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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/09/2025

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

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Cole @cole-august.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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Cole @cole-august.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

You may not like Murray or agree with all his views, but you have to take a win when you get one, and this was one of the fist times Rogan has been called out like this directly to his face on his podcast. Murray mostly on point in the debate, and here

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EXCLUSIVE: Douglas Murray responds to Joe Rogan interview controversy

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Tonight Trump also revoked the clearances of the law firm Susman Godfrey, which helped Dominion win a $787 million defamation settlement against Fox (the election wasn’t stolen; Fox lied about that) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump signs order targeting law firm behind $787.5m Fox defamation suit

Order punishes Susman Godfrey, which helped Dominion Voting Systems get millions from Fox for 2020 election lies

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I could literally quote every single sentence of this commentary, so I'm not going to - just read the whole thing. And thanks, Dr. Bieniasz, for saying it as it is and showing true leadership. We need that from more scientists and scientific leaders. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz

If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented

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Cole @cole-august.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"It is, therefore, startling to realize that the list of people with whom I can no longer safely share a dinner table is growing, rather than shrinking." ~Sam Harris substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Failure of Character

In recent years, I’ve watched several friends who I once believed to be good, or at least good enough, become ethically grotesque.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

When I said "read Orwell" I meant "Politics and the English Language" and "What is Fascism?" intellectualtakeout.org/2015/12/geor... www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...

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Politics and the English Language | The Orwell Foundation

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“I got DOGEd” will go down in American history. Perhaps the most ignominious in the country’s near 250-years.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/03/2025

"Make no mistake: Removing the U.S. general from the SACEUR post would be a soft exit from NATO leadership, even if Article 5 commitments remain on paper." Take it from a general who's worked with NATO before.

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The Supreme Allied Commander Must Be an American

There’s simply no realistic alternative.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This is becoming a Matt Taibbi factcheck account… 🙃 A massive alt-media retcon has been happening re: Russia, which you are seeing reflected in the lies that Trump has begun to tell about Ukraine. The strategy is to discredit established facts, smear messengers, & create alternate realities. 1/4

Correction request
Hi Matt,
On Feb 28 you wrote about my 2018 Russia
report in a blog post that included the following sentence: "These include the December 17, 2018 Senate-commissioned report, "The Tactics and Tropes of the Internet Research Agency.," by New Knowledge, which provided the oft-published statistic that 126 million people saw Russian ads in
2016. Examples of credulous coverage: Washington Post, WashingtonPost(again), NPR, Axios, CNN. N ew York Times, Vox, Slate, Business Insider, etc."
Thank you for highlighting the coverage of my work. But you made a mistake: my report was not the source of that statistic. On October 30, 2018, Facebook released that statistic ahead of a Senate hearing. It was covered extensively in the media and contextualized quite clearly. It also was not specific to ads, but to the tens of thousands of organic posts that were also part of the operation on Meta platforms.

I am aware of your longstanding struggles with linear time, and your MO of targeting people to attack inconvenient facts by proxy, but October 30 is well before December 17. If you would like to retcon this inconvenient statistic and its "credulous coverage", you should get to work smearing its proper source.
I expect a correction.
- Renee

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Cole @cole-august.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“They will rub his nose into everything, like a messy puppy... Then he will sign whatever he is told to sign.” Host Evgeny Popov chimed in, “But first, Daddy will flog him.”"

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Russian Lawmaker Predicted the Trump-Vance Ambush of Zelensky

On Thursday, State Duma member Oleg Morozov guessed that “Daddy” Trump would “flog” Zelensky at the White House.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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It Was an Ambush

Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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At Least Now We Know the Truth

It’s ugly, but necessary to face.

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 22/02/2025

Musk’s DOGE is exercising powers similar to inspectors general but taking them even further, acting as a back door for controlling executive agencies, accessing sensitive government databases, and surveilling and intimidating federal employees.

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Trump’s Mass Firing of Inspectors General Bulldozed the Way for Elon Musk’s Unaccountable Shadow Government

A functional Congress would have impeached the president for deliberately flouting the law

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/02/2025

If your adversary can't believe their luck, either you're very, very bad at negotiating, or you don't think they're your adversary.

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To Russia, With Love, Donald

Moscow can’t even believe its luck.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/02/2025

BREAKING: The Department of Energy said DOGE firings of nuclear safety officials were non-critical staff. That is not true. In fact, one of the officials who was locked out of his work accounts was Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Safety James Todd.

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Inside DOGE’s Dumbest Cut Yet

Last week’s hastily reversed firings at the National Nuclear Security Administration have left a reeling, rattled agency in their wake.

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The Real Truther @therealtruther.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

"A week after he was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already eyeing the removal of federal advisers on vaccine approvals and other crucial public health decisions."

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RFK Jr. Already Plotting to Remove CDC Vaccine Advisers

The newly sworn-in health secretary earlier vowed to “remove conflicts of interest” from public health committees.

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Cole @cole-august.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The Fix... xAI will now be handling the production and curating of Community Notes. No, you are now allowed to appeal thi. Is this note helpful? Only "yes" for an option

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Cole @cole-august.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

When you don't like the results of the game you created... Elon shifting the platform further into a propaganda machine

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Cole @cole-august.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Funny how quickly the Orwell comparisons went away from the previous 4 years...

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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A Terrible Milestone in the American Presidency

Trump switches sides in the war for freedom.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

For The Unpopulist, I wrote about how public education is being wrested by MAGA from local control, bringing Christianity into the public schools and breaking down barriers between church and state. #EduSky

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Trump Is Not Taking the State Out of Public Schools, He Is Putting Christianity In

MAGA doesn’t need the Department of Education to advance its religious makeover of K-12

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Media is so pathetic parroting BS that Musk’s doing “savings” by finding “waste.” Just about every outlet has said that. It’s obviously false. And you fell for this trick already! He says “free speech,” it looks like BS, he then does the literal opposite, and you still say it! Have some integrity.

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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is insane. Marco Rubio explains that America needs to take advantage of "the incredible opportunity to partner with the Russians geopolitically, on issues of common interest and economically".

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Death of Government Expertise

Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/02/2025

"Maybe we don’t need all those employees currently working at the National Nuclear Security Administration? Maybe we need more? Maybe their duties should be reorganized in some way or another? I don’t know. Neither does DOGE." www.thebulwark.com/p/breaking-t...

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Breaking Things Faster Than You Can Read About It

Plus: Where have all the Democrats gone?

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I have been getting a surprising number of questions about CIA's low-confidence announcement that they believe SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab. A few comments in 🧵, but to summarize: 1️⃣ No new intelligence 2️⃣ No new report 3️⃣ No evidence exist to support SARS-CoV-2 came from lab 4️⃣ Usual nonsense More 👇

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Fake think tanks, medical journals, credentialing bodies, and associations give the movement a veneer of validity. But it was enough for Bill Cassidy and the rest of them. He’ll be shocked, shocked when Kennedy turns out to be exactly what we know he is.

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