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Data rights are human rights. Criminals belong in prison, not in government. Is he dead yet?
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 4h
Trump is breaking more budget laws than any president in history, by an entire parsec.

The breadth of budget laws broken, how important the laws broken are, the how severe the illegal actions were, etc. No president comes even remotely close.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5h
Breaking news: The Trump administration is sending messages to federal staff suggesting only those who are working during the government shutdown will be paid when it ends, despite a 2019 law that guarantees pay to furloughed employees, too.
Administration hints furloughed workers may not be paid after shutdown
Agencies are sending messages indicating that workers who are on the job will be paid when the government reopens — with no mention of those on furlough, despite a 2019 law protecting their wages.
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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 4h
This…guy, bemoaning SNAP & the Americans who rely on it to eat is the guy who stole from charities, defrauded Americans with a fake university, enriches himself with taxpayer dollars, sells foreign policy decisions for personal gain, and refused to pay workers & vendors for their work. 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h
This week in "know your Trump administration assholes" we have Arielle Roth, a former Ted Cruz staffer and Hudson Institute "think tanker" promoted to head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for some incoherent reason.
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We’re all frogs now @grandsoupir.bsky.social · 8h
Same playbook trump and the Russians used in 2024.
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LaCiuraRaffaele @laciuraraffaele.bsky.social · 19h
Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened newrepublic.com/post/202618/...
Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened
Donald Trump apparently feels he can now dictate CBS News’s content.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 1d
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.
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We’re all frogs now @grandsoupir.bsky.social · 19h
Because of course. Zuck the lickspittle got his ROI on trump bribes
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 21h
They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.

The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.

They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 21h
Revolutionary Escalation, Semi-Authoritarian “Normalization,” or a Democratic Turnaround?

One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here.

New piece:
Escalation, Authoritarian “Normalization,” or a Democratic Turnaround?
One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 22h
Every single journalist with expertise in extremism I know has been fired or their publication has folded.

Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d
When the end comes, there must be a purge of the government. The guilty must be hunted down. ... That’s a very tall order made much taller by the fact that rightwing propaganda will continue to work in the shadows if the impartial administrators of justice continue to pretend it doesn’t exist.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h
It'll never not be absurd to me that they hired a guy specifically because he killed a homeless man on the subway and had no other marketable skills or experience in tech. Really gave away the game that Silicon Valley is dogshit hucksters and literally nothing else.
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We’re all frogs now @grandsoupir.bsky.social · 22h
Was only a matter of time before the oligarchs got to them. Wired is next.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h
Holder: The Supreme Court is a broken institution. And it’s something that has to be part of the national conversation in ’26 and in ’28.

If there is a Democratic trifecta in 2028—and I think the possibility of that is pretty good—Supreme Court reform has to be on the table.
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d
Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?
techdirt.com Techdirt @techdirt.com · 1d
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d
The 60 Minutes interview, in which Nora O’Donnell let Trump blather on with lie after lie without fact-checking him or pushing back, is a reminder of why we need journalists who will hold him accountable rather than just giving him a platform to spread lies.
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We’re all frogs now @grandsoupir.bsky.social · 1d
Assuming he does this, what’s to stop the cartels from retaliating?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d
The media missed Trump, and they wanted him to win, because the notion of covering another “boring” Democratic president without getting massive book deals was terrifying to them.
daveweigel.bsky.social Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d
Crazy how much some media has normalized the idea that voters are taking a risk if they elect governors/mayors who will defy Trump. That he’ll threaten their funding, etc.

Try to imagine, say. Greg Abbott being asked if he’s worried that Biden will punish Texas over his lawsuits.
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We’re all frogs now @grandsoupir.bsky.social · 1d
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grandsoupir.bsky.social We’re all frogs now @grandsoupir.bsky.social · 2d
Looking for the guillotine emoji
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
This quote continues to rattle me to my core:

"So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them."

That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d
Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
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We’re all frogs now @grandsoupir.bsky.social · 1d
No way Bari allowed probing follow up questions
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 1d
We have had 50 years to see how “free markets” foster wealth inequality, infrastructure collapse, death, disease, disability, grief, suffering, ecological destruction, and fuel fascism.

We’ve got ample research showing that the markets create, and do not solve our major problems.

The don’t care.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d
Sweet. Easy congressional inquiry in 2027.

Who is drafting the pardon paperwork? Who is briefing him before he signs them? What ethics checks are being done before these pardons are being drafted?

Is he actually even signing? Are these all auto pen?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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