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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 14h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 19h

Grateful for this Seattle Times article exposing, again, the conditions at the ICE detention center in Tacoma. The infrastructure for the current lawlessness has been active for a long time.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Look inside Tacoma’s ICE detention center, where you could be kept for days or years

Conditions inside Tacoma's Northwest ICE Processing Center have been a mystery for many. In new interviews, people formerly held there reveal what life is like.

www.seattletimes.com

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 19h

We’re back tonight at 11pm on HBO Max/11:10pm on HBO! And we’re off next week! So yes, John will spend his usual 14 days at the desk by himself, missing the studio audience. And the at-home audience! But the studio audience provides him with “human contact” or whatever he’s always begging for. Diva.

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 19h

“The first thing that happened when the regime fell is that the mobile phones started working again!”

For the first time in a long time, Syria’s tech scene is feeling optimistic. Our deep dive: https://restofworld.org/2025/syria-tech-industry/

Syria’s quest to build its own Silicon Valley

Tech founders in Damascus are rebooting a war-torn country.

restofworld.org

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leesarenae.bsky.social @leesarenae.bsky.social · 12h

We are expected to take the journalists word that this guy has not been posting CRAP on Facebook until Charlie Kirk? This is exactly why this celebrated journalist/bothsides NYT is useless.

leesarenae.bsky.social @leesarenae.bsky.social · 12h

How old do you think this conservative Christian vigilante is? Let's say 50. It isn't until the last paragraph we find out he, "Ever since he was president of the young conservatives at the University of Texas."

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 19h

I have some bad news for JD Vance if he thinks violating the oath of office is "pretty criminal."

abcnews.go.com/Politics/pri...

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18h

Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

Screenshot of text:

It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16h

Also, for an established US journalist to write the words "the approval of the thought police" as the US currently is working with technofascists/oligarchs to take over entire media platforms, silence/punish dissent, make universities buckle under and professors literally FLEE THE COUNTRY..is WILD.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 18h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

there are two conditions which cause this kind of behavior, one is still being on twitter after all this time and the other is having a job from which you have no reasonable fear of ever being fired, and it's why columnists, tech founders and venture capitalists all eventually end up like this here

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 18h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20h

for fuck’s sake the alt text is fine but if you’re posting screenshots to an article *you also need to put a link to the fucking article*

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 23h

About a week ago, the New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast portrayed Russell Vought as a devout Christian, a true “small government” conservative who loves the free market, and a man with a great work ethic. A remarkable combination of credulousness and deliberate whitewashing.

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 21h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time.

I wrote a substack about this on Friday!This isn’t an accident.

open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

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

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 · 1d

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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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

I have a particular hatred for this brand of boundary invasion. We live in a fucking society, Jennifer. Act like it.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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