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[The Trump administration exhibits] malevolence tempered by incompetence.
-- Benjamin Wittes (Lawfare Blog Jan 2017)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

[The Trump administration exhibits] malevolence tempered by incompetence.
-- Benjamin Wittes (Lawfare Blog Jan 2017)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BenjaminWittes #Incompetence #Malevolence #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

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Silence = Submission

#washingtonpost #fascism #benjaminwittes

William Lewis, publisher of the #WaPo, writes about a "we" that has decided"not to publish the ready-to-go endorsement of #Harris.Who is this we other than billionaire #JeffBezos and #WilliamLewis?

Read #BenjaminWittes's excellent piece on today's journalistic travesty:

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-bends-the-knee

#HarrisWalz2024
#AnticipatoryObedience

Worth a read, re: Adam Kinzinger…

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Reminds me of a great line from one of the West Wing episodes, that went something like “Decisions are made by the people who show up” (paraphrased).

#AdamKinzinger #BenjaminWittes #DNC #DoSomething #ShowUp

https://www.threads.net/@benjaminwittes/post/C_Bbq_AxjIt

@lawfare

#Legal #TrumpTrials

#BenjaminWittes, editor in chief of #Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the #BrookingsInstitution, writes an excellent assessment of the NYC criminal trial and its political repercussions.

"...We were told by a great many pundits that the case was weak. This was false. The evidence was voluminous. It was powerfully corroborative. It was diverse. The case was quite strong..."

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thoughts-on-donald-trump-s-conviction

So #BenjaminWittes dog shirt caused a stir in court today and he feels really bad about it. It’s in the first 5 minutes of @lawfare ‘s stream.

@GottaLaff

Benjamin Wittes on how not to respond to a terrorist attack...

"And finally, we also don’t need your prediction about how this will reshape this or that, how it was just what Benjamin Netanyahu needed to do yadayadayada or how it will sink him once and for all and blah blah blah. The future will come soon enough. And you’re probably wrong, anyway."

#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #BenjaminWittes

https://www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/how-not-to-respond-to-a-terrorist

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Haha! Nice one.

#BenjaminWittes #Lawfare #TrollingRussians