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Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Trump and the federal government continue to brutally violate protestors' rights. But don't take it from me -- hear it straight from Jennifer, an Evanston resident violently detained for hours on Halloween. Watch the full interview on youtube.com/@bissforcongress
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This photo expresses a simple truth: Donald Trump is not the person you can count on when you need help.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
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ID-Epstein-Rap1sts @kcnola.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Please spread this footage everywhere… we can’t depend on MSM to report facts, so how to reach millions showing this cruelty at a daycare center?
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Tea Party never reached the magnitude of No Kings. Yet it was covered as if it represented “real America,” just like MAGA today. Those are not empirical assessments, but articles of faith – ideological claims about the world that are widely shared in the American mainstream discourse.
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.
propublica.org
What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...
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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection. The arrest reportedly took place in front of children. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
19thnews.org
‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Raskin: "South Korea gave him some kind of golden crown or something, and then he lowered their tariffs. That is a monarchist mercantilism, that is not the American system."
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Last week, Pete Hegseth directed the mobilization of thousands of National Guard troops for “civil unrest” missions across American cities. My latest…
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America’s Rosgvardiya Moment
When Trump Turns the National Guard Into His Own Private Army
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/11/2025
NEW: A group of Republicans sue to block California’s newly-approved Prop 50, which voters passed just yesterday. The group argues the state violated the 14th and 15th Amendments by drawing congressional districts that “favor Hispanic voters.”
democracydocket.com
GOP Immediately Sues to Block California’s Voter-Approved Congressional Map
Read more here.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
NEW REPORT: More than half of the companies that donated to Trump's ballroom are facing federal enforcement actions. Donating millions to kiss up to Trump is nothing compared to the billions these companies have at stake in federal contracts and enforcement decisions.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 05/11/2025
No fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least 100k to beat Zohran Mamdani. Their overt attempt to buy the election provided Mamdani with perfect talking points. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LEnjMCa
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America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politically inspired by a good candidate with a good message.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
36/ This article was written by Timon Cline and published by American Reformer where Chris Buskirk (Vance’s Rockbridge co-founder) is a director. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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Bruce Cullen 🇨🇦🫡 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A must read for a look back to 2016, when it all started. bsky.app/profile/bacu...
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Where America stands, one year after the election. A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet. New piece:
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Escalation, Authoritarian “Normalization,” or a Democratic Turnaround?
One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
He went back on a deal he announced YESTERDAY. Dems if you reopen the government this is entirely your fault.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/11/2025
Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We saw this same issue — voting day bomb threats — in 2024. Motive could be strategic voter suppression, but in 2024 it was likely foreign interference designed to cause mayhem and further erode trust in US election. These tactics can also provide pretext for contesting elections later.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This is seriously one of those things that probably blows the minds of most people outside of the United States. A “swearing in” should obviously be completely ceremonial, and should have no legal weight at all. THE ELECTION GIVES THE WINNER THE ROLE, not the Speaker. It really makes no sense.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The DHS has a communications team to establish its version of events and channels to disseminate them. It is very easy for hard pressed newsrooms to just reprint their claims. But real journalists should avoid becoming stenographers for a propagandist. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
But at this point anyone uncritically reporting statistics or narratives proposed by DHS is not really in the journalism business, if the journalism business is anchored on discovering and disseminating facts. Simply saying “The DHS said” is not a reasonable qualifier unless the media has more detail to report. Media have to weigh the news relevance of the state version of events while avoiding become stenographers for sources with a clear agenda and a record of misrepresentation.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
In Chicago, Marimar Martinez, a citizen, was shot five times by a Custom and Border Patrol agent. Its not clear who crashed into who. DHS made a series of claims that did not hold up. Martinez is still facing charges that could see her in jail for 20 years. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
law enforcement was assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars this morning. Agents were unable to move their vehicle and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fired defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.

The “10 cars” claim is a bit unclear. Only the drivers of two cars are mentioned in the criminal complaint. Martinez is a licensed gun owner who had a handgun in her purse, not a semi-automatic weapon, and in the criminal complaint there is no claim she brandished the weapon. She also did not drive herself to hospital, which would have been impressive having been shot five times, but called 911.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
One of those ICE shootings was fatal. ICE officials detained an immigrant who pulled away as they were leaning into the car. DHS said he hit and dragged an officer. A detailed reconstruction is more consistent with the immigrant trying to escape when he was shot. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
How an Attempted ICE Arrest Turned Deadly (Gift Article)
The New York Times analyzed surveillance, police body-camera footage and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
ICE is prohibited from using deadly force against an evading target, but can justify it if they say they are in danger. Immigration officials have shot into 4 cars in recent weeks. In 3 cases they said the target was driving toward them, when it seems more likely the drivers were trying to escape:
Lets look at another example. ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker in Los Angeles. After being released from hospital, he is facing charges of assault. Carlos Jimenez’s lawyer said that Jimenez got out of his car to tell ICE agents that students would soon be assembling for their school bus at the place where their vehicles were blocking part of the road. Then masked agents drew a gun on Jimenez who returned to his car, putting it into reverse. Officers then shot him.

Tricia McLaughlin claimed that Jimenez “attempted to run officers over by reversing directly at them without stopping” claiming that it is “another example of the threats our ICE officers are facing day in and day out as they risk their lives to enforce the law and arrest criminals.” His lawyer denies this, saying he was trying to back up to get around their vehicles. In this example, no video exists of the altercation, and so again we have to ask ourselves if we trust McLaughlin.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We experience these events through our media bubbles. So please take a little time to look at the details. For example: here is how DHS described one incident in Chicago. Now watch the video, which tells a different story. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa... bsky.app/profile/news...
Dayanne Figueroa is a US citizen who was driving in Chicago near a site where federal agents were arresting landscapers. According to DHS she “crashed into an unmarked government vehicle and violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers.” The Assistant Secretary of DHS Tricia McLaughlin (remember that name) said Figueroa “used her vehicle to block in agents, honking her horn,” and that she “struck an unmarked government vehicle…In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers attempted to remove her from the vehicle. She violently resisted, kicking two agents and causing injuries. This agitator was arrested for assault on a federal agent.”

Got it? Figueroa drove into a government vehicle, and the officers arrested her due to public safety concerns, during which she violently assaulted them, causing injury.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
donmoynihan.substack.com
Who's Threatening Who?
The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a different story
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 04/11/2025
Repost if you think President Trump's weaponization of the DOJ against his perceived political enemies (while letting his allies off the hook) is unacceptable and antidemocratic. 🔁
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.* The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.
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Silence is assent @stef47.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Lincoln said labor was superior to capital. That really was a stick in slavery’s eye.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It's the exact same ideology embraced by the elite enslavers before the Civil War: some people are better than others, and have the right-- and maybe the duty-- to rule. It was the Mudsill Theory then, and it's the Mudsill Theory today, dress it up in whatever elegant language you may.
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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
On the environmental front, he created a world in which many of us will *not* get to see our 80s.
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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A bigoted war criminal got to live a full life and died in his 80s. You don't have to be sad. You don't have to "honor" him. He deserves no more respect than a total stranger.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Dick Cheney dreamt of a unitary executive and now we all have to live in his nightmare.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Trump is a symptom of a larger disease and things will get worse if we keep believing he is an aberration rather than the evolution of a long, tireless antidemocratic project. Amnesia in this will only deliver us to worse things. Let Cheney’s poisonous legacy be a monument to what we cannot brook.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Moderates can try and launder Dick Cheney all they want, but he was a murderous war criminal who laid the tracks for Trump and overt fascism. We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author...
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
The Authoritarian Architect: Dick Cheney and the Dystopian World He Built
We live in Dick Cheney's America. God help us.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Andrew Cuomo gave more money in taxpayer subsidies to Elon Musk than the entire cost of Zohran Mamdani’s free bus plan. It’s not unreasonable or radical to want our tax dollars to go to programs that help us, instead of as giveaways to billionaires.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
thenation.com
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/11/2025
Shorter Trump: "Fuck them court orders lol"
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The great @attackerman.bsky.social on Dick Cheney www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
4 November 1880 | A Pole, Jan Kiełek, was born in Małyszyn. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941. No. 24017 He perished in the camp on 10 February 1942. --- Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_pol…
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 04/11/2025
For weeks, Trumpers have relied on Mike Johnson to "explain" why Republicans are using hungry children as political pawns, and that has not gone well, as I discuss in this piece. Because Americans are not buying the GOP's lies, Johnson is now taking to the podium to declare he has nothing to say.
publicnotice.co
Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It’s the very same argument made historically by “supporters” of civil rights who claimed that taking any action at all was “going too far, too fast.” Dr. King called this the myth of time—that only time & not direct action would bring civil rights. His whole career was an argument against it.
crmvet.org
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- The Other America
Civil Rights Movement -- The Other America.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It’s always democracy that must sacrifice in the direction of autocracy to prevent (?) autocracy from being implemented. And when this clownish scheme inevitably fails, it is only ever the fault of democracy.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
extremely dangerous: "efforts by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to politicize the armed forces and to turn them into instruments of their MAGA agenda"
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