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I cover the rise of authoritarianism for Rolling Stone (aka @7im on X) Portland, Oregon Send tips via Signal: Tim.415 tim.dickinson (at) rollingstone dot com
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Google search suggestions: such a snapshot of humanity
Educator, ACLU fight neo-McCarthyism in Indiana. My latest:
That birthday snap is bringing a little joy to me, AMC. Have great one!
Another explicit warning from Pritzker
Amazing story
The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
Happy 21st night of September to all who remember
Giving new meaning to 'bagman'
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
My signal is TimD.503 if you have unauthorized information from the Pentagon. Thank you for your attention to this matter
🎶🇺🇲Well I'm proud to be an American 🎶 where at least I know .... that people who ridicule the president or his friends will be deprived of their livelihoods in a public spectacle designed to provoke fear and submissiveness in the general population 🇺🇲 🎶
Loving the alliteration
And...now we have $50K in matching funds to double any donations secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...
Remember when the right wing was up in arms because comics couldn't speak their minds anymore.
More tomorrow, but now might be a very good time to consider subscribing to What’s Alan Watching? alansepinwall.ghost.io
What do you call someone who pledges to wipe out anti-fascists?
I assure you @moderation.bsky.app this is not an image of "self-harm" 😬
"To Trump, Miller is a useful battering ram, the policy answer to his lingering question of “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Reign of Terror Everything you love or hate about Donald Trump’s America, you cherish or intensely loathe about Stephen Miller’s republic of fear. Read about Miller’s eight months of remaking the nation and world: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This hits 🎯
New AP history prompt: Did Father Coughlin do politics right? Discuss.
We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet
This is very good. We can be appalled by Kirk's murder, without glossing over the noxious reality of his political project.
luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.
Reading much tonight on Charlie Kirk, who he was, what he said and believed -- from both admirers and those deeply opposed. It does not matter. None of it. What matters is that political violence made routine against any voice, left or right, marks us as a failing, dying republic. This is horror.
Read @seanwoods.bsky.social 's bracing appraisal of our moment of national fracture:
America was already a tinder box. Charlie Kirk's assassination is a lit match. My latest:
Gun violence is horrific. Political violence is unacceptable. Prayers up for Charlie Kirk's family, and for our country to summon its better angels.
[blinks in gen-x] WHAT
"The only known solution to creeping authoritarianism is broad-based, peaceful, geographically dispersed mass engagement by everyday Americans. That’s it. That’s what works." Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Genuine humans and analog connections will become more valuable in a morass of AI slop
Amazing! Congratulations
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
Many thanks to @timdickinson.bsky.social for chatting last week about the coming No Kings Day, and @maddow.msnbc.com for highlighting the piece tonight! Now's the time to start registering your local events! nokings.org
it's the bust where the collar bones should be, for me
The pro-democracy movement just announced its next big protest. Read all about it:
I guess Flat Stanley has a kid now
If Americans are frogs in the water, it already boiled, and then steamed off, and we're now getting charred in the pan.
Just incredible Nobel Peace Prize bait...
The propaganda machine is spinning out of control… with seemingly nothing to hold it back, certainly not shame, and clearly not fear of any kind of accountability down the line.
This is real, somehow
As flagged by Democracy Docket, Mitchell recently appeared on a podcast where she highlighted a president’s ability to intervene in voting by citing a “threat to the national sovereignty of the United States.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
To quote @timdickinson.bsky.social : fascism! It’s expensive
**First stop is always Istanbul.**
Is Trump going to use the military to mess with the midterms? Governors are sounding the alarm 🚨
I'm going to be sick
As a federal judge ruled today, Trump is illegally misusing the Guard in the service of "creating a national police force with the President as its chief"
Gonna keep reposting this @timdickinson.bsky.social / me item: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
Somehow worse than the suey sandwich
Be right over! (There is a portland-to-portland teleport, no?)
I love this. Many tasty returns!! 😋
My latest, on Trump's military police, Stephen Miller's pseudo-posse, and a retired general's warning about state-on-state violence:
It's uncomforably explicable as eugenics. They appear more than comfortable rolling back medical protections in ways that tend toward mass death for the fragile.
Love seeing @rollingstone.com and @newrepublic.com pick up on the Cottonwood School story this week, published in @streetroots.bsky.social 3 weeks ago. ICE making a school move—and how the buildings’ shared landlord could endanger students—reveals the complexity of protecting people in this moment.
Here in Oregon, this is the solitary confinement cell we put children in. Yes, children. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...
This is telling: People I spoke to are talking about CDC in the past tense. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump administration says they're the "most transparent" in history. But when I asked the Department of Homeland Security who writes their social media posts, something extremely weird happened: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Signal changed up how it handles handles, so I had to make a new one. My new Signal handle is: TimD.503 Keep those tips coming!
America's dark love affair with off-the-shelf, military-grade firepower keeps our schools and children at risk. I wrote this in 2018. It has never lost relevance.
This is a lovely paean to the alt-weekly by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Rollig Stone continuing to do some of the best journalism of this dark era.
American democracy is bucking under Trump. At least one governor is saying it plain:
Regarding the liberal fantasy of saving X by posting on it more — @pbump.com has it exactly right www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...
This is why I can’t quit the internet🤣🤣🤣
The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy
“We can’t have children picking up a plastic tear-gas ball that’s going to pop.”
Dems are all aboard Newsom's plan to counter Texas and "fight fire with fire."
“Jimenez Rosa’s time in custody ended with her alone, wet and begging for help at The Cheesecake Factory in the Burlington Mall, after ICE agents released her into the rainy street outside the detention facility Wednesday night”
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “The real offender here is a President who thinks he can use the powers of his office to run vendettas... the kind of gratuitous viciousness that has increasingly defined Trump’s return… it’s turning out to be worse than we imagined.” www.wsj.com/opinion/john...
So much of this moral panic is invented. When was the last time you heard an actual elected official say these things?! Never?
We did not put John Bolton’s name in the headline for a reason. It’s not about him, per se; it’s about the numerous people who Trump wants the government to destroy because they hurt Trump’s feelings www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“We can’t have children picking up a plastic tear-gas ball that’s going to pop.”
Read the latest from @timdickinson.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
inching closer and closer to my “they’re segregationists” take
That quote is exactly the thrill.
Life comes at you fast
Today on Volts: longtime movement veterans @billmckibben.bsky.social & @jamiehenn.bsky.social drop by to discuss what's next for climate activism. They envision a movement focused on the sun: kicking off with a national "Sun Day" & then organizing locally to help renewable energy projects get built.
"It is all optics. Unless you are brown-skinned. Then you can be slung off your scooter in affluent Foggy Bottom on a Sunday morning and bashed to the ground by anonymous Feds in masks and riot gear."
Trump unleashes show and awe on Washington — creating his own Potemkin police state in the nation’s capital. It’s not going well
A lede for the ages
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Trump Pledges Unconstitutional Order to Limit Mail-In Voting After Putin Chat www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Saw Weapons tonight. That Matthew 2:17 reference...
Electric ⚡💡✨ prices are rising 2X inflation. So of course Trump is crusading against solar:
I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.
"These are the proverbial adults in the room. They had the power to create friction for fascism. They have instead created a glide-path."
My latest: Profiles in Cowardice
(from the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" a federal document www.cia.gov/static/5c875... )
CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation
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yes, tho that seems a special (criminal) case. Thinking more of folks who are folding without special circumstances :-P
are there other blue-city mayors than Keith Wilson in Portland who have changed city policies to appease Trump?