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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 21d

Someone running a little webshop or supplier of badges and challenge coins for ICE officers would be a decent way to snag some uhhh archival records for later

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 4h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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leesarenae.bsky.social @leesarenae.bsky.social · 6h

When the press stopped doing their job, duh.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 9h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 16h

How embarrassing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Dasha Burns to Trump after he dissed her and didn't know who she was: "Sir, talk to Karoline. She'll vouch for me."

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[email protected] @keepingtherepublic.bsky.social · 14h

Really astonishing that MSM continues to be unable to find a way to cover adequately the increasingly negative reactions of the *61+% of Americans who disapprove of this administration (they certainly had no problems doing this with Biden…)

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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Tom @thbransfield.bsky.social · 15h

It's like every time people protest systemic racism, conservatives scream they are protesting America. Which kinda gives the game away.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14h

This isn't new, by the way. Trump and his minions wanted an "antifa" Black Bloc to show up and fight with cops on Jan. 6, 2021. If that had happened, he would have then called out the National Guard to a) arrest leftists and b) shut down the Capitol and prevent the election from being certified

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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leesarenae.bsky.social @leesarenae.bsky.social · 22h

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h

Trump doesn’t like the photo lol

Trump: Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I was curious too. So, using The Free Press's journalistic standards, I Googled the phrase "we regret the error" and got back 5 results. 4 (including one by Reingold) are behind a wall. The one I could see is correcting when they called Scott Bessent "Steve."

Google search results for: "we regret the error" site:thefp.com

It shows five stories include that line.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of The Front Page identified the treasury secretary as Steve Bessent. He is, of course, Scott Bessent. We regret the error.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 2d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 2d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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leesarenae.bsky.social @leesarenae.bsky.social · 1d

Was at my sisters, in the boonies beyond Estacada and she pointed out where they protested last time. She remembered they actually have a blow-up costume (don't ask) and will be making signs this week. Old fucking people will be out in force! Gen z get off your ass!

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

politico’s owner must have put in a call to the editors over the weekend, because their top articles on shutdown are comically one-sided against dems after reporting over the weekend that house republicans are starting to crumble

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

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Extremely satisfying and fact-filled takedown.

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

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Zach Urness @oregonoutdoors.bsky.social · 1d

Happy first Cascade Mountain pass snow day to all who celebrate!

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 2d

Grateful for this Seattle Times article exposing, again, the conditions at the ICE detention center in Tacoma. The infrastructure for the current lawlessness has been active for a long time.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Look inside Tacoma’s ICE detention center, where you could be kept for days or years

Conditions inside Tacoma's Northwest ICE Processing Center have been a mystery for many. In new interviews, people formerly held there reveal what life is like.

www.seattletimes.com

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 2d

We’re back tonight at 11pm on HBO Max/11:10pm on HBO! And we’re off next week! So yes, John will spend his usual 14 days at the desk by himself, missing the studio audience. And the at-home audience! But the studio audience provides him with “human contact” or whatever he’s always begging for. Diva.

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 2d

“The first thing that happened when the regime fell is that the mobile phones started working again!”

For the first time in a long time, Syria’s tech scene is feeling optimistic. Our deep dive: https://restofworld.org/2025/syria-tech-industry/

Syria’s quest to build its own Silicon Valley

Tech founders in Damascus are rebooting a war-torn country.

restofworld.org

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leesarenae.bsky.social @leesarenae.bsky.social · 2d

We are expected to take the journalists word that this guy has not been posting CRAP on Facebook until Charlie Kirk? This is exactly why this celebrated journalist/bothsides NYT is useless.

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leesarenae.bsky.social @leesarenae.bsky.social · 2d

How old do you think this conservative Christian vigilante is? Let's say 50. It isn't until the last paragraph we find out he, "Ever since he was president of the young conservatives at the University of Texas."

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