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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 6h

But it’s totally not a cult

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

“This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison”

This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison

Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 6h

He’s going to TACO by next week—stop reporting on all the bullshit this administration spews. You had Stephen Miller say Trump has “plenary power” and then let him redo the interview when he froze up! Your integrity is in the fucking drain.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 6h

Oh no, proper representation and healthcare for women!!!!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 6h

Every day I read the news I just can’t shake the knowledge that it truly didn’t have to be this way.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

The No Kings protests have been some of the most peaceful and well attended political assemblies in American history. In fact, MAGA has mocked them as a bunch of boomer grandmothers. Now they are apparently terrorists. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 12h

As others have pointed out, she is such a bad writer! Like, clearly she has depended on superior editors her entire career—and now she’s the EiC of CBS?

Feels crazy to say this but she should’ve consulted Chat GPT before sending this out. But hey, that’s just the free press, baby!

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

not only is this a shit management strategy, this is a terrible way to communicate it. absolute amateur hour, she’s gonna kill the whole network, and it isn’t gonna take very long.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h

Here's the full memo.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 12h

I like @newrepublic.com but framing this as Trump “losing” the Nobel is incredible misleading and just wrong—he doesn’t seem to have ever been in the running. Stop making this fucking asshole the main character of Earth

White House Flips Out After Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump didn’t win the peace prize he so desperately wanted.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 14h

I wish we lived in an era where people still joked that CBS stood for the “Carol Burnett Show”

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

defector.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

“We took the freedom of speech away. That’s been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but-"

to be clear it’s not just the courts that say you have that freedom

it’s the Constitution

right there in the First Amendment

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ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

“We Took the Freedom of Speech Away” Is Somehow a Direct Quote From Donald Trump

Trump's definition of "freedom of speech" does not appear to incorporate anything the Supreme Court has said on the subject.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Black-and-white portrait of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, Eleanor Roosevelt's social secretary and FDR's secret lover. Photo from FDR Library.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

lol Cuomo really thinks we need to pay him protection thehill.com/homenews/sta...

Cuomo: Mamdani win would lead to Trump New York City takeover

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), an independent candidate for mayor in New York City, said on Monday that President Trump wants Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani to win the general el…

thehill.com

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

More actual antisemitism from this administration

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Israel and Hamas have reached a deal to exchange the remaining hostages in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners, potentially as soon as this weekend. Israel says 20 living hostages are held by Hamas. Here is what to know about the hostages.

Who Are the Hostages Believed Alive in Gaza?

Israel says 20 living hostages are held by Hamas, set for release in a prisoner exchange together with the remains of those who died. Here’s what we know about them.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure MAGA feels so much safer now that these fucking cosplayers in camo are brutalizing mothers picking up their children from school instead of going after actual criminals (which they’d still need a warrant and due process to do)

From the law community on Reddit: ICE smash car window & drag 2 DACA recipients out—in front of elementary school at pick up time

Explore this post and more from the law community

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t watched this series but have heard nothing but awful things, so this headline is especially hilarious.

(The real monster is the friends we made along the way, right?)

Charlie Hunnam defends 'The Ed Gein Story,' hopes viewers question who the real monster is after watching

Charlie Hunnam hopes that after viewers watch 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story,' they're left questioning who the real monsters are.

ew.com

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 2d

Indian Chinese food is awesome, but is…Irish Chinese food also awesome? This is super intriguing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_bag

Spice bag - Wikipedia

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 2d

The last three weeks have been like

Phil Ken Sebben surrounded by Orthodox Jews in “Harvey Birdman”

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