April
@aprilm.bsky.social
A middle-aged Aggretsuko. I’m here for the journalism, art, science & wrestling. There is probably a Bullet Club t-shirt under my sweater. DM’s are for IRL friends only.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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A belter of a post by @mmasnick.bsky.social: "The pattern is clear: mainstream media has become so terrified of appearing biased that they’ve abandoned their basic responsibility to clearly communicate truth to the public."
Also one of the reasons why independent journalists are vital right now.
Also one of the reasons why independent journalists are vital right now.
The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment
Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even mor…
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October 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A belter of a post by @mmasnick.bsky.social: "The pattern is clear: mainstream media has become so terrified of appearing biased that they’ve abandoned their basic responsibility to clearly communicate truth to the public."
Also one of the reasons why independent journalists are vital right now.
Also one of the reasons why independent journalists are vital right now.
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Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.
But Trump and congressional Republicans would rather shut down the government than protect your health care.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.
But Trump and congressional Republicans would rather shut down the government than protect your health care.
October 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.
But Trump and congressional Republicans would rather shut down the government than protect your health care.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.
But Trump and congressional Republicans would rather shut down the government than protect your health care.
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Taurus: It’s great that you have a 5 year plan, but maybe 4 of the 5 years shouldn’t be, ‘Scream repeatedly into the void.’
September 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Taurus: It’s great that you have a 5 year plan, but maybe 4 of the 5 years shouldn’t be, ‘Scream repeatedly into the void.’
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there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.
September 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.
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Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
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Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
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Can’t believe the CDC. Can’t believe the DoJ. Can’t believe the BLS. Can’t believe the FBI.
But I believe in us.
But I believe in us.
September 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Can’t believe the CDC. Can’t believe the DoJ. Can’t believe the BLS. Can’t believe the FBI.
But I believe in us.
But I believe in us.
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A lot of people need to hear this
July 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A lot of people need to hear this
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ROH Final Battle 2022, Double Dog Collar Match, the Briscoes vs FTR.
Credit x.com/pharrfromhea...
#AEW #ROH
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#AEW #ROH
July 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
ROH Final Battle 2022, Double Dog Collar Match, the Briscoes vs FTR.
Credit x.com/pharrfromhea...
#AEW #ROH
Credit x.com/pharrfromhea...
#AEW #ROH
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Never in US history has the DOJ been 'led' by two lawyers who were also criminal defense lawyers for the President.
July 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Never in US history has the DOJ been 'led' by two lawyers who were also criminal defense lawyers for the President.
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Scotland treats him the way our media should except they’re scared.
July 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Scotland treats him the way our media should except they’re scared.
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Page One in Scotland.
July 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Page One in Scotland.
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The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett
July 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett
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7/24/25💡Houston Congressional Candidate Isaiah Martin dragged & arrested for speaking against gerrymandering (obviously violence against him was escalated due to his skin color)🙏🇺🇸🙏
July 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
7/24/25💡Houston Congressional Candidate Isaiah Martin dragged & arrested for speaking against gerrymandering (obviously violence against him was escalated due to his skin color)🙏🇺🇸🙏
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I love and care about Palestinians because I love and care about being Jewish.
I do not want anyone to experience foreign occupation, dispossession, a lack of freedom, statelessness or mass death—and certainly not at the hands of my people.
It’s anti-Jewish to take their lives and their land.
I do not want anyone to experience foreign occupation, dispossession, a lack of freedom, statelessness or mass death—and certainly not at the hands of my people.
It’s anti-Jewish to take their lives and their land.
July 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I love and care about Palestinians because I love and care about being Jewish.
I do not want anyone to experience foreign occupation, dispossession, a lack of freedom, statelessness or mass death—and certainly not at the hands of my people.
It’s anti-Jewish to take their lives and their land.
I do not want anyone to experience foreign occupation, dispossession, a lack of freedom, statelessness or mass death—and certainly not at the hands of my people.
It’s anti-Jewish to take their lives and their land.
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Reasonable people can disagree about the best ways to achieve Jewish safety, self-determination, or liberation.
Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.
Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.
July 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Reasonable people can disagree about the best ways to achieve Jewish safety, self-determination, or liberation.
Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.
Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.
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HAPPENING NOW: Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are back in court following yesterday’s wild evidentiary hearing.
The parties have re-convened for oral argument on Abrego’s motion to be returned to Maryland if he’s released from criminal custody in TN next week.
Follow along ⬇️ 🧵
The parties have re-convened for oral argument on Abrego’s motion to be returned to Maryland if he’s released from criminal custody in TN next week.
Follow along ⬇️ 🧵
July 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are back in court following yesterday’s wild evidentiary hearing.
The parties have re-convened for oral argument on Abrego’s motion to be returned to Maryland if he’s released from criminal custody in TN next week.
Follow along ⬇️ 🧵
The parties have re-convened for oral argument on Abrego’s motion to be returned to Maryland if he’s released from criminal custody in TN next week.
Follow along ⬇️ 🧵
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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Xinis comes in hot this morning after DOJ fails to produce the ICE detainer to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia locked up.
She won't take DOJ's word for it that it exists.
"You have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it in my view," she says.
She won't take DOJ's word for it that it exists.
"You have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it in my view," she says.
July 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Xinis comes in hot this morning after DOJ fails to produce the ICE detainer to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia locked up.
She won't take DOJ's word for it that it exists.
"You have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it in my view," she says.
She won't take DOJ's word for it that it exists.
"You have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it in my view," she says.
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they want to destroy higher education and do as much as they can to segregate what remains. basically, then the clock back to before the 1960s, when university education was reserved for a small slice of the public.
NEW: When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.”
But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.
But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.
George Mason Is the Latest University Under Fire From Trump. Its President Fears an “Orchestrated” Campaign.
When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.” But there are signs it may…
www.propublica.org
July 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
they want to destroy higher education and do as much as they can to segregate what remains. basically, then the clock back to before the 1960s, when university education was reserved for a small slice of the public.
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Mayor Karen Bass just told me that there was a kids summer camp in MacArthur Park when the federal agents in camp and long guns swooped in and they had to be brought inside so they didn’t get completely freaked out.
July 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Mayor Karen Bass just told me that there was a kids summer camp in MacArthur Park when the federal agents in camp and long guns swooped in and they had to be brought inside so they didn’t get completely freaked out.
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So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.
A mini medieval story time!
A mini medieval story time!
Jim Jordan: "If there's an able-bodied adult out there now who is in our welfare system, guess what -- that person is going to have to work ... that is far from immoral."
July 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.
A mini medieval story time!
A mini medieval story time!
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A few weeks ago, an important — and largely private — chapter in my life ended; I’m incredibly thankful to @lawfaremedia.org for giving me a forum to write the next one.
Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A few weeks ago, an important — and largely private — chapter in my life ended; I’m incredibly thankful to @lawfaremedia.org for giving me a forum to write the next one.