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Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Nov 10

Hello new followers and fellow Twitter refugees. I’m a journalist & author; an international and disaster correspondent turned analyst of U.S. empire and America’s fascist turn. I’m going to keep fighting from here.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

drake, amazingly, still finding brand new ways to lose to kendrick lamar

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 21h

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 21h

Does seem sloppy

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 21h

Wtf

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22h

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 22h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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

We never incited violence, we just called this guy a member of antifa who funded terrorism and told our followers to pay him a visit ha ha and then a totally unrelated group of people threatened to murder him in front of his students ha ha

"The petition to disband our Turning Point chapter is blatantly defamatory," Ava Kwan, outreach coordinator for the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"The accusations of 'inciting violence' and 'making threats' are complete lies," Kwan said. "The same people claiming we're suppressing their free speech are actively trying to silence us for speaking the truth. It's not just ironic, it's hypocritical and absurd."

tpusa_rutgers Do you want to become a socialist? If so, make sure to pay this professor a visit!!!! All jokes aside help us report this professor who has ties to Antifa which now is designated as a domestic terrorist organization. DO YOUR PART AND HELP MAKE RUTGERS A PLACE FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN WITHOUT BECOMING A RADICAL SOCIALIST

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

So now Bibi has agreed to a consequence-free (for him) timeout on terms acceptable to what’s left of Hamas. Will getting the last two dozen hostages back end things, or just open the ground for the completion of the total seizure of Gaza in the short term? We’ll see!

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Israel could have done literally anything, much of it with the support of the world, after Oct. 7. They chose genocide. The Biden and Trump admins chose to support them in that endeavor, until Bibi went completely ape-shit and bombed the negotiators in Doha, personally offending DT for some reason.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Even a pause in the killing and displacement would be good and I share the cautious optimism that this could end this phase of the catastrophe. But it is wild that people are treating this as if it’s the negotiated end of the Russo-Japanese War, or even Camp David 1978.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

5/3/21: AP hires Emily Wilder.

5/15/21: Israel bombs AP's offices in Gaza.

5/22/21: Emily Wilder posts this stmt about AP firing her bc she became the target of a harassment campaign painting her as antisemite etc for essentially daring to criticize Israel in college & see Palestinians as people.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump, who has put in zero effort and done it through hacks, can get here simply by yelling and being impatient, it's yet another reminder that Biden's steadfast support for the first 16 months of killing was a choice he made to disastrous consequences abroad and at home.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

The Times out of the gate with the fantasy take this morning.

David E. Sanger
David E. Sanger has covered five American presidents and frequently writes about superpower conflict, the subject of his latest book.
Published Oct. 8, 2025 Updated Oct. 9, 2025, 1:33 a.m. ET
President Trump is at the brink of the biggest diplomatic accomplishment of his second term — a cessation of the brutal war between Israel and Hamas - and on Wednesday evening he made clear he was eager to fly to the Middle East to preside over a cease-fire and welcome hostages who have spent two long years in underground captivity.
For Mr. Trump, success in this venture is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker - and a pathway to the Nobel Peace Prize he has so openly coveted. By chance, the winner for 2025 is scheduled to be announced just hours before he may be departing to take his victory lap in Egypt and Israel.
Much could go wrong in coming days, and in the Middle East it often does. The "peace" deal Mr. Trump heralded on Truth Social on Wednesday evening may look more

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

With respect to the J6 case too, the prosecution went to considerable effort to disentangle Trump's acts *as candidate* vs his acts *as president* along the same lines

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 1d

The only people whose opinion matters on this peace deal are the people of Gaza, many of whom are cautiously optimistic. It is hard to be genuinely hopeful as a Palestinian, but I pray that the ceasefire holds and that Israel does not renege on the agreement.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Keep looking

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

You think that’s an accurate description of Larry and David Ellison’s ideology?

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Are you doubting the news or just pre-defending Israel breaking the ceasefire

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Good is assuming a string of future events not yet in evidence

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Time to reverse engineer some news Michelle

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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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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 1d

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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