"In fond expectation, The January 6th Patriots. P.S. If you need our Social Security numbers, just ask Musk’s DOGE team. They have all that private stuff, right?"
"The pro-democracy coalition needs leaders. It needs fighters. It needs consiglieres who are ruthless about the exercise of legal power. It does not need a cult built around vice signaling."
Third parties are grassroots organizations built on enthusiastic membership, and decentralization leaves them vulnerable to hostile takeovers.
@bernardtamas.bsky.social on the Libertarian Party's turn towards, and away, from Trump:
"A faded corporate behemoth like Pizza Hut—which itself began as a scrappy entrepreneurial effort—seeds the American landscape with a sort of architectural public domain: an architectural karmic cycle of death and rebirth."
"Sen. Ron Johnson argued that the absence of evidence of fraud was itself evidence of fraud: 'People who do things cover it up.'" Not every stolen election claim catches on, but this latest one is.
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
"There’s no legitimate reason why an American secretary of defense would ignore a military invasion of a European country while raising alarms about immigration. But there’s an obvious illegitimate reason."
New from @saletan.bsky.social:
"You can practically feel Spielberg straining to convey the importance of Disclosure Day’s message....But it’s that very strain that makes the film feel silly, almost trite."
"With Paxton, it's like, we have two versions we are trying to paint [of Talarico] and they are in direct opposition to one another."
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on Ken Paxton’s bizarre smear campaign against James Talarico, and the cheap AI ads powering the GOP’s attacks.
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