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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 19/11/2025
Mother Jones has been on fire on the John Roberts beat and, man, I'd love to see our national press pick up this ball. "It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/11/2025
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/11/2025
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
futurism.com
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It's pretty cool that the US economy is propped up entirely by continuing work on software thats only real functional uses are eroding consensus reality, spreading often politically motivated misinformation, and for various scams like impersonating your grandma and saying she's been kidnapped
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
How to Join ICE theonion.com/how-to-join-...
The Onion: How to Join ICESTEP 1
Be born with something just…missing

STEP 2
Try deporting a few neighbors without the constitutional authority to do so, to see if it’s for you

STEP 3
Unlearn any secondary languages you may know

STEP 4
If filling out the application form presents a challenge, candidates may instead demonstrate how hard they can punch a dog
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.
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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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LLFella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @lizafella.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This is brilliant!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025
Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
He’s trying to provoke a war.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
An organizer friend says, repeatedly, that if it weren’t for Black women leaders there’d be no organizing. The church, naacp, D9 teach them how to organize, from the ground up in many cases. That and Heritage about the other massive training infrastructures left.
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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 03/10/2025
“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"
independent.co.uk
CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom
EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/10/2025
A Spanish-language journalist who lived and worked in Georgia has been deported to El Salvador.
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Spanish-language journalist arrested while covering protest near Atlanta deported to El Salvador
A Spanish-language journalist who lived and worked in Georgia has been deported to El Salvador. Mario Guevara was detained in June while covering a protest near Atlanta.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 04/10/2025
How could a man who never set foot in a library until he was in college create what is considered the most extensive online collection of global Black history? Maybe it had something to do with the story Dr. Quintard Taylor's father told him when he was a young boy. m.kuow.org/stories/reme...
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Remembering Quintard Taylor: Historian of the Black West and beyond
Dr. Quintard Taylor taught history at the University of Washington and created BlackPast.org, an online collection of global Black history. He died Sept. 21, 2025, at the age of 76.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2025
In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2025
if you respect the law and the constitution, the trump administration has no use for you
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o... At the very least, read her closing argument:
So by all means, celebrate a burst of collective action that reinstated a TV show host and vote the bums out if you get the chance. But voting won’t be enough, just as canceling the Disney app won’t be enough. When I look at the consumer response to Disney censoring Kimmel, I don’t see an allegory for America’s salvation. I see a threat — that we will see ourselves as the authoritarians see us, users whose only power is in our pocketbook.

We can’t just reject the threat. We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks. That’s a desecration of civics, as corrosive as the idea that debate is the pinnacle of civil discourse. It cheapens our actions by degrading what we believe is possible. Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us.

The fusion of corporate control and government power that empowered this administration will need to be unmade. Courts will need to be reconfigured. Market power will need to be subsumed to electoral power. Bureaucratic legitimacy will need to be restored. Information will need to be competitive and available.

To achieve any of those goals, we will have to become far less complacent and far less scared. We also will have to organize. Because no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.
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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.
These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.
These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...
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National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 26/09/2025
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Within the legal community, every conceivable alarm bell is ringing. And all of them are too late. America has no meaningful federal law enforcement anymore. It has Trump personal lawyers and a Trump political machine that masquerades as rule of law. There *is* no DOJ or FBI now. Please share.
sethabramson.substack.com
Both the Lindsey Halligan Nomination and the New James Comey Indictment Confirm That the DOJ and FBI Functionally No Longer Exist As Law Enforcement Agencies
The crisis at the FBI and DOJ is over; rule of law lost. The reality now is that Trump has a domestic army for his paramilitary ops (ICE) and a domestic army for his partisan law enforcement ops.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Recurring gripe of mine but it is incredible how National Conservatism is supposedly built around decrying lack of community, common project etc, while turning every “hate your neighbors” dial they can access up to 11. Make your professor terrified to say anything, don’t trust your doctor, etc
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/09/2025
to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/09/2025
yeah this guy is dumber than donkey shit
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
wired.com
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 25/09/2025
Marshall calls Vought a degenerate criminal for his threats to maul the people’s government, and he’s right — but the truth is even more galling. Assent to our crimes against the Constitution, Vought now demands — or else he will commit further such crimes. He _revels_ in flouting his oath.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
meanwhile on the handbasket:
There is no readily available legal justification for striking these boats, leading to the appropriate conclusion that it is illegal.
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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
YES to @roxanegay.bsky.social: In "this framework, incivility is refusing to surrender to hatred, refusing to smile politely at someone who doesn’t consider you their equal, refusing to carve away the seemingly unpalatable parts of yourself until there is nothing left." #politics #justice #activism
nytimes.com
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Superb essay by @jamellebouie.net on how the hyped-up unitary executive theory is built on a distorted conception of the President’s superior democratic legitimacy, and why it’s extreme application would fundamentally upend our constitutional order. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2025
BREAKING: Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won the special election in AZ-7 to fill her late father's US House seat. The discharge petition to release the Epstein files needs one more signature, and she's expected to sign it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
nbcnews.com
Arizona Special Election 2025 Live Results
View results from the 2025 Arizona House Special Election. Follow live outcomes as votes are added up on Election Day.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Here, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social gets to the heart of how poorly equipped most newsrooms are in understanding the true nature of online discourse these days — as evidenced by CNN’s hamfisted interview of Jack Posobiec, along with MSM’s inability to interpret Tyler Robinson’s slogans
Of course, the disconnect between the online world and mainstream coverage stems, in part, from the fact that most top newsroom leaders and journalists are not fluent in the digital battlefield where today's information wars are fought. They're not spending their days scrolling politics-focused TikTok and Instagram, watching YouTube streams of podcasters like Joe Rogan and Benny Johnson, or wading through platforms like X where the combat takes place.
Maybe that's a function of age, maybe it's a matter of interest or time.
Ultimately, it doesn't really matter. The result is the same: leaders who are not immersed in the online trenches and lack a real grasp of who the key players are and how much influence they wield
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2025
holy shit lol. What a weird thing to post ahead of a Kimmel show that will have a gargantuan audience.
I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his “talent” was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE. He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution. I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2025
everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
miamiherald.com
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Holy shit
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2025
this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
After his condemnation and censure, McCarthy continued to perform his senatorial duties for another two and a half years. His career as a major public figure, however, had been ruined. His colleagues in the Senate avoided him; his speeches on the Senate floor were delivered to a near-empty chamber or received with intentional and conspicuous displays of inattention.

The press that had once recorded his every public statement now ignored him, and outside speaking engagements dwindled almost to nothing. Eisenhower, finally freed of McCarthy's political intimidation, quipped to his Cabinet that McCarthyism was now
"McCarthywasm".McCarthy died in the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. His death certificate listed the cause of death as "Hepatitis, acute, cause
unknown"; previously doctors had not reported him to be in critical condition. It was hinted in the press that he died of alcoholism (cirrhosis of the liver), an estimation that is now accepted by modern biographers. Thomas C.
Reeves argues that he effectively died by suicide.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target
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