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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This was my point this morning on my podcast and on Velshi. Before America's REAL civil war, people weren't calling for one. Current talk about "civil war" is an advertising campaign for violence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxHu...

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Is This Violence Different?

YouTube video by National Council for History Education

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/09/2025

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

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Ido Amir @idoamir.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

From @mariaressa.bsky.social: "The rights you lose today you are going to have to claw back with much more than you had if you were to hold the line." youtu.be/yWpedkNHo3E?...

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 26/04/2025

In an unprecedented power grab, the Indiana state legislature has taken over Indiana University. They have effectively dismantled tenure protections by instituting productivity quotas and www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

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'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour

They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), 1936-2025. Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance. I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency. May his memory be a blessing.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 12/04/2025

Read more about the four ways we can confront an autocrat's dehumanizing tactics in our latest weekly briefing, and remember to subscribe: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to...

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How *not* to look away

Cruelty is central to the authoritarian playbook

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 12/04/2025

Humanity can still win over an autocrat’s use of cruelty for power. We offer 4 ways we can confront dehumanizing tactics in a way that overcomes, not feeds, the division autocrats demand. Threaded ⬇️ Details 🔗 www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to...

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How *not* to look away

Cruelty is central to the authoritarian playbook

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 11/04/2025

Vaccines do not cause children to have autism. Vaccines cause children to be able to grow up to be adults, because children can stay alive instead of die from vaccine-preventable diseases like measles. Also: autistic children are delightfully amazing and we love them. ❤️

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.

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Major Kong to Ground Control @bigstape.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

bsky.app/profile/hear...

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is a test. Not like a test as not the real thing like a fire drill, but the real thing itself: a test as in all of us are being tested, as in "these are times that try men's souls" and everyone's principles. Who will stand up to the coup/constitutional crisis? Who has already surrendered?

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People Have the Power: Week Whatever of the Stupid Coup and the Pushback

I wrote the following early yesterday before the big news of the Wisconsin election in which Elon Musk's estimated $20 million and illicit bribes to voters did not net a win for his candidate and may ...

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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David Schwartz @davidschwartz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

In a world full of Donald Trumps and Elon Musks, be a Cory Booker.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The Paul, Weiss Wikipedia page should lead with this emendation

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Abolish ICE is not an absurdity statement. ICE was created in 2003 as a response to 9/11 - we do not need it. We already established that following orders isn't an excuse.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

it makes a little more sense if you think of DOJ as daddy's lawyers frantically cleaning up after the nepobaby's binge weekend, even as the failson heads into friday ready to do it all over again. (they're trying whatever. time is on their side.)

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Beautiful, powerful letter I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words Took me a while to ruminate My response: Harvard is its people and their voices If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Again thinking about SCOTUS' decision that Biden's 2022 student-debt-relief EO implementing powers granted by Congress under the HEROES Act went too far...want to know what they think of dismantling the entire apparatus for collecting/managing this debt www.npr.org/2025/03/19/n...

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Trump to sign order aiming to close the Education Department

The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by half.

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

In 2022, russians killed the mayor of Motyzhyn village, Olha Sukhenko, her husband and son. Before being kidnapped, she was evacuating village residents, delivering food and medicine. Their bodies were found in a mass grave after the liberation of the Kyiv region. russian occupation is not peace.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Pretty devastating new WaPo poll on Trump A majority of Americans: • Say he’s not honest (62%) • Say he’s exceeded his authority (57%) • Disapprove his job as president (53%) • Disapprove his economic record (53%) • Disapprove management style (54%)

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Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds

Reviews from Americans on President Donald Trump’s second term are mixed to negative, and 57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/02/2025

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Probably his is why Musk attacked Elias: "Lawsuit filed by 19 states represented by Democratic attorneys general against President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Treasury and its secretary Scott Bessent challenging the recently-created Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access"

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🚨 State of New York v. Trump

Learn more.

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Greg Todd @1gregtodd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

They’re lying to us.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/02/2025

It’s amazing to me that when Donnie calls himself a king, everyone listens. But when the Supreme Court crowned him king last year, crickets.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Our coup got coupier. Our authoritarianism got more authoritarian. And of course this is stupidity as a battering ram against what is legal and constitutional, because they weaponize stupidity.

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 14/02/2025

If y’all want to know what cuts are on the horizon, read Project 2025. If you need a link to it I’ll post where it’s saved in my document cloud. We don’t have to be surprised by what’s coming down the pipeline—they published their playbook!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 14/02/2025

I don't think I realized Acting AG Emil Bove was formerly one of Trump's personal defense attorneys, which adds a little color to him treating lawyers at the Justice Department like they're Trump's personal defense attorneys

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We were all gasping and then it was like…ohhhhhhh. Pretty big difference!

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Why did Trump have himself put in charge of the Kennedy Center? Because he knows that the educated and cultured people who patronize it despise him. So he seeks revenge. And he knows that his being in charge of the center will destroy it.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"But really, how pathetic is it to have a president of the United States think our greatness depends on renaming a body of water minding its own business off our coast?" www.thebulwark.com/p/when-presi...

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When President Musk Speaks, Donald Trump Listens

DOGE is in charge now.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you go to dei.gov, it redirects to waste.gov which *looks* like it's meant to track govt waste but now hosts a busted Wordpress template for a fake architecture firm -- because only the finest coders work at DOGE.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Courts are an essential check on executive power That's why autocrats seek to undermine them—& ignoring court orders would be a brazen move to do just that I discussed the implications for democracy👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

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Democracy Playbook 2025

Norm Eisen and Jonathan Katz provide actionable steps for democratic actors in the U.S. and globally to strengthen democratic institutions and resist illiberal forces.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the presser or attend the event. Because he wants the coverage more than anything else. Divided you fall.

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Precisely.

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