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Esau

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    Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social

    This is right. Any effect on the economy is of secondary importance. Trump is weaponizing the government against people he doesn't like. The very definition of an authoritarian.

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    Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social

    I think it's a mistake to think of the firing of Lisa Cook primarily in terms of Central Bank Independence, and its impact on the inflation rate.

    The most significant issue is also more basic: it's the rule of law.

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    Esau @gesau.bsky.social

    Trump’s politics of personal intimidation creates a coordination problem for the country’s elites that I do not see the media meaningfully grappling with.

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    Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social

    If the economy continues to get worse I think that just makes Trumps grip on power stronger. I think there’s the notion that he will face economic pushback and that undermines him, but I think he’ll say “they” are tanking the economy so he needs to crack down harder.

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    alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social

    Today’s Executive Order creating a nationwide military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

    The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful), shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where public safety and order has been lost. ( (ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.
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    Esau @gesau.bsky.social

    Theyre not “distractions”; it’s just a whole bunch of crazy stuff all happening at once, which is itself quite noteworthy.

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    Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social

    SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.

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    Esau @gesau.bsky.social

    So ludicrously unconstitutional, and ”not at all how any of this works”, they’re essentially just trolling anyone who still believes in the law or rights or really anything.

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