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Nonilex<p>…Today, we are witnessing the birth of a new <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DualState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DualState</span></a>. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> has long had a normative state. That system was always imperfect. Our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> system, for example, sweeps in far too many people, for far too little security in exchange. Even so, it is recognizably part of the normative state.</p><p>What the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration &amp; its allies are trying to build now, however, is not.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PerogativePower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerogativePower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ForTheeButNotForMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForTheeButNotForMe</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaziState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypocrisy</span></a></p><p>Exec at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Media Jumped the Line for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Visa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Visa</span></a> After Company Lobbied <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> Lawmaker</p><p>A fmr aide to Rep <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DonBacon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonBacon</span></a>, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Nebraska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nebraska</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a>, said she intervened on the company’s behalf even though she thought it was <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inappropriate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inappropriate</span></a>. “It was specifically the congressman that suggested I needed to deal with it.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ForTheeButNotForMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForTheeButNotForMe</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarrisWalz2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarrisWalz2024</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-media-foreign-executive-us-visa-don-bacon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/trump-m</span><span class="invisible">edia-foreign-executive-us-visa-don-bacon</span></a></p>