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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 3h

"One particularly gruesome video shows a group of masked fighters, some of whom are wearing green Hamas headbands, killing 8 blindfolded people in a square in Gaza City while large crowds are watching"
www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/m...

Masked fighters seen executing men in Gaza City as Hamas fights with rival groups | CNN

Violent clashes have erupted between Hamas and rival groups in several areas across Gaza, including an incident that culminated in an apparent public execution, as worries grow about the security situ...

www.cnn.com

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 3h

holy holy crap: EXPOSED
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8h

Thoughts/prayers to the TIME photo editor today.

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 1d

And he quoted Hannah Arendt’s warning that “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 1d

He urged: “be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth.”

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 1d

From Bulwark, quoting one voice rising above all else: Just this past Thursday, Pope Leo asked journalists to “act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing.”

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance has no idea what he's talking about. He just spews non-truths. One atop another.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

This is the definition of an ad hominem argument.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 6d

The two most urgent questions in our politics: Will the administration succeed in picking off enough of the opposition such that resistance seems useless? Or will civil society hold firm against a regime that wants to center all power on itself? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 14d

I’m running out of f bombs…

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 14d

Pfizer "secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals" and in return will "sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx"

looks like state capitalism to me

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pfizer Gets Three-Year Reprieve From Trump Pharma Tariffs

Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said the company secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals in a deal that would lower some o...

www.bloomberg.com

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 14d

This is sick, sick, sick. “Maximal lethality.” No God I know so subscribes. Maybe the drought is God’s dried up all God’s tears.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Sep 13

"just kill em....."

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 13

Yes, Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade really said this about homeless people: “Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill 'em."

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Sep 6

Insane isn’t the half of it…

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is insane. This is a real social media post in which the president of the United States declares war on a great American city.
Get active now, while you can. Help us rescue our country from a fascist dictatorship.

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Sep 6

the department of war under trump (previously undisclosed failed 2018 mission off the shore of N Korea, results in evil, kept secret, per NYT): "The SEALs killed the men on the boat, punctured their lungs with knives so the bodies would sink, abandoned the mission, and returned to base."

B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Aug 31

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge

The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.

open.substack.com

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Aug 29

Everything Jeneen Interlandi says:The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Opinion | The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming

www.nytimes.com

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Aug 25

despicable.

B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Jul 23

breaks my heart to have been born there. evil is spreading like the ugliest cancer....

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Jul 21

sickness and cruelty without end.

B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Jul 11

in which i join the chorus of those mourning the loss of fanny howe:
among those unafraid to ask the unanswerable pullupachair.org/2025/07/11/a...

among those unafraid to ask the unanswerable

fanny howe (photo by lynn christoffers) If the intensity of my curiosities in this world were put to trial, and I was pressed to answer what question stirs me most, it would be the realm of the God…

pullupachair.org

B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Jul 1

Robert Reich draws our attention to the demonic truth at the essence of the cancer metastasized by Musk & his ilk open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Trump, Musk, Republicans, and the Empathy Bug

The real crisis we are living through

open.substack.com

B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · Jun 14

Oh my God….

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · May 22

Please share far and wide. ICE thrives in darkness. A spotlight on Kelvin could potentially halt his deportation.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · May 22

NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives.

Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:

A mother's urgent plea to stop ICE from deporting her daughters’ birth father tomorrow

He served his time in the US. He deserves to heal here, too.

www.thehandbasket.co

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · May 20

Brian Wallach is a hero. And if the Secretary of HHS hasn't heard about cuts to vital research, then why is he the secretary? The abominations in the mangling of biomedical research is pure cruelty.

B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · May 19

beautifully written; thank you.

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · May 19

these people have no soul. and must have been doped half their life to not know there is no such thing as stage five cancer. why in the hell would you find the cruelest possible question in the stupidest possible way?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · May 18

The president’s son.

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