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Meredith O'Brien
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Boston area writer on news, politics, Red Sox & LiverpoolFC. Novel LOUIE ON THE ROCKS & Multiple Sclerosis anthology UNCOMFORTABLY NUMB 2 are on sale now. mereditheobrien.com
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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 9h
It is and has always been about him. He doesn’t care a whit about the people.
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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 10h
In which the Pentagon continues to clamp down on communication of all kinds while falsely claiming increased transparency.

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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 11h
Jesse Watters Boasts ‘Trump Is So Unconstrained’ That ‘Nothing They Can Do Can Check His Power’
Jesse Watters Boasts ‘Trump Is So Unconstrained’ That ‘Nothing They Can Do Can Check His Power’
Fox News host Jesse Watters boasted on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was "so unconstrained" there was nothing Democrats could do to "check his power." The post Jesse Watters Boasts ‘Trump Is So Unconstrained’ That ‘Nothing They Can Do Can Check His Power’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14h
Trump is head of the DOJ and demanding we pay him $230 million because, though guilty, he forced DOJ to drop the case, and now he is AGAIN a pathetic, whiney VICTIM. L

Every Republican needs to speak up or be asked about this by media. The grifter is grifting.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 12h
It's not "budgetary Twister," it's willfully violating Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution.

Just because President Trump chooses to ignore Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 does not mean that the NYT should pretend Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 does not exist.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 18h
Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.
 
During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 19h
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d
Enslaved people helped build the White House. And the White House is now being destroyed by someone who would likely erase that fact from our history books.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan. Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know. Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect. Halligan: Yes I do. Off record. Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story? Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d
Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23
Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic. Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.
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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 1d
He ruins everything
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d
This is so fucking wrong. He’s just ignored the entire process that must be followed to mess with the peoples’ house. Like he ignores every other rule, norm, & law. I’m so fucking pissed off at his Republican enablers who let him do this. The White House is OUR house. Not his.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d
Even bin Laden didn’t target the White House
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d
Incredible artwork by @4nikkolas.bsky.social.
Original artwork that mimics the famous raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, with the marines replaced by protesters in inflatable animal costumes. The Statue of Liberty and a city landscape are in the background.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 2d
Despite whatever the new Trump-friendly leadership at CBS News is doing, 60 Minutes had a chilling, revelatory story on a top Dept. of Justice lawyer who says he was fired for refusing to support DOJ attorneys lying to judges in deportation cases. WATCH: https://loom.ly/VjKaJPk
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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 1d
Blue states need to use every tool available to resist the lawless actions of this administration that is illegally targeting them, withholding Congressionally-approved funding, and demanding fealty. #bluestates
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 2d
Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d
CHRIS CHRISTIE (a Republican): “This is no longer the Department of Justice. What it is now is a Capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so.”
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 2d
“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 2d
They’re on an extrajudicial killing spree. Accountable to no one.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d
Who could have imagined that firing live artillery rounds over the planet's second busiest roadway might be a bad idea
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NYT - A 155-millimeter shell fired during a live-fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a CHP vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President Vance's protective detail. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us...
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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 2d
I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo

The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game

I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history
NYT on the protests: sixth headline and third photo down. This is Saturday at 8pm WSJ: protests are the top story and photo Wapo: protests are the top story and photo Chicago Tribune: protests are the top story and photo
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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 2d
The New York Times has been complicit for a long while now, but this goes beyond complicity to intentional disinformation.
Front page of the NYT, with two pictures of the biggest protests in American history below the fold and with a story page 23.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump responds to No Kings by posting video depicting him as a king
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