It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that. —Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

I admire the FBI agent who declined to perp-walk James Comey. However, I can’t sit by while anyone portrays that as the law enforcement norm before Trump. In fact law enforcement, state and federal, routinely does gratuitous perp walks. /1

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. [harpers.org/archive/1941...](

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

Sir that is no way to talk to the Supreme Court https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreifkq6lqb4pjmw4cdfbxdzdbt4pudn4chjoy3hlliuemeqicsqmahi

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

We’re thinking of an inn-to-inn hike in the UK next year. One of you had a blog with their Hadrian’s Wall hike. Anyone remember that?

Trump’s awful but it’s important to note he’d be different and potentially less harmful kinds of awful if he weren’t advised and manipulated by some of the most evil people in American history. RE:

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Mister.Nobody (@ytregaws.bsky.social)

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We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us RE:

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David Bier (@davidjbier.bsky.social)

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

I just think we should not be sending American boys 2 or 3 thousand miles away from home to do what Portland boys ought to be doing for themselves.