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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 36m

So. Much. Meritocracy!

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1h

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 38m

The chief news editor of the @nytimes.com

a man in a green shirt sits with his hands on his head in a bowling alley

Alt: The Dude says “yeah, well you know that’s just like your opinion man”

media.tenor.com

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 41m

Does 2 + 2 =4 or does it equal 5? At the @nytimes.com it depends on the narrator

spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7h

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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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 43m

Really just cruel to expect the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social to try to keep up with that

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 43m

Adolf Hitler: Genocidal maniac or frustrated artist? In Germany, depends on the narrative.

- The @nytimes.com c. 1941

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7h

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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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 45m

Because they are

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5h

It looks as if they are trying to kill us

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 48m

“At Rome, however, consuls, senators, & knights were rushing into slavery. The more exalted the personage, the grosser his hypocrisy & his haste.”

- Tacitus, Annals, Book I, chap. 6

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 18h

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

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

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 1h

Seriously folks, there’s a lot more where this came from

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9h

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE DESPERATELY RUNNING 26 MILES, 385 YARDS TO ESCAPE A WAR ZONE

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5d

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 2h

#KavanaughStop

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4h

Antifa is really out of control now

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9h

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4h

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4h

The @nytimes.com both-sides topics the way most of us breathe

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

NYT piece calls these MAGA types "provocateurs." It describes "dueling versions of reality." Both are common MSM tropes.

But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5h

The Roberts court needs to impeached for how it has severely undermined the national judiciary and the rule of law just to gain personal benefit for itself

Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 6h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 10h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 5h

I’m not sure that the people who spent 2024 telling us that Biden was the senile one, that Trump had no idea what Project 2025 was, & that Harris was exaggerating by calling him a fascist who would use the army against civilians are up to the task

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

These federal firings have nothing whatsoever to do with the government shutdown, and if that is not the lede of every report discussing them, and if you are the author of any such report, quit your job and learn to surf or something instead

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 15h

Sheer genius

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 16h

“Family values”

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 21h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 16h

New type of Kavanaugh stop just dropped

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 16h

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 18h

So basically he has less than 6 months to live…

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 18h

President Donald Trump's newly released physical results from the White House sing the praises of his health and physical fitness, and claim that he, in fact, has the heart of a man in his mid-60s, rather than late 70s.