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Big Brain

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Cancel the Washington Post and NY Times and support independent journalists who actually care about democracy and holding truth to power No Kings Reposts ≠ Endorsement

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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 2d

This is perfect!

It is weird. That’s from when people were losing their minds about people telling Dems they should talk like normal people and mobs were arguing against it. You helped prove my point. Thank you!! Haha.

Oedipal Arrangements 🇵🇸 @6to12elbow.bsky.social · 2d

Lmaooooo fuckin weirdo

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Calling No Kings a 'hate America rally' when having no kings was a precondition for having a United States of America

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 1h

It’s a SAVE AMERICA rally‼️

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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 1h

Yes! Thank you for calling it out. Journalists need to start calling this shit out instead of constantly circling the media wagons whenever there is criticism. Journalism does not improve without publicly acknowledging how it’s bending to help normalize fascism.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1h

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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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1h

Nine days.

It was nine days later that the coordinated efforts ceased, as these violent assholes moved on from Charlie Kirk to their next faux outrage

She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

www.npr.org

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

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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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 1h

It’s ultimately a tax on the consumer. Maybe not right away, but the consumer, me and you, are who ultimately pay for this.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5h

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 9h

Is he projecting?

Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 9h

We’re in the “well, actually” era with the press. It’s one of the most depressing and bewildering eras.

“Well, actually his tone is edgy and fresh. Until now we hadn’t seen a POTUS demand political foes be fired by a public message on their own social media network that they thought was private.”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 15h

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe we should send billionaires to space in their rockets

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

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11h

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

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Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · 9h

This is a very general problem with all the Trump admin "let's bring back the 19th century!" plans: you can't do it. The 19th century in 2025 just looks like your country falling apart.

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · Apr 2

It’s worse than that. 19th c. medicine in the 21st c. won’t produce 19th c. outcomes. Not when airplanes mix ppl globally on a daily basis, when pop. density has risen to dizzying heights, when human communities have encroached on animal habitats to unprecedented levels…

It’ll be so much worse.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 15h

Oooh, watch out for the scary antifa animal crossing in war ravaged Portland 😂

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 12h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

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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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

Ok that game lasted 7 hours and 20 minutes. (WS game 3 2018).

This game is only 4 hours and 42 minutes old.

The power of the pitch clock!

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

As someone who sat through a seven hour, 18 inning playoff game, let me tell u that everyone in that stadium is both freezing and starving lol

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 10h

the freaking Portland protest frog is warming up in the pen

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 10h

Let Ichiro Pitch

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10h

The Athletic is reporting the Tigers signed Fox Sports’ Adam Wainwright for a one-inning contract for the 15th inning

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👻 Boo!-ver Street Rag @hooverstreetrag.org · 10h

I don't know how baseball betting works, but whatever the spread is pro-Toronto in Game 1, it won't be enough.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 15h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Shontel @shontelmorris.bsky.social · 15h

No it didn't.
There was a ceasefire in place on 10-6.
Your Hamas heroes started the war by massacring civilians including Americans, Arabs & other foreign nationals, raping girls & women, burning families alive & taking hostages that they're still holding.
Read a fucking history book, you dumb fuck.

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