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Jon Spaihts @jonspaihts.bsky.social · 1d

Chuck Yeager shook Orville Wright's hand.

Jon Spaihts @jonspaihts.bsky.social · 3d

It goes without saying that the deployment of military forces into civilian spaces is infinitely more reckless. This is not why the National Guard exists. We're going to need some new laws.

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Jon Spaihts @jonspaihts.bsky.social · 3d

The militarization of police forces, and their eagerness to turn out in riot gear, makes it all worse. We need a radical reinvention of policing. Public safety officers, not soldiers, trained for politeness and de-escalation. These are not new ideas. We have lacked the will.

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Jon Spaihts @jonspaihts.bsky.social · 3d

But police departments all over the country seem to have become convinced that when there's a protest march, they should show up, not just to keep the peace and direct traffic, but to disperse the protesters and suppress dissent. As if dissent is a species of crime.

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Jon Spaihts @jonspaihts.bsky.social · 3d

The idea that it's the duty of any branch of our police or military to suppress peaceful protest is as un-American as it gets.

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 3d

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12d

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12d

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13d

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign.

Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Jon Spaihts @jonspaihts.bsky.social · 13d

All the food groups.

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Jon Spaihts @jonspaihts.bsky.social · 13d

I'm tryin'. How's you?

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Apr 19

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 20d

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America.

Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.

www.vox.com/politics/462...

This is how Trump ends democracy

The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

www.vox.com

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 20d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20d

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance.

Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.

See how this works?

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 21d

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21d

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21d

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’

The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.

www.vulture.com

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 22d

Note well that this is a rousing call for journalism -- as it was and as it should be.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 22d

Damn, he's good, and right.

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Audric Moses 🇨🇦 @audricmoses.bsky.social · 26d

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Jon Spaihts @jonspaihts.bsky.social · 26d

Almost all major sunglasses brands are owned by a single conglomerate. It's a cartel. Look at goodr.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 26d

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27d

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

onion person @junlper.beer · 27d

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

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Weaver @timeweaver.bsky.social · 27d

These are just Helldiver gamer memes, they don't mean what they appear to mean. "Bella Ciao' is a popular Helldivers 2 mod and "hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three downarrow" is Helldivers 500kg bomb strat. Calling enemies "fascist" while actually being fascist is the joke.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 28d

Horrible violence in Utah. Political violence, if that is the motive, is an aggressive cancer that kills us all.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Sep 7

This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van.

“Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!”

What has America become?

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