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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Protect and defend editorial cartoonists this World Press Freedom Day

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“Beattie repeatedly said Black lawmakers, policymakers, and groups need to ‘learn’ their place and take ‘a knee to MAGA.’” “‘Shithole countries’ was the high-point of Trumps presidency,’ he wrote in 2020.” amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

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Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with White nationalists to top State Department role | CNN Politics

Darren Beattie, a former Donald Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after CNN revealed he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists, has been elevated to a top job at the State Departm...

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Tom Fleischman @tafleischman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Read this. It's important.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned

Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The Soviet-style purge is intensifying

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

@nickkristof.bsky.social: On his very first day in office, Trump made America weaker and more vulnerable -- by pulling us out of the WHO, pardoning domestic terrorists, and breathing new life into TikTok www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

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Opinion | Trump Is Already Making America Weaker and More Vulnerable

Favoring TikTok over national security, releasing rioters, undermining global health efforts — these actions put all of us at risk.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

BREAKING — Joe Biden has pulled off the impossible: positive job growth EVERY SINGLE MONTH of his presidency. The last negative month was the last full month of Trump’s first term, December 2020.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Everyone wants to talk about the goofballs driving two hours for a loaf of bread. I would also humbly point out that there was one campaign that had an actual policy plan to address the cost of "groceries, housing, higher ed, and healthcare" & the press simply buried or panned it

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/12/2024

"Handing the reins to Harris in July, rather than sticking it out, wasn’t one of his mistakes. His mistake was that he didn’t do so sooner." New from @saletan.bsky.social, on the fantasy that Biden would have beaten Trump:

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Biden World Thinks He Should Have Stayed in the Race. What Are They Smoking?

The question is not whether he should have dropped out. It’s why he didn’t do so earlier.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This is good

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

None of this is normal.

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If we as a nation have no standards, then we are ultimately saying that we will go along with anything, as long as our team is winning. This is how nations fail.

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

So, right now, I have little patience for think pieces that talk about how Democrats just need to X, Y, or Z. There is a larger problem at play here. One that I fear may already be insurmountable.

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Palin was the beginning of the end for the GOP. Once they saw how a charismatic, deceitful, unqualified populist could succeed in their party, they haven't turned back. They have only doubled down. Nationwide, they have elevated and celebrated swagger and bluster over quality and integrity.

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"NO! Standards matter. That person is not qualified by any standard that we have ever held as being necessary to hold high office. There is no coversation to be had. There are no nuances. There is no room for debate. The only question is why would you ever think that is okay?"

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I keep thinking back 12-13 years ago when a Republican friend was pushing back on my Palin criticism. They kept trying to point out her good points. My response then is the same as now -

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It has become acceptable voters to vote for someone who wouldn't be permitted to get a job as a police officer or other civil servant. Who wouldn't even pass a legal background check.

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

While I understand the impulse to self-reflect on what Dems might have done differently, I think we are ignoring the elephant in the room -

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

And we really think the problem is that the candidate who said she was for ALL Americans, who was laying out clear plans that would help small businesses AND the middle classes, who had decades of service both in the system and challenging the system didn't use THE RIGHT VOCABULARY?

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

- Was bankrolled by a man who singlehandedly spent over a quarter of a BILLION dollars, while openly saying how he would destroy economic regulation - Repeatedly told debunked lies about his own plans and his opponents

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

- Was found guilty of criminal fraud in his business - Was found guilty of 34 felonies - Was found to have classified documents with international secrets stored in an unprotected toilet

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

- Bungled pandemic response so badly (and worse than other nations) that one study found that 500,000 American deaths could be laid to his bad decisions - Was impeached - Led a violent insurrection against our nation - Was found liable of sexual assault

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It is the think piece of a group that is trying to fight the previous election cycles while ignoring the larger problem: Our nation is losing (has lost?) any real metric of qualifying standards. One party just successfully ran a person who, in the last five years:

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

As someone who has a PhD in studying misinformation, I can professionally say that this is a fucking stupid idea.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Every resistance act matters.

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God @thegodshow.com · 07/12/2024

You know who everyone trusted as kids? Smokey Bear. We need a Smokey Bear but for preventing fascism.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Over on the bird site, Musk is calling for the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, possibly the most effective government agency for the protection of consumers More MAGA populism! 1/2

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jasonheil.bsky.social @jasonheil.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

When is Stephania going to join Bluesky?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I’ve noticed this, too. (Post by @mmpadellan.bsky.social)

Post from Brooklyn Dad_Defiant

Did you know? If you treat Trump Supporters the way they treat everyone else, they get very upset.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Trump throws down the gauntlet. The answer from the Senate MUST be no. Kash Patel cannot be put in charge of the FBI.

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Jaysen Waller @jaysenwaller.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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Alex Lopez @alexlopezwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

can’t stop thinking about this Mary Oliver poem 🥹

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 27/11/2024

While billionaire industry tech, Elon Musk cries for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be deleted, the CFPB continues to stand up for the little guy and stop industry that gouges us with junk fees, high prices, and unfair treatment #ProtectConsumers www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Elon Musk wants to ‘delete’ federal financial watchdog as ‘DOGE’ begins work

“Delete CFPB,” Elon Musk, the billionaire tech executive running the “Department of Government Efficiency,” said in an early-morning post on X.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It’s a question we ask all the time.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The other exploding area of dark money in politics is the crypto lobby. They have dumped insane sums in elections in both parties (Dem primaries + GOP general elections). It’s pretty bad

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Bondi must be asked at her confirmation hearing if Trump lost the election in 2020. Unless her answer is yes, the Senate must reject her nomination. You can't be an election denier & the attorney general joycevance.substack.com/p/gaetz-out

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God @thegodshow.com · 25/11/2024

Please be nice to each other. We’re all doing our best.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

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God @thegodshow.com · 22/11/2024

There IS a left-wing agenda, and it’s to prioritize compassion over greed. Kindness isn't a limited resource.

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