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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Some final thoughts on today’s show… on the free press in America. The free press is only “crumbling” if we the people allow that to happen. Watch:

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

the death of 60 minutes and the rest of the VRA on the same night really brings home how the current conservative project is to kill the progress and ideals of the mid century

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The DOJ dropped misdemeanor charges against anti-ICE protesters, admitting it used improper tactics to secure the indictment. Kat Abughazaleh, one protester and former Democratic congressional candidate, said the administration's attempts to silence them are "not going to work.”

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DOJ drops charges against Chicago ICE protesters over prosecutorial misconduct

A federal judge said she was “shocked” by the tactics federal prosecutors used to secure the charges.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Talarico is willing to theologically go toe-to-toe with white Christian Nationalism. And, importantly, he treats it as fundamental to this moment that Trump and Trumpism are wrecking our common life at a very profound moral and spiritual level. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2109...

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is what happens when a toddler takes over the white house

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Even for the most unethical president in U.S. history, this latest deal is breathtakingly corrupt. More fleecing of the Treasury by this criminal and his cronies. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Trump’s deal to drop suit against IRS creates $1.8B ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’

The deal, laid out in a document signed by acting attorney general Todd Blanche, could result in taxpayer payouts to the president’s allies.

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ugh. As I prepare to visit Alabama to study memorialization of the CRM, I expect this #SCOTUS ruling will lead to GOP-led states across the South to do their best to disenfranchise Black voters as if the Civil War, Reconstruction, and #freedomstruggle never happened. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

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Live Updates: Supreme Court Deals Further Blow to Voting Rights Act

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

To echo many academic friends and colleagues, I'm appalled by the recent news about Cesar Chavez -- and, sadly, not entirely surprised by it. It's also a reminder that social movements are not about one person, but thousands upon thousands of people who are not household names.

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I could not agree more with historian Ada Palmer about the future of higher ed in Chronicle of Higher Ed: "We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose."

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Keep hearing commentators/Hegseth saying a version of "this is not Iraq, we are not doing nation-building, it's a decapitation, the people will handle it." That's what Iraq 2003 was supposed to be! Nation-building, de-Baathification, disbanding of Iraqi army, it all came *after* things went wrong.

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Putting my historian's hat on here. Jesse Jackson ran for president only after Harold Washington's mayoral victory in Chicago in 1983 demonstrated that a rainbow coalition message could be viable. Washington was a very important figure here, but he's not mentioned in most media reports today.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates. First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 21/01/2026

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

So much wrong with this but…they sold his phone?!? Like, for profit?? Now ICE can just confiscate and pawn your property???

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

While the Department of Defense (War) supposedly changed its name, it seems like the Department of Injustice and the Environmental Pollution Agency are more appropriate changes and should be next.

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Megan Castellan @revlucymeg.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...

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UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ — Guardian US

Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights

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Frank Buffum @frankb-listening.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A reminder that not so long ago we honored immigrants in the US, even by carving monuments like this one at Immigration Point, over the Golden Gate connecting the Pacific to SF Bay. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Remembering the crimes and treason of the dictator and his brown shirts five years after the attack on the Capitol. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

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Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

As someone who has taught and now writes about memorialization, I found this WaPo essay to be a fascinating exploration of how we could change the Emancipation Memorial in D.C. and two others in ways that are more historically accurate and inclusive. wapo.st/3Na5WaN

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Column | How to fix, remix or erase America’s most offensive monuments

At a time when toppled statues are being remounted, an art critic and an illustrator examine, edit and unpack three controversial memorials.

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 18/12/2025

The White House says the Kennedy Center board vote was “unanimous”… BULLSHIT. @repbeatty.bsky.social, a Congressional member of the board, was on the call. They muted her and didn't let her voice opposition. This is beyond absurd, totally illegal, and a disgrace to the memory and legacy of JFK.

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Utterly absurd and offensive. Note that the Kennedy Center was about to be built when the President was assassinated. It is in part a memorial to him, determined by Congress. This just cheapens what was once a great institution. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

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Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Cassidy continues to pay lip service to the public health catastrophe he created with his cowardice.

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia have been calling out the Trump DOJ in court for continuing to list Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney in court filings, more than a week after she was ruled invalidly appointed to the position. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

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Lindsey Halligan Still Cosplaying as U.S. Attorney

Judges Noticed And Called It Out Federal judges in the Eastern District...

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Janelle Bouie's column in the dictator's abuse of the presidential pardon is worth a read. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...

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Opinion | Guess Which Presidential Power Trump Likes the Most

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Quite a headline, especially for a George Will column (who is far from a favorite of mine): "A sickening moral slum of an administration"

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:

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Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about

DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

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Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship
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'Just walked up to them.' Border Patrol questions people at a Charlotte Walmart
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Wilson was mocked for acknowledging that the cost of childcare is outrageous and her parents help her with that expense. But it turns out a majority of voters feel the same squeeze, liked her universal childcare plan, and voted accordingly.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

No, no, no. Senate Democrats secured the concepts of a plan for a handshake for a promise to hold a vote they will lose.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Chuy Garcia's retirement signals the end of an era, in which Harold Washington's allies and proteges -- nearly 40 years after his death -- are leaving the Chicago political scene. Chuy joins Danny Davis and Tim Evans, among others. chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

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Rep. Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia won't seek reelection, leaves seat for chief of staff in move panned as 'coronation'

Garcia's decision is the latest to shake up Illinois politics this year, and there are now five open congressional seats and an open Senate race in the March 17 primary.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/11/2025

For the second time in a little over a week, ICE officers reportedly shot someone in Los Angeles. This time, it was a US citizen who ICE officers shot from behind while he was driving a car, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.

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Report: ICE shot a US citizen trying to help kids

According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Breaking from NJ AG Platkin: "Early this morning, law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email involving certain polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties. Law enforcement … have worked swiftly to secure these polling locations."

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It's Election Day in Virginia. I took care of this last week -- straight-ticket Democratic, of course -- but if you haven't yet, make sure to vote! Send a message to the fascists that democracy still matters.

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

" ... the precedent he is setting is that history doesn’t matter; laws, procedures and customs are irrelevant; and there is no role for collaboration, transparency and review in the construction of new buildings." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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Column | Why the demolition of the East Wing is so shocking

By Thursday, the White House’s East Wing was gone. The speed of destruction, and the projection of power, are part of the strongman playbook.

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Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

UVA says NO to the "compact"

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Gordon Mantler @gomantler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

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University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges

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