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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“Governor Trudeau” is part of the Trump administration’s ethos of pathological insecurity. A weak person is constantly compelled to insult and belittle others, even allies, to show “strength.” An actually strong person isn’t. Bullies are weak, as are their sycophants.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Merit is when you hire don jr’s buddy who has no experience whatsoever. Racism is when you hire a black person who is qualified for the job. bsky.app/profile/kath...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
1. The benefit of Trump's "shock and awe" approach to governance is that there is so much going on that brazen corruption goes virtually unnoticed. Consider Coinbase. It was charged by the SEC in 2023 with violating numerous laws. Now the SEC is dropping the lawsuit. Why? FOLLOW THE MONEY
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How to buy your way out of a federal lawsuit
On June 6, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges against Coinbase, a crypto trading platform, alleging that the company was operating as an unregistered securities broker.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
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Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination
Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Unless I’m mistaken, @nytimes.com has not deigned to cover this manhattan murder at all. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Migrant teen stabbed to death in NYC by group of men who asked if he spoke English
Mayor Eric Adams said the incident could be classified as a hate crime
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/12/2024
Pete Hegseth now claims he didn't say the thing he said on camera a month ago
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The birthright citizenship portion of the US Constitution is totally, inarguably unambiguous. No wiggle room. If the supreme court agrees to throw it out they are explicitly throwing out the entire document and our entire system of government.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The ACLU gets *zero* funding from the government. A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
“Applicants for government posts, including inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, say they have been asked about their thoughts on Jan. 6 and who they believe won the 2020 election.”
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Want a Job in the Trump Administration? Be Prepared for the Loyalty Test.
Applicants for government posts, including inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, say they have been asked about their thoughts on Jan. 6 and who they believe won the 2020 election.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Little warrior rocking his powwow regalia. He’s absolutely adorable — yes?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Warren Harding did the same thing with his administration and I’m sure that must have worked out fine, right?
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
There is a word for this: NEPOTISM
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Whatever your opinion about the Hunter Biden pardon, if it gets more attention than the Kash Patel nomination, it is one more instance of a failure to distinguish between fundamental and trivial threats to the rule of law.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Among others, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D’Souza, Bernard Kerik, George Papadopoulos, Charles Kushner, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Steve Bannon but sure let’s run around with our hair on fire bc joe biden has set a bad precedent and undermined our precious norms
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
In case you were wondering why Donald is stocking his cabinet with wildly unqualified people with heads full of dangerous and destructive ideas, Project 2025 is all about sabotaging government and this is his objective:
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This is helpful: apple.news/AEAZjSDRLSIe...
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Trump Will Overplay His Hand. Here’s How to Be Ready. — POLITICO
I lived through the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey. Here’s what I learned.
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"The danger of Patel isn’t primarily his ideology; it’s his loyalty. He is, as Calabro wrote, 'the man who will do anything for Donald Trump.'" How Kash Patel threatens the rule of law: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
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Opinion | Kash Patel’s Threat to the Rule of Law
In the new administration, loyalty will come before experience or moral judgment.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I am working on something about this! If you faced serious harassment on twitter after the election and want to chat about it, DM me. Looking for people who were harassed outside of the platform - either spilling into in person, or other websites, phone calls, emails, etc.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
there will be more articles written next week about the threat of “cancel culture” than there will be about this
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/11/2024
Gosh, the world's richest man who has his hands on the levers of power... seems completely bought in on a pretty long list of absolute batshit debunked conspiracy theories that even the slightest bit of intellectual exploration would let him know were absolute bullshit. Seems not great.
Elon Musk quote tweet saying "Amazing. Legacy media lies."

He's quote tweeting conspiracy theorist Simon Goddeck who posted a long list of "journalists" vs. "conspiracy theorists" falsely claiming the conspiracy theorists were right on Hunter's laptop, harms of mRNA vaccines, "plan-demic," ivermectin, hcq, facemasks, social media "censorship," "elite pedophilia" and more...
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
If they truly believe the other side can steal an election, why uhhhhhh did they just do it for one House seat
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/11/2024
I'm curious. During the campaign, fact-checkers routinely dinged the Harris campaign for calling Project 2025 Trump's playbook, saying "Trump has denied this." Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/11/2024
"Tulsi Gabbard’s longstanding association with a shadowy rightwing cult, her history of suspicious uses of campaign funds, her habitual conspiracism and advocacy for the interests of bloodthirsty dictators (including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad as well as Putin) all raise a multiplicity of red flags."
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Tulsi Gabbard and Trump's scheme to gut the intel agencies
It's hard to envision a less suited intelligence chief. That’s a feature, not a bug.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Wonder how Republicans are going to spin this statement from Pete Hegseth’s OWN MOTHER. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I wrote an entire book about why it took so long for the Confederacy to finally pass legislation authorizing the enlistment of Black men as soldiers, but we tend to overlook the deep level of racism that blocked the enlistment of these very same men into to the United States Army until 1863. 🗃️
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
theres a very real chance that hegseths own mom gets death threats from maga over this and that pete takes their side
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
i keep seeing people saying “no way to know why dems lost” and it makes me want to lose my mind they lost bc disengaged voters bought gop bullshit and its pretty obvious this was the payoff of a generational effort on the right to work the refs in media…
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Pete Hegeseth’s mother called him out for abusing women. He does seem to have a well established pattern of cheating on his wives. www.aol.com/hegseth-moth...
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Hegseth’s mother complained about his treatment of women: NYT
The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick for Defense secretary, reportedly sent him an email in 2018 accusing the former Fox News host of “routinely mistreating women for years” and di...
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Hey, it's that time of year. Need a telescope gift-giving buying guide? I (and some friends) got you covered! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-275-te...
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BAN #275: Telescope buying advice, Book: It’s Alive, Dial-A-Moon 2021
30 November 2020   Issue #271
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Fifty. Six. Percent. Increase. In. The deaths. Of. Pregnant. People.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Elon Musk has 12 kids and spent Thanksgiving with Donald Trump
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I legit think the cynical promotion of this this is one of the most brazen acts of public evil I’ve ever seen because there is *no tradeoff* in any way that counts, there’s no complicated externality, it’s just fucking letting people, mainly children die for the hell of it.
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Elon, here you go again making false and completely unfounded accusations without providing any specifics. That’s the kind of response one would expect from a conspiracy theorist. What oligarch? What treason?
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Trump’s pick for WH Director of Domestic Policy Council, Vince Haley was a proponent of the fake electors scheme after the 2020 election. www.cnn.com/2022/12/24/p...
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How the January 6 panel unearthed key details from little-known insiders | CNN Politics
The story of January 6 has largely focused on a cast of very prominent characters, including former President Donald Trump and members of his inner circle who have become household names, like his for...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/11/2024
If only there was some way to remove viruses from milk www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California, health officials say
California health officials warned the public to avoid drinking one batch of whole raw milk from Raw Farm, which has issued a voluntary recall.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Three races left to call. Democrats lead in two and could certainly win the third. But if everything stays as is, the “RECORD WIN” Trump says he just scored will in fact leave him able to lose only the following number of GOP votes on any bill: 2. Not 20. 2. Doesn’t seem like a mandate, does it?
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site. www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
And just like that, Donald Trump gets away with his insurrection. Something that would have never happened in any other democratic country on earth. Astonishing.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the white South’s massive resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers down.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Another example of red states waging economic and administrative war on their own blue cities
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The guy spend a chunk of his childhood in an internment camp because our government thought he might be dangerous because he was of Japanese descent. He was also gay when you were forced to hide it. It’s been much worse for a lot of people in our history. George knows what he’s talking about.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/11/2024
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I love this.
A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.
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