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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 4d

And important statistics. According to the Center for Global Decelopment, defunding USAID is killing about 2.5 million people annually, a Hitler-level toll. Where are the headlines?

And according to the OECD, 28% of American adults are functionally illiterate.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d

If I Ran the Media™
Fewer stories on:
—How Dems Need to Change Their Messaging
—How [event xx] Will Play w [voter bloc YY]
—How 2028 Field Is Shaping Up

More of:
—Which points of resistance are actually working
—What specifically GOP Reps/Sens are so afraid of
—Real-world tariff/immig effects
—ETC

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Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 4d

These discussions often omit illiteracy. The OECD estimates that 28% of working-age American adults are functionally illiterate, and 54% read at or below the sixth-grade level. If you cannot read, you are not going to be a fan of Heather Cox Richardson.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5d

Whether it's Republicans flagrantly abusing Articles One and Two of the Constitution or Democrats being bad at messaging, both parties are pushing America to the brink.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 5d

Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷‍♀️

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Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 6d

What this sounds like: If I don’t get the precise kind of soda I prefer, I will just have to drink bleach instead.

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Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 6d

Douthat is still deeply concerned about the censorship and authoritarianism perpetrated by the left.

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Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 6d

There is a bit of more or less leftist violence, but no Democratic leaders are inciting it or defending it.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6d

ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash.

Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social

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On August 27, 2025, Petitioner was arrested at the Carson Car Wash in Carson,
California by uniformed Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) officers and unidentified
plainclothes federal agents. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 3. During the arrest,
Petitioner sustained severe leg injuries. See Pet. ¶ 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 5. He was
handcuffed and transported by CBP to the emergency room at Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center in Carson, California. Id.
At the hospital, Petitioner was admitted under a “blackout” procedure for patients
in law-enforcement custody and was registered under the pseudonym “Har Maine UNK
Thirteen.” Santiago Decl. ¶ 7. Federal agents remained at Petitioner’s bedside during
admission, transfer to non-public treatment areas, and throughout his stay, keeping him
handcuffed to his hospital bed. Id. ¶ 6.
On or about August 27, 2025, CBP transferred custody of Petitioner to ICE. See Pet.
¶ 48. He remains detained at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center under the supervision of ICE,
which has contracted with Spectrum Detention Services (“Spectrum”) to provide guards.
See Santiago Decl. ¶ 8; Pet. ¶ 48.
Since that date, two to four uniformed guards—either Spectrum employees or ICE
agents—have been continuously stationed in Petitioner’s hospital room, monitoring him at
all times, including while he sleeps, eats, uses the restroom, or receives medical care. See
Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 9–10.

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Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 7d

Dana Perino: birthright citizenship is “a loophole.”

Reporters: Magda Goebbels has a delightful new beach house.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7d

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

From the New York Times: Breaking news: U.S. attacks Venezuelan boat for fourth time, challenging legal bounds

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Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 7d

I guess their jobs are to smooth the path to totalitarianism, normalizing GOP crime and violence while getting hysterical about non-issues like the Clinton Global Initiative, Hillary’s emails, and Joe Biden’s malapropisms.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8d

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting
the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 8d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
@DilanianMSNBC
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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d

More or less every single event in 🇺🇸 politics this week lays bare the utterly abject poverty of the “Democrats Talk Funny & this alienates Real Folkz & they must moderate & focus on Kitchen Table Issues” Discourse™️. No one even bothers to pretend to expect this of the GOP 🤷‍♂️

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 8d

Remember when Hillary Clinton called some Trump supporters “deplorable“?

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d

I would like to know how we can identify the specific persons at CNN who researched, wrote, edited, and approved this and hang it around their necks for the rest of their professional lives.

Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 8d

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

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Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 8d

One irony is that all of this is an immense distraction from actual police work on actual crime. While Trump’s Gestapo rounds up innocent, productive immigrants, Trump and Bukele are literally in a covert alliance with MS-13.

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Madame Brie-ota 🔮 @briesmith.xyz · 9d

“For I was a stranger, and you deported me, for I was without papers.” Matthew 25:35 (The Trump Bible)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

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