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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve seen posts claiming this “truth” is evidence of dementia, but IMO that’s not the right frame. This is strategy. Since 2021, the right has been rewriting history, bending timelines, to connect their grievances (Covid) and conspiracy theories (Jan 6, censorship, etc) to the Biden administration.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 1h

I’m sort of in love with you now.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1h

👇🎯 The dumb part isn't even the "ratio me" bit or the "horse race bet" framing. It that's everyone speaking out about Weiss bc she keeps offering the most transparent grift ever & we keep seeing folks fall for it. The hed is a total straw man.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 1h

Ratio me. It’s a badge of honor. Oooooo yes I like it when you ratio me. Ooh now ratio me harder yessss. Now ratio me while the neighbors watch. Ok now wearing that costume. Yessss.

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you for telling me that. I feel better. He’s such a reptile. I didn’t know anything about him prior to this administration. But I find him just as odious as Miller.

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Steve Johnson @stevevj.bsky.social · 19h

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 2h

Democrats should NEVER have voted to confirm that fanatical bastard. But better late than never. (And yes, I know he would likely have been confirmed regardless).

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

This unwell man, who was President of the United States, is trying to rewrite history.

Nice try, Don. Biden wasn’t president on January 6, 2021. I would say even his own voters can’t be this gullible, but…

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 2h

Apparently Vance’s, too. Not enough bad things can happen to J. Divans, and they can’t happen soon enough.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

We fired people we had no reason or budgetary need to fire and we actually screwed up and fired the wrong people and then rehired them the next day and all because of Chuck Schumer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 2h

Very valuable and true thread.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 7h

The niche of my law practice is representing women, minorities and whistleblowers in vindicating their civil rights in employment.

Having done this work for years now, I have come to understand something that I feel like sharing this morning:

White people and Black people have a VERY different

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 2h

I am not saying it’ll be easy, or that perfection is possible. Weird gaps in employment, slips of the tongue, etc. I am just going to strive to not accommodate those people, ever. I am turning my back on those people, forever, as best I can. I am shunning them.

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 2h

Such fucking horseshit. Especially for a court that has tossed precedent in the trash. I mean, fuck you, Amy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 2h

And she thinks she’s a good Christian. Of course, I suppose she might be right.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 6h

Trump is TERRIFIED as NO KINGS PROTEST GETS BIGGER

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Trump is TERRIFIED as NO KINGS PROTEST GETS BIGGER

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, yes, I figured it out eventually. But so dumb

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 7h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

The One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, Schoolmarm Johnson

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 6h

The perennial problem with Trump these days is it's hard to tell if he's speaking from dementia or just lying again.

I think that's one reason the press doesn't know how to cover it. It's unclear if he's really this deluded/forgetful, or if he's just lying.

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Trump Forgets He Was President During Capitol Riot, Blames ‘THE BIDEN FBI’ for Jan. 6 in Dead-of-Night Post

President Donald Trump blamed the Capitol riot on former President Joe Biden, claiming that “THE BIDEN FBI” had placed agents in the crowd that had assembled in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6. 2021.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 20h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 15h

You are nicer than I am.

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