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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is just a run-of-the-mill authoritarian argument for dismantling the press. It could easily be a quote from an Erdogan press release. It's also fucking delusional to suggest Trump's critics have "no reason." Like, really, none? lmao. These people are so cartoonish.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Exciting news!
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Okay, but, what if I have a reason, Todd? WHAT IF I HAVE A REASON??
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Terrific take on the intellectually bankrupt use of "both sides" by the lazier members of the corporate media.
There’s no clean way to hive off terms like “fascism” or “authoritarianism” from Trump’s policies.  Even if you disagree that the words apply, their use is backed up by a genuine attempt at intellectual justification for it. The use of these terms just is deeply linked to assessments of Trump’s actual policies, from the lawless renditions to foreign gulags to the unleashing of heavily-armed militias in American cities to the naked intimidation of large swaths of civil society.

By contrast, when Trump and MAGA media figures call Democrats “communists” or “antifa,” all of that is entirely disconnected from any policy realities. Many press figures would like it if there were an Archimedean midpoint between the two parties on all these matters. But there isn’t. At the most basic level, one party continues to function as an actor in a liberal democracy, whereas Trump and much of his movement, with the eager participation of many Republicans, simply do not. Dispensing with harsh but accurate descriptions of his real goals would whitewash them.
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npeck88.bsky.social @npeck88.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/da...
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Washington County Data Center Moratorium Petition
"The unchecked proliferation of data centers is already causing irrevocable public harm to our communities across economic, social, and environmental fronts. We need to stand together because state an...
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is getting confusing. Is the Iran war a distraction from Epstein? Or is Epstein now a distraction from the Iran war?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I will lay out the strategic defeat but I want to make clear that it is a symptom of the basic problem of injustice and inequality. (2/14)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Drain the swamp.
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Cozy Transportation Secretary
Sean Duffy is partnering with the industries he regulates in new ways.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If the stakes weren't so high and the human toll wasn't so awful, it would be genuinely very funny how little of a shit Trump gives about any part of his job that isn't renovations or rigging elections. The most obviously checked out dude in history.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Something is happening inside the House Republican caucus that they don’t want you to notice. When THIS Republican quits, you know the party is in serious trouble. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/tough-time...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
In a significant retreat for Mike Johnson and House Republicans, GOP leaders have reached a deal to end the DHS shutdown
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House Speaker Mike Johnson Drops Key DHS Demand
It looks like House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has folded after initially rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump is not “intently focused” on anything other than Trump.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 01/04/2026
The central organizing principle behind the Trump administration is white supremacy. The corruption just made it worth Trump's while.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Pennsylvania was one of 2 states, alongside Louisiana, to mandate a sentence of life without parole for all 2nd-degree murder convictions. That undifferentiated, automatic resort to such a harsh sentence ballooned PA prisons. Pennsylvania's supreme court just said it was cruel & unconstitutional.
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Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Reins in Life Sentences for Felony Murder - Bolts
The court’s ruling could create a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 people who were automatically sentenced to life without parole for murders they themselves didn't commit.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I think Trump just called for pulling the federal government out of Medicare and Medicaid. Seems like a pretty big deal.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I feel like someone with far more moral authority than me needs to say this, over and over: Trump entrusted the fate of the country, the world economy, and thousands of service members, to his wildly conflicted son-in-law and developer buddy, who reportedly didn't know fuckall that they were hearing
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A close friend wrote: “They will reap the whirlwind. Never forget that the Talmud describes any court of law that institutes the death penalty more than once in 70 years as cruel and unusual. There is no clearer evidence that we are regressing into dark times as a civilization than this”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"It’s not acceptable for one side of Congress to resemble a Klan cookout, and it’s also not acceptable for journalists to treat it as non-news. Because it’s getting worse all the time." Good roundup of Republican racism in this piece:
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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 30/03/2026
If you’re not doing war crimes, you’re not really trying. His literal philosophy on war.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/03/2026
They already paid. It just all went to Kushner.
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Talking Feds with Harry Litman @talkingfeds.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
In “Departure from Justice,” Harry convenes #PaulFishman, @evanperez.bsky.social & #StaceyYoung to examine DOJ obstruction on Minnesota, collapsing prosecutions, Trump’s classified docs, and what to make of Mueller’s legacy. bit.ly/DepartureTF
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/03/2026
Because “we’re fucked” isn’t a very warfightery press conference.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 30/03/2026
A strategic masterclass: Iran’s oil income has doubled since Feb 28. We get the battlefield optics, they get the cash. This is exactly what happens when you improvise a war just to distract from the Epstein files. Truly, a “victory” worth paying for.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The first 14 months of Trump's second term have been the most deadly for ICE detainees since the pandemic. Some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison corporations that have received huge government contracts to run these camps. Cashing in on cruelty.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Once upon a time if an American president explicitly declared he was considering committing war crimes, there'd be a controversy.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
is it actually unclear? really? "It was unclear why the White House did not issue orders to block the tanker or whether it would allow future Russian oil shipments to reach the island..." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
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U.S. Allows Russian Oil Tanker to Reach Cuba, Despite Blockade
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 30/03/2026
Ukraine’s success in breaking Russia’s Black Sea blockade has given it vital expertise to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today.
politico.eu
Zelenskyy offers Ukraine’s help to unblock Hormuz
Kyiv defeated Russia in the Black Sea from 2023-2024 — and is offering to do the same with Iran in the Persian Gulf.
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Wuzzy 🟧 @realwuzzy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Boy Scout motto: Be prepared
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Ali Adair @aliadair22.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
😵 Only a madman would do this. Revenge for the lawsuit that he lost for the offshore wind farms near his stupid golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland, as depicted in the documentary YOU’VE BEEN TRUMPED. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration to pay $1 billion to stop two East Coast wind farms
The Interior Department reached a settlement to pay France’s TotalEnergies not to pursue two offshore wind farms but direct the investments toward fossil fuels.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Wish he could meet with a world leader just one time without embarrassing us.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It looks like we have to go over this YET AGAIN for all the corporate media journalists in the back: Markwayne Mullin was selected by Trump—as are ALL Trump peons—on the basis of him having no scruples and being willing to do as he's told. EVERYTHING he's saying today is a lie.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
⚠️ Fed leaves rates unchanged (3.5-3.75%) “Uncertainty about the economic outlook remains elevated. The implications of developments in the Middle East for the U.S. economy are uncertain. The Committee is attentive to the risks to both sides of its dual mandate.” (Prepare for a Trump freak out...)
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
As a former intelligence officer, this is hilarious to me
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Mamdani Halts “NYPD’s Criminal Crackdown on Cyclists, Ending Harsher Treatment of Bicyclists Than Car Drivers. Cops will no longer write criminal summonses to cyclists for minor traffic offenses starting on Friday, March 27, City Hall said.” Via @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Mamdani Ends NYPD's Criminal Crackdown on Cyclists, E-Bike Riders
Mayor Zohran Mamdani finally makes good on his campaign promise to end the punitive criminal crackdown on cycling in NYC.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee just formally subpoenaed Pam Bondi to answer questions about the Epstein investigation behind closed doors on April 14. tinyurl.com/ympvmxh2
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/03/2026
Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions…
Pete Hegseth Questions 
What Girls Were Doing 
In School To Begin With
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/03/2026
Q: “Are you encouraging oil company CEOs to use the Strait of Hormuz?” Trump: “I think they should. I think they should use the Strait. Look, we took out just about all of their mine ships. We’re up to boat number 60, I didn’t realize they had that big of a Navy.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This has that ‘stocking-up-at-Home-Depot-the-night-before-the-hurricane’ kind of feel. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6a50...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
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Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil
Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2026
Leavitt ticks through the new anti-trans provisions in the SAVE America Act without explaining why in the heck they're in a "voting bill" in the first place
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list. My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
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Marco Rubio’s Florida Bestie Is an Accused ‘Foreign Agent’ Set to Go on Trial— With Rubio On the Witness List
David Rivera and Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee when they were coming up together in Florida politics. But he’s been a headache for the secretary of state ever since, and now he could be one for ...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
⚠️ Iran “taking steps” to mine Strait of Hormuz, per CBS News:
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NEWS via @CBSNews: U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. Iran is using smaller crafts that can carry 2 to 3 mines each. While Iran's mine stock isn't publicly known, estimates over the years have ranged from roughly 2,000 to 6,000 naval mines of Iranian, Chinese and Russian-made variants,
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: The House Oversight Committee just voted to subpoena Pam Bondi as part of the panel's Epstein investigation. The vote was 24-19. 5 Republicans voted in favor.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
And: "we had a very stupid and incompetent leader in this White House for four years who gave away many of our best weapons for nothing, for free, to another country very far away by the name of Ukraine." Her name will live in infamy as one of the worst human beings to ever serve in the White House
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/03/2026
Q: “Does Congress have to weigh in? Is the president declaring war?” Rubio: “No.” Q: “Did you tell lawmakers that there was an imminent threat?” Rubio: “There absolutely was an imminent threat.”
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/03/2026
Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran. Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children. Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition. These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran? Does anyone really believe that?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Trump: "This is the Golden Age of America."
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Hillary Clinton’s fire and fury opening statement to the House Oversight Committee.
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