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Serial Bookseller @serialbookseller.bsky.social · 8h

When my wife and her nurses union were on strike four years ago, James came from the other side of the state to walk the line with them.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 8h

Letitia James is a former public defender and public advocate. She's spent most of her career on the side of the marginalized and underprivileged. And let's be honest: Trump is attacking her because he doesn't want Black women in positions of authority in this country.

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 9h

Gavin Newsom: “Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I’m being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today.”

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Matt „Feind im Inneren" L @matt12l.bsky.social · 8h

Paper ballots. Counted by hand by local officials in front of observers from all the parties and the news media.

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Matt „Feind im Inneren" L @matt12l.bsky.social · 8h

Like Celtic v. Rangers or Packers v. Vikings?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8h

From a strategic perspective, I'm struck by how the Trump administration seems to view its strategy as using 'red states' to hold down 'blue states' but the actual gap between Illinois and Texas is fairly small - IL is D+6, TX is R+6 or so. These aren't even 55/45 states, they're both 53/47 states.

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Matt „Feind im Inneren" L @matt12l.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t think there is a strategy. I suspect there are competing loci of power in the White House with incompatible goals and personalities. They are making it up as they go along.

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Securitas @securitas.bsky.social · 12h

For all the legitimate worry about the abuse of the US National Guard, we should acknowledge that leaders and soldiers have behaved incredibly professionally. Stephen Miller's hopes for escalation will not be fulfilled by them.

It's ICE we all need to worry about.

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Matt „Feind im Inneren" L @matt12l.bsky.social · 8h

TBF this is what the FedSoc types have been gunning for since Bork. The sinister 6 saw their chance and took it. Now there is no reason to acknowledge the legitimacy of the Robert’s court. The only question is what are we going to do about it?

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 10h

I think what the "we must make sure nothing upsets or discomfits the smol bean middle American" side of this debate misses is that there are huge quantities of human misery and death down both of these paths and all we are doing now is deciding upon whom that misery settles, and when.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10h

i don’t think we “have” to immiserate people. but the idea that voters must be protected from the consequences of their actions is not only incredibly, decadently precious but also fundamentally antidemocratic.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics.

“Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16h

The America we used to live in—the America we want to think we live in—is gone.

We’ll have to build again.

We want to think that the repeated, widespread abuse of basic rights by DHS; the DOJ actions against former officials like James Comey and John Bolton; the presence of 2020 election deniers across congressional and executive branch leaders; the unconstitutional dismantling of federal agencies; the consolidation of old and new media under leadership favorable to Trump; the use of lawsuits and executive branch power to intimidate and silence critics; and the clear attempts to subvert the 2026 and 2028 elections; and Trump's constant insinuation that he might seek a third term do not all in fact mean
that we have crossed the threshold into a competitive authoritarian environment.
But we have. We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9h

“We’re manufacturing whadyacall consent.”

Truthout @truthout.org · 10h

RFK Jr. admitted on Thursday that the studies he’s cited to justify his baseless and dangerous claims about Tylenol use and autism are “not proof.” “This is not dispositive, this is not proof. We are doing the studies to make the proof.”

RFK Jr. Says Trump Admin Will “Make the Proof” on Bogus Tylenol Claims

“We are doing the studies to make the proof,” the health secretary said.

truthout.org

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Bari Weiss

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Dec 30

She is such a deeply, fundamentally unserious person. Her entire career has & continues to depend on being treated seriously by the very "old" institutions - media, Jewish, educational, etc. - that she supposedly wants to disrupt. The poster child for our total lack of elite accountability in 🇺🇸.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

The total, multidimensional failure of elite accountability in 🇺🇸 politics & society, illustrated in one move:

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 9h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

i feel like everything bari weiss does is treated like she's a network exec in 1973 when she's really just a LARPer at the helm of a particularly irrelevant brand while TV news is dying.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 9h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Matt „Feind im Inneren" L @matt12l.bsky.social · 8h

Weiss will never allow a Palestinian on CBS News. Not even in commercials selling timeshare condos in “New Gaza City”

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 9h

If you told me to pick the three most irrelevant gasbags on the planet who are nevertheless recognizable as being political to a viewing audience in their 70s, I could not have done better than this. Perhaps they could have tried John Edwards or Paul Ryan or something

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 9h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Matt „Feind im Inneren" L @matt12l.bsky.social · 8h

Biden was a true believer in the US Israel relationship with all its historical and emotional significances. That was a drawback in dealing with Netanyahu & his cabinet. Trump is a transactional sociopath. “What’s in it for me?” is probably a stronger position when dealing with Netanyahu.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 9h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 10h

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

Kavanaugh stop

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 13h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

This shitty telenovela will not end before Bovino and Noem are caught fucking by Lewandowski.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

An agent testified in federal court in Chicago today that Bovino needed an MRI and is on two weeks bedrest for "a groin injury" he sustained during last week's protest

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Matt „Feind im Inneren" L @matt12l.bsky.social · 10h

The social trust issue is huge. Forty plus years of communism in place like Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, etc was immensely destructive of social bonds and public trust. The USSR had 74 years of that plus Stalinism. The subsequent transition did little to change that equation. No trust, no democracy

Matt „Feind im Inneren" L @matt12l.bsky.social · 10h

Yes! My students got mad at me when I used “Minnesota Nice” in a pejorative way!

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