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David Giesinger

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Looking forward to seeing all of mainstream media call this blatant looting of the Treasury "highly unorthodox" and "a break from norms." They might even say it's “testing the limits of presidential power” if they're feeling frisky. None dare call it corruption.
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DOJ sets up $1.7B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund after Trump drops IRS lawsuit
The massive taxpayer-backed fund was set up to settle what outside legal experts had called an “unprecedented” lawsuit filed by the sitting president against the government.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 06/03/2026
It can’t be said enough how right Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were. About everything.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I love that we all know 90 percent of them will flip on a dime now, from “trump won’t send your sons to war” (like it’s only sons) to “trump is sending your sons to war and that’s good.”
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/01/2026
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Somewhere, a federal public defender realizes she's on call to do the President of Venezuela's initial appearance on Monday.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Time person of the year cover for 2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 08/11/2025
Commentary: When one person’s right to due process is taken away, all of us have lost that foundational right.
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Jane Charney: Chicago does not feel safe for anyone, no matter our status
For the immigrants in Chicago who do not look or sound like me, the stakes aren’t just paperwork; they’re safety, dignity and belonging.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"You don’t have to be a wild-eyed leftist to think all of this has a pre-French Revolution vibe. It feels like a 'let them eat cake' moment—and that’s to say nothing about the Trumpist kleptocracy that competes every day for headlines with our Muskian plutocracy." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Let Them Eat AI-Generated Cake
Elon Musk and the coming twilight of the elites.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
“But in the past few weeks, a series of developments have revealed a disturbingly credible policy pathway to power consolidation. We can now see how American Orbánism could take full root before the 2028 elections. We now know how we would get there from here.”
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This is how Trump ends democracy
The past week has revealed Trump’s road map to one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I keep typing words and then deleting them because none of them are sufficient to capture how utterly fucked up and unacceptable this is. And yet it won't move a single Republican to give a damn.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
An excellent summary of one week on the path to dictatorship from Bill Kristol
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
🧵🧵🧵 Trump often lies about Chicago, using a great American city as a punching bag to entertain out-of-town racists who are scared of Black and Latino Chicagoans whom they’ve never met. He’s threatening a military occupation. Here’s a thread about Chicago, Trump and crime. 1/
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 18/08/2025
Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.
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Federal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this country
Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Reporter: I have lived in the DC area for almost 50 years now. The most violent moment in my life was January 6th, 2021, when Trump's supporters charged into the Capitol and beat cops. Trump's response to that was to pardon everyone who was involved
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/07/2025
Shocking Video Captures Calm Police Officers Handling Situation Nonviolently
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Trump is pledging full support to Texas after its deadly floods – and rightfully so. But California has yet to receive $40 billion in aid to rebuild from January’s devastating wildfires. A president is supposed to govern for all Americans – not just those who voted for him.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Progress Action Fund @progressaf3.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The Trump administration is kidnapping and trying to deport American citizens who look “foreign.” No warrant. No due process. No rights. Americans voted for cheaper eggs, not for a night of broken glass. #MAGAKidnappers
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2025
the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Silence of the Generals
As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the Army’s brass failed to speak out in its defense.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/06/2025
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Screenshot of scene from the old game Oregon Trail. There is a green graphic on a black background. The graphic is of an ox pulling a wagon and below it is says YOU HAVE LISTENED TO RFK Jr.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."
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Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/06/2025
We never had to worry about the U.S. military being used against our own country when Biden was president. But that’s exactly what’s happened under both Trump administrations.
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Mark Russell @manruss.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
"In an environment where attention is our most valuable and scarce resource, talking about Biden’s mental state comes at the expense of talking about other things— namely Trump’s corruption, which, unlike Biden’s health, actually impacts us."
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Legacy media drives the final nail in its own coffin
CNN's breathless, intolerable coverage of its own anchor's book exposes the fatal flaw of today's corporate media
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The Administration has arrested a judge in WI and a mayor in NJ, and is threatening to arrest federal lawmakers. In any other country we would say the strongman's security forces are locking up political opponents. We need to treat it exactly that way here. www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...
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Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident
"There will likely be more arrests coming," a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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David Giesinger @davidgiesinger.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Yes, … if only there was a historical example of this …
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Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Just incredible
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