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Anthony L. Fisher

@anthonylfisher.bsky.social
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MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) senior editor and opinion columnist — covering politics, free speech, civil liberties, and extremism. Signal: @afish.99 www.ms.now/author/anthony-l-fisher

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2h
“Love me, boss. And keep funding my MAGA tech blogs. LOVE ME, PETER!”
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 8h
This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.
Guy Christensen being antisemitic
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 10h
Joke about non-consensual contact right out of the gate at the MAHA Summit's "Reform in CMS" panel from moderator Russell Brand, the comedian who has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of rape and sexual assault for which he will stand trial in London next month. Dr. Oz slaps his knee. MAHA!
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h
AMAZING! Sean Hannity’s Twitter account is trying to frame Eric Schmitt's embarrassing screwup as a win, claiming he put Jack Smith "on the spot."
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 11h
They’ve learned, via their hero Trump, that facts don’t matter within the tribe, never admit to a defeat, and accountability is for suckers.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bari Weiss just gave this guy a "freedom hero good guy journalism" award.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The Sopranos” ran from 1999-2007, so it doesn’t make the list. (Seems silly)
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Got a little personal in the column today. On suicide, depression and survival.
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Opinion | I lost my best friend to suicide. Then I learned how to survive depression.
Anthony L. Fisher: It’s been 20 years since my oldest pal took his own life. And it’s been 10 years since I chose to live.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He literally just voted "no" on a resolution to end the Iran War
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IMO it’s clear from Richard Hanania’s own words that he believes that rape, both statutory and violent, is the right of a certain kind of man. Elite men It’s appalling that this man is given a drop of ink or a second of interview time in our media. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/richard-hana...
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Richard Hanania Doesn't Even Try to Hide His Male Supremacism
Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
what is a same sex bathroom dawg
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/09/2026
I had to look up "TBPN" and it's a business and technology news podcast hosted by a founder of Soylent and a founder of a Youtube advertising company... which goes a long way toward explaining why they're so excited for Jeff Katzenberg's posts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBPN
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TBPN - Wikipedia
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Umm wow
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Journalism in the public interest FTW
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is this the Libertarian moment?
A tweet from the Libertarian Party of NH reading, “We openly support the assassination of basically every elected Democrat in New Hampshire 

But if you don't have the balls to do that then you should probably vote GOP”
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CBS News’ X account is running an ad for Israeli tourism.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Peter Thiel has paid for a lot of people's careers, but few take as much glee in doing his bidding as Vance.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s the Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse of stadium names
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In my piece for MS NOW about Trump's press ban this morning, I did not anticipate that the major television networks would pull their cameras. That is huge. But there are things the reporters can do, too. Like not put up with his shit anymore. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | Trump’s press ban won’t make the bad news go away
The abrupt decision to bar MS NOW, CNN and Politico from the White House should lead members of the White House press corps to push back.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have no idea WTF she’s talking about
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ezra Klein will have Ben Shapiro on his pod to compliment him on doing xenophobic hateslop entertainment exactly the right way.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“As the administration works to close courthouse doors to observers and cuts off resources for legal representation...It is essential that we continue to show up — to watch, to document, to bear witness — because no child who appears in court should do so alone and unseen.”
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Opinion | I was a volunteer observer in immigration court. These are the children I won’t forget.
Jill Fordyce: As the administration closes courthouse doors to observers and cuts off resources for legal representation, it is essential that we continue to show up.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 20/09/2026
"The fact remains that he is a temporary office holder — that presidents don't determine what rights the American people have; our Constitution determines that." @maddow.bsky.social on Trump blocking White House press access to MS NOW, CNN and Politico.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Breaking: CNN reporter Betsy Klein was denied access at the White House this morning and her press pass was seized, one day after President Donald Trump announced that he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico. My full story: www.cnn.com/2026/09/19/m...
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CNN, MS NOW denied access to White House after Trump ‘ban’ | CNN Business
CNN reporter Betsy Klein was denied access at the White House on Saturday morning and her press pass was seized, one day after President Donald Trump announced that he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Po...
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On the bad site, conservatives are conflating Christ with a Christ-figure so they have an excuse for their misogyny. Having a lion be a Christ figure in a land of magic and fantasy is apparently true to the Bible. But, having a woman's voice for that lion is the end of Western civilization.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ben Shapiro's public persona is "pedantic nerd who's also a vicious bully." Both were on display this week as he and the "civilized" MAGA xenophobes fought their more openly racist "heritage American" political allies over a photo of non-white Texas college football fans.
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Opinion | Ben Shapiro and the MAGA civil war over “polite racism”
Anthony L. Fisher: A Republican candidate’s racist post about Texas college football fans sparked a battle on the right between polite xenophobes and overt bigots.
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Brian Steinberg @bristei.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 19/09/2026
Listening to Hasan Piker (I) excuse the millions of peasants Mao killed as "unintentional" victims; (ii) hem and haw about the colonization of Tibet; and (iii) assert that the ongoing, brutal genocide of Uyghur Muslims is not an "outright" genocide one can fairly wonder if he is a useful idiot.
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Hasan Piker on political violence, Israel and why he praises China | The Axios Show
YouTube video by Axios
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It...uh...is not meant to be a competition
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news."
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So, on the CBS side, that is very interesting. While all the major networks (including Fox News) have refused to interview Pete Hegseth over his press freedom abuses at the Pentagon, Bari Weiss has booked Hegseth for 3 friendly primetime interviews, including this past Sunday for '60 Minutes.'
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Trump is better than any Democrat on free speech!” - countless heterodox, libertarian or “politically tribeless” MAGA apologists who will never admit to their own idiocy
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Again, the right never has agency. Right-wing racism is only two days old. And it’s only because the left made them this way. They really believe this.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There are still Americans who believe having to show a vaccine card at Applebee’s for a few months in 2021 was the height of tyranny. But masked, unaccountable MAGA secret police arresting U.S. citizens with impunity? Meh
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
All my very non-elite, representative New Yorker friends were also in the Vineyard or Greece during the last mayoral primary.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Who wants to tell him?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The more honest assessment is that Jared Kushner’s business interests were threatened by Israel’s attack on Qatar and that was when he decided to finally tell Bibi he was going to be cut off.
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Jared Kushner: US leveraged Israel’s failed Doha strike to secure Gaza agreement | The Jerusalem Post
“Israel did the strike in Doha, which was a terrible thing,” Kushner said. “And obviously, it was unsuccessful as a military operation. And that led to Israel being globally isolated.”
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Right-wing racism started two days ago but it’s not the right’s fault because the right has no agency, so it’s the left’s fault that right-wing racism is totally normalized now.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.
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