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

Peyton Gresham @ownerofh.bsky.social · 9d

If you were the current version of Daniel Ellsberg and you had today's equivalent of The Pentagon Papers (I think we can imagine what they might be) and wanted to release them, would you go to any of the remaining major American newspapers to do so? Sadly, the answer is definitely not.

Nital Patel @logic-getsome.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks. 100% agree about The Guardian and ProPublica. The problem with NYT, WaPo, WSJ (and LA Times) is how opinion bleeds into news analysis. The way news is framed, which stories are deemed worthy, and what is left out of coverage elide truth to the extent that we don’t even have a shared reality.

Peyton Gresham @ownerofh.bsky.social · 10d

Back in 2015-2016, I can remember supposedly good journalists, one of whom happened to go to my alma mater, saying stuff like "Well, the Trump people say that 2+2 = 5" and practically wanting to slit my wrists. Please, journalists, call terrible human beings what they are.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13d

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

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Peyton Gresham @ownerofh.bsky.social · 11d

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Meet My New Boss. He’s Such a Good Dog.

For years as a remote worker, I resisted the idea of a structured workday. But Thomas Truffle has forced me to see things differently.

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Peyton Gresham @ownerofh.bsky.social · 11d

#SundaySentence #SmallCountry by #GaelFaye Translated by #SarahArdizzone "Thanks to my reading,I had broken free from the limits of our street and was able to breathe again;the world seemed bigger now,extending beyond the fences that encouraged us to turn in on ourselves, huddled up with our fears."

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 18d

#Readers, what's the best sentence you read this week? Share at #SundaySentence!

Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:

We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.

A paperback copy of HOPE IN THE DARK by Rebecca Solnit, with sunlight beaming across the black and white cover.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18d

(For the record, I don't believe Biden was addled -- all the "autopen" stuff is RW paranoic nonsense -- but the point still stands: a Dem Party running on automatic will just keep helping people & boosting the economy. A GOP running on automatic devolves toward fascism.)

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Peyton Gresham @ownerofh.bsky.social · Sep 23

The fact that a single person so much as contemplated voting for Trump in 2016 was almost enough for me to lose all faith in humanity. He speaks for all of 5 seconds, and one can tell he has the intellect of a gnat and as much humanity as an amoeba.

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Sep 23

“I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.”

To the people of the world who wonder if there are Americans who grasp how mad he is: There are. We can see it. We are working to mobilize our people to oppose him and his dangerous regime.

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Peyton Gresham @ownerofh.bsky.social · Sep 23

I call my 3 month old golden retriever pup, with love of course, "My little piranha." Goodness, her mouthiness. But like her predecessor, who was just as mouthy at that age, she is going to be a great one.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 18

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · Sep 21

Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, took $50,000 in cash in a bag from undercover FBI agents as part of a bribery scheme.

Trump’s DOJ dropped the investigation.

The sleaze and corruption is mind-boggling.

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Reports: Justice Department closed probe into Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, for accepting bag of cash | CNN Politics

Tom Homan, now the president’s border czar, was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash by undercover FBI agents in an investigation the Trump Justice Department later closed, The New ...

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · Sep 15

I have to always remember the Average American doesnt read books to learn so they have no idea whats happening

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · Sep 12

"The regime worked very hard to tell the working class of Poland that the resisters were all Jews, paid agents of the CIA or outsiders in some way."
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Dissent

The best books on dissent, recommended by acclaimed author and history professor at Yale University, Timothy Snyder. He tells us what today’s dissidents can learn from the experience of Eastern…

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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · Sep 11

A democracy that defends itself

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil

Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election

Story by Tom Phillips

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Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil

Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Sep 12

What centrist libs can't seem to internalize is that the US contains a large, longstanding, well-funded political movement that *wants political violence and authoritarianism*. It does not need to be provoked in any way in order to pursue those goals.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · Sep 13

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Sep 10

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · Sep 10

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · Sep 8

Interesting to see if this one gets the protection usually afforded to Banksy works

A man in legal robes and wig, on his phone, walks past Banksy painting that shows man in legal robes and wig using a gavel on a cowering protester on the ground. There appears to be blood on the proterster's placard.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Sep 3

literal lunatics are in charge of public health right now

Florida to end vaccine mandates for children as surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’

Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · Sep 2

I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Aug 30

We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.

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Peyton Gresham @ownerofh.bsky.social · Aug 28

Please treat it like you are cross examining a murderer. Except treat him with less respect.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Aug 27

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Aug 23

Wonder how we got into this mess? It’s stories like these that normalize authoritarianism with “fun” takes on Trump taking on “dream” roles. Major media fail.
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Donald Trump fulfills a dream role: Big city mayor

The president’s showy effort to “clean up” D.C. crime, street lights and even the Kennedy Center has ruffled city leaders who say he has overstepped his authority.

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Peyton Gresham @ownerofh.bsky.social · Aug 17

Every country has the same basic spectrum of people, the same basic psychologies. The people who empowered Trump are the same people who brought Pinochet to Chile, Duterte to The Philippines, Mussolini to Italy, Trujillo to the Dominican Republic, and, yes, Hitler to Germany. #AmericanFascists

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 16

NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby.

This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday).

What the hell is happening to the US?

(🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)

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