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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 2h

It is not a "middle ground" to suggest Chicago is so violent that requires military intervention. It's an appalling lie.

He's pushing Trump's lie. It's really f'd up.

abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

Chicago voted best big city by Condé Nast readers for 9th straight year

For the ninth straight year, Chicago has been voted the best big city in the U.S. by Condé Nast readers.

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 2h

If Thom Tillis is suggesting that there is "abject failure" in Democratic states that requires masked soldiers attacking people in the middle of the night in their apartments, he's lying.

Chicago is a world-class city.

There is NO city in American that requires military intervention.

Nick DiCo @nickdico.bsky.social · 21h

An interesting middle ground Sen. Tillis is trying to strike and pull out of Director Bondi on National Guard deployments in Chicago.

What’s curious is Tillis doesn’t address why crime happens and why law enforcement is short staffed. youtu.be/ITCzt3yXvYY?...

#bondi #tillis #ncpol #congress

WATCH: Tillis tells Bondi he's 'having a real struggle' with National Guard deployed to U.S. cities

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Nick DiCo @nickdico.bsky.social · 21h

An interesting middle ground Sen. Tillis is trying to strike and pull out of Director Bondi on National Guard deployments in Chicago.

What’s curious is Tillis doesn’t address why crime happens and why law enforcement is short staffed. youtu.be/ITCzt3yXvYY?...

#bondi #tillis #ncpol #congress

WATCH: Tillis tells Bondi he's 'having a real struggle' with National Guard deployed to U.S. cities

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

youtu.be

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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 2d

Portland is not a war zone.
Chicago is not a war zone.
LA was not a war zone.
DC was not a war zone.

This weekend, the president of the United States stood in front of the United States Navy, and said that people that didn’t vote for him were “enemies from within.”

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 9h

Portland! A war zone!
Just look:

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Donald Parker @donaldparker.bsky.social · 2d

Over 21,000 at a Portland Thorns women's soccer match last night in Portland, Oregon.

Nope, not a war zone.

#thisisportland

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 2h

I laugh every time I see this video and so feel compelled to share the fun that can happen in a falsely defined "war" zone.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Markwayne Mullin -- an idiot who once challenged a Senate witness to a fistfight, a dishonest broker who repeatedly claimed Democrats wanted to give health insurance to undocumented immigrants, a partisan hack who *today* said Democrats are "supporting violence" -- is their point man here?

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

lol, lmao, sure, okay

The person close to the White House said the administration has informally deputized Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to serve as a conduit to Democrats. Asked about the arrangement, Mullin said, “I don’t have a badge,” and otherwise declined to discuss whether he was briefing the administration on bipartisan Senate talks.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15h

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 2h

(Idly wishing people would read up on the history of the 20th century.)

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 2h

we talk a lot about a crisis of children and young people, but based on how catastrophically the grownups have run things into the ground over the past few decades, I'd say the real crisis is one of adulthood

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 14h

And George W. Bush remains silent on everything Trump is doing…

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17h

This is so dark

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 50 news and media organizations have signed an amicus brief supporting AP in the ongoing legal case over White House press access. storage.courtlistener.com/rec...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h

Oppenheimer got a lot of praise for depicting rapid pursuit of a dangerous new technology that, once unleashed, cannot be undone, which many compared to AI. But it turned out the movies’s timeliest, most currently relevant historical analogy was in depicting McCarthyism.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

It’s nice to have an unofficial “Chief of Staff” who likes to travel everywhere with you to provide advice and counsel. bsky.app/profile/patr...

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 17h

Kristi Noem brought Corey Lewandowski along on her work trip to Portland

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 5h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Dwight D. Longtorso @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 16h

Kavanaugh’s obituary will be headlined:

“Kavanaugh Stops.”

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 6h

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

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

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 9h

Visiting UK for the fall, where they’re having their own f-word debate. But that’s just the problem: it’s more than a word. Media’s semantic dodge of a concept, fascist, that may be (is) a fact, the acknowledgment of which wld require a paradigm shift in coverage.

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9h

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 3h

"I hope he will put [the $50,000] on his tax returns as income."

–– Sen. Hirono

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

SEN. HIRONO: “Did you approve shutting down the bribery investigation into Homan?”

BONDI: “Are you Antifa?” 🤡

(That’s a yes)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

SEN. HIRONO: “Did you approve shutting down the bribery investigation into Homan?”

BONDI: “Are you Antifa?” 🤡

(That’s a yes)

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 3h

Terrifying times.