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Lesson 7 of #OnTyranny: Be reflective if you must be armed. Image
"'Terrifying for citizens': Oregon gov. reacts to Trump's 'invasion' of Portland": msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-…
"Oregon To Sue Federal Agencies Over Protest Enforcement": npr.org/2020/07/18/892…

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Mar 23
1/5. Predictably Putin has blamed Ukraine (see my thread from yesterday) for the terror attack in Moscow (for which ISIS claimed responsibility).
2/5. Putin's argument that the suspects were heading to Russian-Ukrainian border makes no sense – Russia has 20,000 km of borders, why would they head to the one place where Russian army and security forces are most concentrated?
3/5. Putin's claim is that suspects were stopped in Bryansk. Assuming this is true: from Moscow that's rather the route to Belarus.
Read 5 tweets
Mar 22
1/7. US warns that Russia will invade Ukraine. General disbelief, daily Russian mockery. (December 3, 2021-February 24, 2022)
2/7. Russia invades Ukraine, kills tens of thousands of people, kidnaps tens of thousands of children, commits other ongoing war crimes (February 24, 2022-present)
3/7. Russia blames US for Russia's invasion of Ukraine (March 2022-present)
Read 7 tweets
Mar 12
Trump's allies are selling out Ukraine in exchange for Russian backing in the election. 1/
A Trump victory in November would finish off US democracy. 2/
And a Russian victory in Ukraine would doom freedom generally. 3/
Read 5 tweets
Feb 21
1/6 There was once this republic that lasted for more than 200 years.
2/6 This republic had a minority faction in parliament that supported Russia.
3/6 This republic also had antique procedural rules that allowed one person to halt a vote.
Read 6 tweets
Jan 28
1/10. Can a constitution defend itself?  Germans have asked this question, and given an answer.  So, for that matter, have Americans.
2/10. In the histories of both Germany and the United States, today the world's most important democracies, there came a moment when a minority, willing to use violence, sought to break the constitutional order.
3/10. In both cases this led to horrifying levels of killing, and only then a restoration (Germany) or elevation (the United States) of constitutionalism.
Read 10 tweets
Jan 26
1/10. I am concerned that the Supreme Court, in ruling on Trump's eligibility for office, will make itself ridiculous.
2/10. This is where the comic potential emerges.  This Court is unlikely ever to hear again a case of such simplicity, in which the text and context of the Constitution so obviously demand an unambiguous verdict
3/10. But three of our textualists and the intentionalists were appointed by Trump, and silliness seems to be the general expectation. The theory of Trump's lawyers, as one of them has actually said out loud, is that Supreme Court justices appointed by Trump belong to Trump.
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