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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 31/08/2026

David Byrne performed "Life During Wartime" at the Hollywood Bowl in front of ICE raid footage. His "Who Is the Sky?" tour is becoming a concert film directed by Oscar nominee Brady Corbet, following past films with Jonathan Demme and Spike Lee. This ain't no disco.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday made a critical announcement. It repealed the scientific determination that gives the government the authority to combat climate change." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

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What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/02/2026

NEWS: Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler has RESIGNED after newly released emails exposed a years-long personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — including advising him on handling sex crime accusations, media scrutiny, and accusers.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

seriously does the Times not have anyone who understands internet culture anymore? because this is fast approaching “how do you do fellow kids” territory.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

She's butting heads with the actual journalists who are still trying to do journalism. And wrecking @cbsnews.com in the process.

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Shannon the Science Nerd @shanthesciencenerd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

So we're living in a kakistocracy now. Cool, cool. It's the transition government to idiocracy.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Bernie's right: Thank you, New Yorkers, for electing Mamdani.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

normally i wouldn't watch anderson and andy but apparently CNN is the only station that isn't tape-delaying the ball drop. anyway they're interviewing a very drunk and very giddy stephen colbert, and when he was asked what 2025 taught him, he replied "don't trust billionaires!" #hero

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AVK | Wide World of Batshit @avk.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I don't mean to brag, but I got quoted by @georgetakei.bsky.social. It was a screenshot... And on Threads... BUT IT STILL COUNTS! brag brag brag brag brag

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/09/2025

A very happy birthday to my friend and co-cost @libradunn1.bsky.social Love you!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/09/2025

Now where have I heard this before? Oh yeah...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them. And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

As always, responsible, mature adults should be looking to reputable news sources, waiting for the facts, and ignoring the loony conspiracy theorists.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/09/2025

We’re about to find out whether the corporate media knows that groypers are right-wing.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Trump "might think he’s winning the War on Laughter—but much like George W. Bush, he’s going to discover that his mission is far from accomplished. He can cancel all the comedians he wants, but he will never make us stop laughing at him:" open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

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Trump Will Lose His War on Laughter

Comedy is his kryptonite.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The Coldplay Kiss-Cam Incident Proves What I Have Said For Decades: Rock Music Undermines Morals. Tomorrow in the NYT by Ross Douthat

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/07/2025

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

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ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants

"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Well this sure as hell isn’t incriminating! Nothing to see here.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.

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God @thegodshow.com · 17/07/2025

Every time a reporter mentions the Epstein list, Donold gets pissed. It’s a helpful reminder that Donold is on the Epstein list.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/07/2025

Tomi Lahren just posted on the other place that the federal government should “let California go” and that California should get “not one dime.” Where does she think the federal government gets most of its dimes?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Orange Daddy gonna be big mad.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Without making any endorsements, it does seem like in a city of 8.5 million residents, it’s not too much to ask for the mayor to actually live in New York City.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Could there be a clearer metaphor for our country nowadays?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Incredible how Cuomo is absolutely DWARFING everyone else in money and spend and yet it’s still close enough that they’re pulling these stops out. They’re scared.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 21/06/2025

Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

omg thank you Fox News 😭

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/06/2025

Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday. This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.

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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

@erinburnett.bsky.social Did I hear you on live TV say that protesters were throwing what actually appear to be the spent casings from “less than lethal rounds”? That would explain the gunpowder smell. CNN vying for first chair in the state media orchestra.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

An important distinction here is that powerful dominant groups have way more latitude to use extreme tactics than marginalized subordinate groups. A central part of the logic of nonviolent resistance is that it’s an asymmetric battle and so requires tactics like using media to highlight injustice.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

In 1963, Bernard Cohen wrote the press may not tell people what to think, but it does tell them what to think about. Protest tactics shape which stories get covered and what mass public thinks about. Which of these stories undermines Trump’s agenda? Which strengthens calls for ”law and order”?

Image of a crying woman with news story headline “Deported Cuban mother separated from breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter”

Image of street full of police lined up facing a few protesters in LA with smoke billowing in foreground and background. Headline from LA Times reads “LA officials struggle to curb vandalism, thefts, fires, violence in downtown LA”

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting

Article Abstract

How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.

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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Justice Jackson warns the Supreme Court is manipulating the rules to benefit Trump www.vox.com/scotus/41607...

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The Supreme Court is breaking rules to benefit Trump, Justice Jackson warns

The rules don’t apply to Trump on the Court’s “shadow docket.”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

It is constantly so embarrassing to watch NY dems at literally any Moment of Decision.

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