Amazon says that book was published in August 2024 and is about GOP voter-suppression tactics like gerrymandering. i agree those are bad things, but they don’t support conspiracy theories about the election itself.
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Amazon says that book was published in August 2024 and is about GOP voter-suppression tactics like gerrymandering. i agree those are bad things, but they don’t support conspiracy theories about the election itself.
I agree a mass anti-Trump movement is needed. But I’m highly skeptical of claims the 2024 election was rigged/stolen. The evidence for that is as thin as for 2020.
what did they mislead people (as opposed to not being fully correct because the facts weren’t yet clear)? what is your evidence it was intentional?
Thanks for keeping us up to date on this case. While the circumstances are horrifying, the fact that judicial authority seems to be holding for now is encouraging, and egg on the face of some of the more hysterical doomers.
yeah, what could all those renowned scientists possibly have known about the areas they had phds and decades of expertise in
Pathetic as he seems to be, as an American I’d trade Trump for Starmer in a second
Russia and China aren’t friends either — long and contentious history going back to the 1600s
I can see that Bluesky’s business model may need some tweaking, but personally I’m fine with it remaining relatively elite and niche. I have no interest in conversing with people who don’t like reading and writing.
there’s probably other uncontested deportation flights to guatemala going on now, safest assumption is probably that’s what these are
The “Genocide Joe” folks sure knocked this one out of the park, didn‘t they?
Blocked.
Doomerism.
You are not giving any details at all of who would stop Ds and how. You might as well just say the Marines will storm the Capitol and arrest them, or space aliens will teleport them to Pluto.
That’s somewhat reassuring.
See above
Did they stop once the ruling was communicated to them? If not, and there wasn’t some higher court order staying it — and that happens again — our problem becomes exponentially worse
If you’re not outlining some plausible scenario in which the new Congress somehow prohibits blue state Democrats from being seated, this is just empty doomerism.
Elections are certified by the states too, and a 1969 Supreme Court ruling established that Congress can’t refuse to seat somebody whose election was in accordance with the election laws of their state.
IMO the government should give every citizen a free US passport on their 18th birthday and free renewals therafter. If they did something like that, voter ID would be no issue
Elections are run by the states. He has no legal or constitutional levers to mandate changes to those elections. Blue state governors and secretaries of state will simply ignore his EO.
How?
Red states can’t prevent blue states from using mail in ballots, and neither can Trump
Conspiracy-theorizing is toxic no matter what the claims. Trump legitimately won both the electoral and popular votes in 2024 and we cannot defeat Trumpism without acknowledging those facts.
Utterly honorless hack.
I take it he’ll be signing an executive order making it so
He has no ability to prevent that either.
It could, but it would have no hope of overcoming a D filibuster in the Senate.
Thank you once again, Mr. Elias, for your work protecting our democracy. People need to understand this is an empty threat; Trump can no more change state voting procedures via EO than he can annex the Andromeda Galaxy.
Both complacency and doomerism are deeply irresponsible. We need to be alarmed, and we also need to be confident that defeating these people is possible.
Sometimes I wonder if Kristi Noem is a genuine example of a “philosophical zombie” — an entity that appears to be human but has absolutely no self-awareness or subjective experience of any kind.
This woman is truly loathsome. Not a single discernible redeeming quality.
Honestly I never got the appeal. Whole grain, rye, etc just taste so much better than white bread.
Not possible. The relevant SCOTUS ruling is Powell v McCormack (1969), which was about a House election but would apply to the Senate too supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
Please tell me this stupid fucknut is no relation to Jimmy
You hear that, Oklahoma? Your own Senator wants troops in your streets.
If this ethnic-cleansing-with-a-side-of-grift actually happens, every single US official involved in its design, planning, and execution needs to be sent to the Hague in 2029.
I'm seeing double-entendre
Great news! I hope this starts a trend of groups of blue states acting collectively to resist Trump
J.D. Tuccille, you’re a fucking moron.
It’s unfair to the many decent Kennedys, but he’s made their family name about as politically palatable as Dahmer
Cowardly little bitch.
Great essay and amen. This is why I block the doomers here (particularly the non-American ones) on sight.
Here’s some video (apologies the link is to Xitter) x.com/American_Bri...
Babbitt got what she deserved and Loomer is a psychopathic bigot.
The fact that RFK Jr. is a cabinet secretary and not a long-term resident of a psychiatric ward is proof positive that the anti-institutionalization movement of the late 20th century went too far.
This would basically be Game Over for American research universities. You vote for Trump? Or stay home because “Genocide Joe”? YOU did this.
We need way more Democrats with national profiles to mock and bully Trump like this!
Science and medicine conspiracy theorists are enemies of civilization.
My impression is that undergraduate programs outside the US (at least in the sciences) have fewer general course requirements, so students are able to take more classes in their major field of study, including what would be graduate-level classes taken in the first 2 years of a PhD program here.
VP can’t be fired. not sure if that’s a good or bad thing in this case
Yes, Moore signed it
This is *great* to see. The blue states need to stand together against Trump.
It felt real good to cancel my Amazon Prime subscription
The problem is that there simply isn’t enough research funding and infrastructure overseas to make up for more than a fraction of what the MAGA and MAHA chucklefucks are destroying in the US. This is a world-historical catastrophe for science that will leave everyone on the planet worse off.
The United States today has the most corrupt, most incompetent, most illiberal and antidemocratic government of any country in the developed world. A regime of fascists, degenerates, and mediocrities enabled by the unforgivable cowardice of leaders in Congress, journalism, business, and academia.
The very best way to drive more young men into Trump’s camp is to mock their economic and mental health issues and exude utter disdain and contempt for them. Quite a few commenters here doing their part
She does not deserve to be honored in any way.
In the sciences, no international PhD students = far fewer American PhD programs
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“the prosecutor who couldn’t indict a ham sandwich” would work, except it was salami
meatist bigotry
As a patriotic American, this makes me nauseous.
That’s really not true. For example, the Weimar constitution made it much easier for the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act than ours would. The German government also had a lot more coercive authority over the states.
Time for another round of coast-to-coast No Kings protests.
I’m not a woman but I’ve known enough of them to know that 99% see through this kind of act immediately
It’s somewhat reassuring that Abrego Garcia is still on US soil. I was worried the administration would simply ignore Xinis’s order of a few days ago to not deport him, which would have unequivocally put us in dictatorship territory.
Curtis Yarvin is the Trofim Lysenko of political science
The Danish government needs to declare all Trump administration officials personae non gratae and revoke US military basing rights in Denmark and Greenland.
As an American, I urge Denmark and Greenland to declare all Trump administration officials personae non gratae and expel the US military from their territory.
I do not recognize these people as fellow Americans.
In fact, I’ve decided to create a publicly available blocklist by that name. Congratulations on being the inaugural member!
just out of curiosity is there a “smug, pretentious, insufferable bluesky leftist” tag? would be pretty useful
You wouldn’t be able to provide valid cites to back up that claim if the world depended on it.
No, I pointed out that you’re wrong.
Kindly don’t put words in my mouth. I’m saying “don’t assault police officers, burn cars, or otherwise behave like violent hooligans because that kind of thing makes a heavy handed response look legitimate.”
Actually prosecutors and juries decide that, and they’re still able to tell the difference between someone standing on the sidewalk with a sign and someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police cruiser.
And that’s why it’s so important for demonstrations and protests to stay peaceful. We need to make this look utterly illegitimate.
Seriously….
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statstically 1000-2000 actually is sufficient to get a fairly accurate picture even in a population the size of ours, assuming the sampling is truly random
“Americans” really should be in quotes there
my money’s on 🌮
Every elected Democrat with a national profile who doesn’t follow Pritzker and Newsom’s example needs to get primaried.
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JB, like Gavin, is stepping up. Looking at you, Kathy.
the first two are readily obtainable on amazon, you can google the amnesty and hrw reports on the dprk
br myers, the cleanest race barbara demick, nothing to envy amnesty international human rights watch etc
read, like, anything about North Korea not written by its apologists
and if you don’t like the leaders and are too open about that dislike, your entire family gets sent to a gulag
because we’d be subjected to lifelong totalitarian brainwashing
This guy really is too stupid to understand how tariffs actually work.
It sounds from the article like they’re appealing it rather than openly defying it (at least for now)
Primary. Them. All.
He was under a deportation order at the time. A judge in 2019 suspended it with a withholding-from-removal order due to his fear of persecution in his native El Salvador. It is not implausible that the second order could have gotten overlooked. And how am I giving them another bite at the apple?
Naive about what? You did parse that I’m opposed to his deportation and don’t trust the govt, right? Just saying that the idea the first one was a genuine bureaucratic snafu is (barely) within the realm of plausibility, unlike if they tried to do so now.
Supposedly it was an “administrative error,” and they did eventually return him. I don’t trust these MFs at all, but since the order was from 2019, some mixup is not totally implausible. IMO, deporting him immediately after Xinis’s unequivocal order today would be next-level. No plausible excuse.
Not a lawyer but it seems to me that the next few hours are some of the most critical in America’s history — if the government removes Abrego Garcia from the US in direct defiance of Xinis’s order, we are well and truly past the Rubicon
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Yeah, I remember learning in school about how Anthony Kreis led the British colonization of Uganda in the 1890s, and then came back in the 1970s to rule it as a military dictator
For those not clear on what he’s referring to: dh.scu.edu/exhibits/exh...