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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 20h

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)

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Andrew Prokop @awprokop.bsky.social · 23h

The Trump-Miller DOJ strategy: "flood the zone with shit."

Target Trump's enemies & opposition with multiple likely doomed prosecutions.

When one fails, move to the next (perhaps against the same person).

Goal isn't conviction, it's putting enemies through the wringer

www.vox.com/politics/464...

Text of Vox article: Watching all this unfold — the weaponization of the US Justice Department, in efforts that mostly seem groundless or doomed — I’ve recalled a phrase Steve Bannon coined during President Donald Trump’s first term. Describing how the right could push back against the mainstream media, Bannon said they had to “flood the zone with shit.”

Trump and Miller, it seems, are trying to target the opposition by flooding the zone with shit. They are going to bring one bogus investigation and prosecution after another. If one flops, they’ll swiftly move on to the next — often, perhaps, against the same people already indicted. (There is already talk in MAGA-land of what else Comey could be charged with, and a separate US attorney’s office is looking into James on other topics.)

The main point is not really to win convictions. Trump’s team would of course love that, but if they wanted to build cases that would actually hold up in court, they’d be going about things very differently.

Instead, the goal is to put Trump’s enemies, and the Democratic opposition more broadly, through the wringer — again, and again, and again until January 2029. Or perhaps even after that.

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 1d

Read @joshuakeating.bsky.social on the Israel-Hamas deal. As welcome as an end to this is, there are grim lessons Israel and other nations could learn from its war of annihilation. www.vox.com/politics/464...

The bleak lesson Israel — and the world — might learn from the peace deal

It’s worth celebrating. But there’s reason to fear what it portends.

www.vox.com

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 4d

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Two years post-massacre, I look back in disbelief. I, too, missed the October 8 surprise

The Hamas Massacre Fomented a Trauma Whose Reverberations Will Be Felt for Decades to Come. But the Ensuing Israeli Campaign of Atrocities in Gaza Destroyed the Foundations on Which the State of Israe...

www.haaretz.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 4d

Ah, God. It's October 7.

Two horrible fucking years.

I don't know what to say that @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and I didn't already say just ten days after it all began:

archive.is/0UsqT

Slate headline: JUDAISM CAN'T JUSTIFY WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING

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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 3d

The Supreme Court fights over whether medical expertise actually exists www.vox.com/politics/463...

The Supreme Court fights over whether medical expertise actually exists

The Supreme Court seems eager to kill state bans on anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy.

www.vox.com

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Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social · 4d

Netanyahu prolonged the war to save himself. It may have worked.
Latest for @vox.com
www.vox.com/politics/463...

Trump’s deal could be a win for Netanyahu, whether or not it succeeds.

Will Israel’s prime minister take the win?

www.vox.com

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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 4d

www.gq.com/story/cfb-ri...

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 7d

As someone who has been reading both Coates and Klein for 15 years, I thought this summary and diagnosis of their disagreement by @andreapitzer.bsky.social was very good and correct. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 8d

RIP to a real one. Spreading the word til the end.
www.vox.com/climate/4634...

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message

Her last interviews are essential listening for everyone.

www.vox.com

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 9d

I have had it with Democratic leadership. Their shutdown strategy is a disaster, the worst of all possible worlds.

If they want to salvage anything from this mess, they need to start talking — loudly and clearly — about fighting Trump's authoritarian takeover

www.vox.com/politics/463...

The Democrats’ shutdown strategy is terrible. Here’s a better one.

Talk less about health care, more about authoritarianism.

www.vox.com

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Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social · 10d

Trump and Hegseth's Quantico gathering was an all-time "meeting that could have been an email." But also seemed to be something of a loyalty test for America's top military commanders www.vox.com/today-explai...

Trump and Hegseth gather the military’s top commanders for a loyalty test

No beards, a warrior ethos — and loyalty to the president.

www.vox.com

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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 10d

The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown www.vox.com/politics/463...

The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown

How do you negotiate with a man who can break his promises at any time?

www.vox.com

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 11d

Trump called yesterday "one of the great days ever in civilization." Uh, easy tiger. Useful reality check from @joshuakeating.bsky.social: www.vox.com/politics/463...

A reality check on Trump’s Gaza peace plan

The president’s relationships with Netanyahu and Putin have something in common.

www.vox.com

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 11d

hear me out: Daniil Bedheadev

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 12d

The Supreme Court's new term begins next week. There are a some looming disasters on their docket. Prepare: www.vox.com/politics/462... by @imillhiser.bsky.social

One mystery, and two looming disasters, in the next Supreme Court term

What the Supreme Court plans to do to America in its upcoming term.

www.vox.com

Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 13d

“At one point the narrator compares critics of Israel to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke. The video also states that Israel was founded “on British land” and refers to the occupied West Bank as ‘Judea and Samaria...’ ” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training

Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 14d

Comey’s indictment is a warning to the Supreme Court justices www.vox.com/politics/463...

Comey’s indictment is a warning to the Supreme Court justices

Dear John, Brett, and Amy: If Trump can come for James Comey, he can come for you.

www.vox.com

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 14d

Never seen OP so I don't have a dog in this fight but I love this hill for you.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 15d

and @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social watched 'All the President's Men' with a critical journalist's eye.

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In conclusion, @flaminghydra.com is the best

subscribe for a mere $3/month

flaminghydra.com/issue-410/#r...

Pesky journalists / Pleasant insects

‘All the President’s Men’ revisited by Diana Moskovitz; Trevor Alixopulos considers L.A.’s friendly green flying objects

flaminghydra.com

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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 15d

Trump’s prosecution of a Democratic lawmaker is a test run for authoritarian rule www.vox.com/politics/462...

Trump’s prosecution of a Democratic lawmaker is a test run for authoritarian rule

Trump’s prosecution of Rep. LaMonica McIver may be the most anti-democratic thing he’s done since January 6.

www.vox.com

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 17d

Moving piece about Gaza, complicity, and resistance in @bostonglobe.com from my friend Noga Malkin, whose grandparents escaped death in Auschwitz. (Paywalled) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/o...

I live up the road from atrocity - The Boston Globe

What’s happening in Gaza is sickening. How do I reconcile the fact that life goes on as normal in Israel?

www.bostonglobe.com

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Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social · 18d

Is the big Palestinian statehood push at the UN this year anything more than "fantasy diplomacy"? www.vox.com/politics/462...

Turning point or political theater? The big push for Palestinian statehood, explained

The war in Gaza has changed the global debate on the two-state solution. But is it too late?

www.vox.com

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 19d

A good way to start this week in America is to catch up on Zack’s piece from Friday: The Trump administration has now shown us all what a fully authoritarian USA under the big guy would look like. 🧵👇

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 21d

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America.

Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.

www.vox.com/politics/462...

This is how Trump ends democracy

The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

www.vox.com

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 19d

Classic antisemitism has been an obvious part of this political program for a decade now, which is to say this isn’t the quiet part loud as much as it is the bass line being moved to the front

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19d

A major fissure within MAGA: the rampant antisemitism. It was tolerated to support Israel and crush Palestinians and Muslims but...here it is.

jewishinsider.com/2025/09/tuck...

In charged eulogy, Tucker Carlson ties Kirk’s assassination to killing of Jesus

Carlson: ‘I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about, ‘What do we do about this guy telling the truth about us?’

jewishinsider.com

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