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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
"History ended in a sealed file, history ended in a silent scream, history ended with the last man warning you that if you tell anyone, you'd end too." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) RIP Virginia Giuffre
Long text www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/07/2025
I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.
the front cover of Joe Manchin's book Dead Center
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
again, the NYT does not mention in this article that Trump was held liable for sexual assault. that seems like important context it is denying its readers.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
My friend, David Pepper of Ohio, wrote a book called Laboratories of Autocracy . This is what he was talking about. Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
A picture of the Missouri governor with the line Missouri voters approved, guaranteed sickleave. Their Republican governor repealed it.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Again. The Supreme Court is illegitimate. And just continuing to go along with all of this, accepting this garbage, pretending that it'll get fixed by a party that showed no desire to reform the Court or codify our rights or protections, will get us nowhere. This is a legitimacy crisis. Period.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We heard it straight from the wallet inspector!
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 27/06/2025
Mm-hm. How weird, right?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This Supreme Court is not a judicial court, but a royal court. They exist not to apply the laws of this nation fairly for all its citizens but rather to prop up the king and attend to his needs and his needs alone.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
the whole "six unelected crazy people tip us a few steps closer to the apocalypse every june" routine is not getting any more fun the longer it goes on
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Don't forget that the Supreme Court has undertaken this radical expansion of executive power and personal immunity not for some ordinary Republican but for the most corrupt president In American history. They're doing it for THIS GUY, who is guaranteed to abuse every ounce of power he's given.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Got nothing to add to the expert commentary on SCOTUS. But: it’s one more iteration of a common phenomenon of this time: people with immense power seeming to live in a different reality over those they rule.
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Fmr. Energy Sec. Ernest Moniz told me it “would be simple. It’s just cylinders filled with a gaseous form — uranium hexafluoride, to be precise, in basically metal tanks, and you can just load them onto a truck and move them.” “If I were a military planner, I would be assuming all of it was moved.”
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
“We are witnessing something without precedent: a Supreme Court that appears to be at war with the federal judiciary's core constitutional function.” data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-suprem...
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The Supreme Court Is at War With Its Own Judiciary
Between May 1 and June 23, federal judges ruled against the Trump administration 94% of the time. The Supreme Court backed it 94% of the time.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is actually the second decision from the Roberts court endorsing plessy-like reasoning. The first was Dobbs. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
On the St Louis tornado, and the hardship that preceded it: open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
Excerpt from here: https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahkendzior/p/tornado-daze?r=222bx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
A cast bronze memorial to the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 declares that "their heroism will never be forgotten." But the memorial itself has been forgotten, left in storage because Johnson's office has not had it hung @joeheim.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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GOP won’t install Jan. 6 plaque honoring law enforcement, Democrats say
More than three years after it was approved by Congress, a plaque honoring members of law enforcement for defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is instead sitting in a Capitol basement utility room.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Here's another example of using the "scold the stupid child" approach. She reads the law to him, slowly and carefully, and boxes him in to the point that he turns beet red.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Paying to replace the signs is surely waste, fraud and abuse.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
No, you’re not crazy. They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1862: Robert Smalls, an enslaved person and ship’s pilot, takes over the CSS Planter, an armed Confederate transport. Smalls steered it past Confederate defenses and surrendered it to the Union Navy, while also freeing himself, his crew and their families. /1
Robert Smalls.
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Daniel Bastiaanse @indodragon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/05/2025
Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’m afraid this is correct. bsky.app/profile/grav...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Jackson County Public Health (Kansas City) said it lost $1.1 million it had been expecting from federal funding streams. As a result, the health department immediately laid off three employees who worked on monitoring communicable disease outbreaks in local schools. thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...
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Massive cuts to federal health care grants alarm Kansas City’s public health community
The grants paid for public health basics like vaccines for children, infectious disease tracking, community health work and funding for mental health and addiction treatment.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Not the main thing, and it's horrifying that we even have to think this way, but keeping the Signal disclosure scandal lit is also important as a means of feeding distrust for the political leadership among the enlisted and officer corps. www.offmessage.net/p/the-everyt...
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The Everything Scandal
This week's signal disclosures should infect every corner of the Trump administration, but Democrats will have to press the case relentlessly
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I think there is going to be a Red Rural Recession and soon if all the cuts continue as is All the firings, cancelling of grants and contracts with companies , the closing of offices, disproportionately impact small towns, cities and states. Their finances will be turned upside
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
19 thoughts on the Signal scandal, and one overarching theme: Dems and liberals should suppress their "BUT HER EMAILS"-style ironic detachment and give being actually mad about this, and demanding answers, a real shot. www.offmessage.net/p/19-thought...
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19 Thoughts On Trump Officials Planning Military Operations Over Signal
Forget "BUT HER EMAILS"-style ironic detachment. Let's give being actually mad about this—and getting to the bottom of the many questions it raises—a real shot.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It goes without saying that Defense leaders shouldn't be doing military planning on a commercial app. But the issue here isn't just OPSEC. Especially in security matters the govt often has to act with great security. And some of those secrets have to be kept for a long time. But they're the US ...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
You really gotta read this story. Gift article link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
An invitation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-y...
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