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making my way downtown walking fast faces pass and i’m homebound he/him/mensch

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I think an overlooked factor in how 'defense of democracy' failed to resonate as a talking point is its association with War on Terror/Iraq.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2025
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan isn't just anti-immigration - he shares conspiracies with the Christchurch and Buffalo mass shooters. He think's that the Democrats really do want to replace white people in America. Read more in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/latest/the-d...
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Pretty neat how Trump is promising to hit us with a $300 billion tax increase next week (his taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico). This will be the largest tax increase on working people ever! That's pretty MAGA.
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Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Baltimore's mayor, Brandon Scott, alluded to the possibility he might be jailed over the city "simply doing the right thing" on its immigration policies. "We are prepared for that," he said, via @emilyopilo.bsky.social @leeosanderlin.bsky.social www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
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Baltimore will not change immigration policies, Scott says, despite arrest threat
A Justice Department official directed prosecutors across the nation to investigate and charge officials who don’t comply in carrying out the administration’s mass deportation agenda
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Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The countless small choices made every day inside newsrooms to do things like describe clear violations of the black-letter text of the law as "legally murky" add up to a very meaningful part of what's happened since 2017 and will continue to happen for the next four years.
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Trump fires at least 12 inspectors general overnight in legally murky move
A senior administration official said the move was an effort to let go of parts of the Biden administration that don’t “align” with the Trump administration.
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jorkin @oh-my-aching-hands.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Greenblatt has also just released a new 2025 edition of his book:
original image - cover of ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt's book, "It Could Happen Here (Why America is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable - and How We Can Stop It)"

edited image displayed here, for parody - title manipulated to read, "It Could Happen Here... with my assistance (Why America is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable - and How I Personally Benefit)"
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Unsure how to go viral? Here’s a way: your opponents apparently sent rape threats or something similarly vile to a young Republican woman for testifying under oath about Jan 6. Demand the messages and, if they are as described, insist everyone who participated be expelled. bsky.app/profile/bria...
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
NDP TikTok going for the throat
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
TRUMP STEALS YOUR MONEY AND THE FOOD OFF YOUR TABLE
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The anti-DEI tip line is a good example of how you try to implement a fascist agenda without state capacity. You rely on the enthusiastic participation of petty tyrants, backstabbers, abusers and malcontents.
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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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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is honestly what fucked us, I think: too many lawyers in the DoJ and DNC who wanted to Win The Argument with their perfect case, rather than realizing the political urgency and acting accordingly.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/01/2025
The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/01/2025
rather than take 18 months to even appoint a special counsel to prosecute Trump, for instance, you could have clapped him in irons on January 21. action like that creates its own momentum
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jorkin @oh-my-aching-hands.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
rand paul's face swapped onto mark zuckerberg's body
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jorkin @oh-my-aching-hands.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
he comes off like one of those wannabe-pickup-artist guys. negative rizz. this is how you know those Ds don't have any normal-person friends
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/01/2025
the constitution is a public and political document as much as a legal one and constitutional meaning is a public and political process. trump can say X but other political institutions, and the nation’s various publics, have to agree for it to mean anything
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’m suing DOGE
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Elon Musk’s DOGE to be sued within minutes of Trump inauguration
A lawsuit will be filed against Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new nongovernmental entity as soon as Donald Trump is officially president.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/01/2025
a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever
Zuckerberg, Mrs. Bezos, Bezos, Pichai, Musk
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Poya Pakzad @ppkzd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/01/2025
Every family and child deserves to feel safe and secure in the place they call home. Every resident of Illinois should know their rights. I intend to protect those rights and ensure our state laws are followed.
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Christopher Moltisanti Weighs In On Current Events @moltisantithots.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I'm just sayin' T, why don't they just do another cease fire in LA too?
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jorkin @oh-my-aching-hands.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
general mills:
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jorkin @oh-my-aching-hands.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
is this meant to imply they shouldn't? how else should we refer to Elliot Rodger? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Is... ...or his several copycats? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor... (including another in Australia 2 months ago) gnet-research.org/2025/01/09/l...
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2014 Isla Vista killings - Wikipedia
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The Harris and Trump campaigns both found that the best testing Trump ad wasn't any transgender spot but rather a video of Harris saying "Bidenomics is working" www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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The Other Brewsky @theotherbrewsky.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Tweet by @MarkAgee from 11/12/20 reading "This is what Mike Pence exclaims when he cums" with a photo of a can of great northern beans
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2025
you see this everywhere. pervasive cultural attitude that we are owed everything but owe nothing in return.
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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New year, new security risks 🎉 The shifting political climate makes right now a great time for a digital security checkup and cleanup. We've put together a checklist of things to tackle over the coming weeks. Some items take time to do, so start ASAP. latenightafa.noblogs.org/online-secur...
Online Security Checklist
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 06/01/2025
the biggest reason imo is that Dems ran on Protecting Democracy but didn't do shit about Trump attempting a coup, so marginal voters understandably concluded they were full of shit bsky.app/profile/pj00...
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/01/2025
Рогпhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can't access Рогпhub because of age verification laws. www.404media.co/pornhub-is-n...
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 01/01/2025
trying matters. even if you don’t care about any of the stakes and only care about horse race stuff, it turns out one thing that democratic voters seem to really respond to is when the party fights for people—pretty much any people—trump and republicans are openly shitting on.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Nearly 23 years at Gitmo. Never even charged, much less convicted. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/u...
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Pentagon Releases Detainee Held at Guantánamo Since Day 1
The prisoner, who was repatriated to Tunisia, was never charged. His transfer is part of a Biden administration push to further reduce the dwindling detainee population at the wartime prison.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
RIP Jimmy Carter and thank you for the hardest picture in White House history (h/t @kopalo.bsky.social)
Jimmy Carter and Olusegun Obasanjo standing hands crossed in front of the camera, with mean mug
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The loss of solid middle class incomes for the mid list in all creative endeavors is a choice, a choice made by the people who dominate publishing, journalism, cinema, TV, music … and it doesn’t have to be this way.
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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 29/12/2024
DAMMIT NPR. I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded. Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
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Erin "Skeleton Factory" Ryan @eringloriaryan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
If the Depp-Heard fiasco didn't, the Blake Lively smear campaign should drive home an important media literacy lesson that I'm afraid many are missing: when it seems like everybody is suddenly talking about something, consider the possibility that the viral moment was engineered.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/12/2024
if 90% of the population still got its news from 3 tv stations "the president elect got congress to cut child cancer research" would lead his political party into at least 8 years of darkness but unfortunately the internet has a few downsides
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 16/12/2024
Hey Ben, you know who the most unlikable journalists are? The trans reporters your industry flat out refuses to ever employ, even in the good times.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The FDIC is funded through fees assessed to banks based on the level of risk they pose. Abolishing it would save the federal government $0, but it would save banks a boatload. Only downside, of course, is the risk that those banks go belly up and take regular people's money with them. No biggie.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
What you have to understand about Romney is that he's very sincere about opposing Trumpian corruption and autocracy, he just thinks that, on balance, the destruction of American democracy is less bad than expanding Medicaid or abortion rights. It's not even hypocrisy, just a useless set of values.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The first month of the Gaza genocide was vastly deadlier for children than the deadliest month of the entire Syrian civil war/revolution tracked by AirWars
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Jamie Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
palsolidarity.org/2024/09/stat...
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Statement from the family of Ayşenur Eygi
Today our family and our community are in shock and grief, as we wrestle with the reality that our beloved Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi is gone. Like the olive tree she lay beneath where she took her last…
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
REUTERS EXLCU: "Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla" "could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems." www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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Exclusive: Trump transition wants to scrap crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla
The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla , according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.
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