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"If objectivity means that I treat evil ideas the same as I treat just ones, I have no time for it." -Malcolm Foley https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2022/08/i-am-a-historian-on-presentism/

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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · Aug 3

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

John Adams, Dec. 4, 1770

Drawing of a young man in a suit and wearing a gray wig. Portrait of John Adams, 1766, in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 6h

They still have armor? Lend/Lease Shermans?

Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: Russian forces have conducted three company- and battalion-sized mechanized assaults in priority areas of Donetsk Oblast over the last two weeks, marking an inflection in recent Russian armor usage in Ukraine. 🧵 (1/5)

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 9h

Or Treasury, for that matter

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 10h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 10h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

This is a great factcheck on the DHS sizzle videos of them rounding up immigrants: they are leaving a lot of context out.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 6h

Release his final report.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h

Jack Smith speaks. Congress wants to hear more from him. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Jack Smith Speaks

You have choices about where you get your news and analysis.

open.substack.com

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Epstein files or bust @crackermack.bsky.social · 8h

Then it’s on to Bigfoot!

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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 6h

Not really noted in the "analysis" article. Odd.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 8h

Is she talking about the young children missing because her goon squad dragged them naked & crying from their apartment complex or the 15-yr old girl they tackled & threw into an unmarked van the other day?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Pam Bondi repeatedly claims that finding one missing child "makes it all worthwhile" when it comes to military occupations of American cities and adds that "Pritzker should be begging Donald Trump to come in."

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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 7h

Who wouldn't want to go back in time and spend their money at the 1936 Olympics?

blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 7h

Some new ballroom at the Whitehouse.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 10h

I think people – ESPECIALLY IMMIGRATION LAWYERS - should pay attention to what is a subtle but potentially significant argument that Justice Gorsuch made in Bowe v. United States, a case argued today.

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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 8h

Clutch those pearls tightly, Mike.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 13h

lmfao

people are gonna lose their minds over this, but reminder that grandpa just says things

they transferred unobligated FY25 RDT&E funds into nonexistent FY26 MILPERS account in direct violation of the Constitution, that's bad enough

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h

The entire first two months of the Biden administration were taken up by obsessive complaining about how he wouldn't do press conferences & wasn't taking policy questions (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

This? Gone tomorrow. Totally different set of standards applied to two totally different parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 11h

Piracy. War crime.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 11h

Antislavery Democrat who allowed his name to be put forward as a candidate for president in 1848 for what was eventually called the Free Soil Party. The Free Soil Party morphed into the Republican Party - a very different thing than what it has evolved into today. He was all that .

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 12h

25A material

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump on LA: "They already lost 25k houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest. They didn't do it and we had 25k homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had no water in the fire hydrants. We broke in and had the water come down."

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Evan Robertson @evanrobertsondc.bsky.social · 20h

Just in case it’s not clear, when he says “this country” he means Trump

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Emmer: "These guys are playing to the most radical, small, and violent base in the country. You'll see them on Saturday on the Mall. They just do not love this country."

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Jackie Matusow @bookjackie.bsky.social · 22h

I love research. (I’m a librarian). This is what they want to destroy.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

hey so I know this is T&P but DHS doesn't have near the same authorities as DoD has with reprogramming, and also the DoD version of this is still illegal as shit even with those authorities

Whatever dog killer barbie is cooking up is gonna just be an outright money grab

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 1d

Coast Guard may now be paid through Pentagon-style money shifting trib.al/VhtWlMr

Coast Guard may now be paid through Pentagon-style money shifting

Homeland Security is taking similar steps after the Pentagon announced it would move “unobligated” funds to cover Oct. 15 pay.

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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 19h

The linked article spent so much time avoiding the actual cause of decline that I didn't finish it.

blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 19h

Cue up the guy in a hot dog costume.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.