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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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B.G. Witch 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈 @robinhood246.bsky.social · 6h

Conservatives love lying.

Its not about being correct, its about feeling correct.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

"Tear the party apart" is editorializing. It's also a tenor that suggests it's bad to primary a sitting senator. Remember how i say the media is biased to the status quo?

Axios @axios.com · 9h

SCOOP: Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation.

Scoop: Dems plot Fetterman ouster

www.axios.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

Look at the author and the date

FOREIGNERS
Kill the Messenger
Why Palestine radio and TV studios are fair targets in the
Palestine/Israeli war.
BY ANNE APPLEBAUM
JAN 21, 2002 • 1:49 PM

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Patient Zero @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 6h

This is what they do to an internationally famous activist who they're just trying to humiliate. Imagine what they do to nobodies they have totally in their power.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

The Congressional Black Caucus’s silent partnership with AIPAC

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Yet to this day, the Congressional Black Caucus—the long-standing corps of lawmakers dedicated to safeguarding civil rights (and known as “the conscience of Congress”)—has not issued a formal declaration condemning Israel; it hasn’t even produced a statement calling for a ceasefire. The CBC’s silence isn’t accidental: More than half of its current 61 members have been endorsed or funded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful US lobbying arm for Israel’s agenda. In the 2023–24 election cycle alone, AIPAC endorsed 26 of the caucus’s members, raising $4.6 million for them and another $3.5 million for Black Democratic candidates.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

Walking into a Republican's office in 2025.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

many conversations I have had with complete normie libs, the kind who have a tote bag from donating to NPR and shop at Whole Foods, involve the kind of rhetoric that under no circumstances should be put on the internet

people are very mad

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 5h

look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

If you're the Dems and you were scared of immigration as a topic before, I might try making it an issue now that masked goons are beating the shit out of innocent people in the streets on a daily basis. A lot of people are probably not down with this whatever their views on immigration are

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 17h

Promise me that yall aren't going to platform the eventual "repentent ICE agent" stories that will come out...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20h

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 20h

Someone inside Twitter is absolutely leaking information to Nazis

onion person @junlper.beer · 23h

important note from libcrusher:

Reactivating temporarily to send a warning.
Since I got doxxed, it appears the same doxxing ring has targeted several other users. I learned that they were banned this week, only for Elon to, apparently, personally unban them. I feel obliged to warn everyone about my experience.

It wasn't just my personal information that got published. Someone, somewhere, got my passwords too. For my banking accounts, brokerage accounts, venmo, etc.
Most of which had different and unique passwords. All these attempts started the day i got doxxed, and have sporadically continued since.

If you know anyone who's been doxxed by this group, you need to have them change all their passwords on every website immediately. Ensure 2FA and any other security measures are in place everywhere.
And, wherever possible, document and report it. Frankly, if you're a lefty of any note, do it now too

If anyone was also a victim of this or knows someone who was, there are ways to reach me. I wish I could go into more details right now. But until that time comes, protect yourself.

I will be deactivating in 20 minutes.
Hopefully, that's enough time for the warning to get out.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20h

a big aspect of rightwing politics is being an adult who intentionally bullys children

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 22h

A group of far right assholes have showed up to protest at David Douglas high school after students allegedly pushed back at a formation of a turning point chapter. School is out & they are outnumbered by predominantly Black & Brown students roasting the fuck out of them.

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 20h

when Charles I did shit like this in the 1600s he eventually got his head chopped off, just saying

of course americans now are bootlickers and cowards, and our bourgeoisie are all high on fascism, so who's to say what will happen next

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 20h

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 20h

Someone asked what happened to the casual Nazi at the end of WWII. The people who supported the Party

The answer? Suicides and murders. If they weren’t beaten to death or shot in the streets, they killed themselves

There’s a book called Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber about it.

The mass suicides by ordinary citizens in the last days of Nazi Germany
Historian Florian Huber's book examines how civilians took their own lives in greater numbers than military and government officials as the Third Reich collapsed
Soviet Army officers observe the bodies of women who committed
suicide in a Vienna park at the end of World War II.
CORDON PRESS / YEVGENY KHALDEINULL

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 19h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 19h

i see the VP's full on backing of the hitlerite group chat as showing the GOP understands that their power in large part flows from their unified front. meanwhile the democrats continue to attack their left and progressive members. not a surprise the GOP keeps running circles around them

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 18h

These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

young republicans didn't used to be like this! i know because they weren't racist to me, a white lady,

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

the entire conservative project these days is built off of making it illegal to dislike them or say rude things about them even in private

it is not enough to be in charge, or even feared, they must be adored

or else

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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your weirdo friend @yourweirdofriend.bsky.social · 1d

That's a good question. I think we're all discovering that countries have been operating like businesses and not the co-ops they actually are. We have let "business leaders" and people with generational wealth tell us we should elect them to office because they're natural leaders. They're grifters.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

I remember a few people on here saying the reports were exaggerated

Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

tinyurl.se/crR

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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