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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 6h

This is exactly how the Turkey's Erdoğan dictatorship succeeded in remaking all mainstream media into regime media.

Not mainly by overt censorship. Mostly by making it clear that media firms clearly communicating the truth about regime actions would be targeted by selective/perverted 'regulation'.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Another disturbing example of how Trump silences dissent: "the chief content officer for our parent company... stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Opinion | I Quit My Job in the Face of Pro-Trump Censorship

A veteran journalist says his bosses were afraid of crossing the administration.

www.politico.com

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Dave C- End the Trump government shutdown - Restore healthcare @davec3.bsky.social · 6h

They did

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Natalie Louise Shorter (Lucas) @natalielshorter.bsky.social · 7h

20 years ago today (Oct 24, 2005), we lost Rosa Parks.

Virginia, did you know that in 1957–58 she lived/worked as a hostess at Hampton Institute’s Holly Tree Inn—still organizing for justice. Her courage keeps us moving. #RosaParks #Virginia #CivilRights

www.loc.gov/exhibitions/...

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Dave C- End the Trump government shutdown - Restore healthcare @davec3.bsky.social · 7h

True as that is, he has enough money to hold on for quite a while. What happens next has more to do with Maine voter opinions than the rest of us. I ask Platner to reconsider staying in the Senate race, but don't have a lot of sway on this.

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 7h

Years ago, I came across a simple post that has stayed with me ever since. Its message was this: There’s a cost to silence and a cost to speaking up. Every day I wake up and decide which bill I’m going to pay.

Bill me for speaking up and standing up. Every day.
11/11

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Anshu Sharma @anshugsharma.myatproto.social · 22h

Important reporting by @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/cuomo-raci...

Cuomo goes full gutter racist down the stretch

A deranged AI video and radio comments aimed at Mamdani show his truest colors yet.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 20h

I'm more than a little surprised to see that Warner and I are on the same page here. If Democrats adhere to any sort of rules of fair play, balance, or "civility," we are all truly screwed. In 2025, all of that has to be put aside. The viability of U.S. democracy is on the line.

Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve long supported nonpartisan redistricting and fair maps, but Donald Trump has spent months trying to rig the system instead of actually tackling rising costs for Americans. It’s no surprise that Democrats in places like Virginia would be thinking through appropriate ways to respond.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair.

What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.

Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed

From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.

www.thenation.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

This is amazing!!

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Dave C- End the Trump government shutdown - Restore healthcare @davec3.bsky.social · 21h

His inexperience shows in not addressing this (removing the tattoo) before he started campaigning, and waiting to address it until he was caught. There is a disingenuous and arrogant theme in his replies. Of course I'll support whatever D wins the primary, but I'm not a Mainer, so . . .

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

www.404media.co

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

As you read about how deftly Abbe Lowell contrasts "purported interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan's" ineptitude w/his client, "Attorney General James," remember that on top of being a dumbass, Lindsey is also the bigot who was in the process of removing pictures of slavery out of the Smithsonian.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

A Tale of Three Footnotes for "Purported Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan"

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/23/a...

A Tale of Three Footnotes for "Purported Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan" - emptywheel

In a motion asking Judge Jamar Walker to order Lindsey Halligan to stop leaking to the media, Abbe Lowell notes that Judge Walker could hold Halligan in contempt, but Attorney General James is not ask...

www.emptywheel.net

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Dave C- End the Trump government shutdown - Restore healthcare @davec3.bsky.social · 22h

Good 🧵 - and I agree

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22h

Listen, I know that Steve Bannon interview is circulating and terrifying everyone, but I have to remind you that NOTHING is a foregone conclusion, whether for 2028 or anything else.

We have a battle ongoing on every front: in the courts, in the streets, in the media ecosphere, & online. WE CAN WIN.

Dave C- End the Trump government shutdown - Restore healthcare @davec3.bsky.social · 22h

I did change my mind on Platner, and silly as it is, replied on a Bluesky thread of his, asking him to drop out

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Democrats @democrats.org · 1d

Why?

Graphic featuring Karoline Leavitt with the following text:

"The ballroom is the president's main priority."

Karoline Leavitt on Trump's White House destruction

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Dave C- End the Trump government shutdown - Restore healthcare @davec3.bsky.social · 1d

@bennet.senate.gov @hickenlooper.senate.gov Don't confirm D'Esposito

CREW @citizensforethics.org · 1d

NEW: Former Rep. Anthony D’Esposito’s repeated apparent contravention of ethics rules and standards indicate that he lacks the virtues and prudence required of an inspector general. Congress must reject his nomination.

CREW submits statement for the record on D’Esposito’s nomination - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

The Senate must reject former Representative Anthony D’Esposito’s nomination for Inspector General at the Department of Labor due to his history of allegedly violating ethics rules.

www.citizensforethics.org

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, the headline should be: Trump sold a pardon in crypto to make a crypto money laundering crime go away.

www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Exclusive | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder

The pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company.

www.wsj.com

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look, it's another immigration agent in Chicago with his body-cam turned off--*contrary to a federal court order*

Again, cameras that are recording have a flashing light. This one doesn't

BTW, this agent is in BORTAC, border patrol's elite special ops unit

www.instagram.com/reel/DQKCmZp...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the kind of sanctions avoidance Changpeng Zhao facilitated, from his sentencing memo.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Zhao also admits that between August 2017 and October 2022—according to the
company’s own data—“Binance caused . . . at least $890 million in transactions between
U.S. users and users Binance identified as Iranians,” plus “millions more in transactions
between U.S. users and users in other comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions, including
Cuba, Syria, and the Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk.” Id. ¶ 9.o. The
company “profited significantly from its violations of law,” including through the
“significant fees” it earned “on transactions between U.S. customers and customers in
comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions.” Id. ¶ 9.p. The hundreds of millions of dollars
involved in trades that violated U.S. sanctions, and the fees that Binance earned from
processing those trades, became proceeds of unlawful activity. Binance facilitated later
transfers of those proceeds, including when its customers withdrew their funds from the
exchange. Zhao knew about the users in comprehensively sanctioned areas, did not direct
Binance to implement controls that would have prevented Binance from matching U.S.
users with users subject to U.S. sanctions to conduct cryptocurrency transactions, and those
transactions were a clear and foreseeable result of Zhao’s decision to prioritize profit and
growth over compliance with the BSA.

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration just declared that erecting a ballroom is the President’s main priority.

Meanwhile.

The cost of living is way too high and the Republican healthcare crisis threatens millions of Americans.

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Dave C- End the Trump government shutdown - Restore healthcare @davec3.bsky.social · 1d

@grahamformaine.bsky.social you lost me. Parts of your response are disingenuous, and certainly callous towards Jews and other victims of Nazi atrocities. Your response to the tattoo & reddit controversy shows a problematic lack of judgement. Please consider alternatives to US Senate candidacy