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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

With Larry Ellison in control of TikTok, we now have right-wingers or looney far-right wingers in control of most of the major social media platforms.

Right-Wing Moguls Dominate Social Media. One Legal Fix Can Help Stem the Tide.

Revising Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act would make outlets more accountable for the content they platform.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9h

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

TikTok video by Ms RK

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 9h

They have to have a backup plan to the "dangerous immigrants" narrative. They have one. They've literally created a "terrorist group" out of thin air. I mean, you can't be having free and fair elections with "enemies from within," like the "Antifa Terrorist" group running around. It's a pretext.

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 1d

Here's hoping there will actually be consequences to some of the treasonous behavior.

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Mommytlc💙🌊🌊💙 @mommytlc.bsky.social · 7h

They sure don't.

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Mommytlc💙🌊🌊💙 @mommytlc.bsky.social · 7h

She sure is!

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Mommytlc💙🌊🌊💙 @mommytlc.bsky.social · 7h

Yep

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 9h

Bondi is lying but it’s worse than that: she’s blurring the line between fact and fiction for the GOP base. If nothing is true, no one can be held accountable. Keep speaking the truth.

The Nine Principles of Propaganda
1. LIE BIG Big lies work better than small because the masses won't believe that anyone would lie "about that."
2. FOCUS Don't make it complicated, ignore history, keep it simple for simple minds.
3. REPEAT People cannot tell the difference between facts and
familiarity. If they hear the same words repeated enough, they become true in their minds.
4. BLAME Never credit the other side, always blame, debase, defame, and dehumanize.
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5. PROVOKE Outrage, fear, and resentment are more powertul than reason, logic, or facts.
6. CRISIS Issues must be lite or death, good vs evil, love vs hate, us vs them.
Urgency defeats objection.
7. EMOTION A person might question facts, but they will never question their own feelings. Go emotional.
8. PANDER Ignore reasonable arguments, demonize all who disagree as having bad intentions.
9. NO LIMITS Morality is for losers. The victor's morality will not be questioned. No limits.

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Mommytlc💙🌊🌊💙 @mommytlc.bsky.social · 7h

That gunman was a MAGA!

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One Liberal Citizen @onelibcitizen.bsky.social · 9h

Fun fact a scumbag MAGAt murdered Melissa Hortman 🤡

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Mommytlc💙🌊🌊💙 @mommytlc.bsky.social · 7h

She's so incredibly unqualified for her job.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 10h

These do not look like police videos. They look like campaign ones." I spoke about DHS's glossy, military like videos. The deportations are for the camera. @cnn.com @zbyronwolf.bsky.social

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

Analysis: DHS leans into propaganda with militaristic action videos | CNN Politics

When helicopters descended on a Chicago apartment building last week with federal agents kitted out in military gear, locals saw a terrifying escalation in the federal government’s incursion into Chic...

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 11h

They don’t want you to realize that the House has been on a weeks-long paid vacation because they’re scared of a vote to release the Epstein Files.

What are they trying to hide?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16h

As far as I can tell, the case with Letitia James is one where she told them a specific thing and the mortgage lender checked a different box and it didn't get caught.

This is the kind of shit that could happen to literally anyone, and I have two thoughts.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 9h

For the record, mockery is a perfectly effective form of resistance against ICE.

They want us to be violent so they can put pictures on Facebook and justify a forceful response with their base. They can't do that with an inflatable unicorn costume.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 9h

Three cheers for MIT. When the White House tried to buy obedience with funding strings...MIT said, “Hell No!” Merit over mandates. Freedom over control. Finally...an institution with the guts to tell power where to shove its politics.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

School performance, graduation rates, and proficiency are all making strides in Illinois.

We know that here we can’t abandon the pursuit of academic excellence.

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