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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 5h

„Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking“

Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment

www.independent.co.uk

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 23h

Maga influencers have been descending on Portland's small but persistent protest outside an Ice office to pick fights and glean content. So naturally, the cabinet member Trump cast for her on-screen presence showed up today with a trio of influencers in tow www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Kristi Noem tours Portland Ice facility with Maga influencers in tow

Oregon governor, Tina Kotek, accuses Ice of antagonizing protesters with teargas and by inviting influencers to film

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8h

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 1d

The attack on Mark is another stunt by right-wing grifters to victimize a random person in an effort to use MAGA fear mongering to justify their existence. It should go without saying we should do anything possible to support his family.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 5h

Yikes. Looking forward (?) to listening, though.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

For the new episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @moiradonegan.bsky.social walked me through the idea of Fetal Personhood and how it came to inform policing and policy in the United States. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode 99 -- Fetal Personhood

Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 10/07/2025 · 1h 16m

podcasts.apple.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

I keep waiting for the powers that be in media to grasp the concept of bad faith, realize how often "restore trust in news" and similar statements mean "stop doing journalism, lie more in ways I like," come from people ideologically committed to destroying trust in news, and can never be satisfied.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

I too am keen to "restore trust in news" by turning a major broadcast network into a 24/7 slurry of right wing culture war propaganda and engagement trolling

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

I too am keen to "restore trust in news" by turning a major broadcast network into a 24/7 slurry of right wing culture war propaganda and engagement trolling

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 5h

This is TPUSA‘s political project in action - trying to get professors they deem liberal or left-leaning fired & harassed. @mark-bray.bsky.social teaches about the history of anti-fascism - and has had to relocate to Europe as threats mounted after TPUSA targeted him.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social · 1d

Academics in the US are increasingly under threat. Mark Bray is a great scholar who has made substantial contributions to the critical study of antifascism and fascism. Threats and intimidation cannot be accepted as the new normal.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 9h

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

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

If there is one thing the American mainstream media simply cannot resist, it’s a “Relax, the Libs are overreacting again!” take that presents a wildly disingenuous version of what is actually going on in MAGA land to launder the Right and chide “the Left” for being hysterical.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

Let's note that Christopher Caldwell, who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution.

So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to strike down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy by licensed therapists practiced on minors — a ruling that could affect similar laws in nearly half the country and make life more difficult for LGBTQ children at an already perilous time.”

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

www.lawdork.com

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 9h

I’m so tired, man.

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 15h

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Wissensnetzwerk Rechtsextremismusforschung @wi-rex.bsky.social · 1d

Der Vortrag von Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social fand im Rahmen der Summer School statt, zu der wir in diesem Jahr gemeinsam mit dem @fgz-risc.bsky.social unter dem Titel "Zusammenhalt in Zeiten der Disruption – #Demokratiegefährdung und gesellschaftliche Resilienz" eingeladen haben.

Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt @fgz-risc.bsky.social · 2d

Heute startete die gemeinsame Summer School von FGZ und Wi-Rex. Zur Eröffnung diskutierten Gert Pickel (FGZ Leipzig) und Olaf Groh-Samberg (Direktor des FGZ) mit den Teilnehmenden über den Begriff der "Disruption".

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty clear that nonwhite immigrants are already living under the prerogative state, and that the administration hopes and intends that purview of that state will expand.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3d

I appreciate Ernst Fraenkel’s concept of the “dual state,” wherein a fascist regime (in his example, the Nazis) will observe set rules and regulations when confronting some actors—what he calls the “normative state”—and will use arbitrary, unchecked violence towards others—the “prerogative state.”

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

I was with some publishing folks recently. They said almost every pitch now is basically, “this book is just like those other books but written, bravely, BY A MAN.”

The one who could retire, did. The rest of us just got drunk

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2d

Just out here fixing civilization. By reading fiction. As a man.

You’re welcome, ladies.

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Alexander Wilhelms @wille22.bsky.social · 1d

Mal wieder eine absolute Hörempfehlung!
Ich kann die Einordnungen von ‪@ardenthistorian.bsky.social‬ gar nicht oft genug empfehlen.

Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Neue Episode zu Trumps Kriegserklärung an Demokratische Städte, Pete Hegseths Kreuzzug, alle aus dem Militär zu entfernen, die keine weißen, heterosexuellen christlichen Männer sind - und weshalb sein Krieger-Cosplay gleichzeitig lächerlich und brandgefährlich ist.
www.patreon.com/posts/usa-up...

USA Update 245: Trump und Hegseth - Kriegserklärung an Demokratische Städte | Annika Brockschmidt

www.patreon.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and his family have made billions off him being president. Yet he wants to deprive hard-working federal employees of their LEGALLY REQUIRED backpay

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?

A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

www.newyorker.com

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