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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ll pop a gift link below. Important read. Link: buff.ly/gaFFLxh

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2026

oh my goodness - Lieu played Rubio a video of Trump sleeping while Rubio tried to talk to him during a cabinet meeting. Then this exchange: RUBIO: I've never seen him fall asleep LIEU: I'm gonna show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress *plays another clip of Trump sleeping by Rubio*

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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.

Brendan Carr tweet: Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.

The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not.

And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters.

The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves.

It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news.

When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen.

Time for change!

Trump "Truth":

Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use. In actuality, the Base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not “struck” or “destroyed.” Four of the five had virtually no damage, and are already back in service. One had slightly more damage, but will be in the air shortly. None were destroyed, or close to that, as the Fake News said in headlines. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other Lowlife “Papers” and Media actually want us to lose the War. Their terrible reporting is the exact opposite of the actual facts! They are truly sick and demented people that have no idea the damage they cause the United States of America. Fortunately, as proven by our Great and Conclusive Election Win in 2024, the People of our Country understand what is happening far better than the Fake News Media! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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ScottIJ @scottij.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Fantastic demo of @ruhlman.bsky.social’s Ratios by my favorite YouTube chefs at Fallow: youtu.be/_LVX03nJyVY?...

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9 Ratios Every Chef Needs to Know

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

NEW @nytimes.com ANALYSIS: In 2008 (the last election before Citizens United), billionaires accounted for 0.3% of federal election spending. In 2024, 300 billionaires & their immediate families accounted for 19% of all spending, either directly or through PACs, totaling $3B+.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

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Ann Elizabeth @diggysbaby.blacksky.app · 14/02/2026

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

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Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...

TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/01/2026

He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it. Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

One of my favorite living writers, and one of my favorite people, is George Saunders, and this interview helps to demonstrate why. youtube.com/watch?v=wGWCqgIyrbM&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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George Saunders Says Breaking These 3 Delusions Can Save You | The Interview

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.

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USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This point needs to be made and frequently.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear." Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I've been waiting for someone to make this point. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

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Opinion | Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

There’s a lot of talk about “insurrection” coming from the White House, which has led many to predict that they are considering invoking the Insurrection Act. What plans are afoot, and what would that look like if it happened? My write-up in the replies.

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Matt Cable @curiousstranger.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 01/10/2025

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US. And nobody covered it. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/09/2025

It really can not be emphasized enough that "exaggerating the danger of the left" is a key, central tactic of aspiring fascists. Look back at every country that slid into authoritarianism & you'll find a campaign like this preceding it. Every time. It's part of the script.

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How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left

It is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration. T...

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 29/09/2025

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Why are ICE officers so bad at their jobs? This paper gives the reason: they were ALWAYS mediocre, incompetent, or dishonorable cops. Signing on to the secret police, being willing to do the "ugly" jobs, gives them a career advancement path those qualities blocked under more moral systems.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Lot going on in Chicago. ICE raids. Both plummeting crime rates (Patel) and a criminal war zone (Trump). But this might go unnoticed. Yesterday, in the suburb of Berwyn, a man shot up a car in front of a middle school with an assault rifle, killing two. wgntv.com/berwyn/heavy...

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

But the Bidens!

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NPR @npr.org · 26/08/2025

A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

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Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers

A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Per Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, DHS is referencing "Which Way, Western Man." It’s a book by white supremacist William Gayley Simpson published by an American Neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance. The white supremacists captions, iconography and dog-whistles on the DHS account are

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Surprised that this remarkable investigation into how Netanyahu prolonged the war in Gaza — killing tens of 1000s of civilians — for his own benefit has not gotten more attention. So: gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...

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How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Great reporting in The Atlantic yesterday, which I cited in my longer piece in The Big Picture. Here is the kicker: ICE is pulling agents off criminal work such as drug cartels and human trafficking to work on civil immigration enforcement, i.e. going after undocumented migrants.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This was a hard one to write. It’s disconcerting to report on inhumane conditions at a U.S. concentration camp from the comfort of my home office, but not enough people are speaking out. And I don’t want history to repeat. Please help let others know. My write-up in the replies.

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Jon Boeckenstedt @jonboeckenstedt.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

OK, here is your one-minute primer on the whole concept of "trickle down economics," from the obituary of Fred Smith, the founder of Fedex. I mean, if you still can't see it, I have no hope for you.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Let this sink in. Even the Los Angeles Police Chief, Jim McDonnell, made it clear: the people protesting immigration raids were not the ones causing violence. During a Sunday evening press conference, McDonnell condemned the violence as “disgusting”

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This is a pretty important point!

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/05/2025

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/05/2025

I think about this comic at least once a week

- I want things to be different
- *smashes everything*
- oh no

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

ICYMI — Trump posted this photoshopped pic as *proof* of Garcia’s MS-13 tattoos. Outrageous behavior from a president. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Fascism is when a leader uses the power of the state to control or coerce private institutions—like Trump has tried to do with universities and private companies such as Apple. His attempts to dictate what schools can teach or how businesses should operate are textbook authoritarianism. Harvard

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Constitutional Crisis Is Here

The Supreme Court told the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison. So far, the administration is pretending to comply while re...

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

In his letter to the community explaining his decision to defy the Fed Gov't's demands, Harvard President Alan Garber included a link to the letter laying out those demands. Here it is: www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 12/04/2025

The morning after the election, I had a panicked thought: “My threat model is wrong.” I’d been giving privacy advice for years, but my counsel would not protect against an authoritarian president seeking revenge against political enemies. Tyranny was going to require a new threat model.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This action is illegal and violates IRS regulations—specifically 26 U.S. Code § 6103, which protects the confidentiality of taxpayer information. To make it happen, Trump removed the top IRS lawyer and replaced them with a loyalist.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2025

“There is a widespread belief that government power will be used to punish critics. And there is skepticism that the laws restraining such abuses of power, including the Constitution, will be enforced.”

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Morgan L. Stringer @mostring.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

North Carolinians, check to see if your vote for Riggs was thrown out. You have 2 weeks to correct it!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.

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Matt Cable @curiousstranger.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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