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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
ATLANTA (AP) — The US is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, CDC says.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
After reading this deranged letter instituting 50% tariffs on Brazil for applying Brazilian law in Brazil, please do take a moment to chuckle at this U.S. Chamber of Commerce post from February. Oh well!
Putting Business First: The Key to Advancing U.S.-Brazil Partnerships in Trade and Investment
With Trump’s return to the White House ushering in an unprecedented shift in U.S. foreign policy, the Western Hemisphere has taken center stage. One thing has become clear: This administration will not ignore its own neighbors.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Indeed, and Kristol is correct. DHS is using tactical teams to scoop up day laborers at Home Depot and children at schools. That culture of excess and impunity in a law enforcement agency is by itself reason to scrap the whole thing. But it's only the tip of the iceberg of problems there.
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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I've long believed that the USA is backing into a Turkish style quasi-authoritarian state. Would this surprise anybody in...let's say Oklahoma in a few years? www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Turkish police detain dozens at banned Istanbul Pride march, lawmaker says
Turkish police detained at least 30 people in central Istanbul on Sunday as they tried to take part in a Pride March, which authorities had banned as part of a years-long clampdown on LGBTQ+ events, an opposition politician said.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Indiana University is eliminating or suspending over 100 academic programs in arts and humanities, science, education, public health, and more The cuts come after a new Board of Trustees majority, which has called for more “practical” degrees bloomingtonian.com/2025/06/30/i...
A photo of a “welcome to IU” with three students walking
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
This is just the default state of things now huh, the world just keeps spinning
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2025
republicans operate according to a moral economy where wealthy oligarchs and polluters deserve the collected prosperity of the nation because of their wealth. the job of the rest of us is to toil for their benefit.
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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Wow that’s broad. Incredibly broad. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
entitled to a preliminary injunction. A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses "a very real threat of undermining" the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill. Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, 218 (1972). And a government cannot condition
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 27/06/2025
“Pro-life” Christian nationalist pastor Andrew Isker - from Jackson County TN - outraged about taxpayer money being spent to “keep old people alive.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
wait didn’t the Black guy Trump hates already do this and didn’t Trump say it was bad www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/p...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A University of Florida student wrote a paper arguing that the U.S. Constitution only applies to white people. His professor gave him an award
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Florida School Awards Student For Paper Arguing Constitution Is Only For White People
A Trump-appointed judge awarded the student for the racist paper.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 20/06/2025
A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...
“[Cornett] then described his anger at illegal immigration, telling the detective that he was ‘pissed’ about undocumented migrants receiving welfare funds, phones and health insurance, and that he had ‘driven around before with the same thought,'” court documents state. “[He] later asked the detective whether he could be ‘charged for [his] thoughts,’ and went on to explain that he fantasized about flying an Apache helicopter gunship to the border and firing on undocumented migrants traveling into the United States in order ‘to deter’ other undocumented migrants from attempting to cross the border.”

Cornett’s housemates also told detectives that he was “kind of obsessed” with cable news stories about undocumented immigrants entering the United States.

Notably, neither victim was identified as an undocumented immigrant within court documents.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody. We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza. Together we are standing up for those with no voice.
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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Donald Trump refuses to be the President of all Americans because he doesn't think people who disagree with him are real Americans at all.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Largest trans survey ever finds the top reason transgender people stop transitioning is transphobia “In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community,” the survey found.
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Largest trans survey ever finds the top reason transgender people stop transitioning is transphobia
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community,” the survey found.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/06/2025
I thought I was losing my mind when this happened because it was an attempted assassination of a national political leader and it was treated like it was nothing.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/06/2025
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing theonion.com/protest...
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they’re already doing and will keep doing no matter what. “Angelenos—don’t engage in violence and give the administration an excuse to inflict all the […]
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daviss @daviss.org · 14/06/2025
Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband have both died.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The Minnesota assassinations, the attempted arson at Governor Shapiro's home, and the violent arrest of Senator Padilla are all straight out of the Jim Crow terrorism playbook. Same goes with cops aiming for journalists covering the ICE protests. None of these are new tactics, just a new iteration.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Could you have waited until she finished to ask your questions? To shout your questions? You’re a senator, right? You couldn’t wait? That was just you out of control because you were just losing it." There are clowns in DC/NY who pitched this blowhard as a potential Dem presidential for 2028.
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Department of Homeland Security endorses Stephen A. Smith's Alex Padilla critique
Stephen A. Smith criticized Alex Padilla over his confrontation with Kristi Noem, and the Department of Homeland Security endorsed his take.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 11/06/2025
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
RFK is going to be responsible for a lot of death and suffering
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/06/2025
a humble welcome message to all my new followers here. thank you for spreading independent, data-driven political analysis. for the next 4 days, you can also get 30% off a one-yr membership to my substack. here are some quotes from people who recently subscribed: www.gelliottmorris.com/099443e7 🧵
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John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
As a United States Senator advocates using military violence to suppress protestors, we face a crucial First Amendment question: will anyone try to use cancel culture against the editor who ran the call for violence? Greg Lukianoff, tomorrow in the NYT www.wsj.com/opinion/send...
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Opinion | Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops, for Real
When local police can’t restore order, the federal government has a duty to do so with a show of force.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Congrats ABC. You must be so proud.
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Jason Kincade @jasonkincade.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Man, fuck this guy. What a disappointment.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon says deploying Marines and National Guard to protests in Los Angeles will cost $134 million.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The official DHS account makes a post that suggests they want to disappear the Menswear Guy, whose posts are so magisterial that they regularly eviscerate powerful politicians, because he told his story of his mother carrying him into the USA from Canada when he was a baby. Ghoulishly giddy stuff.
The official DHS account posting a meme in response to someone saying the Menswear Guy admitted that he's here illegally
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is grotesque
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025
see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
He just sucks so incredibly much
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
the reframing of bluesky as some sort of bubble for one viewpoint conveniently ignores the fact many of us left X because our work was obviously being censored for its viewpoints. i wrote about tesla and climate and trans people and was significantly throttled. that’s why i left!
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A few days ago, Musk called for Trump to be impeached and suggested he was involved in pedophilia. Then Trump threatened to terminate Musk's federal contracts. Now Musk is back to promoting Trump.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Welp, I guess it wasn’t a lie.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I’m sorry but this is a damning indictment of the American people www.cbsnews.com/news/deporta...
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Trump's deportation program nets positive approval amid contrasting views over its scope, CBS News poll finds
Americans think tariffs will lead to higher prices; Trump's perceived goals fare better than his approach.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/06/2025
it's absolutely important to couch every statement from this guy in the context that he hired a person based solely on the credential that the guy strangled one of my neighbors to death. no background in software or finance, just murder.
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