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biggieplatnum.bsky.social @biggieplatnum.bsky.social · 1d

This may surprise you Sean...but some of us stand on our morals for reasons other than profit #NoKings

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI — “I don’t think there’s anything that will get me into Heaven. I think I’m not, maybe, Heaven-bound.”

Trump confesses on Air Force One

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South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 6d

Let us be clear: The President of the United States is levying war against American cities and American citizens—and we cannot rely on the other branches of government to save us.

It’s up to us.

It’s Up to Us to Protect One Another

As Trump sends troops to Chicago, we will continue to investigate and report. Readers have a role to play, too.

southsideweekly.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 6d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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biggieplatnum.bsky.social @biggieplatnum.bsky.social · 7d

Alternate Headline: "Trump's Fascism Justified" thanks NPR.

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Sharon Brett @sharonbrett.bsky.social · 14d

New IJ lawsuit filed today challenging ICE raids of construction sites, wherein ICE detains American citizens in AL, rejects their proof of citizenship, and holds them without PC.

Worth a read, and more evidence of the wide gulf b/w what SCOTUS says is happening and what is actually happening.

ij.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

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biggieplatnum.bsky.social @biggieplatnum.bsky.social · 20d

Sure Marge, whatever you say

Clip of article titled "JD Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now they are running mates." With picture of Vance smiling

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Q: Did the president ask the DOJ to close the Homan investigation and does he have to return the $50,000

LEAVITT: Mr. Homan never took the $50,000, so you should get your facts straight ... you had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president's top allies and supporters

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22d

Trump has fired or reassigned all the DOJ's anticorruption lawyers, because he views them as a keen threat to the kind of government he intends to run—one that's more corrupt than any of its historical predecessors. www.notus.org/courts/doj-p...

The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It’s Down to Two.

The Public Integrity Section is the latest casualty in the administration’s attacks on Nixon-era good-government reforms.

www.notus.org

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biggieplatnum.bsky.social @biggieplatnum.bsky.social · 25d

This man never watched John Candy in his life

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25d

This is very funny

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

www.youtube.com

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 26d

“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U

Trump's moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that...

to.pbs.org

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26d

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26d

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

www.nytimes.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 27d

Get angry at the fascist’s enablers. Get pissed off at every college, university, law firm, media company, tech billionaire, bank CEO, Republican elected official, government official, and private individual who caved to the fascist. They’re to blame. He couldn’t be a fascist without them.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27d

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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biggieplatnum.bsky.social @biggieplatnum.bsky.social · Sep 13

That final "yes" was so eerily cultish and forced

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James Woolrich @jmwoolrich.bsky.social · Sep 11

All you need to know.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Sep 10

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself

This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.

www.theatlantic.com

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JJ Zachariason @lateroundqb.bsky.social · Sep 8

Each Monday morning during the NFL season, I throw a fantasy football stat thread together.

This, my friends, is the Week 1 data dump.

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Zach Goldberg @zgoldberg.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sorry, not letting this go. This is Trump calling Yamiche Alcindor: "darling", to "be quiet and listen", and a "second-rate" reporter. Alcindor is a well-respected journalist, a WHcorrespondent, and past "Journalist of the Year" honoree from NABJ.

Has *anyone* in the WH press corps defended her?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 7

Trump tells a reporter who asks him about going to war with American cities to “be quiet” and “listen”

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · Sep 6

Take off that Cavalry hat, you draft dodger.

You didn’t earn the right to wear it.

Stolen valor at its worst.

Trump Truth social post: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning…”

Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR 🚁🚁🚁

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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