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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Jul 10, 2026

This might be my favorite news feature of the year to date. Ever wonder about the white line on the *right* side of the road? I sure did, until I was pulled over for crossing it and was told what it was called. https://www.wsj.com/business/white-line-road-invention-america-250-8ce6bb89?st=iPPZkm #traffic #roads #inventors

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Jul 10, 2026

“[White House] communications director Steven Cheung responded to [Carol] Leonnig’s report on X, calling her a “liar,” “fraud,” and “not a real journalist.” Notably, Cheung did not point to anything factually incorrect in the report.” ~ Jon Passantino, Status exec editor That’s okay. Steven Cheung isn’t a real comms director, is a liar, and probably isn’t an actual person, but a comic insult dog who isn’t funny. https://www.ms.now/news/officials-say-trump-switched-out-new-air-force-one-over-security-concerns #USpolitics

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · May 15, 2026

Brilliant.

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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pPjxve/

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · May 09, 2026

“Amanda Frost, a professor at University of Virginia Law School who has researched denaturalization, said the cases indicated that the Trump administration viewed denaturalization differently than past administrations. She warned that for Trump officials, it is part of immigration enforcement and thus naturalized citizens can ‘never rest easy.’”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/trump-immigrants-citizenship.html (1/2)

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · May 05, 2026

“The same [Supreme] Court that blocked relief for Black Alabamians because the primary was four months away, and stayed a Texas order because it might disrupt an ongoing primary campaign, had no such concerns when the beneficiaries were Republican politicians rather than minority voters.”

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https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/-177798662021the-supreme-court-has-taken-off-its-mask?ecid=ACsprvvdHmIvwXW3BK8SrpWJVcjrXmio3j9YeAa3hJOIkOVWK4dVADsqjQL3nx8pfzVeRbhhHsq-&utm_campaign=12114861-Premium%20Membership%20Promo&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--76Argpmu03pq2oEMBGxEc8MIubwJ06oOnIpaJq45FsmH5SU-R50mQs5MbgB04bXrgnqZ4_bfA0NfHU1hrZCUHOt3kJ8qAFOv9b6CHshwveE7p044&_hsmi=417273839&utm_content=417273838&utm_source=hs_email

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · May 05, 2026

RE: @aaron.rupar@www.threads.com

Gotta train the proles.

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 28, 2026

“At the essence of the MAGA's culture war is the premise that some are chosen and that others are undeserving. Ironically, most of them have no real idea into which camp they themselves fall. They pander to the rich and powerful so that they can better parrot that privilege and they denigrate the poor and powerless so that they can feel a brief moment of superiority. They allow the disreputable to escape accountability, because they themselves crave unaccountability.” (1/2)

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 27, 2026

“[Soneone speaking for the US DHS] added that ‘ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens’ and is ‘regularly audited and inspected by external agencies.’” ~NYT

Imagine what the conditions in U.S. prisons are like.

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 27, 2026

“‘I didn’t think these things existed,’ she said of the immigration facilities she was held in. ‘I thought that when we arrested them, we would treat them properly. It really shocked me.’”

Saith the 85-year-old French citizen and Trump supporter arrested in her nightclothes after her American G.I. husband died.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/french-ross-mahe-ice-detention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eFA.pb2U.MNIt1tY_tYzm&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 22, 2026

Karoline Leavitt:

“And President Trump has proven before: He does not bluff,” she said. “When he makes a promise, he follows through on it, and I’m not sure why, after 10 years of covering this president, the American media still cannot understand when President Trump says he’s going to do something, he’s going to do it.”

She’s a prodigy of untruth. She’s so good at it that it’s almost admirable.

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social

@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social A great example of how populist sentiments don’t necessarily comport with truth or reality. Everyone who’s old and crabby and lamenting the “old Seattle” is complaining that all the damn road diets and bicycle lanes are slowing down traffic and creating congestion…even in light of our repeated experience on highway reductions (for repair/resurfacing) show that traffic literally “disappears” after a week. Where does the traffic go? People make other choices.

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 18, 2026

“Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.”
~Lewis Mumford

#traffic #autos #highways #transportation

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 07, 2026

Replying to @deborahh@cosocial.ca

@deborahh@cosocial.ca @Reinald@nrw.social @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social For now (and I emphasize “for now,”) the Supreme Court’s various rulings on the subject permit any two people to get married legally. Federal law (or court-interpreted Constitutional issues) control, superseding state laws. But clerks who register marriages and issue marriage licenses can subvert federal law if they’re not sued or exposed. (1/2)

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 07, 2026

Replying to @mjt@mastodon.online

As with all rights, they’re not actively enforced by a god nor governments. Rights depend on the goodwill and support of the body politic, and the US body politic needs a really good doctor. (2/2) @deborahh@cosocial.ca @Reinald@nrw.social @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 07, 2026

A credo of rugged individualism does not a unified nation make.

Benjamin Franklin: “We must hang together, or we will surely hang separately.”

Join or die, as the currently misappropriated flag declared.

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 07, 2026

Replying to @deborahh@cosocial.ca

@deborahh@cosocial.ca @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social Such an excellent point. So sorry to have missed it, and thanks for the reminder. Damn. This stuff seeps into one’s consciousness and is hard to surface, much less eliminate. Must continue trying.

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 07, 2026

Expect more of this in coming months and years.

“Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited | CNN”

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition

#USpol #Justice #Injustice #AI

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mjt @mjt@mastodon.online · Apr 05, 2026

Timothy Snyder:

“We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.”

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-coup-attempt

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The Next Coup Attempt

And How to Stop It

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