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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Speaker of the House and Christian Nationalist weirdo Mike Johnson says that Trump was an “FBI Informant in the Epstein case.” Look. I’ve seen the Sopranos. Just because someone becomes an informant does not mean they were not in the mob.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

All this time they bragged that they were going to stand up to tyranny and here it turns out they were just playing with guns and waiting for the first shiny fascist to come along

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If you don’t understand something you see, try to learn about it. It’s called intellectual curiosity. It’s a door that leads to other doors that lead to other doors. Or you can build a bunker in your own head and hide in it.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The fact that you see how wrong this all is, means your faculties are intact, your mind is fully right, and your heart is working properly; you still have a soul doing what souls are supposed to do: keep you deeply human in profoundly inhumane times. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-gasli...

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Don't Gaslight Yourself. You're Right To Grieve What's Happening to America.

I know what you're thinking.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

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Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it

Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

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Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Many friends are cautious and saying, "let's see where this goes" - but you are at your most powerful right now. Every day you do not act normalizes impunity and makes you and the people you serve weaker.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

What the foolish fail to realize is that fascism is never satisfied. It always wants more. They think they can play it and come out ahead. No. It will eat you too, baby.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/02/2025

The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I think if we could convince run-of-the-mill right wing men to get years of psychotherapy, they would come to understand that it was their desperate insecurities, petty jealousies, and complete lack of intellectual curiosity that lead them to become fascists—not pronouns, Taylor Swift or immigrants.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/02/2025

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

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Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’

The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just think, if Kamala Harris would have won, we could have had Oprah take over the federal government instead of Elon, and we would all be getting big checks right now.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This was just brutal coming from Rep. Raskin. Democrats must remain strong.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/2025

1. Yesterday, Trump released a sweeping executive order designed to end transgender youth care. It uses unconstitutional means and dubious interpretations of old laws to threaten hospitals, parents, and providers. I go line by line to help you make sense of it. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Youth Care Ban Executive Order

A week after a flurry of executive orders, Trump is still signing orders to target the trans community. The latest, released Tuesday, tries to ban trans youth care nationwide.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I’m not calling it the Gulf of America

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We don’t resist the persecution of Trans people because it will lead to worse things. We resist it because it is the worst thing.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

First they came for trans people and I said fuck off because I didn’t need to hear anything after that you stupid motherfuckers.

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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 22/01/2025

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Literally nothing is as MAGA as watching a bunch of self-righteous frauds who pretend to give a damn about Christianity, viciously attacking a minister who preached about caring for the vulnerable while their rapist-felon messiah scoffed at her. Your religion is short one Jesus.

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

No executive order has the power or the right to tell you who you are. F*ck that noise. Surround yourself with love, and when you’re ready, get back in this fight. We need you. 🫶🏽

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

A lot of folks have already revealed themselves in the Trump era, but 2025 is the year the rest of them do Our job is to never forget what everyone looked like when their masks came off, and to never forget who had a mask on in the first place

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Look, if Russia is investing millions of dollars and dozens of troll farms to oppose and smear a candidate in your country, then that’s the fucking person you need to elect.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Cooked a hamburger thinking I would pack it in my lunch for tomorrow, but before I packed it, a cat jumped on the counter and licked it. So I made a turkey sandwich. Turned my back for a second and a different cat … jumped on the counter and licked it. I just said fuck it and packed it.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Lot of people caught in a trap judging people caught in a worse trap.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

"Pete Hegseth: The Short Course – 13 Steps to National Destruction" snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

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Pete Hegseth: The Short Course

13 Steps to National Destruction

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The three richest men in the world are all genuflecting before Trump. All to curry favor so they can maintain their control over our political and economic systems — and to avoid accountability for their abuses of power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Too bad the death of Anita Bryant does not mean the death of what she stood for. A bunch of silly little Anitas still think they can keep people from being people.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

When I see someone reading a book in public, I always experience an intense desire to ask them what they are reading, but I never wonder what someone is looking at when I see them on their phones.

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Arno Rosenfeld @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism forward.com/news/686797/...

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Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.

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Dr. Kevin M. Young @kevinmyoung.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

NO ONE NEEDS CHURCHES THAT ARE: — Doctrinally perfect — Politically Influential — Antagonistic toward culture — Focused more on God than Neighbor WE ALL NEED CHURCHES THAT WILL: — Do justice work — Defend the oppressed — Show endless mercy — Allow doubt — Be humble

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Funny how Musk was all about free speech for racists when he needed racism to get Trump elected—but now that they are inconvenient, he’s shutting them down.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

there's a particular type of progressive opportunism that's like "yes, Mr Hitler1488 says that the Jews control the banks, but what his followers are really angry about is financial inequality and opaqueness! We can tap into that!" You can't. It's poisoned soil.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Jimmy Carter in 2015 on the role of money in American politics: "It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery." Spot on.

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 26/12/2024

A personal reflection: “Journalists like myself have a choice: surrender to the fascist mob that wants to intimidate the truth-tellers – or rededicate ourselves to doing what’s right no matter the cost.” www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

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Phil Williams: In reporting on hate and extremism, 'while the attacks are personal, so is the cause'

Rarely in my nearly 40-year career as a journalist have I felt the target on my back as continuously and intensely as I have in the last 15 months.

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Susan Montag @susanmontagwriter.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The only thing more ridiculous than writing a novel right now would be not writing a novel right now.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Elections have consequences. Voters were warned.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

A decade or so before “concerns” w/ transwomen in women’s sports became central in the right wing myth of “protecting” women’s sports, the same folks pushing this myth denigrated women’s sports by saying muscular/athletic women were too “masculine” and “feminine” women were not athletic enough.

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

In this new article in American Psychologist we respond to critics in detail and clarify two key points for the field; (1) The prevalence of misinformation in society is substantial when properly defined. (2) Misinformation causally impacts attitudes and behaviors. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

WATCH: “I believe they did that because what we’re doing is having an effect… They're being petty. But that's not going to stop us. Amazon warehouse in Queens, NY gushes water out onto the striking workers' picket line in below freezing temperatures. (H/T @btnewsroom.bsky.social )

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This article documents some interesting tactics, including using the voices of prominent professors to create synthetic audio content, overlaid onto images and videos, in ways that suggest the professor and their academic institution have created/endorsed the message.

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