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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 45m

Hilarious. The big MAGA conspiracy theory about James Talarico blew up, but Megyn Kelly is still trying to wish it into being.

@LindnerCtrHope on X: Representative James Talarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope.

@megynkelly on X: Could you pls clarify @LindnerCtrHope:
1. Has James Talarico been to your facility at all at any point in the last 9 days?
2. Was the facility operator who said he had been there mistaken? Will you allow her to speak publicly?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7h

Would recommend guys like Brooks read Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning. Or Being Present by Willy Schumann. Or just google Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil." It's not a big secret how utterly wrong his perspective is. It is well documented.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7h

Holocaust survivors and educators rightly spent decades warning people about this. And they were keen to take Ossoff's side: Call out Nazis accurately, early and often. Do not let them gain a foothold. And always remember: The Holocaust did not begin with extermination camps. It ended with them.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7h

The lesson of the Holocaust was not that it was a singular, unique event in human history. The lesson was that it can happen anywhere, anytime, under the right conditions.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7h

People like Brooks seem to not understand that there was nothing special or exceptional about Nazi Germany. Nazis were ordinary people who behaved the way humans generally do under similar circumstances.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7h

This common view reflects belief in a type of Jewish and German exceptionalism: That no people in history have ever been or will be more persecuted than Jews, and no people have ever been or can be more evil than leaders of Nazi Germany. The view is both ahistorical and extraordinarily dangerous.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11h

Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11h

If we're going to make Abdul El-Sayed answer for everything Muslims do, then we should ask every Christian politician whether they consider Jeffress a fake Christian or if they agree with him that public executions reflect Christian teaching and ideology

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Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress backs livestream of Fort Hood shooter's execution

Jeffress, who leads the 16,000-member First Baptist Dallas and is a Fox News contributor and longtime Trump supporter, expressed his support in a Facebook post.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 13h

Honestly, anyone who regularly breaks bread with Republicans is probably ill-suited to the tenor of campaign 2026-28 Democrats should be running.

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 13h

Listening to David Axelrod tell @jonfavs that corruption arguments against Susan Collins are inadvisable demonstrates that a perpetual class of affluent consultants are ill-suited to a populist moment with widespread cynicism. Elites can't see each other's corruption!

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 14h

At the end of the clip, after Emmer’s ridiculous, easily challenged answer: KARL: “Let’s turn to the midterms…” Beltway reporters are more afraid of asking follow-up questions than Mister Mxyzptlk is of saying his name backwards.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13h

Fortunately for President Trump, laws are only real if someone is willing and able to enforce them

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 15h

Sorry, but are we still doing "look at the dapper white supremacist" in the year of our lord 2026? The president and vice president are the most important white supremacists in the world and they only wear suits.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trump is the leader, but the party is behind him 100%. Any politician still identifying as a Republican after this is a Russia-first treason weasel.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It is, in fact, possible to impeach and remove President Trump from office next week. It won't happen, however, because Republicans also support Putin and Russia and agree with Trump.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This isn't a case of abusing some loophole or misusing discretionary authority. The law is unambiguous and he's breaking it, simple as that. If Congress isn't going to do anything about breaking the law that already exists, passing another law to make it double-illegal accomplishes nothing.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

its just weird how theyre never gaming out scenarios for curing cancer or anything like that, i couldve sworn they said that was one of their big goals

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Headline makes it sound like the DCCC spent all their money on hookers and blow and now rent is due but the real reason is Trump and the Republicans are so toxic the DCCC thinks it can compete in districts Trump won by 13-20 points.

Specifically, Merz dedicates significant portions of the memo to four districts where the committee is desperate for more money in order to compete — all of which President Donald Trump won by double-digit margins in 2024:

— Florida’s 27th District (Trump +14.6)
— Nevada’s 2nd District (Trump +13.9)
— South Carolina’s 1st District (Trump +13)
— New York’s 21st District (Trump +20.7)

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Loading straitjacketed humans onto aircraft like cargo

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This sort of governance often has a very distinctive ending

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Q: Did you personally authorize or approve the livestreamed execution? TRUMP: Did I approve? Absolutely I did

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

600 million pounds is 85 million gallons

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In covering the decision to livestream a public execution, the New York Times accurately compares Pentagon officials to ISIS www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting would be executed in public, a practice that ended in the United States nearly a century ago and is most commonly carried out in a handful of countries, including Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan.

The Pentagon said in a statement that the military execution, scheduled for Dec. 3, would also be broadcast via livestream. Such a broadcast has little precedent, and releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

From AOC: "ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency. It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE."

AOC's statement on yesterday's ICE shooting

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/10/2026

Defund and abolish ICE. Melt down their weapons and shift its budget to social services and affordable housing. Ban everyone who led or worked for ICE from any government job. Corporate death penalty for the companies that aided them. Citizenship to all of its victims, should they want it.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To every politician in New York: Do not tell the protesters to behave peacefully. Do not tell the protesters to disperse and go home. Instead, tell ICE to behave peacefully. Tell ICE to disperse and go home. Side with your constituents, not the Trump administration.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump is desperately trying to incite a riot before the election so he can declare an emergency

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help - and leave the rest to us!
President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"

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