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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Imagine seeing news travel in a flash w/the telegraph Imagine seeing electricity for the 1st time Imagine seeing the internet for the 1st time Imagine seeing US democracy failing wholesale MASSIVE changes Some seen w/in our lifetimes. If you're reading this, you're seeing the last one #RESIST

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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Again, Trump is the arsonist looking for applause for putting out a fire he started.

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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

1/ Here’s the line of questioning I hope the MSM takes when WH officials or R’s come on their shows and insist that POTUS had to launch this strike: 1) Iran wasn’t within weeks of having a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu has been saying this for decades (roll tape).

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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Great thread right here that contextualizes the far right.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

WATCH — @underwood.house.gov : “Elderly will lose Medicaid. Nursing homes will close. What are people supposed to do? They don’t care… there’s no way to sugarcoat it - it will be devastating for our communities.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Elon Musk and DOGE broke numerous aspects of Social Security delivery Rather than fix the damage, the Trump administration has simply stopped reporting the data www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Social Security stops reporting call wait times and other metrics

The changes are the latest sign of the agency’s struggle with website crashes, overloaded servers and long lines at field offices amid Trump cutbacks.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can. ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

And people ask what’s the big deal if Trump nominees just do what the boss wants?!….

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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

To paraphrase a Jesuit saying: “A world view that can’t stand up to the scrutiny of other ideas, is not a world view worth having.”

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

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Iran

Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"Trump's message is plain. If you commit violence in his cause, he will have your back...America in 2025 is making political murder easier. This is a choice, not fate." My column. www.ft.com/content/e172...

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Return of the American assassin

The right has no monopoly on violent fantasy, but liberals are far less likely to own guns

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/06/2025

Collins: "What did [Mike Lee] have to say?" Sen. Tina Smith: "Honestly, I don't think this is a person who is used to being confronted. I don't think he's someone who is used to being challenged and I think he didn't quite know what to do."

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

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Erik Ledbetter @bandoblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Donald Trump and his fascist movement fetishize political violence and treat it like an acceptable form of discourse. This is the result. These people want to kill their opposition. And they feel justified in doing so bc they exist in a conspiracy unreality. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Democratic lawmaker killed and another wounded in Minnesota in apparently ‘politically motivated’ attacks

Governor Tim Walz was briefed on ‘ongoing situation’ in which Minneapolis-area state senator and representative were shot

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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Here’s how crazy our world is: a sitting US Senator was manhandled and arrested for asking a question at the press conference held by a Cabinet member who has appeared in front of his subcommittee 6 times and that s not the worst thing that happened today

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

HERE IS A THING that EVERY American can do: 1. Call your Senator. 2. Say the following: "I am requesting that you place a hold on the nomination of Bill Essayli as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of CA for directing federal agents to assault a U.S. Senator." 3. Call other Senator, repeat

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Remember when you protest: you're not trying to persuade the Trump regime to stop their actions, they're not open to persuasion. You're trying to persuade the public that the Trump regime is acting unconstitutionally. The public isn't persuaded by violence. Peaceful, joyful protest tactics will win.

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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social What are you going to do about this? We need you to use every lever possible to grind Trump’s agenda to a halt. We need a constant stream of filibusters and floor speeches until the American people understand that this is authoritarianism.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A United States Senator. For trying to ask a question. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. 🇺🇸

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I am a historian and the consensus as to the start date for Italian fascism is when Mussolini, accused of having his party disappear a leftist member of Parliament, made a speech daring anyone to do anything about it - no one did.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

ICE crossed a line in LA

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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Watching CNN’s simulcast of George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck. Hope Jake Tapper is as well.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

As a historian of military coups (1/3 of my book #Strongmen is on that subject) this sight unsettles me...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

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NEW - Ben Schrader, the former chief of the criminal division for the U.S. attorney's office in Nashville, resigned following the office's decision to seek an indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 06/06/2025

Trump is slowly figuring out that it was the Koch operation that chose, and is served by, “his” Supreme Court nominees, and that “his” people Leo and McGahn were really working for the polluter billionaires. Let’s review the history. 🧵

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/03/2025

If accused, we have rights under our Constitution to have evidence presented, interrogated, & independently judged. We must force the president to recognize this or no one -- not you, not me, not your kid -- has rights, just the perpetual threat of foreign gulag. bsky.app/profile/reic...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I can't stress enough how wrong and disingenuous the most recent wave of COVID revisionism is. The *only period* when Democratic counties had higher death rates was April-May 2020. From June 2020 onwards, Republican laxity and denialism were the most powerful force driving deaths.

Chart showing higher death rates in Republican counties starting in June 2020

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 02/06/2025

ukrainian social media today:

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This is just eye opening. The entire SpaceX direction is a money hole. We have got to stop thinking billionaires are geniuses. www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-d...

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Starship: Dead End?

What happened on Test Flight 9?

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

NEW: The Trump administration's fiscal year 2026 budget request's appendix says with no details: "The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce" www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026
The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 31/05/2025

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

In a dramatic incident captured on video, U.S. Department of Homeland Security police Wednesday handcuffed one of Rep. Jerry Nadler aides in the congressmember's Manhattan office, which is in the same federal office building as an immigration courthouse.

In the video, which was shared with Gothamist and filmed by a person who was monitoring activity in immigration court, DHS officers entered Nadler’s district office and accused staff members of “harboring rioters.” A Nadler staffer is seen crying and being handcuffed. Another officer is at a door trying to enter a private area of the office while a staffer asks for a warrant.

DHS later said in a statement that “one individual” — the woman seen being handcuffed — had blocked police from performing a security check they intended to do based on information there were protesters in the lawmaker’s office. Later that day, protesters gathered outside of the federal building, demonstrating against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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