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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4h

substack.com/@mollyjongfa...

Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast)

I wrote about peaceful pushback and dubai chocolate

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5h

It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.

Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5h

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

Oh god

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

🤷🏼

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

Why?

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 20h

Anyway we're bailing out Argentina

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19h

Correct

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Rogan on Trump’s cruel mass deportations, racially profiling non-criminals and ripping apart families: “This is crazy. That shows no heart. You’re not gonna get any reasonable people to go along with that. Any kind person would go ‘this can’t be the only way to do this’.”

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19h

Cool system.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20h

I’m shocked

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 20h

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20h

These people are just not smart

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Omg

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Why?

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Every single word in this piece is important

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

So many normal people being brave and then all these wealthy and powerful people being cowards. History will not be kind to the people like shari Redstone who enabled Trump.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Indiana GOP’s seat-stealing push is stalling… while @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s California Clapback is gaining steam.

punchbowl.news/article/camp...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Greg Abbott is a lackey of Donald Trump.

He’s going against exactly what he said he would do last year.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Not how I remember it

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is not great

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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