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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Who do you think pairs entrees with fava beans and a nice Chianti?

Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We all enjoy responding with Epstein Files memes whenever Trump does or says pretty much anything...but let's not forget the real projects here. White supremacy, grift, authoritarianism, dismantling of democracy, enshrining of Christianity in the govt--that's all too real, not just a distraction.

Ice poster displaying We'll Have Our Home Again, a white nationalist slogan.

DHS tweet with "Which way, American man?", a reference to a neo-nazi quote.

Image of Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino dressed in a trenchcoat and hairstyle strongly reminiscent of those of an SS officer.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

ICYMI FEMA is being hollowed out. They're talking about "scaling back" but from a friend at the agency I am hearing that *all* people who are coming up for contract renewal are being let go.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

He's been telegraphing this for years. Are we finally there?

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Well, well, well. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Well there's a little factoid that's worth sharing around. "When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength."

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This won't stop as long as these goons believe they can get away with it. We must remove that assurance with all haste.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

...um. is it even worth asking "why"? www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The only Republican senator to sponsor the (now failed) war powers resolution was Rand Paul. I'm not accustomed to saying this, but kudos to Paul for standing on principle and having a backbone. We need more like this.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

If you're wondering where to put some of your 2026 political contributions, you could do worse than funding the opponent of Randy Fine (FL-6). www.cbsnews.com/news/greenla...

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Republican congressman proposes bill to make Greenland 51st state

Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida introduced a bill to annex Greenland and make it the 51st U.S. state.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Weird way to reveal oneself as a Sith lord, but okay

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Trump didn’t misunderstand the video. He weaponized the lie. Invent a violent attack, bless the shooting, and signal to ICE that restraint is optional and accountability is dead. The next killing won’t even require a story this careful.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Noem: “You don’t get to change the facts just because you don't like them.” The problem is she declared the facts before they were known. Even Trump allies and police hawks aren’t convinced by the rush to label the victim—and close the case. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-UL...

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Tapper presses Noem on ‘domestic terrorism’ labeling after ICE shooting

YouTube video by CNN

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It’s comforting to know that in moments of national tragedy, our Vice President is there—not just to take measurements for the Oval Office curtains, but to make sure the culture war never misses a beat.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

JVL right on the money: "If this is the standard for the use of deadly force [...] how many people should have been shot by the police on January 6th?" youtu.be/NwGHWk5xOxs?...

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JD Vance Hopes Your Eyes Don't Work | Secret Podcast Preview

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Props to The Economist for their new cover. We can hope that they'll have a tribute to The Usual Suspects in a future edition.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

* Trump targets law firms that represent his enemies. * Warrant for arrest of R-FL Cory Mills on assault charges ignored by US attorney. * Trump posts AI video of "Trump Gaza". * Trump plans to sell "gold card" for rich immigrants. We're off to a great start this morning.

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Anna Gotlib @annagotlib.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Working On Kakistocracy's End

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Yet again @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social, you're giving Trump free air time, for something as non-"breaking news" as a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Please learn from your mistakes.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I find this unexpectedly inspiring.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I think now we can see that "USAID is evil and full of Marxists" really means "USAID was on the verge of blowing the lid off my Ukraine grift". gizmodo.com/elon-musks-e...

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Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine

The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's company at the time of Musk's assault.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

@kim.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @repilhan.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @connolly.house.gov Many have been asking, "what are Democrats doing?" Let's recognize that *these* are Dems that are doing something. Show them your support.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Donald Trump’s new State Department appointee.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social for the love of God, stop talking about sports and the Grammys. These things do not matter right now.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I was flabbergasted by an immigrant coworker who, responding to my assertion that Trump will seek to go after critics and political enemies, asked "but I thought Trump announced freedom speech?" Now slowly peeling the layers of disinfo that this friend and his family have absorbed.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

FBI Director Christopher Wray plans to step down from his role, rather than allowing Trump to fire him. Someone please make this make sense in a way that isn't depressing. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

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Trump Transition Live Updates: Senator Collins Presses Hegseth and Will Wait to Decide on Her Support

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Because after all we've been through, we apparently don't even deserve a little poetic justice.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

As if awakening from a dream, I remembered where The Bulwark came from, and was reminded that the enemy of my enemy is not (necessarily) my friend.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

They are talking about Among Us

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The thing is much of what they offered IS good. Obviously if you believe hosts like Hayes and Maddow are just "corporate media" without real investigative and analytical value, this won't connect with you -- but I think those voices are essential, and I haven't yet found a replacement in ind media.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

If you have eight spare minutes and want your hair to burst into flame, watch this report by @chrislhayes.bsky.social on a planned transfer of US funds into Bitcoin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWAN...

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‘Enormous heist’: Hayes on the ‘audacious scheme’ to reward big donors

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Sometimes I have to just wipe the curmudgeonly snarl off my face and report something good: Nick Fuentes has reportedly been arrested and charged with battery. www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/06/n...

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Nick Fuentes charged with battery of woman he maced: report

Nick Fuentes has reportedly been charged with battery following an incident at his home last month where he allegedly maced a woman.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This piece by @harrylitman.bsky.social in his resignation from the LA Times deserves a full read. American journalism may well be undergoing a sea change, and the outcome is very unclear. open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

There is more: Soon-Shiong went on Fox News after the election to talk about the paper’s editorial direction. He advocated “diverse perspectives” in the editorial pages and voices from across the political spectrum to avoid creating an "echo chamber." Most alarmingly, and escaping the notice of no one, he pandered to Fox and Trump by saying he wanted to make the Times more “fair and balanced.”

Soon-Shiong followed up by hiring a noted pro-Trump commentator, Scott Jennings, for some as yet ill-defined role of “balancing out” the views on the editorial page. Then most recently, during an interview on CNN in which he was asked about the Jennings hire, the normally mild-mannered Soon-Shiong went full Trump, labeling the CNN correspondent a "so-called reporter" before abruptly ending the interview.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you haven't already sworn off @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social after the Trump visit, or after the base apology following @davidfrum.bsky.social's appearance, perhaps like me you'll find this morning's nauseatingly self-righteous rant to be the last straw.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I wish I mattered enough to have a "disagree bot" target me.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Somehow I went 43 years without ever seeing the most yacht-y of yacht rock videos, Bertie Higgins' "Key Largo". Never again will I doubt the reality of this genre.

Screenshot of the video for "Key Largo", showing the singer and his fake girlfriend sailing on a boat.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

@davidpakman.bsky.social if I had three wishes, I'd wish to see you interviewing @dplouffe.bsky.social to get his response to your recent video featuring Harris campaign postmortems. Well, maybe I'd need more wishes before I burn one on that, but if I had, say, thirty wishes, definitely.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Today's bad news is that when it comes to chasing every moronic, off-the-cuff, meaningless, even random statement Trump makes, no matter whether he'd even remember saying it if we didn't boost it non-stop for days on end, we haven't lost a single fucking step since January 2021.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A little on the nose, perhaps, but The Economist's word of the year is "kakistocracy." www.economist.com/culture/2024...

Kakistocracy has the crisp, hard sounds of glass breaking. Whether that is a good or bad thing depends on whether you think the glass had it coming. But kakistocracy’s snappy encapsulation of the fears of half of America and much of the world makes it our word of the year.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I think I know why, and it has nothing to do with being the "mom" in the image. On a day where the tradition is one of gratitude, togetherness, and even reconciliation, our VP-elect shows would rather take a moment to *gloat*. This is the character of those who will soon be leading the nation.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Speaker Johnson and incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune are hosting Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy for a discussion with Senate and House Republicans about DOGE.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm sure you, too, feel fatigued by all the Trump-related stories. Take heart: there are terrible things happening in the world that have nothing to do with the impending collapse of the US. uk.news.yahoo.com/port-au-prin...

More than 40,000 people fled their homes in Port-au-Prince in the space of just ten days this month, according to the International Organization for Migration. The Haitian capital is witnessing a spike in gang violence despite the presence of a multinational security mission.

On Monday the International Organization for Migration described the exodus as the worst wave of displacement in two years, with a total of 40,965 people in Port-au-Prince on the move between November 11 and 20 – some for the second or third time.

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Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It's all good fun to gloat over the failure of Gaetz's bid, but let's keep an eye on other nominations. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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