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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

NEW EPISODE: Prof. David Noll joins me to talk about the growing threats to American democracy, the rise of authoritarianism, and how Trump’s second term agenda could erode the rule of law. youtu.be/7FQN2F7aDpc

Is Trump Planning a Military Takeover? | Professor David Noll

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5h

Ellis also says she's modifying the restraining order:

"All agents who are operating in operation midway blitz are to wear body worn cameras and they are to be on."

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings this Saturday, Oct 18

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

What Terry Moran says. I also remember, living in the American South during the Civil Rights movement, the way public figures demonized and attacked civil rights protesters to justify violent police action against them. Trump and his followers are doing exactly the same thing today.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

How Chicago managed to defeat Stephen Miller's propaganda, at least so far.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlv...

Stephen Miller's Fever Dreams

YouTube video by emptywheel

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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 22h

📢 ICYMI: We have a new website! That's it - check it out.

📌 newslit.org

#NewsLiteracy

The News Literacy Project

Get news literacy resources that help you teach media literacy education. Join the News Literacy Project to strengthen critical thinking and spot misinformation

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RAD ArtLady @rdpartlady.bsky.social · 22h

The best antidote for misinformation and disinformation is training and educating people how to discern the truth. Highly recommend The News Literacy Project!!!!!

News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 22h

📢 ICYMI: We have a new website! That's it - check it out.

📌 newslit.org

#NewsLiteracy

The News Literacy Project

Get news literacy resources that help you teach media literacy education. Join the News Literacy Project to strengthen critical thinking and spot misinformation

newslit.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

UPDATE: Remember how we told you @GovBillLee was lying about all the arrests in MEMPHIS being “violent crimes”

@fox13memphis checked. We were right. “VAST MAJORITY non-violent”. Bill was lying 👇🏽

(Now do those “45 missing kids” they rescued 🤔)

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17h

COMMENTARY: Sixteen years after the Balloon Boy hoax, I'm nostalgic for those simpler lies and real consequences for the liars

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 6h

Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.

When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 6h

I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...

The Last Enemy Is Death: Prophetic Visions, AI Slop, and How the Politics of Immortality Could Shape Our Future

How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 5h

www.cnn.com/interactive/...

Americans are losing millions to scammers at crypto ATMs. Here’s how companies profit

Companies often fail to refund money to victims and aggressively fight police to claw back scam money seized from machines.

www.cnn.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 5h

Americans lost over $240 million of their hard-earned savings to crypto ATM scams this year.

The companies running these machines profit while doing little to stop it.

We need rules that protect people, not profits and scammers.

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 5h

Jack Smith on what it means to say No Kings.

Morning Shots featuring @saletan.bsky.social @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social @eggerdc.bsky.social, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/jack-smith...

Jack Smith’s Not-So-Subtle Message

In two recent appearances, the former special counsel explained his view of what it means to say ‘No Kings.’

www.thebulwark.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 5h

In Folkston, Ga., ICE detainees will soon outnumber residents

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

The price of a paycheck: one town's ICE dilemma

The ICE detention center in Folkston, Ga., is expanding to become one of the nation's largest immigrant detention centers. Operated by a private prison corporation GEO Group, it will hold more than 3,...

www.npr.org

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 8h

One immediate way to plug in: join a protest this coming Saturday. I’ll be speaking at this Saturday’s No Kings event in Madison.
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Madison WI · No Kings

**On October 18, we’ll gather in Madison WI to remind President Trump and his enablers: America has No Kings!** **Gather for march** 🕑 **When**: 2:00pm 📍 **Where**: McPike Park, 202 S. Ingersoll St....

www.mobilize.us

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 8h

I’ll have more to announce about my own projects in the coming months. But today, I do want to share one way I’ll be helping: I’m joining Governor Evers, WisDems chair Devin Remiker, and Evers campaign manager Cassi Fenili to support the WisDems Governor Readiness Project.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 8h

Our country is in crisis, and the 2026 Wisconsin Governor’s race is essential to the path out.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h

NEWS: CBS News head of standards Claudia Milne has quit. It was announced in the network’s 9 am editorial meeting. Bari Weiss was not on the call. According to a source, Milne gave thanks but did not say why she’s leaving the network.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 6h

“Congress and the public simply can’t follow what the Trump administration has done with federal spending. And now the fiscal year is over, with untold sums unaccounted for.”

The Administration has no idea what happened to American tax dollars. Sheer incompetence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Not Even Congress Knows How Much Money DOGE Cut

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Alexander @danalexander21.bsky.social · 6h

The FT commissioned a poll of Trump voters, finding that most thought that the president had made less than $100 million while in office, and a third thought he hadn't made anything from the presidency.

His net worth has, in fact, gone up by billions. www.ft.com/content/2ea2...

How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto

The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

www.ft.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23h

Journalists spent months documenting Stephen Miller's affinities for white nationalism and Trump just goes and tweets it out.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Chris Mirasola @chrismirasola.bsky.social · 19h

I can’t overstate how entirely untethered to the constitution and past practice this unilateral move to repurpose funds to pay for military pay is. The commander-in-chief clause has precisely 0 bearing on the ability to expend funds. Here’s a list of authorities that do:

National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-8

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF WAR THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT: Use of

www.whitehouse.gov

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