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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 5h

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Venezuelan opposition leader dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump for ‘decisive support’

“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause,” she wrote in a post on X.

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 5h

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Peace Prize Winner Has Supported Trump’s Military Actions in the Caribbean

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 5h

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Peace Prize Winner Has Supported Trump’s Military Actions in the Caribbean

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 5h

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Peace Prize Winner Has Supported Trump’s Military Actions in the Caribbean

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 5h

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado hails Trump for restoring ‘democracy and freedom in the Americas’

The Venezuelan opposition leader dedicated her award to President Trump and his “decisive support” of democracy in the South American nation.

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 5h

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado hails Trump for restoring ‘democracy and freedom in the Americas’

The Venezuelan opposition leader dedicated her award to President Trump and his “decisive support” of democracy in the South American nation.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20h

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 1d

Rock out with your c*cks out, Portland.
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Via womenspf

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 21h

I'm old enough to remember last week when Joe Scarborough said trump was "winning" on immigration.

Time after time, again and again Joe Scarborough is wrong and has to walk back or try to justify his previous position on every single issue.

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 22h

It wasn't "really bad" in 2020.

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 22h

a man in a suit and tie stands next to a man in a red and white shirt that says emirates

ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands next to a man in a red and white shirt that says emirates

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 22h

a man in a suit and tie stands next to a man in a red and white shirt that says emirates

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

Call me old school, but I don't think a person illegally blowing up boats and unleashing masked goons on his citizens would be a serious candidate for a peace prize.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

actually we would be better off as a country if the obama administration had prosecuted the bush administration. ditto biden to trump. we're in a mess in large part because democrats were too chickenshit to do the right thing.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

“What we don’t want to become the norm is where people think, ‘OK, there’s a new administration, now everyone in the old administration gets prosecuted. That’s an incredibly dangerous cycle where nobody wins.”

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Experts fear impact of deepening polarization and perceived political prosecutions

Reforms enacted after Watergate to bolster public confidence in the impartiality of prosecutions are proving dated and ineffective, legal experts warn.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2d

Teachers do the real work.

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 2d

Nope. Chicago too.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

“I wish I could be the guy who says, ‘everyone calm down; things have been just as bad before, and we got through it.’ But I can’t be that reasonable-sounding moderate floating above it all. Things are very bad. People should be far more alarmed than they are.”

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The Emerging Shape of American Politics

Dynamism v. Reaction / Open v. Closed

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3d

Even if Democrats end up back in the White House they will start babbling about unity and moving forward and no one will go to jail for any of this shit. So yeah. She doesn't fear any consequences because Democrats have given her no reason to

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3d

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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