Andrew Rogers

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🏴 Direct-marketing creative director fundraising for nonprofits 🏴 Graduate Liberal Studies grad 🏴 Research focus: #EvaGoreBooth 🇮🇪 He/Him

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What this shows is that Vance is aware of how the strategic racism he has embraced with MAGA works and who it hurts. And he's decided to use that evil for his advancement.

Someone should create a book consisting of deleted and/or retracted comments by JD Vance and call it “Conscience of a Conservative.” This is a tweet he deleted when he ran for Senate.

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

As Judge Cannon steps up right on cue to remind us all just how much faith we should have in American institutions.

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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Scholars often ask me what they can do, and this is a tangible thing. State and local media are, in particular, hungry for opinion pieces from experts. Lots of people targeting that media is more effective than lots of people trying to land that one NYT op-ed

Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

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For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.

RICHARD NIXON: Listen, you all laughed when I said that if the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, BUT WHO’S LAUGHING NOW

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Nothing says libertarian like denying others the freedom to celebrate liberation.

Telling, though not surprising at this point, that he thinks prosecutions are done by the powerful by “right," as opposed to a process of justice-seeking based on evidence, etc.

Former president Donald Trump said Wednesday that seeking prosecutions of his political opponents would be “wrong” but that he also would have “every right” to do so if reelected.

Trump says he’d have ‘every right’ to seek prosecutions of political foeswww.washingtonpost.com “When this election is over, based on what they’ve done, I would have every right to go after them,” the former president told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

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The kind of Libertarians who run “official” libertarian social media accounts now are overt brownshirts.

Wow, the party of liberty. Except when you disagree with them. Then it's ok to threaten you, call you "inhuman rot," and drive you from your home. ( @kenwhite.bsky.social you may find this, ahem, interesting)

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I think there are a couple ways of viewing this, but one that appears valid to me is that there is a sizable part of the US population that has basically abandoned social justice as we know it as a liberal plank after 2020, and the WaPo was the last paper to stop feeding into that trend...

Don't worry kids, it's just an awkward coincidence that major news outlets like @washingtonpost.com and @thedailybeast.bsky.social are replacing their top editors with right-wing propagandists before the most fraught election in American history.

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BREAKING! Nine witnesses in criminal cases against Donald Trump received financial benefits, including campaign raises, severance packages, new jobs, cash, and shares from Trump's media company. If prosecutors can prove that perks were intended to influence testimony, that could be a serious crime.

Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaignwww.propublica.org Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.

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Good WaPo article about the whole "Appeal to Heaven" flag kerfuffle...and not just because it quotes "yours truly." Gift link. wapo.st/3WZyMhc

At center of Alito controversy, a flag celebrated by extremistswapo.st Since its origins in colonial times, historians say, the Appeal to Heaven flag has been used to justify political violence. It has been adopted in recent years by Christian nationalists and others on ...

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Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies

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Justices can serve up to three seven-year terms, but have to be re-confirmed by the Senate before each one. (My “Nobody asked me, but …” proposal. Also, lots more Justices.)

2022 poll: "67% of Americans support a proposal to set a specific number of years that justices serve instead of life terms, including 82% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans." apnews.com/article/abor...

AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justicesapnews.com About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices.

Also, "And then, all of a sudden, you ended up with Hitler" is not a take anyone would have had they actually "studied history."

Remember, when Trump criticizes others he’s usually telling on himself. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Calling @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social ! Did you know this bit of history of the “An Appeal to Heaven” flag from prior to when Sheets adopted it following the “prophesy” he rec’d?

In 1999 Walter Huss, the Holocaust-denying former chair of the Oregon Republican Party who had ties to a variety of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and far right domestic terrorists, printed out the full run of the Modern Militiaman's Internet Gazette. Page 1 featured Sam Alito's favorite flag.

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“This attorney adds, ‘I really don’t know how you get away with this in court.’”

Trump’s Bonkers Plan to Weaponize an Archaic Law for Mass Deportationswww.rollingstone.com Trump and his advisors have developed dubious legal theories for how they can justify a crackdown on the undocumented.

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If House Republicans can get the nation focused on Ivy League student protesters, Senate Democrats should be able to do the same with insurrection enabling judges

"The Dominionists’ battle flag” is a really good way of describing this.

Justice Samuel Alito, part of the SCOTUS majority dismantling church-state separation, has flown the battle flag of Christian dominionists over his beach house. The same flag flew over the Jan 6. attack on the Capitol. www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dominio...

Dominionists’ Battle Flag Flown Over Justice Alito’s Beach House | Right Wing Watchwww.rightwingwatch.org The New York Times reported Wednesday that an “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flown over Justice Samuel Alito’s beach house last summer. Like the upside-down American flag flown at the Alito’s home in the...

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Another provocative flag was flown at another Alito home: The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6. and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.

Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Homewww.nytimes.com The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6. and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.

Really looking forward to reading Crow T. Robot’s screenplay “Andrew Johnson at the University of Wisconsin."

I didn’t know half this stuff

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why mike what's america done?

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The most chilling thing about this era isn't the growing number of explicit fascists, it's the way elite institutions refuse to even attempt to stop them.

Every day I get more radicalised I’d probably pop a bottle of brut if the BBC Question Time offices were obliterated by a rogue timetravelling Luftwaffe pilot

using an image, show a movie you are sure you have watched more than ten times

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The Democrat leading the race for governor in Washington is named Bob Ferguson, so a GOP operative went out and found two more Bob Fergusons to put on the ballot to confuse voters. “If I had started a little bit earlier, I would have been able to have six Bob Fergusons,” the operative said.

Three Bob Night: Two more Bob Fergusons running for WA governorwww.seattletimes.com With Washington state's candidate filing period over, there are now three Bob Fergusons running for governor.

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Trinity College Dublin to divest from investments in Israeli companies that feature on UN ‘blacklist’ - student protest works www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Trinity College Dublin to divest from investments in Israeli companies that feature on UN ‘blacklist’www.irishtimes.com Taskforce to explore engagement with institutions in Israel to be set up following student protests

Welcome to all the new members of the "I've Finally Had It With the LP" Caucus!

I guess this was always the logical conclusion of the LP's current trajectory. But HOLY SHIT.

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I guess this was always the logical conclusion of the LP's current trajectory. But HOLY SHIT.