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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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kitconway.bsky.social @kitconway.bsky.social · 11h

Their brains are all very broken.

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kitconway.bsky.social @kitconway.bsky.social · 11h

Remind me why everyone’s acting like this is ok?

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 11h

Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 11h

Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23h

Quite a difference from the online hed

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland

President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22h

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Ben Christopher @frombenc.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom signed SB79.

calmatters.org/housing/2025...

Newsom signs massive California housing overhaul

After weeks of waiting, California’s governor signed a bill that will allow mid-rise apartment buildings near major transit stops in California’s biggest metro areas.

calmatters.org

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Adam Smith @asmith83.bsky.social · 1d

This summer, millions of Americans peacefully protested around the country to say America doesn't have kings. They'll do so again next weekend. More here: www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 2d

If only we had news media relentlessly devoted to aggressive nonstop coverage of supposed Presidential cognitive decline.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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kitconway.bsky.social @kitconway.bsky.social · 2d

But David that sounds like WORK

kitconway.bsky.social @kitconway.bsky.social · 2d

He killed people in fishing boats.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 2d

👀"Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” - GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt, the current chairman of the National Governors Association.

Maybe @governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov's notices to the NGA are having impact?

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 3d

"expert on *ANTI-FASCISM*" say it! say the whole word, without exception, motherfuckers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 3d

Holding aside everything—everything—else, the President conducting very sensitive conversations with his Attorney General on an unencrypted social media platform would have been a major scandal any time before 2016. Is he DMing the CIA Director on there? The Secretary of Defense? We don’t know.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

I guess I should also add that a key difference between the Trump investigation and the Comey indictment is that *Trump did something obviously and significantly wrong*. Like, if you can't grok that distinction as important, I don't know what to say.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3d

Someone remind me: is printing just out and out false propaganda in the newspaper about "personal liberties" or "free markets"?

Someone want to ask Jeff Bezos that for me? Thanks.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

"The greatest weapon that the forces of regime change possess is the fear of inevitability. If everyone believes that Mr. Trump will succeed in reshaping America, he will." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

www.nytimes.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

i do think it’s telling that this large chunks of this admin exist solely to create content for a social media app that doesn’t even clock into the top five most used

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4d

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 3d

Play Trump saying "We Took Freedom Of Speech Away" on loop forever and ever and ever in every fucking corner of the country.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 3d

The walk back, it is real

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "Federal workers, it's my understanding that the law is that they would be paid. There is some other legal analysis floating around. I haven't yet had time to dig in and read that."

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