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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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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 4d

...and even worse up in Wisconsin that day. www.jsonline.com/picture-gall...

Photos from 1871 Peshtigo fire in Wisconsin, the deadliest on record in United States

The Peshtigo fire of 1871 claimed between 1,500 and 2,000 lives.

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 5d

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@apnews.com Amazing, that the state, its military, and "Western" allies that have carried out this extermination campaign against a defenseless population suddenly just becomes an amorphous "2 years of war." You know exactly what you are doing and it's disgusting.

These numbers show how 2 years of war have devastated Palestinian lives in Gaza

Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip. But they can help us understand how thoroughly the conflict has upended the lives of 2.1 million Palestinians li...

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 5d

You just can't call it a genocide, can you? Not surprising coming from the news organization that fought tooth and nail to not call torture "torture" during the Bush torture rampage.

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 6d

I don't know how you managed to include so much emotional weight with such a light touch. So good!

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats, @cbsnews.com
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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 6d

Really grateful to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving this poem a place in their journal today.

Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 6d

“Halfway there, curtains / of sudden rain came down.”

"Delivered" by Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social

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Delivered

by Matthew Murrey

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 6d

I thought it was a pizza chain.

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 6d

Gosh, those two are strangely perfect together. Super!

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 6d

Depends who you mean by "we." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
And "they" - the criminals in the masks, and especially the leaders organizing, funding, & directing them have learned and adopted the lessons of Anne Frank's enemies very well.

Standing up to ICE in the suburbs, the People’s Patrol puts its faith in resistance

Cristóbal Cavazos leads a rapid-response effort to document ICE activity. Meet the man confronting Trump’s deportation blitz.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 6d

I'd suggest that they are not "bending the knee" but are enthusiastically pitching in. Roberts gladly destroyed the Voting Rights Act. Alito & Thomas have been sleazy fascists from day one. Gorsuch has a stolen seat. Kavanaugh is a raging, rapey corporatist. And Barretts a handmaid cultist.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: It’s official. David Ellison announces that Bari Weiss, founder of pro-Israel outlet “The Free Press,” is now Editor in Chief of CBS News, per internal memo shared with me:

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

open.substack.com

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 7d

I guess Hegseth just can't get over that bearded general who defeated the side that is so beloved by him and MAGA.

www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

www.americanhistorycentral.com/general-ulys...

General Ulysses S. Grant, United States (CSA), Civil War

General Ulysses S. Grant. Image Source: Wikipedia. General Ulysses S. Grant is widely credited for leading the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War. Although he was accused of poor conduct ...

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 7d

apnews.com/article/supr...
Hi @apnews.com , fixed it for you. #scotus #media

AP headline story (see link) screenshot showing photo of the Supreme Court where the original headline - "New Supreme Court term confronts justices with Trump's aggressive assertion of presidential power" has been partially crossed out and text added above so that it now reads, "New Supreme Court term gives fascist justices an opportunity to further Trump's aggressive assertion of presidential power"

Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 11d

Getting hard to tell them apart--a kind of Fujiwhara effect of Zionism and fascism. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ADL disinformation specialist and radical pro-Zionist, Jonathan Greenblatt on the upper left. Racist Trump Deputy Chief of Staff and fascist, Stephen Miller on the upper right. At bottom image of Hurricane Imelda and Hurricane Humberto moving around and merging with each other in what is known as the Fujiwhara Effect.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 11d

As the sun sets for Yom Kippur I am thinking of my friend Zukiswa Wanner, a celebrated writer who left her home in South Africa to join the Gaza Sumud Flotilla

I am thinking of all her comrades, who came from all over the world to defend life, that which is most sacred

Godspeed to all of you

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 12d

He's a good one!

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 12d

@dtvpac.bsky.social It really is disgraceful that you would endorse my representative, Nikki Budzinski, when she refuses to hold town halls, voted to honor Charlie Kirk (anti-democracy activist), voted against immigrants and strongly supports the genocide in Gaza. wedefendthevote.org/endorsement/...

Nikki Budzinski - Defend The Vote

I am honored to again earn the endorsement and support of Defend the Vote. Defend the Vote is an invaluable partner in our efforts to protect American freedom, the right to vote, and our democracy.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13d

I want to make a joke about one of her points of evidence of violent revolution is fact that protesters brought snacks, but, also, this news isn’t very funny. Step by fucking step fascism walks toward a whole level of bad from even the stink we’re living in now.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 13d

“…arrest every person suspected of threatening or assaulting a federal law enforcement officer…”
New memo drop from AG Bondi

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 13d

Journalist and co-founder of Unraveled Press Raven Geary was one of several members of the press shot with crowd-control munitions while reporting outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday:

pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...

Quote card from journalist Raven Geary that reads:

“To me it felt like a direct attack on reporters.”

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 13d

What's your sign?

Photo of a yard sign which reads, "Private Sign. Do not read."

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 14d

Our greatest strength against authoritarianism is the American multifaith multiracial majority.

Trump knows this, which is why he acts to wedge us against another.

Zohran Mamdani proved he and New Yorkers know this too, which is why we are going to win and show every city how to.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15d

I am deeply honored to receive the endorsement of @bendthearc.bsky.social, , their first ever in a mayoral election.

“We are really very excited about Zohran and his platform not in spite of our commitment to Jewish values but because of them.”

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 16d

New year ✨

New mayor ✨

We, the nation’s largest domestic focused progressive Jewish advocacy organization, announce our first ever mayoral endorsement today:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for New York City Mayor.

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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 13d

Tony Blair edged out the competition for who the "West" wants to put in charge of Gaza after its annihilation is complete. Sources noted that it came down to who had the greater appetite for blood, stating, "There was no competition there." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Black and white photo montage showing Tony Blair on the Left and Count Orlok from Nosferatu (1922) on the right.

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