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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 2h

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 1d

Mostly agree except for the “of the last century” part. A bill in 1924 barred the door to almost all Asians and a more significant one in 1965 reopened it.

David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Here in Southern California, I met a Mr. Ruiz from the next town over. His family has been in the Conejo Valley for more than 180 years. He seemed bemused when people start immigrant-bashing. He’s seen this movie before.

The Chumash, who’ve been here 13,000+ years, are less bemused.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org · 2d

Wait, what? Do these people remember Salt Typhoon?

Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, why require telcos to have cybersecurity plans? www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyb...

FCC will vote to scrap telecom cybersecurity requirements

The commission’s Republican chair, who voted against the rules in January, calls them ineffective and illegal.

www.cybersecuritydive.com

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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 4d

Weird decision in that it leaves Essayli free to continue persecuting at least three cases.

I’d prefer something more definitive so he could go back to his former profession of being a freelance blowhard.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 5d

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5d

The government shutdown is halting the collection and release of statistics tracking the job market, public health and crop production, as well as other economic indicators.

www.axios.com/2025/10/26/s...

Government shutdown leaves the economy in uncharted territory

The shutdown is halting the collection and release of statistics tracking the job market, public health and crop production.

www.axios.com

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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 6d

The awfulness of this clerk’s bigotry aside, it’s time we start calling his former employer by his correct title: Possessor of Stolen Property Neil Gorsuch.

David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 7d

Photo by Jerome Parmer (@drj_Oakland)

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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 8d

Bautista told the San Francisco Chronicle the officer acted without warning and appeared to intentionally target him.

If you think this doesn’t apply to you, I encourage you to do a web search for another cleric named Martin Niemöller. (2/2)

David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 8d

Yesterday a CPB agent fired a pepper round at close range into the face of Rev. Jorge Bautista of the College Heights United Church of Christ.

The incident occurred in the Bay Area during a protest against planned immigration raids. (1/2)

www.instagram.com/reel/DQK4u_A...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 8d

Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA

There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.

He crazy.

Donald J. Trump +
@realDonald Trump
Just in: Documents show conclusively that Christopher Wray, Deranged Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, and other crooked lowlifes from the failed Biden Administration, signed off on Operation Arctic Frost. They spied on Senators and Congressmen/women, and even taped their calls. They cheated and rigged the
2020 Presidential Election. These Radical Left Lunatics should be prosecuted for their illegal and highly unethical behavior!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

Hey, just want to mumble that this is wildly illegal and inappropriate and would prompt impeachment proceedings if we still had a functional Congress instead of one run by a blind, deaf and mute Renfeld wannabe.

Adam Cancryn @adamcancryn.bsky.social · 8d

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics

The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...

www.cnn.com

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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 9d

He's really looking everywhere for those Epstein files.

Somewhere Teddy Roosevelt – who created the National Wildlife Refuge System, laying the groundwork for conservation efforts like ANWR – is spinning in his grave.

Trump Opens Pristine Alaska Wilderness to Drilling in Long-Running Feud

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 9d

There was bigotry around the 1977 mayoral race – with Mario Cuomo supporters chanting "vote for Cuomo, not the homo," referring to Koch – but I can't imagine the father being OK with what the son said here in any way/shape/form.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 13d

Shooting ordinance into your own country: A grave risk to public safety, and probably not the shortest path to a Nobel Peace Prize.

And yet, the most interesting thing about this is that he is in the Epstein files.

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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David Burbach 🇺🇸🧲🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 14d

1. Home color laser printers are cheap and I've had one for years, pro-rated toner about $0.20
2. 4 sheets of 8.5x11 labels is $1.33
3. $2 for a sheet of black foam board
4. A stick from my garage and four staples

I'll be waiting for my three dollars.

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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 15d

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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 17d

ICE's use of force is far out of proportion to any perceived risk, and a hindrance to those in local LE trying to build bridges of trust into immigrant communities. Cruelty is the point here, not public safety.

Kudos to Anthony Vazquez for summing up in one photo the dehumanization MAGA celebrates.

Feds ‘ram’ SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

www.wbez.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21d

ICYMI — Trump lied that Chicago had “4000” murders, when it’s projected to have 380 this year (way down from last year)

If it’s so bad there why does he have to keep lying about it?

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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 22d

This is, after all, the guy who said on 9/11 that his was now the tallest building in NYC.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 23d

Sure... she used her office to enrich herself, confident in the belief that she could just absolve herself of any crimes.

But don't worry.

I'm SURE she's NOT doing the same now that she's in charge of the largest, unaccountable law enforcement slush fund in the history of the United States.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 23d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28d

"I believe that Americans would agree that the government can’t just make people disappear without any process or explanation. Second, because I want to give the government a chance to admit that they were wrong.

So far the government has not done so."

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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