme that they return to. Familiarity, novelty, repetition.

NEWS Before she resigned, the Acting US Attorney for SDNY wrote an eight page letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Eric Adams case. In that letter, she said that Eric Adams’ attorneys said the Mayor would help the DOJ with enforcement if his case was dismissed. Must Read Letter!

From Kate Conger’s book “Character Limit” on how Musk ruined Twitter.

If you want to see what the other 83% of Community Notes are all about, the ones that are not yet visible on X, bookmark our new X Misleading and Manipulated Media Dashboard. We have added a convenient Keyword Search box. cn.deepfakestracker.org

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

Re RFK: The AVs & COVID cranks on X are losing their minds over the possibility that Dr Sen Cassidy may vote no. They’re riling up the base to get him in line. One small action to take this wkend would be calling as a counter-voice to thank him for voting his conscience thehill.com/policy/healt...

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... Hmmm. Nothing in Post about federal workers' existing oath of loyalty... to the Constitution

COLLINS: We don't even yet know the names of the people killed and you're blaming Dems and DEI policies. Don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation? TRUMP: No, I don't think so C: Does it comfort their families to hearing you blaming DEI? R: That's not a very smart question

This is sort of the problem—the Defendants are required to "consider and address the relevant issues" *before* they issue an administrative order upending all federal grants and loans

@crampell.bsky.social: Bravo

I think I remember reading somewhere that the Executive Branch has a duty to align spending with. the will of the people as expressed through *Congress*

What is unique about our new dashboard for tracking media labelled as misleading or manipulated on X is its ability to display Community Notes that haven't yet met the criteria and are not visible to the public on the platform. cn.deepfakestracker.org

Compare what Abe Lincoln said in his first inaugural address to what John Roberts said 10 months after Obama’s inauguration. We have ceased to be our own rulers—and if we don’t like it, too bad.

ASA member Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social talks to Jon Stewart about the emerging tech CEO “broligarchy” @thedailyshow.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCm...

So when all was said and done, the only country that opened it's prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.

“If liberals are to respond effectively to the challenge of a new Trump administration, they will need to reflect critically on what happened in 1989, and discard the story they’ve always told themselves about it,” writes Ivan Krastev: www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Unique and credible insight

Let’s hope that Tik Tok is disabled tonight at midnight and all day tomorrow and Monday. Which means the biggest story on Monday will be… And the reaction from the newly installed President will be …