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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 2h

"You won’t be surprised to learn that passive news consumers also tend to be more passive citizens. Active news consumers were more than twice as likely to be 'very engaged' with politics than passive news consumers." www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

The big divide in American news consumption is less about “left vs. right” than “active vs. passive”

It's an idea I first remember encountering in a 2008 Brian Stelter story in The New York Times. An unnamed college student, asked in a focus group to describe their information consumption habits,…

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 2h

“An attack on anyone’s fundamental rights is an attack on all of us.”

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

The brutality. The corruption. The lies. Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a01JFFB_aE4

What Trump’s Tyranny Is Revealing to America

Robert Reich

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1h

Reading this shows once again that we've been fooling ourselves if we thought we had a real rule of law. Everything depended on leaders having a sense of shame (or at least fear of the voters passing judgement) and at least some responsibility to the country. But the power has been there all along.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10h

The OLC memo on the use of lethal force against supposed drug runners in the Caribbean is a bit of a reprise: this is the Torture Memos, Round II. And the purpose is to shield malefactors from domestic US legal accountability. Jack Goldsmith explains how this works.

The Venezuela Boat Strikes and the Justice Department’s Golden Shield

How the Office of Legal Counsel Helps the White House in its Summary Killings

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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 1h

“Y’all the punks, y’all the cowards.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates calls them out, speaks the indisputable truth.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3h

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 1h

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BREAKING: Canada's Approval Rating in America is 60 Points higher than Trump's. 60.

If you wanted to design a culture‑war villain who would alienate the middle of the American electorate, you wouldn’t pick “Canada.”

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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 1h

“Congressional Democrats and anti-hunger groups have urged the #Trump administration to keep #SNAP benefits flowing into November, some even arguing that the federal government is legally required to tap other funds to pay for the program.”
#GOPShutdown

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We're not crying for you, we're giving the money to Argentina - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The president is getting a tacky new ballroom, the inept Argentinian leadership gets a blank check, and if you need help to feed your family you’re out of luck: The Trump administration won’t tap emer...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

you will note that the latest report, like all the reports, spend no time dealing with with the media environment or attention economy. (it also weirdly treats political choices as untethered from events)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

Corporate profits have hit record highs.

CEOs are paid 280x as much as a typical worker.

We're subsidizing corporations that pay lousy wages by funding food stamps with our taxpayer dollars.

Yet too many focus their ire on the working poor who need help instead of targeting corporate greed.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11h

SNAP exists because politicians take campaign contributions from large corporations in exchange for letting those corporations pay a poverty wage so low that it must be subsidized with taxpayer money, paid by middle class workers barely getting by—all so 700 billionaires can have a few extra billion

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2d

This isn't national leadership. This is a tantrum of wounded and bitter men. Its simply division, cynicism and a civil war in slow motion. This administration is willfully and with every action destroying a union of states that is our republic.

Late555 @late555.bsky.social · 3d

I'm starting to think maybe we shouldn't have voted this guy in as President of Earth

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2d

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: In about three weeks, we'll reach the 65th anniversary of the recording of this song—country singer Patsy Cline's hit "I Fall to Pieces." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEcZ...

Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces (Audio) ft. The Jordanaires

YouTube video by PatsyClineVEVO

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2d

NEW: Don Trump Jr.--after helping pick top Pentagon officials to join his dad's administration--has now become an investor and advisor to Pentagon drone builders. This as President Trump orders Pentagon to buy more drones. A NYT investigation of this latest conflict.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Trump’s Son Is Poised to Profit From Pentagon Drone Proposal

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2d

Free link

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 2d

It’s cool, and justified, to criticize the media, but let’s be clear about what the problem is. #authoritarianism

Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 2d

If a democratic Speaker had refused to call the House into session for OVER A MONTH there would be wall to wall coverage on all networks.

What the fuck is wrong with our media

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

The "theory" is "I've got big guns and the Supreme Court said I'm immune from any criminal prosecution, and Congress lets me get away with everything, so I'm gonna murder brown people with big explosions and tell the public I'm saving them from drugs."

Saved you a click.

Politico Magazine: "The Theory Behind Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy"

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

It’s still hard to grasp that there aren’t 4 GOP Reps (who will otherwise be forgotten forever after retiring & likely defeated next year anyway) aren’t interested in going down in history as all-time 🇺🇸 heroes by caucusing with the Dems & giving them the majority to impeach Trump & save the Republic

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson has dissolved Congress. Why?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, it would take 20 GOP Senators to impeach. But most of the worst things could be fixed via normal legislation, & all that would take is 4 GOP Reps & 4 GOP Senators (looking at you Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, Curtis, & Young) caucusing with Dems to make that happen. Profiles in Cowardice.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 2d

Ah.

“Mellon, the 77-year-old … who poured $30 million into 3 GOP super PACs in 5 months, wrote that black people were ‘even more belligerent’ after the expansion of social programs in the 1960s and 1970s and that Americans who rely on government assistance were ‘slaves of a new Master, Uncle Sam.’”

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

Whoaaaaa

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 3d

Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy:

"Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."

Top Democrats demand details of spy agencies’ role in boat strikes

Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.

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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 2d

“In all of these instances, Trump should’ve been able to respond to the questions with substantive responses.
But he didn’t. Instead, the Republican effectively said, over and over again, 'Don’t look at me, I just work here'.”👇🏼

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President Bystander stumped when asked about pardon he signed hours earlier

On Thursday morning, Trump signed one of his most scandalous pardons to date. On Thursday afternoon, he couldn’t explain his actions from hours earlier.

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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 2d

“FROM THEIR DISPARATE POINTS on the financial and geographic spectrum, Disney and Bartman see economic and moral failures they both attribute to Trump and his circle.”👇🏼

Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 4d

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The Disney Heiress, the Soybean Farmer, and Trump’s Dangerous Decisions

Two views of how the president’s senseless economic and moral acts put the country at risk.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

This headline requires more details than this. It’s a grossly political action by a Republican president against democratic voters. Don’t pretend it’s somehow normal. Good grief.

Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2d

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

Wow she sucks

Brahm Resnik @brahmresnik.bsky.social · 3d

Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.

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