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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, Jenkins, she is the veritable Lance Armstrong of journalistic integrity. Great analysis.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 5h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.blacksky.app · 9m

🎶Blame it on the stars, that didn’t shine that night🎵

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

Both the folks who want Obama to rush in and deliver some grand speech that they imagine will fix everything, and those who say he isn't actually doing anything in this moment tend to ignore these substantive conversations with real experts who talk about what has driven progress against fascism.

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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.blacksky.app · 24m

The way (some) people reacted to Michael Vick getting a head coaching job at the college level—years after serving prison time and losing prime years of his NFL career for dogfighting—ICE and CBP murdering people’s pets should have consequences.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 1h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 4h

This is good but it can’t stop at a Senate committee. There need to be trials for all the people who participated in this horrific racist crime spree.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4h

Muslims are the greatest danger to our nation. Here’s why I invited Qatar to build a military base on US soil.

by Pete Hegseth

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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.blacksky.app · 3h

“The Lance Armstrong of journalistic integrity” is a sick burn 🔥🔥🔥

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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 3h

It's no longer called boxed wine; the classy term is Cardboardeaux.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 6h

So the idea that this guy has never tried to punish people who don’t conform to his religious ideas of what’s acceptable is contradicted by his history. And a campaign of harassment against a person who wrote something on their private social media page that he found rude is not a both sides story

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 6h

If you’re going to another country and telling people they’re going to suffer eternal damnation if they don’t adopt your beliefs and norms, that is not charity, no matter how you justify it with your religion

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3h

(I went back a few days later with a bunch of new socks I bought to pass out and pay it forward, and a decent number of nice people tried to pay me...)

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3h

the only pair of white tube socks I own were a gift, passed out to a bunch of us staying overnight at Zuccotti Park, unprepared in a downpour, ahead of a promised raid

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 4h

Some of the hate directed at light hearted protest is confusion. The US mind doesn’t know what to do w activity which isn’t for profit-commerce. Can’t compute how someone’s radical act of care in the face evil may be sharing coffee w others fighting the good fight (like church or AA coffee hr)

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 4h

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Kamala Harris: "The Supreme Court made the decision that the president would be immune from any of his conduct while in office. So we went into the election with this individual, Donald Trump, knowing that he would essentially be immune from any consequence for misbehavior while in office."

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5h

"The Torah’s most repeated command is to love the stranger because we were strangers."

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl shares her experience on the phone with the gunman of the 2022 Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis in an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir.

‘I Love Death More Than You Love Life’

The terrorist at the synagogue

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 7h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

Manchin and Manchin-enablers really tripped up Dems political hopes and its wild everyone blames “the groups”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

“Conditions started to deteriorate in 2024 after pandemic-era subsidies expired. Hiring slowed, and high prices weighed heavily on low-income earners. Black households were the only racial group last year in which median income fell and the poverty rate rose, according to the Census Bureau.”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

“The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6 to 7.5 percent, while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7 percent. On top of a slowing economy, the White House’s actions have disproportionately harmed Black workers, economists said.”

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 1d

I low-key feel like a lot of folks fell for the "The economy is bad under Biden" argument when it was just businesses going out of their ways to lay people off and raise prices because they wanted Trump back in power.

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Jer @jer-am-i.bsky.social · 5h

"I would rather live in peace than rest in peace."
-Chuck D

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 5h

I post this article too much,,,
But we have mass shooting too much

www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion

The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism

www.newsweek.com

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Pumpkin Spicee @blkginger.bsky.social · 5h

Held a man who was out for a run at gunpoint. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Fetterman's past gun incident rattles Black Democrats in Pa. Senate race

The incident took center stage in the race last week when John Fetterman’s two Democratic opponents excoriated him over his actions in 2013 and for his refusal to apologize.

www.nbcnews.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 5h

👀 they are really struggling with that $50,000 question.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5h

The Nobel Peace Prize committee says they've awarded this year's honor to María Machado of Venezuela. But an AI video posted on the MAGA MOMS 4 LIBERTY Facebook page clearly shows that the prize was awarded to Donald Trump. For busy MAGA moms for liberty, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 5h

Happy 40th Anniversary to this 🔥🔥🔥

Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · Jul 20

🗣You give me the sweetest taboo....

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5h

I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if Democrats cannot stop him from taking away my healthcare subsidies, I will have no choice but to continue voting for him and/or his anointed offspring in all future elections.

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