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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Authoritarian, trollish, smug: it's the perfect memorial.

Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 1d

Bill filed in #Florida Legislature would make every single college & university name one street after Charlie Kirk. And the bill even specifies WHICH street at each one. (But the governor doesn't want streets used for political messages, which is why no rainbows!) www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Bill would make Florida colleges, universities name streets after Charlie Kirk

A new bill would make all of Florida's public state universities and colleges rename one roadway on their campuses after Charlie Kirk.

www.tallahassee.com

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Gabi 雪 @gabimccauley.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile, Lauren Boebert is asking the *really* tough questions...

"At a congressional hearing on UAPs on 13 November 2024, Boebert asked if there was evidence aliens had ever erected a secret underwater base on earth."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Lauren Boebert vows to pursue ‘truth about UFOs’ as she bids for re-election

Colorado Republican congresswoman kicks off fourth term run with email to potential donors: ‘They tell us we’re crazy’

www.theguardian.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2h

One of the things that's terrifying about what's happening now is the number of Republicans who won't stand up to Trump because they're cowards who are terrified of backlash. MGT strikes me as just unhinged enough to not be sensitive to that, which turns out to be a liability for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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NPR @npr.org · 3h

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them. n.pr/48ihZvq

Need a laptop? This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

I should have paid better attention in CCD

Page Six @pagesix.com · 12h

Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel to star new Jesus, cast

Gibson's long-gestating sequel will start shooting in Rome, but with a completely new cast, an insider told Page Six.

pagesix.com

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AblativMeatshld @ablativmeatshld.bsky.social · 3h

Ok, this is a plan I can get behind.

But the person burning it has to be, like, ICE or something.

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AblativMeatshld @ablativmeatshld.bsky.social · 3h

Did you eat paint chips as a child?

AblativMeatshld @ablativmeatshld.bsky.social · 3h

Why I'm not allowed in politics.

Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 20h

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AblativMeatshld @ablativmeatshld.bsky.social · 3h

That's what I'm saying!

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Jul 25

Few “don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone” examples as potent as an independent DOJ

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 18h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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AblativMeatshld @ablativmeatshld.bsky.social · 6h

And many are refusing to learn it.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 17h

Netanyahu is very happy to make Trump look stupid

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 18h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 17h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 18h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

Jack Posobiec is criticizing Weimar Republic Germany the right way.

--Ezra Klein

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 20h

The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Read this thread for a frankly breathtaking example of the utter garbage you get when Techbrahs try their hand at law.

Although if you say "I have an issue that's important to me, huh, I guess I will try Vibe Lawyering," I am basically ok with whatever happens to you.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 21h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 20h

One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 22h

Ellis rules that the plaintiffs have standing for their case. She cites the "ongoing and sustained record of conduct" by federal agents gathered over the last month.

She further finds the plaintiffs have plausibly shown feds have "frustrated" efforts to "protect journalist safety."

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