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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 5h

Portions of the DeSantis crew are trying to pivot to this (I think because they see the direction some of the wind is blowing) and like, no, you willingly hired guys you were aware knew what a sonnenrad was and would put it in a campaign ad for the lulz

Sure you fired him after he did it, but cmon

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 5h

Also, the right keeps saying things like they were “infiltrated” by groypers. Like, no, you willingly hired these guys either deliberately ignorant or willing to tolerate who they are

Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sorry for the people in the article just now realizing it, but it's been clear for a while that some of the big institutions like Heritage have been staffed by what we used to call neo-nazis.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

I simply don’t understand the minds of people like Bari Weiss

how fucked up do you have to be to spend all your time pretending you’re a Real Journalist and then you get put in charge of a huge media outlet and immediately do propaganda

yeah, yeah, the hypocrisy is the point, but fucking hell

LaCiuraRaffaele @laciuraraffaele.bsky.social · 16h

Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened newrepublic.com/post/202618/...

Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened

Donald Trump apparently feels he can now dictate CBS News’s content.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11h

Remember: Elon Musk saw a man distributing child sexual abuse material on Twitter, and insisted that the team restore that man's account on the service, and begin *paying that person to be on the service*. The person who distributed the abuse material is still on there, and Musk follows him.

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Gosh Jake Tapper must be beside himself

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, that brings me so much more comfort

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 1d

i am coming around to the idea of "less than 10 groupchats govern 30-40% of the value of the entire S&P 500"

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

it's kind of bleak watching the UK right-wing radicalize itself on X in real time

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of those inconvenient truths: it’s a lot easier for various well-paid strategists and pundits to advise “stop saying Latinx” (a non-issue) versus “substantively change the media environment and people’s online consumption habits”

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

woof

In the months after Harris’ loss, much was made over the demographic shifts in the party. Young voters, Hispanic voters and Black voters — all central to the Democratic coalition — had moved substantially to the right. But Priorities’ post-election polling revealed an equally staggering swing: Between 2020 and 2024, people who consumed at least three hours of YouTube a day had moved 10 points toward Trump — a bigger swing than Black voters, Black men, young voters and a slew of other categories that were dominating headlines.

“The driver of behavior in ‘24 was so much more about your media consumption,” Butterfield said.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 2d

What the Russian and American governments have in common is they don't so much govern as produce content in place of governing.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

Still of Dept of Defense video posted to X showing Pete Hegseth and a marine flipping a tire.

Post text:

Early morning PT with the Secretary of War. This is what READINESS looks like.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 2d

It never stops being morbidly hilarious how Americans reelected Trump in part as a "YOU CAN'T ****ING TELL ME WHAT THE **** TO DO" backlash against real or imagined middle management PMC types, and now Trump has built a regime out of every single unique flavor of nightmare middle management despot.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

It's genuinely impressive how Pete cannot see his job as anything other than Toxic Terminal O-4 behavior with Fox Anchor Characteristics

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

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potatoffel @potatoffel.bsky.social · 2d

Think they just heresy-maxxing at this point

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 2d

A rather dramatic update: Ynet reports that Israeli police is now searching for former IDF AG, who has been declared missing.

Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 4d

Allow me to summarize:
1. 5 IDF soldiers caught sexually molesting a Palestinian prisoner.
2. IDF files charges.
3. IDF AG faces enormous pressure from government to drop charges. Mob storms base where it happened.
4. IDF AG leaks video documenting the molestation.
5. IDF AG pushed out (continued)

IDF's legal chief resigns over suspected involvement in Gaza detainee abuse video leak

In a Statement Friday Morning, Defense Minister Israel Katz Cited the 'Severity of the Suspicions' Against Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi in the Sde Teiman Affair, Saying She Won't Be Reinstated. Sh...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

Embrace the healing power of 'and' - GWOT-era targeting, especially for drone strikes, was often excessively permissive AND it is the case that current Venezuelan boat strikes would, so far as I can tell, not have been permitted under that framework (not the least because there's no valid AUMF).

Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 2d

No, 3 hops was not standard signals intelligence procedure, targeting didn’t work like that, never.

Stop it.

You’re trivializing a major change in American military affairs.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

media elites have talked themselves into a weird bind, where liberalism is so much the default that simultaneously a) it doesn't need defending but also b) any defeat no matter how marginal must refute it completely

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 10d

Comparing the relation between the presidential election results in 2020 and 2024 with the post-election commentary is a fascinating exercise.

2020
Biden 81,283,501 popular votes, 51.3%
Trump 74,223,975 popular votes 46.8%

2024
Trump 77,302,580 49.8%
Harris 75,017,613. 48.3%

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 2d

my question is still, what is the actual pathway to being a republican of age 22 that doesnt intersect with all this stuff

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling

The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

www.theatlantic.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3d

One of the biggest problems with generational framing in median and political discourse is how it so often does not grapple with idelogical diversity within cohorts.

Boomers produced Enoch fans and New Left, Gen X saw Thatcherites and Punks, Millennials had Boris cult and Corbynites and so on

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 4d

An inconvenient truth. @turnbulldugarte.com and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social puncture a pervasive myth. ‬ "Among young respondents aged 18-25, a very comfortable majority of women reject Reform UK (75%), and a similarly large majority of men in the same age group share the same view (71%)."

Most British young men reject the far right - UK in a changing Europe

Emilia Belknap and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte explain their analysis on the demographics of Reform UK voters in the UK. They argue that while the dominant narrative is that young men are the most likely ...

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potatoffel @potatoffel.bsky.social · 3d

Mientras no hagan streaming de La Liga están a salvo

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3d

We in the UK will work out far too late that this is a bad thing.

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 4d

NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 4d

When you build your entire career around a strategy of denial in the First Island Chain and then your bosses pick a totally different island chain.

a man is sitting in a crowd of people with his hands on his hips and looking at something .

ALT: a man is sitting in a crowd of people with his hands on his hips and looking at something .

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 4d

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

CBS News kills its climate unit

David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 4d

The dirty secret is that everyone loves the FB because it’s the best insulation against doing dumb shit that the house can’t stop itself from doing.

“Oh gosh yeah I’m sorry can’t pass the GLONZO Act guys, the filibuster you know”

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 4d

Thune, Curtis, Barasso, Tillis and Murkowski all agreeing on the same thing and being willing to publicly flout Trump means not only do Rs not have the votes, they probably don't even have a majority of their conference vaguely interested.

Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 4d

The only constituency the filibuster benefits is moderate Republicans, so ML Leader Thune shot down Pres. Trump real quick, www.politico.com/news/2025/10.... Part of this dynamic is the only set of people President Trump hates more that Democrats is country-club Republicans.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 4d

“zero” is still a racial quota.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss makes a clean sweep, firing all women, Blacks and Hispanics in high-profile positions at CBS News. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Gayle King expected to depart ‘CBS Mornings’ in latest restructure: report

King, who has fronted the broadcaster’s morning show for over a decade, is expected to step down from her anchor role on next year, according to a report

www.independent.co.uk

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 4d

And there it is. Platner mainly is this pet project for this consultant group, finally their own candidate to test their theory and they were so eager to test it (and so arrogant in believing nothing will stop them) that they overlooked all the downsides.

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 4d

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