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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 7h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 9h

“In a time of darkness, New York must be the light.” 😭

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16h

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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

Next Saturday is #NoKings Day.

Stand up for democracy before it's too late.

Find a protest near you at nokings.org.

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 9h

Oh good here comes Ebola

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10h

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 10h

Something something Hunter Biden something

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 10h

“You might think of the dynamic here as something like rock-paper-scissors (or, if you’re a dork, like the sword-axe-lance triangle of the Fire Emblem series).”

Insanely brilliant analysis here.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 12h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 14h

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16h

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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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 13h

(if you'll excuse me.)

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, because that's how epidemics work. (Assholes.)

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 14h

But why the CDC? I hate to sound like a naif but -- they get sick, too! Vought's daughter had MS! Is it to disable the population?

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 14h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Riverhead, NY” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Riverhead, NY · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

www.mobilize.us

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 15h

“For now, his administration can withhold some forms of congressionally appropriated funds, send undocumented immigrants to dangerous places such as South Sudan and use race as a criterion in making immigration stops, all because of emergency orders.”

Sounds bad when you put it like that.

Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 15h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In interviews, federal judges called the Supreme Court’s emergency orders “mystical,” “overly blunt,” “incredibly demoralizing and troubling” and “a slap in the face to the district courts.” One judge compared their district’s current relationship with the Supreme Court to “a war zone.” Another said the courts were in the midst of a “judicial crisis.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 1d

Literally sickening.

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Janet Novack @janetnovack.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's conflicts of interest get more staggering by the day. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Donald Trump Is Now One Of The World's Biggest Bitcoin Investors

Trump's crypto portfolio goes beyond World Liberty Financial and his memecoin—he’s also big into bitcoin. Will he use his presidency to boost its price to new heights?

www.forbes.com

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

"Career prosecutors determined that there was no evidence to support these charges. They were pushed out and replaced with individuals whose only qualification is their loyalty to a single man, not to the Constitution or the law. That is corruption. That is abuse of power...we must all speak out."

Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 1d

INBOX: National Bar Association President Ashley L. Upkins calls the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James “unjust and dangerous” and a representation of "the continued weaponization of our nation’s justice system for political gain."

Full statement below:

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

Fearless journalists & vigilant residents are telling Chicago's story. The shocking images show ICE agents out of control, people in danger AND people standing strong. Don't look away from this unprecedented abuse of federal power. My latest:

jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/fearless-j...

photos taken in Chicago over the past few weeks showing ICE agents, and Chicagoans reacting including a man with a flag walking through tear gas clouds, a pastor being sprayed with tear gas, an ice agent pointing a gun out a window, a bike messenger being chased by ICE

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 1d

Alito reading this after he’d already written his own opinion

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

CNN does a segment on Trump's health issues, including photos of his drooping face and discolored hand

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Flipboard @flipboard.com · 1d

A must-read post by @edeggans.bsky.social on finding news outlets to trust, and keeping them accountable. "The audience has never had more power over the media industry than it has right now," he writes.

Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 1d

After trading messages with so many readers asking this question, I pulled together a post on how to find trustworthy news sources. The bad news: It means a LOT more work for consumers. READ: https://loom.ly/lG92xgs

How to find trustworthy news reporting in these times?

I don't have the perfect answer. But here's a few ideas.

open.substack.com

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 1d

LIARS.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”