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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Aug 3

Paul Ingrassia has called for reparations from the descendants of slaves to slave owners.
You read that correctly.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8h

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 8h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 14h

I still do not understand why Dems have not made government funding contingent on firing RFK Jr.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

Nothing to worry about here, no sir.

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Rep. Janelle Bynum @bynum.house.gov · 13h

I was horrified and infuriated to learn that a constituent of mine was abducted by ICE agents, handcuffed, and thrown into a back of a van, all without reason.

Masked federal agents aren’t welcome in our state and they can’t keep kidnapping Americans.

My full statement ⬇️

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Kevin from the Armageddon @kmmickvega.bsky.social · 14h

This trajectory was quite a ride:

Graph of George W. Bush’s approval rating.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13h

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 14h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20h

Janitors and cafeteria workers _contracted_ by the federal gov’t will likely see no backpay at all.

“It’s so sad that they think they can play with ppl’s lives,” said Smithsonian Museum of American History cleaner Audrey Murray. “Stop this. Stop messing w/ppl. We have families who depend on us.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20h

WIC, which for decades has fed kids and new moms, could run out of funding within two weeks.

Furloughed federal workers are stressing about bills and seeing promised backpay threatened.

The regime’s mass deportation operation, however, continues on uninterrupted during the shutdown.

Priorities.

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 1d

"While new moms worry about formula for their infants and furloughed federal workers stress about next month’s rent or mortgage, the administration’s mass deportation obsession will continue uninterrupted," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

This says everything about this administration’s priorities.

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 19h

This is a military wife calling out Mike Johnson on C-SPAN this morning
Yesterday Johnson had the temerity to announce publicly that he will NOT call the House back to pass emergency pay for our troops
Can't imagine why he thought taking callers on C-SPAN would go well for him..

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Hey cool the NOAA guy who was found to have violated the agency's code of ethics for his role in Sharpiegate has been confirmed as the head of NOAA.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 1d

This is an excellent observation on how the fact that people still go to school, work, and play in similar ways obscures the nefarious changes taking place and makes those who are highlighting the danger seem like they're catastrophizing.

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

A children’s hospital was set to get a new backup power system. The Trump administration just canceled it during the shutdown, claiming that it was part of the “Green New Scam.”
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

How a Children’s Hospital Became Collateral Damage in the Government Shutdown

Last week’s Energy Department grant cancellations included funding for a backup energy system at Valley Children’s Hospital in Madera, California

heatmap.news

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

The Plot to Enslave America

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

For those of us in higher education this company has snaked its way into our institutions—and this is the kind of care and thought they put into the risks of their products.
Do you imagine our students are safe with these people?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

The most effective Democratic messenger of my lifetime is the guy who broke every single rule Democrats are currently trying to follow: Barack Hussein Obama, the guy with the weird name who talked like a professor, made sweeping appeals to higher principles, and never once appeared salt-of-the-earth

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 2d

This *will* happen and in most of our lifetimes. Pinochet was arrested. The Argentinian junta were tried and convicted. It should happen as soon as Dems retake power, it might take longer, but the ICE/MAGA trials are going to take place.

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s fast forward to when these ICE fuckers are all on trial for their crimes against humanity and the Constitution.

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