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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

Oblig.

Journalism 101: "If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true."

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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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davidbowman17.bsky.social @davidbowman17.bsky.social · 1d

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montygibbon.bsky.social @montygibbon.bsky.social · 2d

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
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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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I’m still going to make a comment about how you voted against impeachment.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

I will be speaking at the Long Beach event on the 18th (at Bixby Park) and I highly encourage everyone who can attend a No Kings protest to go.

These fascists can call us terrorists, but we can show them we’re actually the beating heart and soul of American democracy.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 2d

From Harvard & UConn researchers on the June 14th No Kings Day protests. (report came out in August)

THIS is why MAGA is so spooked by the upcoming (Oct 18th) peaceful protests.

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history

The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 3d

“They will be held accountable.” is what I want to hear. More of this please. @repdelbene.bsky.social

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 3d

I beg you to continue saying the word “corruption”.

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 3d

The corruption on display here is clear as day. But we can't simply be quiet.

We all have to speak out against the weaponization of our Justice Department.

We need a DOJ that works for the people, not one that is focused on political retribution for Donald Trump.

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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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 3d

😂😂😂😂👇🏼😂😂😂😂😂

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 4d

Phil Ochs is very good

youtu.be/gApvH1WDr_g?...

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 4d

‘Nuremberg’ Trailer: Göring & Other Surviving Nazi Leaders Face International Judgment. "It happened here because people allowed it to happen here." deadline.com/2025/10/nure...

‘Nuremberg’ Trailer: Göring & Other Surviving Nazi Leaders Face International Judgment

First trailer for 'Nuremberg' starring Russell Crowe and Hermann Göring, Michael Shannon as his prosecutor and Rami Malek as the psychiatrist who analyzes him.

deadline.com

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 4d

There's no such thing as a democracy Roomba. We're going to have to clean all this shit up ourselves. Find an event at the link, and come join millions of your neighbors on October 18 for No Kings Day. 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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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

Today seems like a great day to re-up my slides from 2017 about the Nazi takeover of German physics, in part because in my estimation, a lot of American physicists in 2025 are confused about whether "agreeing to work with them" is resistance (it's not) and whether it works (it doesn't) 🧪⚛️

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 31

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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