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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The mainstream media aren’t ready to conclude that Trump is becoming a dictator. By the time they’re ready, they won't say so anyway because it's bad for business to call a dictator a dictator.

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The media are missing the story of our lives: a looming dictatorship

News outlets’ downplaying of the danger is shameful journalism neglect

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today somehow marks nine years since I covered the “Unite The Right” in Charlottesville - an event that changed my life and set in motion a journey that would culminate in my book, To Catch A Fascist. I’ll be discussing the book this evening in NYC’s Bryant Park bryantpark.org/calendar/eve...

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Non-Fiction

Bryant Park is located between 40th and 42nd Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues behind the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman building.

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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This Washington Post headline makes it seem like refusing to accept the rule of law is steadfastness, not criminal.

toadying headline du jour from the Post.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.

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Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks

Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The mainstream press is so unsophisticated that it equates return to basic Dem Party values by candidates like @abdulelsayed.bsky.social to the rise of the Tea Party without, for one second, acknowledging the popularity of the policy positions of the left. They simply quote opposing consultants.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A @washingtonpost.com poll shows a majority would not vote for a @demsocialists.bsky.social for president. Same poll shows people don't know what democratic socialism is. As a political psych student, I'd say this poll demonstrates people's unwillingness to support unknowns. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The right-wing attacks on scientists are part of a larger story about the right-wing efforts to undermine trust in science and public health, which is part of a larger story about the right-wing alliance with major business interests.

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New York News @newyorktopnews.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#NewYork City to open 5 city-run #grocery-stores, starting in the #Bronx by late 2027, offering a permanent 30% discount on essentials like produce, eggs, milk, meat and bread. The city is investing $70M. Critics say the stores could hurt private grocers. #NYC www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/27/n...

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NYC-run grocery stores to offer 30 percent discounts on produce, eggs, milk

Mamdani pledged to open five city-run grocery stores, with one in each borough, as part of his focus on affordability across New York, but some grocery store owners argue the city-run stores offering ...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Good news. Now when I ignore "60 Minutes," I can automatically ignore Ross Douthat too.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Here's Haley Stevens, complaining about being ridiculed by pissing all over Dem progressives.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I watch reporters and congressional panelists ask dumbass, embarrassing questions every day. When will someone ask, "Are President Trump and the Republican Party trying to tank the global economy, or are they only targeting the US economy?"

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

One of the greatest joys in life is seeing my kids take on big goals and accomplish them. Endlessly proud to be Emmalee and Serene's baba.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Will there be a televised response to tonight's festival of dangerous bullshit?

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

That the Dow isn't down 30,000 points tells you everting you need to know America is broken.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 12/07/2026

Stop acting like people wanting stable jobs, affordable homes, good schools, and leaders who put our communities first are lofty ideals. Those are literally the basics.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

RFK Jr. spoke to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes and he said to tell the CDC it's okay to wipe back to front.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Meanwhile, here is more evidence that DSA is very good at policy AND vetting candidates. Yet the establishment Dems would pretty much rather lose than accept that fact. Platner was NOT endorsed by DSA. Lee is.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I loved reading Dru's newsletter about building yourself a rock to carve into a sculpture!!!

ivegottheruns.substack.com

You Need A Rock To Make A Sculpture

Rethinking your first drafts

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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Mark O'Connell @oconnellmark.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes...How small they are...How weak, how unoriginal... those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power for themselves by turning us against one another.” Mamdani July 4th Speech

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A Democratic Socialist born in 1997 just beat a Democrat who first took office in 1997

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

🧵🧵🧵 Take this quiz: Which of these quotes are Republicans talking about Somali immigrants and which are Nazis talking about Jews? 1/ They’re “garbage. These are people who do nothing but complain.” 2/ “Public pests … vermin … leeches.” 3/ “They’re all crooks.” 4/ They’re “criminal-minded people.”

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Musicians have lived like this for twenty years. That's not to say "poor us"... it's actually to say... let's talk to each other about how it can work without needing 38-hour days

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This past week Jesse Watters referred to ‘the Jewish question’ & said Trump/Vance are sending a message to ‘the Jews’. This past week, 3 anti-genocide Dems, including a Jewish Dem, won NYC primaries. Guess which of these 2 the media is focused on as proof of rising antisemitism?

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone." - Benjamin Netanyahu Sir, your terms are acceptable.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

You can go through the strait free, but it takes 2 days, or you can subscribe to Hormuz Plus.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ray Hudson was the GOAT. I'd listen to him call a tee-ball game. His magisterial calls are the missing ingredient in the World Cup... that and a basic level of humanity from the Trump government.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Brunson left $113million on the table for the good of the team. Socialism wins championships.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

One of my fave things in nyc is biking around at 6am. Before all the capitalism and hustle, there are people that clean the streets, deliver food, and do the things that aren't glorious but must be done. Simple work. That's what I see in the Knicks. Amazing, dignified people.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list for raping kids.

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"...I considered, instead, describing the little pools of saturated ink in the manuscript poems of Emily Dickinson, where she paused and rested her pen while gathering thought for her next astonishing turn." @dchiasso.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Think for Yourself | Dan Chiasson

One of the most dehumanizing effects of AI is the short cuts it offers through the gaps and impasses intrinsic to the act of writing.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Boycott the World Cup.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Read, rinse, repeat. Sorry... but what else you gonna do at this point?

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 03/06/2026

I hope there's an anthology of these somewhere

SETTING IT STRAIGHT
Typographical error

Due to a typing error, Saturday's story on local artist Jon Henninger mistakenly reported that Henninger's band mate Eric Lyday was on drugs. The story should have read that Lyday was on drums. The Sentinel regrets the error.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Tbh, people here are taking this pretty well... and we should. Thank you, @kenklippenstein.bsky.social, for the bankshot: challenging convention and reminding people that harm reduction voting is a thing. Whatever else one thinks... this is happening.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A guy claiming to be Jesus tried to shoot another guy who claimed to be Jesus.

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“You can't earn a billion dollars.” @aoc.bsky.social This is true.

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Kevin Salem @kevinsalem.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Eliminate all the other horrible stuff. On the basis of his Covid fail alone, Trump should have been banned from public life.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. His photos are worth seeing, so here’s a gift link:

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Our Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer’s Work From Gaza

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

An agenda for Supreme Court reform: - 18 year term limits - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Binding ethics rules - Congressional limits on what the Court can rule on per act of legislation We need to change the composition of the Court, but also its role. The Court has far too much power.

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