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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

“Do you think the women who yelled at you in the restaurant deserve jail time?” Trump: “Yeah, I think they were a threat.” No bottom

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Twenty years after the comedy went silent, Russia is a sadistic, warmongering fascist regime run by a mad centibillionaire. That’s a future that could be ours — whole argument of "Road to Unfreedom" — but also one we can stop — see "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom." www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...

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TV's Impious Puppets: On Kremlin's Hit List? (Published 2000)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/09/2025

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2025

the skeleton key to understanding these people is that they genuinely think you are a drone who will do what you’re told if the TV says it

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I spoke with five families in the D.C. region about what it's like raising trans kids in Trump's backyard. They shared fears about being personally targeted by the federal government and their joys in raising kids that are learning to express themselves authentically in a difficult world.

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What it’s like raising trans kids in Trump’s backyard

Families in and around Washington, D.C., are navigating the White House’s crackdown on gender-affirming care and a growing assertion of federal power.

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Pascal Sabino @pascalsabino.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Missourians have repeatedly used ballot initiatives to adopt policies that lawmakers in the GOP supermajority refuse to move on: abortion rights, paid sick leave, Medicaid expansion. In response, Missouri Republicans are attempting to make direct democracy impossible: boltsmag.org/missouri-ame...

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Under this GOP Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed - Bolts

Republicans have dominated Missouri’s legislature for over two decades, but they haven’t entirely controlled state lawmaking, in large part because Missouri empowers citizens to petition for ballot re...

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Shannon Bond @byshannonbond.com · 18/09/2025

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Trump's vengeful tone shows he genuinely doesn't support First Amendment rights. He's an instinctive tyrant waging war against America's Constitution & founding principles. As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2025

Ok I am partly posting this because a lot of folks who are now being impacted by censorship either didn't speak up or actively participated in these attacks and it's really important for people to understand what happens when you shake hands with the devil bsky.app/profile/chan...

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I agree with Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg that humility is a good idea. People with expertise in hepatitis B and vaccines concluded that the small risks of universal birth vaccines are far outweighed by the benefits. This group of non-experts (including her) should not overturn that.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Teachers' punishment for social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death prompts free speech debate

More than three dozen professors, teachers and school staffers have left or been removed over allegations they made disparaging or mocking comments about Charlie Kirk.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2025

Unintentionally revealing analogy: “He compares it [ai teaching] to autonomous driving, where a computer takes over the main tasks under minimal human supervision.”

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The AI Pioneer Who Wants to Replace Teachers With Algorithms

Derek Li pulled his sons out of school to be taught by artificial intelligence. Now he’s betting the US is ready for machine-led learning.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/09/2025

Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning: Work faster, or the company might fire her. She said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.” (Published April 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

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A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.

Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s ho...

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 18/09/2025

The meeting of CDC vaccine advisers is getting underway soon. Meet the new members, some of whom have said we need to stop giving Covid vaccines and reexamine the childhood immunization schedule. “As Christians, we should not fear death,” one new adviser said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Vaccine ‘skeptics’ among new advisers joining CDC committee

Some have little to no documented experience with vaccines while others have undermined their safety

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

NEW: Republicans have advanced a constitutional amendment to basically kill direct democracy in Missouri. Since 2020, citizens have used initiatives to increase minimum wage, expand Medicaid, protect abortion. All those measures would have failed under the GOP rules:

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Under this GOP Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed - Bolts

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This Administration treats the actual military with utter contempt. Just a few weeks ago, some of them were calling to revoke Florent Groberg's Medal of Honor because he spoke at the DNC. And when Garrett Foster, a veteran, was murdered, they celebrated it and pardoned his killer.

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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

People are on that other site calling for the lynching of Black faculty who are speaking up about the impact the professor watchlist has had on them (us) and how it bred violence on campus.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2025

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I’m putting this information out here so that press and police can begin to understand what’s actually motivating Kirk’s murder.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

My dear friend Stephanie's 26-year-old son, Jaden, was recently shot and killed in Atlanta. He leaves behind a fiancee and 4-year-old daughter—"his whole world," as Stephanie put it. Stephanie has created a fundraiser to help cover rent and bills as they face the unimaginable. Any amount helps.

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Donate to Support Jaden's Family After Tragic Loss, organized by Stephanie Williams

My name is Stephanie Williams, and I am coming to you brokenhearted. On Sa… Stephanie Williams needs your support for Support Jaden's Family After Tragic Loss

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

So Matthew Dowd was right. Will MSNBC re-hire him?

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12/09/2025

This the point of the DIY society they've been trying to build since Reagan. Leave people so overwhelmed with the task of managing day-to-day risks and responsibilities that they have almost no choice but to accept whatever disinformation you subject them to.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

WSJ has now appended this lengthy editor's note to its original report. It notably contains zero contrition for the initial decision to spread such incendiary misinformation. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article detailed how an internal law enforcement bulletin said that ammunition recovered following the Charlie Kirk shooting was engraved with expressions of “transgender and anti-fascist ideology." Justice Department officials later urged caution about the bulletin by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, saying it may not accurately reflect the messages on the ammunition, and the article was updated Thursday to reflect that. This editor's note was appended on Friday, Sept. 12, after Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said the engravings included one that said “Hey fascist!” along with other messages and symbols. He gave no indication that the ammunition included any transgender references.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 12/09/2025

Having to explain to your parents you're a gooner not a groyper 😕

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/09/2025

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/09/2025

Sen. Jack Reed has said that the Pentagon has provided Congress with “no evidence” to back its claims on the legitimacy of the boat strike that killed 11 people who experts say were civilians. “They have offered no positive identification that iits crew were members of Tren de Aragua.”

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Top Senator Says Pentagon Has “No Evidence” to Legitimize Caribbean Boat Strike

“There is no evidence — none — that this strike was conducted in self-defense,” said Sen. Jack Reed.

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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Discord is disputing what was said about the platform in this morning's Charlie Kirk shooting press conference. Discord says it doesn't have record of the shooting suspect sending many of the messages referenced by Utah Gov Cox. It confirmed he had an account. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Discord disputes some details shared in news conference

The company behind the online chat app Discord is disputing some details that were shared in Friday's news conference with officials. Utah Gov.

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I see that Marty Makary is in the news. I just wrote about his PragerU interview. If you want to see how wildly ignorant he seems to be, have a look. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

His interview on PragerU (view count: 3.4 million) is filled with preposterous falsehoods meant to reveal him to be a singular freethinker who asks questions no one has dared to ask before. On the topic of diabetes—and keep in mind that he is a doctor who specializes in a surgical intervention for type 1 diabetes—he boldly states that diabetics are simply given insulin and that no one tells them to try lowering their sugar levels by watching what they eat. Has he been living under a rock for most of his life? Earlier, he rhetorically asked how to even teach ethics to doctors in training. The interviewer turned the question back at him: “Are they even taught these things?” His incredible answer? “I’m not aware of it.” The School of Medicine at his own university, Johns Hopkins, has a first-year course for its medical students literally called “Foundations of Public Health: Epidemiology, Ethics & Health Care.” To claim that medical students are not taught ethics is either a gonzo lie or a sign of a disqualifying lack of knowledge.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The Senate Judiciary Committee needs to ask Kash Patel to explain, with specificity, how close they were to identifying Kirk's killer before he turned himself in. Because based on the press conference from yesterday, it does not seem like they had made much progress on Patel's watch

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

For those who need a refresher on Fuentes, Kirk, and the Groyper wars, here are some excerpts from our book, Meme Wars:

With allies like former Tea Party star Michelle Malkin, too edgy for conservatives but too pragmatic and polished for wignat street fighting, Fuentes set out to build a new right-wing coalition heading into the election year of 2020. But this was not going to be a big tent; who was excluded was just as important as who was included. The first target of what would become the Groyper wars was Charlie Kirk, as the most visible, and therefore most reachable face of the young conservative
Kirk was about to embark on a national campus tour titled "Culture Wars," where he was supposed to build a broad student coalition in support of Trump. A veteran of the college circuit, Kirk was poised to lead the young Republican wing of the party. He and his TPUSA had taken heat for their proximity to the alt-right at political and campus events in 2017 and 2018, and Kirk publicly denounced white supremacy after Unite the Right.
For Fuentes, Kirk and TPUSA embodied everything that was wrong with conservatives who upheld the liberal consensus by promoting Israel, gay rights, and softer immigration policies. Kirk had been in Fuentes's sights during the years as he soured on campus conservatives. Getting
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to the top tier of Trumpworld was nearly impossible for someone as marginal as Fuentes, but opportunity struck in October 2019, when Kirk took TPUSA's Culture War college tour on the road. Kirk brought Trumpworld to campuses across the nation with special guests like Senator Rand Paul, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lara Trump, and congressman Dan Crenshaw. Like when Richard Spencer, Shapiro, or Yiannopoulos would book campus tours, Kirk's events too often attracted protest from left-wing student groups. But this time, the attacks would come from their right.
Beginning on October 7 at the University of Nevada, Kirk set a tone where debate was encouraged, even allowing those who disagreed with him to move to the front of the line during Q&A.
Ever since
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is the Groyper playlist on Spotify, which includes “Bella Ciao.” It’s a meme war. FBI and others are all taking the bait.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

from Corey Robin on FB:

screenshot of the post:

"I thought my capacity for shock had been completely lost. But I have to admit, reading this message, which went out this morning to all public employees of the State of Virginia, stunned me:
"Good morning, State Colleagues: Many of you saw the Proclamation issued by the Governor last night asking Virginians to pause at noon today to reflect and pray for Charlie Kirk’s family, to reject all forms of violence, and for our Commonwealth and Nation to stand together. (You may find the Official Proclamation here.) Just as our Nation joined together after September 11th, so too must we make a similar and lasting commitment to defeat the evils that harm our democracy."
Over the years, I've read countless articles and books about the Redemption period after Reconstruction, how previously reviled and odious figures—slave masters, Confederate politicians, southern generals—were canonized by, first, the white South and ultimately the white power elite of the nation as a whole.
I suddenly have such a visceral sense of what it must have felt like to be a formerly enslaved person, an abolitionist, a Union soldier, the families of Union soldiers who lost their sons or husbands or brothers, a radical founder of the Republican Party, to see this happening. It's stupefying, shocking, as I said, to see a version of it now, in real time, right before my eyes. It's like I'm seeing Birth of a Nation getting made right in front of me.
After 9/11, Susan Sontag pleaded to a nation that had completely lost its mind, its sense of reality and proportion, any and every sense of history at all, "let's not be stupid together." I know it's a lot to ask of this country, but, please, let's not be stupid together."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes

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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2025

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

A screenshot of a tweet from the Daily Caller, which has been reposted by Rep. Nancy Mace. The tweet reads: "'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH': Rep. Nancy Mace comments on reports of Charlie Kirk's killer allegedly being 'pro-tranny'". The tweet includes a video thumbnail showing Rep. Nancy Mace outdoors wearing sunglasses and speaking to reporters. The timestamp is 11:29 AM, September 11, 2025.

A screenshot of a tweet from Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace). The tweet, posted at 10:36 AM on September 12, 2025, reads: "We know Charlie Kirk would want us to pray for such an evil, and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ. We will try to do the same."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I suppose this is the problem with building your audience around twitter-brained meme addicts: you can't simply lie to them about what this stuff is, like you could to your grandma watching Fox News.

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