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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 47m

Once a day I’m reminded that several leading left intellectuals spent the first Trump term claiming that the admin wasn’t fascist.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

New in PN: Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait. "They genuinely don’t understand how whites could care for immigrant communities in their midst and they’re going to keep trying to drive a wedge. But Minnesotans will do what they do: take to the streets to protect our neighbors."

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Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.

We love our Somali neighbors.

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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Respect!!! @harvard.edu 😍 The link to the FREE GOVERNMENT COURSES is ... pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 4h

While people are talking X, let me talk about X OFF. Two big ideas: 1. Get everyone possible off of X, especially for the news (at least) until every vote is counted 2. Tell your elected reps and candidates to stop sending people there and go X last (at least)

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X OFF

Until every vote is counted, get your news somewhere other than X, and ask the people running for office to publish it somewhere else too.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1h

Voting rights experts estimate that hundreds of thousands of ballots have gone uncast by nonwhite Americans because of the forces unleashed by Shelby County v. Holder. And the effects of the decision appear only to be growing.

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We Now Know Just How Devastating the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Rulings Were

This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1h

Like just amazing how quickly this story was memory holed. The chair of the Approproations Committee had secretly been in a memory care facility for the last six months. Her staff decided to just… not tell anyone this. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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A Congresswoman With Dementia Stopped Coming to Work. The DC Press Corps Never Noticed.

Here’s the story behind how the media missed the story.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1h

The most darkly comedic irony of the micro-mass-hysteria event that was the attempted Talarico smear on Twitter this weekend is in the last Congress there were two Republican members who literally were in mental health facilities including one who had secretly been there for six months.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

Really unpopular things: -data centers -overt bigotry -CSAM -billionaires trying to buy elections -Hitler salutes -stealing people’s personal data -South African Apartheid -causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of children Fighting against Elon Musk is a political winner

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 1h

I have lurker account on X. Don't follow anyone. Most of the posts in my feed are right wing, misogynist, racist, or all three. There is also the nonconsensual nude app built into it. It's part of a fascist project (perhaps you remember the 2024 election).

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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 14h

@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social Today your Israeli mates murdered the father of the groom. His name was Iyad. Your Israeli mates are sadistic war criminals and you do nothing no concrete action..nothing Vote Greens for a humane Australia Free Palestine

BREAKING: Israeli forces kill elderly Palestinian man during his son's wedding in central Gaza

lyad Taha Harb was shot and killed by Israeli forces while attending his son's wedding in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 2h

Heat pumps ARE defence. We are fighting a war against fossil-fuel backed petrostates whose Achilles heel is our energy independence. Our weapons are as much heatpumps, EVs, grid upgrades, batteries, solar, wind as munitions. (I made this argument last week, speaking at @friendsofeurope.bsky.social)

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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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Plain Lincoln @plainlincoln.bsky.social · 2h

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.🫣

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Plain Lincoln @plainlincoln.bsky.social · 3h

2/ across the world, especially German-speaking economic thought and policy among 'practical men' and their ilk. It is rarely applied to the German businesses or investors though, only to 'undisciplined countries and their investors'. (This last is the Prussian mercantilism strand of German econ)😵‍💫

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Plain Lincoln @plainlincoln.bsky.social · 3h

1/ True and on point, but: Mellon = one of Keynes' 'practical men' who think they are 'exempt from any intellectual influence' but 'are usually the slaves of some defunct economist'. The insanity Mellon enslaving 'Austrian School' econ theory, which enslaves (mostly right wing) econ across...

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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 6h

A #recession does not simply liquidate bad investments. It also destroys viable businesses, employment relationships, household incomes, productive capacity and investment that would otherwise have taken place.

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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 6h

But this reasoning has a fundamental economic weakness: it assumes that the destruction caused by a crisis is economically cleansing rather than economically destructive.

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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 6h

People will...live a more moral life...and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.”

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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 6h

In 1930, US President Herbert Hoover was advised by his treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon: “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system...

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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 6h

(my two cents) When financial-market discipline becomes a moral crusade – This is Mellon’s liqudiationism: The striking historical parallel;

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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 6h

Whoa! " #ECB should focus on its core mission of maintaining price stability and economic stability. This also means that it should, from time to time, let undisciplined countries and their investors suffer " - chart @sgkb_news

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Plain Lincoln @plainlincoln.bsky.social · 3h

You've translated the WORDS well, but what they REALLY MEAN to German commentators is: 'Economics, even within the EU currency union, is a zero sum game, refereed by the ECB. The ECB should focus on the indisputable fact that there must be losers who suffer if we are to be winners who prosper!'😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 5h

#Traders are now pricing in a combined 539bp of rate hikes across the eight economies, down from 717bp in Sept, when expectations were the highest since 2022, data compiled by Bloomberg show, chart @markets www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 5h

#Traders have responded by paring rate-hike expectations, with the amount priced into swaps across 8 major economies falling by almost 200bp since mid-Sept, acc. to data compiled by Bloomberg - chart @markets www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

BBC not buying the gaslighting

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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 19h

15 outlets published 249 articles about Jason Arday, but there appears to be a partial media blackout regarding Dr Lola Salem, Michael Gove's ex-girlfriend, who has been suspended from Oxford University after being charged with possessing indecent images of children. jamradio.uk/news/2026/10...

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Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges | Jam Radio

Oxford academic Dr Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges. Her recently reported separation from Michael Gove is a separate matter.

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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 4h

If you're a black person accused of academic fraud, the british press and political elite will harass you until you kill yourself. If you're a racism denialist accused of sexual crimes against children, the british press and political elite will *immediately* deploy the wall of silence.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 4h

This Halloween, the fright isn’t just at the haunted house. Rising prices for everything from groceries to gas are driving many consumers to cut back.

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To counteract a spooky economy, America prepares to spend on Halloween candy

Average prices for chewing gum and candy have soared 8.1% over the last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

Mehdi Hasan is citing this piece as evidence that the British media is “broken”, but that’s not what it is: this is more like operating at peak efficiency. They’ve shown they can enforce the outcomes they want by blocking the entire pipeline tight with shit, so that nothing else can get through.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5h

More information on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism website. Abramovich’s inner circle presented high court with sham documents and misleading testimony Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit. 👇👇👇👇

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Abramovich’s team presented sham documents to London high court

Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit from rival oligarch

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16h

I would describe the central thesis of the anti-anti-Trumpers is that while the Orange Man is Bad, the most pressing issue in society is that sometimes people aren't entirely fair in their critiques or descriptions of him.

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Richard Skinner @richardmskinner.bsky.social · 17h

David Brooks in awkward position of having career as "conservative pundit" who either doesn't believe what conservatives believe or has to pretend conservatives believe things they don't believe. Bothsidesism and anti-anti-Trumpism is all he has.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

There is 73% support in Britain for the principle of refugee protection - including in the UK - while 20% are opposed to this. The peak of support was 2022 at 80% (largely because the images from Ukraine had more impact than images from the Channel that year, though boats + migration were high)

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 16h

Gotta have some sympathy. Without their opinions being fed to them, conservatives everywhere today are struggling to put together two coherent thoughts on why we should hate immigrants.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 16h

Amazing how you can't win at a game when the only rule is "you lose."

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 16h

The people at the BBC who think they're doing this to appease the right wing press are currently testing their hair out wondering why it's not working. The people who know it's all about destroying the BBC as an institution are laughing about how easy it is.

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Plain Lincoln @plainlincoln.bsky.social · 18h

Moral decency? Genocide cheerleader who dismissed Epstein files as a 'QAnon-related conspiracy' and who dumped his wife for his decades-younger 'assistant'? Really? Strange idea of decency😱

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

David Brooks doesn't even know what they do at a goddamn Applebee's. He can kindly shut the fuck up about "what we do here in America."

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Abolish the Home Office

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 18h

Oh, so academics accused of impropriety don’t all have to be relentlessly and aggressively covered until they kill themselves then. Wonder what the difference is in this case

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19h

It is very interesting that the Mail’s story on Michael Gove’s recent ex-girlfriend being charged with CSAM offences has been memoryholed two days after it was published. Public records show she appeared at Oxford Combined Court centre on September 30 and pleaded not guilty.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

The Pentagon has again quietly raised the number of U.S. casualties during operations related to the Iran war. The military now is reporting that 21 U.S. service members have been killed, up from 18, and 865 have been wounded, up by 98 since August.

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Pentagon Again Increases Number of U.S. Casualties in Iran War

In an unannounced change, the Defense Department is now acknowledging troops who died or were wounded in support roles.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 18h

And the Telegraph piece appears to have been deleted too.

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