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Martin Longman

@booman23.bsky.social

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OG Liberal Blogger (BooMan): worked for ACORN, Democracy for America and Washington Monthly. Founded Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Was once internet famous in India. Podcasting the Progress Pondcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3PRia7N8iJFS2MRjcpjTcH

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 26d

Please listen, like and subscribe.

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The Progress Pondcast Episode 27: The Charlie Kirk Assassination (Mostly)

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The Infinitely Prolonged @wowbaggert.bsky.social · 3h

I cannot shake the feeling that the window is closing fast on the main stream media's opportunity to honestly report on this before they are fully captured.

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 3h

Greg Sargent Chides the Mainstream Media Over Portland Coverage open.substack.com/pub/martinlo...

Greg Sargent Chides the Mainstream Media Over Portland Coverage

It's not enough to correct the lies of the administration and their citizen propagandists.

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 23h

Reporting from war-torn Portland

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Oh noooooo!

After a jury found Greg Bovino to be full of shit in LA, a judge found him to be full of shitshow in Chicago.

[This is Judge April Perry's opinion on her TRO.]

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This indicates to the Court both bias and lack of objectivity. The lens through which we view the
world changes our perception of the events around us. Law enforcement officers who go into an
event expecting “a shitshow” are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the
event prepared to de-escalate it. Ultimately, this Court must conclude that Defendants’
declarants’ perceptions are not reliable.6

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 21h

He utterly deserves this

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21h

Vivek was apparently shocked to learn that the kids in Charlie Kirk's TPUSA groups are Christian Nationalists who will never accept him. They want the entire country to be white Christians, and the very idea that he could hold a position of power offends them.

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Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism

Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn’t Christian.

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Tengrain @tengrain.bsky.social · 21h

I’m going to be listening to The Professional Left Podcast starring @bluegal.bsky.social and @driftglass.bsky.social ss and you should too! Available where’er you find Pods or here:

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The Professional Left Podcast

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 21h

The entire administration is a walking Hatch Act violation

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 1d

Wherein the president of the United States posts some dumb shit on social media and immediately crashes our retirement accounts.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 1d

Trump isn't an asshole 100% of the time. He is an asshole 650% of the time.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

The guy who keeps invading cities and bombing foreigners whenever he feels like it and keeps dangling invasion of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela didn’t win the Nobel peace prize this year

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 1d

All hell broke loose after the Giants smashed the Eagles on Thursday Night Football.

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 1d

I’m Moving This Joint to Substack

After more than 20 years of operating an independent progressive blogging community, I'm changing platforms and hoping for a great second chapter.

I’m Moving This Joint to Substack

After more than 20 years of operating an independent progressive blogging community, I'm changing platforms and hoping for a great second chapter.

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 1d

Time to show them what you're made of.

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The Trump Administration is Gearing Up for the No Kings Protests

It's sending a very clear message that protestors will be treated as presumptive terrorists and treated accordingly. You know what to do.

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 1d

Fire Boone and Cashman is my "Release the Epstein files."

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Brendancalling @brendancalling.bsky.social · 1d

All I have to add is that the Deadspin guys were too kind to you. deadspin.com/you-cant-bul...

But like a bad case of herpes, you keep coming back.

Deadspin | You Can't Bully These Motherfuckers

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 2d

Only In Ohio is that ha ha funny.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 2d

just like two dudes and a rotation of studio musicians?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Jack Posobiec spread antisenitic hate on Twitter for years, including tagging Jews with triple parentheses.

JD Vance wrote the forward to Posobiec’s book, Unhuman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 2d

It’s SHAMEFUL to watch US Senators vote NO on the War Powers resolution & give this administration a blank check to bomb whoever the hell they want. The current conduct in the Caribbean is unconstitutional and unacceptable!

Time and time again, these cowards bend the knee.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

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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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 2d

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Perry: How do you respond to the plaintiffs' contention that any unrest, any violence is the fault of how federal agents are interacting with members of the public? Does it matter if their conduct is why they can't execute federal laws?
Hamilton: No.

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