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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 3d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 6d

He just said it. 100% unironically and unmistakably.

“We took the freedom of speech away.”

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JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 11d

Fuck Trump. Fuck ICE

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JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 15d

Literally everything has been taken over. The fascists have won in the US

The Verge @theverge.com · 15d

YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5 million settlement

YouTube follows Meta and X in settling with the president.

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JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 17d

Although true, we need to stop the whataboutism with this stuff and instead rattle off the list of fascist things they do and ask what else would you call it

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17d

While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17d

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?

A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 17d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

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JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 18d

Pretty sure one of the guys on my team is batting 1.000 on sick days landing on a Friday

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18d

We're living through a constitutional revolution, a legalistic autocoup, that's remade the American federal government into a dictatorship.

You may be tempted to call it an elected dictatorship except that US presidential elections cannot authorize dictators, only constitutionally limited leaders.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18d

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers

The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.

slate.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22d

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 24d

Another taken over by the fascist overlords

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d

Leavitt on the TikTok deal: "There will be seven seats on the board that controls the app in the US and six of those seats will be Americans. The data and privacy will be led by one of America's greatest tech companies, Oracle, and the algorithm will also be controlled by America as well."

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JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 24d

Irony

Screenshot of article headline reading: ‘Jesus Take the Wheel’ songwriter Brett James dies in US plane crash

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JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 26d

Fucking cowards.

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 26d

National day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk motion passed the Senate by unanimous consent.

Zero Democrats objected, which would have stopped it.
Tommy Tuberville is presiding — and smirking.

www.c-span.org/networks/?ch...

C-SPAN 2 Live Stream | C-SPAN.org | C-SPAN.org

www.c-span.org

JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 26d

The GOP… so pro life they work hard to close Labor and Delivery units at hospitals

Rural Georgia hospital to close L&D unit, partly because of Medicaid cuts • Georgia Recorder

The closure of St. Mary’s labor and delivery unit in Lavonia is one of the first Georgia-based casualties of the federal budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the “big beautiful bill.”

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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 27d

#BREAKING: Sinclair says it will air a one-hour tribute to Charlie Kirk on its ABC-affiliated stations in the time slot that is usually occupied for "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The special will air on Friday, per a Sinclair spokesperson.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27d

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump
•CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller
•MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions”

•FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 27d

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Nexstar’s takeover of Tegna would require an overhaul of FCC ownership rules - Poynter

The proposed sale would exceed the FCC’s 39% cap, igniting debate among broadcasters, unions and press groups

www.poynter.org

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 27d

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 27d

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Literally.

JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 27d

Can you please link to the pre-election report?

JRinATL @jrinatl.bsky.social · 27d

In additional to FCC intimidating ABC into pulling Kimmel, Nexstar the largest station ownership in the country told ABC they wouldn’t be broadcasting Kimmel over his Kirk comments

Here’s the founder/CEO of Nexstar:

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27d

“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.”

—Ezra Klein

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 27d

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

www.nytimes.com

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