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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Hard to argue with any of this.

Kelly C @kacphl.bsky.social · 3d

Yup. This guy nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

I knew it would be bad, but... so bad! So quickly!

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

I disagree www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...

PragerU posts a video about Christopher Columbus that features a racist depiction of indigenous people

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

What’s the word for an adulterous relationship involving a man, a woman and a federal department? nymag.com/press/articl...

On the Cover: Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and Trump’s Police State

Washington correspondent Ben Terris writes the definitive account of the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Noem.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"

And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Just to be clear, this is EXACTLY what Pete Hegseth said, word for word, on video in a formal announcement:

“We’re signing a letter of acceptance to BUILD A QATARI AIR FORCE FACILITY at the Mountain Home Airbase.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Important thread:

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 6d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Perhaps the likes of Chappelle, Ansari and CK felt there was less at stake because, by their own estimation, they have already suffered cancellation. Except that their exile from public life appears to include fresh Netflix specials and Grammy awards. Louis CK should count himself lucky; if he’d been caught with his dick in his hand in Najd, rather than Colorado, he may well have retained neither of those appendages (punitive limb amputation is an actual thing).

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss was made Editor in Chief of CBS News because FBI Director was already taken.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6d

Here's my take on Vought's mass layoffs announcement talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-m...

New Mass Layoffs?

You’ve probably seen that Russ Vought went on Twitter today and said...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

Newsom signed SB79! So, so huge. Enormous props to all the people who worked so hard, for so long, to make this happen, above all @scottwiener.bsky.social. It's going to change California, and the country.

Governor Newsom Signs Senator Wiener’s Landmark Law To Build More Homes Near Public Transit

Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.

sd11.senate.ca.gov

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6d

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Veterans, Who Saw One of Their Own Arrested by ICE and Charged, Say Feds Are Undermining Democracy

Days after a 70-year-old Air Force veteran was among five people charged while protesting outside a suburban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, fellow veterans and others gathered at t...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

It's hilarious, the farther right you go in media, the dumber & more thumb-faced the on-air "talent." I mean, this is just reactionary Mad Libs! Just a buzz-word stew.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Newsmax host to Rep. Rich McCormick: "You've seen this whole game, how illegal immigrants come into the ER with sniffles and they get to benefit from Medicaid, but Democrats are blaming Republicans for the increase in healthcare [costs]."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

That's right. Laugh right at these sweaty losers and double down on the peaceful protests against them.

Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 6d

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 6d

As Homeland Security floods social media with propaganda videos, and pro-Trump commentators flock to Portland and Chicago in search of a "rebellion," local residents are responding with... chicken suits and clever jokes:

Protest frogs vs. MAGA media influencers: the information war over ICE in Portland and Chicago | CNN Business

As the Trump administration floods social media with “propaganda” videos, and MAGA personalities flock to Portland and Chicago in search of a “rebellion,” local residents are responding with… chicken ...

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 6d

Dimwit Operative as Gauleiter Executive

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6d

All these anxious billionaires....

“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 6d

Affluent accelerate; strapped consumers stall #econsky

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

Two economies:

B of A data shows lower-income consumer spending growing at 0.6%

Higher-income growing at 4x that. “That’s fairly significant.”

@cnbc.com @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

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Existential Bunny @hunnybun100.bsky.social · 6d

He’s trying to do to Portland and Democratic cities what he did with caravans. It worked until people got tired of him. As long as Trump is the messenger and the rest of the media contradicts him, he’s exposed because people know he’s a liar and fabulist.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 6d

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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