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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

You are free to be fascist on Xitter but you are not free to point out fascism on Xitter

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/04/2026

Fascists hate to be called out as fascists. Too bad. Coming soon: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy. Yes, they are fascists. Yes, they must be crushed. Please pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Book cover: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy by Gil Duran

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The mighty @gilduran.com, one of the great modern chroniclers of the broligarchy, was suspended from Twitter for the tweet below against Palantir! He joins The Left Hook at 530 pm ET @tparsi.bsky.social joins us at 6 pm ET to discuss the Iran War debacle. thelefthook.substack.com No paywalls.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Characterizing something as “fascism” is now grounds for suspension on X??? So much for their supposed love of “free speech”.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/02/2026

A reminder that fake voter fraud and false claims of election rigging were always the plan. Here’s a direct message from Assange to Don Jr way back in 2016.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

FYI subscribe as @wired.com under @katie-drummond.bsky.social is killing it

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Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Thanks for all your messages and emails about an economic boycott. Now it’s time to head to resistandunsubscribe.com to learn more about @profgalloway.com's plan.

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Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“Trump does not respond to outrage. He responds to markets.” @profgalloway.com makes the case for a national economic strike.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Coming soon to a fact-based news organization near you. Added bonus: I don’t trade gross jokes with criminal sexual predators in a thirsty attempt at relevance or tell you codswallop about cod liver oil and such to sell you unnecessary supplements.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It’s important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what he’d say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what he’d say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Trump telling a woman reporter to smile more is not new. What is information here is him snarling like a cornered dog as she essentially asks what he would say to his and his dead friend’s victims about covering up what they did

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

He installed an incompetent and flaccid exec, made a series of dumb and venal decisions & sucked up to Trump to make yet another filthy dollar. He’s so poor, all he has is money and, let’s stop pretending, bad facial surgery that makes him look like he is in some bad remake of The Santa Clause.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I’d like to report a murder. Trying to fix a legacy media company is hard — we all know the economics — but Jeff Bezos just killed the @washingtonpost.com in the most cowardly & inept way possible. He would never entertain others who wanted to fix it too like me www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

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Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I have the means now because of what this legendary institution gave me to donate a decent chunk of dough to these hardworking employees. I urge you to give whatever you can.

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a cartoon of a person handing another person a wallet with money in it

ALT: a cartoon of a person handing another person a wallet with money in it

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The @washingtonpost, where I started in the mailroom, is the place that made me everything I am now. Skinflint billionaire and failed fashion model Jeff Bezos has decimated it. Well, fuck that guy and give to the people he screwed. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel

On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My take today on Jeff Bezos since I met him at his struggling start up in the 1990s in Seattle: Twice the muscles, half the man.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.

CNN: Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost assaulted at Sundance Film Festival event, police say
By Aleena Fayaz
Updated Jan 24, 2026

NBC News: Man lunges at Ilhan Omar during town hall and tries to spray her with unknown substance
January 27, 2026

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 27/01/2026

⬇️ "The Member for Clacton is warmly welcoming people who spent 14 years undermining public services, who wrecked the economy, who botched Brexit, and who then got booted out by the British people in 2024." 😲 "Mr. Speaker, their latest recruit was so bad, she managed to get sacked by Liz Truss!"

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/01/2026

🇷🇺 Stephen Doughty MP, Minister of State for Europe on Russian misinformation: "This year, Russia alone plans to spend 30 million euros weekly on state propaganda." The misinformation crisis is not an accident. It is a manufactured weapon of war.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I know they have some classified ChatGPT4theSea memo that defines drug trafficking as fighting, but that's ridiculous. If you define a tail as a leg, a dog has five legs.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Even if these guys were on the radio to other drug traffickers, who cares? These guys weren't coming in to shoot at Americans, there were no Americans around. Smuggling drugs isn't fighting, but those drugs weren't going to Trinidad or anywhere.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Tom Cotton is babbling about how the boat survivors might have "stayed in the fight." There was no fight. These guys weren't armed. They were puttering along when they were struck by a missile. There was no American anywhere near them.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Just think, in just 10 months, Trump's Justice Department has had more indictments rejected by grand juries than all prior presidents put together www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... That's very MAGA!

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Grand jury refuses to reindict Letitia James in mortgage fraud case

Before a Virginia grand jury’s ruling Thursday, a judge had dismissed an earlier indictment after finding that the prosecutor had been unlawfully appointed.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I used to have to teach the NSS: What's in it, what it means, how it was produced. In this administration, documents mean nothing. Our national policy is whatever stray voltage is crossing Donald Trump's brain pan at any given moment. The NSS and other such documents are meaningless.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The boat was destroyed. The boat was never going to the US anyway, it wasn't even going to Trinidad. It was toast. Smuggling drugs is not fighting. This is insane.

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

What happened last week is that Putin ran out of money. All this diplomatic chaos, unofficial actors trying to set foreign policy, started the week Russia began selling off its gold reserves. What we're seeing is weakness, and influence: Putin has called in his US assets to stave off catastrophe. 8/

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Russia’s Central Bank Starts Selling Physical Gold From Reserves - The Moscow Times

Russia’s Central Bank has for the first time begun selling physical gold from its reserves as part of Finance Ministry operations to fund the state budget, the Bank said on Wednesday.

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Ukraine relations get even more chaotic. Two factions - Kushner/Witkoff and Vance/Driscoll - are both freelancing to set US policy: cutting out the State Dept, pushing Ukraine to surrender, then leaking to press to claim they are official. Why? Putin is desperate and has called in his assets. A 🧵 1/

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/12/2025

Leavitt tries to explain why President Trump commuted the sentence of former GPB Capital Holdings CEO David Gentile, who was convicted of fraud last year

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Every other FBI director wore a suit

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/12/2025

The same people who i used to fight with in the GOP, who wanted to withdraw American troops from everywhere, are now the ones justifying the murder of two survivors. It’s almost like…. It was never about that

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2025

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Place National Guard in harm’s way for no good reason. Two members are tragically and unnecessarily shot. The reckless regime’s response: We’re sending 500 more National Guard troops! What a disgrace.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/11/2025

Steve whitkoff is an actual traitor

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/11/2025

If you’re wondering why there’s a lull in the Epstein files discussion, it’s because the law that just passed gave Pamela Jo 30 days to release the files. So we’re all waiting to see how she tries to sabotage it. The discussion will pick back up in earnest on December 20th.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Imagine how tired Johnson would be, if he actually exerted Congress’ prerogatives once in a while.

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‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/11/2025

I was right

Olivia Nuzzi on Trump: Vibrant, alive
Olivia Nuzzi on Biden: Hideously unnatural

Pardon me for suspecting she's not on the level (July 2024)

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

DOJ wants to dismiss the indictment of Tom Barrack's handler (a senior UAE spook, I think), leftover from 2021.

November 26, 2025
By ECF
The Honorable Brian M. Cogan
United States District Judge
Eastern District of New York
225 Cadman Plaza East
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Re: United States v. Rashid Sultan Rashid Al Malik Alshahhi
Criminal Case No. 21-371 (S-1) (BMC) .
Dear Judge Cogan:
The government respectfully submits this motion requesting that the Court
dismiss the above-captioned superseding indictment and underlying indictment with prejudice,
pursuant to Rule 48(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The Department of Justice
has determined that it will not commit further resources to the prosecution of the one remaining
defendant in this case, and has directed the Office to seek dismissal with prejudice. The
government has spoken with counsel for the defendant, who has confirmed that the defendant
consents to this motion. As the defendant is the only remaining defendant in the case, dismissal
of the superseding and underlying indictments concludes the entirety of the case. A proposed
order of dismissal is attached hereto.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Garry Kasparov on the Ukraine "piece" plan. www.thenextmove.org/p/diplomacy-...

All of this becomes a lot easier to understand if we stop thinking of Trump, Witkoff, Putin, and Dmitriev as political leaders of opposing powers and instead think of them as leaders of competing but friendly mafia families dividing up territory and clout. Looking at the deal they concluded and the rhetoric emanating from both camps, it’s not too hard to get into that mindset. Nothing about this deal would ensure peace over the long (or even medium) term. Instead, this is merely a breather, offering Russia the chance to consolidate its gains and bide its time until it can attack again while the US, and more importantly, those in Trump’s immediate circles, have a chance to profit from doing business with Russia.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/11/2025

every single thing hegseth says in public reveals a bottomless pit of insecurity

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

New from me in @talkingpointsmemo.com: The generational divide of our moment isn’t about partisanship or social issues. It’s about how differently each generation experiences what it takes to build a good life. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/young-c...

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Young Candidates Can Speak to the Affordability Crisis Because They’re Living It

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This is what is happening.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Exactly. Nazi porn bar where propaganda reigns.

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