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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

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?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is doing well making clear the ridiculousness of the military takeover.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Ah the time-honoured scientific method of first deciding what the truth is and then generating the data to prove yourself correct.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

“The alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.”

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

what do you even say. what do you even say.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2d

If Samuel Alito & his ilk are unhappy with the Catholic Church under Pope Leo, that’s because they’re unhappy with the teachings of the Catholic Church & should become members of a conservative Protestant denomination instead.

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2d

I hate this framing by Bezos’ right-wing WaPo because it falsely defines the tradition of the Catholic Church as being hostile to the poor & the marginalized, which is simlly not true. @washingtonpost.com has become a terrible, biased newspaper.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

wow what happened to the "free state of florida" smh

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Hein Goemans @heingoemans.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, and it will fer sure be a lot more incisive.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, the Harvard newspaper ought to run a piece on all of the NYT’s coverage and what they distort and why.

THAT I would read.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Hein Goemans @heingoemans.bsky.social · 2d

Scheveningen. In WW II the Dutch asked people to say "Scheveningse scholletjes op schoongeschuurde schoteltjes." No German could pronunciate that correctly.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump smiles along as Sortor refers to the White House press as "the garbage standing over here"

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

The sigh I expel when you undermine the whole “without fear or favor” part by using Trump and Hegseth’s make-believe name for the Defense Department.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 2d

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 4d

I mean I’ve seen shit that’s just “greedy companies” and literal banks be labeled as spiritually Israeli.

It’s 100% a dog whistle for Jew-coded

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 2d

I am never going to be a fan of a politician. That way lies disappointment. But Pritzker right now is the person I think is calibrating it right.

This isn’t negotiating about social security with W. You either get that or you don’t.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2d

This was not a sample of academics.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 2d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Israel making Russia look like amateurs.

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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 2d

This act of violence by Trump’s masked DHS agents against a minister peacefully protesting reminds me of the darkest days of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Now as then, we will not be intimidated.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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