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Anthony L. Fisher

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MSNBC Digital senior editor and columnist. Not here to argue. Signal: @afish.99

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10d

You have the right to call President Donald Trump a fascist.

(new @msnbc.com column)

Opinion | Free speech includes the right to call political opponents 'fascists'

Top Trump officials say heated political rhetoric is illegal “incitement.” They're wrong — it’s free speech.

www.msnbc.com

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Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 2d

Matt Taibbi's co-host, Walter Kirn, compares Democrats who oppose Trump's immigration crackdowns to Southern politicians who opposed school integration in the 1960s, and equates the National Guard protecting the Little Rock 9 to the National Guard abducting immigrants now.

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 20h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 21h

The theocratic dictatorship that funded Hamas, gifted a $400m jet to Trump, and contributed billions to Jared Kushner's fund will have a military facility on US soil.

Axios @axios.com · 1d

NEW: Qatar will build an air force facility at Idaho's Mountain Home Airbase, the U.S. and Qatar jointly announced today.

Qatar to build air force facility on U.S. base in Idaho

Laura Loomer and other MAGA figures expressed shock and outrage, but the deal was long in the making.

www.axios.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 22h

His SF based employees should, every last one of them, walk out. If he's asking for violence to be directed against the people of the city, the people of the city shouldn't advance his economic interests.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22h

Area billionaire has wet brain www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”

www.sfchronicle.com

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 22h

Man, I want few things more than an apology from every person from the late 90s who tried to convince me that Kid Rock was actually really good and not embarrassing and unlistenable

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

Guys, we need to talk about Biden's cognitive decline.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

"We have always been stabilizing Eastasia."

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine looking at Elon Musk's DOGE and thinking "that worked, I'll do that"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 1d

New meme format

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1d

Someone clearly has only a vague knowledge of the history of this prize.

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 2d

someone should tell Trump they don't give the Peace Prize to people who blow up boats and murder those on high seas nor to those who deploy military against their own people. NEVER.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

Actual lol

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

"Heterodox" for me, not for thee

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

More likely, Bibi humiliated Trump (and threatened Jared Kushner's business interests) when he unilaterally bombed a peace negotiation in Qatar.

I'm willing to bet *that's* what actually motivated Trump to say what Biden never would, which was "Bibi, take the deal, or you're cut off."

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

The Israel-Hamas peace agreement “grew directly out of Trump’s desperate thirst for the Nobel,” Jonathan Chait argues. “If dangling the award in front of Trump encourages him to work hard to end conflicts,” we must wonder what will happen if he gets it:

Trump’s Nobel Thirst Is Actually Great for the World

The president’s ego inspires plenty of bad choices, but his desire for a Peace Prize is proving useful.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 2d

Many people are saying RFK's latest "theory" is antisemitic. That's misleading. It's also Islamophobic!

(www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...)

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 2d

One of the people who did the most to get us here muses:

“Liberal America still generally tunes into mainstream outlets while much of the right half of the electorate seems hooked on star-child radio. As UnHerd columnist Richard Hanania concluded, ‘the Right is in deep trouble.’” (Gift link)

Opinion | Somehow, right-wing fabulist crackpottery is worse than ever

Trump’s populism is in power, but that is far from satisfying the loonier conservative precincts.

wapo.st

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

Megyn Kelly is a dishonest hack who's too cowardly to denounce antisemites that share her sphere of media and political influence.

Why Is Megyn Kelly Afraid to Take on Candace Owens?

Right-wing media’s old guard is scared of its younger, crazier rivals.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

This is hilarious. Robby Soave said it's "reductive" to call The Free Press "Trump-friendly" because they had MAGA libertarian Dave Smith on a podcast to debate Israel.

Two days later, Smith is hosting the antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Ideological balance!

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t expect The Washington Post to effectively back the January 6th Putsch, but here we are.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

When society collapses, I hope the survivors will make sure bad-faith both-sidesism gets a good amount of the blame.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d

President Trump’s declaration that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be jailed is the latest clash between two feuding billionaires.

The Bad Blood Between Trump and Pritzker Goes Back Decades

President Trump’s declaration that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be jailed is the latest clash between two feuding billionaires.

on.wsj.com

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really not sure what the point of Congress is anymore.

Senate rejects effort to curb Trump's power to target alleged drug boats

The resolution was led by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

www.axios.com

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

Masked agents of the U.S. government are shooting priests in the face with pepper balls, manhandling female elected officials, and zip-tying children (U.S. citizens) in the middle of the night.

Here's the "I hate bullies" Free Press front page.

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