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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 39m
www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/p...
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New White House press secretary has a history of conspiracy-laced social media posts | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, repeatedly made baseless accusations of pedophilia against prominent Democrats and shared conspiracy-related content, inc...
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 1h
I'll be concerned when Susan Collins is concerned.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 2h
That was easy....
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4h
Trump’s making up endorsements because his rubes are too stupid to use Google. SNOPES: ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, MS NOW, NBC News, Newsmax, and NewsNation found no reporting or evidence that Denzel Washington ever publicly spoke favorably of Trump. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 6h
Navi Pillay's UN commission investigated the October 7 massacre more comprehensively than the Israeli government itself. The commission determined that Hamas committed a long list of war crimes including murder, abductions, torture, beheadings and sexual violence. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Analysis • Israel's war on Nobel Laureate Navi Pillay is a war on international law itself
Navi Pillay's UN commission investigated the October 7 massacre more comprehensively than the Israeli government itself. Its findings, which also accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza, reveal a widening c...
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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Great article here by author historian, journalist & book author Eric Alterman, on Right Wingers working the refs. www.americanprogress.org/article/thin...
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“Working the Refs”
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 10h
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Opinion | AIPAC Has Failed
There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 10h
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Intensified After the Cease-Fire
Much of Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon has been leveled, according to a Times analysis. The majority has been destroyed by Israel since the April truce.
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MZS.Press @mzspress.bsky.social · 20h
I need this!
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18h
This may not be a good time to bring this up but Trump once gave an address to 1500 conservative donors in front of a fake presidential seal containing the eagle from the Russian seal and a set of golf clubs.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The full Democracy Perception Index 2026 is available; Israel is the most negatively perceived country in the world, followed by North Korea and Afghanistan. 146165116.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net/hubfs/146165...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23h
DHS claims the man ran in front of their SUV. You be the judge.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 21h
I missed the part where Jon Ossoff asked for David Brooks' advice
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Opinion | AIPAC Has Failed
There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
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Opinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.
Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
KKK
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They dragged him from his car, handcuffed him, blindfolded him with his own tie, pulled his court robe over his head, beat him and robbed him. For hours, some 15 settlers held the Palestinian lawyer captive and abused him www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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'You're going to die, dog': Settlers took a lawyer captive and terrorized him
They dragged him from his car, handcuffed him, blindfolded him with his own tie, pulled his court robe over his head, beat him and robbed him. For hours, some 15 settlers held the Palestinian lawyer c...
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I grew up with Aaron Sorkin. He was one grade behind me thorugh high school. So when, in The Social Reckoning, he twice puts the words "working the refs" he should have quoted me and my explanation, because I'm pretty sure nobody watching it will get it. www.americanprogress.org/article/thin...
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“Working the Refs”
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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Useful short history of AIPAC from the author of We Are Not One, despite the title and weird ending I suspect were imposed on him by the NYT (it’s hard to imagine @ericalterman.bsky.social really believes AIPAC might ever play a useful role).
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Opinion | AIPAC Has Failed
There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's getting less attention bc it was a long time ago, but Navi Pillay was also an absolute trailblazer in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa, winning a ruling that brought those incarcerated on Robben Island, including Mandela, the right to counsel. She knows apartheid when she sees it.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New documents reveal Ken Paxton has grown his net worth up to $27 million since taking office. His yearly salary is just $153,000.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
📌Greg Abbott received a $7.4 million dollar judgement in 1985 when a tree fell on him putting him in a wheelchair. When he later ran for office, he was instrumental in passing tort reform laws capping insurance payouts for victims of accidents like his at $750,000. Enough of these horrible people.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Opinion | AIPAC Has Failed
There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Remembrance
Israel has killed scores of Palestinian journalists with impunity and waged propaganda campaigns to discredit their work, but a full accounting tells a different story.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just the president urging Americans to take matters into their own hands to “fight back” against a small community of immigrants in their midst. No big deal.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 05/10/2026
“The question facing AIPAC is not simply whether it can find a way to adjust to this new political world," Eric Alterman writes, “but more fundamentally, whether it can even see the changes demanded by these new circumstances?”
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Opinion | This Is How AIPAC Lost Its Way
There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The time I was in the Green Room and handed the man his guitar when it came time for: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxaQ...
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Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (from Charlie Rose Show)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Videos
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Opinion | AIPAC Has Failed
There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/10/2026
Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026
oh look paid protesters
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AIPAC Has Failed www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Opinion | AIPAC Has Failed
There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It happened again! Another leaked audio of Ken Paxton from his supporters or aides! Must be because they all love this guy and want us to know him better. www.axios.com/2026/10/07/k...
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Exclusive: Paxton privately blames campaign woes on Iran war, gas prices
The GOP Senate candidate told donors he doesn't "know what was behind some of the decisions."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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michele collins @michelecollins5411.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
saint ronny
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seems a lot worse than anything that happened in the "Twitter Files" — which was essentially nothing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good idea.
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Victoid @victoid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@ericalterman.bsky.social has an exceptional piece in today’s NYT. A dispassionate and clear look at the history and evolution of AIPAC and where it stands today. Gift link. Read to the end. He gives AIPAC a road to rehabilitation. Doubtful they take it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Opinion | This Is How AIPAC Lost Its Way (Gift Article)
There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.
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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@ericalterman.bsky.social tells it like it is www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Opinion | This Is How AIPAC Lost Its Way (Gift Article)
There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Fox News gave Dennis Hastert, whom a federal judge called a “serial child molester,” a warm “In Memoriam” sendoff.
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Fox News Runs ‘In Memoriam’ for Serial Child Molester Dennis Hastert
The network gave the disgraced former Republican House speaker a solemn televised sendoff, describing his sexual abuse of teenage boys as “allegations” that merely “tainted” his reputation.
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 05/10/2026
On this day in 1987, Bruce Springsteen released ‘Tunnel of Love,’ a deeply personal look at love, doubt, marriage and heartbreak, featuring “Brilliant Disguise,” “Tunnel of Love,” “One Step Up,” “Tougher Than the Rest” and “Spare Parts.” Still a stunning listen.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ezra Klein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?” James Talarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices."
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