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David270NZ

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David270NZ @david270nz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Well done Spain. ETTD.
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David270NZ @david270nz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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History does not remember what you meant to do. It remembers what you did last. Lindsey Graham, 1955 to 2026
He had the best underdog story in the Senate. He traded it for a golf cart and a man who despised him.
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David270NZ @david270nz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New Zealand now up 2 - 1. Woo hoo!
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Dance, fool, dance. Dance over the fresh graves. Dance as tankers burn on the Gulf. Embrace the madness.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/03/2026
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority. By @hannahallam.bsky.social
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Buried bodies near a NM ranch? New evidence that Epstein may have been murdered? The bolstering of Trump's teen-sex accuser? The Epstein Files have gone wild, and there's one thing we can say for sure Federal authorities are tied to a massive coverup My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Trump’s Epstein scandal somehow got worse | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, is black rain over Tehran a sign of the Apocalypse?
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 11/09/2025
Don't sleep on the chance that the Ellisons could, in a year or two, own CBS, CNN, HBO, *and* TikTok. That'd be *literally* unprecedented media concentration in U.S. history — and all that's needed is enough Trump ass-kissing to ensure he doesn't get mad and sic Brendan Carr on him.
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Andys Theory 🦋⚡️💎 @andystheory.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Honing in on Trump's grand reopening of the freshly paved-over Rose "Garden" on Friday, Newsom rebranded the concreted area the "Predator Patio." 💙🇺🇸
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
James Tate I am looking forward to the day of accountability when all these lying enablers get what is coming to them after they hurt us all. ⚖️⚖️⚖️
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🇨🇳🇺🇦 Xi Jinping congratulates former Soviet republic on Independence Day for the first time, sending message to Zelensky, - Bloomberg ❗️He congratulated "friendly Ukrainian people" on Independence Day. This happened several days before Putin is scheduled to visit Xi.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/05/2025
A new documentary on the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh reveals that Israeli soldiers use her photo for target practice. This exposes the Israeli mentality that journalists are "fair game", and that the killing of journalists in Gaza is no accident.
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Israeli soldiers are using slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s face for target practice
A new documentary on the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh reveals that Israeli soldiers use her photo for target practice. This exposes the Israeli mentality that journalists are “fair game”, and that the…
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is America.
Maydee, still confronting the officers, says
"Where is the warrant?" Officer Lugo, according to his nameplate, says "Ma'am we are trying our best but they are federal."
Morales again asks for the warrant.
"They're federal."
"They still need a warrant."
Another officer, frustrated, says "They don't need a warrant." Finally, one of them tells the truth. Due process is not a matter they're concerned with.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Every now and then it hits me that this isn’t just about 1 inhuman act or another, but a bigger picture. That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/04/2025
Wrote a thing at how the Bukele/Trump meeting, full of absolute nonsense and bullshit in support of out-and-out fascism and despotism, is yet another dark day in America. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...
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Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters
In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I’ve long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of wanna-be dictator Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country. Here’s my take on how this week should have been covered by the US media: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-musk...
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Trump, Musk Shred Constitutional Protections as Country Lurches Toward Mafia State
This week's news roundup by our intrepid foreign correspondent William Boot, as it should be covered by the US media
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🫡🇳🇿🇺🇦 A soldier from the International Legion of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), Dominic "Tolkien" Abelen, has been given a final farewell in Kyiv.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trump new head of public diplomacy, Darren Beattie, says “NATO is a much greater threat to American liberty than Putin.” 5/
NATO
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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Let's see how long Meta's "no fact checking" policy lasts.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Russian disinfo network “Matryoshka” is migrating to Bluesky as exodus from X continues
The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on the Bluesky social network. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/12/2024
He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration
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He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration
Key figures in the incoming administration follow Curtis Yarvin, who’s pushing for an autocratic takeover of the US Curtis Yarvin is hardly a household name in US politics. But the “neoreactionary” thinker and far-right blogger is emerging as a serious…
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My colleague @danielletomson.bsky.social and I published an article in The Conversation expanding upon the metaphor that the dynamics of right-wing/conservative media look a lot like improv theater: theconversation.com/how-right-wi...
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How right-wing media is like improv theater
Improv theater is known for improvisation, audience participation and riffing on memes and stories circulating on social and traditional media – all hallmarks of right-wing media.
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Heesoo Jang @heesoojang.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
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South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know
Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...
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David270NZ @david270nz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Georgia:
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
John Heilemann is not wrong. Trump's agenda is all about the destruction of America so he can rule in the same way Hitler did after the Enabling Act of 1933 gave him ultimate power. 😳👇
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Kevin Slavin @slavin-fpo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Naw, I just wrote this up in wee hours in between sleep cycles. That said, I learned that the inimitable @zey.bsky.social wrote up most all these points (quite independently, obvs) in her excellent piece published yesterday for the NYT, gifted here www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...
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Opinion | A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History (Gift Article)
It’s not too late for President Biden to give the U.S. a life-changing gift.
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Kevin Slavin @slavin-fpo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Since H5N1 flu is finally getting news coverage, here’s a looong 🧵 on what I learned while working on it for a few months at Ginkgo Biosecurity (I don’t work there anymore and this thread is on no one’s behalf) Everything here is info you can get elsewhere but just to lay it all out insomnia style
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hegseth, according to his books, could be counted upon to ignore threats to America from abroad, and to use a purged and politicized military against “enemies within.” Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction" snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
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Pete Hegseth: The Short Course
13 Steps to National Destruction
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“After an hour or so of scrolling through Bluesky the other night, I felt something I haven’t felt on social media in a long time: free. Free from Elon Musk, and his tedious quest to turn X into a right-wing echo chamber where he and his friends are the permanent, inescapable main characters.”
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Bluesky Is Turning Into a Strong X Alternative (Gift Article)
Bluesky has a hint of the old Twitter magic, but the feeling of freedom it offers might be even better.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Pam Bondi refused to return their dog to a family of Katrina victims after she "adopted" their dog. She fought them in court for 16 months before she gave the dog back. Disqualifying. Character counts. www.businessinsider.com/rnc-speaker-...
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RNC speaker Pam Bondi was once in a 16-month custody battle over a dog with Hurricane Katrina victims
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to return a St. Bernard she adopted from a rescue shelter to the family it belonged to.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Trump nominees and dogs Kristi Noem: killed dog RFK, Jr.: ate dog Dr. Oz: tortured dogs Pam Bondi: stole dog
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Reupping my and @andykroll.bsky.social story on Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, on the news he is joining the next Trump administration. We got private videos of Vought's plans for "traumatically" razing the civil service, siccing military on protestors… 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Oz has a long record of promoting BS health info including shilling for scammy diet pills: www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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The Eight Things Media Should Know About The “Scientifically Dubious” Dr. Oz
Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of ABC’s The Dr. Oz Show, hosted Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to purportedly discuss the results of a recent physical exam and go through “a full review of [Trump’s...
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📌I'm a Navy vet, and was the Managing Editor of Stars & Stripes, the editorially independent newspaper that covers the troops and their families overseas. 📌I wish to GOD I never had to write this, but you REALLY need to read it. (And if you are asking what to do, share it. Information is POWER.)
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WARNING SHOT
The America-attacking Trump is coming for our military, and then US ...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
They want to shock you. The sex fiend! The dog killer! The Russian asset! The names matter, but as much as what Trump is going for - dominance, not only over Congress but over objective reality Stop fighting a president when we have a king. My new column🎁 share.inquirer.com/GlcsMN
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The real reason Trump picked a sex fiend, dog killer, and anti-vaxxer for his Cabinet
The names of Trump's insane cabinet picks aren't even what matters. America's strongman is already creating a new reality.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
America.
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