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- If this were a draft story for a political comedy - a national security official who shows no interest in national security, and obsesses over a domestic locality with the same name as a country she's supposed to care about - it would be too on the nose.
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- It's axiomatic but bears repeating: the survival of American democracy depends on a majority of Americans not wanting authoritarianism.
- "ICE is terrorizing America’s streets right now. Democrats have the ability and the leverage to play hardball for some of these reforms right now. A win is right there for the taking—if they don’t decide to call it a loss." lnk.thebulwark.com/4rvH4sX
- @samsteindc.bsky.social on Mike Johnson sowing distrust in our elections: “It's hard to imagine a more irresponsible statement from the Speaker of the House than that…Openly saying, I don't have evidence for what I'm suggesting, but I'm going to suggest it anyway.”
- "In an authoritarian context owning the Post is a high-risk proposition. Which is why Bezos is remaking the paper to be more acceptable to President Trump." Or destroying it. (You can always join us.)
- Why would Tulsi Gabbard focus on Georgia in America over the Georgia next to Russia? Because she’s not interested in foreign threats. She’s working with Trump to conquer the people he regards as his true enemy: blue America. @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4kpR98M
- Marimar Martinez: “The government told the people they were targeting the worst of the worst…They are not targeting the worst of the worst. They are targeting individuals who fit a certain profile, who simply have a certain accent, a non-white skin color, just like me.”
- Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”
- Rep. Lieu demands Deputy AG Todd Blanche be fired: "Yesterday, he said essentially that it is not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein. If Jeffrey Epstein was human trafficking minors for these sex parties, and you show up and patronize the establishment at that party, yes, you're guilty.”
