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Tori Otten

@teotten1.bsky.social
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Deputy breaking news editor for The New Republic. Previously English desk for AFP. Thoughts my own. She/her.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Trump's Iran quagmire is getting worse. Striking pattern: *Leavitt/Hegseth berating media for making Trump "look bad" *Rs privately say they don't want ownership of Iran attack *GOP avoiding using word "war" On the pod @teotten1.bsky.social and I dig into all of it: newrepublic.com/article/2074...
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Trump Press Sec Tirade Takes Truly Weird Turn as GOP Iran Angst Spikes
As Karoline Leavitt snaps amid tough questioning on Iran, the author of a piece on White House social media strategy explains how Trumpworld’s messaging is trivializing the war, making things worse fo...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The White House social media account is currently one of the most hateful things I've seen in my lifetime and I can't believe we have to pretend it's normal
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Tori Otten @teotten1.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The IDF surrounded, beat, and choked US labor leader Chris Smalls after boarding an aid ship. "Smalls was the only Black person on the flotilla and was punished much more severely than any of the other 20 members," @malcolmferguson.bsky.social writes for @newrepublic.com tinyurl.com/wxt9h3yv
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Israel Detains and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Forcing the Black woman who painted the portrait of the Obamas to cancel for NOT erasing Black Transgender people …..
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
oh my gosh
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 23/07/2025
With fuel prices exorbitant and road travel treacherous in war-battered Gaza, AFP video journalist Youssef Hassouna has to walk for hours in the searing heat every day to document the news: "This morning, I walked about a 25-kilometre round trip in search of information." ➡️ u.afp.com/Sgin
File photo shows AFP journalist Youssef Hassouna posing for a picture in the Gaza Strip on January 8, 2024
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Tori Otten @teotten1.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"We've learned from their brief messages that they can't hold on much longer, and their courage, dedicated for many months to informing the whole world, won't help them survive."
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
from “student debt forgiveness is tyranny” to “the president is allowed to point at someone and have them summarily executed on the spot” in 2 years
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 27/06/2025
wow a concentration camp with showers?
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Christ it's bad. NO UNIVERSAL INJUCTIONS.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Love this totally legitimate and real functioning democracy, where every June our nine wizard-kings descend from the mountain to tell us which laws aren’t real anymore
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The freakout about the Zohran government possibly opening some groceries store in food deserts is fascinating because the simplest way for capital to route around it would be for businesses just open up there and obviate the need but they appear unwilling/uninterested in doing so, so govt steps in.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Short read on today at SCOTUS: Good day for inmates. Immigrants stay losing always. Worst day for women since Dobbs.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Punchbowl reports Robert Garcia wins handily, defeating Stephen Lynch 150-63. Robert Garcia will be the top House Dem on the Oversight Committee
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 20/06/2025
Judge Farbiarz finds there are extraordinary circumstances here, and no flight risk or danger to community. Also the punishment claim is substantial enough to justify release. He orders Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/06/2025
Hey Chuck, this decision rips health care away from Americans
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 16/06/2025
It's not hyperbole to say that corpses have more rights than pregnant women in many US states. Liz Bruenig really said "brain dead people are incubators too"
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Tori Otten @teotten1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"Three dozen horses, 28 Abrams tanks, 6,700 soldiers, and millions of taxpayer dollars later, and Donald Trump’s military birthday parade was still a flop at best." tinyurl.com/3mdybh3y by @malcolmferguson.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com
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Trump’s Military Parade Was a Pathetic Event for a Pathetic President
The turnout wasn’t anything like what he wanted—and not everyone who showed up was even a fan of his.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"
Hot pink chairs and benches stacked up in a protest with protesters hiding behind them as law enforcement fires upon the barricades with rubber bullets and tear gas RIOS
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RIOS rios.imagines Images of the bright pink Civic
furniture line that we designed for@grandpark_la "The Park for Everyone," being used by LA
protesters stopped us in our tracks. These pieces were designed to move, adapt,
welcome, connect - and now protect. We stand in solidarity with our city during moments of civic expression in support of unjust treatment, and we are reminded of why we design: for our community, diversity, and a sense
of belonging.
Photo by: David Ryder-AFP/Getty Images
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Becca Milfeld @beccamilfeld.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Yesterday I met Assane II, so-called "King of the Corniche," the main highway here in Dakar. "Noble, imposing and perfectly built," he's rumored to be the most expensive ram (2.5 mn XOF / $4,350) ahead of Tabaski (Eid al-Adha), when the animals are sacrificed for a family feast
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Tori Otten @teotten1.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Missouri voters secured a historic victory for abortion rights in November. The state Supreme Court just ripped it away. tinyurl.com/m26t63nu by @melissagiragrant.com for @newrepublic.com
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Missouri’s Historic Abortion Victory Is Crumbling Before Our Eyes
The state Supreme Court effectively restored an abortion ban voters believed they’d defeated just months ago. The reversal ​points up the risks of relying on ballot measures to ensure abortion access.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
By far my favorite part of South Korean elections: election night graphics. SBS television station kills it EVERY. TIME. They play these clips all night and they get more and more unhinged and creative as the night goes on.
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Albert Burneko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Anyway just poping in to note that the budget bill that will kick millions off of their health care and food assistance programs managed to pass the House today by a margin of 215-214. A margin that would have been impossible if three Democrats had chosen to retire instead of dying at their desks.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This story reminds me of how Hugh Hefner bought the burial plot next to Marilyn Monroe’s: for women, not even death offers an escape from being sexually and reproductively used. apnews.com/article/preg...
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Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus to birth because of abortion ban
A hospital is using a breathing tube and other measures to keep a brain-dead Georgia woman's body functioning because she is pregnant.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I am publishing soon something we were scooped on @theonion.com beat us to it I am not joking
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Elena Kagan to Solicitor General John Sauer: "LET'S JUST ASSUME YOU'RE DEAD WRONG."
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/05/2025
Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
[SHOUTS] SOME OF THOSE WHO WORK FORCES ARE THE SAME WHO BURN CROSSES, PARENTHESIS COMPLIMENTARY END PARENTHESIS!!!
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
100% behind @teotten1.bsky.social's call for Democrats to be hilariously petty and mean at all times newrepublic.com/article/1934...
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Democrats, Stop Being Timid and Start Being Mean!
Democratic messaging is failing to meet the moment. It’s time for the party to embrace the anger and rage of its base.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.
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