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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

New: contra a major current of liberal thought, not all expressive politics is pointless or counterproductive. Boycotting or walking out of Trump’s address to Congress would be both satisfying and politically valuable. www.offmessage.net/p/boycott-th...

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Boycott The Donald Trump Show

Playing captive to the lies he’ll tell at his coming address to Congress is weak, conveys weakness, and surrenders the whole national stage to him.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025

relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025

these terminations are good evidence that this is just wanton destruction by deranged ideologues. there is no rhyme or reason other than whatever makes sense to a bunch of zoomer nazis and their bosses and enablers

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025

worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1

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Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE’s secret plan

Legal experts said that unwinding a civil rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees’ rights removes a crucial check on institutional power.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The point of excluding categories of people from the military like this is to send the message that they are unworthy of citizenship, it is pure bigotry and the assumptions behind it are disproven by the honorable service of the people being targeted in the first place bsky.app/profile/bran...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 26/02/2025

Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’ve been arguing for four weeks that Trump is basically a ceremonial head of state while Musk is the actual head of government. There is nothing in today’s Cabinet meeting that argues against that theory. Musk has even paid Trump $10M for the privilege! www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

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Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America

A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It seems to me that people should start investigating what Elon musk has on Donald Trump to let him cuck him so spectacularly

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today - makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there

I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army. And yet....16 Democrats just did so

YEAs ---66
Banks (R-IN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)
Budd (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Cotton (R-AR)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Curtis (R-UT)
Daines (R-MT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hassan (D-NH)
Hawley (R-MO)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Husted (R-OH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Justice (R-WV)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY)
McCormick (R-PA)
Moody (R-FL)
Moran (R-KS)
Moreno (R-OH)
Mullin (R-OK)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rosen (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sheehy (R-MT)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Warner (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
NAYs ---28
Alsobrooks (D-MD)
Baldwin (D-WI)
Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Booker (D-NJ)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Coons (D-DE)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kim (D-NJ)
King (I-ME)
Lujan (D-NM)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schiff (D-CA)
Schumer (D-NY)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025

Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🚨🚨ALERT🚨🚨: If you want Democrats to hold the line on Musk's illegal funding/firing spree, **RIGHT NOW** is time to make your voice heard. This update below is about just that. Not clear how hard a line they're taking. GOPS are abt to shutdown the govt. Their leadership wants Dem help outmaneuver...

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

And 2018 and 2020.

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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Listen -- it's not nuts to expect congressional Democrats to do something about the on-going coup undertaken by an unelected foreign oligarch. But, the WAY Democrats are doing it? By Just Asking Questions? This is just not serious stuff.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The richest man in the world has parasitically imposed himself on the federal government to insist that all employees generate content for his language-processing machine, conscripted the administrative state as monkeys at typewriters, all under penalty of dismissal should they refuse.

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The jokes come easy here but the reality of having an entire political party existing above and beyond the law is fucking terrifying and signifies the end of our social contract.

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Considering that Musk routinely shares the personal data, addresses, etc. of people who make him mad and sics his degenerate legions on those enemies, is it any wonder people don't want him to have access to all their banking, social security, medical info?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I feel like a lot of very normie very moderate liberals prefer AOC to most other congressional Dems and there’s something there, something to build on.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/02/2025

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Look, I normally don’t use this page to fundraise, but I will likely need legal support. Chip in if you can. secure.actblue.com/donate/rg-doj

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The stuff they're doing is deeply unpopular and they're rapidly heading in that direction. Stop treating them like they're untouchable. We can fight back.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The median voter loves…the rule of law???

28. If a federal court rules that something the Trump administration did is illegal,
do you think Trump administration...
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Should follow the court ruling
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

They are gutting services you depend on to fund Elon’s next round of tax cuts and government contracts

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

COOL JOB ALERT: We're looking for a senior leader to take on Indivisible's media operations, particularly with experience in the non-mainstream media space (influencers, podcasts, etc). Only downside is you have to work with me. Please apply or tell people to apply! jobs.lever.co/indivisible/...

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Indivisible - National Director of Media and Influencer Relations

Indivisible is a nationwide grassroots movement dedicated to advancing progressive values, building an inclusive democracy, and empowering local Indivisible groups to effect change in their communitie...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Kash Patel is the fbi director Good luck everybody

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Looking for all those Republicans with pocket Constitutions who love to tweet about 1776

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Waleed Shahid @waleedshahid.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"Elon Musk is stealing from the entire American public, stealing our data. Stealing the services that we all rely on. They're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves." - @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #SaveOurServices

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 18/02/2025

Marisa Kabas: Elon Musk & his young acolytes are actual, open Nazis. “Whatever comes to mind when you think of a Nazi, that is for whom this country is currently being run.” [thehandbasket.co]

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We’re dealing with actual Nazis

Musk and his young mercenary are anything but subtle.

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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is definitely true, but it’s Dems fault for avoiding the kinds of clear, obvious conflicts which drive news. “Musk’s coup is going to get Americans killed” is interesting. “DOGE overreach is unprecedented and not normal” is kinda boring honestly.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

All the headlines right now are "important government official who manages a key system keeping you safe resigns" or "Trump makes friends with the country that wants to kill Americans the most"

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 18/02/2025

Wherein Elon says the quiet, corrupt part out loud: He intends to steal the private IRS data of his political enemies. How soon before he does the same to his economic competitors? Or you?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

genuinely don't get why anyone who is not subscribed to musk's political project is throwing content up there. this & all other evidence dismantles the argument that one needs to 'stay and fight' the war of ideas (lol) on a platform that is making it clear as day it will not give you a fair fight

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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