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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 5h

Megan McArdle took all of nine months to move from reluctant Harris voter to full regime apologist.

Must have something to do with being unemployable in any competitive position.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

A really old trick conservatives use is to accuse liberals of supporting an idea that would make sense under liberal values but that liberals don't actually support for tactical reasons. So you face a choice of either accepting the false accusation or you argue against your own values.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 12h

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 9h

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 18h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 12h

They found the perp; now they have to find the evidence.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 12h

It's a full-on mass psychosis.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 12h

Summary judgment for all of them, including the cameraman.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 13h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 1d

Consistent with the below, @jaketapper.bsky.social’s defense of why he knew and liked Bari Weiss in an interview with @timmiller.bsky.social today is that Weiss reached out and got his daughter an op-ed in the NYT.

Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting stuff here:

‪Clay Risen‬@risenc.bsky.social‬
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Nice. If I may add 2 cents: The real reason BW quit the Times was that as soon as Katie Kingsbury took over from James Bennet, she told her she could no longer commission and edit articles. She could only write. But commissioning articles was key to her grift. I mean literally …
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Clay Risen‬@risenc.bsky.social‬
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She promoted herself among certain circles as the key to getting into the Times. Which is one reason why I and others blocked so many of her commissioned pieces (one reason: they were also terrible). She said it was our deep ideological bias against conservatives…
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Clay Risen‬ ‪@risenc.bsky.social‬
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What so many of us found offensive about that is that our esprit de corps was based on not being ideologically biased (to a fault, if anything — pobody’s nerfect). It was so obvious that it was all a grift, and that it would end badly, with her defenestrating all the people she had sucked up to …

‪Clay Risen‬ ‪@risenc.bsky.social‬
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along the way. When Katie K told her to pound sand, the next step was inevitable. My only surprise was how quickly she bounced back, and how much higher. I believe one of my colleagues said she “won.” Um, maybe…

Clay Risen@risenc.bsky.social‬
Anyway, Liz makes a lot of great points here and perhaps she’s right, but also, never underestimate a master at her craft.

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting stuff here:

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 16h

Does anyone remember (or know of) the tumblr blogger Tom Oatmeal from the peak internet years?

LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 17h

There's also the part of the story where every media head surely knew about this shit and didn't report on it.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 18h

The story now is that 22 years ago someone perfectly captured Trump's speech patterns and crutch phrases to forge a cryptically porny birthday letter to his pedophile BFF in Sharpie with his exact familiar signature and kept it secret through three successive Presidential campaigns.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 17h

A near-majority of the country already hallucinates the most batshit insane stuff. If I had to estimate, I'd bet close to 1/3rd of the population would fully believe an AI video of vampires eating people was real, if generated as security cam or bodycam footage.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 17h

I have to say: this is the way. Make them gas you in the inflatable unicorn costumes.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

#WarRavagedPortland

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 17h

Pumpernickel? I barely know her!

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 18h

The defenses will be: "I haven't seen it." Followed by "it's AI." Followed by "it's AI and if it's real, it's actually good."

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 18h

If the epstein files include a video of Trump molesting a teenager, the over/under on the number of Republicans who will break is 3.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18h

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe it's just anecdotal but it seems like every person who has been married 4 times is a Trump supporter.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 19h

X pickled brains. People aren't ready for the AI propaganda revolution and the effect it will have on otherwise normal people.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 1d

It's funny how this stuff doesn't pierce the veil. As soon as I saw something like this from a source I trusted, I'd be done forever.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 1d

Summary judgments for all of them.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 1d

I've said this before but there's basically no way a guy like Mike Lee can believe in hell and be who he is.

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