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@tmorange

Sometime expat ESL teacher writer musician broadcaster recovering academic https://t.co/QaEqBFDTyi

Katılım Mart 2009
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
“Democrats will eventually have to take on cultural populism as part of their brand or just give up on ever being a working-class party again. Simple economic populism is hopelessly inadequate. The voters they need to reach overwhelmingly believe illegal immigration is wrong”
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David Sirota
David Sirota@davidsirota·
🚨NEW DATA: When a Democratic president joined with Republicans & corporate donors to pass NAFTA, it killed the working class - not just figuratively, but LITERALLY. NAFTA may be memory-holed - but it is the sliding-door moment that explains American politics today.
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
The word ”abolish,” from Latin “abolere” (to destroy),” means “to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul.” No ICE means no enforcement of existing laws. Period. Want something else? Choose another word.
Jim Messina@Messina2012

New in The Messina Memo: "Democrats: Don’t Fall Into the “Abolish ICE” Trap… Again." Trump’s abuses demand accountability, but the GOP wants this fight. Voters want reform, rule of law, and a pathway to citizenship. We have to meet the moment and voters. messinamemo.substack.com/p/democrats-do…

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Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller@matthewstoller·
The most difficult thing for Democratic voters to understand is that their political leaders just aren't interested in governing. They think their job is to go on podcasts and say things about elections. That's it.
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@StrikeDebt But if you cancel debt without doing anything about skyrocketing tuition costs, we’ll just end up in the same situation without having solved a damn thing, right?
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@JRoberts112358 @ryangrim Ah but the problem with a slogan like “Abolish ICE” is it’s largely vibes and totally vague on solutions, which could involve reforming/demilitarizing ICE, or going back to a 2002 INS under the DOJ, or having no ICE no enforcement of immigration and no DHS either! @WajahatAli
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Jason Roberts
Jason Roberts@JRoberts112358·
@ryangrim I think it would help if the Abolish ICE camp made it clear that immigration enforcement would be assigned to other agencies and that we're abolishing ICE because they are an obviously rouge agency that is corrupt to its core. Not because we support undocumented immigration.
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Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
A fundamental problem Democratic leadership has is its extreme disconnect from party voters and its base. MAGA doesn’t have that. MAGA has a give-and-take with its base and brings its base into discussions about strategy and tactics. So Hakeem Jeffries is about to shut DHS down over ICE abuses but the base has very little idea what he’s doing. When confronted, he gets indignant. Having no real link with the party base is deliberate. But it’s gonna be their undoing. They can’t even win when they win and this clip is a window into that
Wajahat Ali@WajahatAli

.@RepJeffries "can't understand" my questions about why he won't lead and embrace "Abolish ICE." I was speaking English, and my microphone wasn't muted. Listen for yourselves.

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Fritz Pape
Fritz Pape@fritzpape·
now spinning; exciting stuff from the jump here, only familiar with Favre but the bass and horns are particularly prickly and lovely !
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@washingtonpost “according to three people familiar with the situation” “Nearly seven-in-ten Americans (68%) say that an anonymous source in a story has at least some influence on whether they find that story credible” For some of us it’s a BIG influence! ethicsandjournalism.org/resources/best…
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The Washington Post@washingtonpost·
Breaking news: The IRS improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of people with immigration enforcement officials, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data. wapo.st/4rCquYG
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@DoctorVive Overall I support @LeverNews @davidsirota but feel they often get trapped in a monolithic use of labels from an outmoded paradigm. IMO Dems need to move “left” on economics and to what I would not call “the center” but simply “less extreme” positions on cultural wedge issues.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬@DoctorVive·
Stop calling the Abundance faction “centrist.” The bipartisan Overton window has shifted with Trump. Abundance people are RIGHT WING on economics and social policy, which is why they’re funded by right-wing interests like David Koch and lobbyists for Larry Ellison.
The Lever@LeverNews

NEW: The “centrist” Abundance think tank pushing Democrats toward deregulation is run by a registered corporate lobbyist for OpenAI, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, and a crypto think tank.

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Trip Gabriel
Trip Gabriel@tripgabriel·
ICE knows who is protesting: "ICE is using facial recognition programs...and cellphone & social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones. Agents are tapping into a Palantir database to ID people they are pursuing" nytimes.com/2026/01/30/tec…
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@BlomquistForMI 1/ In fact 33% strong support for abolishing ICE & 32% strong opposition = toxic division NOT moderate consensus 2/ Failure to define terms (no border patrol at all or just done by someone else?) means this survey is nearly meaningless
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@BMarchetich Sure if by “she waited for a decision on her visa application” you mean “she avoided deportation orders older than her child” “ICE agents were acting on an administrative deportation order against Gutiérrez, 26, issued in 2019, before Génesis was born” Failed by a broken system
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Branko Marcetic
Branko Marcetic@BMarchetich·
ICE agents earlier this month deported a 5-year-old US citizen with her mother, who was legally in the country as she waited for a decision on her visa application. These "errors" that end up (illegally) deporting US citizens have become a regular occurrence over the past year.
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@davidsirota “Her worldview is widely held in rural America but almost completely unrepresented in national politics—neither reactionary nor exactly liberal; skeptical of big business and big government alike.”
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@matthewstoller Remember there are also left-libertarians who don’t trust big government, Wall Street or corporate America.
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Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller@matthewstoller·
Pretty obvious an important slice of Democrats are making a sharp libertarian turn for 2029, with the argument that we can't empower the government because Trump shows government is tyranny. Gotta trust Wall Street and corporate America instead.
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@samhaselby I’m confident @JonHaidt can defend himself if he needs to, but why do you expect a social psych prof, whose crucially important work now has global reach, to also opine about “oligarchy, healthcare, endless war, billionaires, housing, taxes, etc.” where he may lack expertise?
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Sam Haselby
Sam Haselby@samhaselby·
The demerits of social media for young people could be a two page memo. Hayes and Klein and Haidt and the abundance and Vox guys focus on social media for years because they don't want to talk about oligarchy, healthcare, endless war, billionaires, housing, taxes, etc.
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter

Internet culture reporter and influencer Taylor Lorenz refers to journalist Chris Hayes and psychologist Jonathan Haidt as “two dumb bitches.” Lorenz is on a crusade to defend children’s access to smartphones, having claimed in a free promo she posted for The Bark Phone that phones are good for kids, because they afford them the chance to express themselves. She has claimed that the effort by Haidt and others to get phones out of schools is a cynical plot to keep children from learning about values that animate the progressive movement. @JonHaidt, of course, has led a global crusade against smartphones for kids, asserting that they harm their mental health and also put them at risk of harms such as sextortion, sexual predation and cyber bullying.

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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@NathanJRobinson I’m not a lawyer but Title 18 “Crimes & Criminal Procedure” USC 3559 lists 5 felony classes and 3 misdemeanor classes that carry prison time (even as little as 5 days). If you can be found guilty and serve time, reasonable people can call that a crime IMO. codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-cr…
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Nathan J Robinson
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson·
google AI once again spitting out garbage. Overstaying a visa is not a crime!!
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Atom Ergon@tmorange·
@intorpere @NathanJRobinson Gemini phrasing offers plenty of wiggle room IMO between “has become” (sounds like a done deal) & “potential federal crime” (isn’t yet but could be).
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Nichego
Nichego@intorpere·
@NathanJRobinson It says potential federal crime. That's technically true, isn't it?
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