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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 11m

Oh yeah he’s healthy. Ridiculously healthy. In fact, he’s the healthiest human being in all of history. You can dig up any corpse, and he’s healthier than him. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump, 79, Going for ‘Yearly’ Health Check After Just Six Months

The annual checkup is the second this year as speculation on the president’s health swirls.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

Color blind and merit based bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

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 · 20h

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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17h

This is who they are.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 17h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 19h

Right wing money is setting millions of dollars on fire to buy all possible media while wealthy left wing types are

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 21h

This is hilarious. Now I want to watch this show

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 21h

This is hilarious. Now I want to watch this show

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h

i truly hate this party sometimes

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 19h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h

The mainstream media refuses to explain to the public that almost all of Trump policy is based on his obsessive watching of Fox News.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h

The south launched the Civil War to defend slavery and Trump is launching the reboot based on some dumb antifa b-roll he saw on Fox News.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20h

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 20h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 20h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

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 · 21h

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 · 1d

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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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 21h

“REMEMBER: WE NOT BREAK NEWS. WE POUND NEWS LIKE BONGOS UNTIL NEWS BREAK ITSELF.”

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22h

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Long Beach Watchdog @lbwatchdog.bsky.social · 23h

Here are the 6 semi-finalists in the contest for residents to decide the name of Long Beach’s new professional baseball team.

Read more from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/long-beach-b...

Long Beach Baseball Club announces 6 semi-finalists in naming contest.
City residents are encouraged to vote for their favorite name online or in person at six locations around the city beginning today.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Clegg says AI industry must be killed

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

I’ve underestimated her before. Or more accurately I underestimated the commitment of the biggest loser billionaires in our country to floating her talentless career.

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

I have a strong sense that Bari's tenure in her current role will be short. She may get moved up or she may exist but I don't think it's sustainable.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 1d

This was also Pete Hegseth's career which is why he is spending all his time cosplaying as an operator to overcompensate instead of doing actual SECDEF things

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · Jul 27

Me explaining my military career

Simpsons frame. The Simpsons drive their car on a grass field, directed by an airman. Bart says, "Way to guard the parking lot, Top Gun"

Simpsons frame. An airman points to his chest and says "I have three medals for this"

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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 1d

I have a new novel for sale! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FV3V8MR...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her Affair Partner praying with her over their fast food meal.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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