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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 16h

This. And this again.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

Solidarity is the only way

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 18h

There are clearly insiders appalled enough to help get stories out.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 21h

1. Maintaining our right to public protest is essential for defeating dictatorship.
2. There are more of us than there are of them.
3. You don't have to RSVP.
4. Do more after Saturday.
5. Maybe wear a costume.

Trump Determined to Remind Us Why We Say 'No Kings'

We have frogs everywhere—a few reminders for this Saturday's monumental event.

www.thefarce.org

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 19h

Illustrating she is not all that sharp

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 19h

Good

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 20h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 20h

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 21h

Dammit Dolls

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 23h

Mainstream media’s willingness to give Trump massive credit for doing minor things and Biden zero credit for doing big things is a structural problem

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 1d

@mattmahansj.bsky.social would love to see the same at SJC.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 1d

Well…

finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundm...

GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food

GoFundThis: Some surprising items have begun to make the list for crowdfunding lately, according to this CEO.

finance.yahoo.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 1d

They can curry as much favor as they want. Colbert and Oliver still have a message, audience and market.

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 1d

Saving this article for when the AI bubble implodes

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 1d

Do not think she’d have the week she’s gonna have when she went to bed last night 😂😂😂😂

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

YES ON 50, CALIFORNIA!

DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE!

Turn your ballots in early!

Canvass! Phone Bank!

The Reformers

TRUMP LIT THE GERRYMANDERING FUSE

*Direct response to Trump’s push for red states like Texas to redraw their maps to disenfranchise Democrats and elect more Republicans

*Trump’s redistricting pressure campaign could net the GOP up to 12 unearned House seats

*CA Democrats are mirroring the GOP's power grab to keep the playing field from tilting entirely red

YES ON 50

TO CLAP-BACK

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 1d

He got wind of pope Leo shade.

Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 1d

They always ask the “who’s funding it?” because the right has to astroturf this stuff. Even Jan 6 they paid to bus ppl in (👋🏻 tpusa)

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 1d

Always gotta break it down for the kids in back: only the Fa is mad about the existence of Antifa

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 1d

A must watch to the end. Gonna see some really sus stuff coming out of CBS and this is why.

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

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Great thread on the distinctive political culture of Portland, by a US historian who is very much from Portland.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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