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Tim Rand @timrand.bsky.social · 3h

Every time the administration members say “I haven’t read it”, reporters MUST respond, “Then your staff didn’t prepare you for this interview. Perhaps your staff is only telling you what they think you want to hear.”

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 3h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28m

Also lying:
- your own eyes
- every bit of video evidence
- the fabric of reality itself

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 31m

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 8h

Ukraine has received the mine-countermeasure vessel Alkmaar from the Netherlands, Commander of the Ukrainian Navy Oleksii Neizhpapa reported.

Thank you, Netherlands! 🇳🇱🇺🇦

He added that by the end of the year, Ukrainian Defenders expect to receive another such ship. Crew training is already underway.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14d

Kennedy timed his retirement to make sure Trump got an extra pick on the court. It is not "partisanship" that is threatening American democracy. It is people who do not believe in democracy.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14d

Area man, who decided George W. Bush being President was more important than counting everyone’s votes, has concerns about the survival of democracy in 🇺🇸

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Joel Fast @joelfast.bsky.social · 5h

Justice Barrett shouldn't be on Fox

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singerindy.bsky.social @singerindy.bsky.social · 5h

Why is she on fox? Blech

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robodoggo.bsky.social @robodoggo.bsky.social · 5h

remember when supreme court justices did the sunday shows all the time? yeah me neither

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 19h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 1h

Can’t believe all these people are running a marathon through "war torn" Chicago today

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 1h

PDX continuing to show why it's the best airport in the country.

PDX chooses not to air video of Sec. Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown

The Port of Portland is choosing not to broadcast a new video that shows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown."Democr

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Good for them: it is a violation of the Hatch Act that limits the use of public assets for partisan messaging. Orgeon has its own version of that law, and covers those who run the airport. Other airport administrators should look to see if they are in the same position.

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 1h

PDX continuing to show why it's the best airport in the country.

PDX chooses not to air video of Sec. Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown

The Port of Portland is choosing not to broadcast a new video that shows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown."Democr

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 8h

Republicans will do anything to put more money in their pockets at the expense of people, animals, and the environment.

And thanks to @apnews.com for calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica

apnews.com/article/seal...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

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erikhendrickson.bsky.social @erikhendrickson.bsky.social · 5h

It is simply journalistic malpractice to interview Trump, Vance, all the others, because they just lie.

Ask them questions off camera, report what they said, interview honest people, and explain to viewers what is reality.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

JD Vance: "We want to make sure that they skyrocketing healthcare costs of the Biden administration start to level off and hopefully come down."

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erikhendrickson.bsky.social @erikhendrickson.bsky.social · 5h

I agree, but your thread is too long, too hard to read.

Vought is a Christian Nationalist extremist, an incredibly dangerous, evil person, who is using Trump to replace our government with a dictator theocracy.

This is an emergency.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 8h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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