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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 5h

Trump deserves no credit for this ceasefire - even in a backhanded way. He could have stopped the war this entire past year. If you have to thank someone - and there is little to be thankful for given the ruins of Gaza - please thank the global protest movement.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18h

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...

Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor

Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 3d

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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Left Anchor @leftanchor.bsky.social · 6d

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

longish preview here! www.leftanchor.com/e/nordic-soc...

Nordic Socialism - 367 EXCERPT | Left Anchor

Today we have Danish MP Pelle Dragsted on to talk about his book Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy. We discuss what is distinctive about the Nordic socialist tradition, how much o...

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Left Anchor @leftanchor.bsky.social · 6d

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @pelledragsted.bsky.social on to discuss his book Nordic Socialism: www.patreon.com/posts/140286...

Nordic Socialism | Left Anchor

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 4d

Personally, I always wait until the trains are running to the concentration camps before I decide I’m living under fascism

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 5d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

One of the most melodramatically malevolent federal officials ever to do it. If we live through this he should maybe become a stock villain of Italian theater.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d

These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5d

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Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say

The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

longish preview here! www.leftanchor.com/e/nordic-soc...

Nordic Socialism - 367 EXCERPT | Left Anchor

Today we have Danish MP Pelle Dragsted on to talk about his book Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy. We discuss what is distinctive about the Nordic socialist tradition, how much o...

www.leftanchor.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @pelledragsted.bsky.social on to discuss his book Nordic Socialism: www.patreon.com/posts/140286...

Nordic Socialism | Left Anchor

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ACLU @aclu.org · 7d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 8d

Assata Shakur's story, Marian Jones writes in @teenvogue.com, is "also a reminder of the impact of COINTELPRO, and how it continues to impact activists today through technological surveillance, the criminalization of protest, and the targeting of dissidents." Shakur passed in Cuba on Friday.

Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

www.teenvogue.com

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 9d

the last government shut down was also when trump was president. the first term. it was the longest in history and cost billions of dollars

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 9d

"We're doing ALL the warcrimes"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 10d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 10d

New from @mattduss.bsky.social for @cipolicy.bsky.social: following President Trump’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House, and the Trump administration’s release of a “21-point plan” to end the conflict in Gaza.

Following President Trump’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House, and the Trump administration’s release of a “21-point plan” to end the conflict in Gaza, Matt Duss, Executive Vice-President at the Center for International Policy, released the following statement:

"The world desperately needs an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, whose people have endured unspeakable horror over these past two years. Unfortunately, the 21-point plan released by the Trump administration today, while thankfully walking back from Trump’s previous goal of expelling Gaza’s people, contains numerous opportunities for Netanyahu to renege on his commitments, as he has repeatedly done in the past. It is not clear who has agreed to which terms of Trump’s plan, or whether Trump himself understands what is in it. Trump and Netanyahu’s remarks today were a litany of lies about the last 30 years, not a promising foundation for peace.

"Despite his claim of being close to a deal, Trump's statement that Israel will have 'full US backing' to "'finish the job' in Gaza if his plan is not agreed to stood out most clearly. This would be more of what we have seen not only the last nine months, but the last two years, as the United States has unconditionally armed and subsidized a genocide in Gaza."

"The path to a desperately needed peace remains the same as it has for nearly two years: using leverage and pressure on Israel to achieve a ceasefire that stops its atrocities, frees all hostages, ends the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and supports a real path to Palestinian liberation, without which the region will not know real security."

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 11d

Play dead and they will leave us alone is the most unmoored from reality political position imaginable.

Until All of Us Are Free @solidarity5ever.bsky.social · 11d

Read the entire interview with Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehesi Coates and what strikes me most is that Ezra Klein's greatest desire is for order, a negative peace - the absence of tension. And he wants people demanding justice to stop so that we can get order.

Until All of Us Are Free @solidarity5ever.bsky.social · 11d

Why does Ezra Klein think politics ✨should✨ be a "calming force"? In an ideal world our political mechanisms would preclude violence, but that doesn't necessarily mean "calming". I'm actually confused here.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 11d

Excluding power from your analysis of politics will always mean failing to make sense of things.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 11d

The right seeks hegemony, not persuasion.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11d

The viziers are obviously running him with selected propaganda clippings to sell him on THEIR model(s) for fascist endgame, like taking on an imaginary network of Antifa terrorists.

But of course the problem is he can still hop on the phone with Oregon and, oops. Vizier fiction ruptured

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11d

His apparently canceling the War on Portland is fascinating because along with medbeds, it's proof he simply cannot clock the difference between reality and his own team's agitprop anymore.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11d

I went into today pretty sure we were in fascist consolidation end game phase.

I'm leaving today still pretty sure we're in fascist consolidation end game phase, but also increasingly convinced that the Fascist Strongman is confused about it and keeps calling off the viziers' end game chess moves.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 11d

how it’s done

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 12d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 13d

How is one allowed to speak at the UN when that same person has an arrest warrant out for their war crimes, and the UN’s own commission has declared that this person is perpetrating a genocide

Does anyone understand how insane it looks that these two things are allowed to happen simultaneously

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