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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Texas legislator calls Charlie Kirk "a civil rights icon" and says he's filing a bill to erect a statue of Charlie Kirk on the grounds of the Texas capitol

@leachfortexas on X: Charlie Kirk isn’t just a conservative activist — he is a civil rights icon. And he should be honored and recognized accordingly.

To that end, the first bill I’ll file in the 90th #txlege session will be one to erect a statue of Charlie Kirk on the grounds of the Texas Capitol.

Generations of future Texans should know who Charlie was, what Charlie stood for and how — with the courage of his convictions, genuine kindness and an unabashed patriotism and pride in America — Charlie changed the course of our Nation’s history.

#txlege

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/09/2025

Just so you know, the President of the United States is *personally* involved in convincing state lawmakers to pass gerrymandered congressional maps that erase Democratic seats. This is not governance. trib.al/mzTsd3s

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I'm glad we are continuing to responsibly turn the temperature down by blasting the personal information of random waitresses out to millions of people.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk. I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Worth nothing this woman posted her spreadsheet in a reply to Will Chamberlain and Elon shared her reply presumably having no idea who she is

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

*universities are provoking violence (citations needed) *one of the most influential men in the world: time to start prepping against your neighbors

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13/09/2025

Yes but then again: Jim Crow was a minstrel character, California was named for a mythical island in a hit book, Lenin took the title of his breakthrough pamphlet from a polyamorous romance novel, and the American revolutionaries couldn’t stop quoting and stealing lines from a 1713 play about Cato

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

if someone quotes Leviticus saying gay people should be stoned to death, and calls that "God's perfect law," it's accurate to say they called for gay people to be stoned to death. Likewise, it's inaccurate to say they never called for it. bc I can parse language and understand how humans communicate

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said. @nytimes.com #Hyundai www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

*looks directly at the camera*

Mollie Hemingway: “All public universities should be required to have minimum 50% if their staffs be conservative professors by spring 2026. In each department.

Michael Tracey: “so you want to bring back affirmative action?”

Hemingway: “No, I want to remove the left-wing oppression that has destroyed American universities.”

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

"So while I think some of the encomiums to Kirk that we’re seeing today are misplaced...He had a right to speak, even as others had a right to criticize him. The right to freedom from political violence means freedom for our ideological enemies, too..." www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-a...

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Trump Is Already Exploiting the Heinous Killing of Charlie Kirk

The president’s appalling statement warned of reprisals and crackdowns against his political enemies

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The fact that people who should know better can’t tell the difference between what Kirk did on one hand and “civil discourse” on the other is a sign of what a bad state our “civil discourse” is in these days.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The really fucked up thing is that if the guy who killed Kirk really is a groyper, or of some other far-right brain rot cluster, we just cannot rely on Trump's Justice Department to be honest about it.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed

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'Just Kill 'Em': Fox Host Makes Shocking Comment On Homeless People

"Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade made a jaw-dropping remark while discussing homelessness and mental health.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Deregulation in reverse. @wsj.com $XLF www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

With Laura Loomer's influence at an all-time high, her critics on the right say her moves suspiciously align with the interests of a pharma company whose new drug has been linked to acute liver failure. My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-dieha...

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MAGA Diehards Say Loomer is on Big Pharma’s Payroll

Plus: It can’t be easy dating Kash Patel.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist." More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

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Applebaum on Autocracy

Anne Applebaum warns that Sudan’s descent into chaos shows what happens when institutions fail—and why a free press is essential to prevent America from following the same path.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

BREAKING: Two Epstein victims write letters slamming the Trump DOJ and FBI for its handling of the Epstein case. "I am not some pawn in your political warfare. ... Why not be completely transparent? Show us all the files with only the necessary redactions! Be done with it and allow me/us to heal."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I've talked about people who miss things Dems are doing. This entire hearing was lit, and I'm only now watching this. Those who were aware during Katrina might consider how we can't do heckova job Brownie anymore and how to fix it.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Right: This is exactly the ploy. She implicates, say, Bill Clinton, and spends the time until a pardon "cooperating" in some place more comfortable than the Fed. And meanwhile, no more stories about what a pal Trump was with the sex trafficker in the WSJ.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2025

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/07/2025

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

$The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.$

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

JD Vance just called Sen. Alex Padilla "Jose Padilla."

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

To be fair, he probably can't remember any of these tweets.

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Indivisible49 ❌👑 @indivisible49.com · 15/06/2025

SDPD statement from today’s event. @sdpd.bsky.social

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Wait did basically nobody show up to his parade for real? That’s amazing.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I honestly feel bad for the troops today. They didn’t ask to be used as political props to boost one man’s ego on his birthday. They had managed to acknowledge the Army’s birthday just fine every year without this expensive boondoggle that is poorly attended downtown.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 14/06/2025

this C-SPAN coverage has commentators who are praising the entire thing, this is ... not what C-SPAN usually does!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

CATO has a report out showing how much the immigration parts of the Big Ugly add to the deficit. www.cato.org/blog/deporta...

A pie chart showing the costs of HR1, the reconciliation bill. A purple section amounting to about 55% of the pie is labeled HR1's other deficit 2.25T. A turquoise section labeled Interest amounts for about 16% of the pie. A mustard section, labeled Deportation Fiscal Effect, makes up about 25% of the pie, marked as 886B.

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Victor Narro @victornarro1.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A U.S. citizen who is nine months pregnant was hospitalized upon her release from immigration custody after she was detained by federal agents in Hawthorne on Sunday. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/i...

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‘I can’t fight back; I’m pregnant’: ICE detains US citizen in Hawthorne

A U.S. citizen who is nine months pregnant was hospitalized upon her release from immigration custody after she was detained by federal agents in Hawthorne on Sunday.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Nearly half (45%) of people who get health coverage in the ACA Marketplaces and the individual market—about 10 million Americans—are MAGA supporters or non-MAGA Republicans. This means the policy changes and cuts being made by Republicans to the Marketplaces will directly affect their own voters

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Making the Marketplaces Great Again?

In his latest column, President and CEO Drew Altman discusses how, with nearly half, or about 10 million MAGA supporters and Republicans receiving coverage through the ACA Marketplaces, the policy cha...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

As I have been saying: Immigrations raids on non-criminal day laborers, and the ensuing US military incursion of California, have been orchestrated by shadow president Stephen Miller. www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Entire CDC staff that oversaw an annual survey to better understand infant & maternal health was axed. For 3+ decades, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, or PRAMS, surveyed moms pre/postpartum & has been used by researchers to study US’s disproportionately high maternal mortality rates

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Gold-standard maternal mortality database in limbo as CDC staff placed on leave

As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked HHS, the entire staff that oversaw an annual survey to better understand infant and maternal health was placed on administrative leave.

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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

::screams in strategic game frame:: If the press cannot break their addiction to framing all of politics as a strategy to win, can they at least talking about the strategy of authoritarianism?!

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This binary thinking is childlike and exhausting. In the battle for public opinion, people who see these images might not actively become Trump supporters, but they'll see images that support *his* narrative, think "all sides are crazy," and tune out. That's a win for Trump.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A personalist regime. Not a nation of laws acting under the powers granted in the Constitution.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Trump administration is cancelling immigration hearings and then arresting people who showed up for those hearings but had not received ruling. Fucking evil abuse of law www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjgmohe7/

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Across the U.S., the Trump administration appears to be using a new tactic to ramp up deportations. Inside immigration court, government lawyers are terminating cases. Then, when people step outside, ...

TikTok video by NBCSouthFlorida

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

One other thing about ignoring Trump's parade: It's a way of shunning your MAGA neighbors who want you to freak out over it. They crave that anger from you, that emotional engagement, because all fanatics (in the words of Le Carre) harbor secret doubts. Don't take that bait.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn: “Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”

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Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned as Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.
It has been an incredible privilege to serve as a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, where the only job description I've ever known is to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. I wish all of my colleagues at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nashville and across the Department the best as they seek to do justice on behalf of the American people.
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