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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

QUICK QUIZ: Which of these was an actual TV show to air on CBS in 2024: NCIS: Topeka Law & Order: Animal Control Unit Cold Case: Criminal Minds CSI: FBI NCIS: Hawai’i NCIS: No Jurisdiction FBI: Dubai US Coast Guard: Vessel Boarding Security Teams (VBST)

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Up until recently, I would say it was usually hyperbole to call a prominent media figure a Nazi. But what else should you call someone who talks like this? Some might say he’s being ignorant or stupid. I don’t think he’s either of those things. Provocative and contrarian, sure. But this is more.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Assuming they aren’t lying (just for fun), how is paying for something you don’t use considered an act of fraud? What even is the concept here?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So much of society’s functioning relies on shared faith in the persistence of abstract ideas: Money can be used for goods & services. Laws protect us & punish bad actors. Elected officials should serve the public good. We possess inalienable rights. Fascism is bad. Facts are real. Seems so quaint.

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Remember when a year felt like a long time?

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

From the archive: Just “moving on” past a calamity without examination and accountability invites the next one. 7:20 PM · May 18, 2021

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pretending to go for it on fourth and short just to try to draw the defense offsides is loser crap. It also never works unless you are playing the Jets.

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s possible this video just put five years back onto my life.

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pretending to go for it on fourth and short just to try to draw the defense offsides is loser crap. It also never works unless you are playing the Jets.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When they do this, it's not enough to reject the demand. You've got to shove it back in their face, and ask why they never ask Republicans to denounce the racist mass murderer who is their party's top donor and who was given the keys to the federal government to cause mass chaos.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The embarrassing decision to call Lake Ontario “Lake America” is an admission of defeat. If we can’t understand basics of economics and politics, if we must lose a trade war to Canada while we are losing a shooting war to Iran, let us paste our name somewhere. snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-...

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Our Trade War Against Ourselves

Treating Canada as an Enemy Leaves us Weaker in Every Way

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is downstream of America's oligarchy problem. The GOP is the party of the top 1% of the wealth distribution, but also the ~25th-80th percentile. Meanwhile, media is the provenance of the 90th-99th%ile where you'll encounter dumb campus leftism, but not Nazism or Christian nationalism.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Honest Question: What IS the biggest scandal of this presidency?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Most major media still won't say directly that the U.S. is sliding toward dictatorship. Will they ever sound the alarm, or will they be part of the most shameful episode of journalism neglect in our nation's history? My Stop the Presses newsletter.

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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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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In the future, when a Democrat does anything remotely similar to these egregious acts of corruption, obfuscation, and outright deception, they will suddenly act like they care. As if their outrage originates from some untouchable integrity. Most will act as though they have forgotten. But not me.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Immigration judge to my client in court today: "Ma'am, the children will need to wait outside--but this shouldn't take long. I don't want you to be separated from your children." given what the order I knew she was about to issue, the cruelty of this phrasing stopped my breath

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

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The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New York Times: Speaking for Fallen Soldiers, Trump Says They Supported the Iran War” Mother Jones: “Trump Puts Words in the Mouths of Dead Soldiers.” From, "The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality," by @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...

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The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump's grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there | Press Watch

Journalists are treating his ‘vandalism’ claim as if it were a normal, disputable argument. But it’s completely delusional.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Experts aren’t always correct. The best ones know that. But they also know more than you. That’s what makes them experts.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

An experienced fact-checker, Linda Qiu, at the most well-resourced and serious news organization in America, STILL cannot manage to call a true statement true: "Susan Collins helped Trump slash Medicaid to the tune of $990 billion.” —Troy Jackson This is true. Here's why Qiu gets it wrong:

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Fact-Checking 3 Competitive Senate Races in Maine, Michigan and Ohio

Republican attacks have focused on terrorism and illegal immigration, while Democrats have sought to capitalize on the unpopularity of President Trump’s cuts to Medicaid.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

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Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 24/07/2026

Good morning and happy Friday to everyone. Sure, us giving Saudi Arabia nuclear tech is better than China or Russia giving Saudi Arabia nuclear tech, but WTF. Saudi Arabia flew planes into American buildings on 9/11 and chopped up a journalist they didn’t like.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Writing headlines is hard. You have to compress an article into a phrase or two. And you have to fit an exact and usually inconvenient line space. Two images below: What the NYT is running on line. (h/t @jaywillis.net for calling this one out.) And what would fit exactly the same space, by me.

Two headlines:
As published. ( By NYT.)
Opportunities Narrow for Women as
Hegseth Blocks More Promotions

Would exactly fit the same space. (By me)
Hegseth Narrows Opportunities for
Women, Blocking More Promotions

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This World Cup final at NY NJ stadium is amazing. Must be the first ever game in two states at once. It’s like Schrödinger’s stadium.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"There's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth." Probably not a good sign when federal officials sound exactly like abusive husbands

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Moreover, for the umpteenth time, unless you're dealing with a mass killing in which a driver is actively trying to mow people down -- which was not the case here -- shooting into a moving vehicle *increases* the threat to public safety. Because killing the driver doesn't stop the vehicle.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/07/2026

Rachel Maddow’s description of Juan Sebastian Guerrero killed by ICE in Maine is a must see. She explains what happened w/out being graphic, and somehow that makes it even more powerful. Remember Alex, Pretti, and Renée? There have been no prosecutions. Still no justice. We know how this goes.

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Quick reminder: Fleeing from law enforcement is not a crime punishable by death.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I assumed everyone knew this was predicted to occur when they sacked 50% of the NOAA staff and started canceling weather balloons that collect data last year; but if not. 👇

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Here's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately

Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Elsewhere, less tactful conservatives expressed directly what the dissenting justices chose to do in euphemism. Stephen Miller, who runs immigration policy for the Trump administration, told Fox News that “we have people from all over the world, from third-world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel.” He went on: “They can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for by you and me, and then that baby is automatically a citizen? That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones? Can decide who our mayors are? Our governors are? Our presidents are?” Miller’s long-standing view is that what ruined America was the repeal of eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions that had banned immigration from Asia and Africa and from nations in Europe deemed to be composed of lesser white races.

There is very little difference between Miller’s position—if you come from a “Third World nation,” you are inferior—and that of antebellum Democrats and the opponents of the Fourteenth Amendment at the time it was adopted: American citizenship is degraded by having to share it with the biologically inferior. The justices are elite lawyers with the ability to obfuscate this project and ignore its aims, but the rest of us need not pretend. To put it bluntly, Miller’s objection, as articulated here, is not to birthright citizenship. It is to the idea that “all men are created equal.”

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I think it's a moral abomination for Ezra Klein to have Chris Rufo on his podcast and then get a transcript of it published in The New York Times as if this is a conversation between equals and not a radical centrist and a fascist telling each other 'exaaaaactlyyyy'

Another argument you make in that piece is: “The popular slogan that ‘facts don’t care about your feelings’ betrays similar problems” — the slogan being Ben Shapiro’s.
In reality, feelings almost always overpower facts. Reason is a slave of the passions.

Yes, that’s true, and we’ll caveat — we love Ben Shapiro. We’re Ben Shapiro fans, of course. But I think that he’s very wrong on that, and I think conservatives have made a fundamental error in latching on to that.

And really, what it is — it’s a rationalization for losing. It’s like: Yes, we may have lost the great political question that operates on emotions or passions, but we have the facts on our side, and if only people would read our white paper, our regression analysis or our rigorous logical argumentation, then we would be vindicated.

But look, while we should have the facts on our side, and while we should use logic, by itself, it’s insufficient. And, in fact, politics operates on a deeper level, an emotional level. And politics occurs on the field of sentiment and public opinion — much more on the field of abstract argumentation at the top.

Then you go on in the same piece to make an argument for “agitprop” — an old Soviet Union term for agitation and propaganda mashed up together.

It doesn’t have a great reputation — “agitprop” is usually not a term of endearment. But you say: “Agitprop doesn’t mean sacrificing the truth but, rather, channeling the truth toward victory.”

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/06/2026

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Is it not clear now that reforming the Supreme Court must be at the top of the agenda along with accountability?

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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Kavanaugh went from “the text of the Constitution means what it says” in a First Amendment decision to “lol it’s complicated what are words anyway” in the VERY NEXT DECISION to interpret the 14th Amendment

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH delivered the opinion of the Court.
Ratified in 1791, the First Amendment provides that
“Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of
speech.” As relevant here, the Federal Election Campaign
Act, known as FECA, limits a political party’s campaign
spending. Those spending limits necessarily abridge
political parties’ freedom of speech: Because “virtually
every means of communicating ideas in today’s mass society
requires the expenditure of money,” a “restriction on the
amount of money a person or group can spend on political
communication during a campaign necessarily reduces the
quantity of expression by restricting the number of issues
discussed, the depth of their exploration, and the size of the
audience reached.”

I next address the Fourteenth Amendment issue. As
revealed by the Court’s opinion with its detailed account of
history and precedent, and by the weighty and thoughtful
dissents, the constitutional issue is far more complicated
than the statutory issue. After reading those scholarly
opinions, one thing seems evident: The constitutional issue
is not straightforward, much as we might want it to be.
That is another reason why, in my respectful view, the
Court should have decided the case on the narrow and
straightforward statutory ground. In any event, because
the Court addresses the Constitution, and because I
respectfully disagree with its analysis of that highly
consequential issue, I too will briefly address it.
Ratified in 1868, the Citizenship Clause of §1 of the
Fourteenth Amendment provides: “All persons born or
naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of
the State wherein they reside.”
In 1898, as noted above, Wong Kim Ark interpreted the
Fourteenth Amendment’s “subject to the jurisdiction”
language to provide a general right of birthright citizenship
with four disparate exceptions…

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/06/2026

These guys are giving credit to the Supreme Court, which only affirmed this by a 5-4 decision. They should be excoriating the justices who voted against this.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, where their agents come to intimidate you if you share public information about how they have killed American citizens

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

💯 and still … some number of people — too many by any count — will either believe him or not care that he’s obviously lying to cover up his own deficiencies.

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Rick Harrison @rickharrison.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Maybe hard things are actually hard to do?

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

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