Mike Brock🇺🇸
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Ex-tech exec, now a reluctant Cassandra. Deeply unfashionable. Penning dispatches from democracy's peril at https://t.co/Cz16Nkwapv.
Los Angeles
Joined April 2008
It’s not calculated tyranny. It’s weaponized incompetence—shameless clowns juggling live grenades while the rest of us are locked in the tent.
notesfromthecircus.com
The emperor has no clothes, but he does have nuclear codes.
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We should call it what it is: a coup in progress.
Purges of FBI and IC, gutting of DOJ, prosecutions of political opponents, assaults on independent institutions, expansion of ICE with fascist-adjacent recruiting messages, firing of general officers—but nothing to see here. Let’s not be alarmist. Also what about Hunter’s laptop.
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Do conservatives like this?.
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RT @TVietor08: What @mehdirhasan has built at @zeteo_news is one of the best examples of why we need more independent media in the US. Mehd….
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This is how it starts.
The president telling a private company they must fire their executive or face consequences is something that "conservatives" would've been incensed about 3 minutes ago. And yet wake me up if there's a single outraged GOP elected official or Fox News segment on this topic.
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RT @RoguePOTUSStaff: Deporting brown skinned soccer moms is all the rage, but deporting Nazis is woke DEI hot garbage not reflective of cur….
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This is deranged and dangerous thinking.
I interviewed Taylor Lorenz, who told me that woke is over and wrestled with the moral question: Would the assassination of Brian Thompson be justified if it led to a single payer health system?.
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RT @Mediaite: JB Pritzker Fires Back at Trump’s Threat to Arrest Runaway Texas Dems: ‘Our State Troopers Protect Everybody’..
mediaite.com
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker made it clear that he'll block President Donald Trump's efforts to have the Texas Democrats sheltered in the state arrested.
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RT @briantylercohen: Trump has doubled his net worth to over $5 billion in the last 6 months and handed himself a billion-dollar retrofitte….
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RT @Noahpinion: People realize these are vaccines for CANCER, right?. Like, cancer was going to become a treatable disease because of this….
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ICE is a right-wing militia group, paid for by taxpayers.
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The immigration agency needs more agents for nationwide sweeps.
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Silicon Valley has produced something far more dangerous: the Revolutionary Bourgeois—rich people with oceanfront property who want to burn down democracy because they think they'd make better kings. 2/2
notesfromthecircus.com
Oligarchs, Courtiers, and the Corruption of Thought
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David Brooks wrote about the Bohemian Bourgeois—rich people who wanted to feel countercultural while staying comfortable. 1/2.
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RT @BillKristol: Churchill, in 1931, describing Kevin Hassett:. “I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Cir….
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