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Patrick G. Eddington@pgeddington.com |
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Current: think tanker, author, Border Collie dad, Bill of Rights defender, 21st century Anti-Federalist.
Previous: CIA analyst, USAR officer, senior House staffer.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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ABC's interview with President Biden was a wash. He needed a lot more than that to change the narrative. The next set of polls in the coming week + focus group feedback will tell us whether the bleeding has stopped or intensified. Warner doing his thing is very bad news for Biden. So sad to watch.
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Andy Craig
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To be clear, this bill is nonsense, and he is straight-up calling for the murder of every Democrat in Congress. It is already illegal, as a matter of federal law, for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. This doesn't change that. What it does is a national ID mandate for voter registration.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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This is the editorial view of the guy who controls which posts get shown on Vichy Twitter and which get buried. Insane that journalists continue to use it as a source of information and contribute to its legitimacy
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Popehat
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Trump can make the thugs willing to do his bidding immune to federal prosecution. Not to bullets, though.
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Pwnallthethings
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literally since this exchange just 20m ago bsky.app/profile/wash...
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Patrick G. Eddington
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The Privacy & Civil Liberties Board sought comments re: AI and the Intelligence Community, and I had a few things to say about the subject. You can read my public comments here:
www.cato.org/public-comme...
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Andy Craig
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Radio he can use notes and they've been friendly small-audience locals. The events have mostly been on teleprompter. It's just not nearly enough. He needed to immediately do a live town hall w/ voters and knock it out of the park, plus a ton of national interviews. If he can't, it proves the point.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Before the decision came down, I actually thought he & Barrett would join Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson in saying "Of course the President CANNOT order political rivals killed, detained w/out charge, etc." In Trump v Hawaii, Roberts led the opinion that rejected the Korematsu decision. Just unreal.
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Mitchell Epner
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Let me be clear. In my opinion, John Roberts has joined Roger Taney (Dred Scott - slavery) as a Chief Justice who will be remembered as an evil man. Not just wrong, but worthy of eternal condemnation for trying to destroy the Republic.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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She was a good House member who made ending sexual harassment & assaults on military women a national cause. Hope she's cancer free.
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Mitchell Epner
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Brain worms + Steroids + History of cocaine/heroin abuse + Entitled arrogance + Misogyny = A person who should not receive a single vote for any office.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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From pp. 20-21 of Justice Jackson's dissent in Trump v US last week. I think it's fair to infer this as a call to action:
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Mitchell Epner
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Except, as @mglovesfun.bsky.social points out, in the entirety of the United States, Chief Justice Roberts and his fellow fascism-enablers have declared commanding troops to shoot protestors to be an “official act” that cannot be the basis for criminal prosecution.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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At 5pm in DC, the actual temp will (supposedly) be 98. I don't even want to think about what the "feels like" will actually feel like. 🥵
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Make no mistake about it: if Trump wins, there will be no Mark Esper-like figure at DoD to stop him from ordering that American troops be deployed against protesters with "shoot to kill" orders.
www.cato.org/blog/after-t...
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Feeding the narrative of a tired old man not up to the job anymore is the tired old man himself. Yikes.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Punchbowl News this morning.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Today, American Democrats are deeply jealous of the UK Labour Party.
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Andy Craig
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I see a lot of grumbling about the cover being gross, and I get that and wouldn't have done it myself. But I don't think the normie general public shares or would even think about that objection to using a walker as visual shorthand for old age and decline. Piece is brutal either way, though.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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frequently. But he was also an incredibly vigorous president, despite having been paralyzed by polio.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Brutal.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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The police that threaten Trump.
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Ned Resnikoff
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These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee
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Radley Balko
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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man.
innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...
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Patrick G. Eddington
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This piece from last week should've got more attention than it did, especially given Trump's most recent comments on wanting to use military tribunals to go after House J6 Select Committee members.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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My bottom line: "The question for the rest of us is this: Should any US president order American troops into the streets with “shoot to kill” orders regarding those peacefully protesting a given administration’s policies, what are supporters of a constitutional republic prepared to do in response? "
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Patrick G. Eddington
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All of which means a lot of people have for months saw what Robert Hur experienced when her interviewed Biden in the now-closed classified documents case.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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In my experience, Dems rarely take decisive action to staunch political bleeding until its too late.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...
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Tom Scocca
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All these centrist Let's Have an Emergency Pageant of Democracy takes fall apart at the slightest contact with outside reality, but this part can't even hold up on its own terms!
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Patrick G. Eddington
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The likely voter number is the one that will cause more House & Senate Dems to publicly call for Biden to withdraw from the race.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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I've seen some "frontline" Dems say some stupid stuff, but this takes the cake for sheer recklessness & historical amnesia.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Some brief thoughts on the outrage that is the SCOTUS decision in Trump v US.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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This serves three purposes 1) fundraising, 2) base incitement, & 3) news coverage. If he actually attempts something like this, the Option 1776 remains available as a response.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/u...
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Mike Masnick
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Okay, folks, who is putting together the list of the funniest crimes that Biden should be committing between now and election day to highlight the absurdity of today's immunity ruling? Not the stuff like assassinations. Just stuff to make a point.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Fuckin called it
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Just saying.
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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Popehat
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/7 Justice Roberts smug and superior dismissal of the dissents’ concerns seems to come to us via time warp from some time that never knew Trump. The danger of lawlessness he poses are manifest — he and his followers brag of them. Only a liar or fool would dismiss them.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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ICYMI.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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The Anti-Federalists warned anyone who would listen that creating a overly-powerful chief executive would lead to tyranny. Five of the six Justices that gave presidents sweeping immunity today are all former Exec branch lawyers. Decades of letting Exec power fanatics on the bench brought us here.
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Radley Balko
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One thing I haven’t seen — does the decision today apply to state criminal charges too? Hard to see how the majority’s crappy reasoning wouldn’t apply. The NY convictions seem pretty distinctly “unofficial” conduct, but the Georgia charges?
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Jeffrey Vagle
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"FEAR MONGERING" -- Roberts, CJ
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Critical background on the Awlaki episode:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Earlier, @elfprince13.mumak.app recalledthe Obama administration's lethal drone strike on U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki. Was he a bad actor? Yes, but we normally don't execute bad actors w/out due process. Obama did, & today's SCOTUS decision in Trump v US makes such acts vastly more likely.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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Six months ago, I wrote this scenario based in part on the federal cases against Trump being mooted by events. Now that it's happened, I thought I recirculate this because I believe it remains a viable, terrifying prediction.
www.therepublicsentinel.com/civil-war-20...
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Patrick G. Eddington
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👇
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Mitchell Epner
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A difference between me and many of my friends is that most of my friends believe that manners and decorum mean that a person will not participate in fascism. Maybe it is the lesson that my bitter Jewish grandmother taught me, but I've always believed that aristocrats can push us into the ovens.
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Radley Balko
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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.
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Patrick G. Eddington
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I'll come straight to the core take away from the SCOTUS Trump immunity decision: it makes a violent, anti-Trump uprising far more likely if he wins and takes the SCOTUS decision as a license to use state-sponsored violence at scale against those who oppose him or his policies.
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