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David Jenni
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David Jenni @davidjenni.bsky.social · Nov 18
We must refuse to participate in a mass delusion!

Roxane Gay is absolutely right:
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
Opinion | Enough
To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.
www.nytimes.com
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 7h
Happy Friday to everyone who didn’t lose a peace prize today! 🤭
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David Jenni @davidjenni.bsky.social · 7h
#NoKings 10/18 !!
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h
By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h
The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
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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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7h
"...Itt becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit. "

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
An Interview With the Portland Chicken
Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”
www.wweek.com
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h
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Dom Kelly @thetattooedjew.com · 10h
You actually don’t have to hand it to Donald Trump. You don’t have to give him credit for anything. He’s a horrible human being who has never known a day of suffering in his life. Nor does he care an ounce about the suffering of anybody else. Hope that helps.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h
JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10h
“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10h
“Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration”

[Gift article]

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 13h
Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 13h
An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.
Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver
Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison
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NPR @npr.org · 10h
Israeli forces have begun a pull-back of troops from Gaza Friday after Israel's cabinet approved a plan for a ceasefire aimed at ending the devastating two-year-old war.
Israel says it has begun a pullback of troops in Gaza
Israeli forces have begun a pullback of troops from Gaza on Friday after Israel's Cabinet approved a plan for a ceasefire aimed at ending the devastating 2-year-old war.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h
Trump, a vocal war crimes enthusiast for more than a decade, is mad he didn’t get the nobel so his aides are gonna spend all day humiliating themselves in competition over who can kiss his ass better
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Martin @ampule2.bsky.social · 10h
Ya think.. 🤣
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10h
It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12h
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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David Jenni @davidjenni.bsky.social · 10h
Oh, flying ketchup alert in the White House
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12h
BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw
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German Aid to Ukraine @deaidua.org · 11h
As already known since the 9th of September, Rheinmetall will deliver Skyranger 35 SPAAGs mounted on the Leopard 1 chassis to #Ukraine. The contract is worth a three-digit million sum and is “paid for” by an unnamed EU country through the windfall profits from frozen Russian assets.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10h
Thiel "argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings."
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h
Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States
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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 13h
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h
Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single conversation with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants a heads up for logistical purposes. Nada.

Pritzker opens up on the pod:
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Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning
With Trump’s occupation of Chicago worsening, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker shares new details about what’s happening—and tells us the time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism bef...
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d
the shutdown dynamic here is that neither thune nor johnson wants to be the first to cave and neither trust trump not to cave because all three are very weak leaders in bad positions
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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d
Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/
Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 1d
BREAKING: Republican Governor of Oklahoma comes out blasting deployment of National Guard from Texas to Illinois. Calls it a violation of States' Rights. MAGA and Trump are increasingly isolated on this -- as they should be. We will not stop until this insanity ends.
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